Alchemists working for the Serpent's Eye, trusted with the secrets of how to make the dragon-blood "steroids". You don't have to be crazy to be one of them....but it certainly helps. That they've been partially transformed also helps. Clearly fond of experimenting, and adventurers make great test subjects. Instinct: Dissolve the bonds and barriers of society

• Concoct alchemical solutions...and alchemical problems.
• Grenades can blind or bind as well as blow up
• Alchemy solves EVERYTHING!!!
• Acid and fire that linger on armor and skin

The Body of the Song is the physical anchor of the Song of Thorns. It is not, properly speaking, a "body" at all, instead being the densest and oldest cluster of thorn-vines present in Zerzura--it may even be the original plant host for the Song. However, just because it is not a body proper does not mean it is unimportant; though powerful and well-defended, it is still a potential weakness, as it is in some sense the only "totem" of the Song. Few could approach the Body without being infected and subverted, becoming food and tools for the Song, but if anyone could do so, the Song will strive to destroy them with extreme prejudice. The Body lairs in what appears to be the very heart of the City proper, with enormous vines ten feet across rising from or buried into the ground, between the shattered remnants of arches and scattered cobblestones. Servants of the Song rarely go here, but anyone whose mind has been assaulted by the Song has seen this place in the mind-battles it fights. Instinct: Absorb powerful minds, crush opposition.

• Confuse and infect prey with illusions and deceptions
• Invoke the world-shaping magic of the Shi
• Call upon the denizens of Zerzura to aid it
• Separate the party into mindscapes/shards of spacetime