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A mechanical whir issues from this pyramid-shaped mechanism as it begins to unfold hundreds of jointed limbs. When the noise grows shrillest, alien runes alight across its golden surfaces._ **Secret Keepers.** The people of Leng are renowned tra...
This tusked seal is nearly transparent, including its internal organs, except for a few spots dotting its hide._ **Unseen Pinnipeds.** Shimmer seals traverse their typical habitats hidden from prey and predators alike. Their translucent skin and...
A hulking figure clad in a black armor adorned with thorny ornaments slowly walks forward, seemingly unhindered by the thick vegetation of the surrounding woods._ Thornheart guardians are unyielding and merciless defenders of the forest domains ...
This strange dog is hairless except for the thick, dark fur that runs along its bony, ridged back._ **Arctic Legends.** Oral histories of the north are rich with tales of the qiqirn. The tales say they are drawn to mankind’s warm hearths and hom...
_The eye sockets in a large, ornate death mask suddenly ignite with a golden radiance. With the creak of long-unused limbs, this towering figure in ancient armor raises a khopesh and scepter once more._ **Tomb Servants.** Ushabtis were placed in...
A cloud of inky runes churns as some of the markings illuminate briefly._ **Untended Runes.** Runes that have gone unused for years or those created on ley lines sometimes gain a modicum of sentience and coalesce into a gestalt known as a runesw...
This huge, six-horned, bull-like creature possesses a mane of writhing flames and shimmering metal skin._ **Creation of the Gods.** All sarsaok descend from a mighty celestial ox said to have been present at the creation of humanity. Scholars sp...
Flurries drift from the body of this gigantic humanoid seemingly crafted from snow. Its simple clothes are almost pointless, and it carries a massive icicle as a club._ **Subservient to Frost Giants.** Snow giants inhabit the same territory as O...
An impossibly black pool of goo undulates forward seeming to pull everything around it into its endless depths._ **Aspect of the Void.** Some speculate that voidpools are intrusions of the Void itself into the Material Plane. These blots on the ...
_Within a blinding wave of heat and glare strides a long-limbed, misshapen form. The creature scorches everything in its path as it strides forward._ What most people recall most vividly from an encounter with a malakbel is the blinding light an...
_This enormous pig is as large as an ox, and its mouth bristles with mismatched tusks. Its body is a lopsided mass of tumorous flesh that gives way to eyes and vestigial mouths, and long tentacles trail from its sides._ From time to time, a brea...
_Creatures of variable appearance, soul eaters conjoin fleshy elements with ectoplasmic forms._ **Called from the Abyss.** Soul eaters are summoned from the Abyss and other extraplanar ports of call where they can freely barter for prey. They al...
A human head tops this green-and-brown constrictor. Vines protrude from its scalp and writhe in unison to the serpent’s swaying motion. Mosquitos, gnats, and other flying insects form a cloud around it._ **Self-Proclaimed Ruler and Protector.** ...
Strutting forward on four legs tipped with sharp talons, this raptor-like fiend has dark crimson feathers covering its scaled hide and an extended, eyeless, saw-toothed maw. A baleful orange eye glares from the monster’s chest._ **Primeval Devil...
Grasping vines form this draconic creature’s wings. Nettlelike teeth fill its maw, and its tail branches like a thriving plant._ **Living Vines.** Vines coil around and branch out from the body of the vine drake, and lengthy thorns protrude from...
A ghostly, moon-shaped comet flies above the water, a cloud of vapor and spectral lights trailing behind it._ **Spirits of Violence.** When sailors meet a violent end at sea within sight of the shore and leave no bodies behind to be buried, they...
This large, bestial-looking creature is dark gray, with powerful muscles, long arms, sharp claws at the end of five-digit fingers, fine, short fur, and enormous, bat-like wings. Its face is an odd combination of orc and bat. Its brows are heavy, i...
An unnatural, cloying chill fills the air, and multiple ghostly hands burst from a wall to pummel and grab all within reach._ **Unassuming Horror.** The walled horror is an undead that appears to be a normal stretch of wall until it lashes out a...
The ghostly image of a healthy willow overlays a smaller tree composed of bones. Piles of bones litter the ground at its base._ **Death Tree.** When victims of murder or other violent deaths die in view of an otherwise healthy willow tree, their...
_With skin stretched like vellum over wizened limbs, a desiccated humanoid form clad in splendid regalia emerges from a funerary tower. Suddenly, the air becomes so dry as to make the eyes sting and lips crack. The imposing figure has yellow point...
_A body that might once have been human now has four legs and nightmarishly long, thick arms. What’s worse, its skin has been flayed off, revealing the dead muscle and sinew beneath._ **Spirt of War.** The risen reaver is an undead born from a w...
_This mote of electrical energy floats menacingly, erupting in a shower of sparks and tendrils of lightning. When it disappears, it leaves only the whiff of ozone._ **Born in Storms.** When a great storm rips across a world in the Material Plane...
_These long, crusty slugs sparkle like ice. A gaping hole at one end serves as a mouth, from which long tendrils emanate._ Rime worms are sometimes kept as guards by frost giants. _**Ice Burrowers.**_ The rime worm’s tendrils help it to burrow...
_A savage parody of a djinni, an al-Aeshma’s lower half is composed of scorching winds and desert sand._ **Sand Djinnis.** The al-Aeshma are former djinn and share the same powers, albeit in a darker style. Their skin is black as pitch, and thei...