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The butcher strides down the lane, preaching of threshing the chaff from the wheat. Around it, people tear into each other, blind with rage. All the while, the butcher grows in stature and sprouts wicked horns as it revels in the massacre._ Hera...
A towering winged devil looms above, a wicked scimitar in its grasp. Its form shifts subtly, hinting at a deeper secret._ **Infernal Insects.** Infernal swarms are found throughout the Hells. Considered a delicacy, these insects can form a hive ...
_While a huginn’s face resembles that of a great raven or crow, it lacks wings and has a much more solid frame. Most are pitch black, although a smattering have white feathers and red flecks._ The ravenfolk are an avian race of scoundrels, schem...
_The humming of servos, ticking of gears, and petite discharges of steam alert you to the presence of this library’s diminutive custodian._ These small constructs were created to fulfill organizational responsibilities of huge libraries with sta...
This immense humanoid is covered in dark, spiny, chitinous skin, and its sizeable fists are rough and decorated with sharp spikes._ **Natural Carapace.** The phase giant has naturally hard skin, similar to that of a giant insect. Its face, hands...
**Knights** are warriors who pledge service to rulers, religious orders, and noble causes. A knight's alignment determines the extent to which a pledge is honored. Whether undertaking a quest or patrolling a realm, a knight often travels with an e...
_This large statue of emerald-green crystal has a humanoid body with the head of an ibis. Tiny symbols and runes are etched into it, and portions are inlaid with bits of gold._ **Occult Initiates.** Smaragdine golems are crafted by disciples of ...
_An elder race—much older than the elves, and as old as the dragons, they claim—red hags are the most cunning and longest-lived of the hags, having a lifespan of more than a thousand years._ **Beautiful and Strong.** Unlike their hag kin, red ha...
An amber-skinned angelic figure clad in leather armor spreads its white wings as it takes a long pull from an enormous drinking horn._ Mead archons are the emissaries of deities who enjoy battle and strong drink. **Fight Hard, Party Harder.** ...
A rivulet of lava streams from a cavity between the shoulders of this four-armed, volcanic creature._ **Volcanic Guardians.** Lava keepers are elementals from the borderlands between the Elemental Planes of Earth and Fire. They sometimes emerge ...
_These spiders are named for both the deep red swirls on their abdomens, unique to each spider, and for their peculiar hunting technique. The largest ones hunt in the dark canopy of temperate and subtropical forests._ **Hand-Sized Hunters.** The...
Gray and amorphous, this creature skulks along the stone floor. Its body appears wet and oily, though an unusual crystalline pattern decorates the surface._ **Subterranean Menace.** A mineral ooze is a slime that hardens into solid rock after it...
The light drake is a small, bulky dragon with two legs and two wings. It has glowing yellow eyes, and light reflects easily off its golden scales._ **Light Bringers.** Light drakes are obsessed with bringing light into dark places, and often inh...
This bat-like creature has luxurious blue fur covering every part of its body. It has a heavily wrinkled face, large, bulbous eyes, and twin horn-like antennae. Thin sable wings unfurl from its back, and its fur emits tiny sparks of blue lightning...
Smaller than giant sharks and hunter sharks, **reef sharks** inhabit shallow waters and coral reefs, gathering in small packs to hunt. A full-grown specimen measures 6 to 10 feet long.
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...
This large onyx statue looks down critically from an ornate chair. It wears long ceremonial robes and carries a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other. With a slow grinding sound, the statue animates and rises in the air, still seated in its ...
Medium Humanoid, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium dragon, CR 7. Community homebrew from D&D Wiki.
This devilish monster has a draconic body covered in thick, greenish-gold scales and the head of a handsome giant with gleaming red eyes. It opens its mouth in a sardonic smile, and the head of a serpent appears between its lips, hissing with male...
This creature has gaudy green and purple feathers, stunted humanoid limbs, a cruel, vulture-like beak, and multiple eyes that swivel about on long, lime-colored stalks. It hoots diabolically as it approaches._ **Wasteland Hunters.** Desolate bad...
This large demon is bright orange and yellow, with black markings on its face and wiry body. Its wings are rounded, and its face is insectoid, with large, glowing, red eyes. Black liquid drips from its sharp mandibles. Its long arms end in sharp c...
A large cloud composed of tiny glowing sparks of fire floats silently through the air._ **Origin of Planar Instability.** Radiant spark swarms form when the border lands between the Plane of Fire and the Upper Planes experience some sort of inst...
_“I saw no more terrible beast on all my journeys north than the mahoru. The white bears had their aloof majesty, the lindwurm serpentine grace, but the monster that gnawed away the pack ice beneath our feet and savaged any who fell into the water...