Fey creatures and the Feywild
_A duskthorn dryad is a striking woman with obvious fey features and skin the color of slate, often found in the shade of an ancient tree. Clothed in vines and leaves, it can be difficult to tell where one leaves off and the other begins._ **Cre...
_The black horse strides out of the shadows with its nostrils huffing steam. Its rider, swathed in black leather, raises his arm to reveal not a lantern but its own severed, grinning head._ Though it appears to be a headless rider astride a blac...
_The cikavak is a remarkably ugly magical bird—a supernatural creature conjured through a lengthy ritual. A dark gray comb flops atop their heads and shapeless wattles dangle from their throats. They seem unimposing._ **Dagger Beaks.** Cikavaks ...
_These scaly creatures resemble nothing so much as tiny, batwinged dragonkin._ **Dragon Sprites.** Chernomoi (which means “lair sprite” in Draconic) often reside discreetly in a dragon lair or dragonborn household, cleaning and tidying up at nig...
_These large water-striding insects resemble a strange cross between camels and wingless, long-legged locusts. A rider can comfortably sit in the large hollow in the small of their backs, even at high speeds or on choppy water. Riders use the gerr...
_The domovoi enjoy violence and bonebreaking; this makes them useful to more delicate creatures that need enforers._ **Long Armed Bruisers.** Domovoi resemble nothing so much as large, stony goblins, with oversized heads and leering grins, and w...
_These tiny, obsidian-skinned, bat-winged fey always have a hungry look, leering with razor-sharp fangs showing and licking their leathery faces with their forked, purple tongues._ **Hidden in Crevices.** Buccas are tiny, underground faeries who...
_This small, leering water spirit resembles a cross between a gray frog and a damp scarecrow, with small tendrils sprouting from all its extremities. It has water wings seemingly made out of jellyfish flesh, allowing it to jet through the water at...
_This bent-backed crone has long, leathery arms and cruel, flesh‑shearing talons. Her face is a misshapen mass of leathery flesh with a bulbous nose, like a gnarled knot on an old oak tree._ **Vampiric Origins.** Blood hags have long skulked on ...
_An otherworldly humanoid of such indescribable beauty, it pains anyone’s eyes to gaze upon her._ **Beauty that Destroys.** An abominable beauty is so perfect that her gaze blinds, her voice is so melodious that no ears can withstand it, and her...