History Characters / IronKingdoms

* JackOfAllStats: The spell selection his prime version has. It led that version being considered a SkillGateCharacter since although he was great for people trying to learn to the play the game, hence being included in Cygnar's starter box set, he wasn't very good due his MasterOfNone prevent him from being good enough at anything to be effective in competive play.

* EldritchAbomination

The Iron Kingdoms have a large number of heroes, here you can see tropes associated to them.

[[folder:Blighted Archon]]

* DropTheHammer: The Hammersmith's massive twin forge hammers are clearly designed for pounding metal flat.

* DropTheHammer: Havoc his battle hammer.

!!Corporal Rourke

A soldier from the CRS, he is trained as a gun mage and brought Commander Sturgis and Lieutenant Jakes some higly sensitive information: the Khadorans were seeking an old Orgoth Relic.
Voiced by: Gideon Emery.

* MageMarksman
* TheGunslinger: Like any Gun Mage from Cygnar he perfectly combines both.

* DropTheHammer: Two of them, named Action and Reaction.

* DropTheHammer: Crucible Guard assault troopers carry only oversized thermal hammers as weapons.

* DropTheHammer: His weapon of choice is a stone hammer covered in runes.

* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Each infernal society recognise its own distinct hierarchy. Among the Nonokrion Order, above the curators and executors are two tiers who never directly deal with mortals. Collectively known as the Cadre Architectia, architects are great planners who set the executors in motion and evaluate the harvest of resources. Above all is the Magnate Tritorium, a trio who speaks as one, whose unity is considered the absolute ruler of the Nonokrion Order. As the architects are akin to gods, the trio is beyond their comprehension.

* DropTheHammer: Horgenhold Forge Guard wield massive, two-handed pneumatic hammers.

* OffingOnesOffspring: His goal is to consume all of his sons and regain his lost power.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Drakes can bellow with such significant volume and force that the power of their cry can crack a stone fortress and splinter a stout tree.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Fell callers have powerful booming voices that can shatter stones and bones.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Fell Callers are basically Immoren's version of the Dragonborn.

[[folder:Dragonspawn]]

* BreathWeapon: Every dragonspawn has a breath weapon whose properties depend on the spawn's progenitor.

[[folder:Slag Hound]]

* EatDirtCheap: Slag hounds primarily feed on dirt, tearing up great clods of earth and stuffing them into their maws.
* MetalMuncher: Slag hounds have developed an insatiable hunger for magically imbued metal and will out of their way to devour it. They are particularly prone to attacking steamjacks, due to the abundance of magical alloys within the cortex and arcane turbine.
* MooksAteMyEquipment: Slag hounds usually kill when crunching through enchanted armour with the wearer still inside, or rending off a limb in an attempt to consume a magic item.
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[[folder:Thrullg]]

* CombatTentacles: Two long, powerful tentacles on the thrullg's head allow it to grasp objects and draw them close. Each of these appendages is thicker around than a man's arm, strong enough to rip through the hull of a steamjack, and long enough to reach the cortex within.
* MagicEater: Thrullgs consume arcane energy as if it were some sort of bizarre foodstuff.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: A thrullg can pinpoint the location of magic items and spellcasting within 100 feet of it.

[[folder:Vektiss]]

* AbsurdlySharpClaws: A vektiss' limbs end in razor-sharp chitinous scythes, which it uses to draw its prey to its chattering mandibles.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: A vektiss is an insectile creature roughly the size and mass of a small horse or donkey.
* ChestBurster: Female vektiss lay a single egg in an open wound before regurgitating a powerful soporific into the host's mouth. This substance paralyses the victim and prevents its flesh from decaying, ensuring that the young vektiss will have sufficient meat available when they hatch.
* TheParalyzer: The vektiss' bite imparts a paralytic venom.
* TrackingSpell: Implanted victims who escape a vektiss lair are pursued relentlessly, since vektiss can track their eggs with uncanny accuracy and will stop at nothing to retrieve their young.

[[folder:Wyldgeist]]

* AcidAttack: The wyldgeist can release a cloud of acidic mist around itself.
* FusionDance: The wyldgeist can bond with the fled spirit of a dead creature, dissolving the corpse and replacing it with its own body and will, becoming a hybrid of the two creatures.
* GeniusLoci: Wyldgeists are claimed to be spirit manifestations of the Blackroot Wood in Khador.

!!Beasts
[[folder:Argus]]

* AnIcePerson: Winter argus can manifest a supernatural cold to cripple enemies.
* MultipleHeadCase: Argus are a family of two-headed dogs.
* SavageWolves: Argus are huge two-headed canines tamed, breeded, and trained by the druids for battle and protection.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Moonhounds boast an eyesight better than that of other argus breeds and a peerless sense of smell. The faintest scent allows moonhounds to pinpoint prey hundreds of yards away, even over running water, in the harshest rainstorms, or when masked by alchemical methods.
* SuperScream: A common argus' twin heads can combine their barks to produce an unsettling blast that addles the mind and stills the flesh.

[[folder:Assassin Fly]]

* BewareMyStingerTail: Assassin flies sport wicked stingers used by the males to deliver potent blood and nerve toxins, and by the females to lay eggs.
* ChestBurster: Female assassin flies lay eggs inside larger creatures with their stingers. In the 24-hour period before the larvae mature, the host starts to feel unwell. At birth, the young assassin flies chew their way out of the host's flesh.
* KillItWithWater: Assassin flies react poorly to rainfall and humidity, and have difficulty flying when there's more moisture than they are accustomed to, so they do not venture west of their native Bloodstone Marches.
-->'''Alten Ashley:''' I always keep an extra canteen with me when I'm hunting in the Bloodstone. More water always helps, but I keep this one around to douse any assassin fly nests that I encounter. I'll not be playing nursery to the offspring of some damned bugs.

[[folder:Blackhide]]

* BigEater: Its regeneration forces a blackhide to eat a substantial amount to recover.
* HealingFactor: A blackhide heals rapidly from wounds. Smaller injuries close in a matter of moments, and even severe wounds heal in a few hours.

[[folder:Blighted Beast]]

* AscendedToCarnivorism: Blighted beasts are usually predatory and aggressive, even ones that might have once been herbivores.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Some blighted beasts explode in a burst of blighted meat when killed.
* HornAttack: Most blighted chargers have large horns or antlers to gore prey.
* {{Mutants}}: Toruk's blight seeps across the Scharde Islands and remakes these creatures in infinite varieties by twisting their physiology. Some are so altered that they're scarcely recognisable as members of the same species and all but impossible to classify.

[[folder:Blighted Insect]]

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Toruk's blight causes insects to grow to incredible size.
* {{Mutants}}: Insects of the Scharde Islands are fundamentally and unpredictably changed by Toruk's touch. Whole colonies might share alterations, but it is just as likely that individuals exhibit unique mutations.
* PoisonousPerson: Their blight-augmented venom causes flesh to swell and burst within moments or turn necrotic and ooze off their victims.
* VampiricDraining: Most blighted insects of the Scharde Islands feed on blood. Those who survive an attack by them often begin to suffer the residual effects of blight.

[[folder:Bloodstone Constrictor]]

* TheParalyzer: Despite its name, the bloodstone constrictor is actually a species of viper and can inject a potent neurotoxin that induces paralysis, though it primarily kills by constriction.

[[folder:Bog Constrictor]]

* StealthExpert: Bog constrictors blend in seamlessly with their surroundings, such as muck and twisted trees. Their camouflage is so effective that they can be difficult to spot even in plain sight.

[[folder:Burrow-mawg]]

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Each burrow-mawg cluster is led by an alpha—the largest, strongest, and fiercest burrow-mawg in the group. An alpha that no longer meets these criteria is soon replaced by a worthier specimen.
* BigEater: Burrow-mawgs have a ceaseless hunger for flesh.

[[folder:Buzzard Beetle]]

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Buzzard beetles are insectoid scavengers the size of a bloated bilge rat.
* StrippedToTheBone: Swarms of buzzard beetles burrow into cadavers and consume them from the inside out, using their acidic secretions to soften the bodies. A sufficiently large swarm can strip a whole battlefield of corpses to bare skeletons overnight. They pose a danger to any corpse pickers or battlefield scavengers and deny raw materials to necromancers.

[[folder:Cane Leech]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Cane leeches cannot stand the smell of spring onions.

[[folder:Cataphract Beetle]]

* AcidAttack: Cataphract beetles can spray streams of caustic digestive juices at their foes.
* AntlionMonster: Closer to their burrows, cataphract beetle soldiers burrow ever-widening circles in loose earth or sand, creating an unstable pit that collapses inward when anything but another cataphract beetle enters the area. The shifting earth in these pits makes them exceedingly difficult to climb away from the cataphract beetle solder waiting in the centre.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: These insects are about three feet long and stand two to three feet above the ground.

[[folder:Crag Lion]]

* InASingleBound: Creeping up on a potential meal, a pride of crag lions relies on natural camouflage to avoid notice before leaping forward to bring prey to the ground.

[[folder:Crypt Spider]]

* AcidAttack: Crypt spiders can deliver acid with its bite or spit, which can be useful when fighting skeletal undead.
* GiantSpider: Adult crypt spiders are roughly as long as a man is tall and stand nearly half that height.
* WallCrawl: Crypt spiders' eight legs are tipped with serrated barbs that allow them to easily cling to stone walls.

[[folder:Devil Rat]]

* ExplosiveBreeder: Devil rats are prolific breeders, and swarms can number in the thousands.
* MonstrousCannibalism: Devil rats feed on each other if no other food source if available.
* YouDirtyRat: Far more intelligent than common vermin, a devil rat possesses a clever mind, a malevolent nature, and a seemingly endless appetite.

[[folder:Dust Hog]]

* FullBoarAction: Dust hogs are not clever and mass in great swarms of thirty to fifty, charging blindly at anything that dares to step into their territory, battering them under their hooves and ripping apart with a flurry of slashing tusks.

[[folder:Dracodile]]

* HairTriggerTemper: Dracodiles are quick to anger and slow to calm.
* PoisonousPerson: A dracodile can exhale a cone of toxic gas.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Attacking a dracodile often results in the relentless pursuit of the attacker, even beyond the boundaries of the dracodile' territory.

[[folder:Dragon Fish]]

* FiendishFish: Dragon fish are deadly aquatic predators with extremely sharp teeth and an endless appetite. While an individual is little more than a nuisance capable of nipping a chunk of exposed flesh, they always attack in numbers. When there's blood in the water, they'll enter a frenzy, attacking and eating just about anything.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The mouth of a dragon fish is tightly packed with multiple rows of sharp, interlocking teeth.

[[folder:Dune Prowler]]

* SuperSenses: The long, coarse bristles protruding from the dune prowler's skin allows it to feel subtle vibrations in the sand that betray a potential meal's movements, no matter how stealthy.

[[folder:Duskwolf]]

* SavageWolves: Enormous wolves with intelligence and ferocity far outstripping that of mere beasts, duskwolves are dangerous predators that dwell within dark, primeval forests. They have been known to stalk and kill lone humans wandering the wilderness, and creatures as large and powerful as trolls have fallen to hungry duskwolf packs.

[[folder:Glowweb Spider]]

* EatenAlive: A glowweb spider's nest is filled with numerous paralysed prey bound in web, on which it feeds over the course of several days. This habit prolongs the death of a victim and can be sometimes helpful in rescuing someone the spider has taken captive.
* GiantSpider: The glowweb spider is an enormous spider whose web is strong enough to restrain a fully-grown trollkin.
* TheParalyzer: The glowweb spider's bite carries a paralysing venom, which allows it to drag the prey back to its lair.

[[folder:Gorax]]

* BeastMan: Great, hulking brutes that inhabit the deepest wilds of western Immoren, gorax are primitive creatures that blur the line between man and beast.
* KillerGorilla: Gorax are hulking primates with broad, muscular torsos, long arms and oversized claws.
* ToServeMan: Gorax that taste the blood of mankind seek it out, which has caused some of the beasts to move from their wilderness domains closer to the fringes of civilisation.

[[folder:Gorol]]

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Gorol troops are led by an elder male known as the alpha, the strongest and most experienced member of the group. Alphas must constantly prove their worth to maintain their position, ensuring the continued strength and stability of the gorol community.

[[folder:Griffon]]

* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: Scarsfell griffons lift prey aloft to be eaten high in their nests, leaving little sign on the ground.
* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: Griffons are predators that combine big cats with birds of prey. Druids have long tended griffon fledglings and picked out those best suited to their needs.
* SuperScream: Rotterhorn griffons can unleash a scream to leave its prey stunned and bloodied.

[[folder:Hornbeak Trask]]

* BigEater: Hornbeak trasks are ravenous predators and content to consume any ready source of meat they can find: rats, stray dogs, gobbers, and even larger prey on occasion. Virtually anything that moves is considered as a food source.

[[folder:Hull Grinder]]

* FiendishFish: Hull grinders are massive predatory fish that usually grow to a length of fifteen feet, with remarkable specimens reaching over thirty feet long. A hull grinder is prone to attack any vessel it has mistaken for its prey. The collection of barbs on its back can damage the hulls of almost any ship.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Hull grinder barbs are sharp and durable enough that some coastal and riverside communities use them as weapons.

[[folder:Iosan Forest Hawk]]

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Male Iosan forest hawks rear the young since the more compact females are the better hunters.

[[folder:Ironback]]

* AcidAttack: The ironback's most feared weapon is its acidic spit. If a suitable meal lies beyond its immediate reach, it spews a massive stream of noxious gastric acid that liquefies flesh into sludge that it can then consume.

[[folder:Karkinos]]

* GiantEnemyCrab: Karkinoi are an unusual breed of giant blue forest crab. Viciously territorial, they lie partially submerged in forest pools when they are not active, attacking anything that approaches too close, including animals that come to drink.

[[folder:Myrmid]]

* AcidAttack: The myrmid can breathe out an acidic vapour to weaken prey and rocks.
* DigAttack: Myrmids hunt by burrowing into rock after weakening it with an acid. Once the surface has been partially dissolved, myrmids dig a hole large enough to hide in and then hide behind their front limbs. When something large enough passes too close, the myrmid strikes.

[[folder:Raevhan Buffalo]]

* TheBerserker: Male Raevhan buffalo are extremely territorial and will fearlessly charge intruders with little regard for their own lives.
* DyingRace: Development of northern Khador has caused their habitat to steadily dwindle, forcing Raevhan buffalo into smaller and smaller territories. Their population has declined steadily for centuries, and they are now so rare that many believe they have gone extinct.
* HornAttack: A Raevhan buffalo boasts an enormous rack of antlers ideally suited for battering aside a target.
* MamaBear: Female Raevhan buffalo are ferocious when defending their young.

[[folder:Razorbat]]

* BatOutOfHell: Any creature unlucky enough to disturb a razorbat roost is quickly set upon by a shrieking cloud of bats and torn to pieces.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Razorbats are easily identified by the pronounced talons on their wings and their wickedly barbed tail.
* SuperScream: The combined shrieks of a razorbat colony working in tandem are loud enough to crack lantern glass, shatter eardrums, and leave a target reeling and deafened.

[[folder:Razor Boar]]

* BigEater: Goliath hogs feel an endless hunger that drives them to consume anything in their path, heedless of their own safety.
* FedToPigs: Razor boar training includes feeding them fresh kills of diverse races so they develop a strong taste for the flesh of humans, trollkin, skorne and farrow. The victims' screams of pain and fear ring out from the butchering complex before each feeding, and the beasts learn to associate them with an impending meal.
-->'''Alten Ashley:''' I like bacon as much as the next man, but I won't touch the meat of a razor boar. There's something wrong about eatin' a creature that has, itself, probably eaten someone you knew.
* FullBoarAction: When loosed upon an enemy, razor boars charge in heedless of their own well-being, intent only on goring their prey and feeding on soft flesh.
* SuperBreedingProgram: The farrow have spent generations breeding razor boars with the sole intent of making them larger and more dangerous. Only the biggest, most savage boars are chosen to be mated, creating beasts of war barely controlled by their masters.

[[folder:Saqu]]

* GiantFlyer: The saqu is a gigantic raptor that stands up to fifteen feet tall when fully grown and has a wingspan in excess of thirty feet.
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: The saqu more difficult prey high into the air, tearing away with its beak all the while, before dropping the victim to its death and eating whatever remains.

[[folder:Satyr]]

* FaunsAndSatyrs: Satyrs have muscular, man-like upper bodies, and the legs and hooves of a goat. They walk upright, towering twice as tall as the average human. They are hostile and aggressive creatures with a limited capacity for reason.
* HornAttack: A satyr employs its massive horns to ram foes.
* LeanAndMean: Shadowhorns possess a slenderer build than other satyrs, but they are even more aggressive and display a particularly savage glee when closing with the enemy.

[[folder:Shagmar]]

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Lethean hunting parties ride shagmars as they move through the dense underbrush.

[[folder:Skigg]]

* BizarreTasteInFood: Skiggs are attracted to blasting powder and eagerly devour it.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Because they breed so quickly, a city can be all but overrun with skiggs in a matter of months.
* MadeOfExplodium: A skigg that has consumed a sufficient amount of blasting powder will violently explode if struck or even shaken with sufficient force.

[[folder:Snapper]]

* PapaWolf: Snappers take extraordinary care of their young. After a cow snapper lays eggs leaves the nest to regain her strength, the bull guards the nest against any intrusion and warns off trespassers with a low, guttural growl.

[[folder:Tatzylwurm]]

* AcidAttack: When threatened, a pale tatzylwurm sprays a corrosive acid from special glands in its mouth. This acid is powerful enough to dissolve iron.
* DigAttack: The coral tatzylwurm bores tunnels through soil and stone. When it detects a potential meal, it suddenly erupts from the soil and attempts to subdue prey.
* EmotionBomb: The feathered tatzylwurm's venom is a potent psychoactive that can induce extreme panic.
* FeatheredSerpent: The feathered tatzylwurm is a small breed whose most distinctive feature is its featherlike scales, which allow it to glide short distances, past rivers, gorges and gaps between trees in the jungle.
* HypnoticEyes: A black tatzylwurm can transfix any living creature that makes eye contact with it. The light plays in strange, hypnotic patterns deep in the tatzylwurm's eyes, fixing its intended target in place.
* InASingleBound: Some tatzylwurm species can leap an impressive distance. By coiling their powerful bodies, they can clear obstacles and reach into a tree's high branches.
* TheParalyzer: The coral tatzylwurm's paralytic venom can immobilise most creatures within moments. The coral tatzylwurm then constricts and drags the prey to its underground lair to be devoured.
* PoisonousPerson: Every tatzylwurm species has a potent and fatal venom. Some are fast-acting and can cause death within moments, while others are slower and more debilitating.
* SpikeShooter: Gray tatzylwurms can produce stout iron barbs and project them a significant distance, simultaneously piercing and poisoning creatures at range.
* TemporaryBlindness: When introduced into the bloodstream, black tatzylwurm venom causes almost immediate blindness. While the venom quickly breaks down, returning sight to the prey, this may be too late for it to survive the tatzylwurm's follow-up attack.
* TrackingSpell: Tatzylwurm viper venom rapidly alters the victim's sweat, causing the prey to emit a scent that is both irresistible and powerfully apparent to any viper tatzylwurm in the vicinity. Even a victim who successfully evades the initial bite will be relentlessly and unerringly tracked down.

[[folder:Thornwood Mauler]]

* AbsurdlySharpClaws: The enormous fangs and sturdy claws of a Thornwood mauler can rip through steel and toughened hide.
* KillSteal: A Thornwood mauler will drive away a predator to steal its kill and will viciously shred any beast that attempts to defend a carcass.
* MonstrousCannibalism: If two Thornwood maulers go to battle over a carcass, the result is invariably a deadly combat that ends with the victor consuming the flesh of the loser.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Thornwood maulers relentlessly track prey once they have caught its scent. They will stalk prey for miles and over the course of several days. It is extremely difficult to mask one's scent, as ordinary means will not deter the mauler's sensitive nose.

[[folder:Widow Bear]]

* BearsAreBadNews: Widow bears are aggressive and can be extremely quick over short distances. Their size affords them the luxury of trundling over anything that gets in their way when they close in on a threat.

!!Celestials
[[folder:Archon]]

* AngelicTransformation: Morrowan, Thamarite and Menite archons are the spirits of the greatest practitioners of the faith, given a special purpose in the afterlife.
* HealingFactor: Dhunian and primal archons can swiftly regenerate any parts severed in battle.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Classified as celestials under ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 5th Edition rules, the archons of the Iron Kingdoms are awe-inspiring and terrifying spiritual entities who act as agents of the gods, enacting their will on the mortal world. They are as diverse as the deities they serve: Morrow, Thamar, Menoth, the Devourer Wurm, or Dhunia. Some, like the enigmatic void archons, are aligned to no specific god and represent the unconscious and collective will of all souls in Urcaen, and while they do share a striking resemblance to the empyreans of ''Warcaster Neo-Mechanika'', whether that was intentional remains a mystery.

!!!Death Archon

* TheGrimReaper: Death archons are massive, hooded creatures borne aloft on wings of bone and wielding fierce Iron Reapers. No one is sure where they came from or who they answer to, if anyone.
* SinisterScythe: Death archons reap countless living and unliving alike with enormous scythes made of dark iron.

!!!Defiled Archon

* AxCrazy: Their fall from grace has left defiled archons in a perpetual state of fury, eager to exact vengeance upon those they deem deserving of punishment.
* FallenAngel: Defiled archons are born from Menite archons captured by the grymkin and dragged down into their nightmarish reality. What emerge afterward are twisted mockeries clad in blasphemous armour and set loose among the living to wreak havoc and punish the wicked.

!!!Dhunian Archon

* GoodIsNotSoft: Dhunian archons are viewed as an embodiment of her anger, yet even as these beings mete out Dhunia's fury on those who would harm her children, they grant blessings of life and vigour to her followers.
* LivingWeapon: Dhunian archons bearing the mark of spring wield still-living trees as cudgels.

!!!Menite Archon

* ElementalWeapon: Menite archons wielding weapons ablaze with holy fire.
* PlayingWithFire: Menoth's archons are limned in the constant light of a cleansing fire.

!!!Morrowan Archon

* LightEmUp: Often described as angels of light, Morrowan archons glow like the radiance of the sun in Morrow's holy symbol made manifest.

!!!Primal Archon

* TheBerserker: Primal archons fight with unpredictable ferocity and an utter lack of hesitation or self-preservation.
* RockMonster: Primal archons are made of granite, obsidian, and chunks of crystal, and are as durable as living stone.

!!!Thamarite Archon

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Those who have witnessed a Thamarite archon rarely retain a clear memory of its shape after it is gone. Thamarite archons have been described in terms one might use when trying to recall the elusive details of a fading dream.

!!!Void Archon

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Void archons change their appearance to take on whatever form best suited those they protect. To elves, they are divine heralds whose forms were reminiscent of Iosan sculptures of the gods' servants; to the skorne, they are physical manifestations of ancestors who had returned from the Void through sheer strength of will.
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!!Constructs
[[folder:Iron Maiden]]

* AndIMustScream: An iron maiden has no choice but to obey the whims of those who have dominated it beyond death. From time to time, it experiences a flash of memory from its past life, gradually building a picture of the person it was. For these beings, whose souls and minds are frayed and tattered from centuries of enslavement, the shattered recollection of their previous life is nothing short of torture.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Some iron maidens manage to pull together enough of their old identities to break free of their master's bonds. When this occurs, the maiden becomes devoted to the slaughter of the living, taking out its long centuries of suffering and enslavement on any living thing within reach, although it reserves its most savage ferocity for its master.
* SoulPoweredEngine: Each iron maiden is animated by a trapped, restless spirit.
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[[folder:Junker Hulk]]

* NotQuiteDead: Junker hulks form when a discarded cortex retains enough power to exert magical influence over surrounding objects and enough awareness to desire a familiar form. The cortex gathers nearby materials—often items it is in physical contact with—and shapes them into a rough approximation of a steamjack.

[[folder:Machine Wraith]]

* HauntedTechnology: Some scholars speculate that these constructs are the bitter ghosts of arcane mechaniks or fallen priests of Cyriss; others maintain they are fallen warcasters.

[[folder:Wold]]

[[folder:Bog Gulper]]

* LuringInPrey: On the bog gulper's back grows an appendage resembling an adult human struggling to free itself from the bog. More than one altruistic traveller has spotted this lure and mistaken it for a fellow human in distress. Once the bog gulper detects motion in the swamp, it strikes.
* ToServeMan: The bog gulper's favourite food is human flesh.

[[folder:Gorgandur]]

* BigEater: When hungry, a gorfandur surfaces and scoops up a mile-long swath of anything that is unable to escape its maw.
* RentAZilla: Ancient gorgandur grow to truly enormous sizes and can swallow whole villages, leaving behind blank trenches. When they awaken, their movements are often mistaken for small earthquakes.
* SandWorm: A tunnelling creature of unfathomable size, the gorgandur chews through the solid rocks beneath the Bloodstone Marches. Even young gorgandur are gigantic, and they keep growing throughout their phenomenally long lives.

[[folder:Gorgon]]

* CombatTentacles: A gorgon attacks prey with serrated tendrils surrounding its rasping mouth.
* EatenAlive: After calcifying its prey's blood and muscle, a gorgon feeds on these rocky projections, without waiting for the prey to die.
* TakenForGranite: Gorgon venom causes the prey's muscle and blood to calcify within seconds, forming painful rocky extrusions.

[[folder:Ikoskit]]

* TheNoseKnows: Blessed with a tremendous sense of smell, ikoskits can track a potential meal for miles through the dense jungle.
* StealthExpert: Their camouflaged skin allows ikoskits to blend into the dark rocks and foliage common across Alchiere. Spotting an ikoskit before it is almost on top of its prey is nearly impossible.
* VampiricDraining: Ikoskits drain blood, burying their razor-sharp teeth into whatever exposed flesh they can find.

[[folder:Lemax]]

* AcidAttack: The lemax's main weapon is an acidic spittle.
* ZergRush: Although individually weak, lemax are terrifying to face when gathered in numbers.

[[folder:Manticore]]

* EatDirtCheap: The manticore's typical diet consists of dirt and small rocks, which facilitate the growth of its unusual defensive spines.
* ForTheEvulz: Unlike other beasts of elven myth that attack only to hunt or defend themselves, manticores appear to kill for its own sake, often leaving prey savaged yet uneaten.
* OurManticoresAreSpinier: A manticore broadly resembles a big cat from afar, but instead of fur, it is covered in jagged, glassy chitinous spines that sweep backward from its beak and end in a morningstar-like tail.

[[folder:Screecher]]

* SuperScream: When prey stops for a quiet moment, screechers creep close and emit a furious shriek that can stun even much larger animals, then attack in a pack and attempt to tear the prey to bits with their claws and fangs.

[[folder:Sphinx]]

* CombatClairvoyance: Sphinxes exhibit a limited form of telepathy, allowing them to communicate silently across short distances, and possibly even read the surface thoughts of their prey, to know when to dodge and where to move in for a killing blow.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: The sphinx is a species of pony-sized cat that exhibits limited telepathy, and are described in ancient stories by terms normally reserved for spirits and fiends.

[[folder:Spine Ripper]]

* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Each claw is like an arcing blade with a razor-sharp interior edge, and a spine ripper's slash can easily disembowel a creature the size of a gorax.
* PoisonousPerson: The dewclaws of a spine ripper house a venom gland whose toxin causes immediate damage to muscle and tendon alike.

[[folder:Storm Raptor]]

* GiantFlyer: Storm raptors are giant birds of prey native to the Stormlands.
* ShockAndAwe: Storm raptors are rife with electrical energies, to be unleashed in blinding arcs when they dive upon prey.
* StealthyColossus: This massive bird of prey spends much of its time circling amid the storms in its native Stormlands, using their frequent electrical discharges to cloak its approach to prey.

[[folder:Swamp Horror]]

* TentacledTerror: The swamp horror is a great beast that rises from the swamp in a flurry of tentacles and seizes entire hunting parties in its slimy grip.

[[folder:Tunnel Terror]]

* TentacledTerror: The tunnel terror is a tentacled, toothy monstrosity that can quickly grow large enough to fill the widest sewer tunnel.

[[folder:Urthek]]

* HealThyself: Urthek share a symbiotic relationship with great mushrooms, and bathing in fungal spores allows them to quickly heal wounds.
* TheParalyzer: An urthek's hollow claws are filled with a paralytic venom.
* ThePigPen: The smell of an urthek is unmistakable--a fetid, overpowering odour that seems to cling to clothes, skin and hair for weeks.
-->'''Viktor Pendrake:''' Be wary of the urthek, for their size and strength are matched only by their terrible smell—a warning that should be heeded well before one gets close enough to feel the sting of their paralytic claws.

!!Oozes
[[folder:Oasis Ooze]]

* ChestMonster: Even a trained eye can hardly see an oasis ooze lurking just below the water's surface. It usually waits until prey has taken a sip before surging from the water to envelop, drag down, strangle and digest it.

!!Plants
[[folder:Bloodstone Manticora]]

* ManEatingPlant: The manticora is a predatory cactus that can sense creatures with water that come nearby, then lashes out with lengthy black spines to kill or paralyse prey and soak their roots in moist flesh.
* SpikeShooter: Bloodstone manticore can paralyse prey by flinging a hail of stiletto-sharp thorns.

[[folder:Cavewort]]

* AcidAttack: When a warm-blooded creature moves below the cavewort, it drops clumps of long, sticky tendrils, coated in acidic digestive enzymes, to ensnare its prey.

[[folder:Echolichen]]

* AbstractEater: The echolichen feeds off violence, which it can detect over vast distances. Once in motion, the echolichen attacks the source of any anger or violence in its environs and continues to psychically feed off the violence of its own actions, making it surprisingly difficult to put down.

[[folder:Gallows Tree]]

* AntiRegeneration: The very presence of a gallows tree saps vitality from the living, preventing them from healing in both the RPG and the wargame.
* VampiricDraining: Gallows groves sustain themselves on blood. Though they are unable to actively strike out at prey, they are irresistibly drawn to blood-drenched soil.

[[folder:Hollowthorn]]

* ManEatingPlant: The hollowthorn secretes a soporific toxin that induces a sensation of well-being followed by growing drowsiness and eventually sleep. Once the prey succumbs, the vines wrap around it and start to drink its blood.
* TrackingSpell: Once a creature has hollowthorn venom in its blood, the plant can track it unerringly.

[[folder:Walking Fungus]]

* MagicEater: The walking fungus feeds on arcane energy, attacking individuals who cast spells or carry mechanika or magical items. If a walking fungus is able to get hold of a magic or mechanika item, it attempts to feed on the arcane energy within, sending hyphae into arcane accumulators or the cortexes of 'jacks that are no longer fighting back.

!!Undead
[[folder:Bane]]

* AntiRegeneration: Banes are enshrouded in a preternatural aura that is utterly inimical to living flesh.
* BloodKnight: Banes delight in slaughter, seeking any opportunity to sow death.
* WarriorUndead: Banes are cunning undead warriors inscribed with runes and sigils of their rebirth. More versatile and deadly than the more mindless undead, they march into battle with the discipline and inexorable confidence that only soldiers with no fear of death can possess.

[[folder:Black Troll]]

* AntiRegeneration: Any hit with a physical attack made by a black troll against any other species of troll negates their regeneration.
* ForTheEvulz: Black trolls live only for torment. They raid troll and human settlements alike, murdering and pillaging as they go.
* NonHumanUndead: Black trolls are undead mockeries of other trolls.

[[folder:Blood Hound]]

* BodyOfBodies: When people don't die intact in a way that would make it convenient for the necrosurgeons, they combine the remains with those of animals to create blood hounds.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Blood hounds are made by combining human remains with those of quadrupedal animals.

[[folder:Bone Shaker]]

* DemBones: Bone shakers are simple undead constructs made from the bones of humanoids and beasts and animated by necromantic energy.
* WalkingWasteland: The ambient death energies that animate bone shakers are antithetical to life, leaving trails of withered vegetation in their wake and draining the vitality of living creatures nearby.

[[folder:Boneswarm]]

* DemBones: Boneswarms are masses of skeletal remains, animated by dark spirits that are drawn to the skeletons of those who died in swamps, transforming them into a gestalt entity driven by horrible predatory instincts.
* WalkingOssuary: A boneswarm strips the flesh and viscera from prey or any corpse it comes across, tearing bones from lifeless bodies and incorporating them into its bulk.

[[folder:Deathbound Revenant]]

* GhostPirate: Deathbound revenants are undead creatures animated by the continuance of a supernatural contract forged over a thousand years ago between Toruk and his earliest vassal, Captain Rengrave of the Dirgenmast ship ''Atramentous''.
* HauntedFetter: A revenant is anchored to a specific person, place or thing called a locus. The most widely known locus is the ''Atramentous'', although other vessels, officers and even objects within the Ghost Fleet of Cryx serve to bind the many revenants to service. When a revenant is defeated, its incorporeal spirit moves as quickly as it can back to the locus, whereupon it reforms its body within seconds, with all equipment. Destroying its locus or somehow eradicating its incorporeal form is the only way to permanently slay a revenant.

[[folder:Deathless]]

* BadBoss: Living beings who encounter a deathless are perceived and treated as slaves. The deathless will imperiously issue commands to others in one of the ancient tongues of western Immoren and will not hesitate to slaughter those incapable of following its edicts.
* EvilOverlord: Deathless are ancient Orgoth lords whose dark powers have sustained them into undeath within their macabre halls, which serve as both tomb and seat of power. Although their bodies have long since turned to dust, not even death has stifled their mad ambition. Despite being completely confined within their tombs, they believe their reach is as vast as their innate power, and in their minds, they remain the rulers of a continent-spanning empire and the governors of countless mortals.

[[folder:Disembodied]]

* HauntedFetter: Disembodied cannot move more than about a hundred feet from their corpse without being destroyed. Moving the corpse will only cause the disembodied to follow, so the only way to truly defeat them is to destroy the corpse, either with fire, acid or holy water.
* SinisterMinister: Those priests, who feign a façade of goodness while committing unspeakable acts kept hidden from their flocks and know that their spirits would face punishment for their crimes, try to escape this fate by resisting crossing over to Urcaen and remaining tied to their corpse as disembodied.

[[folder:Dread]]

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A dread's forearms are sawed away and replaced with implements of shining steel.

[[folder:Eldritch]]

* HorrorHunger: In death, eldritch are motivated by an unnatural hunger. To maintain its existence, an eldritch must siphon the life essence of an intelligent living creature. The touch of an eldritch drains away the life of its prey, nourishing the eldritch and keeping its predatory instincts at their peak.
* NonHumanUndead: Eldritch are Iosans who surrendered their morality and turned to undeath as the only option for staving off their race's uncertain fate.

[[folder:Entombed]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Whatever name the Orgoth originally bestowed upon these monstrosities has been lost to time. Modern adventurers who have survived an encounter with these creatures refer to them as the entombed.
* SoulJar: When an entombed is driven off, it returns to its body to recuperate, emerging again at full strength, ready to fight anew. The only way to permanently destroy an entombed is to find and destroy its soul cage, thereby causing it to pass into Urcaen.
* WarriorUndead: Each entombed was once an Orgoth warrior who volunteered for the privilege of being reborn into eternal servitude to his or her lord. After the warrior was ceremonially drowned, the lingering soul was placed in a soul cage. Clad in the armour it wore in life and wielding the weapons with which it was interred, the entombed is driven by an undying directive to protect its master and all the treasures in his grave.

[[folder:Excruciator]]

* TortureTechnician: Excruciators are the revenant spirits of Orgoth torturers. In life, they used their implements to wring information out of captured rebels, fabricate creatures such as the dread, and bind tortured souls to Orgoth implements such as fellblades. In death, they linger in Orgoth ruins scattered across western Immoren and continue this work upon those unlucky enough to encounter them.

[[folder:Fallen Knight]]

* AnimatedArmor: Within the Fallen Knights' ornate ritual armour, nothing remains but dust.
* TheOathbreaker: The Fane Knights once swore unbreakable oaths to guard with their lives the dwelling places of the gods themselves--and broke it when Scyrah and Nyssor were assassinated. In undeath, their oaths continue to hold, now rendered unbreakable.
* PraetorianGuard: The Fane Knights once guarded the dwellings of the gods with their lives. Now they strike down, without hesitation, any who trespass on the sacred temples they once guarded.
* WarriorUndead: In life, these individuals were Fane Knights, chosen from among the strongest, most skillful and most devout Iosan warriors to guard the homes of the gods themselves. After Scyrah and Nyssor's assassination, they found their ultimate failure too great to accept and became Fallen Knights; even after their bodies vanished, their oaths continue to hold.

[[folder:Feralgeist]]

* AxCrazy: Lashing out with the claws and fangs of the corpses it inhabits, the feralgeist poses a deadly threat to those unfortunate enough to encounter it.
* PossessingADeadBody: A feralgeist's insubstantial form hungers for a body of flesh. It descends into the carcasses of freshly slain beasts and brings to them a semblance of reanimated life.

[[folder:Hollowed]]

* HorrorHunger: Hollowed are driven by an all-consuming hunger for the organs of intelligent creatures. Unwilling to accept death and unable to sate their terrible hunger, they wander the wilds of western Immoren, but the organs upon which they feast will never be enough to satisfy their hunger. Rather than being digested, the consumed organs fester and rot over time.
* TheVirus: A creature killed by a hollowed will rise as a hollowed itself within a few days if it is not decapitated first.

[[folder:Iron Lich]]

* {{Cyborg}}: An iron lich's mortal body, with the exception of its skull, is replaced with a complex mechanikal apparatus that sustains its existence.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: An iron lich is an unliving fusion of necromancy and mechanika, who replaced its mortal body with a complex mechanikal apparatus that sustains its existence in an attempt to attain immortality. Its form is not constrained to any particular configuration and need not bear any resemblance to its living form. Iron liches store their spirit essence in a phylactery—a physical receptacle that houses the soul.
* SoulJar: So long as an iron lich's phylactery remains intact, the creature cannot truly be destroyed. Because a phylactery is an iron lich's only true vulnerability, iron liches take great pains to conceal and protect theirs. Most iron liches are paranoid enough to keep the location of their phylactery secret or to share it with only their most trusted retainers.

[[folder:Iron Lich Overseer]]

* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Iron lich overseers are composite beings with a single body and a unified consciousness. The restoration process ensures some degree of cooperation between competing personalities, and in time they merge into a single mind.

[[folder:Mechanithrall]]

* ArtificialZombie: Mechanithralls are technologically augmented thralls stitched together from battlefield dead.
* CannonFodder: Mechanithralls serve as cannon fodder in Cryxian armies.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Thralls are corpses reanimated through the power of complex runes carved into their flesh that form the backbone of the armies of Cryx.
* PowerFist: Mechanithralls and brute thralls are augmented with two heavy gauntlets that greatly enhance their strength.

!!!Bile Thrall

* AcidAttack: The bile thrall's bile cannon fires volumes of corrosive digestive and decomposition agents.
* DeadWeight: Bile thralls are noted for their bloated and swollen bodies.
* SuicideAttack: With a lurching death spasm, a bile thrall can detonate itself in a grisly shower of dissolving agents, flesh and metal.

!!!Bloat Thrall

* BodyOfBodies: A bloat thrall is crudely assembled from half a dozen corpses with no regard for anatomy, only usefulness.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: If a bloat thrall is ruptured, it explodes and showers the surrounding area in corrosive fluids.

!!!Brine Thrall

* RaisingTheSteaks: Brine thralls are the half-consumed corpses of predatory sea creatures retrofitted with necrotite furnaces, having rotted fins replaced with bits of bonejack hull, and outfitted with augmented jaws.

!!!Brute Thrall

* DumbMuscle: The brute thrall lacks both subtlety and cognitive capacity, but does its job well--crushing any obstacle in its way.

!!!Carrion Thrall

* FeatheredFiend: Carrion thralls retain their predatory tendencies from life, make them exceptionally lethal against injured adversaries. In the aftermath of conflicts, Cryxian generals employ them to spread horror and agony among enemy survivors.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Carrion thralls are undead birds, difficult to distinguish from wild birds at a distance.

!!!Skarlock Thrall

* BondCreatures: From its very fabrication, each skarlock is inextricably bound to a warcaster and becomes a conduit for the arcane abilities of its master, who often sends it forth to unleash this power from a distance. Lesser minions make every effort to appease skarlocks, knowing that each is the eyes and ears of a powerful master.
* EliteZombie: More than any other constructed thrall, skarlocks retain memories from their life and absorb knowledge from their animating runes, giving them extensive personalities and agendas. Dense dark sigils instil them with tremendous necromantic power and sorcerous potential.
* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: A hateful intelligence shines from skarlock thralls' eye sockets.

!!!Soulhunter

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: The soulhunter is a thrall whose torso is fused with the body of a Scharde stallion. In the wargame, it's classified as a cavalry unit.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Soulhunters are thralls fused with the corpse of a Scharde charger.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pistol Wraith]]

* BottomlessMagazines: A pistol wraith's wraithlock pistols never run out of ammunition.
* GunsAkimbo: Each pistol wraith is armed with a pair of wraithlock pistols.
* TheGunslinger: Pistol wraiths are restless spirits of duellists that retain their skill in life and walk the earth searching for fresh victims.
* MageMarksman: Gun mages who become pistol wraiths boast capabilities beyond those of other pistol wraiths. Retaining at least some spellcasting abilities from life, a pistol wraith spellslinger can channel magic through its wraithlock without rune bullets like living gun mages need to.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Pistol wraiths are consumed by an all-consuming need for vengeance or an overwhelming hatred of all life.
* SoreLoser: A pistol wraith's rejection of its own mortal end is intensified by its refusal to accept its own failure. The pistol wraith cannot acknowledge that it lost its final duel in life--combined with its ego, it gains a preternatural foothold in the physical realm. Through their singular dedication to prove themselves by besting other skilled gunfighters, they have denied their own passage to the afterlife.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reliquary]]

* OmnicidalManiac: Reliquaries vent their hatred with shocking violence on anything that crosses their path.
* ThePowerOfHate: Reliquaries are fuelled by a seething hatred of any creature displaying even a semblance of life, especially the eldritch.
* TestedOnHumans: In the secret underground laboratories of House Vyre, grisly experiments were conducted on elves born without souls. After the laboratories were abandoned, they were simply sealed off, with the grisly remnants of past horrors left inside, until they were awakened as undead reliquaries.
* UndeadChild: Reliquaries are infants who had been vivisected and entombed in arcanikal vessels, awakened into undeath by the deaths of the gods.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Riven]]

* DemonicPossession: Riven can possess the living and believe that if they inhabit a body as it dies, they can tether themselves to the departing soul and thereby pass into Urcaen. They delude themselves with this untenable belief, even though upon death of the host, the riven is ejected in a blast of violent spectral force.
* MustBeInvited: A riven cannot pass through any border or threshold unless it receives permission or an invitation, a river, national borders or a doorway.
* NonHumanUndead: Riven are the crazed spirits of elven priests who suffered and died during the Rivening.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sand Dervish]]

* DeathSeeker: Sand dervishes desire death through honourable battle and seek out opponents who can give them such an end.
* GhostlyGoals: The only way to get rid of a sand dervish, who perished before fulfilling a sworn oath or task, is to determine the reason for its existence and set right whatever prevents it from resting. Most find their final rest when challenged and defeated in single combat, while a few might have more obscure requirements. Otherwise, if it dies, the sand dervish regains its form after a few days.
* SentientSands: The spirit of a sand dervish can take on a corporeal form made from the sands of the Bloodstone in which it perished.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scylla]]

* CirclingVultures: Like vultures, scylla are scavengers that wheel over battles, diving down en masse to fall upon those left behind. They have been known to roost near rocky shores where shipwrecks are common, hoping to feast on drowned sailors floating on the tide.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Scylla flocks consist of undead birds corrupted by the blight of Toruk the Dragonfather.
* TalkingAnimal: Upon consuming a corpse, a scylla flock attains an echo of the deceased's memories and can speak with its voice. Compelled to return to familiar taverns and ships by these memories, they mockingly call out to pirates and sailors in the voices of their dead comrades.

[[folder:Sepulchral Lurker]]

* TheSpeechless: A sepulchral lurker is no longer capable of speech and cannot utter more than a dusty hiss.

[[folder:Shaft Wight]]

* BuriedAlive: Shaft wights were once miners, buried by cave-ins and collapsing tunnels and left to suffocate beneath the earth. Some were consumed by the terror of their inevitable deaths and clung to life so strongly that hours after dying, they transformed into undead and freed themselves with bloody talons.
* TheVirus: Humanoids killed by shaft wights rise as new shaft wights. In Rhul, they are put down at a distance to minimise the risk that others will become shaft wights.

[[folder:Soul Trapper]]

* YourSoulIsMine: The soul trapper continually wrests souls of the recently departed from the air and stuffs them into prepared soul cages, until they can be transferred to mightier entities. The runes carved upon the soul trapper's flesh imbues it with an incessant need to gather as many souls as possible.

[[folder:Swamp Spirit]]

* OurSpiritsAreDifferent: The hok-shishan are malevolent spirits that lurk in the deepest swamps of western Immoren where the air itself is leaden with unnatural malignancy, and manifest as sinuous snakes.
* WalkingWasteland: Where swamp spirits move, the air becomes foul and difficult to breathe, and mud becomes colder and more unrelenting in its grip.

[[folder:Tormented]]

* AxCrazy: Driven to a state of nearly mindless frenzy by their constant agony, the tormented hold a special hatred for sentient beings, especially anyone who reminds them of their elven foes or their former skorne masters. The pain visited on them in life by their handlers is now amplified in death until it is all they know, and their only outlet is to inflict that pain on others.
* FusionDance: The tormented are composite creatures, made up of the suffering of innumerable beasts and the eddying remnants of skorne mortitheurgy.
* PerpetuallyProtean: The tormented are ever shifting, with the features of warbeasts forming and receding at random. At any given moment, a tormented might manifest the tusked head of a titan, the club tail of a rhinodon, or the piercing claw of an aradus—or all of the above.
* RaisingTheSteaks: The tormented are undead ghosts of former skorne warbeasts.

* AsteroidsMonster: Dragons draw upon the blighted power in their blood to produce dragonspawn, and Everblight is no exception. An important difference is that he is capable of producing much greater volumes of them through his warlocks.

* CreatingLife: Everblight's dragonspawn are spawned for the express purpose of war and slaughter. Each warbeast is designed for a specific purpose, its form perfectly suited to that task.
* FeelNoPain: Dragonspawn have limited reactions to impulses like pain or extremes in temperature. If their tasks require it, they can ignore even the most drastic damage to their bodies without flinching.

* XRayVision: Dragonspawn see through special organs that give feedback through the blighted energies they radiate. They can view their surroundings unhindered by smoke or the nightfall, giving them a distinct advantage in conditions of low visibility.

!!Beasts
[[folder:Argus]]

[[folder:Warpwolf]]

* AxCrazy: A transformed warpwolf surrenders control of its conscious mind to the predator within.
* HealingFactor: A warpwolf's wounds heal quickly in response to the regenerative properties bestowed upon it.
* JekyllAndHyde: The minds of warpwolves who have resumed their human form after the transformation are invariably shattered, their eyes reflecting an awareness of the horror they have become.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Warpwolves are men cursed with an affliction that allows them to unleash their inner predator and transform into a murderous beast whose massive body blends aspects of both wolf and human. More protean than most, they can mutate themselves to be stronger, faster, or tougher from moment to moment. Warpwolves may mate with others to produce purebloods that never take on human form.
* WasOnceAMan: Warpwolves who have lived in this state for long periods accept their condition and abandon their humanity, losing their memory, the ability to speak and entering an entirely feral state.

!!Monstrosities
[[folder:Archidon]]

* TerrorDactyl: Archidons are enormous flying reptiles that swoop down on their victims with a speed matched only by their savagery.
* TurnsRed: Archidons conditioned by skorne paingivers deal more damage with their bite when under half hit points.

[[folder:Aspis]]

* AmphibianAtLarge: While it resembles a great snake, the aspis is actually a large species of caecilian.
* {{Cyclops}}: The aspis appears to have only one smooth black eye that dominates the centre of its head, and there is some debate as to whether it is an eye at all.
* MindOverMatter: The aspis, which lacks teeth and fangs, subdues prey and defends itself from predators by emitting a wave of force from its eye.

[[folder:Banshee]]

* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees appear as stocky birds of prey large enough to carry off a warrior. Its most distinctive feature is a dissonant keening that builds as the creature approaches, until it swoops down upon its prey with a deafening shriek capable of incapacitating those who hear it, especially intelligent creatures.
* ToothyBird: The banshee resembles a bird that sports a mouth full of sharp teeth.

[[folder:Bog Gulper]]

* LuringInPrey: On the bog gulper's back grows an appendage resembling an adult human struggling to free itself from the bog. More than one altruistic traveller has spotted this lure and mistaken it for a fellow human in distress. Once the bog gulper detects motion in the swamp, it strikes.
* ToServeMan: The bog gulper's favourite food is human flesh.

[[folder:Gorgandur]]

* BigEater: When hungry, a gorfandur surfaces and scoops up a mile-long swath of anything that is unable to escape its maw.
* RentAZilla: Ancient gorgandur grow to truly enormous sizes and can swallow whole villages, leaving behind blank trenches. When they awaken, their movements are often mistaken for small earthquakes.
* SandWorm: A tunnelling creature of unfathomable size, the gorgandur chews through the solid rocks beneath the Bloodstone Marches. Even young gorgandur are gigantic, and they keep growing throughout their phenomenally long lives.

[[folder:Gorgon]]

* CombatTentacles: A gorgon attacks prey with serrated tendrils surrounding its rasping mouth.
* EatenAlive: After calcifying its prey's blood and muscle, a gorgon feeds on these rocky projections, without waiting for the prey to die.
* TakenForGranite: Gorgon venom causes the prey's muscle and blood to calcify within seconds, forming painful rocky extrusions.

[[folder:Ikoskit]]

* TheNoseKnows: Blessed with a tremendous sense of smell, ikoskits can track a potential meal for miles through the dense jungle.
* StealthExpert: Their camouflaged skin allows ikoskits to blend into the dark rocks and foliage common across Alchiere. Spotting an ikoskit before it is almost on top of its prey is nearly impossible.
* VampiricDraining: Ikoskits drain blood, burying their razor-sharp teeth into whatever exposed flesh they can find.

[[folder:Lemax]]

* AcidAttack: The lemax's main weapon is an acidic spittle.
* ZergRush: Although individually weak, lemax are terrifying to face when gathered in numbers.

[[folder:Manticore]]

* EatDirtCheap: The manticore's typical diet consists of dirt and small rocks, which facilitate the growth of its unusual defensive spines.
* ForTheEvulz: Unlike other beasts of elven myth that attack only to hunt or defend themselves, manticores appear to kill for its own sake, often leaving prey savaged yet uneaten.
* OurManticoresAreSpinier: A manticore broadly resembles a big cat from afar, but instead of fur, it is covered in jagged, glassy chitinous spines that sweep backward from its beak and end in a morningstar-like tail.

[[folder:Screecher]]

* SuperScream: When prey stops for a quiet moment, screechers creep close and emit a furious shriek that can stun even much larger animals, then attack in a pack and attempt to tear the prey to bits with their claws and fangs.

[[folder:Sphinx]]

* CombatClairvoyance: Sphinxes exhibit a limited form of telepathy, allowing them to communicate silently across short distances, and possibly even read the surface thoughts of their prey, to know when to dodge and where to move in for a killing blow.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: The sphinx is a species of pony-sized cat that exhibits limited telepathy, and are described in ancient stories by terms normally reserved for spirits and fiends.

[[folder:Spine Ripper]]

* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Each claw is like an arcing blade with a razor-sharp interior edge, and a spine ripper's slash can easily disembowel a creature the size of a gorax.
* PoisonousPerson: The dewclaws of a spine ripper house a venom gland whose toxin causes immediate damage to muscle and tendon alike.

[[folder:Storm Raptor]]

* GiantFlyer: Storm raptors are giant birds of prey native to the Stormlands.
* ShockAndAwe: Storm raptors are rife with electrical energies, to be unleashed in blinding arcs when they dive upon prey.
* StealthyColossus: This massive bird of prey spends much of its time circling amid the storms in its native Stormlands, using their frequent electrical discharges to cloak its approach to prey.

[[folder:Swamp Horror]]

* TentacledTerror: The swamp horror is a great beast that rises from the swamp in a flurry of tentacles and seizes entire hunting parties in its slimy grip.

!!Oozes
[[folder:Oasis Ooze]]

* ChestMonster: Even a trained eye can hardly see an oasis ooze lurking just below the water's surface. It usually waits until prey has taken a sip before surging from the water to envelop, drag down, strangle and digest it.

!!Plants
[[folder:Bloodstone Manticora]]

* ManEatingPlant: The manticora is a predatory cactus that can sense creatures with water that come nearby, then lashes out with lengthy black spines to kill or paralyse prey and soak their roots in moist flesh.
* SpikeShooter: Bloodstone manticore can paralyse prey by flinging a hail of stiletto-sharp thorns.

[[folder:Cavewort]]

* AcidAttack: When a warm-blooded creature moves below the cavewort, it drops clumps of long, sticky tendrils, coated in acidic digestive enzymes, to ensnare its prey.

[[folder:Echolichen]]

* AbstractEater: The echolichen feeds off violence, which it can detect over vast distances. Once in motion, the echolichen attacks the source of any anger or violence in its environs and continues to psychically feed off the violence of its own actions, making it surprisingly difficult to put down.

[[folder:Gallows Tree]]

* AntiRegeneration: The very presence of a gallows tree saps vitality from the living, preventing them from healing in both the RPG and the wargame.
* VampiricDraining: Gallows groves sustain themselves on blood. Though they are unable to actively strike out at prey, they are irresistibly drawn to blood-drenched soil.

[[folder:Hollowthorn]]

* ManEatingPlant: The hollowthorn secretes a soporific toxin that induces a sensation of well-being followed by growing drowsiness and eventually sleep. Once the prey succumbs, the vines wrap around it and start to drink its blood.
* TrackingSpell: Once a creature has hollowthorn venom in its blood, the plant can track it unerringly.

[[folder:Walking Fungus]]

* MagicEater: The walking fungus feeds on arcane energy, attacking individuals who cast spells or carry mechanika or magical items. If a walking fungus is able to get hold of a magic or mechanika item, it attempts to feed on the arcane energy within, sending hyphae into arcane accumulators or the cortexes of 'jacks that are no longer fighting back.

!!Undead
[[folder:Bane]]

* AntiRegeneration: Banes are enshrouded in a preternatural aura that is utterly inimical to living flesh.
* BloodKnight: Banes delight in slaughter, seeking any opportunity to sow death.
* WarriorUndead: Banes are cunning undead warriors inscribed with runes and sigils of their rebirth. More versatile and deadly than the more mindless undead, they march into battle with the discipline and inexorable confidence that only soldiers with no fear of death can possess.

[[folder:Black Troll]]

* AntiRegeneration: Any hit with a physical attack made by a black troll against any other species of troll negates their regeneration.
* ForTheEvulz: Black trolls live only for torment. They raid troll and human settlements alike, murdering and pillaging as they go.
* NonHumanUndead: Black trolls are undead mockeries of other trolls.

[[folder:Blood Hound]]

* BodyOfBodies: When people don't die intact in a way that would make it convenient for the necrosurgeons, they combine the remains with those of animals to create blood hounds.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Blood hounds are made by combining human remains with those of quadrupedal animals.

[[folder:Bone Shaker]]

* DemBones: Bone shakers are simple undead constructs made from the bones of humanoids and beasts and animated by necromantic energy.
* WalkingWasteland: The ambient death energies that animate bone shakers are antithetical to life, leaving trails of withered vegetation in their wake and draining the vitality of living creatures nearby.

[[folder:Boneswarm]]

* DemBones: Boneswarms are masses of skeletal remains, animated by dark spirits that are drawn to the skeletons of those who died in swamps, transforming them into a gestalt entity driven by horrible predatory instincts.
* WalkingOssuary: A boneswarm strips the flesh and viscera from prey or any corpse it comes across, tearing bones from lifeless bodies and incorporating them into its bulk.

[[folder:Deathbound Revenant]]

* GhostPirate: Deathbound revenants are undead creatures animated by the continuance of a supernatural contract forged over a thousand years ago between Toruk and his earliest vassal, Captain Rengrave of the Dirgenmast ship ''Atramentous''.
* HauntedFetter: A revenant is anchored to a specific person, place or thing called a locus. The most widely known locus is the ''Atramentous'', although other vessels, officers and even objects within the Ghost Fleet of Cryx serve to bind the many revenants to service. When a revenant is defeated, its incorporeal spirit moves as quickly as it can back to the locus, whereupon it reforms its body within seconds, with all equipment. Destroying its locus or somehow eradicating its incorporeal form is the only way to permanently slay a revenant.

[[folder:Deathless]]

* BadBoss: Living beings who encounter a deathless are perceived and treated as slaves. The deathless will imperiously issue commands to others in one of the ancient tongues of western Immoren and will not hesitate to slaughter those incapable of following its edicts.
* EvilOverlord: Deathless are ancient Orgoth lords whose dark powers have sustained them into undeath within their macabre halls, which serve as both tomb and seat of power. Although their bodies have long since turned to dust, not even death has stifled their mad ambition. Despite being completely confined within their tombs, they believe their reach is as vast as their innate power, and in their minds, they remain the rulers of a continent-spanning empire and the governors of countless mortals.

[[folder:Disembodied]]

* HauntedFetter: Disembodied cannot move more than about a hundred feet from their corpse without being destroyed. Moving the corpse will only cause the disembodied to follow, so the only way to truly defeat them is to destroy the corpse, either with fire, acid or holy water.
* SinisterMinister: Those priests, who feign a façade of goodness while committing unspeakable acts kept hidden from their flocks and know that their spirits would face punishment for their crimes, try to escape this fate by resisting crossing over to Urcaen and remaining tied to their corpse as disembodied.

[[folder:Dread]]

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A dread's forearms are sawed away and replaced with implements of shining steel.

[[folder:Eldritch]]

* HorrorHunger: In death, eldritch are motivated by an unnatural hunger. To maintain its existence, an eldritch must siphon the life essence of an intelligent living creature. The touch of an eldritch drains away the life of its prey, nourishing the eldritch and keeping its predatory instincts at their peak.
* NonHumanUndead: Eldritch are Iosans who surrendered their morality and turned to undeath as the only option for staving off their race's uncertain fate.

[[folder:Entombed]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Whatever name the Orgoth originally bestowed upon these monstrosities has been lost to time. Modern adventurers who have survived an encounter with these creatures refer to them as the entombed.
* SoulJar: When an entombed is driven off, it returns to its body to recuperate, emerging again at full strength, ready to fight anew. The only way to permanently destroy an entombed is to find and destroy its soul cage, thereby causing it to pass into Urcaen.
* WarriorUndead: Each entombed was once an Orgoth warrior who volunteered for the privilege of being reborn into eternal servitude to his or her lord. After the warrior was ceremonially drowned, the lingering soul was placed in a soul cage. Clad in the armour it wore in life and wielding the weapons with which it was interred, the entombed is driven by an undying directive to protect its master and all the treasures in his grave.

[[folder:Excruciator]]

* TortureTechnician: Excruciators are the revenant spirits of Orgoth torturers. In life, they used their implements to wring information out of captured rebels, fabricate creatures such as the dread, and bind tortured souls to Orgoth implements such as fellblades. In death, they linger in Orgoth ruins scattered across western Immoren and continue this work upon those unlucky enough to encounter them.

[[folder:Fallen Knight]]

* AnimatedArmor: Within the Fallen Knights' ornate ritual armour, nothing remains but dust.
* TheOathbreaker: The Fane Knights once swore unbreakable oaths to guard with their lives the dwelling places of the gods themselves--and broke it when Scyrah and Nyssor were assassinated. In undeath, their oaths continue to hold, now rendered unbreakable.
* PraetorianGuard: The Fane Knights once guarded the dwellings of the gods with their lives. Now they strike down, without hesitation, any who trespass on the sacred temples they once guarded.
* WarriorUndead: In life, these individuals were Fane Knights, chosen from among the strongest, most skillful and most devout Iosan warriors to guard the homes of the gods themselves. After Scyrah and Nyssor's assassination, they found their ultimate failure too great to accept and became Fallen Knights; even after their bodies vanished, their oaths continue to hold.

[[folder:Feralgeist]]

* AxCrazy: Lashing out with the claws and fangs of the corpses it inhabits, the feralgeist poses a deadly threat to those unfortunate enough to encounter it.
* PossessingADeadBody: A feralgeist's insubstantial form hungers for a body of flesh. It descends into the carcasses of freshly slain beasts and brings to them a semblance of reanimated life.

[[folder:Hollowed]]

* HorrorHunger: Hollowed are driven by an all-consuming hunger for the organs of intelligent creatures. Unwilling to accept death and unable to sate their terrible hunger, they wander the wilds of western Immoren, but the organs upon which they feast will never be enough to satisfy their hunger. Rather than being digested, the consumed organs fester and rot over time.
* TheVirus: A creature killed by a hollowed will rise as a hollowed itself within a few days if it is not decapitated first.

[[folder:Iron Lich]]

* {{Cyborg}}: An iron lich's mortal body, with the exception of its skull, is replaced with a complex mechanikal apparatus that sustains its existence.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: An iron lich is an unliving fusion of necromancy and mechanika, who replaced its mortal body with a complex mechanikal apparatus that sustains its existence in an attempt to attain immortality. Its form is not constrained to any particular configuration and need not bear any resemblance to its living form. Iron liches store their spirit essence in a phylactery—a physical receptacle that houses the soul.
* SoulJar: So long as an iron lich's phylactery remains intact, the creature cannot truly be destroyed. Because a phylactery is an iron lich's only true vulnerability, iron liches take great pains to conceal and protect theirs. Most iron liches are paranoid enough to keep the location of their phylactery secret or to share it with only their most trusted retainers.

[[folder:Iron Lich Overseer]]

* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Iron lich overseers are composite beings with a single body and a unified consciousness. The restoration process ensures some degree of cooperation between competing personalities, and in time they merge into a single mind.

[[folder:Mechanithrall]]

* ArtificialZombie: Mechanithralls are technologically augmented thralls stitched together from battlefield dead.
* CannonFodder: Mechanithralls serve as cannon fodder in Cryxian armies.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Thralls are corpses reanimated through the power of complex runes carved into their flesh that form the backbone of the armies of Cryx.
* PowerFist: Mechanithralls and brute thralls are augmented with two heavy gauntlets that greatly enhance their strength.

!!!Bile Thrall

* AcidAttack: The bile thrall's bile cannon fires volumes of corrosive digestive and decomposition agents.
* DeadWeight: Bile thralls are noted for their bloated and swollen bodies.
* SuicideAttack: With a lurching death spasm, a bile thrall can detonate itself in a grisly shower of dissolving agents, flesh and metal.

!!!Bloat Thrall

* BodyOfBodies: A bloat thrall is crudely assembled from half a dozen corpses with no regard for anatomy, only usefulness.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: If a bloat thrall is ruptured, it explodes and showers the surrounding area in corrosive fluids.

!!!Brine Thrall

* RaisingTheSteaks: Brine thralls are the half-consumed corpses of predatory sea creatures retrofitted with necrotite furnaces, having rotted fins replaced with bits of bonejack hull, and outfitted with augmented jaws.

!!!Brute Thrall

* DumbMuscle: The brute thrall lacks both subtlety and cognitive capacity, but does its job well--crushing any obstacle in its way.

!!!Carrion Thrall

* FeatheredFiend: Carrion thralls retain their predatory tendencies from life, make them exceptionally lethal against injured adversaries. In the aftermath of conflicts, Cryxian generals employ them to spread horror and agony among enemy survivors.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Carrion thralls are undead birds, difficult to distinguish from wild birds at a distance.

!!!Skarlock Thrall

* BondCreatures: From its very fabrication, each skarlock is inextricably bound to a warcaster and becomes a conduit for the arcane abilities of its master, who often sends it forth to unleash this power from a distance. Lesser minions make every effort to appease skarlocks, knowing that each is the eyes and ears of a powerful master.
* EliteZombie: More than any other constructed thrall, skarlocks retain memories from their life and absorb knowledge from their animating runes, giving them extensive personalities and agendas. Dense dark sigils instil them with tremendous necromantic power and sorcerous potential.
* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: A hateful intelligence shines from skarlock thralls' eye sockets.

!!!Soulhunter

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: The soulhunter is a thrall whose torso is fused with the body of a Scharde stallion. In the wargame, it's classified as a cavalry unit.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Soulhunters are thralls fused with the corpse of a Scharde charger.
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[[folder:Pistol Wraith]]

* BottomlessMagazines: A pistol wraith's wraithlock pistols never run out of ammunition.
* GunsAkimbo: Each pistol wraith is armed with a pair of wraithlock pistols.
* TheGunslinger: Pistol wraiths are restless spirits of duellists that retain their skill in life and walk the earth searching for fresh victims.
* MageMarksman: Gun mages who become pistol wraiths boast capabilities beyond those of other pistol wraiths. Retaining at least some spellcasting abilities from life, a pistol wraith spellslinger can channel magic through its wraithlock without rune bullets like living gun mages need to.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Pistol wraiths are consumed by an all-consuming need for vengeance or an overwhelming hatred of all life.
* SoreLoser: A pistol wraith's rejection of its own mortal end is intensified by its refusal to accept its own failure. The pistol wraith cannot acknowledge that it lost its final duel in life--combined with its ego, it gains a preternatural foothold in the physical realm. Through their singular dedication to prove themselves by besting other skilled gunfighters, they have denied their own passage to the afterlife.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reliquary]]