Bestiary

Fae

Weakness: iron

The fairy cultists needed teeth,
they stole them in the night.
For ritual, for altar pile—
to teach the dark to bite.

The Smallfolk

Godlings (Changeling)
Fairies (Pixies)
Redcaps
Gnomes

The Greenfolk

Satyrs
Green Elves
Dryads
Naiads

The Darkfolk

Scrael
Hags
Leshi
Skin Dancers
Gorgons

Undead

There are three main kinds of undead: Ghouls, Revenants, and Vampires.
All are affected by fire.

Ghouls

Ghouls are zombies, which take many forms.

Revenants

Revenants are human consciousnesses inside a dead & decomposing body.

Liches

Liches are revenants who are purposefully created. Liches do not decompose like most revenants.

Vampires

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Spirits

There are two kinds of spirits: Ghasts and Elementals.
Both are affected by silver.

Ghasts / Ghosts

Ghasts are undead spirits. There are two kinds of Ghasts: Wights and Wraiths.

Wights

Wights are human ghosts. They are typically not malicious (unless they were malicious in life), and are trapped in a cycle or unresolved loop.

Wraiths

Wraiths are malicious ghasts. There are three main types: Spectres, Banshees, and Shades.

Spectres

Spectres are chaotic or loose malevolent forces. Spectres are sometimes confused for Djinn.

Banshees

Banshees are revenge spirits. They are sometimes a former human who seeks retribution from those who wronged them in life.

Shades

A Shade is a kind of wraith that once was a wight and has been mutated or distorted into an angry incorporeal soul trapped in this world.

Shades can be created from accidents or mistakes, and Shades that are deliberately created to be wielded for some dark purpose are called Fettershades.

Shades attack most often at night.
Silver or pith can be used to harm or fend off shades.

Fettershade

What's needed to create a Fettershade:

• A binding ritual that includes physical object they once owned (e.g. a bracelet, a letter, or their own unburied remains).
• An altar, left intact.
• An unresolved or unfulfilled duty, determined by the summoner.

A fettershade is unbound from their anchor to the mundane world when either:

• Their set duty is fulfilled, or
• The ritual and altar are destroyed.

This does not automatically get rid of the wraith: The fettershade is unaware of their unbinding until they are destroyed or told.

Elementals

Djinn

Golems

Sentient goo

Elemental spirits

will’o’wisps, dust devils, ents

Demons

weakness: Augury or invoking the divine

Demons - very powerful
Imps
Hellhounds
Possessors

Beasts

weakness: various Alchemy

Cockatrice
Griffins
Giant Spiders
Wyverns
Basilisks
Dragons (no true weakness)

Goblinoids

weakness: getting them alone

Knolls
Bugbears
Hobgoblins
Goblins

Giants

weakness: Order Flux

Trolls
Ogres
Giants

Anathema / The Cursed

weakness: different for each

Botchlings (empathy)
Kikimora (fire? chaos flux?)
Strigga (bell sounds)
Torviches (silver)

Other

Baba Yaga
The Unicorn
Sea creatures
Cursed Earth
Cultists, Zealots, and other meddlers