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!!Wind Yai

* BadBoss: Nothing sets wind yai off in quite the same way as a weak or inept musician, and even the most innocent mistake can mean the fatal end for an indentured bard.
* BlowYouAway: A wind yai can conjure a violent updraft, sending foes flying into the air and bringing them crashing back to the earth.
* TheCorrupter: Wind yai take great pleasure in dominating cloud giants. Evil cloud giants tend to make the best soldiers, though if the wind yai can manage to sway good-aligned cloud giants under their banner, the subsequent wars are all the more satisfying.
* ShockAndAwe: A wind yai can fire a bolt of electricity from its third eye.
* WickedCultured: Wind yai have a particular affection for rare, magical instruments, especially those with strings. A wind yai takes great pride in its musical possessions, and also finds a unique pleasure in assembling masses of enslaved musicians to perform thunderous symphonies.

!!Caligni Creeper

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: When a dark creeper is killed, its body vanishes in a flash of blinding light.
* HappinessInSlavery: In a dark creeper tribe led by dark stalkers, the stalkers live a decadent life and treat the creepers like dirt, yet the dark creepers see no inherent imbalance in this arrangement and consider a life in the servitude of a dark stalker to be a life fulfilled.
* ThePigPen: Dark creepers exude a foul stench of sweat and spoiled food, owing primarily to the fact that they never take off their clothing.
* PoisonedWeapons: Dark creepers smear their weapons with a foul-smelling black poison.

!!Caligni Stalker

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: When a dark stalker is killed, its body combusts in a flash of flame.
* DualWielding: Dark stalkers prefer dual swords over all other weapons.
* PoisonedWeapons: Dark stalkers smear their weapons with a foul-smelling black poison.

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[[folder:Adherer]]
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

* EatenAlive: Adherers digest food unusually slowly, and can feed on a single creature for days or even weeks, taking only one or two bites a day and forcing their living captives to endure a hellish, drawn-out death.
* WasOnceAMan: Though once human, adherers have been transformed by hideous processes on the Ethereal Plane and forgotten all traces of humanity.

[[folder:Adlet]]
->'''Level:''' 10 (11 for shamans)

White-furred, humanoid wolves who live in scattered tribes in the far north of the world.

* BeastMan: Adlets are a fairly typical example of the barbaric bestial humanoids living in the wilderness. They resemble human-sized, humanoid wolves with snow-white fur, and live in tribal groups in the arctic north. While not evil -- they're Chaotic Neutral as a rule -- they're very aggressive and barbaric, and regularly come in conflict with other races and cultures who attempt to settle their frozen homelands. They also have no taboo against cannibalism and often eat their dead, which hasn't helped their public view among other species very much.
* BreathWeapon: Adlets can exhale a freezing mist that deals cold damage and staggers opponents.
* FantasticRaceWeaponAffinity: They favor spears in combat, and have bonuses for using them.
* AnIcePerson: They are immune to cold and have access to a number of ice-based abilities, such as breathing freezing mist and creating localized ice and sleet storms, and their shamans can summon ice elementals. Conversely, they are very vulnerable to fire.
* ImAHumanitarian: Adlets have no social taboos against cannibalism and usually eat their dead instead of burying or cremating them.

[[folder:Anugobu]]
->'''Level:''' Any
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

* PocketDimension: An anugobu is intrinsically connected to a workshop, an extradimensional 10-foot cube that holds their collected tools and materials.
* WallCrawl: Anugobus can walk on walls and ceilings.

[[folder:Anunnaki]]
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: When interacting with other species, each anunnaki adopts the guise of that species and calibrates its form to fit mores and prejudices.

[[folder:Asanbosam]]
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->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
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* VampiricDraining: Asanbosams latch onto their victims' necks to drain their blood and fulfil the high iron requirement of their diet.
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[[folder:Dire Corby]]
->'''Level:''' 1 (dire corby), 2 (dread corby)
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* BirdPeople: They're muscular, humanoid crows with powerful arms instead of wings.

[[folder:Doppelganger]]
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->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Pale, gaunt beings with alien agendas, they possess the ability to change shape at will and see through illusions.

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* {{Doppelganger}}: Shapeshifters who adopt the forms of other beings and attempt to replace them, sometimes to take over their lives or to sow discord while framing the one they've replaced.
* LeanAndMean: They usually appear as enemies, and their natural form is gangly and half-finished.
* SapientFurTrade: A doppelgänger's skin can be used to replace polymorph spells when crafting magic items.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Their iconic ability, which allows them to take the form of any other humanoid.

[[folder:Faceless Butcher]]
->'''Level:''' 11

* TheBlank: Faceless butchers only have grim holes where their facial features should be.
* FaceStealer: Faceless butchers carve flesh from skull to add to their collection of stolen faces. Once they've taken a victim's face, the faceless butcher can wear it to transform into an exact replica of the deceased. Among small villages where locals whisper stories of the faceless butcher, one can never be sure if the local fisher or trapper who returns from an unexpectedly long trip upriver is who they have always been, or is something far more sinister.
* PsychoKnifeNut: This monstrous murderer's preferred weapon is a wicked and bloodstained meat cleaver.

[[folder:Fen Mauler]]
->'''Level:''' 10

->'''Size:''' Large

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: They're descended from sasquatch that made a DealWithTheDevil to protect themselves from an unspecified calamity, and still largely resemble their ancestors in shape.

[[folder:Ghole]]
->'''Level:''' 12
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* PlagueMaster: A ghole's bite and claws carry the bubonic plague, and bolsters any diseases the victim is already suffering from.

[[folder:Ginever]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

* ATankardOfMooseUrine: The ginever's gaze can transform water into some form of alcohol, albeit of low, burning quality.

[[folder:Graeae]]
->'''Level:''' 5

->'''Size:''' Medium

* WindsOfDestinyChange: A graeae can use her mystic eye to change the luck of any creature that she can see.

[[folder:Gray]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Small
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* TheGrays: They are a malevolent race of alien humanoids with grey skin, long, willowy limbs and a bulbous head with oversized black eyes that often abduct people.
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[[folder:Lava Child]]
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Small

* MagmaMan: A lava child can cough up a ball of magma into its hand and throw it at foes. Lava child chieftains can additionally channel volcanic energy to produce an explosion of molten rock.

[[folder:Lizard Scion]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* LargeAndInCharge: Lizard scions tower over their kin, and typically become the leader of their tribe.

[[folder:Maenad]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

* TheCorruptor: Maenads can pass for humans, insinuate themselves into normal society before attempting to turn the community toward debauchery, cannibalism and gluttony.
* TheHedonist: Creatures of unbridled violence and decadence, maenads roam the world inviting others to join in on their debased revels. They consume massive amounts of wine and food, cause fights, and tear their foes limb from limb.

[[folder:Maftet]]
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->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' Any

* AncestralWeapon: A maftet's scimitars are often cherished family heirlooms.
* DualWielding: Central to maftet culture is a specialised technique of dual-wielding scimitars.
* PowerTattoo: When a young maftet comes of age, they receive runic tattoos from an elder. These tattoos are imbued with magic that allows a maftet to enchant their wielded weapons.
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[[folder:Medusa]]
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->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Snake-haired humanoids with petrifying gazes, medusas covet knowledge and often amass large stores of esoteric knowledge. While most famous for their ability to turn others into statues with a glance, medusas are also skilled infiltrators rumored to have made their way into numerous organization and often highly skilled archers.
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* AbusiveParents: Hags in the Remaster are heavily inspired by classic abuse behaviors, to the point where the Monster Core advises keeping careful and having trigger warnings around actual survivors of abuse.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: Hags in the Remaster as significantly often less conventionally ugly and more alien in their true forms than previously portrayed (for example, sweet hags look less like green-skinned warty crones and more like dumpy but maternal women made out of dough with gumdrop eyes) - though averted for sea hags, who possess a nice set of ScaryTeeth.

Once, before mammalian humanoids rose to prominence, the Serpentfolk, more properly called the sekmin, ruled a massive, bloodthirsty empire. The [[AdvancedAncientHumans Azlanti]], backed by their enigmatic patrons the [[EldritchAbomination alghollthus]], rose up, annihilated their civilization and decapitated their immortal god. Now, with their divine patron in pieces and their society shattered, they seek revenge.

* DumbMuscle: The aapoph, often nicknamed degenerate serpentfolk, have 20 strength but only 4 intelligence (barely enough to qualify as sentient), and no magical powers. It's implied they are slowly subverting this over the course of generations, as their mutations are slowly growing more extreme -- including ones that [[DumbassNoMore increase their capacity for thought]].

* TheMagocracy: They prized magic, arcane or divine, over all. Most of the species has degenerated and lost much of their intelligence and magical power.

* ReptilianConspiracy: Even in a game with actual reptoids, the serpentfolk are still the most prominent example of this trope. They hide among warm-blooded races wearing (purely cosmetic) disguises to conceal the monster within.

* ShoutOut: Their ability to take someone else's qualities for themselves in exchange for magical aid is right out of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', especially given the ''Bestiary'' explicitly listing one's voice as an example of what one might bargain away to a sea hag.

Also called iron hags, annises are the strongest and most brutal of the common hags. Eschewing trickery and guile, they prefer to hunt their targets down and brutally tear them limb from limb before feasting on their flesh.