(vulgar) The House of Monsters Influences:  Sword-and-sorcery without the humanocentric trappings.  Think of bugbears and hobgoblins acting as characters from  Kull  or  Conan  or  He-Man  or  John Carter  and you'll be okay. Background:  The Zantaal are a noble house containing what is sometimes called the " monstrous humanoids ."  They still retain ties