Apate

The apate are spirits that serve the god of felony, Ton'Ath'Ek. They appear as nine-foot long weasels with cream-tan brown fur on their underbellies and hard but light-weight plates of dark blue chitin on their flanks and tails. The face of one of these spirits is blue striped with white, and possesses two large eyes that glare suspiciously upon those it encounters. Vicious claws are to be found upon the tips of its short powerful legs, and twitching whiskers adorn its snout. An apate often wears bracelets of copper or gold around its forelegs.
Dubbed "rimeweasels" for the cold that their bodies emanate, the apate are conniving entities that will rapidly turn to violence as the solution to problems not solved through deception and threats. They are often consorts of crime lords and have established a rivalry with the dawon kirata that frequently head the greatest crime networks in the cities of Tamaluk, as both Ton'Ath'Ek's clergy and his spiritual servants compete viciously for his attention and favour.