Monster Guide

## Creatures

**Naiad**: elemental nature spirits and have the same shape as humans but are composed partially of the element they yield from. Water naiads are bound to the health of their river or lake, fire naiads are dependent on the activity of their volcano or geyser and storm naiads are bound to the strength of their winds.

* Size: M
* **River Naiads**: the most common type of naiad, they originate from bodies of water such as rivers and lakes and are the most likely to interact with humans.
	+ Size: M
	+ Vulnerability: fire
* **Magma Naiads**: the fiery counterpart to their water dwelling cousins, while not made of molten rock, they do emit a slight glow and are much warmer than most species
	+ Size: M
	+ Vulnerabilities: cold
	+ Resistances: fire
* **Storm Naiad**: often confused for ghosts due to their pale appearance and tendency toward magic, however, they will rarely if at all be found near the smogged skies of cities
	+ Size: M
	+ Vulnerabilities: physical
	+ Resistances: lightning

**Dryad**: nature spirits, whose life force is bound to a plant or tree. They resemble humans in their shape but their skin barklike and their hair, if any, is composed of vines or leaves. Dryads very rarely live among other species.

* Size: M
* Vulnerabilities: fire
* Resistances: slashing
* **Ent**: very visually similar to dryads, are not manifested spirits of nature but creatures of nature itself. Their immense forms often intimidate potential predators, and thus Ents are rather docile.
	+ Size: M-L

**Promethean**: Humans were sculpted from clay by prometheus after the age of chaos. However, not all of these sculptures realized their form of flesh and blood. Prometheans have the same shape and structure as humans but bear few similarities beyond that.

* Size: M
* **Hephaestian Automaton**: Automatons are the creations of the most intelligent of beings, assembled from inanimate parts to create life either as an imitation or mockery to the handiwork of Prometheus and Epimetheus.
	+ Size: M

**Griffin**: composed of the body of a lion and the head and wings of a hawk, Griffins on Crete have been found to vary in size and demeanor due to their unique avian and mammal components.

* Size: varies; XS-XL
* Resistances: slashing, piercing

**Satyr**: often seen as forest spirits, are the most similar to humans of the humanoid races. They bear the upper body of a human and the lower body and horns of a ram. Satyrs are the most likely to live in human colonies, though acceptance is another issue.

* Size: M

**Centaur**: have the body of a horse (or horse like animal) and the torso, arms and head of a human stemming from the shoulders of the horse’s body. They normally live in nomadic hunting clans.

* Size: M

**Gorgon**: are not capable of causing petrification. They closely resemble humans with the exception of snakes instead of hair. Clever application of hats or wigs has allowed them to thrive in human settlements without being noticed.

* Size: M

**Cyclops**: a large human with one eye instead of two. Some cyclopes have animal hind legs and one horn in the center of their forehead. Typically the fewer monstrous features (eg. a horn, animal legs, large size) a cyclops has, the more intelligent and human-like they are.

* Size: M
* Resistances: fire
* Alliances: Poseidon (creator)

**Minotaur**: have the torso of a human and the tail, head and horns of a bull, as well as occasionally the legs of a bull. Despite the prominence of these animalistic features, minotaurs are not unintelligent creatures, but tend to avoid human settlements nonetheless to avoid racial persecution.

* Size: M

**Leontári**: the Egyptian counterpart to the Minotaur. Has the head, hind legs and tail of a lion. While some regard them as the incarnation of the Egyptian god of war, Maahes, they are viewed by the Greeks as no better than vermin.

* Size: M

**Lampaids**: unusually capable of casting only chaos magic. They worship Hecate, who wants to deny their existence, and are known for their random transmutation. They can call upon summons but they are frankenstein-like creations. They are credited with creating half of cursed objects, the majority being in tartarus.

* Size: M

## Hostile Creatures

**Carnivora**: take various plant forms, but are consistently imobile, composed of plant matter, and deceptively docile. The most effective means of identifying such flora would be by focusing on the larger plants, seeing as a potted daisy sized plant would have a significantly more difficult time trying to eat a human than a tree

* Size: varies

**Stymphalians**: man-eating birds whose beaks and feathers are made of sharpened metal. The best course of action in trying to avoid the hunting flock is to go underwater unless they are fishing birds.

* Size: XS-S

**Cryptids**:

* Size: M
* **Undead Cryptids**:
	+ Size: M
	+ Vulnerabilities: radiant, fire
* **Forest Cryptids**: Archivists to the Urukwy settlements report that their myths detail human-like intelligence and polymorphing capacities. They were not however capable of providing visual descriptions of these cryptids despite any assistance they received from dryads. The way we know cryptids to be present on Crete is by their defining footprint, which feature eight toes spread out around the base and usually range between half a meter and meter in diameter.
	+ Size: M

**Afflicted**:  are among the most understood of these unique creatures. They result from humanoid beings and take one of five different forms. Some records show that some early cases of afflicted can be cured or at-least treated without magic, however, restoration yields more illogical results

* **Petrifus**: Over the course of several weeks, afflicted humanoids find their skin and muscles transmute into stone-like substances and gradually lose their sense of consciousness. The muscle and internal organs had been replaced with a writhing mass of worm-like creatures which resembled muscle tissue when tightly packed. When the transformation is complete, a Petrifus can often appear statue-like and may use this as a hunting tactic.
	+ Size: M
* **Accidicous**: growing talons, additional seemingly. randomly placed exoskeletal protrusions and skin sacks on the host's back, which fill with acid as the host metabolizes their own organs into bile, all the meanwhile damaging the host's minds to the point of near animalistic insanity.
	+ Size: M
* **Proto-Dryad**: skin forms a hard, inanimate exterior, which in this case, closely resembles wood. Their diet seems to consist somewhat exclusively of bones and for that reason they are most common near mass graves and passed battles, but have little motivation to attack living creatures, lest they feel threatened or hungry. They can often be swayed away from their prey with a stray bone if they feel it is satisfactory compensation
	+ Size: M
* **Hiverous**: the entire host body melds into a cocoon only to burst months later with hundreds of infantile flesh vials
	+ Size: M
* **Afflicted Promethean**: melds with the flesh of corpses it comes in contact with, keeping only useful limbs and organs, using the rest of the biomass as food. The largest Promethean discovered on Crete weighed more than a Trireme, but the archivist who discovered it was convinced that this was an outlying case.
	+ Size: M, rarely ranges from L-XL

**Chimera**: they are not uniform but all tend to have semi-functional wings, four quadrupedal mammalian limbs, some form of horn or exoskeletal feature, more than one head from more than one kind of animal and several sets of vital organs. Chimeras have expressed the capacity to perform magic, and many  believe the chimeras will only continue to grow in arcane power and intelligence as the years pass.

* Size: varies, S-L

**Cockatrice**:  their capacity to stun a target with a glance makes them dangerous adversaries for even talented combatants. They can be recognised by their chicken-like form with scales instead of feathers. If you do see one, make sure not look into its eyes at all costs.

* Size: M

**Wadjet**: winged serpent that hunts anything it is large enough to eat. They are capable of constriction and spraying venom. This versatility in range makes them very difficult to deal with without the proper tools.

* Size: M?

**Skorpiánth**:

* Size: M-L

**Soul Atronach**: purple in color, similar shape to a caterpillar

* Size: M-L
* Resistances: physical

**Manticore**:

* Size: L

**Behemoth**:

* Size: L

**Wyvern**:

* Size: XL or larger

**Leviathan Harpy**:

* Size: XXL

**Colossus**:

* Size: XXXL