Sleepers investigating the Wonderkind for clues might be set upon by monsters! Any of the following can emerge from doorways opened onto Nephele:
Vampires might come singly or in small groups. Avian, sleek, and large-eyed as any elf, there's also something uncannily alluring about them. Unwary Sleepers might find themselves seduced, bitten, and devoured.
Nephele's dragons are dinosaurs by any other name, and anything--from tiny ceratopsians to massive Tyrannosaurus to horrifyingly huge azhdarchid pterosaurs--might pop out to challenge Sleepers (or flee from them into Trench).
There are also strange eldritch bird-monsters, hulking and covered in lightless feathers, that speak in the tongues of men but seem utterly mad. The largest are ten feet at the shoulder and massive with muscle, armed with fangs and talons and bearing hundreds of bright-hued eyes that can cause madness in Sleepers who meet them. Even being around one induces corruption in both Sleepers and their environs. Something's familiar about the contagious eyes and unwholesome oily black residue they leave behind when they touch things...
Anything that comes through might also be possessed by a demon, granting it unexpected magic. Demonhosts of Fire can breathe flames; demonhosts of Steel can snatch weapons with their magnetic grip; demonhosts of Song can break hearts and confuse minds with their singing. Killing a demonhost frees the demon and they will take Sleepers as hosts, only to drive them toward the Pthumerian Sea with the will to take a Throne that doesn't exist in the Waking World. Demons can be exorcised and trapped in objects. Possessed Sleepers who drown in the Pthumerian Sea will drown the demon with them.
3.2.1 - MONSTERS & PRODIGIES
Vampires might come singly or in small groups. Avian, sleek, and large-eyed as any elf, there's also something uncannily alluring about them. Unwary Sleepers might find themselves seduced, bitten, and devoured.
Nephele's dragons are dinosaurs by any other name, and anything--from tiny ceratopsians to massive Tyrannosaurus to horrifyingly huge azhdarchid pterosaurs--might pop out to challenge Sleepers (or flee from them into Trench).
There are also strange eldritch bird-monsters, hulking and covered in lightless feathers, that speak in the tongues of men but seem utterly mad. The largest are ten feet at the shoulder and massive with muscle, armed with fangs and talons and bearing hundreds of bright-hued eyes that can cause madness in Sleepers who meet them. Even being around one induces corruption in both Sleepers and their environs. Something's familiar about the contagious
eyesand unwholesome oily black residue they leave behind when they touch things...Anything that comes through might also be possessed by a demon, granting it unexpected magic. Demonhosts of Fire can breathe flames; demonhosts of Steel can snatch weapons with their magnetic grip; demonhosts of Song can break hearts and confuse minds with their singing. Killing a demonhost frees the demon and they will take Sleepers as hosts, only to drive them toward the Pthumerian Sea with the will to take a Throne that doesn't exist in the Waking World. Demons can be exorcised and trapped in objects. Possessed Sleepers who drown in the Pthumerian Sea will drown the demon with them.