Flying Polyp

The eternal and immortal foe of the Great Race of Yith, the Flying Polyps seeped down to Earth from a distant galaxy millions of years ago. Constructing grim windowless cities of basalt towers, they fought numerous wars with Deep Ones and Sheehad, but their true foes were (and still are) the Great Race of Yith who forced the Polyps deep below the earth where they still dwell.

Grand-Mère Chérie

Grand-Mère Chérie or “Grandmother Sweetheart” was one of the city’s most prolific mass murderers. Born in the infamous Paris slums in the early 1600s, she grew to a ripe old age before undergoing the dark hunger after a particularly hard winter. This compulsion to eat the dead forced her to consume the pox-ridden corpses of her human family, undergo a transformation and stirred a deep protective urge toward her new ghoul family.

Djinn

The winds of Earth are favourable to Djinn and although they can take corporeal form, they prefer to prowl their territory from the air. Their once-beautiful forms are now ragged scraps of skin over scarred, blackened, and scorched flesh. Intelligent and able to speak many languages, Djinn are capricious, cruel, and ultimately serve their own ends. They do not take well to being commanded, and any alliance with them is tenuous at best.

Kelpie

Shape changing freshwater-dwelling Deep Ones who have a vague resemblance to black horses, although this is part of their glamour — Kelpie’s hooves are aligned backward and are closer to claws. They can assume human form and it is usually a comely one, but their hair is matted with weeds from the lakes or rivers they inhabit. They have a command of water magic and take an especial pleasure in drowning solitary humans.

Redcap

A particularly nasty extra-dimensional entity that draws upon the fear of its victims before dispatching them in as unpleasant a way as possible. It is drawn to those who are lost, one way or the other, easy prey for this creature and it goes out of its way to torment them. It also enjoys torturing travellers, misleading them before feeding off their dread.