Three old crones cackle over a bubbling cauldron on a secluded isle. Inside their pot are the bones of misbehaving children. These fey creatures are called hags.

Guardians, sometimes called golems, are animated constructs made from various materials: moldable clay, rigid stone, mighty iron, and even stitched flesh. They are singular in purpose, carrying out their creator’s commands with the commitment of a force of nature.

From the wildest forests to the most sprawling metropolises, there’s no place in the world you won’t find goblins. For these small, individually weak creatures, survival is the greatest virtue.

It’s A Living. Life is unfair to goblins. It’s the one thing they can count on. Goblins are rarely granted mercy or kindness by larger folk, and in return they rarely extend it to others.

Giants tower over other mortals, standing between 15 and 30 feet tall. While they may look like large humanoids, they are in actuality beings with close ties to other planes.

Undead cursed with an eternal hunger for humanoid flesh, ghouls prowl graveyards and the ruins of dead cities. Though content to feed on corpses, ghouls prefer fresh meat. The unfortunate victim of a ghoul’s paralytic touch can’t struggle—or even scream—as the ghoul devours them alive.

Powerful spirits who command the elements as easily as a general might command a legion of soldiers, genies rule the Elemental Planes. Beings of air, earth, fire, and water, genies are as diverse in form and temperament as the elements they command. Their cities are bastions of relative safety amid the roiling torrents of the elements. On occasion, genies visit the Material Plane to explore or to meet with a powerful spellcaster.

In lightless caverns and fey forests, fungi appear in every color and shape. Some grow to prodigious size, choking pathways or forming looming fungal forests.

Faeries are luminous, elfin creatures with delicate wings resembling those of butterflies or dragonflies. Though they can appear deceptively non-threatening, faeries wield great power on their home plane, variously called the Dreaming, the Feywild, or Fairyland.

Silver dragons are graceful, majestic dragons that adopt humanoid forms to mentor good-hearted humanoids. They see potential for greatness everywhere, but demand nothing less than perfection from themselves and their students.