T'would take 30 hounds and a brace of knights to hunt a questing beast...

If you wake up in a field of green grass, looking at a woman of flesh and steel. Be glad, you are dead. If you wake up covered in blood and shit, be gladder still. For you are alive and your time is not yet come!

Doyen Velit

A potentially devastating foe with arms, and fists of living stone...

Also known as Virgin's Rose, the Secret Flower, and the Scarlet Lady

An agent of the Vatican, Father Titus is one of it's highest ranking and most effective special agents.

The Isle of Man Cybergynetics research group is well known for its high quality cybernetics and its thinly veiled misogyny

The ruins of a stone house, the sort that are built in profusion and in close confines, completely alone and out of the place in the wilderness

The worst sort of scoundrels and hoodlums. Let down your guard for a even a second and they are on you like Klavadogs.

Merchant Karsh

A radical terrorist organization bent on world dominance, willing to use blackmail, revolution, anarchy and military action to achieve their goals.

This might not be suitable for the squeamish or easily offended.

"There is something about the outside of a horse...that is good for the inside of a man."

Winston Churchill

In settings where there are long established underworld thief, criminal and otherwise ne'er do wells there is going to be a system of heraldry associated with those who live in and rule from the shadows.

Strange creatures, half dreamed half imagined, figments of delerium, wisps of insanity.

A symbol of achievement, an icon of arrogance and pride, a pinnacle of alchemical purity.

"Compared to the scum I deal with as a cop, fighting you was a piece of cake!"

To Remove All Pain

Etching on the blade of the Anodyne Sword

Life dies in my wake, sacrificing itself to my hunger

The Masque of Hunger

30 mystical imps to perch upon your wizard's shoulder and whisper the secrets of magic and the universe.

Once a powerful demon, the Banished one rose in mutiny against its master. For its audacity, the Banished One was smitten and left imprisoned in the treasure hoard of a forgotten dungeon, lost.

Lacking in ornamentation, the Black Spear is a relic more than 8000 years old