Corbayrant

Corbayrants are creations of the Green Mother, one of the fey called the Eldest. In the Age of Creation, she fashioned them from thorns and moss into deadly predators. When gnomes migrated to the mortal Universe, many corbayrants followed but found themselves poorly suited to life outside the First World.

Corbayrants are historically solitary, territorial creatures. They're incapable of reproducing, and without the revivifying properties of the First World, their numbers are doomed to deplete. Recently, a number of corbayrants in the Verduran Forest have overcome their natures to band together. They've been known to take their prey alive, sacrificing their victims in vile experiments in an effort to find a way to propagate corbayrant numbers.

Corbayrants look like massive clawless scorpions covered in bark and thorns. A rotting fog wafts from their bodies. In the rare instance when they deign to speak, they do so in a raspy whisper.