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  1. Domains of Dread- 1886
  2. Lore

Monster Bestiary of Kōryūsa

⚔️ Stormbound Samurai

A fallen City Samurai infused with desert wind spirits; their armor hums with static and sand leaks from beneath their plates.

🏯 Oath-Eaten Duelist

A High Court Duelist who broke ritual law mid-combat; their mask is fused to their face and their blade strikes without reflection.

🔫 Powder-Cursed Soldier

A New Model Soldier whose rifle misfires with black sand instead of smoke; gunpowder wounds inflicted by them never clot.

🏜️ Sand-Maddened Nomad

A Clan Raider lost in a storm too long; eyes glazed with grit, voice whispering in forgotten dialects.

🏺 Gilded Revenant of Qarakum

A slain merchant enforcer returned by greed; coins press through their skin like scales.

🚂 Iron-Bound Shock Trooper

A Rail Baron elite fused to industrial armor by a lightning storm; steam hisses from their ribs when they move.

🎭 Faceless Court Mask

A political manipulator erased from record; their face is smooth porcelain, and they steal the features of those they shame.

🏮 Shrine-Bound Penitent

A guardian who failed their post; chained to a desecrated shrine by spectral prayer scrolls.

🗡️ The Unnamed Exile

An Oathbreaker who gave up even their shame; their shadow draws its own blade.


🏜️ DESERT SPIRIT ENTITIES


🌪️ Sand Wraith

A humanoid silhouette formed entirely of swirling grit; faces appear briefly in its chest.

🌬️ Whispering Gale

An invisible spirit that carries voices of the dead across dunes.

🏺 Dune Ancestor

A towering spectral warrior formed from sand and bone fragments of an ancient clan.

🌩️ Storm Herald

A luminous armored figure walking within lightning-filled sandstorms.

🐍 Glass Serpent

A massive serpent of black fused sand, its scales razor-sharp obsidian.

🦂 Dune Stalker

A pale, elongated predator that burrows beneath sand and hunts by vibration.

🦅 Ashen Roc

A gigantic desert bird with ember-glowing feathers that sheds burning dust.

🐺 Wind Jackal

Lean, unnatural canines that move as blurs within blowing sand.


🏯 SPIRITUAL & CURSED CREATIONS


🏺 Clay Sentinel

Terracotta warrior statues animated by broken oath magic.

🪞 Mirror Oni

A horned spirit that emerges from polished steel or blade reflections.

🎎 Silk Phantom

A drifting apparition wrapped in torn ceremonial robes, humming forgotten lullabies.

🔔 Bell-Bound Spirit

Manifestations summoned by shrine bells rung during sandstorms.

🏜️ Sand Apostle

A human willingly consumed by desert spirits; flesh cracking into drifting grit.

🌑 Eclipse Ronin

A black-clad swordsman who appears only when sun and storm align.


🏚️ ANCIENT DESERT HORRORS


🐉 Buried Dragon Husk

A colossal skeletal dragon half-submerged in dunes; animated by storm energy.

🐫 Hollow Caravan

A procession of skeletal traders eternally crossing the sands.

🪦 The Name-Thief

A crawling, multi-limbed creature that steals identity from spoken introductions.

🌊 The Shifting Citadel

Not a creature but a living ruin; walls rearrange and corridors swallow explorers.

🔥 Cinder Kami

Small but vicious fire spirits born from rail sparks in sacred desert.

RARE LEGENDARY ENTITIES


👑 The First Khan of Dust

An ancient warlord sustained by sandstorm worship.

🌪️ The Veiled Empress of Wind

A towering spirit said to judge the capital’s moral decay.

🐉 The Serpent Beneath the Rails

A colossal being coiled under expanding rail lines, disturbed by industrial progress.