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 Monsters by Intrusion of Evil Spirits into Bodies (Intruders)**
   * __The Blood-Embodied__: evil rituals can give demonic spirits their own physical bodies, which can reproduce after a fashion, bringing more demons into the Mundane World.  Common Examples are Imps and Pit Spawn.
-  * __Trolls:__ the term troll is a convenient label for creatures that arose from carnal relations between evil spirits and mortal creatures. The Biblical Nephilim would be a convenient synonym.  These beings usually appear as misshapen or twisted versions of their mortal ancestor's species.
+  * __Trolls:__ the term troll is a convenient label for creatures that arose from carnal relations between evil spirits and mortal creatures. The Biblical Nephilim would be a convenient synonym, as would "the Race of Cain" for humanoid trolls.  These beings usually appear as misshapen or twisted versions of their mortal ancestor's species.
   * __Undead__: when a disembodied spirit (usually a demon, sometimes a ghost) possesses a corpse and gives it motion (but not actual life) and uses it as a puppet to interact with the world, it is called Undead.
   * __Possessed__: when a spirit controls a living being, whether through temporary control or by extinguishing or expelling its native spirt, the new creature is called possessed.
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 **Abominations:**
   * __Atlantean Abominations__: a creature, such as the dreaded Hooger, is one created by manipulating the bodies of various creatures to create horrible hybrid species that breed and spread across the world.
+  * __Lycanthrope__: mortals cursed by magical disease and forced to live as a mercurial monster not truly beast nor truly human.
   * __Magic Abominations__:  creatures, like dragons, are created when magical or demonic forces warp and transform natural creatures into huge monsters with unnatural powers.
+**Fairies**
+Fairies are beings that are simultaneously Spirits and Physical beings and can transition between both states.
+  * __Elves__: members of courts of sophisticated human like beings of the Spirit World
+  *__ Wee Folk__:  sprites, leprechauns, pixies, etc
+  * __Jotuns__: a powerful race said to be close kin and rivals to the Aesir gods. They have great strength, elemental and magic powers.
+  * __Jinn__: spiritual beings who are able to enter the physical world in the form of dogs or serpents or completely invisible humanoids and who have a love of possessing humans
+**Constructs**
+Constructs are made, not born. Some are programmed by their creators to follow a simple set of instructions, while others are imbued with sentience and capable of independent thought.
+  * Golems: Iconic constructs imbued with life by their creator to live until the dawn
+  * Animated Item: The souls of the living powers the magic to imbue mundane items with eternal sentient life
+  * Automaton: Atlantean magic often powered many items to move and act with a semblance of life, but they are instead complex items or traps
+  * Graven Image: when a carved statue is honored, worshipped and given sacrifice, it sometimes is inhabited by a demon, through some astrological process, and gains the power to speak, move AND KILL!