The Nightmares

​Nightmare Monsters


The Nightmares vary in form, appearance, shape and size depending on where on Candentia one encounters them. They reflect the terrain they appear within, with wood nightmares being large creatures that blend in perfectly to the forest and woods, their victims only seeing them when it is too late and rock nightmares being massive hulking brutes that look almost as if a great collection of rocks just got up and started walking. They appeared one night, a night that changed the world for many of Candentia's inhabitants. They appear as the Sun sets in the night sky and disappear again just as mysteriously as the Sun rises, any remaining corpse's going in a dangerous burst of flame that can still claim a victim even after the monster lies slain.

Nightmares are a semi-intelligent race but few see them as such, most view these creatures as demons, though they are little more than animals, but with only a feeling of hate fueling them. Nightmares will try to kill, burn, destroy and eat everything they can see, apart from their natural habitats. They appear in unfathomable numbers, a seeming endless tide of horrors to destroy all civilized life. They can be killed, and a few of the races are able to stand toe-to-toe with many of the different species of Nightmare and come off the better, but they are then often overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

Wood Nightmares
Wood Nightmares, as their name suggests reside mostly in the woodlands and forests of Candentia are terribly well disguised as their tough skin looks identical to the gnarled old bark of these ancient forests. They hate fire as once they are alit there is little they can do, as their body burst up into flame.