A grotesque hyena head leers down at you as the creature’s massive humanoid body breaks the darkness at the edge of your torchlight. The smell of rotting flesh and dried blood wafts off a filthy hide, and its yellow eyes blaze with a murderous bloodlust as the beast begins to circle you. A tooth-lined maw hangs open, drooling with the anticipation of tearing meat from bone. Its sinewy muscles tighten as it prepares to leap forward and attack.
