Jade Lake Mines.<br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(http://41.media.tumblr.com/0b0c03530e8e6db8c2d5b39f024c8125/tumblr_o48ns2dMeB1sm45xjo2_1280.jpg)</td><td><strong>Ogre</strong><br/>Elite ogres make trivial work of many a young adventurer and litter their mine cave lairs with grim trophies. A single ogre towers over a human being and commands the immense strength to lift and hurl a fully armored warrior in one ham-fingered hand, but even above perfunctory acts of violence, ogres love boasting. A good taunt as an enemy dangles over a stewpot is the perfect prelude to a meal of adventurer stew, and if a clever rogue here or there escapes in the doing, it's a risk most ogres are willing to take. Ogre moots take place on the surface at monolithic rings of stone which stand testament to the tremendous strength of their builders, and these places are said to channel ley lines of arcane power.</td></tr><tr><td>(http://41.media.tumblr.com/3b5716c42e65cd6804b2c96261e080f8/tumblr_o48ns2dMeB1sm45xjo6_1280.jpg)</td><td><strong>Beornling</strong><br/>The shapeshifters who call themselves beornlings walk the surface under cover of fog looking like huge, hulking savage men, but beneath the earth they freely transform into warrior bears of formidable shamanic power. Beornlings are known to sleep for a very long time, and some are believed to have gone to sleep during a previous age of man whose secrets are now lost. Since their minds are always half gone to feral bloodlust, few scholars care to sort these secrets from the ramblings of murderous werebeasts, but adventurers are in much greater supply.</td></tr><tr><td>(http://41.media.tumblr.com/3fd36b2612b6dc910bc2eb7ee37751b7/tumblr_o48ns2dMeB1sm45xjo5_1280.jpg)</td><td><strong>Tunneler</strong><br/>The mines beneath Jade Lake are ever expanded by industrious tunnelers, whose extensive hives delve into the very roots of the mountain. A witless animal instinct drives the most often seen members of a hive, although it's said that in their most well-guarded chambers, a ferociously intelligent queen oversees all operations. Much of the seemingly infinite flow of treasure into the Jade Lake Mine becomes hoarded in tunneler dens, although it is seemingly useless to them- tunnelers are hostile to all other intelligent races and so do not trade.</td></tr><tr><td>(http://41.media.tumblr.com/c2392b3a042abdc2b5cdc4b8b2f8e789/tumblr_o48ns2dMeB1sm45xjo7_1280.jpg)</td><td><strong>Mimic</strong><br/>A mimic has no natural scent, and so confounds the senses of the Jade Lake Mine tunnelers. It uses its magical shapechanging ability to appear as valuable treasure in order to infiltrate a hive, and once successful will snack on tunneler eggs almost with impunity. As magical creatures mimics have an innate resistance to spells, but their true prey is thieves. Nothing fills a mimic with malicious glee quite so much as fooling a clever rogue and springing a trap at the most dramatic moment.</td></tr><tr><td>(http://40.media.tumblr.com/3222b7fe92e65dd54204e87fc2f091d9/tumblr_o48ns2dMeB1sm45xjo4_1280.jpg)</td><td><strong>Troll</strong><br/>In wet caves beneath Jade Lake lie a brutish breed of monster mostly passed into legend. Lumbering trolls carry sharp stalagmites on their backs and use them to roll over and crush into paste unwary adventurers. Their warrens are often well-worn and rounded as a result of this locomotion, lonesome and echoing tunnels barren of life. It's said that daylight can turn a troll to stone, but their hides are already rocky, resistant to ordinary weapons. What is known is that trolls fear fire, although given the ferocity of a panicked troll, inspiring fear is not necessarily a good tactic.</td></tr><tr><td>(http://40.media.tumblr.com/953e682d25334ce2517c76e0b830eec6/tumblr_o48ns2dMeB1sm45xjo1_1280.jpg)</td><td><strong>Fish Creep</strong><br/>Deeper than ogres or beornlings or tunnelers go, the waters subterranean of Jade Lake birth misbegotten mutants touched by foul magic. These blank-eyed bogeymen shamble through dripping caverns humming with arcane power, only to utterly disintegrate as they venture too far from the waters of their birth. It's unknown what force animates fish creeps, but their volatile nature thus far prevents them from becoming a threat to any but the most tenacious delver.</td></tr></tbody></table>