Gargoyle
Gargoyles are a legend often told to children to stop them straying too far from home. Despite their common dismissal as fairy tales, many Sentients have claimed to have encountered gargoyles. However, as most of these witnesses are children the stories are rarely believed to be true, and the few accounts from adults who claim to have seen gargoyles have also been disregarded for various reasons.
The gargoyle legends tell of stone-skinned shape-shifters who can’t seem get their transformations completely right and so come out looking warped and disfigured. They camouflage among statues in abandoned towns and cities and hoard treasures of animal bones and old silver, and protect their hoards violently from trespassers.
They are said to steal children who get lost in old ruins, and dip them in cement until they themselves turn into shape-shifting monsters with a lust for odd trinkets.