"Monster is such a vague and misleading term. It’s the kind of word you find thrown about in tavern tales and Pluritine Church dogma. As someone who’s been called this pejorative term more than once, let me tell you quite plainly that they means nothing more than something the one who dares speak it wishes were dead. That’s not to say that what most common folk would call a monster isn’t dangerous. Quite the contrary. There are dark and terrible things in the shadows of Dolmenwood who see folk as nothing more than prey to be stalked or playthings to be toyed with. But if you’re foolish enough to dismiss them as a simple “monster” then you’re playing right into their hands.”
—Whoopla Hogslapper, woodgrue mage