A skeletal deer-headed creature with a glowing lantern for a chest, standing in a dark, eerie forest.

The Lantern Beast is a spindly, unsettling creature that lumbers like a starving predator. Its body is gaunt, composed of knotted roots stretched tight over a skeletal frame of blackened iron. Jagged metal plates hang from its ribs like broken armor, and its limbs are too long, jointed in odd places, giving it an unnatural gait. From its hollow chest cavity dangles a glowing core — a lantern-like sac filled with faint, swirling spores that cast sickly green light. Its head resembles that of a warped elk skull fused with steel, the antlers twisted into spiraling hooks where vines have coiled and hardened. The lantern glow inside its chest pulses in rhythm with its ragged breathing, sometimes flaring violently when it becomes aggressive. At night, travelers mistake the light for safety, only to find themselves hunted by this amalgam of steel, root, and curse. See more