Wynzet

Wynzets are oversized, soft-furred animals with big round eyes, usually shaped like gray squirrels or rabbits, though other forms exist. They seem gentle and tame, walk right up to people without fear, and happily accept food and petting, and most humanoids find them irresistible.

Druids of a forested coastal realm empowered these animals to defend the woods, and each wynzet is bound to the spirit of its forest. Toward nature-lovers its friendliness is genuine. When it meets someone who has been ravaging the forest, though, it plays cute and cuddly to win his trust and lower his guard.

Every wynzet has the biting curse-born gift and needs no curse-warding red metal to use it. Once its target is at ease, it springs up to 15 feet in a blur and goes for the throat, rolling its attack at +4. If that first gift bite hits, the victim must save vs. paralyzation, with Dexterity adjustments, or die. Even on a success it deals double damage, 2d8. After that the gift bite deals 1d8 and its ordinary bite 1d3.

Day to day a wynzet acts just like the animal it resembles, so a squirrel-form one behaves like a squirrel and a rabbit-form one like a rabbit.

Wynzets are natural animals enhanced by druidic magic. They breed with their ordinary kin, but only about 5% of the litter turns out to be wynzets. Their role is restoration: they kill those who despoil the forest, and the bodies rot back into the soil they harmed. In a frontier kingdom of dog-folk the creature is called, in their courtly language, the deadly rabbit.