Hidebehind

The Hidebehind is a incredibly rarely seen creature, located exclusively in The Nilwood. Next to nothing is known about the Hidebehind, with almost everything being known about wives-tales from South Ingram peasants.

Physical Appearance
The entire body of the Hidebehind has yet to been described, as anyone that has seen it in full has surely died. Due to this, very little is known about the creature. All of the information know about the mysterious beast's appearance is known from a singular journal entry and sketch of a long, bony arm. This arm is assumed to belong to a Hidebehind by many Imperial Scholars, owing to the subsequent complete disappearance of the author. The text can be seen below. "'We've been lost for three days now. Angor and Merrick became lost yesterday, and Canton wandered off earlier. William insists that the caravan guards merely ran home after they got superstitious about the hand I saw yesterday morning, but I'm not so sure. Only hours before Merrick left, he was talking about the 'Hidebehind' that his people believe in, that it lives in the Nilwood, and how it plucks stray travellers from the back of groups, and how we shouldn't split up. I pray for them.'"

In Culture
The Hidebehind, despite generally unknown to those except those who live near the Nilwood, is actually known throughout Ingram via a rhyme published in William Alcott's ''Mystical Ballads. ''The poem, located below, is believed to recant an experience a young William Alcott had with the Hidebehind during his youth. "In the dappled light I saw him""The man without a face""I know he saw,""Without a face,""I watched but did not flee.""""With limbs bent in ways that seemed unreal""And a smile that could not be""He tipped his head and laughed, he laughed.""""I knew he laughed at me.""I hurried home, I ran, I ran,""From the man without a face.""The forest was his, I know, I knew""His home was not my place"