Species: Jumping Menace
Family: Living Shadow
Risk level: Medium
Weaknesses: Long falls
Description: Like its name suggests, this monster is specialized in jumping, hopping and evading anything dangerous to its life. Even though it is a living shadow it can't transform itself into incorporeal form, and is only able to exist as a physical being. It loses its abilities to walk through shadows, but in exchange it is immune from any damage caused by light.
It looks like a little shadowy gremlin, meaning a mix between a bat and a child, the size of a four year old toddler. It has disproportionally thick legs in contrast to the rest of its body, which allows it to jump up to the height of some rather large buildings. It also gives they heightened speed in comparison to humans. They form groups of up to ten individuals and use group tactict to hunt down prey.
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They inhabit the areas in which they gain the most from their jumping skills, mainly high mountains, forests and sometimes a few cities. They are individualy weak, but their group behaviour makes them a hard opponent. It isn't helping that on sight of a larger gatherings of hunters they tend to escape and not engage with them.
The easiest way to eradicate them is to go towards them in group of three and try to irritate them as much as possible. When they are enraged, they blindly try to kill anything that caused them such anger. Then you just need to lure them to a steep fall and nudge them to jump towards that location. Even if they can jump very high it doesn't make them less vulnerable to falling down and splatting on the ground.
Personal notes: "One time we had to exterminate the nest of this critters. The thought that it was a genius idea to make themself at home directly under our city storages. We didn't even have to lure them anywhere, we just threw a few torches down their hole, covered the exit and all of them died without a need to engage with them. This shows that enemy doesn't have to be smart to be dangerous and cause casualities in citizens." Christopher Nicot, knight of Erdeic Order