Sycophantae are strange creatures even amongst the strange. They don't really have a desire to consume people or destroy things. However, they do have an obsession with expanding their "puppet" realm. They control every action, thought and emotion of their puppets while seemingly "playing" with them all the time. A person or animal captured by a puppet will probably become a puppet through a horrifying process that will not be described for risk of a cognitohazard, involving cerebrospinal fluid and copious amounts of needles. Sycophantae have a maximum puppet control size of 10 individuals, but will discard old ones in favour of news ones. An individual might be abducted, puppeted and returned in the space of a few minutes; which means combat units sent to hunt one may find themselves infiltrated easily. Usually sycophantae are completely invisible to the naked eye (although psychics can see them easily), but being completely and absolutely aware that a sycophanta is in presence will reveal their enormous physical form. Speculating that one is near and being wary of it will not work, the individual must witness an event that makes them completely certain. Under a full moon's light or large amounts of ultraviolet light, puppeted individuals display enormous amounts of silvery threads coming out of the spinal cord, a dead giveaway.