Cave kala and earth kala (Kala)

Carnivorous humanoid spirits with cone-shaped heads, oversized ears and noses, and clawed hands. Cave kala are large, pale, and bald, denning in mountain caves, with a venomous progressively paralyzing bite. Earth kala are smaller, hairier, and nomadic, and breathe a wasting disease that blocks magical healing. Both are immune to cold and hunt in small tribes led by the largest male.

FitNear perfect, no reskin needed. Cold-immune mountain and arctic hunters with a Sanskrit name (kala, time or death). Drop them into the high passes and Velkari uplands as a predatory non-human tribe.

Gaki, the hungry ghosts (Gaki; jiki-ketsu-gaki, jiki-niku-gaki, shinen-gaki)

The restless dead consumed by hunger they cannot satisfy. Jiki-ketsu-gaki crave blood, jiki-niku-gaki crave flesh, and shinen-gaki are burning ghosts of grudge and spite.

FitCore Buddhist cosmology. These are preta, the hungry-ghost realm that Tibetan Buddhism shares. Rename to preta for Church and official framing. Use for karmic haunts, starved battlefield dead, and the punishment of greed.

Go-zu and me-zu oni (Oni)

Go-zu is ox-headed, me-zu is horse-faced. Both are brute wardens who drag the damned through the hells and torment them.

FitThese are Gozu and Mezu, guardians of the Buddhist Naraka, a hell cosmology Tibetan Buddhism holds directly. Reskin as wardens of the cold hells or enforcers of a wrathful death-judge. Their ox-head and horse-head iconography already matches Himalayan wrathful-deity and hell-scroll art.

Nats (Nat; einsaung nat, hkum yeng nat, lunat)

Local guardian and place spirits. The einsaung nat is a household spirit bound to a home or hearth. Others watch over specific sites, families, or natural features. Powerful, territorial, propitiated rather than fought.

FitBurmese animist spirits from the Himalayan foothills. Slot them behind Reisan household shrines and Velkari place-offerings, the presences a village keeps fed so they stay benign.

Nature spirits, least to greater (Spirit, nature)

Graded animist spirits that embody a place: a grove, a spring, a peak, a stone. Power scales with the significance of what they inhabit.

FitThe backbone of an animist landscape. Use as the living presence of shrines, passes, and Rootstone sites, benevolent when respected and dangerous when their place is defiled.

Stone spirits, small to large (Stone spirit)

Elemental spirits of rock and mountain: slow, patient, and hugely durable, roused when their stone is disturbed.

FitEssential for a mountain and cave setting. Guardians of quarries, cairns, high passes, and buried places.

Flame spirits, least to greater (Flame spirit)

Elemental spirits of fire, from a hearth-flicker to a bonfire-sized blaze.

FitPairs with the nature and stone spirits. Butter-lamp and pyre spirits, temple fires, and the thing that answers a careless flame in a haunted place.

Spirit centipedes, least to greater (Centipede, spirit)

Giant centipedes made of spirit-stuff rather than flesh, graded by size.

FitMinor animist hazard. A quick supernatural pest for shrines, tombs, and defiled ground where lesser spirits fester.

Frost barbarians (Men)

Human warriors adapted to arctic cold, hardy raiders and hunters of the high cold country.

FitReskin as a Velkari-adjacent highland people or a hostile frost-clan from beyond the passes. No mythic baggage, just cold-country humans, which the setting wants in quantity.

Gargantua, humanoid, insectoid, and reptilian (Gargantua)

Titanic monsters larger than giants and even titans. The humanoid type is a dim colossus, the insectoid a flying moth-thing, the reptilian the largest, a walking catastrophe.

FitKaiju-scale and culture-neutral. Reserve for a single world-shaking threat. Fits the register of your Titan of Silent Accord: a rare, enormous, campaign-defining monster rather than a wandering encounter.

Memedi (Memedi; djim, djangknog, gendruwo, panaspati, setan gendul, uwil, wedon)

A family of incorporeal lesser ghosts, each a distinct death-type. Djim are robed dead priests, djangknog are skeletons with transparent bones, gendruwo are shapeshifting tricksters, panaspati carry their heads between their legs, setan gendul look like topknotted children, uwil are ghosts of dead warrior-monks, and wedon are figures shrouded head to foot in white silk.

NoteJavanese in origin, so the flavor is not Tibetan, but these are portable ghost forms. Keep the shapes, drop the names. The white-sheeted wedon and the child-ghost setan gendul in particular reskin cleanly into Reisan graveyard and Church-crypt hauntings.

Spirit folk, river, bamboo, and sea (Spirit folk)

Human-seeming folk bound to a natural feature, long-lived and tied to the life of their river, grove, or shore.

NoteEast Asian in flavor. River spirit folk fit best, as the half-human keepers of a mountain stream or lake (usable around Lake Vashrata). The bamboo and sea variants are weak fits for a landlocked highland setting. Skip them or reskin the bamboo type to a highland grove.

Buso, tagamaling and tigbanua (Buso)

Corpse-eating ghouls that haunt graves and feed on the dead. The tigbanua is the savage one-eyed killer, the tagamaling the more erratic one.

NoteFilipino in origin, so off-culture, but functionally a ghoul. If you want grave-robbers and prefer these to a plain ghoul, use them as things that gather where the dead are left unburned or unwatched.