1

Its activities are very useful to some group

2

It’s currently hurting an unsympathetic group

3

It responds to certain ancient codes

4

It targets a group the PCs count as friends

5

It’s friendly to those sharing its tie to the past

6

A byproduct of its activities is very valuable

7

It has some devotees or cowed minions

8

It hates something the PCs have or relate to

9

It was formerly benevolent or useful

10

A victim plots a desperate act of revenge

11

People think its victims somehow deserved it

12

Killing it would cause some dire consequence

13

It’s being hunted by something even worse

14

It has regular cycles of activity and torpor

15

It has some defensible reason for its acts

16

It protects or spares its willing subjects

17

Someone is profiting by its depredations

18

The locals believe something very false of it

19

Its damage is insidious and slow to be seen

20

Hunters quarrel over who is to claim it