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The Whimsical Tinkerer 
 Capricious and ever changing this entity is obsessed with creation and evolution in that it latch on to either endlessly doing several variations of the same critter or several different critters for doing a certain thing. It will then either tire and ignore or sometimes kill it if deemed "unworthy" or if it considers it superior may induce competition with other species as a trial by fire. To the handful of its favored creations it will protect as best it can. Otherwise it is content to tinker and observe