Chronicles of Lunaria: Prologue
He had a reputation among the more intelligent monsters. he may be a kind man but if anyone or anything threatened anything important to him...it died.
CE04 - culture
They have no meaningful distinction of monsters from beasts, and so have little from people and intelligent monsters.
CE04 - places
So the lake started drying and plans had to be made to eventually retrieve it, lest some intelligent monster find it. but it ended up underneath a hard domain that had been growing at the bottom of the lake.
CE04 - monsters
Most likely this would be attempted by intelligent monsters. such a clan would also be using the creatures for the generation of armaments and fortification.