MONSTER 4: "Lamblight"
These were the immutable facts about this creature I was working with:
The idea here started as some devil that entices freezing travellers into selling their souls for warmth and shelter. Sort of like an arctic will-o-wisp, preying on the lost and weary, a light leading the way out of the blizzard at a terrible cost. I'd finished the drawing and made a statblock with this general concept, but I wasn't feeling it. Felt a bit too much like a budget Imp for one thing, but more than that the more I looked at it the more it started feeling more like a demon than a devil. The drawing gives less of an impression of a cunning wordsmith deceiving you into selling your soul and more like an animalistic little predator.
Around this same time I also felt like its statblock wasn't sufficiently representative of its sheepness. Then it hit me. A way to kill two birds with one stone. I'm happy with the final result. My only worry is it's too powerful for CR1/4. I might return and tweak the numbers at some point to make it more sensible.