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Dream Rudimentary Skeleton Creature III/Archetype — Description
If I was to point mt favorite dream creature of all time this would be it. or maybe it was the dream itself that was so vivid and powerful.

A reminder; Once upon a time, I fell asleep with Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies track "Molasses" playing on my headphones. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjBSx… ) As I slept, incredibly vivid dream appeared showing a creature's rapid lifecycles/transformations; The changes occurred along with the music among the forms assumed by the creature were the Dream Yi Qi Dracosaurs After multiple shapeshifting and both vertebrate and invertebrate forms appearing the creature took the form mixing the features of both groups... I think it represents purity, both seen as that of the bleached skeleton, and crystal-clear body. maybe it was a reincarnation cycle?

Anyway, after reaching this form, the creature slowly swam through the air along with the music, finally was surrounded by the military, in the middle of open, moonlit field, the creature has manipulated their minds forcing them to battle each other instead of attacking him. It slowly floated away towards the distant forests as the whole enemy force was annihilating themselves below.

I think I will design more creatures like this one.

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I have found this one to be a possible interpretation of a representant of C.A.S. Archetype creatures.

"All about him, in this thick and semi-aqueous light, the hunter discerned the rocks and fauna and vegetable forms of a crassly primitive world. These shapes were dim, uncertain, wavering, and were all composed of loosely organized elements. Even in this bizarre and more than doubtful terrain of the under-Earth, Raphtontis seemed wholly at home, and he flew on amid the sketchy plants and cloudy-looking boulders as if at no loss whatever in orienting himself. But Ralibar Vooz, in spite of the spell that stimulated and compelled him onward, had begun to feel a fatigue by no means unnatural in view of his prolonged and heroic itinerary. Also, he was much troubled by the elasticity of the ground, which sank beaeath him at every step like an oversodded marsh, and seemed insubstantial to a quite alarming degree.
To his further disconcertion, he soon found that he had attracted the attention of a huge foggy monster with the rough outlines of a tyrannosaurus. This creature chased him amid the archetypal ferns and clubmosses; and overtaking him after five or six bounds, it proceeded to ingest him with the celerity of any latter-day saurian of the same species. Luckily, the ingestment was not permanent for the tyrannosaurus' body-plasm, though fairly opaque, was more astral than material; and Ralibar Vooz, protesting stoutly against his confinement in its maw, felt the dark walls give way before him and tumbled out on the ground. "

Clark Ashton Smith, The Seven Geases