The Origin
Sakura Nakano's hobby was sculpting mythical creatures. Bronze was her favorite medium. Over the years, her many-tailed foxes, spirit dragons, yetis, and hydras made their way to art collectors with deep-enough pockets to afford her creations.
All that changed when Sakura, a US foreign service officer, developed the ability to create her mythical creatures from bone, flesh, and scale. With a thought, she can summon creatures that never existed that do exactly as she commands.
Things could've easily gone differently, but instead of becoming an object of MAD inquiry, she joined the team. So long as she helps the government track down and subdue "illegal" metahumans, she remains on the right side of the law. However, she's uncertain if what the government is doing is right.
Motive: Track down and capture metahumans
Environment: Almost anywhere, usually accompanied by a team of MAD field agents, and sometimes with Edmund Albert Bigby.
Health: 24
Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (5 points)
Movement: Short
Modifications: Creature summoning as level 6
Combat: Though her metahuman status has rendered Cryptid stronger and more capable than the average human, she usually relies on the creatures she can summon for combat. As her action, she can summon a cryptid creature to her side that can act immediately. A summoned creature persists for up to an hour and acts instinctively as Cryptid desires within very long range, whether she speaks or not. Normally, she can control up to 6 levels' worth of cryptids at one time, as long as none are higher than level 6. So, one level 6 creature, two level 3 creatures, and so on. Those she no longer controls evaporate into nothing.
The variety of creatures she can summon is as vast as folklore itself, as are the abilities those creatures can use. Cryptid creatures' powers are as myriad as the powers that metahumans possess. Some of her favorite cryptid creatures include an octopus-like kraken that fills an area a short distance across, a Bigfoot, a blood-sucking Chupacabra, and a chimera.
Cryptid creature: choose an appropriate mythical creature from the Cypher System Rulebook, such as a werewolf, skeleton, ogre, or chimera
Interaction: Cryptid obeys the orders given to her by her superiors. That includes implicit orders to report suspicious contacts with metahumans other than those already on the government payroll. That said, Cryptid has seen a few things that have shaken her faith in MAD's plan for metahumans. She may be open to negotiation if someone brings her convincing evidence of government malfeasance.
Use: The characters notice that a cat with weirdly human-like eyes is shadowing them, like some kind of feline spy.
GM Intrusion: A previously summoned invisible cryptid creature attacks the character with surprise.