This one isn’t a question, just wanted to show the spanking/encounter in which these questions arose (which is worse than I initially thought now that I’ve sorted out Imbue).
For the Stone Alter I drew Anarchomagus. The encounter added a Bolster to the Anarchomagus’ initial Bloster, so I had to draw 2 loot/equip cards, and the threat card added another 3, all of which matched, so that was a total of 5 loot that spawned 3 enemies. Quite daunting.