History Characters / PathfinderAberrations

[[folder:Pharmakos]]
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* AgonyBeam: A creature hit by a pharmakos' bite or claws is racked with waves of pain.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: A pharmakos is immortal and cannot willingly end its own life, but is wracked with such agony that all other sources of pain become meaningless.
* WasOnceAMan: When an evil god is particularly offended by a worshipper abandoning the faith, the infidel might be transformed into a pharmakos.

[[folder:Quelaunt]]
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->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Quelaunts not only delight in the negative emotions of its prey, but feed on them, gaining strength and sustenance from their dismay. For quelaunts, no act is too terrible or cruel to inflict on its victims, since the more a creature suffers, the more the quelaunt feasts.

Their 2nd Edition stats can be found in ''Bestiary (2nd Edition)'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=343 here]].

* TheBlank: A quelaunt has no discernible eyes, nose, ears or mouth.
* EmotionEater: Quelaunts feed on the negative emotions of prey, gaining strength and sustenance from their dismay.

[[folder:Shrike Worm]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Insidious creatures from the edge of reality who blur the line between the real and unreal.

Their 1e stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: Black Stars Beckon'' or online [[https://aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Shrike%20Worm here]].

* MasterOfIllusion: They have several illusion spells and can fool creatures into thinking the shrike worm itself is nothing but an illusion.
* MeaningfulName: It's a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrike shrikes]], also known as butcherbirds, who impale their prey n spiky branches and thorns.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Their backs are covered in longs spikes, which they impale their victims on.

[[folder:Targotha]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Strange, eel-like creatures most at home in tar seeps and oil pits.

* ExtremophileLifeforms: They evolved on a planet largely covered by hydrocarbon seas. A small population was carried to Golarion by a crashed starship, and despite the overall hostility of Golarion's dry, water-rich alien climate managed to settle a large system tar pits.

[[folder:Tolokand]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* WalkingWasteland: Tolokands bring desolation with every footfall--belching smoke, blighting plants, cracking the earth asunder, and staining the ground with their foul blood.

[[folder:Whyrlish]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

Jellyfish-like creatures that gain sustenance from the River of Souls.

* ElectricJellyfish: Whyrlishes are giant jellyfish-like creatures that can emit a powerful discharge of electricity from their bell.
* PowerNullifier: The whyrlish's tentacles are laced with supernatural microscopic cnidocytes, which nullify the target's resistance and immunity to electricity.

!!Level 16
[[folder:Scylla]]
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Rare monsters driven half mad by hunger and self-loathing that draw in entire ships to kill at once.

* MultipleHeadCase: A scylla has the upper body of a human woman and a lower body full of wolf heads.
* SeaMonster: Scyllas dwell near major shipping lanes, where they lure ships to their doom.

!!Level 17
[[folder:Lusca]]
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->'''Level:''' 17

->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Luscas brook no other large predators in their claimed territory, even their own kind, and an encounter between two luscas, except to mate, almost always ends with one dead or driven off.
* CombatTentacles: A lusca can use four of its tentacles to grapple a ship.
* MultipleHeadCase: Three heads.
* ShockAndAwe: A lusca's body naturally conducts electricity.
* AStormIsComing: Sailors who have encountered a lusca and survived claim that thunderclouds seem to roll in alongside it and strange electrical fires dance in the air before it attacks, lending an eerie aura of foreboding to the assault.
* TentacledTerror: A terror of the seas with octopus tentacles.
* ThreateningShark: A lusca's heads are that of sharks.

[[folder:Plankta]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Creatures born from the shattered remains of fallen civilisations.

* RockMonster: The plankta is a rocky creature formed from the ruins of buildings and statues built by ancient civilisations.
* SeaMonster: Planktas dwell in the sea and seek to sink ships and destroy cities in the hope of creating more of their kind.

[[folder:Vaspercham]]
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->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

* CombatTentacles: The vaspercham can attack with four tentacles.
* SeaMonster: The vaspercham is an aquatic horror who delights in violence and destruction, and lurks in the shallows near shorelines.

!!Level 18
[[folder:Deghuun]]
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->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A deghuun can move its single, golden eye across the venthole-like craters that dot the surface of its body.
* TentacledTerror: Children of Mhar resemble blue-gray octopodes made of stone, mud and molten iron.

[[folder:Myrucarx]]
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->'''Size:''' Large

* CombatTentacles: A myrucarx attacks with two tentacles ending in gnashing jaws.
* MasterOfIllusion: A myrucarx can craft an illusion resembling any Medium humanoid, including any specific individual it has seen, and has appropriate voice, scent and mannerisms.

[[folder:Vitalia]]
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->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* BloodyMurder: At range, vitalias attack by squirting their acidic blood.
* VeinOVision: The vitalia can detect any creatures that have a heartbeat.

!!Alghollthu Master (Aboleth)
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->'''Level:''' 7

* NonIndicativeName: Alghollthu ''masters'' are actually the common folk of their species; they use this word because they see themselves as masters of all others.

!!Thalassic Architect
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Thalassic architects were originally created as mere physical laborers, but the evolution of their powers and their vital role in the creation of the intricate cities the alghollthu prize saw them rise in status.
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[[folder:Worm That Walks]]
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->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

Evil spellcasters who persist after death by inhabiting the swarms of vermin that fed upon their corpses.
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* UndergroundMonkey: Worms that walk arise chiefly by the accidental reincarnation of a deceased spellcaster into a swarm of nearby vermin when in an area of high background magic, and their "births" are only tied to those of others of their kind by the manner in which they happen. The result is that they tend to be extremely varied, with different strains arising in different manners and from different species of vermin. Common variants include ravenous ant- and locust-based worms, stealthy and secretive roach-based worms found in urban areas, and {{poisonous|Person}} and aggressive wasp-based worms that walk.
* TheWormThatWalks: They're hive-minded swarms of vermin possessed by the consciousness of an evil spellcaster and holding themselves in a humanoid shape. While literal worms are the most common component of worms that walk, some have been known or rumored to be composed of swarms of almost any sort of vermin or small, unpleasant creatures -- wasps, bees, locusts, ants, roaches, mosquitoes, rats, [[{{Squick}} fetal bats]]...
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lurking Ray]]
->'''Level:''' 2 (executioner's hood), 7 (lurker above), 8 (trapper)
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny (executioner's hood), huge (lurker above, trapper)
A species of aberration with multiple distinct stages to its life cycle.
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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: The females of this species have one more CR than the males.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flumph]]

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

Noble and kind messengers from the depths of space, the Flumphs risk everything to ensure that other races across the universe understand the threat of the [[EldritchAbomination Dominion of the Black]] and are prepared to fight it.

* TheCassandra: Their peculiar appearance and origins make their quest considerably more difficult.
* CreepyGood: They are aberrations from the most distant reaches of space -- something that in ''Pathfinder'' breeds little but mind-breaking horrors -- who resemble acid-dripping flying jellyfish... and are also AlwaysLawfulGood, genuinely helpful beings who want nothing but the best for regular, planet-bound people.

[[folder:Goblin Snake]]
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->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Serpents with goblinoid intelligence and attitude.

* TheBeastmaster: They have a very focused version of the Wild Empathy skill that allows them to communicate with and control snakes, and are almost always seen with at least a few snake companions.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Goblin-headed, distinctly goblin-like in thought and behavior and very prone to taking over goblin tribes.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Goblins believe goblin snakes to be heroes of their kind born again to lead their tribes.
* SnakePeople: Rather at the snake end of the scale, goblin snakes resemble small snakes with goblin heads. Some consider this evidence of a relationship between goblin snakes and nagas, something that nagas find profoundly insulting.
* YouNeedABreathMint: Due to a diet composed chiefly of carrion and garbage, goblin snakes have such godawful halitosis that their breath is by itself enough to cause physical nausea in other creatures.

[[folder:Reefclaw]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

High-end aquatic predators that fill the ecological niche of sharks in many regions.
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* MixAndMatchCritters: A reefclaw resembles a lobster in the front and an eel in the back.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Choker]]
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->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

Subterranean predators who hunt the weak or isolated.
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* CreepilyLongArms: A choker's arms are abnormally rubbery and long.
* PrimalStance: Chokers walk in a hunched stance due to a combination of extra long arms and limber legs.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thought Eater]]
->'''Level:''' 2

->'''Size:''' Tiny

Tiny predators from the Ethereal Plane that feed on thoughts.

* AbstractEater: As their name would indicate, these creatures feed on thoughts. A living corporeal creature that takes damage from a thought eater's bite loses some of its thoughts.

!!Level 3
[[folder:Fungal Crawler]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Fungal crawlers appear as monstrous crickets or locusts fused with fungal growths.
* UndergroundMonkey: Fungal crawlers are incredibly diverse and have adapted over millennia to fill every environment: subterranean rifts, underground lakes and volcanic networks.

[[folder:Grick]]

->'''Size:''' Medium

Burrowing worm-like creatures with high durability against mundane weapons.

* CombatTentacles: Th grick's mouth is a sickening tangle of tentacles and hooked jaws.
* MadeOfIron: They're a CR 3 monster with DR 10 that can only be beaten by magic. That's high enough at that level that only supremely lucky rolls with high damage weapons can get through it if you don't have any magic on you.

[[folder:Merlucent]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* ArchEnemy: Elder merlucents are especially aggressive toward deep merfolk, with whom they fight constantly for control of the richest vents. Rather than implanting their young into captive merfolk, merlucents instead hurl them into the sea floor's boiling fissures, cooking them alive.
* PowerCopying: A merlucent has the natural ability to sniff out and replicate arcane spells cast by others.
* WasOnceAMan: Merlucents reproduce by spawning dozens of antsized polyps, each of which must mature inside the skull of a humanoid host. Depending on the host, it can take anywhere from days to weeks for the tiny parasite to take over its host's mind and convert the bony, flesh-covered body into its own adult form.

[[folder:Rust Monster]]
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->'''Level:''' 3 (normal), 6 (rust lord)
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Large (rust lord)

Monsters greatly feared not for what they do to people, but what they do to treasure and equipment.
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* MetalMuncher: Rust monsters feed on metal, "digesting" it by very rapidly corroding it.
* MooksAteMyEquipment: Rust monsters aren't terribly powerful creatures and can't do much to a player on their own; their main danger comes from their ability to quickly turn a party's worth of high-end gear into a pile of rust.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scalescribe]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* BondCreatures: A scalescribe can bond with one willing creature capable of casting spells. The scalescribe can aid their bonded caster in crafting a scroll, and they can make their transcribed spell available to the caster so long as the spell is of the caster's tradition.
* ThePenIsMightier: Scalescribes fight with fountain pens that can leave behind a toxic inkstain.

[[folder:Snallygaster]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Strange creatures with a mix of traits from many creatures.

* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: They're based on a Maryland cryptid.

[[folder:Tixitog]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tixitog.png]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Tixitogs are a species of bizarre aberrations that make their homes in the dens of giant spiders.

Their 2nd Edition stats can be found in ''Age of Ashes: Hellknight Hill'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=438 here]].

* AllWebbedUp: Tixitogs can't create webs of their own, but thier bodies are covered in slime that makes them immune to becoming trapped in the webs of others.
* TheBeastMaster: A simplistic form of this. Giant spiders are frightened of tixitogs, and they make use of this by showing themselves deliberately to drive the spiders they lair with into hysteria and send the swarm towards intruding adventurers.
* MultipurposeTongue: They have a tongue attack that they can combo into dragging a target into their mouth and swallowing them whole.
* NoSell: They can't be poisoned and they can't be trapped in webs, which greatly benefits their parasitism of giant spiders.
* SpiderLimbs: Like spiders, they have eight limbs. ''Unlike'' spiders, four of them are inverted and point upwards, allowing them to easily scuttle through enclosed spaces or switch to crawling on the ceiling without turning over their bodies.
* TheSymbiote: A parasitic version. They move into the lairs of giant spiders and steal their food, occasionally preying on the spiders themselves when the mood strikes them. The spiders themselves are generally helpless to fight back against the tixitog, so they have to hide themselves in hidden spots in the spiders' lair to avoid frightening off the spiders they depend on.

[[folder:Urhag]]
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Originally hailing from the nightmare dimension of Leng, urhags revel in sadism despite barely being sentient.

* BewareMyStingerTail: An urhag's whip-thin tail ends in a slender stinger which can infect victims with the red plague.
* ParasiteZombie: If the urhag kills a Medium or larger creature it is grappling, it slithers into the creature's corpse, sliding its tendrils into limbs and controlling the body like a puppet.

[[folder:Vampiric Mist]]
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Medium

Amorphous creatures halfway between liquid and gas, vampiric mists spend most of their time seeking prey.

* VampiricDraining: Vampiric mists feed on blood, and are often mistaken for vampires in gaseous form.

[[folder:Web Lurker (Ettercap)]]
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->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Web lurkers are ugly monsters that not only dwell within the lairs of spiders and swarms, but actively cultivate and shepherd such vermin.

Their 1st Edition stats can be found in ''Bestiary'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/ettercap/ here]].

Their 2nd Edition stats can be found in ''Bestiary (2nd Edition)'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=407 here]].

* TheBeastmaster: Ettercaps have supernatural control over the spiders they lair with, which they keep as both pets and guardians.
* MeaningfulName: "Ettercap" is an old Scottish word meaning both "spider" and "a spiteful or cantankerous person".
* SpiderPeople: Spider-like humanoids with arthropod eyes, mandibles and magical control over common spiders.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: "Ettercap" is the name used by ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and thus by ''Pathfinder'' after it split off as its own thing. With the switch to 2e, Paizo renamed it "web lurker" to help step out of the shadow of the game's progenitor.

[[folder:Zuipnyrn]]
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Small

Spectacularly odd creatures hailing from a world far from Golarion.

Their 2e stats can be found in ''Extinction Curse: Legacy of the Lost God''.

* CharmPerson: A zuipnyrn can emit a hypnotic aura from its eye to entrance those around it.
* LightEmUp: The zuipnyrn's eye stalk can produce a blinding burst of light as a defensive measure.

!!Level 4

[[folder:Byakhee]]

Interstellar creatures hailing from Carcosa, where they exist as servants of Hastur.

Their 1e stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: The Thrushmoor Terror'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/byakhee/ here]].

* MixAndMatchCritters: Byakhees superficially combine elements of carrion birds, insects and mammals, giving an outward appearance that might at first glance seem possible in the natural world.
* PublicDomainCharacter: They're lifted, mostly unchanged, from the Literature/CthulhuMythos.
* WasOnceAMan: When Alar declared war upon Carcosa, the former vanished without a trace on the next rising of its planet's red sun. In truth, the city and its citizens were absorbed and transformed by Carcosa. Alar's inhabitants became the first byakhees, and ever since, their kind has unwaveringly served the lord of Carcosa, the King in Yellow.

[[folder:Cassomir Stray]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

* BodyOfBodies: The bodies of Cassomir strays are patchwork affairs, cobbled together from various captives and sustained by strange dero fluids.
* PoisonousPerson: An injured Cassomir stray can spray its fetid blood and bodily fluids from a wound, dousing enemies in hallucinogenic chemicals.

[[folder:Decapus]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Intelligent ambush predators that prefer the taste of humanoid flesh.

* BigEater: The decapus has an enormous appetite that often drives it to consume whatever food is available.
* ImAHumanitarian: The decapus is not above cannibalism when other food sources are scarce.
* OffingTheOffspring: Male decapodes typically eat their own children if these are not guarded by the female.
* TentacledTerror: The predatory decapus was named by how it resembles an octopus with 10 instead of 8 tentacles.
* ToServeMan: The decapus favors humanoid flesh over all other food.

[[folder:Dust Digger]]
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->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Burrowing ambush predators that favor desert environments.

* AntlionMonster: As ambush predators, dust diggers spend the majority of their lives buried beneath the sand, waiting patiently for prey to stumble over their ambush site.
* {{Expy}}: Between their art and their ability to make a sinkhole, dust diggers are pretty reminiscent of [[Franchise/StarWars the sarlaac]].
* NoBiologicalSex: Dust diggers are asexual and reproduce by budding.

[[folder:Faceless Stalker (Ugothol)]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_faceless_stalker.jpg]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Infiltrators created by the alghollthu long ago who've since slipped the leash and now wander free to pursue their own desires.

* TheBlank: In its natural form, a faceless stalker has no discernible facial features.

[[folder:Graul]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* MasterOfIllusion: Grauls have a natural talent for illusion and mimicry.
* TentacleRope: A graul's lower tentacle can grab prey and pull it toward the graul itself.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: While they aren't physically harmed by light, grauls avoid it when possible, since they feel overwhelmingly vulnerable when directly exposed to light. Travellers near Highhelm are advised to look out for fauna that congregate around a natural source of light which they normally ignore, since this is often a sign of a graul's hunting ground.

[[folder:Heikegani]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

When a restless samurai soul fuses with and mutates the body of a crustacean, a heikegani is the result.

* WasOnceAMan: When a samurai becomes so obsessed with purpose that they cannot pass into the afterlife, but are unwilling to become undead, the samurai's soul instead finds the body of a crustacean and mutates it to serve as their new host. The soul of a heikegani has very few memories from life, but retains its single-minded sense of purpose and honour.

[[folder:Karumzek]]
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->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* GiantSpider: A karumzek is a spider that stands about 5 feet tall and weighs around 200 pounds.
* {{Troll}}: Karumzeks enjoy making mortals feel uncomfortable or disgusted.

[[folder:Living Cave Painting]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Ancient guardians that haunt the dark places of the earth, hidden among the art of the most ancient peoples.

* LivingDrawing: Living cave paintings are prehistoric works of art animated by strange magic.

[[folder:Mimic (Multispothol)]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_mimic.png]]
->'''Level:''' 4 (normal), 8 (failed apotheosis)
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Huge (failed apotheosis)

An old RPG favorite, [[ChestMonster mimics]] can take the form of any number of inanimate objects to lure the careless into their waiting jaws. They were originally creations of the alghollthu, but have long since slipped the leash and become an independent menace.

* BecomeARealBoy: Mimics that encounter humans enough will find themselves gripped with the strange belief that they can one day become human themselves. Those who become utterly focused on this goal are known as metamorphic-scholars and tend to enact strange experiments on humans in order to understand them and ensure their transformation will be a success.
* BioluminescenceIsCool: Some mimics have a mutation that lets them mimic light of varying colors and brightness. All failed apotheosis mimics gain this mutation as well.
* BizarreAlienBiology: In their natural forms they combine the qualities of the anglerfish, the rock octopus, and the scorpion: translucent, chitinous plates shift freely around the hulking frame of a distended mass of pale tentacles and eyes, all supported by the strength of a clear, trunk-like pseudopod. Thick gelatin holds the mass together, acting as blood, digestive system, and skin all at once.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Mimics are asexual, and reproduce via spores. When a mimic controls enough food and territory, it undergoes an involuntary internal change called spatter-spawning, laying out a large, thick glue-carpet of spore-rich protoplasm 30 or more feet in diameter. Having marked the walls and floor of a particular cavern or ruin with this stinking graffiti, it departs, never to return. Immature mimics bud out of the whitish glue-carpet, feeing on each other and any animals that are lured to and trapped in the sticky secretion.
* BizarreAlienSenses: Some mimics have a mutation that makes their entire body into a primitive sensory organ, granting them blindsense.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They are puzzled by human expressions like "pet", "friend" or "love", and often misinterpret the words to mean "food".
* BodyHorror: A failed-apotheosis mimic's natural form is a shifting weave of spurting tendrils, melting human visages, and tortured organs trapped within a web of alien light and slashing bones. It's so horrible, just looking at it [[BrownNote inflicts physical ability damage]].
* ChestMonster: Their most classic form. The variations they can take on inanimate objects are theoretically limitless, though the average mimic only has a repertoire of a few dozen favored disguises. A mimic might be found posing as a throne, a statue, a fountain, a massive crystal, a coffin, a tree, a protruding stone doorway complete with doors, a writing desk, a wall, a rocky outcropping, or even a bookshelf stocked with individual books. Although a mimic cannot divide into multiple pieces or actually become a complex mechanical object such as a wagon or functioning ballista, it can easily take the outer shape of such a thing.
* EasyAmnesia: The memories of the mimic are as mutable as their forms, and their famous patience is due to this very ability: mimics can discard boring or unpleasant memories as easily as a human throws out moldy bread. Mimics casually edit their minds in this way constantly, and think nothing of removing several weeks' worth of "empty" time spent waiting for a meal to arrive. Consequently, they have a hard time judging things like how long ago an earthquake occurred or a certain creature passed by them.
* ExcrementStatement: The slime of a mimic serves to mark their territory and leave messages for other mimics. As they usually live deep underground where there is no weather, such messages tend to last years.
* LegoGenetics: Sages posit that their abilities, habits, and obsessions are simultaneously too esoteric and too perfectly crafted to have arisen naturally. They're right. Mimics, or multispothols as they were originally called, were created by the alghollthu as weapons of subterfuge.
* GeneticMemory: All mimics hold the deep-seated instinctive belief that they can one day become human, although they never actually realize this until they start encountering humans.
* HealingFactor: Some mimics have a mutation that lets their protoplasm regenerate extremely quickly, granting them fast healing 5.
* IfICantHaveYou: Mimics that encounter Azlanti-blooded humans willing to talk to them will soon become fascinated with their new friends, fawning over and praising them. This praise soon turns violent if the human tries to leave, as the mimic would rather see them killed than fall into the clutches of another mimic.
* IWorkAlone: The mimic has no understanding of community or companionship, and actively avoids contact with all other beings except within the predator-prey dynamic; even the most clever and manipulative lair-tyrant mimics cannot stand the presence of other beings for more than a few minutes at a time.
* LivingStructureMonster: Big enough mimics, usually failed-apotheosis mimics, can pose as entire rooms or even small buildings.
* ManBehindTheMan: Lair-tyrants, mimics that have developed past their distaste for other creatures, building lairs and traps while manipulating simple societies to serve them. A lair-tyrant often acts as the secret mastermind behind the sudden expansion of a humanoid tribe, directing them always toward the taking of ever further territory.
* MonsterOrganTrafficking: A mimic's skin can be used to replace polymorph spells when crafting magic items.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: A mimic's only consistent feature as it devours foes regardless of its current disguise.
* MorphWeapon: While most mimics simply bludgeon prey with CombatTentacles, some constantly shift their weapon limbs to form clubs of hardened protoplasm, blade-like claws, or jagged stingers.
* NonMaliciousMonster: They aren't evil, just hungry. They are also as intelligent as most humans and can sometimes be reasoned with (provided you speak [[BlackSpeech Aklo]]).
* NotQuiteFlight: Some mimics learn to sue their amorphous bodies to form crude wings and glide on air currents.
* ShapeshiftingFailure: Mimics who attempt the final transformation to become human instead realize only horror: they become awful parodies of life, composed of aborted human-like limbs and melting faces crashing one over another like an endless wave of corpses. Sages theorize that what the mimic understands in that moment of failure is its true, alien origin, as eternally divorced from humanity as any force or concept could be; this monstrous self-revelation is the only memory a mimic cannot wipe away, and madness consumes them utterly.
* StickySituation: All mimics can secrete a sticky coating they use to trap prey that touches them in their disguised forms. For some mimics this glue is also acidic, making it even worse to be stuck to.
* StomachOfHolding: If a mimic wants to carry something, they simply swallow it and keep it in a cavity within their body.
* TwinDesynch: In extremely rare circumstances, multiple plasmoids from the same spawning will all survive to the hunter stage of their life cycle. As they have functionally identical memories, they identify themselves as pieces of the same organism and will drive out any of their number that ends up developing differently.

[[folder:Otyugh]]

->'''Size:''' Large

Creatures that revel in their role as scavenger and garbage disposal.

* ArchEnemy: Ofalths' domains typically overlap with those of otyughs. Otyughs consider ofalth flesh an intoxicating delicacy, while ofalths seem to particularly enjoy taking otyughs apart one piece at a time.
* MundaneUtility: More than one city keeps otyughs in its sewers as a living waste disposal system.

[[folder:Scalathrax]]
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->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* MadeOfIncendium: A scalathrax constantly sweats a slick, glistening, flammable oil.
* PoisonousPerson: The scalathrax's bite is venomous, and it can disgorge a gout of toxic oil from its mouth.

[[folder:Shanrigol]]
->'''Level:''' 4 (heap), 9 (behemoth)
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium (heap), Gargantuan (behemoth)

* CannibalismSuperpower: Shanrigol behemoths often gain abilities from their constituent creatures as they incorporate pieces of these creatures.
* NonHumanUndead: Discarded remnants of aberrant flesh heaped together with a mixture of alchemical compounds or odious energy can quicken into an undead shanrigol.
* RubberMan: A shanrigol can separate its flesh from its bones to fit through small spaces.

[[folder:Shriezyx]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:A shrieyx queen.]]
->'''Level:''' 4 (normal), 8 (queen)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Large (queen)

Living weapons created by ancient wizards, the shriezyx have outlived their creators and now pursue their own cruel whims.

* BioweaponBeast: Alaznist created the shriezyx to be living weapons and guardian monsters, and they lingered long after Thassilon's fall in the ruins of her empire, remaining a constant threat to others into the present day.
* GiantSpider: They resemble monstrous spiders three feet in height. Queens can reach a solid eight.
* HiveQueen: Shriezyx queens are gigantic, powerful version of common shriezyx that direct and control their lesser kin like generals. In this case, even the reproduction angle of real insect queens is gone -- shriezyx reproduce asexually, and shriezyx queens were created solely to control the rest of their kind.
* SpiderSwarm: Shriezyx live in large hives, and when disturbed attack as moving carpets of chittering, swarming bodies.
* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Exaggerated. Shriezyx queens secrete a highly flammable oil that coats their spiderwebs, packing a nasty surprise for people who plan to exploit their fear of fire.

[[folder:Snowdrifter]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* HumanDisguise: A snowdrifter can take the form of a person or animal to lure out its prey into the cold and dark.

[[folder:Swimming Eye Swarm]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* {{Cyclops}}: At the heart of each swimming eye is a disturbingly human-looking eyeball.
* SuicideAttack: As a defence mechanism, some zooids in a swimming eye swarm sacrifice themselves by rupturing their outer membranes, splattering an enemy with gruesome vitreous fluid.

[[folder:Tentamort]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Tentacled ambush predators that rely on potent venom to bring down prey.

* CombatTentacles: One of the tentamort's long tentacles is covered with tiny, sticky nodules and is capable of constricting prey, while the other ends in a long, thin stinger. The tentamort grabs its prey with its constricting tentacle and stings the grappled target with the other.
* ImMelting: Tentamort poison swiftly liquefies the prey's internal organs into a rancid slurry the tentamort can then drink with the same stinger.

!!Level 5
[[folder:Blightspawn]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_blightspawn_aberration.png]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

The spawn of Ghlaunder, incubated in the body of a willing follower for anywhere between days and decades.

Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 5'', ''Feast of Ravenmoor'', or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/blightspawn/ here]].

* MosquitoMiscreants: The blightspawn is an evil, human-sized, mosquito-like creature which serves Ghlaunder.

[[folder:Bogwid]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Ancient beasts that look like what you'd get if you crossed a frog with an octopus.

* CombatTentacles: The bogwid attacks with two undulating tentacles, the bottoms of which are lined with ragged, bony ridges that can tear into exposed flesh.
* WeaponizedOffspring: A bogwid can launch one of the offspring clinging to its back at a target as a ranged touch attack. On a successful hit, the offspring attaches itself to the target and begins draining blood.

[[folder:Brethedan]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Adaptive telepathic natives of Bretheda, the ninth planet in Golarion's star system.

* AdaptiveAbility: Brethedans can adapt their bodies at will, gaining more powerful options as they mature.
* FusionDance: They can combine into larger beings that have their own intelligence. Brethedan corporations can be made of hundreds of smaller barathu.
* LivingGasbag: They vaguely resemble something like a giant jellyfish or sea squirt, with no discernible external features save for long, trailing tentacles and filled for the most part with lighter-than gases that allow them to float through the endless skies of their gas giant homeworld.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: While their race is properly named 'barathu', no one on Golarion actually knows that name and in all ''Pathfinder'' material they're simply called Brethedans after their homeworld of Bretheda.
* StarfishAliens: They look like floating, translucent masses of gelatin, with clusters of tentacles trailing from their undersides. They are adapted for living in the endless skies of the gas giant Bretheda, and can modify their own genetic code to suit their needs and join together in large numbers to form enormous, hyper-intelligent shared consciousness.

[[folder:Cloaker (Fulthrethu)]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

Originally created as spies for the alghollthu, cloakers are paranoid to the extreme.

* BrownNote: Cloakers have the ability to emit an infrasonic moan which unnerves anything that hears it.

[[folder:Cuero]]
->'''Level:''' 5

Blood-sucking predators who lurk in slow moving waterways and muddy lake shores.

* BellyMouth: The underside of the cuero features a large circular maw of fangs.

[[folder:Elder Thing]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

Bizarre extraterrestrial travelers who wage war against alghollthu, mi-go, the Dominion of the Black, and cults of the Outer Gods.

* FantasticRacism: Elder things often see themselves as the most learned and advanced species on any planet they visit, and tend to treat most other forms of life like a scientist might treat experimental stock.
* StarfishAliens: Their bodies are radial in nature, with five wings, five tentacle-like arms and five eyestalks.

[[folder:Fachen]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Strangely proportioned creatures resembling a humanoid with one arm and one leg centered on its body.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The fachen's mouth is a snarling and snapping thing filled with two full rows of long, sharp teeth.
* ToServeMan: Fachens prefer humanoid flesh over all other food, and will pass by a pasture full of cattle to hunt a single humanoid.

[[folder:Gibbering Mouther]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Screaming masses of misshapen flesh who drive others mad with their cries.

* AcidAttack: A gibbering mouther can emit a stream of acidic spittle.
* BlobMonster: It's a seething, constantly shifting blob studded with toothy maws and staring eyeballs.
* ExtraEyes: A gibbering mouther is covered in eyes, and it gains more every time it devours a hapless victim.
* TooManyMouths: Countless mouths constantly form and disappear all over a gibbering mouther's body.

[[folder:Gibtas]]
->'''Level:''' 5 (bounder), 6 (spawn swarm), 8 (gibtanius)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small (bounder), Large (spawn swarm, gibtanius)

* AcidAttack: A gibtanius can attack by vomiting a stream of acid.
* InASingleBound: A full-grown gibtas uses its powerful legs and rubbery body to bound great distances.
* WaddlingHead: The gibtas' body consists of an acid-dripping mouth, five bulbous black eyes and two powerful, gangly legs.

[[folder:Scrapborn]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* ImprovisedArmour: Scrapborn secrete an adhesive that allows them to gather up debris and attach it to their bodies for protection.
* MonsterKnight: A very diligent and patient or wealthy scrapborn can even construct a full suit of armour and be able to pass as a knight, using their bulky form to bluff and intimidate anyone who might question them as they walk through a city or castle.

!!Level 6
[[folder:Grimslake]]
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->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Scavengers from the Outer Rifts who feed from battlefields and mass graves.

* EatenAlive: Grimslakes take particular delight in the sound of screams as they feed.
* FoodChainOfEvil: On the Outer Rifts, grimslakes often hunt lesser demons.

[[folder:Rorkoun]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Wormlike hunters of waterways.

* TooManyMouths: The head of a rorkoun branches into four mouthparts set on throat-like stalks.

[[folder:Seugathi]]
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->'''Level:''' 6 (normal), 8 (savant)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Spawned servants of neothelids who follow their orders without hesitation.

* AbstractEater: Of sanity; they eat the rational thoughts of others, driving them insane with unleashed hallucinations (though it is possible to recover).
* EliteMooks: Seugathi savants serve as this to neothelids, with slightly more comprehension of their masters' plans and some extra psychic powers.
* MonstrousCannibalism: By design; when creating seugathi, neothelids spawn far more than they need, each individual one having a different order. They then fight to the death, devouring each other and absorbing the losers' orders until only the strongest and most cunning are left to pursue the dozens of missions they ate from their siblings.
* RightHandCat: Weirdly, they seem to find the eel-like olaggi cute, and keep large schools of them for the companionship.
* ServantRace: To neothelids, their creators, who use them as more disposable agents then themselves.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Seugathi rarely value material things beyond their usefulness in completing their imprinted mission.

[[folder:Skrik Nettle]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Skrik nettles are bizarre-looking flying creatures that resemble large jellyfishes.
* IFellForHours: Skrik nettles inject prey with a magical poison that causes the victim to float helplessly up into the sky. When the prey rises high, the skrik nettle waits for the poison to end and its meal to crash helplessly to the ground below.

[[folder:Slime Puppeteer (Ungothol)]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* HumanDisguise: Under the guise of humanoids, slime puppeteers infiltrate humanoid settlements and telepathically send back information to their masters.
* KillAndReplace: Slime puppeteers disguise themselves as humanoids. They envelop their target, killing it, then merge their own skin with that of the victim. The puppeteer's form replaces the skin of the corpse, while long, wiry tendrils implant themselves in the nervous system. The result is a nearly-perfect copy of the dead creature, now controlled from within by the slime puppeteer.

[[folder:Star Vampire]]
->'''Level:''' 6

->'''Size:''' Large

Hunters of the void that feed on blood.

* TheAgeless: Star vampires are biologically immortal and live forever until killed.
* CombatTentacles: A star vampire can lacerate enemies with three tentacles tipped with talons.
* InvisibleMonsters: Star vampires are naturally invisible, but can be seen when they start feeding on blood.

[[folder:Telgrodradt]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_telgrodradt.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 6

Aberrations with an innate connection to necromantic energies.

* EyeBeams: A telgrodradt can fire a sickly purple beam of negative energy from its eyes.
* FoodChainOfEvil: Telgrodradts must consume the rotting meat of the undead to survive. They abhor the tang of blood and can eat old corpses, but gain very little sustenance from bodies not suffused with negative energy.
* {{Necromancer}}: Any creature that dies from the disease a telgrodradt transmits rises in 24 hours as mindless undead.

[[folder:Wamp]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Creatures from the Dreamlands that feed on undead flesh.

* EyelessFace: A wamp lacks eyes and 'sees' through its blindsight ability.
* FoodChainOfEvil: Wamps dwell in graveyards, where they could easily hunt their preferred food: undead creatures.

[[folder:Zecui]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Medium

* ChestBurster: Zecuis can only grow to adulthood within a host creature, usually a humanoid or larger animal. When the larva matures, it kills the host before the adult zecui emerges from the corpse.
* ImAHumanitarian: During lean times, zecui adults sate their hunger by the hosts of their own larvae.
* PuppeteerParasite: Once a zecui larva has gestated long enough, it can take control of its host.

!!Level 7
[[folder:Aatheriexa]]
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Once a race of conquerors and slavers, the destruction of their homeworld has reduced the aatheriexa to wanderers who take out their hatred on anyone who crosses their path.

* ExtraEyes: An aatheriexa has an eye at the end of every of its innumerable tentacles.
* PoisonousPerson: An aatheriexa's tentacles secrete a toxin that causes flesh to slough off the bone.

[[folder:Capramace]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_capramace.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 7

Creatures resembling a hybrid of goat and human with an incredibly short temper. Their stats can be found in ''Wardens of the Reborn Forge'', ''Bestiary 5'', or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/capramace/ here]].

* FaunsAndSatyrs: Capramaces are apparently the result of some magical combination between human and goat.

[[folder:Chuul (Chu'ulothis)]]
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->'''Level:''' 1 (larval), 4 (lesser), 7 (mature)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small (larval), Medium (lesser), Large (mature)

Armored predators who lurk in shallows and swamps and take a disturbing degree of pleasure out of tormenting their victims.

* EatenAlive: A chuul's paralyzed victims are typically eaten while alive and immobilized.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Chuuls are crustacean-like creatures as large as or larger than a human.
* TheParalyzer: They inject paralytic venom through their tentacles.
* {{Sadist}}: Chuuls take perverse enjoyment from other creatures' physical and emotional suffering, eating them alive and taking time before each kill to insult and torment their victims and talk at some length about how they will enjoy devouring them.
* ToServeMan: Chuuls prefer the flesh of intelligent creatures; surface-dwelling chuul prefer to hunt lizardfolk, while subterranean ones usually go after hryngar or morlocks.

[[folder:Geomaw]]
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->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Birthed from the unfathomable terrors of the cavernous deep, geomaws roam the Darklands, preying on the creatures draw to the gleam of the gems in their mouths.

Their stats can be found in ''Down the Blighted Path'' or online [[https://aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Geomaw here]].

* ThatsNoMoon: When lying motionless with its mouth open, a geomaw looks like no more than a natural crystal formation.

[[folder:Mothman]]
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->'''Level:''' 7 (normal), 12 (elder)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Large (elder)

Mysterious and eerie beings that have some tie to the proper fate of existence. When Aroden died and prophecy stopped working their infrequent sightings stopped altogether, but recent rumors indicate they may be returning from their dormancy or that a new offshoot has appeared to take their place.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: They don't care about morality or emotions, just that fate comes to pass regardless of the repercussions for other creatures or even themselves.
* AbstractEater: Some claim they derive sustenance from suffering and pain, but there's no real evidence to support this.
* BlackBox: The items they carry are esoteric in both function and purpose, such as lenses that make buildings look like rubble, manacles that lock and unlock on their own accord, and amulets that constantly drip ink.
* ChekhovsGun: They sometimes give out items to their pawns or otherwise ensure they find their way into the hands of those who need them, with their true purpose only becoming apparent later on. The torn out journal entries of a madman may cause a cultist's faith to waver, a strangely carved wooden block may intercept a fatal arrow, and a useless map may soak up poisoned wine, all in accordance to their plans.
* TheChessmaster: Given their incredible ability to who what will happen years in advance and what needs to be done to ensure it comes to pass, even their mistakes are often part of their plan.
* CompellingVoice: Thanks to a handful of charm spells, they can convince people to do nearly anything. And if they save or are otherwise immune, their supernatural knowledge of fate and high intelligence means they can often persuade people to do what they want anyways.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Sure their passage often heralds disaster and death, but their actions are necessary to ensure fate continues its rightful path. In other occasions, their presence comes with drought-ending rains, mysterious resurrections, or incredible discoveries.
* DeathRay: Mothman elders have an obliteration ray that deals high damage of an energy type they decide. It also only takes them a swiftaction to use, meaning they can barrage enemies multiple time every round.
* DiscardAndDraw: Mothman elders loose the Agent of Fate ability used by normal mothmen, but gain an expander array of spells, an aura that controls temperature, and an obliteration ray.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: One of the few consistent details in their appearance are glowing red eyes. It's weaponized with their Mind-Warping Gaze, which inflicts the shaken condition and does additional Wisdom damage if the target was already under a fear effect.
* GodGuise: Some describe them as "alien angels" and mistake them for actual empyreals, which mothmen are all to willing to use to their advantage.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Their wings vary in appearance and may look like anything from tattered moth wings to shining butterfly wings to sheets of fire only barely shaped like wings at all. They're also decorative, as mothmen fly without flapping their wings and move easily in any direction through the air. Regardless of their shape and size they constantly change color, appearing indigo, bronze, green, red, gold, white, or any other color you care to name.
* HellIsThatNoise: Their voices haunt listeners for years after the fact, filling their dreams and echoed by every gust of wind and creaking from the walls. Even when people don't see them, some will hear terrible sounds drifting through the streets and alleys at night, terrible songs and whispers that sound like the hiss of a cat, a weeping child, or a woman's scream.
* InSeriesNickname: Old elven works call them the Heralds of Doom.
* IWorkAlone: Mothmen tend to work on their own for reasons known only to them. They do gather small groups occasionally, but the rarity of this and their normal solitary nature leads some to believe that only a few mothmen exist at all.
* LargeAndInCharge: Mothman elders are a full size category bigger than typical mothmen.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: They can cast ''[[FalseMemories modify memory]]'', using it to erase certain memories and sometimes replace them with something more convenient for their goals. This is one of the best signs of mothmen in the area, as people find minutes, hours, or even days missing from their memories.
* ManBehindTheMan: Their general role, though the man they act though isn't always a villain and can be anyone from a hero to an ordinary farmer.
* MonsterLord: The mothman elders are the strongest of their kind, disposing of mothmen that go rogue and cleaning up the messes of those who fail in their missions.
* TheMothman: Winged insectoid humanoids with glowing compound eyes. They appear before large-scale disasters, plaguing seemingly random victims with prophetic nightmares, leaving behind strange, random objects that invariably turn out to be life-savingly useful for their finders in unpredictable ways and vanishing once the disaster comes to pass. There is much speculation and no consensus as to why they do what they do, and mystery follows them wherever they go. Their appearances stopped almost completely after the death of the god Aroden and the worldwide failure of prophecy and prescience, but in recent years they have begun to appear sporadically once again.
* MultipleChoicePast: Their origins vary wildly depending on who's telling it, and no one's even sure if any of them have even a grain of truth. These include:
** Mothmen are beings from another parallel world whose future has already come to pass and they hope to stop us from making their mistakes.
** They don't seek the rightful course of fate at all, but guide reality towards a particular future decided by the foul and ancient gods who command them.
** They're from the future and are making sure the past takes course such that they will exist.
** The whole "guiding fate" thing is a lie and they're just elaborate conmen who do what they do [[ItAmusedMe for shits and giggles]].
* NeverEndingTerror: Those who encounter a mothman are never free of its shadow. They hear its voice in the wind and the noises in the dark, see its presence out of the corner of their eye, and dream only of disasters and glowing eyes.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The purpose of their Agent of Fate ability. Once a day that can cast any spell they want, but only so long as it steers fate in its proper course. This isn't used for things like casting ''fireball'' to kill their opponents, but for subtler actions such as using ''rusting grasp'' to weaken a structure or ''major image'' to lure someone to a particular location at a particular time.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Dissipate is an optional mothman ability meant to help preserve their mystery in the game. When their health drops below zero, rather than becoming unconscious like most creatures they instantly die and their body becomes a swiftly fading mass of shadows and smoke.
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Openly inspired by the American cryptid of the same name. There was even an incident with the collapse of the Bronze Bridge being linked to them in an obvious reflection of the real life stories surrounding the Silver Bridge collapse.
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Eerily averted with metamorphosis, an ability meant to help preserve their mystery in the game. When killed, a mothman's wings snap shut around them and harden into a stone cocoon. After an hour the cocoon crumbles to reveal a corpse that exactly resembles the creature that killed them.
* TimeAbyss: They've been around since before Earthfall, making them at lest 9922 years old; even the elves remember them as a mysterious and ancient presence in their own early days.
* SoulJar: Mothmen can create magical amulets known as ''mothman mementos'', usually when they know they won't be needed for some time and need to ensure they will be around down the road. The process kills the mothman and traps their soul in the item, which they parasitically possesses whoever wears it and causes the mothman to be reborn from their body.
* TheSpook: They only rarely reveal themselves to more than one person at a time, and showing themselves to a single being is infrequent.
* TheVoiceless: Some say they never speak, while others say they do but can never remember the words. According to their stats they can't actually speak, communicating instead through telepathy.
* YouCantFightFate: All too often, there's nothing anyone can do to foil their machinations.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Mothman elders have an ability called Warp Elements, which makes anyone nearby feel like they're freezing cold or swelteringly hot. It affects them as if it were a real change in temperature, but, because it's mental, spells to protect against the elements do nothing against it.

[[folder:Narrik]]
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->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Narriks are living alchemical laboratories that naturally produce a cocktail of potent venom and hallucinogenic pheromones, as well as a sticky saliva in which they trap their victims. They stalk the lightless tunnels leading between Darklands and the surface, preying on sentient beings.

Their stats can be found in ''Down the Blighted Path'' or online [[http://aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Narrik here]].

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: When a narrik dies, its internal alchemy begins a violent chain reaction that ends with the corpse exploding, spraying nearby creatures with narrik venom.
* ExtraEyes: A narrik has a cluster of eyespots atop its body, although it is nearly blind.
* PoisonousPerson: A narrik naturally produce a cocktail of potent venom and hallucinogenic pheromones.

[[folder:Occulari]]
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->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Diminutive

Occularis are amalgams of grotesquely mutated eyes. Motivated by their desire to see all things, they hunt down hosts for their component parts and use them to experience the wider world.

Their stats can be found in ''Down the Blighted Path'' or online [[http://www.aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Occulari here]].

* EyeScream: An occulari can burrow tendrils into a victim's eyes, plucking them out, blinding the creature, and inserting two of its own eyes in their place.
* {{Oculothorax}}: Each individual occulari is an eye whose eyelids also serve as jaws, looking like a fanged maw.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: After replacing a victim's eyes with its own, an occulari can see through these new eyes at will.

!!Level 8
[[folder:Azgenzak]]

->'''Size:''' Large

Imagine a sea cucumber, except it turns itself entirely inside out instead of just venting its guts. And also its inside are all on fire. Now you've got a pretty good idea of what a azgenzak is.

* BlobMonster: An azgenzak is an undulating, amorphous sac that can pass over, around and between obstacles that might block a more solid creature.
* CastFromHitPoints: An azgenzak takes damage when disgorging a swarm of pyrocules.
* EyeScream: When an azgenzak confirms a critical hit or a creature fails its save against the distraction attack of its swarming pyrocules, the azgenzak attempts to pluck out one of the target's eyes.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The inside of an azgenzak is filled with innumerable, lidless eyeballs of every size, shape and colour.

[[folder:Bhanyada]]
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->'''Level:''' 8 (scavenger), 11 (swarm), 12 (behemoth)

->'''Size:''' Small (scavenger), Large (swarm), Huge (behemoth)

* DepartureMeansDeath: Created by the magic of the Ghantibhu Pits beneath the Open Bridge, bhanyadas taken away from that region quickly decay into a repulsive slurry.
* ExtraEyes: A bhanyada behemoth's head is studded with tiny eyes that observe the surrounding terrain and give information so the entire amalgamation can move in unison.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Bhanyada behemoths usually have at least four thick arms ending in meaty fists.

[[folder:Chelarac]]
->'''Level:''' 8 (adult), 2 (broodling)
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large (adult), Small (broodling)

* BeastWithAHumanFace: The chelarac appears to be an enormous spider with a humanlike head.
* GiantSpider: The chelarac is a spider-like creature that stands 7 feet tall, has a leg span of 10 feet, and weighs over 800 pounds.
* IngestingKnowledge: A chelarac's bite can drain knowledge from its victims. The target creature still retains its memories, but it might recall some of the details incorrectly.
* SmashedEggsHatching: If a chelarac takes damage that causes one of the blisters on its abdomen to pop, a chelarac broodling is released.

[[folder:Destrachan]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Sadistic monsters with a potent sonic attack.

* BizarreAlienSenses: Destrachans sense the world via echolocation, represented by extremely high perception skills and one of the higher ranges for blindsight found in the game.
* DisabilityImmunity: Their lack of eyes (and correlating reliance on echolocation) nullifies a huge range of basic tactics [[YourEyesCanDeceiveYou like invisibility, illusion spells, and darkness]].
* EyelessFace: A destrachan has no eyes and is completely blind.
* ForTheEvulz: The destrachan enjoys inflicting pain and viciously toying with its prey.
* ItCanThink: Probably the most dangerous thing about them. The basic stock version is statted with human-level intelligence and genius-grade wisdom, and is explicitly a pack hunter. The GM is not merely justified in playing them as {{Magnificent Bastard}}s, but actively encouraged.
* SuperScream: A destrachan can project a blast of sonic energy in a cone, an area-affecting BrownNote, or as a targeted attack on an object- say, [[WreckedWeapon your sword or armor]], or [[BarrierBustingBlow the door you just closed while running away]].

[[folder:Dimensional Shambler]]
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->'''Level:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Medium

Planar wanderers driven to explore the Great Beyond.

* TheAgeless: Don't seem to age given their willingness to while away years standing motionless in observation, thought they tend to meet violent ends often enough that it's hard to tell.
* AmbiguousSituation: No one knows why they wander. Theories range from some complex plan, a strange form or nutrition, or being scouts for some other force.
* DraggedOffToHell: Any creature they grapple can be brought along when they plane shift. They typically use this on creatures that can comprehend their peril and strand them in the most inhospitable parts of the multiverse that won't kill them outright.
* DrunkenMaster: Give this impression. Their movement is uncoordinated, making them look drunk or seriously wounded, but they're not any less dangerous for it.
* EatingOptional: They have no need to eat or drink, which makes surviving in hostile planes easier.
* EyelessFace: All they seem to have is a mouth.
* HumanoidAbomination: Humanoid in basic shape, but the way they move and act makes it clear that this is a fluke more than anything.
* LeanAndMean: Skeletally thin and all too willing to drag you to Hell and leave you there.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted, they have no special ability to survive in other planes. They make up for it with an instinctive knowledge of the planes that lets them arrive at areas they can survive in. More powerful shamblers tend to track down magic items to make up for this weakness and expand their horizons.
* TheSleepless: Like many outsiders, they don't need to sleep.
* SummonMagic: A dimensional shambler can be summoned in a ritual involving complex runes and blood sacrifices, though the ritual is different from shambler to shambler. However, their mastery over planar travel allows them to resist summoning, making them much harder to call upon than most outsiders.
* TeleportSpam: The can cast ''dimension door'' at will and act as normal after teleporting, which lends itself to a lot of quick repositioning.

[[folder:Liavaran Dreamer]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Feral relatives of the brethedans that are innately tied to magical ley lines.

* TurnsRed: When a Liavaran dreamer is reduced to half of its total hit points or less, it angrily awakens from its normal somnambulant state and enters an atavistic fury.

[[folder:Fleshforged Conformer]]
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->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* AnimateBodyParts: Fleshforged conformers are capable of attaching and detaching flesh from their bodies, often sending autonomous gobbets of fat and ligament to observe living creatures and harvest biological material.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Fleshforged conformers can contort and reshape their body into a desired form, which helps them infiltrate Nexian society to better understand the arcane principles and occult secrets behind their creation. Some assume the guises of humans and animals to lead quiet, settled lives in Nex.
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[[folder:Hadrinnex]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
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* DumbMuscle: Hadrinnexes have only a rudimentary intellect and usually serve intelligent aberrations as bodyguards or peons.

[[folder:Horla]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

Natives of the Ethereal Plane who feed on hope.

* AbstractEater: Horlas feed on the hopes and dreams of humanoids, leaving the host wracked with ennui.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: When a horla dominates a sleeping creature, it can cause the creature to wake and obey it. If the creature is allowed to return to sleep before this duration expires, it forgets all activities it performed during that time.

[[folder:Iku-Turso]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Denizens of the deep sea who view disease as sacred.

* LuringInPrey: An iku-turso can call forth a few small points of light. Creatures which see them can be compelled to approach them by the safest and most direct path.
* TheVirus: An iku-turso's bite inflicts a supernatural disease called tursas, which causes the victim's skin to grow painfully scaly, causes strange hallucinations, and eventually transforms the victim into an iku-turso.

[[folder:K'nonna]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* ToServeMan: K'nonna are much less interested in talking than eating, and humanoids are their preferred food.
* TheUnintelligible: K'nonna are intelligent but difficult to communicate with, since they speak only in half words and hear only half of what anyone says.

[[folder:Muckish Creep]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* SuperPersistentPredator: Muckish creeps are particularly tenacious and single-minded when it comes to choosing prey. Once a muckish creep selects its next victim, there is little one can do to stop it.
* VampiricDraining: Muckish creeps feed on the blood of the living, and use this blood to keep their own forms moist and malleable.

[[folder:Weaverworm]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Children of Urgathoa who combine the features of worms, insects, and people.

* {{Cult}}: They occasionally install themselves as the embodiments of various gods or demons. Ettercaps in particular tend to get swept up into their circle of worship due to their shared connection to spiders.

[[folder:Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Stealthy predators that puppeteer corpses as bait for future prey.

* ThatsNoMoon: A wolf-in-sheep's-clothing appears at first to be little more than a tree stump sitting in a clearing, perhaps with a small animal sitting atop it. Only when a predator comes close does it become clear that the small animal is in fact long dead, before the 'tree stump' drags the would-be hunter into its maw.

!!Level 9
[[folder:Blood Painter]]
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* WickedCultured: Exceptional art endlessly fascinates blood painters, and skilled dancers and painters occasionally create a new work to trade for their lives. Blood painters jealously guard these works, and also periodically steal masterpieces.

[[folder:Dhuthorex]]
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->'''Level:''' 9 (deepwater dhuthorex), 11 (dread dhuthorex)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* FiendishFish: Dhuthorexes are strange shark-like creatures that swim in sunless seas of the Darklands.
* TerrestrialSeaLife: These aquatic beasts can venture onto land if prey is easy to pursue.

[[folder:Emkrah]]
->'''Level:''' 9

The misbegotten offspring of Rovagug.

* CombatTentacles: The artery-like limbs they move on double as bludgeoning weapons.
* MeaningfulName: It means "wrongful birth."

[[folder:Faceless Hulk (Ugoroth)]]
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->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

The larger cousins of the faceless stalkers, capable of transforming into larger creatures such as giants.

* TheBlank: In its natural form, a faceless hulk has no discernible facial features.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: In its natural form, a faceless hulk can expand rapidly as a full-round action.
* VampiricDraining: Faceless hulks cannot digest solid food and instead subsist on liquids, especially blood. In their natural forms, they have three hollow tongues, which they use to penetrate and lap blood from smaller humanoids.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A faceless hulk can assume the form of a humanoid of the same size. Performing this transformation is somewhat painful, but the faceless hulk can maintain its new shape indefinitely.

[[folder:Galvo]]
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->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* BodyOfBodies: A galvo is made up of dozens of electric eels, transmogrified into one cooperative, electrified body. The galvo can disperse into a swarm of eels to do things it's incapable of in its normal form.
* ShockAndAwe: Electricity arcs throughout a galvo, creating a field around the galvo that causes small creatures to drop dead.

[[folder:Moit of Shub-Niggurath]]
->'''Level:''' 9

->'''Size:''' Medium

* AsteroidsMonster: When a spawning canker has drained enough life force, it bursts apart into several slugspawn.
* BrainFood: When a slugspawn matures into a spawning canker, it violently devours its host's brain.
* ParasiteZombie: A spawning canker is a parasite whose tentacles riddle the dead body of its host, taking control of muscles and organs.

[[folder:Yithian]]
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->'''Level:''' 9 (normal), 12 (elder)
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

A psychic race that collectively transferred their minds to escape their dying world, coming to rest in their present bodies.

* BodySnatcher: Their most iconic ability -- they can swap minds with any creature across space and time, and tend to so on a species-wide scale whenever facing extinction. Of course this leaves the minds of an entire species lost, confused and doomed, but the yithians find this an acceptable sacrifice for their own survival.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Their source is the novella ''Literature/TheShadowOutOfTime'', which has entered public domain.
* StarfishAliens: Yithians have a slug-like cone-shaped body, with four tentacles emerging from the top, two of which end in pincers, one which ends in four, red trumpet-shaped tubes, and one that ends in a spherical head with three eyes, ears mounted on stalks and small tendrils hanging from the underside.

!!Level 10
[[folder:Egregore]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Servitors created by psionic cults as avatars of their power.

* BrainMonster: An egregore typically looks like a clump of brains wrapped in arcs of light pulses and throbs. These brains aren't constructed like human brains, and seem to take this form only because of the conceptual link they represent.
* CombatTentacles: An egregore produces bands of light powered by its concentrated mental energy, which can become solid and lash out as tentacles.
* SuperEmpowering: The egregore is a powerful defender and a focal point for the psychic talents of its co-creators, granting them access to additional magical powers and a communal link.
* {{Tulpa}}: When an especially powerful psychic leads a community of like-minded individuals, that group can pool its collective will together to create an egregore.

[[folder:Gug]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Monstrous giants who live in caverns deep in the Darklands.

* EatDirtCheap: Gugs can eat rocks and draw sustenance from them, although they aren't ideal food and only consumed as a last resort in the absence of meat.
* KingMook: Gug savants, who are especially blessed by their dark deities and gain both spell-like abilities and significant control over lesser gugs.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Yes, those gugs from ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath''.

[[folder:Hyaleth]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Translucent creatures from deep underground waters.

* BewareMyStingerTail: The hyaleth's tail ends in a stinger that can deliver a neurotoxin.
* ForcedSleep: Creatures whose thoughts are being digested by a hyaleth are put to sleep.
* IngestingKnowledge: Hyaleths place intelligent prey into a deep sleep and read their knowledge during their slumber.

[[folder:Leng Hound]]
->'''Level:''' 10

->'''Size:''' Medium

Hailing from the nightmare plateau of Leng, these creatures haunt centuries old ruins and will trade service for corpses to eat.

* HumanDisguise: A Leng hound can retract its bestial features into its body to pretend to be the decaying corpse of a deformed human.
* TrackingSpell: If its linked grave is disturbed or looted, a Leng hound's spells have no limit when searching for the offender.
* WolfMan: The Leng hound's form blends humanoid and canine features.

[[folder:Nilith]]
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->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Niliths feed off the emotions, fears, and flesh of the living, and folktales posit that those who have nightmares of these creatures are fated to one day be eaten by them. Niliths draw intense joy from tormenting sapient creatures, often focusing their predations on the pious and the just, from whom they draw forth their most basic fears and worst thoughts and revel in their victims' subsequent terror.

Their 2nd Edition stats can be found in ''Bestiary (2nd Edition)'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=310 here]].

* FightingAShadow: Niliths are actually extensions of much deadlier creatures that dwell in a distant dimension beyond dreams. In a way, niliths are little more than remote feeding machines for the unknown alien entities to which they are connected.

[[folder:Ofalth]]
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->'''Level:''' 4 (larval), 10 (mature)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium (larval), Large (mature)

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: The larval ofalth is likely a replacement of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' otyugh, which are of the same level and are also associated with sewage and rubbish but can no longer be legally used after the OGL was replaced by the ORC.
* ArchEnemy: Ofalths' domains typically overlap with those of otyughs. Otyughs consider ofalth flesh an intoxicating delicacy, while ofalths seem to particularly enjoy taking otyughs apart one piece at a time.
* EatenAlive: When an ofalth manages to secure a victim alive, it may torture its food by consuming it bit by bit while it shrieks for mercy.
* ImprovisedArmour: Larval ofalths cocoon themselves in trash, to serve as both armour and camouflage.
* MuckMonster: An ofalth is a living heap of matter of wet detritus, sewage and rubbish.

[[folder:Roper]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Ambush predators that look almost perfectly like stalagmites, ropers are cruel philosophers and theologists who will engage in complex debates with the creatures they're eating.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Ropers are particularly interested in the philosophy of life and death and the finer points of evil religions, and can talk or argue for hours with prey, but never allow such intriguing prey to escape alive.
* ThatsNoMoon: To all but the most sharp-eyed underground explorers, a roper appears to be nothing more than a large stalactite, stalagmite, or pillar of ice.

[[folder:Siyokoy]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Vaguely like merfolk, these creatures love shipwrecks and sunken ruins.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Siyokoys adore shipwrecks and long-forgotten underwater ruins, and often adorn their lairs with the results of scavenging expeditions into these locations.
* FishPeople: Siyokoys are eel-like aquatic creatures with a humanoid's torso.
* ShockAndAwe: A siyokoy can emit a strong electrical charge from its tail.

[[folder:Spawn of Yog-Sothoth]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

The misbegotten result of rituals by cultists of Yog-Sothoth to impregnate a mortal with a fragment of their alien god.

* EvilSmellsBad: Spawn of Yog-Sothoth exude a hideous, unforgettable stench that alerts others to their presence.
* HalfHumanHybrid: A humanoid mother and an Outer God father.
* HybridMonster: Spawn of Yog-Sothoth are created by impregnating a humanoid creature with Yog-Sothoth's essence.
* InvisibleMonsters: Spawn of Yog-Sothoth are naturally invisible.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Upon death, a spawn's flesh rapidly melts until nothing remains but a crusty stain.
* PublicDomainCharacter: They're lifted wholesale from Wilbur Whateley's brother in ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''.

[[folder:Trench Mist]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

When toxic gas absorbs the souls of the slain, most often in the horrors of war, the resulting reaction creates an entity known as a trench mist.

* DeadlyGas: Trench mists are created when toxic gases are used as weapons of mass destruction in battle.
* FogOfDoom: Under mysterious circumstances, deadly gases used in battle can absorb the souls of the slain and gain a sly, malevolent intelligence.
* MonsterLord: Victims of a trench mist rise as trench zombies under its control.

!!Level 11

[[folder:Argorth]]
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Tentacles split from the body of Black Magga.

* TakingYouWithMe: When it dies, an argorth collapses to the ground and thrashes wildly, dealing damage to nearby creatures for one last time before expiring.

[[folder:Howling Spawn]]
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* ManBitesMan: In battle, a howling spawn can literally eat a creature it grabs, exposing its prey to its paralytic saliva.
* TheParalyzer: The howling spawn's saliva is a potent paralytic substance.
* WasOnceAMan: It's speculated that howling spawn are people who are undergoing a transformation into a monster like Desert's Howl.

[[folder:Isqulug]]
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* TheVirus: Creatures that die from the isqulugia disease, inflicted by isqulug larve as they feed on flesh, become isqulugs themselves.
* TheWormThatWalks: The mind and consciousness of the isqulug is located within the writhing larvae inside the shifting, slimy transparent eggs on its head; its 'body' is little more than an organic suit.