History Characters / PathfinderBeasts

[[folder:Kirrix]]

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

The result of generations of riding rat husbandry combined with regular infusions of alchemical cocktails by particularly inventive ratfolk.

* BreathWeapon: They can use up their store of a disease to spray a cone of infection that exposes others to it, even if the disease wouldn't normally be contracted through inhalation or skin contact.
* ExtremeOmnivore: They can eat ''diseases'', usually by eating them off objects or out of the air. They can harmlessly digest and destroy them or save them for later use.
* NoSell: They're completely immune to disease, a necessity given the purpose they were created for.
* PlagueDoctor: A kirrix can consume diseases off of objects, rendering the object harmless. If they ingest an infected victim's blood, they can create an antiplague secretion they can apply to others.
* PlagueMaster: A kirrix can harmlessly store up to two different diseases it's exposed to within a specialized organ in its throat and expose others to them through its bites, even if the stored disease isn't one that can usually be transmitted through wounds.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Kirrix have six legs thanks to mutations from all the alchemical treatments.

[[folder:Pard]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

* {{Telepathy}}: Pards can transmit complex emotions and basic ideas to other pards. When interacting with other creatures, they can only convey simple emotions.

[[folder:Pegasus]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Large

* {{Pegasus}}: Standard winged horses, usually white, and popular flying steeds for heroes.

[[folder:Seru]]

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

A seru is type of telepathic venomous snake with the wings of a bat.

* {{Familiar}}: Evil spellcasters with the right feat and a high enough level can gain a seru as a familiar.
* SuperSpit: They can spit venom like a spitting cobra.

[[folder:Shasalqu]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

While some reptiles bask in the sun's warm embrace to raise their body temperature, a shasalqu is ravenous in its search of warmth. Even in the deserts of the Inner Sea region, it never seems to have enough heat. Instead of just relying on the sun, a shasalqu gathers energy by sapping the heat from the air (and creatures) around it. Their stats can be found in ''Mummy's Mask: The Half Dead City'', ''Bestiary 5'', or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/shasalqu/ here]].

* AnIcePerson: A shasalqu gathers energy by sapping the heat from the air around it, and uses the intense cold generated from this heat absorption to trap its prey.
* ImmuneToFire: Fire does not harm a shasalqu; instead, the shasalqu absorbs the fire and gains temporary hit points.

[[folder:Trollhound]]
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->'''Size:''' Medium

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The first trollhounds were the result of occult experimentation on wargs with alchemically prepared troll blood in the hope of creating an ooze with limited regeneration. The few survivors lost their cunning and intelligence in exchange for a troll's voracious appetite and ability to regenerate. Trollhounds have been described as trolls in canine form, and understand on an instinctual level their kinship with trolls.
* HealingFactor: Trollhounds have the same regenerative abilities trolls do.
* WeakToFire: Fire, which nullifies their regeneration, is one of the most effective tools against trollhounds; canny hunters know to burn every last piece of a supposedly slain trollhound.

[[folder:Ulgrem-Lurann]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* FossilRevival: Although Ulgrem-Axaan, the last surviving member of this species, is undead, it is possible to purify and save the life inside its clutch of eggs, allowing them to hatch without the taint of undeath and bringing back the species from extinction.
* ShockAndAwe: An Ulgrem-Lurann's bite unleashes an electrical discharge.

[[folder:Unicorn]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood

* TheMedic: Unicorns have access to ''cure light wounds'' and ''cure moderate wounds'' as inborn spell-like abilities, and gladly use them to heal allies, friends and innocents.
* TouchTheIntangible: Unicorn horns innately function as ''ghost touch'' weapons, allowing them to directly interact with spiritual entities.
* {{Unicorn}}: Snow-white horses with goatlike beards and a golden, spiraling horn in the middle of their foreheads. They're benevolent and heroic creatures, can cleanse poison with their magic and favor unspoiled woodlands as their homes.
* WingedUnicorn: It's not unheard of for half-celestial unicorns to have enormous feathered wings.

!!Level 4
[[folder:Amelekana]]
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->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* AcidAttack: The amelekana's amoeba symbiotes use their acidic coating to dissolve prey and absorb nutrition.
* SensorCharacter: Amelekanas have a psychic sense for nearby living creatures.
* TheSymbiote: The amelekana is a symbiotic community of two separate organisms, neither of which can live without the other. When hunting, the amelekana launches blobby amoebae at prey. These amoebae act as external digesters for the stomachless amelekana. Once the amoebae have had their fill, the amelekana slurps them back up, protecting them inside its body in exchange for a portion of nutrients.

[[folder:Aranea]]

->'''Size:''' Medium

Spider-like creatures with a fondness for magic and the power to assume a specific humanoid form.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A limited example. Araneas can alternate between a giant spider form, a human form and a hybrid form, but each of these three is set for each individual -- an arenea, for instance, can only take "her" human form, not any human appearance she pleases.

[[folder:Barghest]]
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* AntiRegeneration: The barghest's claws can induce an unhealing wound curse, whose recipient cannot regain Hit Points except via magic.
* BreathWeapon: Some greater barghests develop the ability to exhale clouds of toxic gas.
* {{Hellhound}}: Barghests are canine beasts who hunt for the thrill of the chase and the fear they create within their prey.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A handful of barghests resort to learning magical methods of causing fear directly, though they find such fear hollow and unsatisfying.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can take on the form of a humanoid or dog at will. Each individual barghest has only one humanoid form and one dog form. Typical barghests often hide in these forms, only taking their true forms to frighten their prey and exult in the hunt.

[[folder:Chemosit]]

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

* BrainFood: Should a chemosit kill an enemy with a coup de grace attack, it breaks open the creature's skull and devours what's inside to invigorate itself.
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: ''Chemosit'' is an alternate name for the Nandi bear, a Central African cryptid.

[[folder:Devilfish]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* NoBiologicalSex: Devilfish reproduce asexually by disgorging clutches of their young.
* SeaMonster: The largest devilfish can dwarf the greatest megalodons and sink warships with a tug of one tentacle.
* TheUnintelligible: A devilfish has a tendency to mix languages together, making it somewhat difficult to understand for anyone who doesn't speak all of these languages.

[[folder:Ercinee]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* BioluminescenceIsCool: Ercinee are infused with a magical luminescence that causes the tips of their feathers to emit green light.

[[folder:Kadlaka]]

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

* BirdPeople: Kadlakas are strong, lanky humanoids with raven-like features.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Because a kadlaka's natural form might frighten humanoids, they often take on the guise of another biped to gain information and pass on warnings.
* ShockAndAwe: Kadlakas wield potent magical powers over thunder and lightning.

[[folder:Kaicharek]]

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

* CombatTentacles: The tips of a kaicharek's tentacles are covered in serrated bone blades. In battle, the kaicharek lashes out with these tentacles and bites, attempting to grapple its prey.

[[folder:Kamadan]]

* ForcedSleep: A kamadan can exhale a cone of gas that makes living creatures fall asleep for 5 minutes.
* AnIcePerson: The breath weapon of a polar kamadan is particularly cold.
* PoisonousPerson: The six snakes sprouting from a dust kamadan's shoulders have a venomous bite.

[[folder:Karkadann]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* BloodKnight: Karkadanns are wild and ferocious fighters, never back down from a challenge, and eagerly seek new combats to throw themselves into.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In combat, karkadanns favor using their horns as goring weapons with which to impale their foes.
* {{Unicorn}}: They're inspired by the unicorn-like beast of the same name from Central Asian myth; physically, they resemble unicorns colored like oryx antelopes (or alternatively orixes with a single unicorn-like horn), share their ability to purge other creatures of poison, and maintain the fierce and aggressive natures of unicorns from Myth/ClassicalMythology. Some speculate InUniverse that karkadanns are a type of unicorn, but the karkadanns themselves find this an insulting thought.

[[folder:Kerakinsi]]
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[[folder:Nue]]

->'''Size:''' Large

* {{Nue}}: Nues have the bodies of tigers, the heads of monkeys and a snake instead of a tail.

[[folder:Peuchen]]

* ToServeMan: Peuchens prefer to drain the blood of humanoids.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: When they hunt, peuchens take on the form of livestock, and trick shepherds or farmers into bringing them back to farms, homesteads and towns, where they can slip out each night to prey on any creatures they can find.

[[folder:Quintessivore]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* SoulEating: A quintessivore doesn't immediately kill prey, but instead drags the creature to its lair, separates the soul from the body and pulls out the creature's individuality, reducing the soul down to quintessence, which the quintessivore then consumes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Seps]]
->'''Level:''' 2 (juvenile), 11 (adult)
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium (juvenile), Huge (adult)

* TheGreatSerpent: An adult seps is 30 feet long and weighs 1500 pounds.
* PoisonIsCorrosive: Seps venom is acidic and so potent that it quickly dissolves prey into liquid.

[[folder:Sleipnir]]
->'''Level:''' 11

->'''Size:''' Large

* LightEmUp: A sleipnir can exhale a cone of shimmering polychromatic light.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Sleipnirs are a legendary breed of magical, eight-legged horses.

[[folder:Svathurim]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Svathurims appear to be a cross between a frost giant and a centaur, but have eight equine legs instead of four.

* HybridMonster: They're Sleipnir centaur frost giants.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Svathurim have the upper bodies of horned frost giants mounted upon the legs and torsos of titanic eight-legged horses.

[[folder:Tetrolimulus]]

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

* BewareMyStingerTail: The tetrolimulus' tail stinger is razor sharp and coated with tetrodotoxin.
* BlackWidow: After being impregnated, female tetrolimuluses usually eat the weaker males surrounding them, which are the easiest and closest source of food to replenish the energy and effort of their travels.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The tetrolimulus is often described as the sea mantis because it resembles a crab's legs and shell merged with a mantis' arms.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Female tetrolimuluses, the hunters of the species, are much more aggressive than the smaller males, who live in deeper waters as bottom feeders.

[[folder:Thunderbird]]
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->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Immense birds with storm-grey feathers, thunderbirds carry the wrath of the sky wherever they go.

* GiantFlyer: Eagle-like birds larger than a giant.
* ShockAndAwe: Thunderbirds' bodies are visibly crackling with electricity, and they can create lightning both as an active attack and as a passive side effect of their simple presence.
* {{Thunderbird}}: Derived fairly directly from American myth, resulting in large, {{Roc|Birds}}-like birds with magical control over wind and rain, which are both hailed as bringers of rain and feared as heralds of hurricanes and destructive storms
* WeatherManipulation: Thunderbirds can control the weather -- in-game, they can cast ''control weather'' at will. They're especially geared towards creating storms, and lashing winds surround them at all times.

->'''Level:''' Same as number of heads - 1 (+2 for cryohydrae and pyrohydrae)

* Retcon: Prior to the Remaster, Nagas were classified as aberrations, after it, they've been classified as beasts.

* {{Miraj}}: Almirajes have stats for both editions of the game. Unlike regular, hornless rabbits, they're carnivores and very aggressive, and use their horns to gore prey and enemies. Anything killed by an almiraj's horn is immediately [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]]. As a result, they need to eat their prey [[EatenAlive while it's helpless but still alive]].

[[folder:Zoog]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

* HumanSacrifice: Some victims of zoog attacks are dragged back to zoog communities, and become the doomed focus of strange ceremonies before being sacrificed to the zoogs' depraved deities.
* ToServeMan: Zoogs have a taste for the meat of sentient creatures, treating their butchering and consumption as a rare privilege.

!!Level 2
[[folder:Ceru]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood

Cerus are artificial creatures created through the fusion of alchemy and magic in the Impossible Kingdoms of Vudra, where they are regarded as amazing pets for the rich and powerful.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: A ceru can bring luck or misfortune upon any creature it can see.

[[folder:Chuspiki]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny
Mouse-like creatures with power over air.

* BlowYouAway: A chuspiki can use basic aerokinesis to create concussive blasts of air and steer its flight.

[[folder:Cinder Wolf]]
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->'''Size:''' Medium

* BigEater: In order to fuel their unnaturally fast metabolism, cinderwolves are constantly hungry and need to eat several times their weight each week.
* ThroatLight: Cinders flicker from a cinder wolf's maw.

[[folder:Cyphergull]]

->'''Size:''' Tiny

* UpliftedAnimal: Cyphergulls, transformed from seagulls that crashed into the Cyphergate and survived, are generally more robust and intelligent than their common cousins. They can learn humanoid languages, study the world around them, perform simple experiments, and understand the rudiments of logic and the scientific method.

[[folder:Darklands Sentinel]]

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

* ShockAndAwe: A Darklands sentinel can launch an arc of electricity.

[[folder:Death Dog]]

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

* HitAndRunTactics: Death dogs surround stronger creatures, attacking and retreating, allowing their infected bites to wear down an opponent until it is too weak to fight.
* HybridMonster: In the scrub borders between forests and deserts or plains and badlands where wargs and death dogs cohabit, crossbreeding may occur if a warg pack is resistant to disease, or an outcast warg takes control of a death dog pack. Most death warg pups die before reaching adulthood, but those that survive are larger, tougher, smarter and able to speak as well as a warg can.
* MultipleHeadCase: They have two heads.
* SavageWolves: Driven mad with rage by the worms infecting their brains, death wargs bully their packs into submission, raid caravans and humanoid settlements, and kill more than they can eat.
* TheSymbiote: A death dog's saliva contains hundreds of tiny eggs that grow into flesh-devouring worms. The worms don't harm the death dog, but consume any creatures they come into contact with. A death dog's corpse is contagious for several days after death and may infect creatures that touch or eat it.

[[folder:Galluvix]]

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

* MixAndMatchCritters: A galluvix has the body and plumage of a rooster and the head of a fox.

[[folder:Kappa]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

* {{Kappa}}: Humanoid turtles that love to play pranks on swimmers (although angry or depraved individuals may drown them instead). They retain their mythological love of cucumbers and their unfailing courteousness towards polite visitors, as well as their head-bowl weakness, which staggers and immobilizes them.

[[folder:Moon Spider]]
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->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Malevolent webweaving spiders that live in the Echo Wood and other forests around the Sellen River.
Their stats can be found in ''The Emerald Spire'' or online [[https://aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Moon%20Spider here]].

* AllWebbedUp: The webs created by a moon spider are especially strong and sticky, and are woven into net-like snares to trap their enemies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nehushtan]]
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->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood
->'''Size:''' Medium

A rare breed of bronze-colored serpents prized and venerated for their miraculous curative powers.
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* BlackWidow: One a thriae queen's male consort lives too long, they're sedated and painlessly eaten by the queen.