History Characters / PathfinderMonitors

* DoNotFearTheReaper: Despite their creepy appearances and association with death, their job is a necessary one.

->'''Level:''' 2

The skeletal, avian vanths are the soldiers of the Boneyard, keeping watch over the River of Souls against raids by night hags, daemons and worse, fighting directly against the undead and descending upon sites of mass deaths to harvest souls to prevent their rising in undeath.

!!Memitim
->'''Level:''' 15

* DeaderThanDead: A shinigami possesses six gems in which it encapsulates souls. Once per day, a shinigami can hold up a gem that currently contains a soul and crush it, permanently destroying the soul within and releasing a burst of negative energy.

->'''Level:''' 2

'''NOTE:''' Since most tropes that apply to true aeons do not apply to axiomites and inevitables, these are listed under their own folders.

[[folder:Inevitable]]

* DemotedToExtra: In 1st Edition, inevitables were the main LawfulNeutral outsider race. In 2nd Edition, they were relegated into a secondary role as a subgroup of aeons, who were changed into LawfulNeutral and replaced inevitables as the main outsider race corresponding to this alignment, as part of Paizo's effort to distance the game from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (inevitables were wholly made up by Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast and have no basis in real world mythology).[[invoked]]
* DyingRace: The inevitables are on the decline, and have been for a long time. Their numbers are slow to replenish, and their demigods, the primordial inevitables, cannot be replaced at all and have shrunk dramatically in number over the ages. Some scholars take this decline as a sign that entropy itself is on the rise in the Great Beyond.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Although inevitables are living outsiders, their bodies are made of stone, metal or similar materials, and gameplay-wise they count as both outsiders and constructs.
* ProfessionalKiller: Usually, a transgression that needs an inevitable's attention is so severe that only execution will suffice.
* {{Omniglot}}: An inevitable can always speak to any creature that has a language.
* {{Retcon}}: In 2nd Edition, inevitables were revealed to be created by aeons all along, a connection which never existed in 1st Edition.

!!Arbiter

The least of the inevitables, arbiters serve as the scouts and missionaries of their race, searching the multiverse for threats to alert their stronger kin to and spreading the message of law and order to the mortal races.

!!Novenarut
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Size:''' Medium

Inevitables that arbitrate duels and formalized combat and enforce their outcomes.

* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: Novenaruts resemble samurai in armour fashioned of plates of jade and steel that cover whirring metallic gears, and serve to officiate duels and structured combat.
* HonorBeforeReason: They personify this trope, and even have the ability to smite dishonorable opponents (e.g anyone who uses sneak attack or a dirty trick on them.)

!!Kastamut
->'''Level:''' 6

* GoodOldWays: Kastamuts represent the powerfully conservative forces of tradition and custom. They oppose sudden, radical changes in the course of a culture's traditions, and work to prevent the destruction of established belief systems, rites and social customs.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Kastamuts are short and stocky, giving the appearance of a dwarf. Some scholars speculate that this appearance reflects the level of importance tradition has within dwarven society.

!!Zelekhut
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Large

Inevitables that chase down criminals fleeing punishments and lawbreakers whom mortal laws cannot touch.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A zelekhut's arms end in barbed chains.
* ChainPain: Their primary weapons are the barbed chains that grow from their wrists, which they can use to trip and knock down foes.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: A zelekhut looks like a winged, mechanical centaur.
* ShockAndAwe: Their chains crackle with electricity, and can send painful shocks into their targets.

!!Impariut
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Size:''' Medium
Inevitables that safeguard responsible governance and punish and dethrone corrupt and unlawful rulers.

* TheGoodChancellor: Impariuts typically offer their targets their ongoing assistance as an advisor to help steer the leader back to a proper path.
* InternalReformist: Each impariut serves to reform a powerful leader, guiding that figure toward sustainable policies that maintain order.

!!Valharut
->'''Level:''' 11

Inevitables that, rather than punishing a specific form of transgression, serve as Law's soldiers in the direct struggle against the forces of Chaos.

* DoubleWeapon: Valharuts fight with an exotic weapon that consists of two hooked blades projecting from opposite ends of a shaft.

!!Kolyarut
->'''Level:''' 12
->'''Size:''' Medium

Inevitables that enforce oaths and binding agreements.

* IGaveMyWord: Kolyaruts enforce this trope by ensuring that oaths are kept and oathbreakers punished, caring little for what the actual assignments are.
* MasterOfDisguise: Kolyaruts can disguise themselves to move through humanoid land without being detected.

!!Yarahkut
->'''Level:''' 14
->'''Size:''' Large
Inevitables that stifle magical and scientific developments in cultures not yet ready for them.

* SchizoTech: {{Defied|Trope}}. Tasked with preventing magic and technology from falling into the wrong hands, yarahkuts ensure that advanced technologies and magic aren't introduced to regions where they could have a disruptive impact.
* TwoFaced: Three identical faces surround a yarahkut's head, staring in separate directions.

!!Marut
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->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Large

Inevitables that protect the sanctity of life and death by hunting down those who would extend their lifespans through unnatural means.

* BareFistedMonk: They don't make use of actual weapons, instead fighting with their bare fists.
* ShockAndAwe: A marut's fists strike with the power of lightning or thunder.

!!Hykariut
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Size:''' Large

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: A hykariut has no compunctions against publicly pulverising a revolutionary leader as an object lesson in civic obedience for onlookers.

!!Rokyamut
->'''Level:''' 19
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Rokyamuts can conjure mathematical symbols into their hands to use as weapons, which can slice through unliving matter.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Four powerful arms protrude from a rokyamut's torso.
* TeleportInterdiction: A rokyamut's presence impairs folds in space, causing all teleportation to fail if they begin or end within 300 feet of a rokyamut.

!!Lhaksarut
->'''Level:''' 20
->'''Size:''' Huge

Inevitables that protect the sanctity and boundaries of the planes, seeking to disrupt permanent planar portals, mass migrations between planes and attempts by the natives of one plane of existence to conquer or colonize another.

* ElementalPowers: A lhaksarut can throw bolts of elemental energy (acid, cold, electricity or fire) from two of its arms.
* GiantFlyer: A lhaksarut is capable of flying with its gigantic wings.
* IGaveMyWord: A lhaksarut is mentally incapable of reneging on a promise it made on good faith.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Six arms, four for weapons and the others to throw energy bolts.
* ShootTheMedicFirst: The lhaksarut always prefers to eliminate healers before tackling on foes that can directly harm it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Apkallu]]
->'''Level:''' 23
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* BirdPeople: Apkallus have the heads of raptors and powerful hawk-like wings.
* HumanDisguise: Apkallus can adopt two alternate forms (one human, one merfolk) in which they move through terrestrial and aquatic civilisations.
* PocketDimension: An apkallu can conjure the door to a personal extradimensional archive in which it collects and preserves lore. An apkallu's archive is similar to an archmage's sanctum but is 2000 cubic feet in size. If an apkallu is killed or rendered unconscious, its body and any items it is carrying are immediately transported to its archive. An apkallu can conjure the door to the archive of a slain apkallu where the latter died.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Axial Monitor]]
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Axial monitor's triangular torso has three shoulders, each with two arms.
* TruthSerum: When an Axial monitor questions a creature that is helpless or pinned, it can compel the creature to answer its questions truthfully.
* TwoFaced: Three identical faces surround an Axial monitor's head, set equidistantly around it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Axiomite]]
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->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

* FantasticCasteSystem: Axiomite society is broken into three divisions, each with its own duty and purpose: the construction and maintenance of inevitables; the expansion and construction of their capital city; and the exploration and calculation of reality's laws and constants.
* FusionDance: The Godmind of Axis is a gestalt mind formed by the greatest individuals of the axiomite race.
* SentientCosmicForce: Axiomites are the personifications of mathematical law.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: An axiomite has two forms: a humanoid-shaped creature, or a cloud of glowing, crystalline dust that constantly swirl and congeal into complex tangles of symbols and equations.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gishvit]]
->'''Level:''' 0
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* IngestingKnowledge: A gishvit absorbs knowledge from its surroundings and from individuals who wish to store their memories and experiences within its pages.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mercane]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* NonActionGuy: Despite their size, mercanes are relatively weak in combat and their weapons are primarily for show.
* ProudMerchantRace: Mercanes are known throughout the planes as a race of traders in magical items.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Orsheval]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

* ItCanThink: An orsheval is as intelligent as a typical human and quite familiar with trade. Many arrogant mortals have ignored or insulted orshevals, thinking them dumb beasts, only to be chastised with truespeech.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pavbagha]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* PantheraAwesome: A pavbagha is the reincarnated soul of an enlightened worshipper of Irori transformed into the shape of a white tiger.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scrivenite]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

* BooksThatBite: These creatures can manifest as large, sturdily bound books.
* ImprovisedWeapon: A scrivenite wields its silken ribbon bookmarks like lashes.
* SeekerArchetype: Every scrivenite has a deep need to record anything and everything around it in excruciating detail. Effectively immortal with no need to eat or rest, they spend their time making notes about everything they observe. What moments they don't spend recording the world are instead invested into organising that information or reviewing the work of other scrivenites for accuracy.
[[/folder]]

!The Boneyard (TrueNeutral)

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

* AnimalMotifs: Numerous psychopomp varieties and ushers resemble birds associated with funeral themes, such as crows, ravens and whippoorwills, in whole or in part.
* DoNotFearTheReaper: Despite their creepy appearances and association with death, their job is a necessary one.
* IdealIllnessImmunity: All psychopomps are completely immune to disease.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Psychopomps preside over the flow of life. Their primary concerns focus upon souls in the vulnerable transition between death and their final afterlife, protecting the dead from predators like daemons or qlippoth.
* TeamSwitzerland: Since psychopomps help convey souls to all of the Outer Planes, and thus provide petitioners equally to each of those realms, they enjoy a special status as respected neutrals among many outsiders except daemons and qlippoth.
* TouchTheIntangible: Their attacks naturally affect incorporeal beings, helping them with their tasks of corralling restless spirits and watching over the souls of the dead.

!!Nosoi
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->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Diminutive psychopomps resembling a variety of small songbirds in funerary masks, the nosoi serve their more powerful kin as spies, wardens of sacred sites, and clerks, scribes and archivists in the great libraries of the Boneyard.

* CoolMask: Nosoi wear masks covering their beaks and faces. These are usually leather long-nosed mask like a plague doctor, but can occasionally have designs reminiscent of things such as the lids of Egyptian canopic jars.
* {{Familiar}}: A TrueNeutral spellcaster can gain a nosoi as a familiar, and nosoi are particularly likely to serve as familiars to mortals who fight against the undead or tend to large libraries and archives. If their master creates -- or, even worse, becomes -- an undead creature, their nosoi familiar will ditch them without hesitation.%%In-universe alignment
* FoodAsBribe: A nosoi considers eating a rare treat, and sometimes shares the information it knows if given a suitable tasty bribe.

!!Esobok
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->'''Level:''' 3 (4 if trained)

* FoodChainOfEvil: Esoboks enjoy eating undead flesh, and they pursue and ravenously consume undead creatures at every opportunity.
* ShoutOut: To Myth/EgyptianMythology's Ammit.
* SkullForAHead: The head of an esobok is a white, polished crocodilian skull.
* YourSoulIsMine: An esobok that manages to bite down onto another being can tear its soul out of its body.

!!Ahmuuth
->'''Level:''' 4

* OrbitingParticleShield: An ahmuuth is always surrounded by floating gravestone shards that act as a shield.

!!Viduus
->'''Level:''' 4

* AsteroidsMonster: When a viduus transforms or is killed, its cocoon body bursts open, expelling a swarm of biting black-and-white centipedes.
* FakeMemories: A viduus that strikes a living creature with its quill rewrites memories.
* ThePenIsMightier: A viduus uses its quill as a weapon.

!!Catrina
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->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Size:''' Medium

Skeletal psychopomps who ease the passage of souls into death. Catrinas go to great effort to comfort the newly dead, although they will not disguise the finality of their fate, but this usually has more to do with ensuring that the machinery of the afterlife runs smoothly than with true compassion for the deceased.

* {{Calacas}}: Catrinas are strongly inspired by representations of the dead in Mexican folklore, in terms of both their appearance as skeletons adorned with flowers and wearing festive clothing and of their welcoming and largely benign, or at least not truly malevolent, personalities. Unlike Mexican calacas, however, Catrinas aren't the spirits of the dead -- or at least no more so than any other outsider, and like the rest retain no memories of their prior selves -- acting instead as psychopomps ushering souls in the next world.
* DemBones: A catrina looks like a skeleton, despite not being actual undead, as a way to impress on the souls of the dead the nature of their fate.
* EmotionControl: Catrinas project a thirty foot aura where intense emotions are dulled and calmed.
* KissOfDeath: A catrina can kill a grappled, helpless or willing target with a passionate kiss which will eventually kill the target if it lasts long enough.
* NiceGirl: They are always female and the most compassionate of the psychopomps, as they know how terrifying death is to mortals and so usually try to calm them as they take them to the afterlife.

!!Morbai
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Medium

* PlagueMaster: Morbais are masters of healing and poison who fight mass outbreaks to help prevent epidemics, but also foster the creation of new diseases to keep mortal populations in check.
* WingedHumanoid: A morbai's curved back and ragged shawl partially conceal two pairs of small, brown-feathered wings.

!!Vanth
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Size:''' Medium

The skeletal, avian vanths are the soldiers of the Boneyard, keeping watch over the River of Souls against raids by night hags, daemons and worse, fighting directly against the undead and descending upon sites of mass deaths to harvest souls to prevent their rising in undeath.

* DemBones: A vanth looks like a black skeleton with raven wings, a long tail and a vulture's skull.
* AKindOfOne: The original Vanth is a figure from Etruscan funerary and tomb art, who seems to have had a similar role as Charon's and was most likely conceived of as a singular entity.
* SinisterScythe: A vanth's scythe is a badge of its station, reflecting its role as a harvester of souls.
* WingedHumanoid: A vanth has a humanoid skeleton and raven wings.

!!Calaca
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Size:''' Medium

* {{Calacas}}: Calacas are skeletal psychopomps who, unlike others, deal with the living rather than the dead. Their role is to comfort and counsel those who mourn a fallen loved one, typically by promoting philosophical acceptance of death and through joyous celebration of the departed's life, and especially to discourage them from using necromancy to bring their loved one back. They typically wear formal or festive clothing to hide their skeletal forms and carry ornate guitars, in addition to antique weapons to be used in extremis if all diplomacy fails.
* DemBones: A calaca resembles a large skeleton, but disguises itself from head to toe in local finery to hide its true nature.

!!Ember Weaver
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Size:''' Medium

* PowerNullifier: An ember weaver's eerie radiance can nullify enemies' protections or immunities against charm, fear and mind-affecting effects.

!!Shoki
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Medium

* YourSoulIsMine: Shoki carry staves of cold iron capable of imprisoning a single soul at a time. Shokis use them against only the most stubborn or demented souls, whom they capture and personally escort to the Boneyard for judgment.

!!Kere
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Size:''' Medium

* DueToTheDead: Keres protect the resting places of the dead from necromancers seeking to exploit them.
* GenreSavvy: To deter the living from treading upon the cemeteries they mind, keres employ tactics similar to those of mournful ghosts and mythical beings from storytellers' tales of spirits and haunts.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A kere's shroud inspires infectious terror in those who touch it.

!!Algea
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Size:''' Diminutive

* TheWormThatWalks: Each algea consists of a swarm of whip-poor-wills.

!!Morrigna
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->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Size:''' Medium

Morrignas act as bounty hunters and investigators, tracking down those who would escape or tamper with the flow of souls into the afterlife and dealing with them as they judge appropriate.

* AnimalEyeSpy: A morrigna can see through the eyes of a spider swarm she summons as though it were the sensor of an arcane eye spell.
* AnimalMotif: Spiders. Morrignas consider the patient, careful and trap-weaving spiders to be their spiritual kin, as they hunt their own targets in much the same manner. Further, morrignas possess the ability to control the spiderwebs they drape themselves in as though they were part of their bodies, and can summon spiders at will and see through their eyes.
* TheFaceless: Their faces, with the exception of their mouths and noses, are completely covered by their masks.
* SummonMagic: They possess the innate ability to summon a SpiderSwarm or a GiantSpider to their aid.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A morrigna can take the form of any living humanoid or animal as they please.
* WingedHumanoid: Morrignas resemble women with pale grey batlike wings.

!!Memitim
->'''Level:''' 15

* ArchEnemy: Their full wrath manifests against any who commit massacre in an unnatural pursuit of souls.
* WingedHumanoid: A memitim looks like a black-winged woman.

!!Eseneth
->'''Level:''' 17

* DamagedSoul: Eseneths, commonly known as soul-stitchers, are dispassionate surgeons who repair damaged souls.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: An eseneth's spirit needles are composed of its essence. The needles form and dissipate at the eseneth's will and exist only as long as it does.

!!Olethros
->'''Level:''' 17-25
->'''Size:''' Medium

* ArchEnemy: The focus of their enmity is upon the traitorous sahkils.
* LargeAndInCharge: An olethros mother is much taller than normal olethroses.
* OneGenderRace: All olethroses are clearly female.
* TouchOfDeath: An olethros's fated touch shows her target glimpses of its own fate and draws the creature inexorably closer to its doom.
* TrulySingleParent: Olethroses are born from other olethroses via rare immaculate conception.

!!Fulgati
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->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Ram-headed titans of living stone and metal, fulgati are reapers of entire civilizations. When the time comes for a nation or culture to die, these creatures are sent to tear their ruins to the ground and wipe out their few survivors, clearing the land for new growth to arise on the graves of an obliterated past.

* BloodyMurder: A fulgati's blood is a lethal poison that can leave a terrain barren for decades. Wounding a fulgati with a slashing or piercing weapon will expose the attacker to it.
* DigAttack: A fulgati's eight grasping limbs allow it to burrow at a respectable clip, and even burst from the earth in the middle of unsuspecting enemies.
* DumbMuscle: Fulgati are destroyers, unfettered by excessive reasoning.
* TheJuggernaut: Almost nothing can stop a fulgati. They have a laundry list of immunities and resistances, a very high spell resistance, damage reduction that is only beaten by adamantine, and their regeneration can only be negated by artifacts, epic-level weapons or mythic sources.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the exceedingly rare case that anyone survives a fulgati's rampage, their mind will actively ''try'' to remove all memories of the creature, explaining the destruction it wrought as the results of a more "mundane" cataclysm like an earthquake.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Not only do these creatures have four arms in the places arms are ''supposed'' to be, they actually have four more arms ''instead'' of legs.
* OneGenderRace: All fulgati are female.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: These unusual psychopomps are tasked with destroying ''civilizations'' that have run their course, and with spells like Earthquake, Epidemic, Incendiary Cloud and such, they are more than up to the task.
* RentAZilla: A fulgati towers a staggering 80 feet in height, and exists for the purpose of leveling entire civilizations.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Fulgati warp probability with their mere presence, making tragedy more likely to happen. In game terms, rolling a natural 1 within 300 feet of a fulgati will result in an EpicFail.

!!Yamaraj
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->'''Level:''' 20
->'''Size:''' Huge

Yamarajes are the greatest of the psychopomps outside of the ushers themselves, presiding over the Boneyard as lords, law-speakers and judges of the dead.

* BreathWeapon: A yamaraj can breathe a cone of cold or raw decay in the form of clouds of carrion-eating insects.
* EnergyAbsorption: A yamaraj absorbs electricity to strengthen itself.
* FeatheredDragons: Yamarajes resemble dragons covered in black feathers and sporting a pair of raven-like wings and a birdlike head.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Yamarajes vaguely resemble black dragons, though they are easily distinguished by being feathered instead of scaled.
* PoisonousPerson: Their venom saps the youth and vitality from living creatures.
* WorkHardPlayHard: Yamarajes eagerly indulge in exquisite banquets during their infrequent personal time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shinigami]]
->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

* DeaderThanDead: A shinigami possesses six gems in which it encapsulates souls. Once per day, a shinigami can hold up a gem that currently contains a soul and crush it, permanently destroying the soul within and releasing a burst of negative energy.
* SinisterScythe: A shinigami wields a scythe made of bone.
[[/folder]]

!The Maelstrom (ChaoticNeutral)

[[folder:Protean]]
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Being embodiments of raw chaos and natives of the ChaoticNeutral[[invoked]] Outer Plane, they are one to the slaadi in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', specifically their pre-4th Edition incarnation, and were created by Paizo to replace the slaadi, who are not OGL and therefore cannot be used. On the whole, proteans tend to be more philosophical than slaadi.
* ArchEnemy:
** Firstly, proteans are natural enemies of all lawful planar races -- their principal foes are the LawfulNeutral axiomites and inevitables, of course, but they're just as opposed to the angels and the devils, and legions of proteans have laid siege to Heaven, Axis and Hell for as long as these realms have existed.%%Invoked
** Secondly, while proteans get along fairly well with most chaotic outsiders, they loathe demons and qlippoth, which they see as perversions of themselves, and have warred against them for as long as their races have been aware of each other's existence.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Protean reproduction can happen in a very wide variety of forms, and true to their chaotic natures follows few hard patterns. Some proteans are formed from the souls of mortals of suitable alignment, although that's far less common than among other outsiders; others are spontaneously formed from the creative potential of the Maelstrom, elevated from lesser proteans or -- in a fairly rare case among outsiders -- created through other proteans reproducing, whether "conventionally", through polyamorous mating balls or just from the parent protean splitting in half like an amoeba.
* BizarreAlienSexes: Proteans don't really have sexes or genders in the way mortals understand the concept, and can adopt and discard whatever gender identities they feel like, often on a whim. Their shapeshifting also allows them to take on whichever sexual organs they want or need, allowing any given protean to make itself male, female, hermaphroditic, neuter or something even more bizarre as it pleases.
* HealingFactor: A protean can easily recover from deafness or blindness by quickly growing new sensory organs.
* HiveCasteSystem: Proteans are divided into several sub-castes, each with a different appearance, abilities and roles -- keketars and izfiitars are priests, kings and prophets, oshageroses and naunets are frontline soldiers against order, azuretzis are spies, imenteshes proselytize the ways of chaos among other societies, and so on.
* MonsterOrganTrafficking: Protean scales can used to replace any Chaotic spell during item crafting.
* RandomEffectSpell: All proteans have the ability to create warpwaves, whose random effects can never be predicted by the protean itself.
* SentientCosmicForce: Proteans are the living exemplars of the concept of chaos itself.
* SnakePeople: Most proteans have serpentine lower bodies and humanoid torsos.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: All proteans have mutable forms and can change shape into other creatures.

!!Voidworm
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->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Size:''' Small

Tiny creatures often classified as proteans due to their alignment, home plane and serpentine shapes. Other proteans resent this association, and do not see more than minimum kinship between themselves and the diminutive voidworms.

* {{Familiar}}: Most voidworms are seen as familiars of ChaoticNeutral mortal wizards, and it's speculated that they may be created by the very act of being summoned.%%In-universe alignment
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: They look like beautiful glowing worm creatures and are only two feet long.
* TailSlap: Voidworms attack by slapping foes with their tail.

!!Akizendri
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->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Size:''' Small
Crocodile-headed proteans who exist to sow disorder in the written words, akizendris delight in turning poems into meaningless word jumbles, planting crude jokes within valuable texts, and scrawling obscenities across priceless texts.

* BookBurning: Akizendris gleefully corrupt and alter texts to vex scholars and sages across the planes with contradictions and untruths.

!!Ourdivar

->'''Size:''' Large

Unusual proteans with humanoid torsos, ourdivars are brought into being by the very act of being summoned.

* DeathActivatedSuperpower: An ourdivar that is killed or banished erupts in a minor warpwave of chaotic energy.
* SnakePeople: The upper body of an ourdivar is that of a bestial humanoid, while its lower section is a serpentine tail.

!!Azuretzi
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Size:''' Small

Diminutive blue wyrms and adept shapeshifters, azuretzis delight in mocking everyone and everything they encounter, and are often employed by their more powerful kin as spies and saboteurs.

* MasterOfDisguise: An azuretzi can mimic the form of a creature by studying it.
* PowerParasite: An azuretzi can borrow a creature's talents with a touch attack, suppressing and gaining the target's ability to use a single spell or spell-like ability.

!!Naunet

->'''Size:''' Large

Powerful, brutish beings, the naunets advance the cause of chaos in the most direct way possible -- by rampaging through the borderlands of other planes to dissolve them back into the formless potential of the Maelstrom.

* BloodKnight: Always ready for a fight, naunets pride themselves in acting swiftly and striking before unpleasant distractions like diplomacy can blunt a combat's beginning.
* FogOfDoom: Six naunets working together can create a cloud of multicoloured chaos that harms those inside.
* TooManyMouths: Two tentacles ending in jaws emerge from a naunet's back.

!!Pelagastr
->'''Level:''' 8

Immaterial proteans formed spontaneously within the depths of the Maelstrom, pelagastrs spend most of their time on the Universe, hopping from body to body to indulge in the sensations of the flesh.

* DemonicPossession: A pelagastr can merge its body with that of a corporeal creature to take control of the victim.
* SenseFreak: Pelagastrs hop from host to host to savor the strangeness of the physical world using as many senses as possible.

!!Illureshi
->'''Level:''' 9

* PrehensileTail: An illureshi can use its tail to grab unattended items and activate wands.

!!Imentesh
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Size:''' Large
Imenteshes are missionaries of chaos, traveling far beyond the Maelstrom to spread the word of entropy and creation to planes locked under the dreary rule of law.

* BrownNote: A subtle telepathic whisper constantly surrounds imenteshes, confusing the minds of the weak-willed.

!!Ibshaunet
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Size:''' Huge

* AcidAttack: An ibshaunet is surrounded by a corrosive aura that inflicts acid damage on those that approach it.

!!Oshageros
->'''Level:''' 13

Crocodilian proteans who live to ward off or destroy entities that threaten the purity and freedom of true chaos.

* CombatTentacles: An oshageros attacks with tentacles which flicker with chaotic energies that sap the vigour of enemies.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: An oshageros has the upper body of a crocodilian humanoid.

!!Hegessik
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->'''Level:''' 15

The wandering clergy of the proteans, Hegessik proteans act as intermediaries between their home plane's powers -- such as keketar choruses, izfiitars, protean lords and the gods of the Maelstrom -- and aid in the transition of mortal souls into true proteans and of proteans into new castes.

* BrownNote: A mind-bending susurrus of voices and false perceptions infuses reality in close proximity to a hegessik.
* DeadlyGaze: When opened, a hegessik's third eye produces a powerful gaze attack.
* ExtraEyes: A hegessik has a third eye on its forehead.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Hegessiks have two pairs of arms, one small and slender for fine manipulation and one large and powerful for combat and heavy tasks.
* WalkingTheEarth: Hegessiks are the itinerant clergy of the proteans, wandering the wilderness of the Maelstrom.

!!Keketar
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->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Size:''' Large

Powerful proteans who serve as prophets and priest-kings within what loosely passes for protean civilization.
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* CoolCrown: All keketars can be distinguished by a crown of glowing energy on their head.
* MonsterLord: Keketars are the leaders and prophets of the protean race.
* TeleportInterdiction: All creatures teleporting near a keketar will either be nauseated or temporarily put into suspended animation.
* YourMindMakesItReal: A keketar can create a quasi-real illusion that can shield those that believes in it, and is easily breakable by those that do not.

!!Izfiitar
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->'''Level:''' 20+
->'''Size:''' Medium

Immensely powerful, six-armed proteans and the highest clergy and spiritual leaders of the protean race.
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* CoolCrown: All izfiitars can be distinguished by a halo of ever-changing symbols on their head.
* HighPriest: Izfiitars loom above keketars, cardinals among the clergy, and divine the will of the Speakers of the Depths.
* MagicKnight: Izfiitars have monstrous physical attacks and stupendous magical powers.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: An izfiitar has six arms in total.
* YourMindMakesItReal: An izfiitar can create a quasi-real illusion that can shield those that believe in it, and is easily breakable by those that do not.

[[folder:Baatamidar]]
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->'''Level:''' 21
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* BlobMonster: Baatamidars resemble floating blobs of undulating, prismatic ooze with four tentacles and dribbles of oily slime that always drip upwards.
* GodzillaThreshold: Due to the threat they pose to planar communities, celestial and infernal commanders alike make defeating baatamidars a top priority, sometimes even joining together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Burleev]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* DemBones: A burleev looks like a humanoid skeleton with a complete set of internal organs.
* YinYangBomb: A burleev's supernatural nimbus burns brightly with cold or heat, which it can switch at will.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Camarach]]
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->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* ThinkingUpPortals: The internal skin of camaraches constantly splits into temporary extraplanar portals. The planar travel a camarach produces is usually wholly random, except when specifically chosen by the camarach.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chaos Beast]]
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* BlobMonster: The body of a chaos beast constantly twists upon itself and reshapes into new forms.
* PerpetuallyProtean: Chaos beasts have no set form except a single eye and a maw filled with teeth. Beyond that, they're constantly shifting and altering themselves, growing new appendages while absorbing or mutating old ones. In combat they shapeshift every turn, and are actually immune to ForcedTransformation of any stripe, including Flesh-to-Stone and the like.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Einherji]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* ProudWarriorRace: Einherjar pride themselves on prowess in battle, and forever seek to prove themselves by challenging worthy foes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Valkyrie]]
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->'''Level:''' 12
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Valkyries prefer equine steeds capable of flight, such as sleipnirs, dragon horses and pegasi.
* {{Valkyries}}: Valkyries are monitors formed from the souls of valiant warriors, and resemble human, dwarven, or elven women clad in gleaming armor and riding flying steeds. They scour battlefields to look for valiant heroes about to die; when they find them, they either help them survive to fight again or claim their souls to turn into einherjar, who often form retinues that accompany valkyries around.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Watcher]]
->'''Level:''' 22
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Watchers are enigmatic and insrutible to nearly all creatures, due in large part to the mystery surrounding their home plane. Watchers lurk in worlds on the brink of destruction, preparing to watch events unfold and collect a piece to be enshrined in Jandelay.
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* PhotographicMemory: Watchers see and remember every sensation around them with perfect clarity, and their memory never fades.
* StealthyColossus: Despite their enormous size, watchers have an unnerving ability to fade into the background, causing other creatures to overlook or ignore them.
[[/folder]]

!Other Planes

[[folder:Empusa]]
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* PoisonedWeapons: A creature damaged by an empusa's lash is affected by its toxic venom.
* SnakeWhip: An empusa can manifest a whip-like weapon that appears to be a coiling serpent.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vendenopterix]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
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* GenderBender: Though they typically take female form, vendenopterixes are comfortable taking the shape of any gendered humanoid.
* KissOfDeath: A vendenopterix's kiss drains her victim's mental facilities until it acts like a buffoon or clod.
* PoisonousPerson: A vendenopterix's claws are coated with venom.
* WingedHumanoid: A vendenopterix looks like an elven woman with dragonfly wings.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zentragt]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large
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* BloodKnight: Zentragts relish opportunities to charge into battle and eagerly serve in the vanguard of Gorum's armies. They quickly grow bored if there is nothing to fight, and challenge any creature present that looks like it can handle a rough fight to maintain their high spirits.
* MetalMuncher: Zentragts can eat metal, seeing it as a form of communion with Gorum.
[[/folder]]

* ArcherArchetype: Olethroses typically wield silkbows, ranged weapons built from diaphanous strands of cloth and silk that function as magical longbows.

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->'''Level:''' 2

* {{Expy}}: They physically resemble D&D's monodrone modrons (only much smaller), and serve a similar role as the basic lawful outsider.

* DropTheHammer: A hykariut wields an intimidating hammer.

* TheSwarm: Each algea consists of a swarm of whip-poor-wills.

Immaterial proteans formed spontaneously within the depths of the Maelstrom, pelagastrs spend most of their time on the material plane, hopping from body to body to indulge in the sensations of the flesh.

* WhipItGood: Their primary weapons are the barbed chains that grow from their wrists, which they can use to trip and knock down foes.

* WhipItGood: A scrivenite wields its silken ribbon bookmarks like lashes.

* WhipItGood: An empusa can manifest a whip-like weapon that appears to be a coiling serpent.

!!Olethros
->'''Level:''' 17-25

* PersonOfMassDestruction: These unusual psycopomps are tasked with destroying ''civilizations'' that have run their course, and with spells like Earthquake, Epidemic, Incendiary Cloud and such, they are more than up to the task.

* RandomizedDamageAttack: All proteans have the ability to create warpwaves, whose random effects can never be predicted by the protean itself.

* PerpetuallyProtean: Chaos beasts have no set form except a single eye and a maw filled with teeth. Beyond that, they're constantly shifting and altering themselves, growing new appendages while absorbing or mutating old ones. In combat they shapeshift every turn, and are actually immune to BalefulPolymorph of any stripe, including Flesh-to-Stone and the like.

* MainliningTheMonster: Protean scales can used to replace any Chaotic spell during item crafting.