History Characters / StarfinderAberrations

* CloningBlues: Quantum clones are near-exact copies of living beings, usually created by accident through the misuse of quantum technology. A quantum clone initially believes that it is the original being, which occasionally results in altercations. When faced with the original, the quantum clone realises it's an unstable copy, sometimes leading to great emotional distress. Most quantum clones attempt to forge new lives far away from those who might know them.

For tropes pertaining to aberrations in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', see [[Characters/PathfinderAberrations here]].

!!CR 11
[[folder:Dormakhabu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

* BellyMouth: The dormakhabu's mouth is located in the middle of its torso.
* CombatTentacles: A dormakhabu has a long and powerful tentacle, which it uses to drag hapless creatures toward its wide mouth.
* FoodChainOfEvil: According to an unsubstantiated infosphere report, an unnamed witness claims to have escaped gray captivity with their life and memories intact when a dormakhabu entered their holding facility, attacked the gray captors and ate one of them. Due to their similarities and possible shared origins, dormakhabus are speculated to be grays' natural predators.

[[folder:Psychic Abomination]]

->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Bizarre creatures that are difficult to identify, united only by their particular abilities.

Their stats can be found in ''Attack of the Swarm!: Hive of Minds'' or online [[https://www.aonsrd.com/AlienDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Psychic%20Abomination&Family=None here]].

* AchillesHeel: Psychic abominations vulnerable to both fire and electricity.
* {{Flight}}: They have no forms of movement other than a fly speed.
* IntangibleMan: They're incorporeal, an unusual trait for non-undead creatures.
* {{Invisibility}}: Psychic abominations can cast ''invisibility'' at will.
* NonElemental: Their Concussive Blast ability deals force damage, a rarity
* TheSpook: No one knows where they come from, and many can't even agree on what they look like.
* {{Telepathy}}: They have a thought-based form of blindsight and can communicate telepathically. Offensively, they can focus this power into ''mind thrust''.
* VampiricDraining: A fairly unique version in-universe. Their Draining Touch ability siphons off the vital essence of a creature and heals them with it. The unique part of it is that it doesn't just drain life energy. Negative energy, planar power, electricity, and everything in between. If a psychic abomination can hurt them, they can feed off them, and being an undead or a construct is no protection.
* WhisperingGhosts: A constant susurrus of half-formed words and upsetting noises surrounds psychic abominations when they're invisible. Scholars have yet to pinpoint the source of these noises, but some believe they are the voices of the abomination’s previous victims.

!!CR 12
[[folder:The Seen]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* BizarreAlienBiology: The Seen's biology somehow responds to the mere presence of an observer. Researchers have to contend with the possibility that a multicellular organism could behave on a molecular level the same way that individual particles do, with the mere presence of a sensor being enough to alter the creature's fundamental properties.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Seen, known only by an enigmatic proper noun conferred on them by those familiar with them, are emblematic of mortal creatures' still-limited understanding of quantum mechanics. This frightening image has made the Seen a common feature in popular horror media and infosphere conspiracy theory forums alike.

[[folder:Umbracygot]]

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

* AcidAttack: They can spray a line of acid.
* CombatTentacles: Somalcygots have four tentacles, which do less damage than their bite but have better reach and come with the grab ability.
* SuddenNameChange: In ''Pathfinder'', these creatures are called somalcygots (after Golarion's moon Somal), a name which is not applicable anymore after Golarion vanished.

!!CR 13
[[folder:Hungerer from the Dark]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

* TheBerserker: Hungerers from the dark are intelligent but so spurred by their incessant hunger that they care little for tactics or subtlety, preferring violent ambushes that quickly overwhelm their prey.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Hungerers from the dark immediately heal themselves when consuming wounded foes' body parts.
* ToServeMan: Hungerers from the dark are driven by their insatiable appetites for humanoid flesh.

[[folder:Quantum Clone]]

->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

* CloningBlues: Quantum clones are near-exact copies of living beings, usually created by accident through the misuse of quantum technology. A quantum clone initially believes that it is the original being, which occasionally results in altercations. When faced with the original, the quantum clone realises it's an unstable copy, sometimes leading to great emotional distress. Most quantum clones attempt to forge new lives far away from those who might know them.
* PerpetuallyProtean: A quantum clone's physical body is inherently unstable. In very stressful situations, it has difficulty retaining a fixed form, often growing extra limbs, rippling skin, or warping facial features.
* PowerCopying: As a being of infinite possibilities, a quantum clone can mimic actions taken by others.

[[folder:Skathoil]]

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* EmotionEater: Skathoil feed by draining all positive thoughts from prey until only pain and sorrow remain.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A skathoil is always surrounded by an unsettling aura of fear that intensifies prey's emotional vulnerability.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Skathoil are slowed down in bright light, and take more damage from lasers and weapons with the bright special property.

* FusionDance: The protomander is a strange amalgam that merges the features of a protean, skittermander and stridermander.

* BioweaponBeast: Genereavers are synthetic monsters concocted through genetic experimentation in EJ Corp laboratories to serve unstoppable assassins.

* FoodChainOfEvil: According to an unsubstantiated infosphere report, an unnamed witness claims to have escaped gray captive with their life and memories intact when a dormakhabu entered their holding facility, attacked the gray captors and ate one of them. Due to their similarities and possible shared origins, dormakhabus are speculated to be grays' natural predators.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Their plan was to become gods, but for unknown reasons they stopped at their current stage in the process.

!!CR 6
[[folder:Carrion Wheel]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (carrion wheel), 14 (ichor wheel)
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* AcidAttack: Toxic enzymes on the carrion wheel's tentacles cause foes' skin to erupt in painful rashes and excruciating, acid-filled boils.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Ichor wheels seem to enjoy collecting souvenirs (sometimes valuable treasures, but more often leftover bones and viscera) that they adhere to their bodies.
* CombatTentacles: Carrion wheels capture prey with their four tentacles.

[[folder:Orocoran]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orocoran.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Resembling a cross between humanoid and insect, orocorans are a sentient species originating from Aucturn.

* BizarreAlienSexes: Orocorans lack gender and mating involves both orocorans piercing the other's body with their proboscis to impregnate them.
* FantasticDrug: The ichor they feed on is a hallucinogenic, making them almost perpetually high.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: They believe that their consumption of Aucturn's ichors connect them to the gestating consciousness of the living planet, a belief that's not entirely unfounded.
* PrimalStance: They can stand upright, but they spend most of their time crawling on all fours.
* SlaveRace: They normally spend most of their time in a drugged stupor, and as a result are often conquered and made into laborers or shock troops by the various factions warring on Aucturn.
* SuperSpit: They can projectile vomit at foes, made more dangerous by the fact that they feed on the ichors of their living planet.
* {{Truesight}}: They can see invisible creatures and objects.
* VampireBitesSuck: They're not vampires, but their proboscises can drain foes of their blood as easily as they can breach the living soil of Aucturn.

[[folder:Quyu]]

->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Medium

* GlamourFailure: Quyus always try to mimic the most precious façades possible from the perspective of their victims, regardless of whether such a creature suits the local ecology. Fortunately for quyus, few potential victims pause to consider whether this adorable animal is in any way adapted to its environment.
* KillerRabbit: Quyus can compress their bodies into smaller forms, adopting traits such as fur and large ears to mimic what they've identified as commonly cute in other creatures. Once a quyu has lured its prey close and lulled it into a false sense of security with its pitiful visage, it reveals its true nature.

!!CR 7
[[folder:Skreesire]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skreesire_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Solitary predators with formidable mental powers.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: They view any intrusion from a sentient creature as a threat.
* ChameleonCamouflage: By staying still for just a round they gain a significant Stealth bonus, as their mottled hide blends in well with the rocky terrain of their preferred habitat.
* CombatTentacles: Skreesires use their tentacles to grab prey.
* MindRape: Skreesires can use their infamous mental abilities to twist intruders' minds and cause those creatures to flee.
* NoBiologicalSex: Skreesires are hermaphroditic and can self-fertilize. Typically they only do so after eating particularly well, using harvested genetic material to mitigate the effects of inbreeding.
* WingsDoNothing: Skreesires retain the wings from youth, even after they have lost their functionality.

!!CR 8
[[folder:Dreamer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

A variant species of barathu created when barathus explorers visited Liavara. Their abilityto adapt dwindled and their midns decayed even as their psychic powers grew. Now the dreamers are nearly feral, silent save for their crooning songs, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings, and yet commanding unparalleled powers of divination.

* TurnsRed: When a 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. Shortly after such an outburst, the Dreamer slips back into its dreamlike trance as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

[[folder:Midships Mimic]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* ObjectShifting: A midships mimic can assume the general shape of a mechanism or part of an internal system of a starship, seamlessly integrating itself, replacing vital components and feeding off the ship's power.

[[folder:Pyric Harbinger]]

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

Though called spawn of the Eshtayiv, pyric harbingers are the constituents of this entity rather than its offspring. These rare creatures travel through space to find dark places to illuminate and beings to slay, creating terror and pyric undead.

* PlayingWithFire: A pyric harbinger looks like an orb of fire, and burns enemies with pyric fire.

[[folder:Skrell]]

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

* CombatTentacles: A skrell can attack with several tentacles hanging below its torso. An additional tentacle with a powerful barbed tip functions as both a defensive mechanism and a stabilising tail during flight.
* StupidityInducingAttack: When wrapping a tentacle around a foe's head, a skrell can assault the target's mind to dampen its intelligence.

[[folder:Twinsoul]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Strange creatures with two bodies, one in the Material Plane and one in the Ethereal.

* TrulySingleParent: When a twinsoul discovers a rift between the Material Plane and Ethereal Plane, it mates with itself and creates a single spawn.

!!CR 9
[[folder:Veshred]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* BigEater: Veshreds are perpetually ravenous, driven by an urge to consume vast quantities of flesh, and they will eat until they become so bloated they can barely move.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: A veshred's mouth is lined with rows of serrated teeth that cause terrible wounds.

[[folder:Yithian]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_yithian_7.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9 (normal), 13 (elder)

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

In eons past, yithians inhabited a dying world. They used a desperate gambit to escape their planet’s doom: casting their minds through time and space. These errant souls came to rest in the bodies they possess today.

* DePower: During the Gap, yithians lost their ability to travel through time. Currently, they can only swap minds across short distances, not across time.

[[folder:Zernivian]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Tiny

* AcidAttack: A zernivian can hurl a blob of acidic spittle.
* FusionDance: Sometimes, a zernivian becomes trapped inside a host, causing the physiologies of both to merge and mutate.
* ManOfKryptonite: Zernivians have the uncanny ability to sniff out dycepskians occupying even the most unlikely of host bodies. Dycepskians do whatever they can to terminate zernivians on sight. Many unscrupulous merchants claim to sell pets possessed by zernivians, in order to capitalise on the fear of dycepskian infiltration, though in reality most such pets are nothing more than normal animals sold for an inflated price, and their vendors might very well be dycepskians, since zernivians tend to jump from host to host.
* PoisonousPerson: The zernivian's tongue and acidic spittle can deliver a natural herbicide.
* PuppeteerParasite: A zernivian can insert itself into the body of an adjacent unconscious or helpless animal, and gains full control of the host's actions until it leaves the host's body.

!!CR 10
[[folder:Ashypsozoan]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
->'''Role:''' Expert

Massive siphonophores with bioelectric powers from Ashyphso.

* BlobMonster: They have both the compression and amorphous abilities, a combo typically reserved for oozes.
* CombatTentacles: They rely on lashes of their tentacles to kill prey at close range.
* HarmlessFreezing: For the past 500 years, they've been frozen in the atmospheric glaciers of their homeworld. Come the present, they're thawing out with no ill effects. Their immunity to cold damage might have something to do with that.
* HealingFactor: Electricity heals them rather than harming them.
* KillItWithFire: They have a vulnerability to fire, making it the most effective way to kill them.
* ShockAndAwe: They rely on their bioelectric powers for nearly all aspects of their functionality, from hunting prey to flight to digesting their meals.
* TheWormThatWalks: Like real siphonophores, they're symbiotic colonies formed from many smaller tiny, specialized organisms.

[[folder:Genereaver]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10

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

* BioweaponBeast: Genereavers are synthetic monsters concocted through genetic experimentation in EJ Corp laboratories to serve unstoppable assassins.
* HealThyself: A genereaver can concentrate to heal itself every minute.

!!CR 11
[[folder:Dormakhabu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Medium

* BellyMouth: The dormakhabu's mouth is located in the middle of its torso.
* CombatTentacles: A dormakhabu has a long and powerful tentacle, which it uses to drag hapless creatures toward its wide mouth.
* FoodChainOfEvil: According to an unsubstantiated infosphere report, an unnamed witness claims to have escaped gray captive with their life and memories intact when a dormakhabu entered their holding facility, attacked the gray captors and ate one of them. Due to their similarities and possible shared origins, dormakhabus are speculated to be grays' natural predators.

[[folder:Psychic Abomination]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Bizarre creatures that are difficult to identify, united only by their particular abilities.

Their stats can be found in ''Attack of the Swarm!: Hive of Minds'' or online [[https://www.aonsrd.com/AlienDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Psychic%20Abomination&Family=None here]].

* AchillesHeel: Psychic abominations vulnerable to both fire and electricity.
* {{Flight}}: They have no forms of movement other than a fly speed.
* IntangibleMan: They're incorporeal, an unusual trait for non-undead creatures.
* {{Invisibility}}: Psychic abominations can cast ''invisibility'' at will.
* NonElemental: Their Concussive Blast ability deals force damage, a rarity
* TheSpook: No one knows where they come from, and many can't even agree on what they look like.
* {{Telepathy}}: They have a thought-based form of blindsight and can communicate telepathically. Offensively, they can focus this power into ''mind thrust''.
* VampiricDraining: A fairly unique version in-universe. Their Draining Touch ability siphons off the vital essence of a creature and heals them with it. The unique part of it is that it doesn't just drain life energy. Negative energy, planar power, electricity, and everything in between. If a psychic abomination can hurt them, they can feed off them, and being an undead or a construct is no protection.
* WhisperingGhosts: A constant susurrus of half-formed words and upsetting noises surrounds psychic abominations when they're invisible. Scholars have yet to pinpoint the source of these noises, but some believe they are the voices of the abomination’s previous victims.

!!CR 12
[[folder:The Seen]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

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

* BizarreAlienBiology: The Seen's biology somehow responds to the mere presence of an observer. Researchers have to contend with the possibility that a multicellular organism could behave on a molecular level the same way that individual particles do, with the mere presence of a sensor being enough to alter the creature's fundamental properties.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Seen, known only by an enigmatic proper noun conferred on them by those familiar with them, are emblematic of mortal creatures' still-limited understanding of quantum mechanics. This frightening image has made the Seen a common feature in popular horror media and infosphere conspiracy theory forums alike.

[[folder:Umbracygot]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

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

* AcidAttack: They can spray a line of acid.
* CombatTentacles: Somalcygots have four tentacles, which do less damage than their bite but have better reach and come with the grab ability.
* SuddenNameChange: In ''Pathfinder'', these creatures are called somalcygots (after Golarion's moon Somal), a name which is not applicable anymore after Golarion vanished.

!!CR 13
[[folder:Hungerer from the Dark]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
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* TheBerserker: Hungerers from the dark are intelligent but so spurred by their incessant hunger that they care little for tactics or subtlety, preferring violent ambushes that quickly overwhelm their prey.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Quantum Clone]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* CloningBlues: Quantum clones are near-exact copies of living beings, usually created by accident through the misuse of quantum technology. A quantum clone initially believes that it is the original being, which occasionally results in altercations. When faced with the original, the quantum clone realises it's an unstable copy, sometimes leading to great emotional distress. Most quantum clones attempt to forge new lives far away from those who might know them.
* PerpetuallyProtean: A quantum clone's physical body is inherently unstable. In very stressful situations, it has difficulty retaining a fixed form, often growing extra limbs, rippling skin, or warping facial features.
* PowerCopying: As a being of infinite possibilities, a quantum clone can mimic actions taken by others.

!!CR 14
[[folder:Warpstitcher]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* ClockRoaches: Warpstitchers believe that reckless use of magic or technology creates dimensional echoes that damage alternate realities. Their most common prey is witchwarpers, whose magic frequently violates warpstitcher taboos. Other potential prey include those who wield supernatural power, especially solarians and those who engineer space-bending technologies. Warpstitchers also despise Drift engines, accusing them of inflicting terrible wounds on extraplanar ecosystems.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Those few who've survived being sewn to a warpstitcher claim the stitches pulse with energy that trigger disturbing visions, such as their own deaths in alternate realities. For most, the revelations prove so painful or incomprehensible that their minds suffer irreparable damage.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Warpstitchers pin down their victim, skewer its flesh, and use shimmering thread to sew the hapless creature into their bodies.
* ToServeMan: A warpstitcher preys upon sapient creatures who wield powerful magic or technology recklessly. No one knows for certain if a warpstitcher feeds off its victims' flesh, thoughts, energy from other timelines, or something else entirely.

!!CR 15
[[folder:Bryrvath]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Monsters to whom light is a plaything, warping it into impossible spectrums or consuming it altogether, leaving them cloaked in infinitely deep shadows.

* TheFaceless: Their heads are always cloaked in impossibly deep darkness.
* FictionalColor: It creates colors of impossible hues and shades by second nature, shaking the sanity of anyone who sees them.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Control over light is usually a good thing, but bryrvaths take it to nightmarish places.
* HumanoidAbomination: They have a vaguely humanoid shape, but clearly are nothing of the sort.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: They create mind-shredding bursts of color and patches of infinite darkness, both feats that bend the laws of physics even in a setting that already has several distinct varieties of magic.

[[folder:Ursolha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* BlackSpeech: Some xenolinguists who have spent extended periods studying the Ursolhan language have reported terrible nightmares and waking visions.
* ExtraEyes: Each of the four sides of an ursolha have a vertical row of three glowing, circular eyes.
* EyeBeams: An ursolha can fire a beam of electricity from its eyes.
* RockMonster: Despite resembling construct-like floating obelisks, ursolhas are living creatures.

!!CR 17
[[folder:Hallajin]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 17
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large
Energy beings from Hallas, the moon of Liavara, that are believed to be the result of a species that sought godhood yet stopped just short of such a goal.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Their plan was to become gods, but for unknown reasons they stopped at their current stage in the process.
* EnergyBeings: What they are now.
* IntangibleMan: They can pass through solid objects, though not anything with a strong electrical charge.

!Starship-Sized
[[folder:Besmaran Whelp]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_besmaran_whelp.jpg]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 1-3
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* AbstractEater: Besmaran whelps feed on energy, their favourite meal being the power cores of starships.
* {{Cyborg}}: Some Besmaran whelps are equipped with advanced computers and sensors.
* SpaceWhale: Closer to a space shark.
* TailSlap: A Besmaran whelp can whip its narrow tail at a ship.

[[folder:Novaspawn]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 8

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

* DeflectorShields: A novaspawn can generate its own protective shields using its aberrant biology.
* GentleGiant: Novaspawn are usually peaceful unless provoked.
* HostileTerraforming: In rare occasions, an ill or evil-influenced novaspawn undergoes the process of parturition dangerously close to an inhabited planet or space station, in the process destroying them or making them uninhabitable and irrevocably altering the climate of others nearby.
* TimeAbyss: A baby novaspawn is still older than some civilisations.

[[folder:Zoaphorix]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 10
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

* CombatTentacles: A zoaphorix attacks starships with its tentacles to wear away at the vessel's hull with its symbiotic microbes.
* TheSymbiote: A zoaphorix carries myriad bizarre bacteria within its microbiome. These bacteria don't harm the zoaphorix but can quickly eat through starships.

* FusionDance: Clusters of three to six elderly sapient purples orbs sometimes bond themselves to each other for the remainder of their existence, forming a single life-form called a luminant with vastly heightened capabilities.

[[folder:Twinsoul]]

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

Strange creatures with two bodies, one in the Material Plane and one in the Ethereal.

* TrulySingleParent: When a twinsoul discovers a rift between the Material Plane and Ethereal Plane, it mates with itself and creates a single spawn.

!!CR 9
[[folder:Veshred]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9

->'''Size:''' Medium

* BigEater: Veshreds are perpetually ravenous, driven by an urge to consume vast quantities of flesh, and they will eat until they become so bloated they can barely move.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: A veshred's mouth is lined with rows of serrated teeth that cause terrible wounds.

!Player-Level Threats

[[folder:Scouring Swarm]]

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Fine

* AcidAttack: A scouring swarm can spray an acid that harms only organic material.

!!CR 3
[[folder:Feathered Stalker]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Large

Black-and-white crinoids composed of little more than long feather appendages. Their stats can be found in ''The Commencement''.

* AdaptiveAbility: It has two, Adapted Defense and Adapted Offense. The former gives it resistance 2 against fire, cold, sonic, or electricity, while the latter gives it extra reach, an extra feather attack every round, feathers that apply the sickened condition, or the ability to cast reflective armor.
* FeatherFlechettes: According to the name of its ability, feather ''harpoons''.
* WallCrawl: They have a climb speed equal to their normal speed.

[[folder:Troll Polyp]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

* HelpingHands: Troll polyps are the result of gray experiments intended to create trolls whose severed limbs would also grow into new trolls, but these limbs only became ooze-like troll polyps that can operate independently of the troll.
* HungryMenace: Troll polyps are hungry and aggressive, with little motivation beyond the desires to kill, eat and assimilate organic matter.

[[folder:Sky Fisher]]

Large aerial predators from Castrovel.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Some sky fishers will telepathically transmit their desire to flee if badly injured in the hopes that their foes will let them go.
* AlienBlood: A sky fisher's blood contains hemocyanin, which gives it a blue colour.
* AllWebbedUp: Sky fishers are notorious for casting sticky, anesthetising filaments with which they reel in their quarry.
* InvisibilityWithDrawbacks: A sky fisher can deoxygenate its blood to turn itself colourless, making it sluggish but mostly translucent as it watches for prey.
* ItCanThink: Smart enough to learn language, as well as figure out they can round their bodies to better capture sound from below.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Once it has struck its prey with its filament, a sky fisher can then proceed to reel it in as long as it isn't too big.

!!CR 6
[[folder:Carrion Wheel]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (carrion wheel), 14 (ichor wheel)

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

* AcidAttack: Toxic enzymes on the carrion wheel's tentacles cause foes' skin to erupt in painful rashes and excruciating, acid-filled boils.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Ichor wheels seem to enjoy collecting souvenirs (sometimes valuable treasures, but more often leftover bones and viscera) that they adhere to their bodies.
* CombatTentacles: Carrion wheels capture prey with their four tentacles.

[[folder:Orocoran]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orocoran.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Resembling a cross between humanoid and insect, orocorans are a sentient species originating from Aucturn.

* BizarreAlienSexes: Orocorans lack gender and mating involves both orocorans piercing the other's body with their proboscis to impregnate them.
* FantasticDrug: The ichor they feed on is a hallucinogenic, making them almost perpetually high.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: They believe that their consumption of Aucturn's ichors connect them to the gestating consciousness of the living planet, a belief that's not entirely unfounded.
* PrimalStance: They can stand upright, but they spend most of their time crawling on all fours.
* SlaveRace: They normally spend most of their time in a drugged stupor, and as a result are often conquered and made into laborers or shock troops by the various factions warring on Aucturn.
* SuperSpit: They can projectile vomit at foes, made more dangerous by the fact that they feed on the ichors of their living planet.
* {{Truesight}}: They can see invisible creatures and objects.
* VampireBitesSuck: They're not vampires, but their proboscises can drain foes of their blood as easily as they can breach the living soil of Aucturn.

[[folder:Quyu]]

->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* GlamourFailure: Quyus always try to mimic the most precious façades possible from the perspective of their victims, regardless of whether such a creature suits the local ecology. Fortunately for quyus, few potential victims pause to consider whether this adorable animal is in any way adapted to its environment.
* KillerRabbit: Quyus can compress their bodies into smaller forms, adopting traits such as fur and large ears to mimic what they've identified as commonly cute in other creatures. Once a quyu has lured its prey close and lulled it into a false sense of security with its pitiful visage, it reveals its true nature.

!!CR 7
[[folder:Skreesire]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skreesire_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7

->'''Size:''' Large

Solitary predators with formidable mental powers.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: They view any intrusion from a sentient creature as a threat.
* ChameleonCamouflage: By staying still for just a round they gain a significant Stealth bonus, as their mottled hide blends in well with the rocky terrain of their preferred habitat.
* CombatTentacles: Skreesires use their tentacles to grab prey.
* MindRape: Skreesires can use their infamous mental abilities to twist intruders' minds and cause those creatures to flee.
* NoBiologicalSex: Skreesires are hermaphroditic and can self-fertilize. Typically they only do so after eating particularly well, using harvested genetic material to mitigate the effects of inbreeding.
* WingsDoNothing: Skreesires retain the wings from youth, even after they have lost their functionality.

!!CR 8
[[folder:Dreamer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

A variant species of barathu created when barathus explorers visited Liavara. Their abilityto adapt dwindled and their midns decayed even as their psychic powers grew. Now the dreamers are nearly feral, silent save for their crooning songs, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings, and yet commanding unparalleled powers of divination.

* TurnsRed: When a 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. Shortly after such an outburst, the Dreamer slips back into its dreamlike trance as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

[[folder:Midships Mimic]]

->'''Role:''' Combatant

* ObjectShifting: A midships mimic can assume the general shape of a mechanism or part of an internal system of a starship, seamlessly integrating itself, replacing vital components and feeding off the ship's power.

[[folder:Pyric Harbinger]]

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

Though called spawn of the Eshtayiv, pyric harbingers are the constituents of this entity rather than its offspring. These rare creatures travel through space to find dark places to illuminate and beings to slay, creating terror and pyric undead.

* PlayingWithFire: A pyric harbinger looks like an orb of fire, and burns enemies with pyric fire.

[[folder:Twinsoul]]

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

Strange creatures with two bodies, one in the Material Plane and one in the Ethereal.

* TrulySingleParent: When a twinsoul discovers a rift between the Material Plane and Ethereal Plane, it mates with itself and creates a single spawn.

!!CR 9
[[folder:Veshred]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9

->'''Size:''' Medium

* BigEater: Veshreds are perpetually ravenous, driven by an urge to consume vast quantities of flesh, and they will eat until they become so bloated they can barely move.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: A veshred's mouth is lined with rows of serrated teeth that cause terrible wounds.

!Starship-Level Threats

[[folder:Huskborn]]
!!Larva
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Larval huskborn, which appear as pale worms covered in spines.

!!Drone
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Medium

Adult huskborn, resembling a cross between a crocodile and a mantis.

!!Mother
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Role:''' Combatant

[[/folder]]

!!Templates
[[folder:Rebuilt]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3+
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

Victims of catastrophic failures on the part of medical technology. Their genetic code is irreparably damaged and their bodies reshaped into something barely resembling their original form.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Much of a rebuilt's biology doesn't function as it did for its previous form. Eyeballs might serve as pulmonary organs, while it sees out of its toenails.
* BodyHorror: Rebuilt creatures have limbs that jut in odd directions, and their flesh can be turned inside out, exposing misshapen organs to the air. A constant is that they're so broken they gain the amorphous quality, indicating that either they no longer have a skeleton or it's so misshapen that it's not an obstacle to squeezing through small spaces. Their limbs are also too mangled to wield items or operate devices.
* DisabilityImmunity: Pain effects don't really take hold on rebuilt like they should, but only because they're already in so much agony even magically inflicted torment pales in comparison.
* MadeOfIron: Unfortunately for them their bodies are fairly durable, granting them decent damage resistance.
* MercyKill: Horrified hospital personnel usually euthanize rebuilts as soon as they arise.
* TheSpeechless: Because of its perpetual agony and the rearrangement of its physiology, a rebuilt can speak only in tortured moans and screams.
* WasOnceAMan: Rebuilt are created when a technological medical procedure goes horribly awry, irreparably fracturing the patient's genetic code and reshaping its body into something that barely resembles its previous form. A rebuilt has no capacity for higher reasoning.

!!CR <1
[[folder:Symbiend]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/3
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Diminutive

* TheBerserker: A Damoritosh's arm symbiend provides a constant trickle of adrenaline, creating vicious, fearless soldiers.
* PowerAtAPrice: All symbiends grant both benefits and drawbacks to their hosts.
* PowerDegeneration: A paragon symbiont will boost the host's intelligence and take its toll on the body.
* TheSymbiote: Symbiends can bond to and enhance nearly every other creature.
[[/folder]]

!!CR 1
[[folder:Akata]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akata_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Predators from the Diaspora that have adapted to survive in the airless void of space.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Akatas have the breathless quality, likely tied to their nature as aberrations.
* HandicappedBadass: All akatas are deaf, as the sense was unneeded in their airless home environment, but no less dangerous for it.
* NoSell: Immune to poison, cold, disease, starvation, and any effects that require the target to hear or inhale them.
* SpawnBroodling: Akatas reproduce by implanting their parasitoid larvae in humanoid creatures, eventually transforming them into void zombies, mindless hosts for the larvae until they grow up.
* WeaksauceWeakness: They take significant damage from salt water, particularly if immersed in it.

!!CR 2
[[folder:Scouring Swarm]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Fine

* AcidAttack: A scouring swarm can spray an acid that harms only organic material.

!!CR 3
[[folder:Feathered Stalker]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

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

Black-and-white crinoids composed of little more than long feather appendages. Their stats can be found in ''The Commencement''.

* AdaptiveAbility: It has two, Adapted Defense and Adapted Offense. The former gives it resistance 2 against fire, cold, sonic, or electricity, while the latter gives it extra reach, an extra feather attack every round, feathers that apply the sickened condition, or the ability to cast reflective armor.
* FeatherFlechettes: According to the name of its ability, feather ''harpoons''.
* WallCrawl: They have a climb speed equal to their normal speed.

[[folder:Skreeling]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_skreeling.PNG]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

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

The immature offspring of skreesires.

* CainAndAbel: Once a skreeling host grows old enough, siblings often turn on each other until the host eventually disperses and the skreelings search for new lairs.
* ExtremeOmnivore: They can eat ash, metal shavings, and wood if food is scarce.
* MasterOfNone: "Skreemules," skreelings grown too large to fly but without a skreesire's psychic powers to make up for it.
* SiblingTeam: Skreelings are born and grow to adulthood in small packs, and they are more comfortable fighting alongside their siblings.

[[folder:Troll Polyp]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

* HelpingHands: Troll polyps are the result of gray experiments intended to create trolls whose severed limbs would also grow into new trolls, but these limbs only became ooze-like troll polyps that can operate independently of the troll.
* HungryMenace: Troll polyps are hungry and aggressive, with little motivation beyond the desires to kill, eat and assimilate organic matter.

!!CR 4
[[folder:Cargo Creep]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Medium

* ChameleonCamouflage: The unusual cells in its skin allow a cargo creep to mimic any sort of material almost down to its molecular structure, and hide almost anywhere.

[[folder:Gray Bounder]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4

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

* SupernaturalFearInducer: An aggressive gray bounder infects its prey with psychic fear.

[[folder:Paralith]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_paralith.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Sentient but non-civilized creatures that prefer jungled areas.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted, they speak only their own language and linguists remain baffled by it.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Paralith's reproduce through asexual budding, with the growth of the infant paraliths to adulthood only taking a few days.
* BizarreAlienSenses: They sense electromagnetic broadcasts but are otherwise blind.
* RiddleForTheAges: When people manage to communicate with paraliths through magical means, they constantly punctuate their speech with random strings of numbers for reasons not even they know.

[[folder:Sapient Purple Orb]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (individual), 11 (luminant)
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood
->'''Size:''' Small (individual), Large (luminant)

* FusionDance: Clusters of three to six elderly sapient purples orbs sometimes bond themselves to each other for the remainder of their existence, forming a single life-form called a luminant with vastly heightened capabilities.

[[folder:Wetzelt]]

->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

* RunningOnAllFours: Wetzelts have four appendages like humanoids do, but they crawl on all fours.
* WalkingTechbane: A wetzelt generates an electromagnetic field that disrupts technological devices and constructs, and interferes with electronic signals.
* WasOnceAMan: Each wetzelt was once a reptoid, before being subjected to extensive biological manipulation.

!!CR 5
[[folder:Sky Fisher]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5

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

Large aerial predators from Castrovel.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Some sky fishers will telepathically transmit their desire to flee if badly injured in the hopes that their foes will let them go.
* AlienBlood: A sky fisher's blood contains hemocyanin, which gives it a blue colour.
* AllWebbedUp: Sky fishers are notorious for casting sticky, anesthetising filaments with which they reel in their quarry.
* InvisibilityWithDrawbacks: A sky fisher can deoxygenate its blood to turn itself colourless, making it sluggish but mostly translucent as it watches for prey.
* ItCanThink: Smart enough to learn language, as well as figure out they can round their bodies to better capture sound from below.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Once it has struck its prey with its filament, a sky fisher can then proceed to reel it in as long as it isn't too big.

!!CR 6
[[folder:Carrion Wheel]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (carrion wheel), 14 (ichor wheel)

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* AcidAttack: Toxic enzymes on the carrion wheel's tentacles cause foes' skin to erupt in painful rashes and excruciating, acid-filled boils.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Ichor wheels seem to enjoy collecting souvenirs (sometimes valuable treasures, but more often leftover bones and viscera) that they adhere to their bodies.
* CombatTentacles: Carrion wheels capture prey with their four tentacles.

[[folder:Orocoran]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orocoran.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

Resembling a cross between humanoid and insect, orocorans are a sentient species originating from Aucturn.

* BizarreAlienSexes: Orocorans lack gender and mating involves both orocorans piercing the other's body with their proboscis to impregnate them.
* FantasticDrug: The ichor they feed on is a hallucinogenic, making them almost perpetually high.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: They believe that their consumption of Aucturn's ichors connect them to the gestating consciousness of the living planet, a belief that's not entirely unfounded.
* PrimalStance: They can stand upright, but they spend most of their time crawling on all fours.
* SlaveRace: They normally spend most of their time in a drugged stupor, and as a result are often conquered and made into laborers or shock troops by the various factions warring on Aucturn.
* SuperSpit: They can projectile vomit at foes, made more dangerous by the fact that they feed on the ichors of their living planet.
* {{Truesight}}: They can see invisible creatures and objects.
* VampireBitesSuck: They're not vampires, but their proboscises can drain foes of their blood as easily as they can breach the living soil of Aucturn.

[[folder:Quyu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* GlamourFailure: Quyus always try to mimic the most precious façades possible from the perspective of their victims, regardless of whether such a creature suits the local ecology. Fortunately for quyus, few potential victims pause to consider whether this adorable animal is in any way adapted to its environment.
* KillerRabbit: Quyus can compress their bodies into smaller forms, adopting traits such as fur and large ears to mimic what they've identified as commonly cute in other creatures. Once a quyu has lured its prey close and lulled it into a false sense of security with its pitiful visage, it reveals its true nature.

!!CR 7
[[folder:Skreesire]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skreesire_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Large

Solitary predators with formidable mental powers.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: They view any intrusion from a sentient creature as a threat.
* ChameleonCamouflage: By staying still for just a round they gain a significant Stealth bonus, as their mottled hide blends in well with the rocky terrain of their preferred habitat.
* CombatTentacles: Skreesires use their tentacles to grab prey.
* MindRape: Skreesires can use their infamous mental abilities to twist intruders' minds and cause those creatures to flee.
* NoBiologicalSex: Skreesires are hermaphroditic and can self-fertilize. Typically they only do so after eating particularly well, using harvested genetic material to mitigate the effects of inbreeding.
* WingsDoNothing: Skreesires retain the wings from youth, even after they have lost their functionality.

!!CR 8
[[folder:Dreamer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

A variant species of barathu created when barathus explorers visited Liavara. Their abilityto adapt dwindled and their midns decayed even as their psychic powers grew. Now the dreamers are nearly feral, silent save for their crooning songs, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings, and yet commanding unparalleled powers of divination.
----
* TurnsRed: When a 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. Shortly after such an outburst, the Dreamer slips back into its dreamlike trance as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Midships Mimic]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8

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

* ObjectShifting: A midships mimic can assume the general shape of a mechanism or part of an internal system of a starship, seamlessly integrating itself, replacing vital components and feeding off the ship's power.

[[folder:Pyric Harbinger]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Though called spawn of the Eshtayiv, pyric harbingers are the constituents of this entity rather than its offspring. These rare creatures travel through space to find dark places to illuminate and beings to slay, creating terror and pyric undead.

* PlayingWithFire: A pyric harbinger looks like an orb of fire, and burns enemies with pyric fire.

[[folder:Twinsoul]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Strange creatures with two bodies, one in the Material Plane and one in the Ethereal.

* TrulySingleParent: When a twinsoul discovers a rift between the Material Plane and Ethereal Plane, it mates with itself and creates a single spawn.

!!CR 9
[[folder:Veshred]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Medium

* BigEater: Veshreds are perpetually ravenous, driven by an urge to consume vast quantities of flesh, and they will eat until they become so bloated they can barely move.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: A veshred's mouth is lined with rows of serrated teeth that cause terrible wounds.

[[folder:Yithian]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_yithian_7.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9 (normal), 13 (elder)
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

In eons past, yithians inhabited a dying world. They used a desperate gambit to escape their planet’s doom: casting their minds through time and space. These errant souls came to rest in the bodies they possess today.

* DePower: During the Gap, yithians lost their ability to travel through time. Currently, they can only swap minds across short distances, not across time.

[[folder:Zernivian]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9

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

* AcidAttack: A zernivian can hurl a blob of acidic spittle.
* FusionDance: Sometimes, a zernivian becomes trapped inside a host, causing the physiologies of both to merge and mutate.
* ManOfKryptonite: Zernivians have the uncanny ability to sniff out dycepskians occupying even the most unlikely of host bodies. Dycepskians do whatever they can to terminate zernivians on sight. Many unscrupulous merchants claim to sell pets possessed by zernivians, in order to capitalise on the fear of dycepskian infiltration, though in reality most such pets are nothing more than normal animals sold for an inflated price, and their vendors might very well be dycepskians, since zernivians tend to jump from host to host.
* PoisonousPerson: The zernivian's tongue and acidic spittle can deliver a natural herbicide.
* PuppeteerParasite: A zernivian can insert itself into the body of an adjacent unconscious or helpless animal, and gains full control of the host's actions until it leaves the host's body.

!!CR 10
[[folder:Ashypsozoan]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Medium

Massive siphonophores with bioelectric powers from Ashyphso.

* BlobMonster: They have both the compression and amorphous abilities, a combo typically reserved for oozes.
* CombatTentacles: They rely on lashes of their tentacles to kill prey at close range.
* HarmlessFreezing: For the past 500 years, they've been frozen in the atmospheric glaciers of their homeworld. Come the present, they're thawing out with no ill effects. Their immunity to cold damage might have something to do with that.
* HealingFactor: Electricity heals them rather than harming them.
* KillItWithFire: They have a vulnerability to fire, making it the most effective way to kill them.
* ShockAndAwe: They rely on their bioelectric powers for nearly all aspects of their functionality, from hunting prey to flight to digesting their meals.
* TheWormThatWalks: Like real siphonophores, they're symbiotic colonies formed from many smaller tiny, specialized organisms.

[[folder:Genereaver]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Small

* BioweaponBeast: Genereavers are synthetic monsters concocted through genetic experimentation in EJ Corp laboratories to serve unstoppable assassins.
* HealThyself: A genereaver can concentrate to heal itself every minute.

!!CR 11
[[folder:Dormakhabu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

* BellyMouth: The dormakhabu's mouth is located in the middle of its torso.
* CombatTentacles: A dormakhabu has a long and powerful tentacle, which it uses to drag hapless creatures toward its wide mouth.
* FoodChainOfEvil: According to an unsubstantiated infosphere report, an unnamed witness claims to have escaped gray captive with their life and memories intact when a dormakhabu entered their holding facility, attacked the gray captors and ate one of them. Due to their similarities and possible shared origins, dormakhabus are speculated to be grays' natural predators.

[[folder:Psychic Abomination]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11

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

Bizarre creatures that are difficult to identify, united only by their particular abilities.

Their stats can be found in ''Attack of the Swarm!: Hive of Minds'' or online [[https://www.aonsrd.com/AlienDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Psychic%20Abomination&Family=None here]].

* AchillesHeel: Psychic abominations vulnerable to both fire and electricity.
* {{Flight}}: They have no forms of movement other than a fly speed.
* IntangibleMan: They're incorporeal, an unusual trait for non-undead creatures.
* {{Invisibility}}: Psychic abominations can cast ''invisibility'' at will.
* NonElemental: Their Concussive Blast ability deals force damage, a rarity
* TheSpook: No one knows where they come from, and many can't even agree on what they look like.
* {{Telepathy}}: They have a thought-based form of blindsight and can communicate telepathically. Offensively, they can focus this power into ''mind thrust''.
* VampiricDraining: A fairly unique version in-universe. Their Draining Touch ability siphons off the vital essence of a creature and heals them with it. The unique part of it is that it doesn't just drain life energy. Negative energy, planar power, electricity, and everything in between. If a psychic abomination can hurt them, they can feed off them, and being an undead or a construct is no protection.
* WhisperingGhosts: A constant susurrus of half-formed words and upsetting noises surrounds psychic abominations when they're invisible. Scholars have yet to pinpoint the source of these noises, but some believe they are the voices of the abomination’s previous victims.

!!CR 12
[[folder:Haeshi-shaa]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_haeshi_shaa.PNG]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Haeshi]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12 (haeshi), 16 (shaa)
->'''Role:''' Combatant (haeshi), Spellcaster (shaa)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (haeshi), NeutralEvil (shaa)
->'''Size:''' Large

Serving as part of the priestly caste for the Dominion of the Black, haeshi-shaas are longlived creatures that shift between a liquid and a gaseous form many times over their long lives. Their liquid form, is referred to as a haeshi, while their vaporous form is known as a shaa.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Seen]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* BizarreAlienBiology: The Seen's biology somehow responds to the mere presence of an observer. Researchers have to contend with the possibility that a multicellular organism could behave on a molecular level the same way that individual particles do, with the mere presence of a sensor being enough to alter the creature's fundamental properties.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Seen, known only by an enigmatic proper noun conferred on them by those familiar with them, are emblematic of mortal creatures' still-limited understanding of quantum mechanics. This frightening image has made the Seen a common feature in popular horror media and infosphere conspiracy theory forums alike.

[[folder:Umbracygot]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* AcidAttack: They can spray a line of acid.
* CombatTentacles: Somalcygots have four tentacles, which do less damage than their bite but have better reach and come with the grab ability.
* SuddenNameChange: In ''Pathfinder'', these creatures are called somalcygots (after Golarion's moon Somal), a name which is not applicable anymore after Golarion vanished.

!!CR 13
[[folder:Hungerer from the Dark]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* TheBerserker: Hungerers from the dark are intelligent but so spurred by their incessant hunger that they care little for tactics or subtlety, preferring violent ambushes that quickly overwhelm their prey.

[[folder:Quantum Clone]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* CloningBlues: Quantum clones are near-exact copies of living beings, usually created by accident through the misuse of quantum technology. A quantum clone initially believes that it is the original being, which occasionally results in altercations. When faced with the original, the quantum clone realises it's an unstable copy, sometimes leading to great emotional distress. Most quantum clones attempt to forge new lives far away from those who might know them.
* PerpetuallyProtean: A quantum clone's physical body is inherently unstable. In very stressful situations, it has difficulty retaining a fixed form, often growing extra limbs, rippling skin, or warping facial features.
* PowerCopying: As a being of infinite possibilities, a quantum clone can mimic actions taken by others.

!!CR 14
[[folder:Deh-nolo]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Horrific creatures that blur the line between machine and animal, these beings serve as engineers and spellcasters among the Dominion of the Black.

* AlienBlood: Their blood is toxic to just about every species.
* EvilGenius: They're brilliant inventors and engineers. A shame they're dedicated to their nightmarish empire.
* OrganicTechnology: Their specialty.

[[folder:Warpstitcher]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

* ClockRoaches: Warpstitchers believe that reckless use of magic or technology creates dimensional echoes that damage alternate realities. Their most common prey is witchwarpers, whose magic frequently violates warpstitcher taboos. Other potential prey include those who wield supernatural power, especially solarians and those who engineer space-bending technologies. Warpstitchers also despise Drift engines, accusing them of inflicting terrible wounds on extraplanar ecosystems.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Those few who've survived being sewn to a warpstitcher claim the stitches pulse with energy that trigger disturbing visions, such as their own deaths in alternate realities. For most, the revelations prove so painful or incomprehensible that their minds suffer irreparable damage.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Warpstitchers pin down their victim, skewer its flesh, and use shimmering thread to sew the hapless creature into their bodies.
* ToServeMan: A warpstitcher preys upon sapient creatures who wield powerful magic or technology recklessly. No one knows for certain if a warpstitcher feeds off its victims' flesh, thoughts, energy from other timelines, or something else entirely.

!!CR 15
[[folder:Bryrvath]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster

->'''Size:''' Medium

Monsters to whom light is a plaything, warping it into impossible spectrums or consuming it altogether, leaving them cloaked in infinitely deep shadows.

* TheFaceless: Their heads are always cloaked in impossibly deep darkness.
* FictionalColor: It creates colors of impossible hues and shades by second nature, shaking the sanity of anyone who sees them.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Control over light is usually a good thing, but bryrvaths take it to nightmarish places.
* HumanoidAbomination: They have a vaguely humanoid shape, but clearly are nothing of the sort.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: They create mind-shredding bursts of color and patches of infinite darkness, both feats that bend the laws of physics even in a setting that already has several distinct varieties of magic.

[[folder:Ursolha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* BlackSpeech: Some xenolinguists who have spent extended periods studying the Ursolhan language have reported terrible nightmares and waking visions.
* ExtraEyes: Each of the four sides of an ursolha have a vertical row of three glowing, circular eyes.
* EyeBeams: An ursolha can fire a beam of electricity from its eyes.
* RockMonster: Despite resembling construct-like floating obelisks, ursolhas are living creatures.

!!CR 17
[[folder:Hallajin]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 17
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

Energy beings from Hallas, the moon of Liavara, that are believed to be the result of a species that sought godhood yet stopped just short of such a goal.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Their plan was to become gods, but for unknown reasons they stopped at their current stage in the process.
* EnergyBeings: What they are now.
* IntangibleMan: They can pass through solid objects, though not anything with a strong electrical charge.

!Starship-Level Threats
[[folder:Besmaran Whelp]]
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->'''Starship Tier:''' 1-3
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Colossal

* AbstractEater: Besmaran whelps feed on energy, their favourite meal being the power cores of starships.
* {{Cyborg}}: Some Besmaran whelps are equipped with advanced computers and sensors.
* SpaceWhale: Closer to a space shark.
* TailSlap: A Besmaran whelp can whip its narrow tail at a ship.

[[folder:Novaspawn]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 8
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Colossal

* DeflectorShields: A novaspawn can generate its own protective shields using its aberrant biology.
* GentleGiant: Novaspawn are usually peaceful unless provoked.
* HostileTerraforming: In rare occasions, an ill or evil-influenced novaspawn undergoes the process of parturition dangerously close to an inhabited planet or space station, in the process destroying them or making them uninhabitable and irrevocably altering the climate of others nearby.
* LivingShip: While a novaspawn is a living creature, it is so immense that it functions as a starship.
* TimeAbyss: A baby novaspawn is still older than some civilisations.

To see the tropes for aberrations in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', click [[Characters/PathfinderAberrations here]].

!!CR 3

[[folder:Feathered Stalker]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Large

Black-and-white crinoids composed of little more than long feather appendages. Their stats can be found in ''The Commencement''.

* AdaptiveAbility: It has two, Adapted Defense and Adapted Offense. The former gives it resistance 2 against fire, cold, sonic, or electricity, while the latter gives it extra reach, an extra feather attack every round, feathers that apply the sickened condition, or the ability to cast reflective armor.
* FeatherFlechettes: According to the name of its ability, feather ''harpoons''.
* WallCrawl: They have a climb speed equal to their normal speed.

[[folder:Paralith]]
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->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Sentient but non-civilized creatures that prefer jungled areas.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted, they speak only their own language and linguists remain baffled by it.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Paralith's reproduce through asexual budding, with the growth of the infant paraliths to adulthood only taking a few days.
* BizarreAlienSenses: They sense electromagnetic broadcasts but are otherwise blind.
* RiddleForTheAges: When people manage to communicate with paraliths through magical means, they constantly punctuate their speech with random strings of numbers for reasons not even they know.