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* EmotionEater: Ostinatos feed off the vitality and personality of mortals.
* TheSymbiote: Ostinatos wander the mortal world as repetitive snippets of song, searching for hosts and rich feeding grounds. They enter hosts secretly, remaining undetected to prolong their feasting as long as possible.
* TheSymbiote: Ostinatos wander the mortal world as repetitive snippets of song, searching for hosts and rich feeding grounds. They enter hosts secretly, remaining undetected to prolong their feasting as long as possible.
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* EmotionEater: Ostinatos feed off EyeScream: A weakened oculo swarm can reinvigorate itself by tearing fresh eyes from almost any living creature.
* EyeSpy: The entire oculo swarm sees what any single member sees. Before attacking or entering a potentially dangerous area, individual eyes scout ahead for prospective victims or dangerous foes.
* LivingLieDetector: Bemmean wizards have been known to employ oculo swarms as lie detectors during negotiations. A swarm instinctively reads eye movements, and can communicate by moving in a specific way or by changing thevitality colour of its irises. If negotiations go poorly, its employer gives the swarm permission to add a fresh pair of eyes.
* {{Oculothorax}}: The oculo swarm is a collection of hundreds of floating eyes, trailing ganglia andpersonality of mortals.
* TheSymbiote: Ostinatos wanderdripping caustic fluid that sizzles when it hits the mortal world as repetitive snippets of song, searching for hosts and rich feeding grounds. They enter hosts secretly, remaining undetected to prolong their feasting as long as possible.ground.
* EyeSpy: The entire oculo swarm sees what any single member sees. Before attacking or entering a potentially dangerous area, individual eyes scout ahead for prospective victims or dangerous foes.
* LivingLieDetector: Bemmean wizards have been known to employ oculo swarms as lie detectors during negotiations. A swarm instinctively reads eye movements, and can communicate by moving in a specific way or by changing the
* {{Oculothorax}}: The oculo swarm is a collection of hundreds of floating eyes, trailing ganglia and
* TheSymbiote: Ostinatos wander
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[[folder:Pale Screamer]]
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* ArtificialHybrid: Pale screamers are created by mixing human and jellyfish-like creatures together using twisted, magical surgery.
* BioweaponBeast: Most pale screamers are the result of experimentation by intelligent aberrations and are brainwashed to serve their masters unquestioningly.
* EatenAlive: The pale screamer enjoys eating prey alive, often in front of its victims' companions.
* NoBiologicalSex: Pale screamers are artificial creatures and do not breed naturally.
* WasOnceAMan: Some pale screamers remember snippets of their lives as humans and suffer horrible mental anguish. Most are disposed of by their masters. A few turn rogue and attempt to return to their former lives, only to give into their evil urges for humanoid flesh or be killed by their former family and friends.
* BioweaponBeast: Most pale screamers are the result of experimentation by intelligent aberrations and are brainwashed to serve their masters unquestioningly.
* EatenAlive: The pale screamer enjoys eating prey alive, often in front of its victims' companions.
* NoBiologicalSex: Pale screamers are artificial creatures and do not breed naturally.
* WasOnceAMan: Some pale screamers remember snippets of their lives as humans and suffer horrible mental anguish. Most are disposed of by their masters. A few turn rogue and attempt to return to their former lives, only to give into their evil urges for humanoid flesh or be killed by their former family and friends.
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* ArtificialHybrid: Pale screamers are created by mixing human EmotionEater: Ostinatos feed off the vitality and jellyfish-like creatures together using twisted, magical surgery.
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*BioweaponBeast: Most pale screamers are TheSymbiote: Ostinatos wander the result of experimentation by intelligent aberrations and are brainwashed to serve their masters unquestioningly.
* EatenAlive: The pale screamer enjoys eating prey alive, often in front of its victims' companions.
* NoBiologicalSex: Pale screamers are artificial creatures and do not breed naturally.
* WasOnceAMan: Some pale screamers remembermortal world as repetitive snippets of song, searching for hosts and rich feeding grounds. They enter hosts secretly, remaining undetected to prolong their lives feasting as humans and suffer horrible mental anguish. Most are disposed of by their masters. A few turn rogue and attempt to return to their former lives, only to give into their evil urges for humanoid flesh or be killed by their former family and friends.long as possible.
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* EatenAlive: The pale screamer enjoys eating prey alive, often in front of its victims' companions.
* NoBiologicalSex: Pale screamers are artificial creatures and do not breed naturally.
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* EvilKnockoff: Parzz'vals are created by the treacherous wizard Enkada Pishtuhk in his efforts to recreate a controllable, loyal version of Pah'draguusthlai the Devourer. Thus far, his attempts have failed. His failed creations are released into the Wasted West to wreak havoc.
* FlowerMouth: The parzz'val's mouth is a huge tripartite maw filled with jagged, web-shrouded ridges.
* HungryMenace: Parzz'vals have enough intelligence to reason and problem solve, but are largely guided by their monstrous appetites.
* FlowerMouth: The parzz'val's mouth is a huge tripartite maw filled with jagged, web-shrouded ridges.
* HungryMenace: Parzz'vals have enough intelligence to reason and problem solve, but are largely guided by their monstrous appetites.
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* EvilKnockoff: Parzz'vals ArtificialHybrid: Pale screamers are created by mixing human and jellyfish-like creatures together using twisted, magical surgery.
* BioweaponBeast: Most pale screamers are thetreacherous wizard Enkada Pishtuhk in his efforts to recreate a controllable, loyal version result of Pah'draguusthlai the Devourer. Thus far, his attempts have failed. His failed creations experimentation by intelligent aberrations and are released into the Wasted West brainwashed to wreak havoc.
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[[folder:Primal Oozer]]
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* CombatTentacles: The barbed tentacles on the primal oozer's jaw latch on to creatures it bites and inject an oozing disease into the prey. This disease slowly liquefies the victim's skin, and eventually melts the creature completely into a new ochre jelly.
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* CombatTentacles: The barbed tentacles on EvilKnockoff: Parzz'vals are created by the primal oozer's jaw latch on treacherous wizard Enkada Pishtuhk in his efforts to creatures it bites and inject an oozing disease recreate a controllable, loyal version of Pah'draguusthlai the Devourer. Thus far, his attempts have failed. His failed creations are released into the prey. This disease slowly liquefies the victim's skin, Wasted West to wreak havoc.
* FlowerMouth: The parzz'val's mouth is a huge tripartite maw filled with jagged, web-shrouded ridges.
* HungryMenace: Parzz'vals have enough intelligence to reason andeventually melts the creature completely into a new ochre jelly.problem solve, but are largely guided by their monstrous appetites.
* FlowerMouth: The parzz'val's mouth is a huge tripartite maw filled with jagged, web-shrouded ridges.
* HungryMenace: Parzz'vals have enough intelligence to reason and
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[[folder:Quoreq]]
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* TheBlank: The quoreq has no facial features, and must use their claws to rip open their own bodies and reveal their mouths when they need to eat.
* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.
* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.
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* TheBlank: CombatTentacles: The quoreq has no facial features, barbed tentacles on the primal oozer's jaw latch on to creatures it bites and must use their claws to rip open their own bodies inject an oozing disease into the prey. This disease slowly liquefies the victim's skin, and reveal their mouths when they need to eat.
* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.eventually melts the creature completely into a new ochre jelly.
* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.
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* DeadlyGaze: Qwyllions are imbued with a deadly gaze attack that can transform victims into wights.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
* TheStarscream: Anyone who dares to employ a qwyllion must be constantly vigilant, because these creatures are prone to renege on any agreement eventually.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
* TheStarscream: Anyone who dares to employ a qwyllion must be constantly vigilant, because these creatures are prone to renege on any agreement eventually.
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* DeadlyGaze: Qwyllions are imbued with a deadly gaze attack that can transform victims into wights.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
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* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
* TheStarscream: Anyone who dares to employ a qwyllion
* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.
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[[folder:Rift Swine]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* AttackAttackAttack: A rift swine has difficulty perceiving anything smaller than itself as a threat, and attacks most other creatures on sight and fights until killed.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Eyes are spread all over a rift swine's body.
* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Eyes are spread all over a rift swine's body.
* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause.
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* AttackAttackAttack: A rift swine has difficulty perceiving anything smaller than itself as DeadlyGaze: Qwyllions are imbued with a threat, and attacks most other deadly gaze attack that can transform victims into wights.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
* TheStarscream: Anyone who dares to employ a qwyllion must be constantly vigilant, because these creatureson sight and fights until killed.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Eyesare spread all over a rift swine's body.
* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause.prone to renege on any agreement eventually.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
* TheStarscream: Anyone who dares to employ a qwyllion must be constantly vigilant, because these creatures
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* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause.
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[[folder:Sema]]
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* BloodKnight: Semas are cruel and seem to take great joy in jumping out of the darkness and spilling blood.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlight they are known to keen, howl and clutch at their heads as if the very presence of the light causes them pain.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlight they are known to keen, howl and clutch at their heads as if the very presence of the light causes them pain.
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* BloodKnight: Semas AttackAttackAttack: A rift swine has difficulty perceiving anything smaller than itself as a threat, and attacks most other creatures on sight and fights until killed.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Eyes arecruel spread all over a rift swine's body.
* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, andseem to take great joy delight in jumping out of the darkness and spilling blood.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlightdestruction they are known to keen, howl and clutch at their heads as if the very presence of the light causes them pain.cause.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Eyes are
* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlight
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* PoisonousPerson: The servant of Yig's unholy venom causes the body of a victim to swell until its plump flesh ruptures.
* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man and snake, a fanged humanoid head with expressionless features sitting atop the shimmering coils of a snake.
* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man and snake, a fanged humanoid head with expressionless features sitting atop the shimmering coils of a snake.
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* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlight they are known to keen, howl and clutch at their heads as if the very presence of the light causesthe body of a victim to swell until its plump flesh ruptures.
* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man and snake, a fanged humanoid head with expressionless features sitting atop the shimmering coils of a snake.them pain.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlight they are known to keen, howl and clutch at their heads as if the very presence of the light causes
* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man and snake, a fanged humanoid head with expressionless features sitting atop the shimmering coils of a snake.
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* BlobMonster: A shoggoth is an intelligent, gelatinous blob that can reshape itself at will.
* BrownNote: The fluting noises made by a shoggoth are otherworldly and mind-shattering.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Created by the elder things as servants, the shoggoths rebelled long ago and slew their masters without pity.
* BrownNote: The fluting noises made by a shoggoth are otherworldly and mind-shattering.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Created by the elder things as servants, the shoggoths rebelled long ago and slew their masters without pity.
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* BlobMonster: A shoggoth is an intelligent, gelatinous blob that can reshape itself at will.
* BrownNote:PoisonousPerson: The fluting noises made by servant of Yig's unholy venom causes the body of a shoggoth are otherworldly victim to swell until its plump flesh ruptures.
* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man andmind-shattering.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Created bysnake, a fanged humanoid head with expressionless features sitting atop the elder things as servants, the shoggoths rebelled long ago and slew their masters without pity.shimmering coils of a snake.
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* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man and
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
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* BlobMonster: A shoggoth is an intelligent, gelatinous blob that can reshape itself at will.
* BrownNote: The fluting noises made by a shoggoth are otherworldly and mind-shattering.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Created by the elder things as servants, the shoggoths rebelled long ago and slew their masters without pity.
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* BrownNote: The fluting noises made by a shoggoth are otherworldly and mind-shattering.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Created by the elder things as servants, the shoggoths rebelled long ago and slew their masters without pity.
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[[folder:The Shoth]]
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[[folder:Ahu-nixta]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
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* BlobMonster: The ahu-nixta's natural form is a somewhat shapeless mass that can form eyes, mouths and grabbing appendages.
* PiecesOfGod: One of the authors of the ''Codex of the Endless Void'' hypothesises the ahu-nixta as both belonging to the Void and being the physical embodiment of the Void itself. She further claims that the ahu-nixta exist to expand the Void into other realms by building themselves (or rather ''itself'') into pieces of the realm.
* ManInTheMachine: Ahu-nixta drudges and tappers can't live outside their armour.
* PoweredArmor: Weak and easy prey in their natural state, the ahu-nixta long ago mastered clockwork design, building armour that could carry them through the voids between stars and bolster their physical abilities.
* SealedEvilInACan: Ahu-nixta reproduce from clusters of organic matter encased in a resinous, amorphous mass. It's unknown how long a hive node, as they're called, can exist in stasis before bursting, but they have been found in ancient and long-abandoned vessels, adrift in the Void, buried in the ruins of sunken cities, and attached to debris, hurling through the planes.
* StarfishAliens: The ahu-nixta is a shapeless horror that hails from the Void beyond Midgard.
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* MagicEater: Tappers collect psychic energy from intelligent creatures.
* ShockAndAwe: Once a tapper attaches to a target, it generates an electrostatic field to protect itself while draining its victim.
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
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* SpiderTank: Harpooners wear clockwork armour crafted from the chitinous carapaces of a spider of Leng.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Each of the harpooner's eight legs is equipped with a harpoon cannon, which can pull grappled foes toward it.
!!Alpha Node
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* AsteroidsMonster: The clockwork encasement of the alpha node is the collective encasement of dozens of ahu-nixta in various stages of development and stasis. When the alpha node is destroyed, its clockwork encasement breaks apart, flinging dozens of half-developed larval ahu-nixta and mature cephaloids into the surrounding Void.
* CharmPerson: The alpha node can command one individual, with whom it has a mental connection.
* HumongousMecha: The alpha node is a spherical conglomeration of clockwork components mashed together that measures 30 feet in diameter.
* MindHive: The alpha node is a collective, a sort of hive mind that gathers to spawn individual ahu-nixta.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: The alpha node channels the Void, creating a current that draws creatures toward itself.
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[[folder:A-mi-kuk]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TheBerserker: A-mi-kuks viciously attack any creatures that threaten them, regardless of the foe's size or power.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: A-mi-kuks have a deathly fear of fire, and anyone using fire against one has a good chance of making it flee in terror, even if otherwise outmatched.
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[[folder:Arboreal Grappler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CombatTentacles: Arboreal grapplers' limbs have been warped into long, muscular tentacles covered in shaggy, red fur. They use these limbs to snatch prey and drag it behind them.
* KillerGorilla: Arboreal grapplers are evil, carnivorous apes with a taste for humanoid flesh.
* ToServeMan: Arboreal grapplers prefer humanoid flesh, elves in particular. Some suggest this arises from hatred as much as from hunger, a cruel combination of fascination and revulsion for the walking limbs of humanoid creatures.
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[[folder:Asanbosam]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* MetalMuncher: In times of desperation, asanbosams grind iron filings off their own hooks to slake their cravings for iron.
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[[folder:Astral Devourer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ExtraEyes: The sides of each snake making up an astral devourer are lined with milky, unblinking eyes.
* HiveMind: When enough serpents on the Astral Plane gather, they form a collective creature called an astral devourer, which has a hive mind made up of all the minds of its component creatures.
* ToServeMan: Astral devourers are driven by hunger and particularly love the taste of sentient planar travellers.
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[[folder:Astral Snapper]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* EatenAlive: When the astral snapper enters the victim's body by opening a portal in it to the Astral Plane, many believe the astral snapper has simply broken off its attack and vanished. They count themselves lucky right up until the first pains of being devoured from the inside strike them.
* ScaryTeeth: The astral snapper's wide grin reveals a mouth full of shark's teeth.
* ToServeMan: Astral snappers hunt humanoids on the Material Plane and feed on their victim's innards.
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[[folder:Aurora Horribilis]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* BrownNote: When they notice admirers of boreal lights, auroras horribilis descend from the sky to share their songs, which incorporates secrets of the universe and often induces madness in listeners.
* WintryAuroralSky: Auroras horribilis can manifest anywhere on a world, but prefer to dance and sing within naturally-occurring auroras.
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[[folder:Avalanche Screamer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* SuperScream: When facing multiple foes simultaneously, an avalanche screamer uses its scream to harm as many targets as possible. In unstable areas, the sound can cause avalanches.
* TooManyMouths: Several toothy maws are spread across an avalanche screamer's body.
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[[folder:Avulzor]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* {{Biomanipulation}}: Avulzors can shape bone as if it were putty, transforming an ogre's pelvis into a usable chair or a dwarf's teeth and ribs into a complex musical instrument.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Natives of a dimension inundated with necrotic energy, avulzors weave plans for dominating the other planes of existence.
* TooManyMouths: The avulzor's neck ends in a nest of lamprey-like heads.
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[[folder:Bagiennik]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* HealingHands: A bagiennik can heal another creature by smearing some of its oily secretion on that creature's flesh. If the bagiennik feels beneficent, it heals injured animals or people.
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[[folder:Bloodsapper]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* OverlyLongTongue: The bloodsapper has a long, thick red tongue, ending in a hollow spike, which it uses to impale and drink prey's blood.
* ToServeMan: While it can drink the blood of animals and wild beasts, the bloodsapper vastly prefers the blood of sapient bipedal creatures.
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[[folder:Boot Grabber]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* AnkleDrag: The boot grabber grabs hold of its victim's legs or feet with its strong hand-shaped appendages. Once it has seized its target, the boot grabber secretes a strong adhesive to stop its foe from pulling free and continues to crush its lower limbs.
* BioweaponBeast: Boot grabbers are believed to have been created centuries ago in twisted experiments conducted by deranged arcanists seeking new weapons against rivals. By melding alien protoplasm harvested from shoggoths with the dismembered bodies of human captives from a rival magocracy, the wizards created the boot grabber.
* BlobMonster: Boot grabbers are ooze-like aberrant creatures whose transparent, amorphous body is easily mistaken for a puddle or patch of wet rock.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brain Hood]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* FantasticRacism: The brain hood is inherently evil and despises all living things that possess bodies of their own.
* TheSymbiote: Brain hoods are parasites that attach to beasts, helping the host find food but otherwise subjugating the dim intelligence within it. Outside of its host, a brain hood poses little danger to intelligent creatures or creatures who are not beasts.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Butatsch]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* DeadlyGaze: The butatsch's eyes can burn prey with a gaze.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A butatsch is studded with thousands of glaring eyes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Catscratch]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* HulkingOut: Catscratch fugue is a bacterial infection that only affects felids and feline humanoids. Once a cat is angry, it swells to a massive size, turning into a catscratch intent on destroying everything in sight. Only a ''wish'' spell can cure a catscratch once it has transformed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chelicerae]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* GiantSpider: The chelicerae resembles a massive spider.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Some chelicerae victims wake up weeks later with no memory of the events, far from home, drained of vitality and spells.
* MagicEater: The chelicerae cannot replenish its spells naturally. Instead, it uses grappled spellcasters as spell reservoirs, draining uncast spells to power its own magic.
* TheParalyzer: Chelicerae strike victims with a venomous bite and then pinning its prey within its jaws. There, their helpless body can hang for days on end as the chelicerae pursues obscure and eldritch tasks, before they're released.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Child of Yggdrasil]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* HybridMonster: Legends say the children of Yggdrasil came from a dragon's egg laid on the World Tree, which hatched a huge mass of serpents, each of them infused with the sap and cold wisdom of the World Tree itself.
* WhenTreesAttack: The children of Yggdrasil are sentient parts of the World Tree, saplings with long 'hair' of ash leaves, radial symmetry, and four root-like legs.
!!Forest Emperor
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* AcidAttack: The forest emperor can spray a cone of acid from its flower-ringed eye pits.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: When a child of Yggdrasil comes across the fresh corpse of an adult dragon, it attempts to devour the heart, then spins a thick green cocoon of acidic vines around itself. After a week, it turns into a larger and more vicious aberration known as a forest emperor.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: A forest emperor is vaguely reminiscent of a giant centaur with bony wooden limbs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Crystalline Monolith]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
----
* BerserkButton: The crystalline monolith is especially unforgiving to those that try to steal or damage crystals in its lair.
* CrystallineCreature: The crystalline monolith is a living, towering menhir of shimmering crystal. While motionless, it is indistinguishable from a giant crystal.
* PsychicPowers: The crystalline monolith attacks with mind spears and bursts of psychic energy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dimensional Shambler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* BrownNoteBeing: The very sight of a dimensional shambler can frighten and madden other creatures.
* NoMouth: The dimensional shambler's only facial features are a pair of dead eyes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dorreq]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* TentacledTerror: The dorreq resembles a twitching ball of tentacles surrounding an inhuman face dominated by a squid-like beak.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Eater of Dust]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* ExtremeOmnivore: Eaters of dust can consume just about anything with their mawblades. They can even gain nourishment from eating dust or soil (hence the name ''eater of dust'').
* NoFaceUnderTheMask: An eater of dust resembles an imposing knight wearing baroque plate, which is in truth a secreted resin that hardens into a shell as strong as steel.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Eaters of dust roam the lower planes selling their services to fiendish rulers for the chance to sample interesting morsels.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Faceless Wanderer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* TheBlank: The faceless wanderer's face is a bone-white, featureless oval disc.
* TransferableMemory: The faceless wanderers survive by stealing memories from sentient humanoids.
* WasOnceAMan: Humanoids that die when their memories are completely drained by a faceless wanderer are transformed into more faceless wanderers.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: Faceless wanderers don't harm young humanoids and sometimes even aid them. Scholars speculate this is because children possess fewer memories than adults.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Far Wanderer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
----
* HumanAliens: These elf-like humanoids originate from the Court of Countless Stars beyond the light of known suns, on a demi-plane between cold and distant constellations.
* MageSpecies: The far wanderers possess innate psychic powers, which they can manifest into harming or healing energy.
* {{Omniglot}}: The far wanderer understands the literal meaning of any spoken or written language it hears or reads.
* StarPower: The far wanderer channels the energy of the living god-star Yorama.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fate Eater]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
----
* AbstractEater: Fate eaters consume the threads of Fate itself. The Norns view them as vermin and sometimes engage particularly canny planar travellers either to hunt them or to help repair the damage they have done.
* KnowledgeBroker: Fate eaters trade information about various dooms, fates and outcomes, but one must have something rich in destiny to trade—or at least, juicy gossip about gods and demons.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flame-Scourged Scion]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* ExtraEyes: A flame-scourged scion has a crown of long, branching tentacles set with goat-like eyes.
* PlayingWithFire: The flame-scourged scion can fill the area around itself with a cloud of burning embers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flying Polyp]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* BlowYouAway: They can control and direct wind to use as a weapon.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The flying polyp is a towering column of flesh, eyes, tentacles and mouths.
* LeakingCanOfEvil: Flying polyps once ruled from cities of towers. When dragons appeared and refused to serve them, a blood-soaked conflict ended with dragons victorious. The few surviving polyps were bound in the Ethereal Plane, but after centuries of exile, the polyps uncovered a ritual that allowed them to exist in the Material Plane while still being bound to the Ethereal Plane.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gaunt One]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* OverlyLongTongue: A gaunt one has a strange, writhing tentacle for a tongue.
* PickyPeopleEater: Gaunt ones have an inherent hunger for hearts.
* WasOnceAMan: When the Covenant of Infinum's experiment to create the perfect servitor race failed spectacularly, a magical transformative wave was unleashed, transforming their slaves into gaunt ones.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ghast of Leng]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* ExtremeOmnivore: The ghasts of Leng are malevolent predators, willing to eat anything that moves.
* ImAHumanitarian: In the frenzy of feeding, it is not uncommon for one of the ghasts to be torn apart and consumed by its fellows.
* FoodChainOfEvil: In their native Plateau of Leng, ghasts primarily prey upon gugs.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Ghasts of Leng are incapable of withstanding sunlight and keep themselves to the dark caverns in the earth.
!!Greater Ghast of Leng
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* LargeAndInCharge: Greater ghasts are stronger, tougher, and usually taller than their peers, who look to them for leadership.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grindylow]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* ForTheEvulz: Grindylows' single passion in life consists of lurking in tide pools, rivers and lagoons, where they wait for gnomes, halflings or human children to approach so they could drag them under the water. Their true enjoyment is derived from the attack and the fearful reactions of their prey, not the resulting meal.
* VoiceChangeling: Grindylows have some talent at voice mimicry.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Heggarna]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* EvilDetectingDog: Normal animals react to the heggarna with a strange ferocity, which can be recognised by experienced hunters.
* KillerRabbit: During the day, the heggarna disguises itself as a stray cat, lurking near the homes of potential prey and fleeing with feline-like caution when anyone comes near.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The heggarna has multiple caterpillar-like claspers, the jagged, circular maw and slippery body of an oversized leech, and the head and colouration of a tiger.
* NightmareWeaver: The heggarna infuses the victim's subconscious with terrible nightmares for its own vile amusement.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Helashruu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* MirrorMonster: Helashruu resemble towering mirrors covered in tentacles and eyes. Sages versed in planar lore believe the helashruu were created when a ''mirror of lifetrapping'' swallowed a powerful, deity of chaos and shattered under the strain of the energies it tried to contain.
* TheUnintelligible: The helashruu's communication usually takes the form of a jumbled mishmash of thoughts, and making sense of what they say is often next to impossible.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hound of Tindalos]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* ClockRoaches: Hounds of Tindalos hunt those who travel the planes of existence or break the bonds of time. None know if the hounds take offence to travel through time and space or if there is some quality of such travellers that they find irresistible.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The hound resembles a hairless dog with human-looking hands, the head of a bat, and a short, sharp black beak.
* ToServeMan: Hounds of Tindalos prefer human prey even when presented with other options.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kachlian]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* CombatTentacles: A kachlian fights with numerous writhing tentacles protruding from its body.
* PocketDimension: The interior of a kachlian's shell has a pocket of extra-dimensional space that holds its belongings. The older and more powerful the kachlian, the larger this extra-dimensional space. When a kachlian is slain, any creature can access the extra-dimensional space, which gradually fades over a month.
* SoulEating: The kachlian consumes the souls of creatures, tearing them to pieces, absorbing the parts it considers valuable and discarding the rest.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kaveph]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CannonFodder: The kaveph are seen as expendable by the ghasts of Leng, and are often sent in first to try and soften up more powerful enemies before the ghasts swarm in to devour them.
* EyelessFace: The kaveph's bulbous face is eyeless.
* MoodSwinger: When not serving the ghasts of Leng, kaveph's interactions with one another are puzzling and often violent. At one moment they might coexist in peace, then—often for incomprehensible reasons—they lash out against each other in some sort of mindless blood frenzy until only one of them stands.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lambent Witchfyre]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' Unaligned
----
* EvilLivingFlames: The lambent witchfyre is composed of living blue flame, and like liquid fire, it flows along the ground, searching for food, which is any organic matter that can burn.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lunarchidna]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (lesser), 4 (greater), 6 (transcendent)
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* FantasticRacism: Lunarchidnas hate elves and love to make them suffer. They poison water sources, set fire to villages, and bait monsters into stampeding through elf communities.
* {{Lunacy}}: The lunarchidna's power is tied to the moon. During a new moon, the lunarchidna becomes barely more than a savage animal, as its mental ability dulls. During a full moon, the lunarchidna can channel lunar light through its body, and is smart enough to make plans and write notes.
* WouldHurtAChild: Lunarchidnas especially enjoy stealing away elf children to use as bait to trap the adults that come to the rescue.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mad Spring Behemoth]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' +1
----
* {{Mutants}}: Rarely, a particularly durable or lucky specimen is warped into a mighty monstrosity by its exposure to a spawning storm. Greatly increased in size and strength, these creatures are known as mad spring behemoths.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Malleable]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (minor), 5 (moderate), 10 (major), 16 (massive)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* MasterRace: Malleables think themselves superior to all other creatures, which are simply prey. Their goals are to drain every creature they can of psychic energy and rule the world as a massive, roiling meat puddle.
* OneToMillionToOne: Malleables can join together, creating a larger, more powerful creature that shares their combined intellect and can in turn separate into smaller malleables when suitable.
* PerpetuallyProtean: Malleables have no set form, and can stretch and alter their forms easily, moving on appendages or flowing like an ooze. They might form faces if they wish to convey an emotion, or take the shape of a truly terrifying beast to create panic.
* PhotographicMemory: It is said that malleables have perfect memories and the oldest ones remember ancient lore other creatures have long forgotten.
* WasOnceAMan: Creatures that consume psychic energy can become so infused with it that their bodies implode, warping their mind and creating a hunter that hungers to consume and grow. Malleables do not remember their previous personal lives, but they do retain facts and lore.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mamura]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* DealWithTheDevil: They were once good-aligned, pixie-like fey called polevoi, but at some point they swore their souls to the Black Goat of the Woods and were corrupted by her foul magic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mimic]]
!!Map Mimic
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
----
* FoolsMap: A map mimic can assume the shape, texture and colours of anything up to the size of a dinner plate. Their preferred form is parchment paper, and they can display the path they've followed, complete with important landmarks, on their hide. In this form, they hide until another unsuspecting adventurer discovers them. Anyone who follows the map is led back to the parent mimic, lying in ambush.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mngwa]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* HybridMonster: The mngwa are the offspring of a sentient feline beast from the Ethereal Plane that mated with a lioness long ago.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Moon Nymph]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
----
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Moon nymphs take on a visage that matches the dreams of their victims. Some might see a beautiful elf, others a handsome dwarf, and lovers of animals might even see a sleek feline or an adorable canine.
* {{Lunacy}}: Moon nymphs travel to Midgard by way of moonbeams, and their power wanes and waxes as the cycles of the moon progress.
* NightmareWeaver: The moon nymph haunts mortals' dreams by emitting a wave of hallucinatory nightmare visions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mordant Snare]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* DyingRace: Mordant snares are few in number and cannot reproduce. Since the secret of their creation was lost long ago, eventually they will die out.
* ParasiteZombie: Mordant snares attack by extruding filaments that inject acid into victims; this liquefies organs and muscle while leaving the skeleton, tendons and skin intact. With the body hollowed out and filled with acid and filaments, the mordant snare can control it from below like a puppet. These puppets look and move like zombies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Murgrik]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BellyMouth: A toothy maw is stretched over the murgrik's belly.
* CombatTentacles: The murgrik's tail is made up of a dozen lashing tentacles.
* {{Mutants}}: Those who study murgriks believe the creatures are ordinary alligators warped by their proximity to the Abyss.
* TooManyMouths: A murgrik has two extra mouths: one affixed to a stalk between its eyes and one stretched over its belly.
* ToServeMan: Murgriks prefer to prey on intelligent creatures.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The only known way to deter a murgrik from attacking is to introduce a heron, real or illusory. The reason a murgrik retreats from herons is a mystery.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nalusa Falaya]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* ChildEater: Humanoid young are their preferred delicacy, and many nalusa falaya have a particular appetite for elven young.
* ShadowWalker: A nalusa falaya can slither from shadow to shadow.
* WasOnceAMan: Rumour has it that these creatures were once mortals but have been corrupted by energies from the Void.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nharyth]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* AnimateBodyParts: The nharyth is a hideous mass of coiling intestines.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nightgaunt]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
----
* BewareMyStingerTail: The nightgaunt has a barbed, venomous stinging tail.
* TheBlank: Nightgaunts only have a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be.
* EnemyMine: On occasion, nightgaunts ally themselves with the forces of light against greater chaos and particularly hated demon lords. Such alliances last only so long as is necessary to restore the rule of law and burn out corruption. Once this is accomplished, they either leave, satisfied in their work, or remain to attack the wounded forces of good.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Nightgaunts serve as the advance guard and battle steeds of the ghouls that inhabit the darkest corners of the Shadow Realm.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ningyo]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* BeastWithAHumanFace: This small fish has the face of a human.
* ImmortalityInducer: Legend tells that anyone who consumes the raw flesh of a ningyo will live forever.
* WeirdBeard: The ningyo has eight squirming tentacles where whiskers would be.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ostinato]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* EmotionEater: Ostinatos feed off the vitality and personality of mortals.
* TheSymbiote: Ostinatos wander the mortal world as repetitive snippets of song, searching for hosts and rich feeding grounds. They enter hosts secretly, remaining undetected to prolong their feasting as long as possible.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pale Screamer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ArtificialHybrid: Pale screamers are created by mixing human and jellyfish-like creatures together using twisted, magical surgery.
* BioweaponBeast: Most pale screamers are the result of experimentation by intelligent aberrations and are brainwashed to serve their masters unquestioningly.
* EatenAlive: The pale screamer enjoys eating prey alive, often in front of its victims' companions.
* NoBiologicalSex: Pale screamers are artificial creatures and do not breed naturally.
* WasOnceAMan: Some pale screamers remember snippets of their lives as humans and suffer horrible mental anguish. Most are disposed of by their masters. A few turn rogue and attempt to return to their former lives, only to give into their evil urges for humanoid flesh or be killed by their former family and friends.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Parzz'val]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* EvilKnockoff: Parzz'vals are created by the treacherous wizard Enkada Pishtuhk in his efforts to recreate a controllable, loyal version of Pah'draguusthlai the Devourer. Thus far, his attempts have failed. His failed creations are released into the Wasted West to wreak havoc.
* FlowerMouth: The parzz'val's mouth is a huge tripartite maw filled with jagged, web-shrouded ridges.
* HungryMenace: Parzz'vals have enough intelligence to reason and problem solve, but are largely guided by their monstrous appetites.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Primal Oozer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CombatTentacles: The barbed tentacles on the primal oozer's jaw latch on to creatures it bites and inject an oozing disease into the prey. This disease slowly liquefies the victim's skin, and eventually melts the creature completely into a new ochre jelly.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Quoreq]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TheBlank: The quoreq has no facial features, and must use their claws to rip open their own bodies and reveal their mouths when they need to eat.
* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Qwyllion]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DeadlyGaze: Qwyllions are imbued with a deadly gaze attack that can transform victims into wights.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
* TheStarscream: Anyone who dares to employ a qwyllion must be constantly vigilant, because these creatures are prone to renege on any agreement eventually.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rift Swine]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* AttackAttackAttack: A rift swine has difficulty perceiving anything smaller than itself as a threat, and attacks most other creatures on sight and fights until killed.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Eyes are spread all over a rift swine's body.
* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sema]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
----
* BloodKnight: Semas are cruel and seem to take great joy in jumping out of the darkness and spilling blood.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlight they are known to keen, howl and clutch at their heads as if the very presence of the light causes them pain.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Servant of Yig]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* PoisonousPerson: The servant of Yig's unholy venom causes the body of a victim to swell until its plump flesh ruptures.
* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man and snake, a fanged humanoid head with expressionless features sitting atop the shimmering coils of a snake.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shoggoth]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 19
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
----
* BlobMonster: A shoggoth is an intelligent, gelatinous blob that can reshape itself at will.
* BrownNote: The fluting noises made by a shoggoth are otherworldly and mind-shattering.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Created by the elder things as servants, the shoggoths rebelled long ago and slew their masters without pity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Shoth]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
----
* TheAssimilator: The singular purpose of Shoth, and therefore all the shoth, is to dissolve willing, sentient life in great bubbling pools called zolvs. When this happens, the creature wades into the thick protein bath and its body is dissolved, rising again as a vaguely-humanoid ooze.
* HiveCasteSystem: The shoth divide themselves into different castes according to their age. Newly dissolved shoth are called soozes. After a century, they earn the title oth, and serve as generals or scholars. The few who live for 500 years or more become droths, who no longer appear humanoid.
* IGaveMyWord: The shoth are true to their word. They are interested in gaining the trust of others and do not employ trickery, deception or intimidation. Once the shoth have targeted a creature or group for dissolution, they are true friends and allies.
* StarfishAliens: The shoth are an aberrant race of oozing humanoids from outside the known planes.
* WalkingTheEarth: The shoth have no home world, and wander the universe inside massive oozing vessels capable of interplanar travel.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shukankor]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ExtraEyes: A shukankor has multiple eyes that swivel about on long lime stalks.
* FeatheredFiend: These vile ratite-like aberrations use their vicious claws and beaks to kill and devour any creature they encounter.
* NoBiologicalSex: Shukankors are neither female nor male and reproduce by not dismissing their replicas. These replicas become free-thinking and separate from the parent after a day.
* SelfDuplication: The shukankor can temporarily replicate itself, creating smaller, weaker clones that obey its telepathic commands and even sacrifice themselves to protect their creator.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spawn of Arbeyach]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Spawn of Arbeyach are roughly humanoid, with some insectoid qualities like two extra arms.
* PestController: Spawn of Arbeyach can silently communicate with and give orders to all swarms of insects.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spawn of Roggsothoff]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* MushroomMan: A spawn of Roggsothof looks like a vaguely humanoid creature with a mushroom-like cap.
* TheVirus: The spawn of Roggsothof seek creatures to infect with their spores to create more of their kind.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Spawn of Roggsothof are sickened while in sunlight, and die after an hour of continuous exposure.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spider of Leng]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: These bloated purple spiders have small claws on six of their legs that serve as hands.
* PoisonousPerson: Spiders of Leng can spit venom, and their blood is poisonous and corrosive to most creatures native to the Material Plane.
!!Broodmother of Leng
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BlackWidow: Spiders of Leng often bring treasures or captives back to the broodmother's cavern to prove their worth as a mate. If a spider is deemed worthy, it is eaten, its life force and magical talents passing on to the next generation. If a spider is unworthy, it is killed and dropped into the depths of the broodmother's caverns.
* KillAllHumans: Each broodmother looks upon her brood as a personal army that shall one day wipe all humanoids from the face of the Material Plane.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stellar Rorqual]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* DefeatEqualsExplosion: When the stellar rorqual dies, it releases all of its stored solar energy in a massive explosion.
* LivingShip: A stellar rorqual can be used as a living ship to provide passage between planes. This partnership can be based on friendship or domination, depending on the method of training.
* SpaceWhale: Stellar rorqual are born, live and die in the Void between the stars.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tusked Skyfish]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
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* ElectricJellyfish: These jellyfish have a natural electrical charge.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: These aerial jellyfish waft through the air like balloons, suspended by internal alchemical reactions. This movement takes them almost vertically when they wish, or drifts with the winds. They can reach altitudes of 30000 feet.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: When fitted with special saddles, tusked skyfish can be ridden without harming their riders.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ulnorya]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ChestBurster: Ulnorya implant eggs within corpses slain by their poison. Within five days, an egg hatches into a new ulnorya.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The ulnorya combines elements of spiders, scorpions and octopodes.
* NestedMouths: The ulnorya's jagged maw reveals rows of razor teeth.
* SelfDuplication: An ulnorya can replicate itself and become its own hunting partner.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Urochar]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 17
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TheAgeless: Strangling watchers are effectively immortal. Gargantuan specimens in the deepest reaches of the underworld are several millennia old.
* CombatTentacles: An urochar slithers upright on and crushes their prey with four muscular tentacles.
* {{Cyclops}}: At the top of the urochar's writhing trunk, a great lidless eye glows with baleful orange light.
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: When a strangling watcher dies, it releases all the fear it consumed in its lifetime in a single, soul-rending wave.
* EmotionEater: Urochars feast on the fear of those caught in their crushing tentacles.
* RubberMan: Despite their size, strangling watchers are slender and boneless, and can squeeze through small passages.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vallowex]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* ChestBurster: Vallowexes release eggs into potable water. After a creature drinks the eggs, a tadpole hatches in its stomach, then slowly consumes the host from the inside out, emerging as a vallowex when the host dies.
* EyelessFace: In place of eyes, a vallowex sees through blindsight.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vangsluagh]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TooManyMouths: In place of a head, a vangsluagh has a writhing mass of hundreds of rubbery, blue-grey tentacles, each ending in an eerily human-looking mouth.
* WasOnceAMan: Creatures maddened in the shadow of Uthul Vangslagish eventually transform into vangsluagh.
* WithCatLikeTread: Vangsluagh create a din everywhere they go; the mouths on their tentacles perpetually scream, whistle, bleat, growl and cry. Even when a vangsluagh wants silence, their own bodies betray them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Voidling]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* CombatTentacles: Voidlings consist largely of lashing tendrils of solid shadow.
* DealWithTheDevil: Voidlings are summoned by those hungry for power at any cost, and serve very well for years or even decades, until one day they turn on their summoners. If they succeed in slaying their summoner, they grow in strength and return to the void.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Exactly what voidlings seek when they have not been summoned—and what triggers their betrayals—is a mystery.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wardu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DeadlyGaze: A wardu can channel magical power through its central eye.
* VampiricDraining: Wardu can only absorb sustenance from blood, no matter the species.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xenabsorber]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* CrystallineCreature: The xenabsorber's body is comprised of magically-attuned blue crystal.
* MixAndMatchCritters: At any given moment, the xenabsorber might be in its native blue crystalline state, fully disguised as a creature, or wearing aspects of many different creatures.
* PowerCopying: When it vibrates on the same magical frequency as a nearby creature, the xenabsorber can change itself to copy some trait or ability of that creature.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xhkarsh]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DemonicPossession: A xhkarsh can send a portion of its consciousness to inhabit the body of a fate-corrupted creature. The target retains control of its body, but the xhkarsh can control its actions for 1 minute each day and can modify its memories.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yann-An-Oed]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* CombatTentacles: In place of each arm, the yann-an-oed has a mass of long, writhing tentacles.
* WaddlingHead: The yann-an-oed is shaped like a bipedal frog or toad, with stumps for arms.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yavalnoi]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* InterspeciesRomance: Yavalnois are capable of procreating with almost any creature from the sea, from sahuagin, giant crabs to krakens.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: While outlined in the blue light emitted by a yavalnoi's anchor-shaped organ, a creature can't breathe underwater.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ziphius]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* KrakenAndLeviathan: The smaller ziphius vary between enormous and impossibly large; most are at least 75 feet long. The largest reported ziphius encountered was larger than the frigate it attacked and sank.
* SeaMonster: Ziphius are said to dwell in the deepest oceans, and are quickly attracted by living prey in the water. Many ships on routes where a ziphius is known to hunt keep a goat, sheep or pig aboard to throw overboard as an offering if the ziphius' distinctive dorsal fin is spotted.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zoog]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 0
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ArchEnemy: Zoogs are mortal enemies of cats, feeding on kittens at any opportunity, and they themselves are stalked by grown cats in turn. Lions, tigers, house cats, leonino and sphinxes all take any opportunity to hunt and kill a zoog.
* YouDirtyRat: While zoogs seem little more than a pest to some, they possess a devious intelligence and a willingness to scheme to their advantage. Their ability to plot and communicate makes them much more dangerous than ordinary rodents. They are prone to serving dark gods of the Void and Outer Darkness and are very willing to steal, spy and nibble away ancient bonds and seals as directed by evil wizards, clerics or monsters.
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Ahu-nixta]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* BlobMonster: The ahu-nixta's natural form is a somewhat shapeless mass that can form eyes, mouths and grabbing appendages.
* PiecesOfGod: One of the authors of the ''Codex of the Endless Void'' hypothesises the ahu-nixta as both belonging to the Void and being the physical embodiment of the Void itself. She further claims that the ahu-nixta exist to expand the Void into other realms by building themselves (or rather ''itself'') into pieces of the realm.
* ManInTheMachine: Ahu-nixta drudges and tappers can't live outside their armour.
* PoweredArmor: Weak and easy prey in their natural state, the ahu-nixta long ago mastered clockwork design, building armour that could carry them through the voids between stars and bolster their physical abilities.
* SealedEvilInACan: Ahu-nixta reproduce from clusters of organic matter encased in a resinous, amorphous mass. It's unknown how long a hive node, as they're called, can exist in stasis before bursting, but they have been found in ancient and long-abandoned vessels, adrift in the Void, buried in the ruins of sunken cities, and attached to debris, hurling through the planes.
* StarfishAliens: The ahu-nixta is a shapeless horror that hails from the Void beyond Midgard.
!!Tapper
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
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* MagicEater: Tappers collect psychic energy from intelligent creatures.
* ShockAndAwe: Once a tapper attaches to a target, it generates an electrostatic field to protect itself while draining its victim.
!!Harpooner
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
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* SpiderTank: Harpooners wear clockwork armour crafted from the chitinous carapaces of a spider of Leng.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Each of the harpooner's eight legs is equipped with a harpoon cannon, which can pull grappled foes toward it.
!!Alpha Node
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 21
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* AsteroidsMonster: The clockwork encasement of the alpha node is the collective encasement of dozens of ahu-nixta in various stages of development and stasis. When the alpha node is destroyed, its clockwork encasement breaks apart, flinging dozens of half-developed larval ahu-nixta and mature cephaloids into the surrounding Void.
* CharmPerson: The alpha node can command one individual, with whom it has a mental connection.
* HumongousMecha: The alpha node is a spherical conglomeration of clockwork components mashed together that measures 30 feet in diameter.
* MindHive: The alpha node is a collective, a sort of hive mind that gathers to spawn individual ahu-nixta.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: The alpha node channels the Void, creating a current that draws creatures toward itself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:A-mi-kuk]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TheBerserker: A-mi-kuks viciously attack any creatures that threaten them, regardless of the foe's size or power.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: A-mi-kuks have a deathly fear of fire, and anyone using fire against one has a good chance of making it flee in terror, even if otherwise outmatched.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Arboreal Grappler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CombatTentacles: Arboreal grapplers' limbs have been warped into long, muscular tentacles covered in shaggy, red fur. They use these limbs to snatch prey and drag it behind them.
* KillerGorilla: Arboreal grapplers are evil, carnivorous apes with a taste for humanoid flesh.
* ToServeMan: Arboreal grapplers prefer humanoid flesh, elves in particular. Some suggest this arises from hatred as much as from hunger, a cruel combination of fascination and revulsion for the walking limbs of humanoid creatures.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Asanbosam]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* MetalMuncher: In times of desperation, asanbosams grind iron filings off their own hooks to slake their cravings for iron.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Astral Devourer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ExtraEyes: The sides of each snake making up an astral devourer are lined with milky, unblinking eyes.
* HiveMind: When enough serpents on the Astral Plane gather, they form a collective creature called an astral devourer, which has a hive mind made up of all the minds of its component creatures.
* ToServeMan: Astral devourers are driven by hunger and particularly love the taste of sentient planar travellers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Astral Snapper]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* EatenAlive: When the astral snapper enters the victim's body by opening a portal in it to the Astral Plane, many believe the astral snapper has simply broken off its attack and vanished. They count themselves lucky right up until the first pains of being devoured from the inside strike them.
* ScaryTeeth: The astral snapper's wide grin reveals a mouth full of shark's teeth.
* ToServeMan: Astral snappers hunt humanoids on the Material Plane and feed on their victim's innards.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Aurora Horribilis]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* BrownNote: When they notice admirers of boreal lights, auroras horribilis descend from the sky to share their songs, which incorporates secrets of the universe and often induces madness in listeners.
* WintryAuroralSky: Auroras horribilis can manifest anywhere on a world, but prefer to dance and sing within naturally-occurring auroras.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Avalanche Screamer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* SuperScream: When facing multiple foes simultaneously, an avalanche screamer uses its scream to harm as many targets as possible. In unstable areas, the sound can cause avalanches.
* TooManyMouths: Several toothy maws are spread across an avalanche screamer's body.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Avulzor]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* {{Biomanipulation}}: Avulzors can shape bone as if it were putty, transforming an ogre's pelvis into a usable chair or a dwarf's teeth and ribs into a complex musical instrument.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Natives of a dimension inundated with necrotic energy, avulzors weave plans for dominating the other planes of existence.
* TooManyMouths: The avulzor's neck ends in a nest of lamprey-like heads.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bagiennik]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* HealingHands: A bagiennik can heal another creature by smearing some of its oily secretion on that creature's flesh. If the bagiennik feels beneficent, it heals injured animals or people.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodsapper]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* OverlyLongTongue: The bloodsapper has a long, thick red tongue, ending in a hollow spike, which it uses to impale and drink prey's blood.
* ToServeMan: While it can drink the blood of animals and wild beasts, the bloodsapper vastly prefers the blood of sapient bipedal creatures.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Boot Grabber]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* AnkleDrag: The boot grabber grabs hold of its victim's legs or feet with its strong hand-shaped appendages. Once it has seized its target, the boot grabber secretes a strong adhesive to stop its foe from pulling free and continues to crush its lower limbs.
* BioweaponBeast: Boot grabbers are believed to have been created centuries ago in twisted experiments conducted by deranged arcanists seeking new weapons against rivals. By melding alien protoplasm harvested from shoggoths with the dismembered bodies of human captives from a rival magocracy, the wizards created the boot grabber.
* BlobMonster: Boot grabbers are ooze-like aberrant creatures whose transparent, amorphous body is easily mistaken for a puddle or patch of wet rock.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brain Hood]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* FantasticRacism: The brain hood is inherently evil and despises all living things that possess bodies of their own.
* TheSymbiote: Brain hoods are parasites that attach to beasts, helping the host find food but otherwise subjugating the dim intelligence within it. Outside of its host, a brain hood poses little danger to intelligent creatures or creatures who are not beasts.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Butatsch]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* DeadlyGaze: The butatsch's eyes can burn prey with a gaze.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A butatsch is studded with thousands of glaring eyes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Catscratch]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* HulkingOut: Catscratch fugue is a bacterial infection that only affects felids and feline humanoids. Once a cat is angry, it swells to a massive size, turning into a catscratch intent on destroying everything in sight. Only a ''wish'' spell can cure a catscratch once it has transformed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chelicerae]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* GiantSpider: The chelicerae resembles a massive spider.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Some chelicerae victims wake up weeks later with no memory of the events, far from home, drained of vitality and spells.
* MagicEater: The chelicerae cannot replenish its spells naturally. Instead, it uses grappled spellcasters as spell reservoirs, draining uncast spells to power its own magic.
* TheParalyzer: Chelicerae strike victims with a venomous bite and then pinning its prey within its jaws. There, their helpless body can hang for days on end as the chelicerae pursues obscure and eldritch tasks, before they're released.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Child of Yggdrasil]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* HybridMonster: Legends say the children of Yggdrasil came from a dragon's egg laid on the World Tree, which hatched a huge mass of serpents, each of them infused with the sap and cold wisdom of the World Tree itself.
* WhenTreesAttack: The children of Yggdrasil are sentient parts of the World Tree, saplings with long 'hair' of ash leaves, radial symmetry, and four root-like legs.
!!Forest Emperor
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* AcidAttack: The forest emperor can spray a cone of acid from its flower-ringed eye pits.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: When a child of Yggdrasil comes across the fresh corpse of an adult dragon, it attempts to devour the heart, then spins a thick green cocoon of acidic vines around itself. After a week, it turns into a larger and more vicious aberration known as a forest emperor.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: A forest emperor is vaguely reminiscent of a giant centaur with bony wooden limbs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Crystalline Monolith]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
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* BerserkButton: The crystalline monolith is especially unforgiving to those that try to steal or damage crystals in its lair.
* CrystallineCreature: The crystalline monolith is a living, towering menhir of shimmering crystal. While motionless, it is indistinguishable from a giant crystal.
* PsychicPowers: The crystalline monolith attacks with mind spears and bursts of psychic energy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dimensional Shambler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* BrownNoteBeing: The very sight of a dimensional shambler can frighten and madden other creatures.
* NoMouth: The dimensional shambler's only facial features are a pair of dead eyes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dorreq]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* TentacledTerror: The dorreq resembles a twitching ball of tentacles surrounding an inhuman face dominated by a squid-like beak.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Eater of Dust]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Eaters of dust can consume just about anything with their mawblades. They can even gain nourishment from eating dust or soil (hence the name ''eater of dust'').
* NoFaceUnderTheMask: An eater of dust resembles an imposing knight wearing baroque plate, which is in truth a secreted resin that hardens into a shell as strong as steel.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Eaters of dust roam the lower planes selling their services to fiendish rulers for the chance to sample interesting morsels.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Faceless Wanderer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* TheBlank: The faceless wanderer's face is a bone-white, featureless oval disc.
* TransferableMemory: The faceless wanderers survive by stealing memories from sentient humanoids.
* WasOnceAMan: Humanoids that die when their memories are completely drained by a faceless wanderer are transformed into more faceless wanderers.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: Faceless wanderers don't harm young humanoids and sometimes even aid them. Scholars speculate this is because children possess fewer memories than adults.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Far Wanderer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* HumanAliens: These elf-like humanoids originate from the Court of Countless Stars beyond the light of known suns, on a demi-plane between cold and distant constellations.
* MageSpecies: The far wanderers possess innate psychic powers, which they can manifest into harming or healing energy.
* {{Omniglot}}: The far wanderer understands the literal meaning of any spoken or written language it hears or reads.
* StarPower: The far wanderer channels the energy of the living god-star Yorama.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fate Eater]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* AbstractEater: Fate eaters consume the threads of Fate itself. The Norns view them as vermin and sometimes engage particularly canny planar travellers either to hunt them or to help repair the damage they have done.
* KnowledgeBroker: Fate eaters trade information about various dooms, fates and outcomes, but one must have something rich in destiny to trade—or at least, juicy gossip about gods and demons.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flame-Scourged Scion]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ExtraEyes: A flame-scourged scion has a crown of long, branching tentacles set with goat-like eyes.
* PlayingWithFire: The flame-scourged scion can fill the area around itself with a cloud of burning embers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flying Polyp]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BlowYouAway: They can control and direct wind to use as a weapon.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The flying polyp is a towering column of flesh, eyes, tentacles and mouths.
* LeakingCanOfEvil: Flying polyps once ruled from cities of towers. When dragons appeared and refused to serve them, a blood-soaked conflict ended with dragons victorious. The few surviving polyps were bound in the Ethereal Plane, but after centuries of exile, the polyps uncovered a ritual that allowed them to exist in the Material Plane while still being bound to the Ethereal Plane.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gaunt One]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* OverlyLongTongue: A gaunt one has a strange, writhing tentacle for a tongue.
* PickyPeopleEater: Gaunt ones have an inherent hunger for hearts.
* WasOnceAMan: When the Covenant of Infinum's experiment to create the perfect servitor race failed spectacularly, a magical transformative wave was unleashed, transforming their slaves into gaunt ones.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ghast of Leng]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ExtremeOmnivore: The ghasts of Leng are malevolent predators, willing to eat anything that moves.
* ImAHumanitarian: In the frenzy of feeding, it is not uncommon for one of the ghasts to be torn apart and consumed by its fellows.
* FoodChainOfEvil: In their native Plateau of Leng, ghasts primarily prey upon gugs.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Ghasts of Leng are incapable of withstanding sunlight and keep themselves to the dark caverns in the earth.
!!Greater Ghast of Leng
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* LargeAndInCharge: Greater ghasts are stronger, tougher, and usually taller than their peers, who look to them for leadership.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grindylow]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ForTheEvulz: Grindylows' single passion in life consists of lurking in tide pools, rivers and lagoons, where they wait for gnomes, halflings or human children to approach so they could drag them under the water. Their true enjoyment is derived from the attack and the fearful reactions of their prey, not the resulting meal.
* VoiceChangeling: Grindylows have some talent at voice mimicry.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Heggarna]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* EvilDetectingDog: Normal animals react to the heggarna with a strange ferocity, which can be recognised by experienced hunters.
* KillerRabbit: During the day, the heggarna disguises itself as a stray cat, lurking near the homes of potential prey and fleeing with feline-like caution when anyone comes near.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The heggarna has multiple caterpillar-like claspers, the jagged, circular maw and slippery body of an oversized leech, and the head and colouration of a tiger.
* NightmareWeaver: The heggarna infuses the victim's subconscious with terrible nightmares for its own vile amusement.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Helashruu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* MirrorMonster: Helashruu resemble towering mirrors covered in tentacles and eyes. Sages versed in planar lore believe the helashruu were created when a ''mirror of lifetrapping'' swallowed a powerful, deity of chaos and shattered under the strain of the energies it tried to contain.
* TheUnintelligible: The helashruu's communication usually takes the form of a jumbled mishmash of thoughts, and making sense of what they say is often next to impossible.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hound of Tindalos]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ClockRoaches: Hounds of Tindalos hunt those who travel the planes of existence or break the bonds of time. None know if the hounds take offence to travel through time and space or if there is some quality of such travellers that they find irresistible.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The hound resembles a hairless dog with human-looking hands, the head of a bat, and a short, sharp black beak.
* ToServeMan: Hounds of Tindalos prefer human prey even when presented with other options.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kachlian]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CombatTentacles: A kachlian fights with numerous writhing tentacles protruding from its body.
* PocketDimension: The interior of a kachlian's shell has a pocket of extra-dimensional space that holds its belongings. The older and more powerful the kachlian, the larger this extra-dimensional space. When a kachlian is slain, any creature can access the extra-dimensional space, which gradually fades over a month.
* SoulEating: The kachlian consumes the souls of creatures, tearing them to pieces, absorbing the parts it considers valuable and discarding the rest.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kaveph]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CannonFodder: The kaveph are seen as expendable by the ghasts of Leng, and are often sent in first to try and soften up more powerful enemies before the ghasts swarm in to devour them.
* EyelessFace: The kaveph's bulbous face is eyeless.
* MoodSwinger: When not serving the ghasts of Leng, kaveph's interactions with one another are puzzling and often violent. At one moment they might coexist in peace, then—often for incomprehensible reasons—they lash out against each other in some sort of mindless blood frenzy until only one of them stands.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lambent Witchfyre]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' Unaligned
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* EvilLivingFlames: The lambent witchfyre is composed of living blue flame, and like liquid fire, it flows along the ground, searching for food, which is any organic matter that can burn.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lunarchidna]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (lesser), 4 (greater), 6 (transcendent)
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* FantasticRacism: Lunarchidnas hate elves and love to make them suffer. They poison water sources, set fire to villages, and bait monsters into stampeding through elf communities.
* {{Lunacy}}: The lunarchidna's power is tied to the moon. During a new moon, the lunarchidna becomes barely more than a savage animal, as its mental ability dulls. During a full moon, the lunarchidna can channel lunar light through its body, and is smart enough to make plans and write notes.
* WouldHurtAChild: Lunarchidnas especially enjoy stealing away elf children to use as bait to trap the adults that come to the rescue.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mad Spring Behemoth]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' +1
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* {{Mutants}}: Rarely, a particularly durable or lucky specimen is warped into a mighty monstrosity by its exposure to a spawning storm. Greatly increased in size and strength, these creatures are known as mad spring behemoths.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Malleable]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (minor), 5 (moderate), 10 (major), 16 (massive)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* MasterRace: Malleables think themselves superior to all other creatures, which are simply prey. Their goals are to drain every creature they can of psychic energy and rule the world as a massive, roiling meat puddle.
* OneToMillionToOne: Malleables can join together, creating a larger, more powerful creature that shares their combined intellect and can in turn separate into smaller malleables when suitable.
* PerpetuallyProtean: Malleables have no set form, and can stretch and alter their forms easily, moving on appendages or flowing like an ooze. They might form faces if they wish to convey an emotion, or take the shape of a truly terrifying beast to create panic.
* PhotographicMemory: It is said that malleables have perfect memories and the oldest ones remember ancient lore other creatures have long forgotten.
* WasOnceAMan: Creatures that consume psychic energy can become so infused with it that their bodies implode, warping their mind and creating a hunter that hungers to consume and grow. Malleables do not remember their previous personal lives, but they do retain facts and lore.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mamura]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DealWithTheDevil: They were once good-aligned, pixie-like fey called polevoi, but at some point they swore their souls to the Black Goat of the Woods and were corrupted by her foul magic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mimic]]
!!Map Mimic
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* FoolsMap: A map mimic can assume the shape, texture and colours of anything up to the size of a dinner plate. Their preferred form is parchment paper, and they can display the path they've followed, complete with important landmarks, on their hide. In this form, they hide until another unsuspecting adventurer discovers them. Anyone who follows the map is led back to the parent mimic, lying in ambush.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mngwa]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* HybridMonster: The mngwa are the offspring of a sentient feline beast from the Ethereal Plane that mated with a lioness long ago.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Moon Nymph]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Moon nymphs take on a visage that matches the dreams of their victims. Some might see a beautiful elf, others a handsome dwarf, and lovers of animals might even see a sleek feline or an adorable canine.
* {{Lunacy}}: Moon nymphs travel to Midgard by way of moonbeams, and their power wanes and waxes as the cycles of the moon progress.
* NightmareWeaver: The moon nymph haunts mortals' dreams by emitting a wave of hallucinatory nightmare visions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mordant Snare]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* DyingRace: Mordant snares are few in number and cannot reproduce. Since the secret of their creation was lost long ago, eventually they will die out.
* ParasiteZombie: Mordant snares attack by extruding filaments that inject acid into victims; this liquefies organs and muscle while leaving the skeleton, tendons and skin intact. With the body hollowed out and filled with acid and filaments, the mordant snare can control it from below like a puppet. These puppets look and move like zombies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Murgrik]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BellyMouth: A toothy maw is stretched over the murgrik's belly.
* CombatTentacles: The murgrik's tail is made up of a dozen lashing tentacles.
* {{Mutants}}: Those who study murgriks believe the creatures are ordinary alligators warped by their proximity to the Abyss.
* TooManyMouths: A murgrik has two extra mouths: one affixed to a stalk between its eyes and one stretched over its belly.
* ToServeMan: Murgriks prefer to prey on intelligent creatures.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The only known way to deter a murgrik from attacking is to introduce a heron, real or illusory. The reason a murgrik retreats from herons is a mystery.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nalusa Falaya]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ChildEater: Humanoid young are their preferred delicacy, and many nalusa falaya have a particular appetite for elven young.
* ShadowWalker: A nalusa falaya can slither from shadow to shadow.
* WasOnceAMan: Rumour has it that these creatures were once mortals but have been corrupted by energies from the Void.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nharyth]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* AnimateBodyParts: The nharyth is a hideous mass of coiling intestines.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nightgaunt]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* BewareMyStingerTail: The nightgaunt has a barbed, venomous stinging tail.
* TheBlank: Nightgaunts only have a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be.
* EnemyMine: On occasion, nightgaunts ally themselves with the forces of light against greater chaos and particularly hated demon lords. Such alliances last only so long as is necessary to restore the rule of law and burn out corruption. Once this is accomplished, they either leave, satisfied in their work, or remain to attack the wounded forces of good.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Nightgaunts serve as the advance guard and battle steeds of the ghouls that inhabit the darkest corners of the Shadow Realm.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ningyo]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* BeastWithAHumanFace: This small fish has the face of a human.
* ImmortalityInducer: Legend tells that anyone who consumes the raw flesh of a ningyo will live forever.
* WeirdBeard: The ningyo has eight squirming tentacles where whiskers would be.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ostinato]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* EmotionEater: Ostinatos feed off the vitality and personality of mortals.
* TheSymbiote: Ostinatos wander the mortal world as repetitive snippets of song, searching for hosts and rich feeding grounds. They enter hosts secretly, remaining undetected to prolong their feasting as long as possible.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pale Screamer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ArtificialHybrid: Pale screamers are created by mixing human and jellyfish-like creatures together using twisted, magical surgery.
* BioweaponBeast: Most pale screamers are the result of experimentation by intelligent aberrations and are brainwashed to serve their masters unquestioningly.
* EatenAlive: The pale screamer enjoys eating prey alive, often in front of its victims' companions.
* NoBiologicalSex: Pale screamers are artificial creatures and do not breed naturally.
* WasOnceAMan: Some pale screamers remember snippets of their lives as humans and suffer horrible mental anguish. Most are disposed of by their masters. A few turn rogue and attempt to return to their former lives, only to give into their evil urges for humanoid flesh or be killed by their former family and friends.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Parzz'val]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* EvilKnockoff: Parzz'vals are created by the treacherous wizard Enkada Pishtuhk in his efforts to recreate a controllable, loyal version of Pah'draguusthlai the Devourer. Thus far, his attempts have failed. His failed creations are released into the Wasted West to wreak havoc.
* FlowerMouth: The parzz'val's mouth is a huge tripartite maw filled with jagged, web-shrouded ridges.
* HungryMenace: Parzz'vals have enough intelligence to reason and problem solve, but are largely guided by their monstrous appetites.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Primal Oozer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CombatTentacles: The barbed tentacles on the primal oozer's jaw latch on to creatures it bites and inject an oozing disease into the prey. This disease slowly liquefies the victim's skin, and eventually melts the creature completely into a new ochre jelly.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Quoreq]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TheBlank: The quoreq has no facial features, and must use their claws to rip open their own bodies and reveal their mouths when they need to eat.
* {{Tulpa}}: The quoreq is born from human misery and squalor, an agglomeration of negative and vile thoughts given form and motion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Qwyllion]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DeadlyGaze: Qwyllions are imbued with a deadly gaze attack that can transform victims into wights.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Qwyllions' large eyes glow with unearthly green light.
* TheStarscream: Anyone who dares to employ a qwyllion must be constantly vigilant, because these creatures are prone to renege on any agreement eventually.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rift Swine]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* AttackAttackAttack: A rift swine has difficulty perceiving anything smaller than itself as a threat, and attacks most other creatures on sight and fights until killed.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Eyes are spread all over a rift swine's body.
* HungryMenace: Rift swine eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sema]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* BloodKnight: Semas are cruel and seem to take great joy in jumping out of the darkness and spilling blood.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Semas have extremely sensitive eyes and prefer to live in dark places. They find excessive amounts of light distasteful, and in open sunlight they are known to keen, howl and clutch at their heads as if the very presence of the light causes them pain.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Servant of Yig]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* PoisonousPerson: The servant of Yig's unholy venom causes the body of a victim to swell until its plump flesh ruptures.
* SnakePeople: The servant of Yig is a hideous amalgam of man and snake, a fanged humanoid head with expressionless features sitting atop the shimmering coils of a snake.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shoggoth]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 19
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* BlobMonster: A shoggoth is an intelligent, gelatinous blob that can reshape itself at will.
* BrownNote: The fluting noises made by a shoggoth are otherworldly and mind-shattering.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A shoggoth can form eyes, mouths, tentacles and other appendages as needed.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Created by the elder things as servants, the shoggoths rebelled long ago and slew their masters without pity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Shoth]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
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* TheAssimilator: The singular purpose of Shoth, and therefore all the shoth, is to dissolve willing, sentient life in great bubbling pools called zolvs. When this happens, the creature wades into the thick protein bath and its body is dissolved, rising again as a vaguely-humanoid ooze.
* HiveCasteSystem: The shoth divide themselves into different castes according to their age. Newly dissolved shoth are called soozes. After a century, they earn the title oth, and serve as generals or scholars. The few who live for 500 years or more become droths, who no longer appear humanoid.
* IGaveMyWord: The shoth are true to their word. They are interested in gaining the trust of others and do not employ trickery, deception or intimidation. Once the shoth have targeted a creature or group for dissolution, they are true friends and allies.
* StarfishAliens: The shoth are an aberrant race of oozing humanoids from outside the known planes.
* WalkingTheEarth: The shoth have no home world, and wander the universe inside massive oozing vessels capable of interplanar travel.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shukankor]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ExtraEyes: A shukankor has multiple eyes that swivel about on long lime stalks.
* FeatheredFiend: These vile ratite-like aberrations use their vicious claws and beaks to kill and devour any creature they encounter.
* NoBiologicalSex: Shukankors are neither female nor male and reproduce by not dismissing their replicas. These replicas become free-thinking and separate from the parent after a day.
* SelfDuplication: The shukankor can temporarily replicate itself, creating smaller, weaker clones that obey its telepathic commands and even sacrifice themselves to protect their creator.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spawn of Arbeyach]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Spawn of Arbeyach are roughly humanoid, with some insectoid qualities like two extra arms.
* PestController: Spawn of Arbeyach can silently communicate with and give orders to all swarms of insects.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spawn of Roggsothoff]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* MushroomMan: A spawn of Roggsothof looks like a vaguely humanoid creature with a mushroom-like cap.
* TheVirus: The spawn of Roggsothof seek creatures to infect with their spores to create more of their kind.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Spawn of Roggsothof are sickened while in sunlight, and die after an hour of continuous exposure.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spider of Leng]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: These bloated purple spiders have small claws on six of their legs that serve as hands.
* PoisonousPerson: Spiders of Leng can spit venom, and their blood is poisonous and corrosive to most creatures native to the Material Plane.
!!Broodmother of Leng
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BlackWidow: Spiders of Leng often bring treasures or captives back to the broodmother's cavern to prove their worth as a mate. If a spider is deemed worthy, it is eaten, its life force and magical talents passing on to the next generation. If a spider is unworthy, it is killed and dropped into the depths of the broodmother's caverns.
* KillAllHumans: Each broodmother looks upon her brood as a personal army that shall one day wipe all humanoids from the face of the Material Plane.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stellar Rorqual]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* DefeatEqualsExplosion: When the stellar rorqual dies, it releases all of its stored solar energy in a massive explosion.
* LivingShip: A stellar rorqual can be used as a living ship to provide passage between planes. This partnership can be based on friendship or domination, depending on the method of training.
* SpaceWhale: Stellar rorqual are born, live and die in the Void between the stars.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tusked Skyfish]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
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* ElectricJellyfish: These jellyfish have a natural electrical charge.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: These aerial jellyfish waft through the air like balloons, suspended by internal alchemical reactions. This movement takes them almost vertically when they wish, or drifts with the winds. They can reach altitudes of 30000 feet.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: When fitted with special saddles, tusked skyfish can be ridden without harming their riders.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ulnorya]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ChestBurster: Ulnorya implant eggs within corpses slain by their poison. Within five days, an egg hatches into a new ulnorya.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The ulnorya combines elements of spiders, scorpions and octopodes.
* NestedMouths: The ulnorya's jagged maw reveals rows of razor teeth.
* SelfDuplication: An ulnorya can replicate itself and become its own hunting partner.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Urochar]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 17
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TheAgeless: Strangling watchers are effectively immortal. Gargantuan specimens in the deepest reaches of the underworld are several millennia old.
* CombatTentacles: An urochar slithers upright on and crushes their prey with four muscular tentacles.
* {{Cyclops}}: At the top of the urochar's writhing trunk, a great lidless eye glows with baleful orange light.
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: When a strangling watcher dies, it releases all the fear it consumed in its lifetime in a single, soul-rending wave.
* EmotionEater: Urochars feast on the fear of those caught in their crushing tentacles.
* RubberMan: Despite their size, strangling watchers are slender and boneless, and can squeeze through small passages.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vallowex]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* ChestBurster: Vallowexes release eggs into potable water. After a creature drinks the eggs, a tadpole hatches in its stomach, then slowly consumes the host from the inside out, emerging as a vallowex when the host dies.
* EyelessFace: In place of eyes, a vallowex sees through blindsight.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vangsluagh]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TooManyMouths: In place of a head, a vangsluagh has a writhing mass of hundreds of rubbery, blue-grey tentacles, each ending in an eerily human-looking mouth.
* WasOnceAMan: Creatures maddened in the shadow of Uthul Vangslagish eventually transform into vangsluagh.
* WithCatLikeTread: Vangsluagh create a din everywhere they go; the mouths on their tentacles perpetually scream, whistle, bleat, growl and cry. Even when a vangsluagh wants silence, their own bodies betray them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Voidling]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* CombatTentacles: Voidlings consist largely of lashing tendrils of solid shadow.
* DealWithTheDevil: Voidlings are summoned by those hungry for power at any cost, and serve very well for years or even decades, until one day they turn on their summoners. If they succeed in slaying their summoner, they grow in strength and return to the void.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Exactly what voidlings seek when they have not been summoned—and what triggers their betrayals—is a mystery.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wardu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DeadlyGaze: A wardu can channel magical power through its central eye.
* VampiricDraining: Wardu can only absorb sustenance from blood, no matter the species.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xenabsorber]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* CrystallineCreature: The xenabsorber's body is comprised of magically-attuned blue crystal.
* MixAndMatchCritters: At any given moment, the xenabsorber might be in its native blue crystalline state, fully disguised as a creature, or wearing aspects of many different creatures.
* PowerCopying: When it vibrates on the same magical frequency as a nearby creature, the xenabsorber can change itself to copy some trait or ability of that creature.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xhkarsh]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DemonicPossession: A xhkarsh can send a portion of its consciousness to inhabit the body of a fate-corrupted creature. The target retains control of its body, but the xhkarsh can control its actions for 1 minute each day and can modify its memories.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yann-An-Oed]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* CombatTentacles: In place of each arm, the yann-an-oed has a mass of long, writhing tentacles.
* WaddlingHead: The yann-an-oed is shaped like a bipedal frog or toad, with stumps for arms.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yavalnoi]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* InterspeciesRomance: Yavalnois are capable of procreating with almost any creature from the sea, from sahuagin, giant crabs to krakens.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: While outlined in the blue light emitted by a yavalnoi's anchor-shaped organ, a creature can't breathe underwater.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ziphius]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* KrakenAndLeviathan: The smaller ziphius vary between enormous and impossibly large; most are at least 75 feet long. The largest reported ziphius encountered was larger than the frigate it attacked and sank.
* SeaMonster: Ziphius are said to dwell in the deepest oceans, and are quickly attracted by living prey in the water. Many ships on routes where a ziphius is known to hunt keep a goat, sheep or pig aboard to throw overboard as an offering if the ziphius' distinctive dorsal fin is spotted.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zoog]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 0
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ArchEnemy: Zoogs are mortal enemies of cats, feeding on kittens at any opportunity, and they themselves are stalked by grown cats in turn. Lions, tigers, house cats, leonino and sphinxes all take any opportunity to hunt and kill a zoog.
* YouDirtyRat: While zoogs seem little more than a pest to some, they possess a devious intelligence and a willingness to scheme to their advantage. Their ability to plot and communicate makes them much more dangerous than ordinary rodents. They are prone to serving dark gods of the Void and Outer Darkness and are very willing to steal, spy and nibble away ancient bonds and seals as directed by evil wizards, clerics or monsters.
[[/folder]]
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