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[[folder:Gorgon]]

* BrutishBulls: They're foul-tempered, armor-plated bulls whose standard reaction to meeting other creatures is to attack them on sight and attempt to gore, trample or petrify them.
* MonsterOrganTrafficking: A gorgon's lungs can be used to craft items requiring either ''flesh to stone'' or ''stone to flesh'' in their creation.
* TakenForGranite: They breathe out a gas that petrifies those it comes in contact with.

[[folder:Gray Render]]
-> '''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Large

* CounterAttack: When injured, a gray render may lash out blindly against a random creature within its reach that is not its charge.
* ExtraEyes: A gray render has six eyes.
* LittleGuyBigBuddy: Their main dynamic in the game. Anything small and innocent enough has the chance to attract the attention and affection of these beasts.
* {{Protectorate}}: A gray render often develops an affectionate bond with other creatures, acting as a guardian for them, never straying more than a mile away, running to protect them if they are attacked.

[[folder:Gray Ooze]]
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-> '''Type:''' Ooze
->'''Level:''' 4 (gray and crystal ooze)

Some sages theorize that gray oozes are not living organisms, but rather the alchemical result of an unfortunate mixture of rare caustic fluids and magical waste. The digestive acid that covers these oozes dissolves metals and organic material, but not stone.

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: A gray ooze, due to its transparency, can make it dangerously easy to mistake one for a harmless-looking pile of mud.
* TheParalyzer: A crystal ooze secretes a paralysing slime.

[[folder:Grick]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration

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

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

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

[[folder:Howler]]
->'''Type:''' Fiend
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
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* BrownNote: A howler's constant howling is a grating, exhausting baying that can drive listeners insane.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Neothelid]]
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->'''Level:''' 15 (normal), 20 (overlord)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Creatures of immense power who view themselves as favored by unknowable entities from beyond the Outer Sphere. The neothelids are the spawn of the Outer God Shub-Niggurath, and one of the greatest horrors in the Darklands' depths. Much diminished from their long wars against the elder things, the aboleths, the Vault Builders and the intellect devourers, they have slowly rebuilt their power base and harbor terrible designs for Golarion's depths and surface alike.

* CannibalismSuperpower: Neothelids who consume a large number of their kin can transform into immensely powerful neothelid overlords.
* {{Expy}}: ''Not'' to the original, OGL neothelids of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (these neothelids are an aberrant part of the life cycle of the mind flayers, who are not OGL themselves and cannot be legally used in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''), but instead to the chthonians of Creator/BrianLumley's Franchise/CthulhuMythos stories: a powerful race of giant worms that live underground and are connected to the Elder Mythos.
* {{Flight}}: All neothelids can fly -- twice as fast as they can crawl, in fact -- despite not having wings.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Neothelids are technically mortal creatures, but are functionally immortal insofar as most other races are concerned -- their lifespans are measured in the tens of millennia -- and magic can easily allow them to transcend their own theoretical mortality as well. This is offset by a glacial birth rate, as neothelids are born very, very rarely. This is a significant problem for them, as they have effectively no ability to absorb losses in population and the death of even a single neothelid is a disaster, and as they simply cannot keep up with the rapidly swelling numbers of more short-lived species.
* MonstrousCannibalism: There is no food as dear to a neothelid as the flesh of its own kind. Neothelids find cannibalism to be an euphoric experience, and in their species' early days large numbers of neothelids perished to their conspecifics' hunger. This practice has almost entirely ceased in modern times, however, as modern neothelids' low numbers, slow reproduction and many, many enemies mean they cannot afford to kill one another anymore.
* MultipleHeadCase: Neothelid overlords have two heads, a manifestation of the minds of two powerful neothelids struggling for supremacy after one devoured the other.
* PsychicPowers: Neothelids are powerful telepaths, and can easily dominate the minds of other beings.
* {{Teleportation}}: All neothelids can teleport as an innate skill, and they can further track the teleportation of other beings.
* TimeAbyss: Neothelids are immensely long-lived creatures; most living individuals predate the fall of Azlant, having lived for tens of thousands of years in the dark beneath the world.

[[folder:Ochre Jelly]]
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->'''Type:''' Ooze
->'''Level:''' 5

Animate masses of protoplasm hued a sickly combination of yellow, orange, and brown. Some ancient cultures would entomb bodies with these oozes to break down the flesh and clean the bones.

* DamageDiscrimination: An ochre jelly's acid only dissolves flesh and practically nothing else.

[[folder:Otyugh]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 4

->'''Size:''' Large

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

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

[[folder:Owlbear]]
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->'''Type:''' Animal
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Owlbears are ferocious chimeras of unclear origins and violent tempers. Theories on their origins abound, but nobody actually known how the first of these bizarre monsters came to be.

* BeastOfBattle: Owlbears are often captured and trained by orcs to make powerful, if unpredictable, war animals. Most are used as mounts or basic attack beasts, but some are trained to bear small siege engines on their backs.
* DeathFromAbove: Sloth owlbears hunt by hanging from trees and waiting for suitable prey to pass below them, at which point they let go and plummet on their meal's head.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: When orcs can tame one of these beasts, they often seek to train it to bear a rider. Owlbears trained as mounts make excellent wartime steeds for obvious reasons, but are unpredictable, difficult to direct and prone to forgetting their training and turning on their riders.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A giant owl's head, arm feathers and talons on a grizzly's body. They're generally thought to have arisen as deliberate magical fusions of normal bears and owls, although exactly who did this and why is a matter of some debate.
* MonsterProgenitor: Owlbears can trace their origins to the First Owlbear, which is in fact still around, roaming the forests of the world and siring new litters of his kind on giant owls, bears and preexisting owlbears.
* MultipleChoicePast: Nobody actually knows where owlbears come from, but it hasn't stopped people from guessing. Theories include them being descended from an owl and a bear fused in an unfortunate summoning accident, the creations of a mad transmuter and simply some of the First World's weirdness that escaped into the Material Plane and went native.
* TeleporterAccident: One theory on how owlbears came to be goes that a wizard with an owl familiar summoned a bear in an area with a strong background transmutation field, accidentally fusing the two creatures and creating the first owlbear.
* UndergroundMonkey: Numerous different types of owlbear exist as a result of both natural adaption and further magical mutations:
** Arctic owlbears have snow-white fur and feathers, giving them excellent camouflage in their northern homes.
** Darklands owlbears are distinguished by their pale, discolored fur, feathers and eyes, and have darkvision.
** The Fruss owlbear has hollow bones and well-developed wings, and is capable of awkward flight.
** The great hook-clawed owlbear has large, curved talons and is a more competent climber than other varieties
** The Maelstrom is home to the highly mutable screaming owlbears, which are as much creatures of living chaos as natural animals.
** Siege owlbears are massive, vicious beasts bred for war by the orcs.
** Sleeyk owlbears are slimmer and faster than other kinds, but weaker.
** Slime owlbears are otherwise normal owlbears constantly coated in green slime.
** Sloth owlbears are tree-dwellers, and hunt by waiting for prey to pass below and dropping on top of it.
** Spectral owlbears are ethereal owlbears native to the Estrovian Forest of Mendev, and may be either undead or living owlbears capable of phasing into and from the Ethereal Plane.

[[folder:Pech]]
->'''Type:''' Fey
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Small

Subterranean fey who accidentally spawned the dero, plenty of normal pechs are still kicking around the planes. They're pretty chill as long as you don't interrupt their work.

%%* DishingOutDirt
* OurGnomesAreDifferent: They play more closely to the notion of "[[AlchemicElementals Gnomes as Earth Elemental creatures]]" than do the game's actual gnomes.

[[folder:Quickling]]
->'''Type:''' Fey
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Small

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Quicklings hate every non-quickling and barely tolerate their own kind, rarely working together for longer than a few weeks.
* InvisibilityFlicker: Quicklings are naturally invisible when motionless, they rarely contain themselves, and bob and twitch while standing and talking to other creatures.

[[folder:Remorhaz]]
->'''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

Remorhazes are arctic predators resembling immense, armored centipedes. They possess powerful internal fires, allowing them to breathe flames and melt their way through the ice, and are aggressive ambush predators. A remorhaz that lives for a century without succumbing to injury or starvation will enter a deep hibernation, during which its fires will cool and its body reshape itself, and emerge several centuries later as a frost worm.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: They look like centipedes sixty feet in length.
* BreathWeapon: They can breathe fire.
* FastTunnelling: They can burrow through solid ice at a very good clip, nearly as fast as they can run.
* PlayingWithFire: Fires burn eternally within a remorhaz's body, allowing it to breathe out gouts of flame and granting and permanently scorching aura.

[[folder:Retriever]]
->'''Type:''' Construct
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Abyssal constructs built to hunt down those who betray their demonic masters.

* AnimalMecha: The retriever is a large, spider-like construct built by demon lords.
* EyeBeams: The retriever's eyes can fire four kinds of magical rays, each with a different effect.
* FleshGolem: Retrievers are made from the protoplasmic flesh of the Outer Rifts.
* GiantSpider: The retriever isn't a spider itself, but it's made in the shape of an elephant-sized spider.
* LightningGun: One of its eye rays' firing modes is a jolt of electricity.
* TakenForGranite: A retriever can petrify enemies permanently with one of its deadly magical rays.

[[folder:Roper]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 10

->'''Size:''' Large

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

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

[[folder:Rust Monster]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_rust_monster.jpg]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 3 (normal), 6 (rust lord)

->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Large (rust lord)

Monsters greatly feared not for what they do to people, but what they do to treasure and equipment.

* MetalMuncher: Rust monsters feed on metal, "digesting" it by very rapidly corroding it.
* MooksAteMyEquipment: Rust monsters aren't terribly powerful creatures and can't do much to a player on their own; their main danger comes from their ability to quickly turn a party's worth of high-end gear into a pile of rust.

[[folder:Shadow]]
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->'''Type:''' Undead
->'''Level:''' 3 (normal), 8 (greater)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Commonly found haunting tombs or other dark, abandoned places, shadows drain the life out of anyone they encounter to create more of their kind.

* BossInMookClothing: Greater shadows are visually indistinguishable from regular shadows, but their CR is six levels higher.
* DemonicPossession: Some greater shadows develop the ability to possess a body.
* DemonicSpiders: Between their immunity to mundane attacks, resistance to magical attacks, and dangerous strength-draining touch (where a few unlucky rolls can quickly make it hard to fight back or even run away), they can be very hard for low-level parties that can't TurnUndead to deal with.
* EvilIsPetty: Shadows can arise spontaneously from people whose evil deeds were small, sordid, and self-serving.
* ForTheEvulz: It's noted that shadows have no discernible goals or motivation for what they do -- they hunt living beings, drain the life from them and turn them into more shadows enslaved to their will because they want to.
* LivingShadow: Well, undead. Shadows are just that -- two-dimensional black silhouettes that move over solid surfaces but have no physical presence of their own.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: They can be created with the Create Undead spell, and that combined with their low intelligence and ability to generate spawn makes them a popular minion for necromancers.
* TheVirus: Most shadows don't arise spontaneously, but because people killed by shadows become shadows.

[[folder:Shambling Mound (Shambler)]]
->'''Type:''' Plant
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Masses of vegetation formed after parasitic spores from Akiton infect and grow within an organic host.

* ManEatingPlant: Shamblers are intelligent, carnivorous plants with a fondness for elf flesh in particular.

[[folder:Slithering Tracker]]
->'''Type:''' Ooze
->'''Level:''' 4

->'''Size:''' Small

* TheParalyzer: Any creature that is hit by a slithering tracker's slam comes into contact with the anesthetising slime it secretes.

[[folder:Stirge (Bloodseeker)]]
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->'''Type:''' Animal
->'''Level:''' 0 (standard), 2 (giant), 3 (swarm)

Scourges of swamps and damp, abandoned places, bloodseekers are ravenous blood drinkers.

Their 1e stats can be found in ''Bestiary'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/stirge/ here]].

Their 2e stats can be found in ''Bestiary (2e)'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=51 here]].

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: They serve as a fantastic but nonmagical stand-in for mosquitoes, vampire bats, and other flying blood-drinking animals.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: The Court of Ether breeds bloodseekers to enormous sizes to serve as cavalry mounts for warriors without wings.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: ''Stirge'' is the name used by ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and thus by ''Pathfinder'' after it split off as its own thing. In 2nd Edition, it was officially renamed ''bloodseeker'', a name that can be legally used in non-OGL products.

[[folder:Thessalhydra]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Legendary beasts renowned for their speed and savagery.

* AcidAttack: A thessalhydra's snake heads can spit highly corrosive acid.
* MultipleHeadCase: A thessalhydra has eight serpentine heads arrayed around a central maw.
* OurHydrasAreDifferent: While not true hydras in-game, thessalhydras resemble monstrous and warped versions of their namesakes, being hulking, quadrupedal reptiles with necks topped with a gaping, jawless maw ringed with writhing snake necks.

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

->'''Size:''' Tiny

Tiny predators from the Ethereal Plane that feed on thoughts.

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

[[folder:Vampiric Mist]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

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

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

[[folder:Vegepygmy]]

->'''Level:''' 0

->'''Size:''' Small

When creatures are killed by an infection of russet mold their corpses will split open to disgorge a group of vegepygmies, dangerous humanoid plant creatures with surprising intelligence.

* MushroomMan: Vegepygmies are very humanoid, and are born from russet mould.
* SpawnBroodling: Vegepymies are born from corpses of victims killed by a dangerous fungus called russet mould.
* TheSpeechless: They lack the necessary organs for speech, and cannot produce sounds beyond a few limited squeaks and hisses. Consequently, their language consists mostly of touches and pheromone secretions.

!!Thorny
-> '''Type:''' Fungus
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Medium

Quadrupedal, vaguely doglike fungal creatures often found alongside vegepygmies, thornies secrete a paralytic toxin used by their masters to help subdue victims. Creatures subjected to russet mold while thorny venom lingers in their systems have a small chance of producing thorny offspring.

* TheParalyzer: They inject a weak paralyzing agent through their spikes.
* SpikeShooter: They can launch clusters of their venomous thorns up to thirty feet away.
* TheSpiny: A thorny's thorny hide causes any creature that grapples it to take piercing damage and be exposed to its toxin.

[[folder:Violet Fungus]]
-> '''Type:''' Fungus
->'''Level:''' 3

* MakeThemRot: A violet fungi's tendrils are coated with a virulent venom that causes flesh to rot and decay. If left untreated, it can cause the flesh of an entire limb to drop away in no time at all, leaving behind only bones that soon rot as well.

[[folder:Viper Vine]]
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-> '''Type:''' Plant
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large
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* ManEatingPlant: Viper vines gain nourishment through the consumption of creatures rather than through moisture and soil, and the area around their hunting grounds is often strewn with the remains of wild animals, ill-fated adventurers, and even giants.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing]]

->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Stealthy predators that puppeteer corpses as bait for future prey.

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

[[folder:Worm That Walks]]
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-> '''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

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

[[folder:Lich]]
!!Lich
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-> '''Type:''' Undead
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Any Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

The [[TheUsualAdversaries de-facto]] [[HijackedByGanon main antagonists]] of pretty much everything, Liches are the ultimate examples of Arcane Magic and all of its pitfalls.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: A justified example, as the ritual to become a lich is said to be unspeakably evil, and, while they don't go into detail, the implication is that performing it counts as an in-universe MoralEventHorizon. That said, a lich ''could'' presumably make a HeelFaceTurn ''after'' becoming a lich.
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Liches that don't meet violent ends eventually vanish altogether as even the Great Beyond becomes mundane and small to them, sending them on a journey to find something more.
* BigBad: As they have a minimum CR of 13 and work more as masterminds than brute fighters, they tend to play this role. The various rulebooks explicitly talk about how they work best as campaign villains and behind-the-scenes masterminds and function poorly as wandering monsters.
* CrazyPrepared: Centuries to plan, an incredible intelligence, and the patience of an immortal tends to result in dozens of layered plans and contingences.
* EnemyMine: The most common allies of older liches are other liches who were once their enemies. After all, who knows you better than someone who's tried to kill you for a hundred years?
* EvilGenius: Becoming a lich is not an easy task, requiring both a cunning intellect and deep knowledge of oneself. Not to mention, becoming a lich grants a permenant buff to all mental ability scores.
* EvilSorcerer: The lich template requires an 11+ level caster level and makes people evil, so if you weren't one of these before you tried to become a lich for some reason it'll take care of that.
* HiveMind: A horde lich looks like a skeleton packed with too many bones. In combat, they peel off, expand and reassemble into another nimble skeletal form. Regardless of the number, the single lich mind controls them all, and if any of them survive an encounter, they can rebuild the whole given enough time and raw materials.
* HumanNotepad: Runecarved liches use their rotting forms to hold magical secrets, hiding precious tomes in their ribcage, inscribing formulae on their withered flesh, even replacing some bones with powerful magical items.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Mind control usually, as their paranoia simply won't allow them to give their minions the freedom needed to potentially turn against them. The tend to prefer [[MechaMooks constructs]] and [[NightOfTheLivingMooks undead]] as minions because of this.
* IntriguedByHumanity: Some choose to wander rather than bunker down, exploring the world to see the delights it holds. Given their lifespan, they can wander all over the world and return where they started to find it changed and start the journey again.
* LeanAndMean: Liches don't decay, but because they no longer eat they begin to desiccate to the point where movement snaps tendons and tears skin.
* ManBehindTheMan: Older liches will occasionally engage in elaborate proxy wars as their goals conflict, with no one on either side ever realizing who was pulling the strings.
* MeaningfulName: It's an Old English word for "corpse". Simple, but to the point.
* {{Necromancer}}: Not a hard and fast rule, but yeah, most Liches are this.
* NoSell: All liches gain immunity to cold and electricity damage with their transformation.
* OnlyAFleshWound: The magic that animates them functions regardless of the state of their body, allowing them to walk as easily on broken bones and shredded muscles as with a fully intact body.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Pretty classic.
* TheParalyzer: One of their less used powers is a paralyzing touch, as the standard lich has better things to do (like casting powerful spells) than trying to poke people.
* ProperlyParanoid: One of the neuroses that liches develop over time is a paranoia that mortals seek to destroy them. They aren't exactly wrong, but the actions they end up taking to ensure such an event never comes to pass often creates a SelfFulfillingProphecy.
* SanitySlippage: No matter how well-intentioned a lich was going into the process, the passing centuries take their toll on a mind. It starts when the pleasures of heightened clarity and no need for sleep begin to pale, eventually graduating into an inability to remember any of the short lived beings except those who sought to destroy them as centuries of memories pile up. This leads to a cycle of madness and obsessive paranoia before they calm themselves and return to rationality, a cycle that becomes ever shorter the longer they exist. Eventually liches fall permanently into obsessive hatred of the living or utter apathy.
* SecretWar: Due to their incredible patience, conflicts between liches are rarely something known to the world at large.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: As they accomplish their goals only to find them small land naïve compared to their new potential, compounded by ther gradual inability to care about living creatures, their goals become grander and less concerned with mortals life.
* SoulJar: Liches hide their souls within artifacts known as soul cages, and cannot be permanently killed as long as their soul cage is intact.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: They have a fear aura that leaves foes within 60 feet shaken.
* SupervillainLair: Most liches have a liar, though the form can vary wildly. Some are invisible and floating in the clouds, some are subterranean mazes, and some exist only in the minds of sleeping giants.
* TheUsualAdversaries: There has yet to be an Adventure Path without a lich in it at some point.
* TimeAbyss: They are functionally immortal and think nothing of setting plans that will take many lifetimes to complete.
* UnwittingPawn: Liches like to use adventurers as these, as they don't tend to look to closely at who's paying them to retrieve this artefact or kill that monster.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: They suffer from a tendency to eventually lose all interest in the world around them and many become demiliches from pure apathy.
* WeAreAsMayflies: The immense spans of time over which liches exist eventually cause them to effectively lose the ability to value mortals as individual beings -- when entire generations of a family can be born and die over the duration of what a lich considers a brief personal retreat, it can be difficult to remain invested in the lives of individuals.
* {{Workaholic}}: Becoming a lich isn't something that can be idly studied, it requires an obsessive level of study that leaves little time for things like friendship or love.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Gold means little to liches except as a tool. They think nothing of carrying items worth many thousands of gold on their person, using their vast fortunes to manipulate the petty wealth-obsessed mortals rather than for the sake of having money.

!!Psychic Lich
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Any Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

Rather than live in seclusion, psychic liches embrace their personal accomplishments to create a powerful astral echo of themselves.

* AchillesHeel: Not only do they not gain the usual undead immunity to mind-altering effects, they actually lose any such immunities if the base creature had them.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Reading a physic lich's memoir hastens their regeneration and may even instantly restore them if they were close enough. It also restore itself if it is destroyed before the astral echo is.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Psychic liches are entirely obsessed with themselves, succumbing to egomania and self-obsession that few other creatures can match.
* MindRape: Their Bewildering Touch ability leaves targets with a permanent confused condition as their brain continuously sends false signals.
* MotionBlur: Every movement of an astral lich is accompanies by blurry echoes that display their past actions.
* NoSell: Any mental effect that it passed a save against does nothing, even if the spell would normally do something even on a passed save.
* SoulJar: Astral liches create a personal memoir of their past to project their personal legend into the Astral Plane. Destroying this echo destroys them, which requires using the memoir to plane shift to the astral echo. Unless it is destroyed, the astral lich will simply reform after their death at a location central to their past.

!!Familial Lich
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 0
->'''Alignment:''' Any Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

Liches that bind themselves to their bloodline rather than a soul cage.

* AntiMagic: They have weaker damage reduction than normal liches, but gain spell resistance.
* TheParalyzer: Like normal liches they have a paralyzing touch.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Rather than grow a new body, familial liches become disembodies spirits that seek out their nearest direct relative, which can be descendants, lineal ancestors, or siblings. They then possess such an individual, and after a period of DemonicPossession, eject the relative's soul and transform them body and mind into the lich.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: Just like normal liches, they have a fear aura.

!!Forsaken Lich
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Any Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

Not all creatures who attempt to become liches are successful. Those who fail sometimes become forsaken liches, with their soul trapped outside the body it was severed from but unable to bind to a soul cage.

* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: The area 100 feet around a forsaken lich is filled with an ever-shifting illusionary landscape of its darkest dreams, failed ambitions, and enraged insanity.
* AttackReflector: Any spell that fails to penetrate the forsaken lich's spell resistance is turned back on the caster.
* DeathRay: A forsaken lich can channel the destructive energies constantly bombarding it, firing a powerful beam of energy that does untyped damage and paralyzes those it hits. And when we say "can," we mean "has to or else those energies will deal damage to it."
* HealingHands: The Disembodied Strike ability used by the forsaken lich's severed soul can be used to heal its physical body.
* TwoBeingsOneBody: Sort of. The forsaken lich's severed soul constantly flits around and overlaps with it, effectively acting as a single creature. This ephemeral phantom makes it harder to actually hit the forsaken lich as it obscures it actual location and can act independently to touch other creatures and inflict negative energy damage.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Becoming a forsaken lich is a terrible but temporary fate. The arcane storm of energy that animates it wears down both body and soul within a few days, reducing the body to dust and obliterating the soul.

!!Lich Creature
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 1
->'''Alignment:''' Any Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

Beings who do not follow the path of lichdom but manage to bind themselves strongly enough to an item for it to function as a soul cage. This template can be applied to any living creature, changing its type to undead.

* TheParalyzer: Lich creatures have a paralyzing touch, just like normal liches. Given that creatures can become a lich creature without as much effort as becoming a true lich, and as such don't necessarily have the same high proficiency in magic that a true lich does, they tend to use it more.
* SoulJar: They have a soul cage, though it becomes their soul cage due to their connection to it rather than them setting out to create one. This means they don't really get to pick their soul cage, and as such are more limited in their methods for protecting it.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: They have a fear aura that leaves foes within 60 feet shaken, just like true liches.

!!Demilich
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/demilich_pathfinder.png]]
-> '''Type:''' Undead
->'''Level:''' 14 (16 if awakened)
->'''Alignment:''' Evil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Liches that fall into inactivity will crumble to pieces over time, leaving only a gem-studded skull infused with the remaining fragments of their mind and magical power.

* AndIMustScream: Demiliches are liches that, through [[TimeAbyss uncountable centuries]] of madness and isolation, have been reduced to little more than ravenous, mindless beasts.
* {{Antimagic}}: They have magic immunity in the same vein as golems, with a few exceptions like ''holy smite''.
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Some demiliches are created when a lich casts its consciousness free of its body to wander other planes and realities, leaving their body to crumble.
* {{Curse}}: They have an ability called Greater Bestow curse, which can afflict victims with curses like -12 to an ability score or -8 to all attacks, saves, and skill checks.
* DemBones: Nothing more than a floating skull.
* DontWakeTheSleeper: They spend their time in a torpor unless their remains or treasure are disturbed. Given how incredibly deadly they can be if roused, only an idiot would try to wake one up.
* DumbassNoMore: Unfortunately, this is due to being in a dream state, which the demilich can wake up from; advanced demiliches are the few who have regained their minds, combining their [[AlmightyIdiot raw power]] with most of their [[GeniusBruiser old intelligence and ambition]].
* HolyBurnsEvil: To fully destroy a demilich, holy water must be pours on its remains while it's in the area of a ''hallow'' spell, after which it must be targeted with ''dispel evil'' or ''holy word''. If this isn't done, the supposedly vanquished demilich simply reforms within a few days.
* LastChanceToQuit: When roused from its torpor, a demilich rises up to use its ''wail of the banshee'' once, then settles back down. Only if the offenders continue disturbing it does it rise up with the intent to kill.
* MindOverMatter: They can churn up their surroundings into a telekinetic storm that can last indefinitely, or at least until it looses interest.
* OffWithHisHead: Vorpal weapons automatically penetrate all of a demilich's defenses, despite vorpal swords being made to cut off heads and the demilich being nothing but.
* SoulEating: They can consume the souls trapped in their gems to heal themselves.
* SoulJar: Formerly, but not anymore. As a lich's body crumbles so too does their soul cage.
* SuperScream: Their dreaded ''wail of the banshee'', available three levels before the players get anything of that caliber, deals about 200 damage, and the demilich can use it every round.
* YourSoulIsMine: Demiliches can rip souls directly out of living creatures and trap them in one of their gems, with the now-soulless body crumbling to dust in a single round. Souls trapped in this way can't be restored to death unless the demilich is destroyed and the gem holding it crushed.

[[folder:Lurking Ray]]

->'''Level:''' 2 (executioner's hood), 7 (lurker above), 8 (trapper)

->'''Size:''' Tiny (executioner's hood), huge (lurker above, trapper)

Originally three distinct creatures in D&D, Pathfinder 1e consolidates them into a single species of aberration with multiple distinct stages to its life cycle.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: The females of this species have one more CR than the males.

[[folder:Metallic Dragon]]
The wise, [[AlwaysLawfulGood good-aligned]] [[GoodCounterpart counterparts]] of the chromatic dragons, older metallic dragons are some of the most world-shakingly powerful beings on Golarion. [[GoodIsImpotent Now if only they would do something...]]

* BreathWeapon: Unlike chromatic dragons, metallics get two breath weapons: one that deals direct damage and one that induces a status effect.
* FaceHeelTurn: Metallic dragons will sometime fall to corruption and evil, an event dragons call a "tarnishing".
* GoldSilverCopperStandard: Gold dragons are the most powerful and respected of the metallics, followed by silver dragons, then bronze dragons, and finally brass and copper dragons. They also follow this as an informal social system of sorts, with gold dragons generally being the most influential and respected among the metallic breeds.

!!Gold Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_gold_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"In a world ever in flux, it is the unmistakably powerful golds who seem to remain unchanging fixtures within it."]]
-> '''Type:''' Dragon
->'''Level:''' 7-23
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

The metallics ''par excellence'', gold dragons are creatures of immense power and boundless paternalistic benevolence, keeping the company of celestial beings and seeing the rest of mortalkind as children in need of guidance.

* AlwaysLawfulGood: Gold dragons are, among all the metallic dragons, the least likely to ever tarnish away from empathy and benevolence. In fact, such an event only ever happened once in recorded history, and the dwarves who eventually found the tarnished gold's body even thought they had discovered a new breed of chromatic "yellow dragons" rather than a fallen metallic.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: Their ageless wisdom can allow them to reason with their enemies and turn them into allies or abandon their evil ways. Learning to use this trope wisely becomes a major theme in ''[[VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous Pathfinder: Wrath of The Righteous]]'' during the Golden Dragon Mythic Path.
* GoodIsNotDumb: They're typically clever enough to know when to know when someone is too far gone to be redeemed and needs to be taken down.
* KnockoutGas: Older dragons can use these instead of their fire breath to incapacitate their enemies.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Unlike other metallics, they are borderline immune to falling to madness. They can even lead other dragons who are in the process of falling back to lucidity.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Their main shtick is hunting down evil, no matter where it lurks. Unfortunately, this makes them the most likely of the metallic dragons to go [[TautologicalTemplar off the deep end]].
* LightEmUp: Ancient and older gold dragons can cast ''sunburst'' as spell-like ability at will.
* LightIsGood: The golds are the most noble dragons and the ones most associated with light.
* MyGrandsonMyself: Gold dragons often take on humanoid guises to blend into other species' societies; however, since most dragons will outlive even the most long-lived elves by millennia, they generally need to at least put on a pretense of aging. While golds will generally fake their own deaths once their "lifetimes" are up, ones particularly attached to their guises will pose as their own children, grandchildren and so on. While this tends to work fine at first, their neighbors tend to catch wise to there being something fishy going on after a few generations of single people suddenly producing grown children out of nowhere.
* TheParagon: They're always ready to stand against great evil, but one of their favorite passtimes is inspiring others to find the courge and strength to battle evil themselves.
* PlayingWithFire: Their BreathWeapon is a cone of fire, and as they age they develop of fiery aura as well.
* TheRedeemer: If a villain has a shred of humanity left in their heart, a gold dragon will try its best to bring it out and redeem them.

!!Silver Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_silver_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Some humans mistakenly call silver dragons the paladins of dragons, but doing so ignores the very fact that silver dragons existed long before paladins and follow codes more limiting than humans can fathom."]]
-> '''Type:''' Dragon
->'''Level:''' 6-22
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Silver dragons are knights and crusaders, devoting their lives to fighting evil and championing goodness. Their immensely strict codes of ethics help ensure that they live up to the lofty ideals they hold... but silver dragons fall more often than any other metallic dragons, and when they fall they fall ''hard''.

* AnIcePerson: Their BreathWeapon is a cone of freezing air, and they gain a damaging aura of cold as they age.
* CloserToEarth: They have probably the best understanding of the Humanoid races they protect out of all the metallic dragons.
* TheFettered: Silver dragons live, largely voluntarily, under incredibly strict codes and traditions governing almost every facet of their lives, and only allow themselves to undertake important actions -- crusading, warring, meditating, praying, hunting, mating -- for very specific reasons, at very specific times and/or in very specific, ritualized manners. They even used to have strictures governing how and when they were allowed to ''defecate'', until a scandalized copper dragon petitioned a council of golds to have these lifted.
* FaceHeelTurn: Silvers are more prone to tarnishing and slipping into uncaring neutrality or outright evil than any other type of metallic dragon -- although it's still a rare thing, in absolute terms -- which some theorize is linked to their obsession with imposing strict rules and codes of conduct upon themselves.
* TheParalyzer: Their ''other'' BreathWeapon allows them to be this, paralyzing anyone who fails their saving throw.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Technically, most dragons can Polymorph. That said, silver dragons are the only ones that respect other races enough to do it on any kind of regular basis.
* SolidClouds: They can walk on clouds as if they were solid ground.

!!Brass Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_brass_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"A brass dragon knows everyone worth knowing in the nearby cities, and many not worth knowing."]]
-> '''Type:''' Dragon
->'''Level:''' 3-19
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

Brass dragons are intensely social creatures, and greatly enjoy the company of other dragons and of humanoids alike. They frequently visit human cities, rarely bothering to conceal their true forms when doing so, and form enormous social networks around themselves that they use to keep tabs on the communities they are part of.

* DishingOutDirt: Brass dragons have the ability to control sand and summon sandstorms.
* ForcedSleep: Their secondary breath weapon is a cloud of sleep-inducing gas.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: The natural gaiety and light-heartedness of brasses often leads to them being perceived as foolish and scatterbrained simpletons, an image they deliberately cultivate to lead their opponents to underestimate them.
%%* ThePhilosopher
* PlayingWithFire: They breathe fire, and gain a fiery damaging aura as they age.
* SummonMagic: Brass dragon great wyrms can summon a noble djinni once a day.

!!Copper Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_copper_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Those with a mission of mercy to perform, a tyrant to overthrow, or a wrong to right cannot hope to find a more enthusiastic supporter than a copper dragon -- [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny for a time]]."]]
-> '''Type:''' Dragon
->'''Level:''' 4-20
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

Mercurial, emotional and intensely freedom-loving, copper dragons are the most inconstant members of the metallic sept -- while their sense of morality is as strong as any metallic's, their attention span is quite low and often prevents them from fully devoting themselves to whichever case they've impulsively sworn themselves to. They're also quite emotional, and the most likely metallics to rampage.

* AcidAttack: Their BreathWeapon is a line of acid.
* BrownNote: A great wyrm copper dragon can tell a joke so funny you die laughing if you hear it.
* TheGadfly: They enjoy a good joke and are generally quite quick to politely point out flaws in plans. They also enjoy annoying and frustrating enemies when fighting, and have a number of abilities themed around forcing others to laugh.
* ThePrankster: Of the non-malicious sort, considering they are good aligned.
* WeakButSkilled: They are the weakest of the metallic dragons by a fair margin, but tend to also be quite quick-witted and creative, even by Dragon [[SuperIntelligence standards]].

!!Bronze Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_bronze_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"You can trust a bronze dragon with your secrets, your gold, your dearest treasures. A bronze would rather die than betray that trust"]]
-> '''Type:''' Dragon
->'''Level:''' 5-21
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Bronze dragons are hermits among the metallics, rarely seeking to involve themselves in the affairs of the wider world and preferring to spend their time reading and researching in their lairs. They also frequently act as guardians of precious or dangerous objects, as they have few objections to sitting in one place for years at a time to stand watch over their charge.
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* TheHermit: Bronze dragons are the least sociable of the metallics and prefer to spend their time alone with their books and research, often spending years or decades at a time holed up in seclusion before being forced to return to society to acquire new reading material.
* MakingASplash: Bronze dragons are the most aquatic of the standard dragons, and gain a number of water-related abilities as they age, culminating in the ability to create vortexes and tidal waves.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Solitary, even by dragon standards, but firmly good nonetheless.
* ShockAndAwe: Their BreathWeapon is a line of electricity. In addition, old bronze dragons are surrounded by an electrified aura that damages those close to them.

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

->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Huge (failed apotheosis)

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

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

[[folder:Mohrg]]
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-> '''Type:''' Undead
->'''Level:''' 8 (normal), 12 (demonic)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Powerful and dangerous undead that rise from the corpses of those who killed many people while alive, such as mass murderers or berserkers.

* CallingCard: If they had a preferred method of killing in life, they will often employ it in undeath.
* DemBones: They resemble normal undead skeletons, except with a mass of writhing, prehensile entrails filling their torsos and extending up and out of their mouths.
* ItCanThink: Despite their desperate need to kill they employ tactics, picking off the most dangerous opponent first and preferring to strike at isolated targets.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: They arise from a serial killer who is executed for their crimes, meaning a party catching a killer and handing them over to the proper authorities can create a much worse monster than they stopped.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Anyone they kill turns into a zombie, and their favorite trick is to make them pretend to be dead until they have a small army buried in the local graveyard.
* OverlyLongTongue: Their intestines reform and extend up through their mouth to act as a grotesque ten-foot long tongue.
* TheParalyzer: Their tongue paralyzes people, and they take particular satisfaction in the helplessness of their victims.
* SerialKiller: Mohrgs arise from people who were these in life, and becoming undead strengthens their urge to kill.
* UndergroundMonkey: Certain specific variants of mohrg, each with its own unique abilities, can arise from the bodies of murderers executed under specific conditions:
** Desert mohrgs arise from the bodies of killers executed through exposure in hot, arid environments, and their victims rise as burning skeletons rather than as zombies.
** Frost mohrgs, by contrast, are created from murderers killed by exposure to cold. They retain most of their flesh -- although black with frostbite -- and deals cold damage in melee.
** Fleshwalker mohrgs are created from nonviolent executions that do not mar the body. Their flesh does not rot, meaning it's often impossible to determine their true nature until their tentacular entrails come slithering out of their mouths.
** Mohrg-mothers are a particularly horrific variant formed when the executed murderer was a pregnant mother. In this case, the resultant mohrg will have the undead remnants of its fetuses or embryos still clinging to its guts, and will possess the ability to turn one victim per day into another mohrg instead of a zombie.

[[folder:Mu Spore]]
->'''Type:''' Fungus
->'''Level:''' 21
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Titanic flying creatures who live in the Darklands.

* ThatsNoMoon: The Midnight Mountains, one of the [[BeneathTheEarth Vaults of Orv]], are lit by six large, glowing "moons" -- which are, in fact, six very, very large glowing mu spores.

[[folder:Necrophidius]]
->'''Type:''' Construct

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

Stealthy but simple minded constructs capable of disabling opponents with paralysis or hypnotism.

* AnimalMecha: These constructs are made in the shape of a skeletal snake.

[[folder:Neothelid]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neothelid.png]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 15 (normal), 20 (overlord)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Creatures of immense power who view themselves as favored by unknowable entities from beyond the Outer Sphere. The neothelids are the spawn of the Outer God Shub-Niggurath, and one of the greatest horrors in the Darklands' depths. Much diminished from their long wars against the elder things, the aboleths, the Vault Builders and the intellect devourers, they have slowly rebuilt their power base and harbor terrible designs for Golarion's depths and surface alike.

* CannibalismSuperpower: Neothelids who consume a large number of their kin can transform into immensely powerful neothelid overlords.
* {{Expy}}: ''Not'' to the original, OGL neothelids of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (these neothelids are an aberrant part of the life cycle of the mind flayers, who are not OGL themselves and cannot be legally used in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''), but instead to the chthonians of Creator/BrianLumley's Franchise/CthulhuMythos stories: a powerful race of giant worms that live underground and are connected to the Elder Mythos.
* {{Flight}}: All neothelids can fly -- twice as fast as they can crawl, in fact -- despite not having wings.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Neothelids are technically mortal creatures, but are functionally immortal insofar as most other races are concerned -- their lifespans are measured in the tens of millennia -- and magic can easily allow them to transcend their own theoretical mortality as well. This is offset by a glacial birth rate, as neothelids are born very, very rarely. This is a significant problem for them, as they have effectively no ability to absorb losses in population and the death of even a single neothelid is a disaster, and as they simply cannot keep up with the rapidly swelling numbers of more short-lived species.
* MonstrousCannibalism: There is no food as dear to a neothelid as the flesh of its own kind. Neothelids find cannibalism to be an euphoric experience, and in their species' early days large numbers of neothelids perished to their conspecifics' hunger. This practice has almost entirely ceased in modern times, however, as modern neothelids' low numbers, slow reproduction and many, many enemies mean they cannot afford to kill one another anymore.
* MultipleHeadCase: Neothelid overlords have two heads, a manifestation of the minds of two powerful neothelids struggling for supremacy after one devoured the other.
* PsychicPowers: Neothelids are powerful telepaths, and can easily dominate the minds of other beings.
* {{Teleportation}}: All neothelids can teleport as an innate skill, and they can further track the teleportation of other beings.
* TimeAbyss: Neothelids are immensely long-lived creatures; most living individuals predate the fall of Azlant, having lived for tens of thousands of years in the dark beneath the world.

[[folder:Ochre Jelly]]
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->'''Type:''' Ooze
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Animate masses of protoplasm hued a sickly combination of yellow, orange, and brown. Some ancient cultures would entomb bodies with these oozes to break down the flesh and clean the bones.

* DamageDiscrimination: An ochre jelly's acid only dissolves flesh and practically nothing else.

[[folder:Otyugh]]

->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

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

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

[[folder:Owlbear]]
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_owlbear.png]]
->'''Type:''' Animal
->'''Level:''' 4

->'''Size:''' Large

Owlbears are ferocious chimeras of unclear origins and violent tempers. Theories on their origins abound, but nobody actually known how the first of these bizarre monsters came to be.

* BeastOfBattle: Owlbears are often captured and trained by orcs to make powerful, if unpredictable, war animals. Most are used as mounts or basic attack beasts, but some are trained to bear small siege engines on their backs.
* DeathFromAbove: Sloth owlbears hunt by hanging from trees and waiting for suitable prey to pass below them, at which point they let go and plummet on their meal's head.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: When orcs can tame one of these beasts, they often seek to train it to bear a rider. Owlbears trained as mounts make excellent wartime steeds for obvious reasons, but are unpredictable, difficult to direct and prone to forgetting their training and turning on their riders.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A giant owl's head, arm feathers and talons on a grizzly's body. They're generally thought to have arisen as deliberate magical fusions of normal bears and owls, although exactly who did this and why is a matter of some debate.
* MonsterProgenitor: Owlbears can trace their origins to the First Owlbear, which is in fact still around, roaming the forests of the world and siring new litters of his kind on giant owls, bears and preexisting owlbears.
* MultipleChoicePast: Nobody actually knows where owlbears come from, but it hasn't stopped people from guessing. Theories include them being descended from an owl and a bear fused in an unfortunate summoning accident, the creations of a mad transmuter and simply some of the First World's weirdness that escaped into the Material Plane and went native.
* TeleporterAccident: One theory on how owlbears came to be goes that a wizard with an owl familiar summoned a bear in an area with a strong background transmutation field, accidentally fusing the two creatures and creating the first owlbear.
* UndergroundMonkey: Numerous different types of owlbear exist as a result of both natural adaption and further magical mutations:
** Arctic owlbears have snow-white fur and feathers, giving them excellent camouflage in their northern homes.
** Darklands owlbears are distinguished by their pale, discolored fur, feathers and eyes, and have darkvision.
** The Fruss owlbear has hollow bones and well-developed wings, and is capable of awkward flight.
** The great hook-clawed owlbear has large, curved talons and is a more competent climber than other varieties
** The Maelstrom is home to the highly mutable screaming owlbears, which are as much creatures of living chaos as natural animals.
** Siege owlbears are massive, vicious beasts bred for war by the orcs.
** Sleeyk owlbears are slimmer and faster than other kinds, but weaker.
** Slime owlbears are otherwise normal owlbears constantly coated in green slime.
** Sloth owlbears are tree-dwellers, and hunt by waiting for prey to pass below and dropping on top of it.
** Spectral owlbears are ethereal owlbears native to the Estrovian Forest of Mendev, and may be either undead or living owlbears capable of phasing into and from the Ethereal Plane.

[[folder:Pech]]
->'''Type:''' Fey
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Subterranean fey who accidentally spawned the dero, plenty of normal pechs are still kicking around the planes. They're pretty chill as long as you don't interrupt their work.

%%* DishingOutDirt
* OurGnomesAreDifferent: They play more closely to the notion of "[[AlchemicElementals Gnomes as Earth Elemental creatures]]" than do the game's actual gnomes.

[[folder:Quickling]]
->'''Type:''' Fey
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Quicklings hate every non-quickling and barely tolerate their own kind, rarely working together for longer than a few weeks.
* InvisibilityFlicker: Quicklings are naturally invisible when motionless, they rarely contain themselves, and bob and twitch while standing and talking to other creatures.

[[folder:Remorhaz]]
->'''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 7

->'''Size:''' Huge

Remorhazes are arctic predators resembling immense, armored centipedes. They possess powerful internal fires, allowing them to breathe flames and melt their way through the ice, and are aggressive ambush predators. A remorhaz that lives for a century without succumbing to injury or starvation will enter a deep hibernation, during which its fires will cool and its body reshape itself, and emerge several centuries later as a frost worm.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: They look like centipedes sixty feet in length.
* BreathWeapon: They can breathe fire.
* FastTunnelling: They can burrow through solid ice at a very good clip, nearly as fast as they can run.
* PlayingWithFire: Fires burn eternally within a remorhaz's body, allowing it to breathe out gouts of flame and granting and permanently scorching aura.

[[folder:Retriever]]
->'''Type:''' Construct
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Abyssal constructs built to hunt down those who betray their demonic masters.

* AnimalMecha: The retriever is a large, spider-like construct built by demon lords.
* EyeBeams: The retriever's eyes can fire four kinds of magical rays, each with a different effect.
* FleshGolem: Retrievers are made from the protoplasmic flesh of the Outer Rifts.
* GiantSpider: The retriever isn't a spider itself, but it's made in the shape of an elephant-sized spider.
* LightningGun: One of its eye rays' firing modes is a jolt of electricity.
* TakenForGranite: A retriever can petrify enemies permanently with one of its deadly magical rays.

[[folder:Roper]]

->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

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

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

[[folder:Rust Monster]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_rust_monster.jpg]]

->'''Level:''' 3 (normal), 6 (rust lord)

->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Large (rust lord)

Monsters greatly feared not for what they do to people, but what they do to treasure and equipment.

* MetalMuncher: Rust monsters feed on metal, "digesting" it by very rapidly corroding it.
* MooksAteMyEquipment: Rust monsters aren't terribly powerful creatures and can't do much to a player on their own; their main danger comes from their ability to quickly turn a party's worth of high-end gear into a pile of rust.

[[folder:Shadow]]
[[quoteright:274:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shadow_01.png]]
->'''Type:''' Undead
->'''Level:''' 3 (normal), 8 (greater)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Commonly found haunting tombs or other dark, abandoned places, shadows drain the life out of anyone they encounter to create more of their kind.

* BossInMookClothing: Greater shadows are visually indistinguishable from regular shadows, but their CR is six levels higher.
* DemonicPossession: Some greater shadows develop the ability to possess a body.
* DemonicSpiders: Between their immunity to mundane attacks, resistance to magical attacks, and dangerous strength-draining touch (where a few unlucky rolls can quickly make it hard to fight back or even run away), they can be very hard for low-level parties that can't TurnUndead to deal with.
* EvilIsPetty: Shadows can arise spontaneously from people whose evil deeds were small, sordid, and self-serving.
* ForTheEvulz: It's noted that shadows have no discernible goals or motivation for what they do -- they hunt living beings, drain the life from them and turn them into more shadows enslaved to their will because they want to.
* LivingShadow: Well, undead. Shadows are just that -- two-dimensional black silhouettes that move over solid surfaces but have no physical presence of their own.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: They can be created with the Create Undead spell, and that combined with their low intelligence and ability to generate spawn makes them a popular minion for necromancers.
* TheVirus: Most shadows don't arise spontaneously, but because people killed by shadows become shadows.

[[folder:Shambling Mound (Shambler)]]
->'''Type:''' Plant
->'''Level:''' 6

->'''Size:''' Large

Masses of vegetation formed after parasitic spores from Akiton infect and grow within an organic host.

* ManEatingPlant: Shamblers are intelligent, carnivorous plants with a fondness for elf flesh in particular.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Slithering Tracker]]
->'''Type:''' Ooze
->'''Level:''' 4

->'''Size:''' Small

* TheParalyzer: Any creature that is hit by a slithering tracker's slam comes into contact with the anesthetising slime it secretes.

[[folder:Stirge (Bloodseeker)]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_stirge.png]]
->'''Type:''' Animal
->'''Level:''' 0 (standard), 2 (giant), 3 (swarm)
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Scourges of swamps and damp, abandoned places, bloodseekers are ravenous blood drinkers.

Their 1e stats can be found in ''Bestiary'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/stirge/ here]].

Their 2e stats can be found in ''Bestiary (2e)'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=51 here]].

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: They serve as a fantastic but nonmagical stand-in for mosquitoes, vampire bats, and other flying blood-drinking animals.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: The Court of Ether breeds bloodseekers to enormous sizes to serve as cavalry mounts for warriors without wings.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: ''Stirge'' is the name used by ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and thus by ''Pathfinder'' after it split off as its own thing. In 2nd Edition, it was officially renamed ''bloodseeker'', a name that can be legally used in non-OGL products.

[[folder:Thessalhydra]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 18

->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Legendary beasts renowned for their speed and savagery.

* AcidAttack: A thessalhydra's snake heads can spit highly corrosive acid.
* MultipleHeadCase: A thessalhydra has eight serpentine heads arrayed around a central maw.
* OurHydrasAreDifferent: While not true hydras in-game, thessalhydras resemble monstrous and warped versions of their namesakes, being hulking, quadrupedal reptiles with necks topped with a gaping, jawless maw ringed with writhing snake necks.

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

->'''Size:''' Tiny

Tiny predators from the Ethereal Plane that feed on thoughts.

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

[[folder:Vampiric Mist]]

->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

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

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

[[folder:Vegepygmy]]
-> '''Type:''' Fungus
->'''Level:''' 0

->'''Size:''' Small

When creatures are killed by an infection of russet mold their corpses will split open to disgorge a group of vegepygmies, dangerous humanoid plant creatures with surprising intelligence.

* MushroomMan: Vegepygmies are very humanoid, and are born from russet mould.
* SpawnBroodling: Vegepymies are born from corpses of victims killed by a dangerous fungus called russet mould.
* TheSpeechless: They lack the necessary organs for speech, and cannot produce sounds beyond a few limited squeaks and hisses. Consequently, their language consists mostly of touches and pheromone secretions.

!!Thorny
-> '''Type:''' Fungus
->'''Level:''' 3

Quadrupedal, vaguely doglike fungal creatures often found alongside vegepygmies, thornies secrete a paralytic toxin used by their masters to help subdue victims. Creatures subjected to russet mold while thorny venom lingers in their systems have a small chance of producing thorny offspring.

* TheParalyzer: They inject a weak paralyzing agent through their spikes.
* SpikeShooter: They can launch clusters of their venomous thorns up to thirty feet away.
* TheSpiny: A thorny's thorny hide causes any creature that grapples it to take piercing damage and be exposed to its toxin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Violet Fungus]]
-> '''Type:''' Fungus
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* MakeThemRot: A violet fungi's tendrils are coated with a virulent venom that causes flesh to rot and decay. If left untreated, it can cause the flesh of an entire limb to drop away in no time at all, leaving behind only bones that soon rot as well.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Viper Vine]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vipervine.png]]
-> '''Type:''' Plant
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large
----
* ManEatingPlant: Viper vines gain nourishment through the consumption of creatures rather than through moisture and soil, and the area around their hunting grounds is often strewn with the remains of wild animals, ill-fated adventurers, and even giants.
[[/folder]]

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

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

[[folder:Worm That Walks]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_worm_that_walks.png]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

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

[[folder:Xorn]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px_nyagvard_6.jpg]]
-> '''Type:''' Elemental
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* EatDirtCheap: They eat almost exclusively minerals.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yellow Musk Creeper]]
-> '''Type:''' Plant
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
----

[[folder:Chuul (Chu'ulothis)]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_chuul.png]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 1 (larval), 4 (lesser), 7 (mature)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small (larval), Medium (lesser), Large (mature)

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

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

[[folder:Cloaker (Fulthrethu)]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

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

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

[[folder:Darkmantle]]
->'''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

* CastingAShadow: Darkmantles can cloak the nearby area in magical darkness.
* CombatTentacles: A darkmantle attacks by wrapping its tentacles around the victim.
* UndergroundMonkey: Darkmantles can evolve quickly, resulting in many variations like swimming ones in aquatic caverns, fire-resistant ones in volcanoes, or giant ones in deep caverns.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Delver]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Destrachan]]
->'''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Sadistic monsters with a potent sonic attack.

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

[[folder:Devourer]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devourer_pathfinder.PNG]]
-> '''Type:''' Undead
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Beings who venture beyond the farthest reaches of the multiverse and become lost, returning as monsters warped in body and mind with an undying hunger.

* HumanoidAbomination: A lot of undead count to one degree or another, but Devourers may have the best claim, being warped, soul-stealing remnants from beyond the edges of time and space.
* OmnicidalManiac: Devourers threaten all souls with oblivion.
* SoulEating: The souls killed by a devourer will be trapped within its chest and can't be brought back until the devourer is destroyed or forced to release it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dire Corby]]
->'''Level:''' 1 (dire corby), 2 (dread corby)
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* BirdPeople: They're muscular, humanoid crows with powerful arms instead of wings.

[[folder:Disenchanter]]
->'''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Trunked, blue-furred camel-like creatures that feed on magic.

* MagicEater: Disenchanters feed by siphoning the magic out of magical items with their trunks, leaving the items broken and useless and metabolizing their magic energies to sustain themselves or storing it to unleash as an energy attack.
* MooksAteMyEquipment: In addition to their magic-draining tongue attacks, any magic weapon that successfully strikes a disenchanter has to save or lose a property or point of enhancement bonus.

[[folder:Drow]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_drow_1.png]]
->'''Type:''' Humanoid (elf)

The descendants of the elves who chose not to flee the planet before Earthfall. They were forced underground and eventually were corrupted by the forces of the Darklands and their growing hatred of their kin who left.

With the switch to the ORC, the drow no longer exist. The serpentfolk now serve as the major villainous empire of the Underdark, while subterranean elves are now known simply as cave elves.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The ''Advanced Race Guide'' states that ''most'' drow are ChaoticEvil, but actual character creation [[GameplayAndStorySegregation doesn't give alignment limits]]. In theory, the drow species as a whole is evil by nature [[spoiler: due to being elves that were transformed by the evil in their own nature (the Second Darkness Adventure Path actually shows this happening)]], but it's possible for a (second generation or later) drow to be non-evil. The tricky part is surviving in drow society long enough to reach adulthood and escape. Most non-evil drow are found out and either killed or turned into driders long before then.[[invoked]]
* BodyHorror: Their fleshwarping does this to anyone unlucky enough to be caught by them.
* CardCarryingVillain: These guys developed vegepygmies so that even their ''vegetables'' could be made to suffer.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: When the game transitioned from the OGL to the ORC with the 2nd Edition Remaster, the drow were [[https://paizo.com/threads/rzs43tg8&page=7?PF2R-Drow#336 retconned out of existence]]; their role as Sekamina's main villainous species is now taken by the serpentfolk.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Without the "Surface Infiltrator" alternate race trait, drow, like dhampirs, are left dazzled by daylight.
* FantasticRacism: They hate all non-drow, but their dislike of surface elves tends to be most noteworthy.
* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: Drow society is built on the backs of its legions of slaves, but their contempt for their thralls means that drow slavemasters are afforded extremely little standing or respect.
* {{Matriarchy}}: Men have very little status within drow society, and are generally restricted to serving as low-ranking soldiers and servants. Female drow hold all positions of power and authority, and non-drow are advised to have the women in their group do the speaking when dealing with them in order to be taken with anything approaching respect.
* OurDarkElvesAreDifferent: Archetypal dark elves -- subterranean, cruel to the point of absurdity, lavender-skinned and with a tendency towards [[{{Stripperific}} less than modest clothing styles]]. Drow were once standard elves who "fell" and had their bodies transform, and normally worship various demon lords. ''Any'' elf can still become a drow, though the conditions are more complex than merely being evil. When the game adopted the new Open RPG Creative License after the January 2023 [[MediaNotes/D20System Open Game License]] controversy, the drow were retconned out of existence, with the implication that everything known about drow was essentially (in-universe) fiction written by an author racist against elves.

[[folder:Ether Spider]]
-> '''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 5

->'''Size:''' Large
----
* ArchEnemy: Ether spiders are the natural enemy of another denizen of the Ethereal Plane, the xill.
* GiantSpider: Ether spiders are far bigger than the maximum size of real life spiders.
* PoisonousPerson: They are spiders, what else did you expect?
* SpiderPeople: These spiders have the faces of humans.

[[folder:Ettercap (Web Lurker)]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/weblurker.png]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Medium

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

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

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

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

[[folder:Flail Snail]]
-> '''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* AttackReflector: The flail snail's shell is capable of warping spells and flinging them back at the caster.
* CombatTentacles: The spiny tentacles which give the flail snail its name can be used to bludgeon potential enemies.
* StarfishLanguage: Flail snails speak an impossibly complex sign language consisting of waving tentacles.

[[folder:Flumph]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
->'''Size:''' Small

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

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

[[folder:Froghemoth]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration
->'''Level:''' 13

->'''Size:''' Huge

Apex predators of the swamps, capable of hunting dinosaurs or even dragons.

* CombatTentacles: It attacks mainly by lashing foes with its tentacles.
* OverlyLongTongue: Like actual frogs, a froghemoth has a long sticky tongue which it uses to grab and reel in distant prey.
* SeeTheInvisible: A froghemoth's alien eyes allow it to perceive invisible or ethereal creatures.

[[folder:Gelatinous Cube]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gelatinous_cube_42.jpg]]
-> '''Type:''' Ooze
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Strange, cubical oozes that seem to treat dungeons as their natural habitats, gelatinous cubes are clearly not naturally occurring beings. They are thought to have been magically created to serve to guard the homes and workshops of their creators and keep them clean of refuse, and to have continued to thrive on their own long after the downfall of their original makers.

* TheAgeless: Gelatinous cubes can live for millennia if not killed or starved for food.
* ElementalAbsorption: Frost cubes, thanks to their symbiotic brown mold, can absorb heat to heal themselves.
* EliteMook: The ebony cubes, which unlike the regular kind can digest metal, and the sapient and spell-slinging sorcerer oozes.
* TheParalyzer: A gelatinous cube secretes an anaethesising slime.
* ShockAndAwe: Electric jellies can produce powerful shocks.
* SwallowedWhole: A gelatinous cube can simply engulf creatures smaller than itself.
* UndergroundMonkey: Besides the most commonly encountered kinds, numerous strains of gelatinous cubes exist, each with unique characteristics, abilities and weaknesses making for different challenges and encounters:
** Ebony cubes are crossed with black puddings, making them solid black in color and capable of digesting metal.
** Electric jellies are translucent purple gelatinous cubes capable of emitting powerful electrical pulses.
** Frost cubes live in symbiosis with brown mold, consume heat and radiate cold. In practice, this allows them to heal themselves when exposed to fire or extreme heat.
** Sorcerer oozes are cubes with human-level intelligence and the ability to cast spells, and typically originate as botched attempts at immortality on the part of wizards with perhaps more power than foresight.

[[folder:Gibbering Mouther]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration

->'''Size:''' Medium

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

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

[[folder:Gorgon]]

->'''Level:''' 8

* BrutishBulls: They're foul-tempered, armor-plated bulls whose standard reaction to meeting other creatures is to attack them on sight and attempt to gore, trample or petrify them.
* MonsterOrganTrafficking: A gorgon's lungs can be used to craft items requiring either ''flesh to stone'' or ''stone to flesh'' in their creation.
* TakenForGranite: They breathe out a gas that petrifies those it comes in contact with.

[[folder:Gray Render]]
-> '''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* CounterAttack: When injured, a gray render may lash out blindly against a random creature within its reach that is not its charge.
* ExtraEyes: A gray render has six eyes.
* LittleGuyBigBuddy: Their main dynamic in the game. Anything small and innocent enough has the chance to attract the attention and affection of these beasts.
* {{Protectorate}}: A gray render often develops an affectionate bond with other creatures, acting as a guardian for them, never straying more than a mile away, running to protect them if they are attacked.

[[folder:Gray Ooze]]
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-> '''Type:''' Ooze
->'''Level:''' 4 (gray and crystal ooze)

->'''Size:''' Medium

Some sages theorize that gray oozes are not living organisms, but rather the alchemical result of an unfortunate mixture of rare caustic fluids and magical waste. The digestive acid that covers these oozes dissolves metals and organic material, but not stone.

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: A gray ooze, due to its transparency, can make it dangerously easy to mistake one for a harmless-looking pile of mud.
* TheParalyzer: A crystal ooze secretes a paralysing slime.

[[folder:Grick]]
-> '''Type:''' Aberration

->'''Size:''' Medium

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

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

[[folder:Howler]]
->'''Type:''' Fiend
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* BrownNote: A howler's constant howling is a grating, exhausting baying that can drive listeners insane.

[[folder:Inevitables]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

Living machines created by the axiomites to wage war against proteans and the forces of chaos.

As of the Remaster, inevitables have been removed from the Age of Lost Omens setting, as they were originally created by Wizards of the Coast, though most of the individual inevitable types below were Paizo creations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inevitables that enforce oaths and binding agreements.

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

!!Yarahkut
->'''Level:''' 14

Inevitables that stifle magical and scientific developments in cultures not yet ready for them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[folder:Iron Cobra]]
-> '''Type:''' Construct
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Metal serpents made to serve as assassins with an interchangeable poison reservoir.

* AnimalMecha: As their name indicates, iron cobras are constructs made in the shape of a snake.
* PoisonousPerson: An iron cobra has a poison reservoir in its body and can inject it with its bite.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jackalwere]]
->'''Type:''' Beast
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* TheBeastmaster: They can communicate with and control regular jackals.
* ForcedSleep: They can force other creatures to go to sleep by looking them in the eyes.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: They're a sort of reverse were-creature -- they're naturally jackals, but have gained the ability to take on the shape of humans and of humanoid jackals.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lava Child]]
-> '''Type:''' Humanoid
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

* MagmaMan: A lava child can cough up a ball of magma into its hand and throw it at foes. Lava child chieftains can additionally channel volcanic energy to produce an explosion of molten rock.

[[folder:Lich]]
!!Lich
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-> '''Type:''' Undead
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Any Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

The [[TheUsualAdversaries de-facto]] [[HijackedByGanon main antagonists]] of pretty much everything, Liches are the ultimate examples of Arcane Magic and all of its pitfalls.