History Characters / StarfinderMagicalBeasts

[[folder:Holofang]]

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

* BlindedByTheLight: When a holofang is hit with a laser weapon while its maw is open, it is blinded.
* ChestMonster: To lure prey toward its jaws, a holofang projects illusions of drowning creatures or partially buried treasure near the water's surface while it lurks silently underneath.

!!CR 5
[[folder:Glass Serpent]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_glass_serpent.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5

->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Ambush predators that can warp light around themselves.

* FedToTheBeast: Execution by glass serpent is an ancient practice that still continues.
* InvisibleMonsters: The glass serpent's scales are smooth crystalline structures that warp and wrap light, turning the glass serpent invisible. This invisibility isn't entirely voluntary and requires enough energy that it can only be activated when the glass serpent is hungry and hunting.
* InvisibleStomachVisibleFood: Pieces of food are visible as they pass through the glass serpent's translucent digestive system.

[[folder:Ignurso]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (burrower), 11 (mason)

->'''Size:''' Large

* BreathWeapon: An ignurso can forcefully exhale a cloud of choking smoke.
* {{Cyclops}}: An ignurso only has a single cyclopean eye.
* StrongerWithAge: Ignursos in the last decade of life develop exceptional cunning and resilience.

[[folder:Jakkerant]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5

->'''Size:''' Small

* ChameleonCamouflage: A jakkerant that remains still can change its internal chromatophores and skin texture so that its colouration and texture matches its surroundings.
* TerrestrialSeaLife: Jakkerants can breathe air and move awkwardly on land by perching themselves upright on several of their tentacles.
* TooManyMouths: Each of a jakkerant's tentacle has a tiny lamprey-like mouth.

[[folder:Kunnid]]

->'''Size:''' Large

* MagnetismManipulation: A kunnid can emit a crushing magnetic beam.
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Other species very rarely see a kunnid, but only their odd, cloven-hooved tracks marching in straight lines around settlements, which are often attributed to cryptids. With few hard facts about how or why they appear, kunnids have fuelled many conspiracy theories.

[[folder:Stomakera]]

* MetalMuncher: The stomakera's entire diet consists of liquid mercury.

[[folder:Xaarb]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_xaarb.png]]

->'''Size:''' Medium

A predator race from the binary star system of Arybus.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Easily conquered their home star system, but found themselves outmatched by the Veskarium and Azlanti Star Empire as soon as they ventured farther afield.
* BizarreAlienSexes: They have only one gender and find gender differentiations to be a strange curiosity.
* CategoryTraitor: The "unspoken" xaarb are those that feel xaarb society is insufficient and seek to assimilate into other empires. They're generally considered the most reasonable faction, though they have problems when their need to assert dominance rears its head on occasion.
* PrimalStance: They switch easily between a humanoid stance and walking on all fours.
* TheQuisling: The "lesser" xaarb faction accepts that the vesk and azlanti are stronger and dutifully serve them.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Xaarb society is based entirely on physical dominance. Having to bargain or pay for something rather than just taking it is actually considered an incredible shame.
* StarfishLanguage: Their biology makes spoken languages impossible for them, with their own consisting of hand gestures and silent jaw movements. When they need to communicate with others, they usually rely on sign language or text-to-speech devices.
* TheStarscream: The "greater" xaarb faction musters its forces and resources in hopes of one day conquering other empires and exerting xaarb authority over everything.
* ZergRush: They can attacks in groups up to thirty strong.

!!CR 6
[[folder:Caypin]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Size:''' Large

* TheSymbiote: It's been speculated that the caypin is actually the result of symbiosis between its body (which can digest food but not collect it) and its facial tentacles (which have mouths and can also be detached from the body to hunt independently).
* TooManyMouths: Dozens of mouths, one per facial tentacle.

[[folder:Dust Manta]]

Ray-like creatures found in sand dunes and deserts.

* BewareMyStingerTail: The dust manta's tail is capable of injecting a horrific toxin.
* DishingOutDirt: Dust manta monarchs can create magical dust storms that choke and blind creatures unlucky enough to be caught within.
* MultipleTailedBeast: Dust manta monarchs grow two additional tails.
* TerrestrialSeaLife: Dust mantas closely resemble giant versions of common rays, and make their home in the deserts of Verces' Fullbright hemisphere.

[[folder:Niaq]]

Creatures from Verces's Darkside with a venom that turns victims into living production factories of a narcotic substance. Their stats can be found in ''Signal of Screams: The Penumbra Protocol'' or online [[https://aonsrd.com/AlienDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Niaq&Family=None here]].

* EyelessFace: Instead of eyes, a niaq has a mane of cilia that sense minute variations in temperature, allowing it to distinguish heat signatures of prey and the nearby topography.
* FantasticDrug: The feeding lance and quills can infect prey with a virus that lives symbiotically within the niaq, causing bizarre hallucinations and intense euphoria. The nature of the infections also gives the blood of the infected similar properties, allowing others to use the infected as production hosts. The drug refined from the blood is known as niaqui, with quality product being purified to prevent it from infecting the imbiber.
* HumanResources: A niaq is immune to the hallucinogenic effects of the virus in its own system, but genetic differences between them and their prey allow a niaq to experience the euphoria the drug produces in prey when they feed on their virus-laced blood. A niaq therefore carries prey back to its lair, usually a cave or hollow in the Darkside’s ice and snow, keeping them alive and immobilized to sip the drug-laced blood from their victims’ bloodstream.
* InSeriesNickname: They're known to natives of Darkside as "sippers" for their method of feeding.
* LampreyMouth: A variation. For a mouth, niaqs have a feeding lance, which is a tight cylinder of long, hollow quills they use to drink blood.
* SpikeShooter: Each of a niaq’s wings has a fringe of short quills that the creature can launch as projectiles with a flick of a wing.

[[folder:Veolisk]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/veolisk_starfinder.PNG]]

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

Reptilian creatures with a resemblance to the prehistoric megafauna of many planets.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Veolisks are monitor lizard-like magical beasts whose signature attack is a DeadlyGaze, and which are speculated to be descended from basilisk ancestors.
* CainAndAbel: In most broods, the first veolisks to hatch tend to eat their unhatched siblings as their first meals.
* DeadlyGaze: A veolisk can project a sliver of the dark, maddening void into its enemies with its mere gaze.
* InSeriesNickname: Those well-versed in Golarion folklore call them 'void basilisks'.
* TheNeedless: Scientists are puzzled about their ability to survive off very little food. One hypothesis is that they subsist off background radiation or arcane energy the way trees do sunlight.
* PrehistoricMonster: Veolisks are often compared to many planets' prehistoric megafauna.
* RightHandAttackDog: They have seen popularity among Devourer cultists as pets and guard animals.

!!CR 7
[[folder:Bloodbrother]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

* CreepyCentipedes: Bloodbrothers resemble a myriapod with a humanoid torso and arms.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even during lean times, bloodbrothers never prey on others of their kind.
* ItCanThink: Their intelligence is often overlooked due to a lack of tool use and communication with other races.
* NoBiologicalSex: Bloodbrothers, despite their name, are sexless and reproduce asexually.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Bloodbrothers use prey as an auxiliary heart, absorbing blood-borne nutrients and using the prey’s metabolism to help it heat and feed itself. Prey can be kept alive in this way for months, until all its stored energy has been used up.

[[folder:Reklan]]

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

Creatures resulting from old sarcesian attempts at magical terraforming.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: They enable it, automatically providing themselves and any other creature within 1,200 feet with a protective layer of breathable atmosphere that also shields them from temperature extremities. They themselves make the most of it, with a swim and a fly speed to allow them to live in any environment regardless of whether or not there's land.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Despite their hard-coded desire to kill any sentient creature they find and the cunning efficiency with which they do so, they're not considered evil or even chaotic.
* SpikeShooter: They fire the spines on their tails as a weapon.
* {{Telepathy}}: They can sense thoughts, which makes it harder to take advantage of their life-support without being found out.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: If a reklan knows there's a sentient creature nearby, it won't stop until either they kill it or are themselves killed.

!!CR 8
[[folder:Chomurk]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Large

* FusionDance: A hive of at least 32 chomurks can meld their bodies together, merging their limbs and creating a pyramidal mound of bodies that acts as a single huge thruster capable of altering the orbit of a small astronomical object.

[[folder:Diaspora Wyrm]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (diaspora wyrm), 17 (sage)

* EyelessFace: Instead of eyes, a diaspora wyrm has frills sensitive to electromagnetic fields.
* StarfishLanguage: Diaspora wyrms communicate by shaping and reading electromagnetic fields. Because these are often undetectable without proper sensors, diaspora wyrms are popularly depicted as beasts, despite being sapient.

[[folder:Dragon Ray]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Huge

* BewareMyStingerTail: In self-defence, a threatened dragon ray can fling hundreds of reticulated barbs or inject a lethal venom through its tail.
* FantasticDrug: In tiny amounts, dragon ray venom can be taken as a recreational drug. Partygoers have learned to dilute and distil the poison into a (mostly) safe mind-altering substance, which causes feelings of euphoria, a sensation of flying and vivid hallucinations, with minor sensorimotor side effects.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Dragon rays are amphibious and can glide above the ocean.

[[folder:Gammenore]]

->'''Size:''' Large

* GiantEnemyCrab: The gammenore is a crustacean approximately 8 feet wide, and weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 pounds.

[[folder:Shadow Hopper]]

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

* {{Animorphism}}: A shadow hopper can assume the appearance of a harmless-looking creature, usually a cute rabbit. In this form, some shadow hoppers allow people to adopt them as pets.
* TheTrickster: Shadow hoppers enjoy playing pranks and causing mischief: moving objects while no one is looking, taking small bites out of food, telepathically whispering secrets to others, and occasionally sabotaging electronic devices. Their shenanigans are not typically meant to cause harm, but an overexcited shadow hopper can easily get carried away.

[[folder:Shantak]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_shantak.png]]

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

Bizarre creatures resembling a cross between a reptile and a bird that are capable of flying through space.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Travelling atop a shantak's back remains the preferred (and perhaps only viable) option for those who avoid starships.

[[folder:Stralithid]]

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

* BizarreAlienSenses: A stralithid can use its blindsight to perceive targets of its kinetic entanglement and telekinetic trap abilities, even if the creature is motionless.
* MindOverMatter: Stralithids can launch telekinetic lances and create nearly invisible traps of shifting kinetic energy to stun prey.
* TrapMaster: A stralithid can infuse a sphere with an intricate pattern of invisible kinetic energy that staggers prey. When hunting, they goad prey into these traps to drain them dry, then lay eggs in the corpses.

[[folder:Stroxha]]

->'''Size:''' Large

* EnemyMine: Maraquoi used to be stroxhas' prey, but have begun defending the increasingly rare predators. As stroxhas became targeted by poachers, they came to recognise the protection the maraquoi have afforded them. An alliance now exists between the two species to protect their mutual home world.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Stroxhas combine feline and reptilian traits.

[[folder:Valnarum]]

->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

* EgomaniacHunter: Valnarums enjoy the thrill of tracking down a creature they've never hunted before, but still try to respect the laws and customs wherever they land.

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

* TooManyMouths: Each of a jakkerant's tentacle has a tiny lamprey‑like mouth.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted, their biology makes spoken languages impossible for them, with their own consisting of hand gestures and silent jaw movements. When they need to communicate with others, they usually rely on sign language or text-to-speech devices.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Veolisks are monitor lizard-like magical beasts whose signature attack is a DeadlyGaze, and which is speculated to be descended from basilisk ancestors.

* BigGameHunter: Valnarums enjoy the thrill of tracking down a creature they've never hunted before, but still try to respect the laws and customs wherever they land.

[[folder:Stroxha]]

->'''Size:''' Large

* EnemyMine: Maraquoi used to be stroxhas' prey, but have begun defending the increasingly rare predators. As stroxhas became targeted by poachers, they came to recognise the protection the maraquoi have afforded them. An alliance now exists between the two species to protect their mutual home world.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Stroxhas combine feline and reptilian traits.

[[folder:Valnarum]]

->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

* BigGameHunter: Valnarums enjoy the thrill of tracking down a creature they've never hunted before, but still try to respect the laws and customs wherever they land.

[[folder:Ursikka]]

->'''Size:''' Huge

* BigCreepyCrawlies: These praying mantis-like creatures stretch 20 feet in length and stand as tall as 25 feet.
* BigEater: Ursikkas are endlessly hungry creatures that view all smaller creatures as food.

!!CR 11
[[folder:Muneen]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster

->'''Size:''' Large

* MagicEater: In addition to conventional food, muneens can also subsist on magical energy from Chonax's divination or enchantment loci.

[[folder:Nyssholora]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_nyssholora.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (juvenile), 11 (adult)
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Large (juvenile), Huge (adult)

Saurian creatures from Castrovel that feature prominently in the mythology of all its native species.

* ExtraEyes: Eight beady eyes run in two vertical rows along the bridge of the nyssholora's nose.
* MightyRoar: The nyssholora releases its low, resonant roar with such force that it can weaken the structural integrity of buildings and concuss the bodies of other creatures.
* TRexpy: The nyssholora resembles a tyrannosaur, and is among the most feared and deadly apex predators on Castrovel.
* {{Vibroweapon}}: The nyssholora's phasic claws are sharp and vibrate at ultrasonic speeds, creating a blade of concentrated sound waves that can cut through even extremely dense materials.

[[folder:Vascrivorei]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11

->'''Size:''' Colossal

* RentAZilla: Though most grow no larger than a cargo container or small home, vascrivoreis in particularly blasted regions can be as large as starships.

!!CR 12
[[folder:Deadfall Stalker]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

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

* UnrealisticBlackHole: A deadfall stalker's body hosts a black hole singularity it uses to capture, crush and digest prey. The singularity and the organ that shelters it occupy roughly half the stalker's abdomen, and in addition to creating the gravity fields that circulate blood, the singularity acts as a powerful gizzard that pulverises virtually anything the deadfall stalker swallows.

!!CR 13
[[folder:Skarak]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13

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

* GiantSpider: Skaraks are massive, eight-legged predators that resemble horned arachnids with 16-foot leg spans and weigh 3 tons.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Their magically attuned cerebral lobes allow skaraks to sense magical pathways between their own position and their webs, and teleport a web-ensnared target into their mouth.

!!CR 14
[[folder:Plasmalisk]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14

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

* DeadlyGaze: A plasmalisk's vibrantly glowing eyes can cause viewers' bodily fluids to rapidly ionise and burn their bodies from the inside.

[[folder:Xanthos]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Role:''' Expert

* SeekerArchetype: Xanthoi seek to understand and document all current events, from political upheavals and interstellar wars to fashion trends and technological advances.

!!CR 15
[[folder:Statikete]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15

->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* ShockAndAwe: Statiketes drain electricity and use it to fire powerful shock blasts at foes.

!!CR 16
[[folder:Fire Whale]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 16
->'''Starship Tier:''' 1/4
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Colossal, Small [starship]

* EatDirtCheap: Fire whales feed off bits of metal and mineral.
* MagmaMan: Native to the Elemental Plane of Fire, the fire whale has molten-hot flesh which generates incredible heat, and can spew a burst of magma and scalding ash from its blowhole.

[[folder:Meteorite Drake]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 16

->'''Size:''' Small

* CastFromHitPoints: A meteorite drake can rip off and hurl a piece of its stony hide, dealing damage to both itself and the target.
* GoombaStomp: A meteorite drake can fly up to twice its speed and slam into a hard surface, carrying off its prey in the ensuing confusion.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite their name, meteorite drakes are only superficially similar to dragons and not related to them.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: A meteorite drake is extremely strong for its size and can carry things much heavier than itself.

[[folder:Oma]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oma_starfinder.jpg]]

->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Colossal

* GentleGiant: Oma are docile and have a benevolent streak, sometimes herding disabled starships back to civilisation.
* LivingShip: Barathus once used oma as living starships, telepathically directing them from within their surprisingly habitable stomachs.
* MagnetismManipulation: Oma project electromagnetic fields around themselves.
* SpaceWhale: Oma are vast, whale-like space dwellers which feed by extracting energy and nutrients with their baleen, live in pods and have their own form of whale song.
* SwallowedWhole: Oma are capable of swallowing small starships whole; some do it accidentally, but most only when provoked.

[[folder:Tapestry Moth]]

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

* ChestBurster: A tapestry moth can implant one of its eggs into an adjacent helpless or paralysed living creature. After five days, a miniature tapestry moth kills the host and cuts itself free of its body.
* PoisonousPerson: A tapestry moth can spit tapestry toxin as a ranged attack.

!!CR 20
[[folder:Brood Sovereign]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 20
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* SeaMonster: Brood sovereigns are titanic slug-like creatures that dwell amid coral reefs of polar oceans, and are endowed with true, malign intelligence.

!Starship-Sized
[[folder:Celestaur Bull]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 15
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

* BeastOfBattle: Some celestaur bulls are taken from the herd and reared by barachius angels to hunt fiends large enough to threaten starships. They are only slightly smarter than a clever animal and can be easily outwitted without an angel to shepherd them.
* GentleGiant: These starship-sized creatures have a temperament that usually ranges from friendly curiosity to outright playfulness.
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Barachius angels sometimes shear off the horns of bull celestaurs and replace them with starship-scale cannons. Additional weapons are affixed to their flanks by a comfortable, sturdy titanium harness.

[[folder:Fetelam]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 13
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

* GiantSpider: These massive, spacefaring arachnids prey upon passing ships caught in their steel-like webs.
* ShockAndAwe: The fangs of the fetelam are capable of rending flesh and metals alike while sending electrical pulses throughout its prey.
* ThatsNoMoon: Fetelams hunt by dazzling passing vessels, presenting themselves as star-studded areas of space. When a ship draws closer, it enters a sticky, inescapable trap.

[[folder:Giant Space Tardigrade]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 4

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* ExtremophileLifeforms: Giant space tardigrades can survive the most extreme conditions. Explorers have spotted them drifting through radioactive nebulae, the crushing atmospheres of gas giants, and intense solar flares without sustaining any harm.
* HealingFactor: A badly wounded giant space tardigrade can completely recover in only a few days.
* MadeOfIron: Giant space tardigrades are among the most durable creatures in existence.

[[folder:Shard Diver]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 1/2

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

* MetalMuncher: Shard divers feed upon starmetals and precious minerals ejected from gas giants' cores.

[[folder:Telelith]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 2 (swarming), 10 (blinking)

->'''Size:''' Small

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: A killed telelith explodes as if it activated a self-destruct system.
* MetalMuncher: Teleliths feed on metal and are particularly drawn to dense or highly refined materials, such as those found in space stations and starships.
* {{Teleportation}}: Blinking teleliths develop peculiar organs that contract in a metaphysical fashion to create a bizarre temporary wormhole that allows the telelith to blink across space, ambushing prey or evading danger.

[[folder:Vermelith]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_vermelith.png]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 9

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

Growing slowly but constantly, vermeliths live thousands of years, taking centuries to mature into the ship-eating titans they're known as.

* SiliconBasedLife: Vermeliths are silicon-based worms that feed on minerals.

[[folder:Voraija]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 1/2

* GentleGiant: Despite their size, most voraijas are docile and don't attack starships without provocation.
* SpaceWhale: Voraijas are gregarious, cetacean-like creatures that live in space.
* TailSlap: The voraija's tail can inflict terrible bludgeoning blows.

[[folder:Gammenore]]

->'''Size:''' Large

* GiantEnemyCrab: The gammenore is a crustacean approximately 8 feet wide, and weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 pounds.

[[folder:Shadow Hopper]]

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

* {{Animorphism}}: A shadow hopper can assume the appearance of a harmless-looking creature, usually a cute rabbit. In this form, some shadow hoppers allow people to adopt them as pets.
* TheTrickster: Shadow hoppers enjoy playing pranks and causing mischief: moving objects while no one is looking, taking small bites out of food, telepathically whispering secrets to others, and occasionally sabotaging electronic devices. Their shenanigans are not typically meant to cause harm, but an overexcited shadow hopper can easily get carried away.

[[folder:Shantak]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_shantak.png]]

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

Bizarre creatures resembling a cross between a reptile and a bird that are capable of flying through space.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Travelling atop a shantak's back remains the preferred (and perhaps only viable) option for those who avoid starships.

[[folder:Stroxha]]

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

* EnemyMine: Maraquoi used to be stroxhas' prey, but have begun defending the increasingly rare predators. As stroxhas became targeted by poachers, they came to recognise the protection the maraquoi have afforded them. An alliance now exists between the two species to protect their mutual home world.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Stroxhas combine feline and reptilian traits.

[[folder:Valnarum]]

->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

* BigGameHunter: Valnarums enjoy the thrill of tracking down a creature they've never hunted before, but still try to respect the laws and customs wherever they land.

[[folder:Kothama]]

->'''Role:''' Expert

* ExtraEyes: A kothama has four glassy eyes.
* GentleGiant: Kothamas are massive, peaceful creatures that tend to rely on their calming aura to keep things pleasant, resorting to violence only in rare instances of self-defence or incidentally.

[[folder:Ursikka]]

->'''Role:''' Combatant

* BigCreepyCrawlies: These praying mantis-like creatures stretch 20 feet in length and stand as tall as 25 feet.
* BigEater: Ursikkas are endlessly hungry creatures that view all smaller creatures as food.

!!CR 11
[[folder:Muneen]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster

->'''Size:''' Large

* MagicEater: In addition to conventional food, muneens can also subsist on magical energy from Chonax's divination or enchantment loci.

[[folder:Nyssholora]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_nyssholora.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (juvenile), 11 (adult)
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Large (juvenile), Huge (adult)

Saurian creatures from Castrovel that feature prominently in the mythology of all its native species.

* ExtraEyes: Eight beady eyes run in two vertical rows along the bridge of the nyssholora's nose.
* MightyRoar: The nyssholora releases its low, resonant roar with such force that it can weaken the structural integrity of buildings and concuss the bodies of other creatures.
* TRexpy: The nyssholora resembles a tyrannosaur, and is among the most feared and deadly apex predators on Castrovel.
* {{Vibroweapon}}: The nyssholora's phasic claws are sharp and vibrate at ultrasonic speeds, creating a blade of concentrated sound waves that can cut through even extremely dense materials.

!!CR 12
[[folder:Deadfall Stalker]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

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

* UnrealisticBlackHole: A deadfall stalker's body hosts a black hole singularity it uses to capture, crush and digest prey. The singularity and the organ that shelters it occupy roughly half the stalker's abdomen, and in addition to creating the gravity fields that circulate blood, the singularity acts as a powerful gizzard that pulverises virtually anything the deadfall stalker swallows.

!!CR 13
[[folder:Skarak]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13

->'''Size:''' Huge

* GiantSpider: Skaraks are massive, eight-legged predators that resemble horned arachnids with 16-foot leg spans and weigh 3 tons.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Their magically attuned cerebral lobes allow skaraks to sense magical pathways between their own position and their webs, and teleport a web-ensnared target into their mouth.

!!CR 14
[[folder:Plasmalisk]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* DeadlyGaze: A plasmalisk's vibrantly glowing eyes can cause viewers' bodily fluids to rapidly ionise and burn their bodies from the inside.

[[folder:Xanthos]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Role:''' Expert

* SeekerArchetype: Xanthoi seek to understand and document all current events, from political upheavals and interstellar wars to fashion trends and technological advances.

!!CR 15
[[folder:Statikete]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15

->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* ShockAndAwe: Statiketes drain electricity and use it to fire powerful shock blasts at foes.

!!CR 16
[[folder:Fire Whale]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 16
->'''Starship Tier:''' 1/4
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Colossal, Small [starship]

* EatDirtCheap: Fire whales feed off bits of metal and mineral.
* MagmaMan: Native to the Elemental Plane of Fire, the fire whale has molten-hot flesh which generates incredible heat, and can spew a burst of magma and scalding ash from its blowhole.

[[folder:Meteorite Drake]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 16

->'''Size:''' Small

* CastFromHitPoints: A meteorite drake can rip off and hurl a piece of its stony hide, dealing damage to both itself and the target.
* GoombaStomp: A meteorite drake can fly up to twice its speed and slam into a hard surface, carrying off its prey in the ensuing confusion.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite their name, meteorite drakes are only superficially similar to dragons and not related to them.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: A meteorite drake is extremely strong for its size and can carry things much heavier than itself.

[[folder:Oma]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oma_starfinder.jpg]]

->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Colossal

* GentleGiant: Oma are docile and have a benevolent streak, sometimes herding disabled starships back to civilisation.
* LivingShip: Barathus once used oma as living starships, telepathically directing them from within their surprisingly habitable stomachs.
* MagnetismManipulation: Oma project electromagnetic fields around themselves.
* SpaceWhale: Oma are vast, whale-like space dwellers which feed by extracting energy and nutrients with their baleen, live in pods and have their own form of whale song.
* SwallowedWhole: Oma are capable of swallowing small starships whole; some do it accidentally, but most only when provoked.

[[folder:Tapestry Moth]]

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

* ChestBurster: A tapestry moth can implant one of its eggs into an adjacent helpless or paralysed living creature. After five days, a miniature tapestry moth kills the host and cuts itself free of its body.
* PoisonousPerson: A tapestry moth can spit tapestry toxin as a ranged attack.

!!CR 20
[[folder:Brood Sovereign]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 20
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* SeaMonster: Brood sovereigns are titanic slug-like creatures that dwell amid coral reefs of polar oceans, and are endowed with true, malign intelligence.

!Starship-Sized
[[folder:Giant Space Tardigrade]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* ExtremophileLifeforms: Giant space tardigrades can survive the most extreme conditions. Explorers have spotted them drifting through radioactive nebulae, the crushing atmospheres of gas giants, and intense solar flares without sustaining any harm.
* HealingFactor: A badly wounded giant space tardigrade can completely recover in only a few days.
* MadeOfIron: Giant space tardigrades are among the most durable creatures in existence.

[[folder:Shard Diver]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 1/2
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

* MetalMuncher: Shard divers feed upon starmetals and precious minerals ejected from gas giants' cores.

[[folder:Telelith]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 2 (swarming), 10 (blinking)

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

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: A killed telelith explodes as if it activated a self-destruct system.
* MetalMuncher: Teleliths feed on metal and are particularly drawn to dense or highly refined materials, such as those found in space stations and starships.
* {{Teleportation}}: Blinking teleliths develop peculiar organs that contract in a metaphysical fashion to create a bizarre temporary wormhole that allows the telelith to blink across space, ambushing prey or evading danger.

[[folder:Vermelith]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_vermelith.png]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 9

->'''Size:''' Huge

Growing slowly but constantly, vermeliths live thousands of years, taking centuries to mature into the ship-eating titans they're known as.

* SiliconBasedLife: Vermeliths are silicon-based worms that feed on minerals.

[[folder:Voraija]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 1/2

->'''Size:''' Small

* GentleGiant: Despite their size, most voraijas are docile and don't attack starships without provocation.
* SpaceWhale: Voraijas are gregarious, cetacean-like creatures that live in space.
* TailSlap: The voraija's tail can inflict terrible bludgeoning blows.

!Player-Level Threats

[[folder:Xaarb]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_xaarb.png]]

->'''Size:''' Medium

A predator race from the binary star system of Arybus.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted, their biology makes spoken languages impossible for them, with their own consisting of hand gestures and silent jaw movements. When they need to communicate with others, they usually rely on sign language or text-to-speech devices.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Easily conquered their home star system, but found themselves outmatched by the Veskarium and Azlanti Star Empire as soon as they ventured farther afield.
* BizarreAlienSexes: They have only one gender and find gender differentiations to be a strange curiosity.
* CategoryTraitor: The "unspoken" xaarb are those that feel xaarb society is insufficient and seek to assimilate into other empires. They're generally considered the most reasonable faction, though they have problems when their need to assert dominance rears its head on occasion.
* PrimalStance: They switch easily between a humanoid stance and walking on all fours.
* TheQuisling: The "lesser" xaarb faction accepts that the vesk and azlanti are stronger and dutifully serve them.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Xaarb society is based entirely on physical dominance. Having to bargain or pay for something rather than just taking it is actually considered an incredible shame.
* TheStarscream: The "greater" xaarb faction musters its forces and resources in hopes of one day conquering other empires and exerting xaarb authority over everything.
* ZergRush: They can attacks in groups up to thirty strong.

!!CR 6
[[folder:Caypin]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Size:''' Large

* TheSymbiote: It's been speculated that the caypin is actually the result of symbiosis between its body (which can digest food but not collect it) and its facial tentacles (which have mouths and can also be detached from the body to hunt independently).
* TooManyMouths: Dozens of mouths, one per facial tentacle.

[[folder:Dust Manta]]

Ray-like creatures found in sand dunes and deserts.

* BewareMyStingerTail: The dust manta's tail is capable of injecting a horrific toxin.
* DishingOutDirt: Dust manta monarchs can create magical dust storms that choke and blind creatures unlucky enough to be caught within.
* MultipleTailedBeast: Dust manta monarchs grow two additional tails.
* TerrestrialSeaLife: Dust mantas closely resemble giant versions of common rays, and make their home in the deserts of Verces' Fullbright hemisphere.

[[folder:Niaq]]

Creatures from Verces's Darkside with a venom that turns victims into living production factories of a narcotic substance. Their stats can be found in ''Signal of Screams: The Penumbra Protocol'' or online [[https://aonsrd.com/AlienDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Niaq&Family=None here]].

* EyelessFace: Instead of eyes, a niaq has a mane of cilia that sense minute variations in temperature, allowing it to distinguish heat signatures of prey and the nearby topography.
* FantasticDrug: The feeding lance and quills can infect prey with a virus that lives symbiotically within the niaq, causing bizarre hallucinations and intense euphoria. The nature of the infections also gives the blood of the infected similar properties, allowing others to use the infected as production hosts. The drug refined from the blood is known as niaqui, with quality product being purified to prevent it from infecting the imbiber.
* HumanResources: A niaq is immune to the hallucinogenic effects of the virus in its own system, but genetic differences between them and their prey allow a niaq to experience the euphoria the drug produces in prey when they feed on their virus-laced blood. A niaq therefore carries prey back to its lair, usually a cave or hollow in the Darkside’s ice and snow, keeping them alive and immobilized to sip the drug-laced blood from their victims’ bloodstream.
* InSeriesNickname: They're known to natives of Darkside as "sippers" for their method of feeding.
* LampreyMouth: A variation. For a mouth, niaqs have a feeding lance, which is a tight cylinder of long, hollow quills they use to drink blood.
* SpikeShooter: Each of a niaq’s wings has a fringe of short quills that the creature can launch as projectiles with a flick of a wing.

[[folder:Veolisk]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/veolisk_starfinder.PNG]]

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

Reptilian creatures with a resemblance to the prehistoric megafauna of many planets.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Veolisks are monitor lizard-like magical beasts whose signature attack is a DeadlyGaze, and which is speculated to be descended from basilisk ancestors.
* CainAndAbel: In most broods, the first veolisks to hatch tend to eat their unhatched siblings as their first meals.
* DeadlyGaze: A veolisk can project a sliver of the dark, maddening void into its enemies with its mere gaze.
* InSeriesNickname: Those well-versed in Golarion folklore call them 'void basilisks'.
* TheNeedless: Scientists are puzzled about their ability to survive off very little food. One hypothesis is that they subsist off background radiation or arcane energy the way trees do sunlight.
* PrehistoricMonster: Veolisks are often compared to many planets' prehistoric megafauna.
* RightHandAttackDog: They have seen popularity among Devourer cultists as pets and guard animals.

!!CR 7
[[folder:Bloodbrother]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

* CreepyCentipedes: Bloodbrothers resemble a myriapod with a humanoid torso and arms.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even during lean times, bloodbrothers never prey on others of their kind.
* ItCanThink: Their intelligence is often overlooked due to a lack of tool use and communication with other races.
* NoBiologicalSex: Bloodbrothers, despite their name, are sexless and reproduce asexually.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Bloodbrothers use prey as an auxiliary heart, absorbing blood-borne nutrients and using the prey’s metabolism to help it heat and feed itself. Prey can be kept alive in this way for months, until all its stored energy has been used up.

[[folder:Reklan]]

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

Creatures resulting from old sarcesian attempts at magical terraforming.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: They enable it, automatically providing themselves and any other creature within 1,200 feet with a protective layer of breathable atmosphere that also shields them from temperature extremities. They themselves make the most of it, with a swim and a fly speed to allow them to live in any environment regardless of whether or not there's land.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Despite their hard-coded desire to kill any sentient creature they find and the cunning efficiency with which they do so, they're not considered evil or even chaotic.
* SpikeShooter: They fire the spines on their tails as a weapon.
* {{Telepathy}}: They can sense thoughts, which makes it harder to take advantage of their life-support without being found out.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: If a reklan knows there's a sentient creature nearby, it won't stop until either they kill it or are themselves killed.

!!CR 8
[[folder:Chomurk]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Large

* FusionDance: A hive of at least 32 chomurks can meld their bodies together, merging their limbs and creating a pyramidal mound of bodies that acts as a single huge thruster capable of altering the orbit of a small astronomical object.

[[folder:Diaspora Wyrm]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (diaspora wyrm), 17 (sage)

* EyelessFace: Instead of eyes, a diaspora wyrm has frills sensitive to electromagnetic fields.
* StarfishLanguage: Diaspora wyrms communicate by shaping and reading electromagnetic fields. Because these are often undetectable without proper sensors, diaspora wyrms are popularly depicted as beasts, despite being sapient.

[[folder:Gammenore]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8

* GiantEnemyCrab: The gammenore is a crustacean approximately 8 feet wide, and weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 pounds.

[[folder:Shadow Hopper]]

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

* {{Animorphism}}: A shadow hopper can assume the appearance of a harmless-looking creature, usually a cute rabbit. In this form, some shadow hoppers allow people to adopt them as pets.
* TheTrickster: Shadow hoppers enjoy playing pranks and causing mischief: moving objects while no one is looking, taking small bites out of food, telepathically whispering secrets to others, and occasionally sabotaging electronic devices. Their shenanigans are not typically meant to cause harm, but an overexcited shadow hopper can easily get carried away.

[[folder:Shantak]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_shantak.png]]

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

Bizarre creatures resembling a cross between a reptile and a bird that are capable of flying through space.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Travelling atop a shantak's back remains the preferred (and perhaps only viable) option for those who avoid starships.

[[folder:Stroxha]]

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

* EnemyMine: Maraquoi used to be stroxhas' prey, but have begun defending the increasingly rare predators. As stroxhas became targeted by poachers, they came to recognise the protection the maraquoi have afforded them. An alliance now exists between the two species to protect their mutual home world.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Stroxhas combine feline and reptilian traits.

[[folder:Valnarum]]

->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

* BigGameHunter: Valnarums enjoy the thrill of tracking down a creature they've never hunted before, but still try to respect the laws and customs wherever they land.

!Starship-Level Threats

To see the tropes for magical beasts in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', click [[Characters/PathfinderMagicalBeasts here]].

[[folder:Necrosaturated Creature]]

->'''Alignment:''' Evil

* LastChanceHitPoint: When a necrosaturated creature would be reduced to 0 Hit Points, it can use its reaction to remain at 1 Hit Point instead.
[[/folder]]

!!CR 1/3
[[folder:Drift Leech]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/3
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

* HealThyself: Once per day, a drift leech can expend energy it has siphoned from technology to heal itself.
* WalkingTechbane: Drift leeches have a negative effect on technology in close proximity to them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hobgar]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/3
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Pests native to the misty forests of Nakondis that have adapted to survive in the electrified clouds.

* MischiefMakingMonkey: They're basically the space substitute for monkeys.
* NoSell: They're immune to electricity.
* ShockAndAwe: They store residual electrical energy in their fur to discharge at threats, though they loose this ability when not on their homeworld.

!!CR 1
[[folder:Kaukariki]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaukariki_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1

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

* BewareMyStingerTail: Many of the kaukariki's favourite foods are toxic, and their digestive systems separate and store the poisons within a small sac near the tip of the tail.
* ManiacMonkeys: Kaukariki are a species of annoying monkey-like pests, especially in the famed fruit orchards of Asana.
* ZergRush: Troops of kaukariki often rally to one another's defense to mob assailants.

[[folder:Thastertoad]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* {{Mutants}}: Thastertoads are descended from tailless lizards mutated by thasteron.
* NonIndicativeName: The thastertoad is actually a species of lizard. This name was coined by goblins, who care little about taxonomy.

!!CR 2
[[folder:Electrovore]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2

->'''Size:''' Medium

* BackFromTheBrink: Electrovores were on the brink of extinction due to the decline of their food source when explorers came to their home planet of Verlorr 2 on massive ships coursing with their nourishment. Since then, they have quickly spread and formed colonies on multiple planets.
* BewareMyStingerTail: An electrovore prefers to slap and sting with its barbed tail when on the hunt.
* BizarreAlienBiology: An electrovore feeds on electrical currents and has no stomach, intestines nor liver. Instead, every cell acts as a battery; in essence, an electrovore is composed almost entirely of a nervous system.
* PsychoElectricEel: Not them so much as their nearly extinct natural prey.

[[folder:Shotalashu]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_shotalashu.PNG]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (normal), 6 (feral)

->'''Size:''' Large

Telepathic reptiles from Castrovel.

* BondCreatures: Lashunta, and other telepathic races with a penalty, can form telepathic bonds with shotalashu mounts.

!!CR 3
[[folder:Tashtari]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_tashtari.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

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

Pack hunters from Castrovel with phosphorescent fur and the ability to fire lasers.

* LightEmUp: A tashtari can unleash a focused ray of light from its mouth that can burn a target like the beam of a laser pistol.

[[folder:Thermatrod]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_thermatrod.PNG]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (normal), 7 (alpha)
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Silicon-based creatures that feed on heavy minerals.

* BizarreAlienSenses: Blind and deaf, but capable of sensing heat and movement. Also, they somehow have darkvision and lol-light vision despite not having eyes in the first place.
* BreathWeapon: They can spray chunks of their own molten core.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: Biological version. Though it's theorized that thermatrods are in some way connected to the Elemental Planes of Fire and Earth, they're biologically sound with no magic required to function the way they do.
* EatDirtCheap: A thermatrod's diet consists of loose stones and metals.
* FastTunneling: They have the earth glide ability, allowing them to move easily through soil and loose dirt.
* LogicalWeakness: Made largely of molten materials, so naturally they have a weakness to cold damage.
* MagmaMan: Their bodies are made of molten stone and metal, possibly due to ancestral ties to the Plane of Fire. In game this means their melee attacks deal fire damage and everything around them takes fire damage over time from the sheer heat of their bodies.
* NoSell: To fire, what with them being made of rock and also already at much higher temperatures anyways.
* RockMonster: Albeit a pretty molten one.
* SiliconBasedLife: A vaguely scientific version. Scientists aren't sure how their silicon cores can maintain the heat of their bodies and its mentioned that they weren't able to develop sensory organs due to their silicon base.

!!CR 4
[[folder:Crest-eater]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4

* AngryGuardDog: Crest-eaters are about as trainable as dogs, leading to many wealthy people buying them as guards.
* TheDreaded: Ancient kasathas viewed crest-eaters as terrifying messengers of death.
* PickyPeopleEater: Crest-eaters are specialized in eating bones. When hunting kasathas, they usually only eat the bony crest and leave the rest of the body intact. Justified, in that most of their nutrients come from the photosynthesis frills they use the bones to grow; it's actually more resource-intensive to eat the whole kasatha.
* PredatorsAreMean: Averted. Crest-eaters are actually highly sociable and tame creatures it's easy enough to tame. They eat kasathas when they're desperate and don't develop a taste for sentient flesh.

[[folder:Entropy Slug]]
[[quoteright:347:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/entropy_slug.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Terrestrial mollusks from Great Shadar that embody the entropic forces of their homeworld.

* AcidAttack: They can spit acid to attack at range and are immune to acid damage themselves.
* MooksAteMyEquipment: Their slam attacks and slime trails drain batteries, while a critical hit damages all equipment in a target's possession.
* NoSell: They're immune to acid.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Salt deals damage to them, just like an ordinary slug.

!!CR 5
[[folder:Glass Serpent]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_glass_serpent.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Ambush predators that can warp light around themselves.

* FedToTheBeast: Execution by glass serpent is an ancient practice that still continues.
* InvisibleMonsters: The glass serpent's scales are smooth crystalline structures that warp and wrap light, turning the glass serpent invisible. This invisibility isn't entirely voluntary and requires enough energy that it can only be activated when the glass serpent is hungry and hunting.

[[folder:Ignurso]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (burrower), 11 (mason)

* BreathWeapon: An ignurso can forcefully exhale a cloud of choking smoke.
* {{Cyclops}}: An ignurso only has a single cyclopean eye.
* StrongerWithAge: Ignursos in the last decade of life develop exceptional cunning and resilience.

[[folder:Kunnid]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5

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

* MagnetismManipulation: A kunnid can emit a crushing magnetic beam.
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Other species very rarely see a kunnid, but only their odd, cloven-hooved tracks marching in straight lines around settlements, which are often attributed to cryptids. With few hard facts about how or why they appear, kunnids have fuelled many conspiracy theories.

[[folder:Xaarb]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starfinder_xaarb.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5

->'''Size:''' Medium

A predator race from the binary star system of Arybus.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted, their biology makes spoken languages impossible for them, with their own consisting of hand gestures and silent jaw movements. When they need to communicate with others, they usually rely on sign language or text-to-speech devices.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Easily conquered their home star system, but found themselves outmatched by the Veskarium and Azlanti Star Empire as soon as they ventured farther afield.
* BizarreAlienSexes: They have only one gender and find gender differentiations to be a strange curiosity.
* CategoryTraitor: The "unspoken" xaarb are those that feel xaarb society is insufficient and seek to assimilate into other empires. They're generally considered the most reasonable faction, though they have problems when their need to assert dominance rears its head on occasion.
* PrimalStance: They switch easily between a humanoid stance and walking on all fours.
* TheQuisling: The "lesser" xaarb faction accepts that the vesk and azlanti are stronger and dutifully serve them.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Xaarb society is based entirely on physical dominance. Having to bargain or pay for something rather than just taking it is actually considered an incredible shame.
* TheStarscream: The "greater" xaarb faction musters its forces and resources in hopes of one day conquering other empires and exerting xaarb authority over everything.
* ZergRush: They can attacks in groups up to thirty strong.

!!CR 6
[[folder:Caypin]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Size:''' Large

* TheSymbiote: It's been speculated that the caypin is actually the result of symbiosis between its body (which can digest food but not collect it) and its facial tentacles (which have mouths and can also be detached from the body to hunt independently).
* TooManyMouths: Dozens of mouths, one per facial tentacle.

[[folder:Dust Manta]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

Ray-like creatures found in sand dunes and deserts.

* BewareMyStingerTail: The dust manta's tail is capable of injecting a horrific toxin.
* DishingOutDirt: Dust manta monarchs can create magical dust storms that choke and blind creatures unlucky enough to be caught within.
* MultipleTailedBeast: Dust manta monarchs grow two additional tails.
* TerrestrialSeaLife: Dust mantas closely resemble giant versions of common rays, and make their home in the deserts of Verces' Fullbright hemisphere.

[[folder:Niaq]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Size:''' Large

Creatures from Verces's Darkside with a venom that turns victims into living production factories of a narcotic substance. Their stats can be found in ''Signal of Screams: The Penumbra Protocol'' or online [[https://aonsrd.com/AlienDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Niaq&Family=None here]].

* EyelessFace: Instead of eyes, a niaq has a mane of cilia that sense minute variations in temperature, allowing it to distinguish heat signatures of prey and the nearby topography.
* FantasticDrug: The feeding lance and quills can infect prey with a virus that lives symbiotically within the niaq, causing bizarre hallucinations and intense euphoria. The nature of the infections also gives the blood of the infected similar properties, allowing others to use the infected as production hosts. The drug refined from the blood is known as niaqui, with quality product being purified to prevent it from infecting the imbiber.
* HumanResources: A niaq is immune to the hallucinogenic effects of the virus in its own system, but genetic differences between them and their prey allow a niaq to experience the euphoria the drug produces in prey when they feed on their virus-laced blood. A niaq therefore carries prey back to its lair, usually a cave or hollow in the Darkside’s ice and snow, keeping them alive and immobilized to sip the drug-laced blood from their victims’ bloodstream.
* InSeriesNickname: They're known to natives of Darkside as "sippers" for their method of feeding.
* LampreyMouth: A variation. For a mouth, niaqs have a feeding lance, which is a tight cylinder of long, hollow quills they use to drink blood.
* SpikeShooter: Each of a niaq’s wings has a fringe of short quills that the creature can launch as projectiles with a flick of a wing.

[[folder:Veolisk]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/veolisk_starfinder.PNG]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

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

Reptilian creatures with a resemblance to the prehistoric megafauna of many planets.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Veolisks are monitor lizard-like magical beasts whose signature attack is a DeadlyGaze, and which is speculated to be descended from basilisk ancestors.
* CainAndAbel: In most broods, the first veolisks to hatch tend to eat their unhatched siblings as their first meals.
* DeadlyGaze: A veolisk can project a sliver of the dark, maddening void into its enemies with its mere gaze.
* InSeriesNickname: Those well-versed in Golarion folklore call them 'void basilisks'.
* TheNeedless: Scientists are puzzled about their ability to survive off very little food. One hypothesis is that they subsist off background radiation or arcane energy the way trees do sunlight.
* PrehistoricMonster: Veolisks are often compared to many planets' prehistoric megafauna.
* RightHandAttackDog: They have seen popularity among Devourer cultists as pets and guard animals.

!!CR 7
[[folder:Bloodbrother]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7