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_Ychen bannogs are massive, ox-like beasts with thick, wooly coats and great horns like the gods’ battering rams. They stand over 40 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh hundreds of tons. Despite their awe-inspiring size, these towering creatures a...
_This withered crone glares malevolently, her face framed by lank gray hair. Her malicious grin is filled with shark teeth, and drool trickles from her lips._ **Hatred of Beauty.** Sand hags are terrifying crones that haunt desert ruins and forg...
_Sand silhouettes are spirits of those who died in desperation in sandy ground, buried during sandstorms, thrown into dry wells, or the victims of a dune collapse. Looking like a shadow stretched out along the ground, a sand silhouette’s erratic m...
_This pale-skinned, white-bearded hermit wears a winter cloak and travels the mountain paths, cliff sides, and trade routes alone._ **Feigns Weakness.** Living in isolated mountain passes and foraging along little-traveled slopes, the stuhac is ...
_Tiny wisps of grayish smoke ooze from the slate-colored coat of this leonine beast._ **Ethereal Lions.** The elusive mngwa (MING-wah; “the strange ones”) are the offspring of a sentient feline beast from the Ethereal Plane that mated with a lio...
_For most of the year the subek are a kindly race, advising others and lending their physical and intellectual prowess to local projects. During the flood season, however, subek become violent and territorial, ruthlessly killing and consuming all ...
_While they mimic the bleached bones of a desert creature, the bony adornments atop along their backs are part of their peculiar melding of bone and scale._ **Hidden by Sand.** These lethargic, horned, yellow-scaled lizards spend most of their l...
_This suit of armor stands motionless, its visor raised to reveal a black skull with eyes cold as a winter moon. A cloak of owl feathers hangs from its shoulders, and a greatsword is slung across its back._ **Beautiful Constructs.** Monolithic s...
_A vicious snake with a squat, diamond-shaped head, a puffed neck, and a peculiar yellow band around its body, the swamp adder is a stout, somewhat lethargic hunter._ _**Marsh Hunter.**_ This venomous snake—sometimes known as the “speckled band”...
Level 5 necromancy. From Warlock.
_Mordant snares were created by war mages of ancient times. Each resembles an immense, dark gray, 11-armed starfish weighing eight tons, and yet a mordant snare is never obvious. Instead, it controls a few humanoids shuffling about aimlessly, thei...
Level 8 evocation. From Warlock.
Small Construct, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
_This twisted tree’s face is made of cracked, black bark knotted into vaguely humanoid features, and thick tears of sap run down its face._ Weeping treants clearly are related to other treants, but they are smaller than the normal variety, littl...
_Hairless, ugly, and usually dripping water, the wharfling is a nocturnal raider and fond of stealing from fishmongers and jewelers alike._ **Waterborne Packs.** Wharflings have large, webbed hands and feet and oversized mouths. An adept fish ca...
_An undulating mass of flesh and teeth, a wharfling swarm is a horrific sight by moonlight._ **Bloodthisty Mobs.** These masses of hairless bodies writhe along the coast in the moonlight, and often are mistaken for shoggoths or other much larger...
Level 1 transmutation. From Warlock.
_These bloated purple spiders have small claws on their front legs that serve them as handlike manipulators. Their abdomens are a sickly purple-white._ **Hate Humanoids.** The nefarious spiders of Leng are highly intelligent. They are a very anc...
_The frame of this withered demon’s corpse barely fills the ash-colored plate armor that encases it. It carries a serrated khopesh sword in spiked gauntlets that hiss with violet smoke, and a horned ivory mask devoid of features is nailed to its f...
_These twisted dryads have been turned into vampiric monstrosities by undead warlocks and vampiric experiments._ **Charred Dryads.** With burnt and blackened skin, burnt twigs for hair, and clawed hands and feet that resemble burnt and twisted r...
_This miniscule creature kicks up a ghostly, sparkling fire when it jostles and jigs. Lightning sparks fly between it and its perch._ **Storm Dancers.** When storm clouds gather over cities, harbors, and twisted badlands, electrical energy fills...
_A barefoot woman with long hair and almost transparent skin sits upon a willow branch. Her hair and clothing are wet, as if she has just returned from a swim. Her smile seems friendly enough._ When a woman drowns, her dripping body may rise aga...
Medium Humanoid, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 2023.