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_The dragon bears black scales, more charred than naturally colored. Cracks between the scales glow a dull red, until the dragon rears its head and roars. Red embers become bright orange flames as the creature lights up from tail to maw._ The fl...
_This mass of fused corpses resembles a butterfly with wings of skin, limbs of bone, and a head formed of several different skulls. The dark magic that formed this abomination swirls around it hungrily._ **Bound by Necromancy.** Flutterflesh res...
_Combining the head of a goat and the body of a monkey makes the creature odd enough; combining the social grace of a baboon with pretensions of a scholar makes it more comical than threatening._ Fiendish pests that infest derelict wizards’ towe...
_A primitive and relatively diminutive form of giant, forest marauders claim the wilderness areas farthest from civilization when they can._ **Painted Skin.** Roughly the size and shape of an ogre, this brutish thing is covered in paint or color...
Medium Fiend, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts.
_This oddly colored cat appears at first to be a powerful panther. Its wide mouth pulls into something like a human grin, and its knowing eyes hint at intelligence beyond that of a typical predator._ Enemies of elves and blink dogs, kot bayuns a...
_This winged woman’s face is wreathed in a headdress of feathers; her luminous eyes and aquiline nose lend beauty to her feral demeanor. Her sharp, taloned feet seem even more inhuman by comparison._ **Harpy Queens.** An owl harpy is a queen amo...
_This twisted, unnatural beast looks like the unholy union of squid and spider. Its shell-covered core has six small rubbery legs, peculiar antennae, and six tentacles around a squid’s enormous beak. Unlike krakens and giant squid, krake spawn can...
_Tall and powerful, this creature resembles a strong man with well‑chiseled muscles, save its equine head, flaring nostrils, and hoofed feet._ The orobas thrive in Hell, selling their knowledge to those who have the coin (or other form of paymen...
_This ancient animal-headed pillar is engraved with weathered symbols from ancient empires._ **Animal Headed.** Possessed pillars are carved from enormous blocks of stone to look like animal-headed gods of ancient pantheons, or sometimes demonic...
_A dazzling explosion of multicolored lights erupts from this cloud of flying beetles, flashing every color of the rainbow._ _**Flesh-Eating Beauties.**_ The depths of the jungle are filled with lethal wildlife, and prismatic beetles are superla...
Large Fiend, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts.
_This furred humanoid glides silently through the canopy of trees, gripping a blowgun. It observes visitors cautiously with two intelligent, bulbous eyes._ **Jungle Rulers.** These small, intelligent, squirrel-like humanoids live in reclusive, p...
_These shambling corpses have twigs, branches, and other debris intertwined with their bodies, and their gaping maws often crawl with scrabbling vermin._ **Swamp Undead.** Putrid haunts are walking corpses infused with moss, mud, and the detritu...
_A leshy is a strange man wearing loose scraps of clothing and covered in bark and root-like growths. The hair and beard that frame his piercing green eyes writhe like living vines._ **Expanding the Wild.** Solitary leshy tend plants and animals...
Large Aberration, CR 10. From Creature Codex.
_Often a shadhavar is first noticed for the haunting melody it makes, and some mistake them for unicorns or fey steeds. On closer inspection, they look like desiccated unicorns, their skeletons clearly visible beneath their taut flesh._ **Shadow...
_A mass of shadows and cloudstuff, never touching the ground, a shadow beast may at first look harmless—except for its clawed hands and the glint of its jagged teeth._ **Called from the Void.** Shadow beasts are thought to be the result of shado...
_“Kind words open even iron doors.”_ _—Twilight, a courtier to the shadow fey_ To most, the shadow fey are little more than a dancing shadow among the leaves. To savants, they are the creatures that taught the shadowdancers all they know, and ...
Medium Humanoid, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts.
_This cat-sized drake with a waxy appearance and a glow emanating from its belly can hover in midair, filling a small area with a warm glow._ The lantern drake is named for its belly, which glows with a warm light. The beast's yellow, waxy scale...
Medium Humanoid, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts.
Large Humanoid, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts.