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This lengthy, two-headed, serpentine creature has three dorsal fins and six legs._ **Degenerate Dragons.** Pal-rai-yuks were once a species of underwater dragons. In their arrogance, they angered a sea deity who cursed them. To escape the deity’...
This immense humanoid is covered in dark, spiny, chitinous skin, and its sizeable fists are rough and decorated with sharp spikes._ **Natural Carapace.** The phase giant has naturally hard skin, similar to that of a giant insect. Its face, hands...
A Dozens of flat, purple-capped mushrooms float and spin through the air._ Huge colonies of pixie’s umbrellas inhabit the Underworld. When they sense danger, they fill their caps to gain height then release the air, using the flattened caps to s...
_A great knot of scabrous rats scrabbles together as a mass, with skulls, bones, and flesh entangled in the whole. Teeth, eyes, and fur all flow as a single disturbing rat swarm walking on two legs._ **Fused at the Tail.** A rat king forms when ...
_While a huginn’s face resembles that of a great raven or crow, it lacks wings and has a much more solid frame. Most are pitch black, although a smattering have white feathers and red flecks._ The ravenfolk are an avian race of scoundrels, schem...
More than anything, kobolds are survivors. Their scaly skin and keen night vision as well as their dextrous claws and sensitive snouts make them quick to sense danger, and their clawed feet move them out of danger with cowardly speed. They are sma...
A rivulet of lava streams from a cavity between the shoulders of this four-armed, volcanic creature._ **Volcanic Guardians.** Lava keepers are elementals from the borderlands between the Elemental Planes of Earth and Fire. They sometimes emerge ...
A four-armed, four-legged creature in the vague shape of a human—but seemingly made of fine spider silk—moves down a tree, slowly chanting the incantation of a spell in the pale light of the full moon._ **Made in Corrupt Forests.** Lunarchidnas ...
The light drake is a small, bulky dragon with two legs and two wings. It has glowing yellow eyes, and light reflects easily off its golden scales._ **Light Bringers.** Light drakes are obsessed with bringing light into dark places, and often inh...
**Mages** spend their lives in the study and practice of magic. Good-aligned mages offer counsel to nobles and others in power, while evil mages dwell in isolated sites to perform unspeakable experiments without interference.
Gray and amorphous, this creature skulks along the stone floor. Its body appears wet and oily, though an unusual crystalline pattern decorates the surface._ **Subterranean Menace.** A mineral ooze is a slime that hardens into solid rock after it...
**Nobles** wield great authority and influence as members of the upper class, possessing wealth and connections that can make them as powerful as monarchs and generals. A noble often travels in the company of guards, as well as servants who are co...
This large onyx statue looks down critically from an ornate chair. It wears long ceremonial robes and carries a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other. With a slow grinding sound, the statue animates and rises in the air, still seated in its ...
This bat-like creature has luxurious blue fur covering every part of its body. It has a heavily wrinkled face, large, bulbous eyes, and twin horn-like antennae. Thin sable wings unfurl from its back, and its fur emits tiny sparks of blue lightning...
A living pine tree festooned with pinecones featuring razor-sharp edges looks balefully at the intrusion upon its solitude._ **Gruff Forest Protector.** Pine dooms are typically the largest plants in their groves, towering over ordinary pine tre...
Piles of dissolved bones, seemingly eaten away by acid, encircle this mound of quivering, pus-covered flesh._ **Dissolvers of Bone.** Crawling heaps of diseased flesh, pustulent shamblers possess a corrosive material that eats away at bone matte...
This strange dog is hairless except for the thick, dark fur that runs along its bony, ridged back._ **Arctic Legends.** Oral histories of the north are rich with tales of the qiqirn. The tales say they are drawn to mankind’s warm hearths and hom...
_These spiders are named for both the deep red swirls on their abdomens, unique to each spider, and for their peculiar hunting technique. The largest ones hunt in the dark canopy of temperate and subtropical forests._ **Hand-Sized Hunters.** The...
Smaller than giant sharks and hunter sharks, **reef sharks** inhabit shallow waters and coral reefs, gathering in small packs to hunt. A full-grown specimen measures 6 to 10 feet long.
Medium Fey, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts.
Medium Humanoid, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
_These troll skeletons are completely covered in mold and wrapped in flowering vines, and lurk in the shadows of dead tree and profaned groves._ **Black Earth Magic.** Vine troll skeletons guard duskthorn dryad glades and the sacred circles of d...
_A living wick is a small, rough wax sculpture of a human that stands at attention, a halo of light flickering around its head from some source behind it._ **Enchanted Wicks.** Living wicks are obedient wax statues brought to life by an enchante...
_Often called elephant centaurs by humans and gnolls, loxodas are massive creatures that combine the torso of an ogre and the body of an elephant. Hating and fearing all strangers, they live in open plains and scrubland._ **Nomadic Families.** L...