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Emerging from the water with barely a ripple is a slender, serpentine creature with human arms and a wicked grin on its wide, lizard-like mouth. The creature is no more than a foot long and has pale green skin and blood-red eyes._ **Ophidian Fey...
A horrid-looking bipedal creature with cracked, leathery skin and long arms and legs—ending in wicked, flensing talons—rears up. A trio of unblinking purple eyes is situated in the monster’s chest, and its neck ends in a nest of lamprey-like heads...
An **axe beak** is a tall flightless bird with strong legs and a heavy, wedge-shaped beak. It has a nasty disposition and tends to attack any unfamiliar creature that wanders too close.
**Bandits** rove in gangs and are sometimes led by thugs, veterans, or spellcasters. Not all bandits are evil. Oppression, drought, disease, or famine can often drive otherwise honest folk to a life of banditry. **Pirates** are bandits of the hig...
Water filled with algae, worms, and other detritus rises up in a serpentine form. It reeks of stagnation and rot._ **Corrupted Water Elementals.** When aquatic parasites invade a water elemental, they take control of it and seek to propagate. Th...
Necromancers, both living and dead, sometimes come together to make massive undead creatures known collectively as “necrotech”. In nations ruled by undead, these massive creations often act as siege weapons or powerful modes of transportation._ ...
_A hulking, hyena-faced humanoid with heavily scarred, oversized muzzle, a bouda looks as if its jaw had once been ripped apart and put back together. Clouds of gnats and fleas roil around its arms._ **Glowing Eyes and Teeth.** Bouda are child-e...
This creature is a disturbing combination of wolf and locust, and the smoke it exhales hovers thickly around it. Fur surrounds its locust head, and long, insectoid legs extend from its canine body._ **Unnatural Origin.** Brimstone locusthounds a...
_The beetles wore golden bridles and carried huge leather sacks of stone and guano. They marched without stopping; dozens, even hundreds, bringing fresh earth to the white-fungus trees of the great forests. Their claws skittered with a sound like ...
_These scaly creatures resemble nothing so much as tiny, batwinged dragonkin._ **Dragon Sprites.** Chernomoi (which means “lair sprite” in Draconic) often reside discreetly in a dragon lair or dragonborn household, cleaning and tidying up at nig...
_Light glints off the moving parts of almost a thousand clockwork beetles in a biting cloud._ **Freed But Foolish.** Clockwork beetle swarms form when several of the creatures break free of their creators and bond together in a noisy mass of cla...
Level 2 evocation. From Deep Magic.
Level 3 abjuration. From Deep Magic.
_Small horns crown this pig-faced devil’s head. It stands on shaggy goat legs and holds a flaming polearm in its clawed hands. It bears a wicked gleam in its black eyes._ **Bad Bargains.** Quick and canny, a chort devil uses varied, pleasing for...
_Gleaming metal and whirring gears make up the form of this elaborate mechanical insect the size of a housecat._ **Bejeweled Familiars.** Forged by talented jewelers and sold to gear-mages and aristocrats, clockwork beetles are highly prized as ...
_Around a corner in the wine cellar stumbles a surly, two-foot tall man carrying an open bottle of wine. He has a bushy beard and wears a rumpled, red overcoat over a dirty white shirt and kneelength red trousers with blue stockings and silver-buc...
_Swimming upright, this creature peels itself from the vibrant seascape and strikes with needle-thin claws, shredding teeth, and a wickedly curved stinger._ **Camouflaged Hunter.** Like a piece of moving coral, this drake’s coloration and scale ...
A wrinkly, purple-skinned pixie with small black horns and bat wings flits about, chanting a violent song about harvesting organs._ Corrupted pixies are fey turned fiends who savor violence. **Corrupted by Hags.** Hags sometimes capture pixies...
_A constant shimmer surrounds this short, winged creature, and staring at it is eyewatering and confusing, like a distant desert mirage though it’s only scant yards away._ **Desert Mirage Fey.** Daus are creatures of haze and illusion. They stan...
_These enormous clouds of orange and green butterflies add a reek of putrefaction to the air, stirred by the flapping of their delicate wings._ **Demon-Haunted.** A death butterfly swarm results when a rare breed of carrion-eating butterflies, d...
The putrid stench of death wafts off a grotesquely muscled vulture with glowing green eyes. It opens its mouth in a shrill call, rotting meat dripping from its beak._ Death vultures are giant birds transformed by their diet of undead flesh. **...
Deep Ones With enormous eyes, a wide mouth, and almost no chin, the deep ones are hideous, fishlike folk, often hunched and scaled when encountered in coastal villages. _**Elder Gods.**_ In their fully grown form, the deep ones are an ocean-dwel...
_This blue-skinned creature resembles a stunted dwarf. Its eyes are large and its hair wild, and both are colorless. The expression on its face is a terrible rictus of madness and hate._ All derro are mad, but some devote their very souls to the...
Level 7 transmutation. From Deep Magic.