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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...
The pitiless eyes of this elven creature are black as pitch with neither white nor iris._ **Born to Hunt.** Mountain nymphs claim to be the children of gods associated with hunting and the moon. Whether this is true or not is unknown, but they a...
This devilish monster has a draconic body covered in thick, greenish-gold scales and the head of a handsome giant with gleaming red eyes. It opens its mouth in a sardonic smile, and the head of a serpent appears between its lips, hissing with male...
This towering ogre is covered in rippling muscles. It wears a suit of burnished scale mail and hefts a gleaming greatsword in its hands. A large white horn emerges from the ogre’s forehead, glowing with a strange blue radiance._ **Ogre Royalty.*...
This creature could be mistaken for a large centaur if not for the black and green scales covering its body and its cobra-like head. Its hiss sounds like a hundred angry vipers, and the venom dripping from creature’s long fangs sizzles as it lands...
Huge Beast, CR 5. From SRD 5.1.
This pile of rotting plant matter is shaped similarly to a woolly mammoth, without the tusks. The plants forming its hide droop to the ground._ **Elephantine Plant Mound.** The peat mammoth is a mobile peat bog on four, stumpy legs. The plants d...
A **phase spider** possesses the magical ability to phase in and out of the Ethereal Plane. It seems to appear out of nowhere and quickly vanishes after attacking. Its movement on the Ethereal Plane before coming back to the Material Plane makes i...
Tiny Celestial, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 2023.