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_Alas are born from galls that grow on treant trunks. Within this parasitic pocket, an ala sickens the treant and consumes its life force. When the treant dies, the ala is born in a black whirlwind._ **Daughters of the Whirlwind.** Alas have win...
Medium Fiend, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts.
_This tiny monstrosity combines the worst elements of a dead frog and a rotting fish. Its slimy, scaly, vaguely humanoid form has three clawed arms arranged radially about its body. Its slimy green bat‑like wings seem too small to work, yet it fli...
_A luminous green mist swirls into the form of an ancient warrior. Dented armor and a ragged cloak enshroud the warrior’s skeletal body, and its grinning skull leers out from an open helm._ **Worn Finery.** Composed of faintly glowing green vapo...
_This hulking primate looms over others of its kind. Its filthy white fur is matted and yellowed, and a deranged look haunts its blood-red eyes._ **Awakened by Sorcery.** White apes were once docile, gentle giants that roamed forested hills and ...
_A rotting wind brings a chilling gust to the air, turning nearby foliage to rot and raising a sense of dread in all creatures in its path._ **Air of Tombs.** A rotting wind is an undead creature made up of the foul air and grave dust sloughed o...
_Resembling a black-furred stag that walks like a man, this creature has a pair of immense, branching antlers arching above its coldly gleaming eyes. The fur is sleek over most of its body, but becomes shaggy around its goatlike legs. The creature...
_A pack of ghostly wolves appears in a swirl of greenish fog, seeming to coalesce from the fog itself._ When a pack of wolves dies of hunger or chill in the deep winter, sometimes the pack leader’s rage at a cruel death—or the summoning call of ...
_A motionless rust drake is easily mistaken for a pile of scrap metal._ **Shedding Rust.** Aside from fangs and claws like iron spikes, this dragon-like creature seems to be nothing more than a collection of rust. Each beating of its wings bring...
_This humanoid wears robes to hide its corpselike pallor and lifeless gray hair. Fine, arm-length worms wriggle through abscesses in its flesh and its empty eye-sockets. It moves stooped over, with a shuffling gait, belying its speed and agility._...
_A salt golem is a crudely sculpted, roughly humanoid crystalline form that shuffles about on wide, stump-like feet. Tiny salt crystals fall from its body in a glittering cloud with every step._ **Coastal Druids.** These unnatural creatures are ...
_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...
_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...
_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 ...
_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...
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...
_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...
_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...
_Mi-go have been described as “vaguely insectlike,” but the emphasis belongs on “vaguely.” They have stubby wings, multiple limbs, and nightmarish heads, but the resemblance ends there._ The mi-go are a space-faring race of great skill and vast ...
_“They led that caravan without mercy or kindness. If you fell or stumbled, they struck you, making your tongue feel as sand or your body ache with pain, then laughed, telling you to get up. And once we arrived, gods, they had us take the tools fr...
_A mirror hag forces an unsuspecting creature to reflect on its own superficiality by gazing into the hag’s horrible face._ **Hideous Hex.** Until a creature can see past the hag’s deformities, it suffers the pain of a disfigured life. Some mirr...
Small Aberration, CR 7. From Creature Codex.