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A mechanical whir issues from this pyramid-shaped mechanism as it begins to unfold hundreds of jointed limbs. When the noise grows shrillest, alien runes alight across its golden surfaces._ **Secret Keepers.** The people of Leng are renowned tra...
A human head tops this green-and-brown constrictor. Vines protrude from its scalp and writhe in unison to the serpent’s swaying motion. Mosquitos, gnats, and other flying insects form a cloud around it._ **Self-Proclaimed Ruler and Protector.** ...
This large, bestial-looking creature is dark gray, with powerful muscles, long arms, sharp claws at the end of five-digit fingers, fine, short fur, and enormous, bat-like wings. Its face is an odd combination of orc and bat. Its brows are heavy, i...
A ghostly, moon-shaped comet flies above the water, a cloud of vapor and spectral lights trailing behind it._ **Spirits of Violence.** When sailors meet a violent end at sea within sight of the shore and leave no bodies behind to be buried, they...
_This mote of electrical energy floats menacingly, erupting in a shower of sparks and tendrils of lightning. When it disappears, it leaves only the whiff of ozone._ **Born in Storms.** When a great storm rips across a world in the Material Plane...
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 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._...
_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...
_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 ...
_Stick-thin and moon-faced with a raptor’s eyes and a mane of hawk feathers, this grinning humanoid pirouettes as nimbly as a dancer. Between its long, taloned fingers trickles sand that gleams with the cold light of stars._ **Bringers of Nightm...
_When a sand spider attacks, its two speckled, tan legs erupt from the sand, plunging forward with murderous speed, followed by a spider the size of a horse. They attack as often in broad daylight as at night._ **Drag Prey into Tunnels.** Sand s...
_This titanic worm’s rocky hide is rough and hard as stone. Its yawning gullet writhes with miniature worms like itself._ **Elemental Predators.** Sathaq worms are nightmarish predators from the Plane of Elemental Earth, 30 feet long and 10 feet...
Medium Fiend, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
Trained in the use of poison, **assassins** are remorseless killers who work for nobles, guildmasters, sovereigns, and anyone else who can afford them.
Medium Monstrosity, CR 6. From SRD 5.1.
Huge Plant, CR 9. From SRD 5.1.
Huge Beast, CR 8. From SRD 5.1.
Large Elemental, CR 5. From SRD 5.1.
_An asasonbosam is a hirsute hulk with bulging, bloodshot eyes, often perched high in a tree and ready to seize unwary passersby with talons like rusty hooks._ **Iron Hooks and Fangs.** They resemble hairy ogres from the waist up, but with muscu...
Large Monstrosity, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Fey, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.