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_These human-sized parasites resemble ghostly centipedes surrounded in erratic violet radiance. Their flesh is translucent and their jaws are crystalline—they are clearly creatures of strange planes indeed._ **Destiny Destroyers.** Fate eaters i...
_This shambling corpse warrior is draped in stained linen wrappings. Green liquid drips from rents in the fabric._ **Servant of the Scorpion Goddess.** These mummies are crafted by Selket’s faithful to guard holy sites and tombs and to serve as ...
_The people of Leng are hideous and malevolent, with goatlike legs and small horns they keep concealed beneath turbans, and mouths full of rows of serrated teeth, somewhat akin to sharks. They have a fondness for combining heavy leathers and brigh...
A **frog** has no effective attacks. It feeds on small insects and typically dwells near water, in trees, or underground. The frog’s statistics can also be used to represent a **toad**.
_The air crackles and lights flicker in the ruins. In a whirl of colorful robes, the drifter materializes from the unfathomable maelstroms of time. His eyes scan the hall in panic, anticipating the terrible revelations of yet another era._ **Adr...
A hulking being with a dragon’s head and a patchwork of black, blue, green, red, and white scales for skin lurches forward on two legs, raising clawed fists into the air._ Dragonflesh golems are rare constructs created from the remains of dead c...
_Deathcap flesh ranges from white to pale gray to a warm yelloworange. Their heads resemble fungal caps, often either red with white spots, red at the center with a brown edge, or a bluish-purple tone. Although deathcaps have vicious-looking fange...
**Fanatics** are often part of a cult's leadership, using their charisma and dogma to influence and prey on those of weak will. Most are interested in personal power above all else.
_Covered with dark green bark and twining tendrils, this longlimbed humanoid exudes a palpable aura of horror._ **Melding of Flesh and Vine.** Vine lords are formed from the union of full-grown Open Game License
_Dark cloth of black and purple, stitched with silver and golden threads, this resembles a garment of elvish make. Smoke sometimes billows under the hood._ **Silent Motion.** A billowing empty cloak glides through the air, either under its own p...
_These winged snakes are coastal beasts and sometimes confused with true dragons or wyverns. They are neither, but quite deadly in their own right._ **Searing Acid.** Drakon fangs do not deliver venom; volatile acid constantly burbles up from a ...
A creature wearing a black turban steps out of the sudden fog. It is roughly the size and shape of a short man, with gray skin and pointed teeth. The thing sneers as it summons lightning to its hand, the air suddenly stinking of ozone. Its stony g...
This winged female has a short torso and long, gangly legs. Her wingspan is wider than her body is tall. Despite her awkward appearance, she moves with incredible grace._ **Protectors of the Marsh.** Egret harpies look after marshland flora and ...
_Apart from their taloned hands and blank face, fear smiths appear elven. While its mouth is closed, a fear smith’s face is featureless save for rows of deep wrinkles. Opening the large mouth in the center of its face reveals long needlelike teeth...
The dragon surges through the water in a rippling mass of seaweed, flotsam, and hungry jaws._ **Avarice and Opportunity.** Scavengers driven by draconic instinct, kelp drakes have an eye for sunken treasure and easy food. They favor giant oyster...
_A gnarljak looks like a bear trap springs sprung to clacking life and ready to tear flesh apart._ **Hopping Motion.** All steel and springs, a gnarljak is easily mistaken for a simple bear trap when lying dormant. But once it starts hopping in ...
_This gray-skinned dog-like creature seems pathetically eager to please but fantastically skittish, its ears alerting at every nearby sound, and its large oval eyes following anything that passes by._ **Emotional Giant.** A hulking whelp is a ti...
_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...
A depression in the ground trails in the wake of this six-legged creature. Aged ice, appearing more like granite, covers the creature’s body._ **Slow but Steady.** Glacier behemoths earn their name from their resemblance to glaciers, including t...
A grotesque human body moves like jelly. Its split-open front reveals the creature has no bones._ Husks are the opposite of Open Game License
A common threat in canals, lagoons, bayous, and countless other bodies of water, the giant water scorpion is responsible for the deaths of many adventurers exploring waterways. Like most aquatic monsters, giant water scorpions are seldom at the to...
_A large, brown spider that resembles a tarantula with exaggeratedly long legs gracefully emerges from the bushes, followed by similar arachnids that are smaller and yellow in color._ The j’ba fofi resembles an oversized tarantula with very long...
A faint disturbance signifies the presence of something terrible and evil—an unnatural miasma. Suddenly, the hazy air coalesces into a mass of greenish fog with multiple red eyes and a dozen vaporous tentacles._ **Harbingers of Pestilence.** The...
_A skeletal cadaver bedecked in the motley attire of a fool capers about while making jokes that mock mortality._ **Amusing Death.** When a jester on his deathbed moves an evil death god to laughter, the fool sometimes gains a reprieve. becoming...