Challenge Rating 11 to 16 (deadly encounters)
_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...
_The dragon eel’s unmistakable slender form sports a powerful single finned tail and wicked jaws like a matched pair of serrated blades. Dragon eels vary widely in color from browns and blacks to brilliant iridescent hues in mottled patterns._ *...
_Unfolding impossibly from beneath voluminous robes, this creature’s pockmarked, spindly arms end in clusters of narrow spikes. Its long, hollow, needle-like fingers and its many-jointed arms move with surprising speed and strength for such an ema...
_An aura of holiness surrounds this handsome human-headed equine with its short but strong feathered wings._ **Only the Worthy.** A buraq possesses astounding speed, determination, and resilience, among a host of noble qualities, but only pure-h...
_Distilled to nothing but dry, whispering sand and a full set of teeth, a bonepowder ghoul still hungers for flesh and blood. Its dusty mass is perfected corruption, entirely animated by foul energy._ **Starved Into Dust.** The bonepowder ghoul ...
_This bent-backed crone has long, leathery arms and cruel, flesh‑shearing talons. Her face is a misshapen mass of leathery flesh with a bulbous nose, like a gnarled knot on an old oak tree._ **Vampiric Origins.** Blood hags have long skulked on ...
_The dragon bears black scales, more charred than naturally colored. Cracks between the scales glow a dull red, until the dragon rears its head and roars. Red embers become bright orange flames as the creature lights up from tail to maw._ The fl...
Covered in black spikes, the dragon’s eyeless head swings from side to side. Darkness creeps from its strange, eel-like hide, spreading like ink in water. Apex predators of the underworld, cave dragons are the stuff of nightmare for creatures wi...
_An otherworldly humanoid of such indescribable beauty, it pains anyone’s eyes to gaze upon her._ **Beauty that Destroys.** An abominable beauty is so perfect that her gaze blinds, her voice is so melodious that no ears can withstand it, and her...
Large Undead, CR 12. From Tome of Beasts.