Violet Dawn The Complete Book of Denizens.pdf

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Contents

Introduction.................. 6

Gorg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Greater Vylar............... 224

Greater Xxyth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Grethell................... 78

Grim Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Grimvole.................. 79

Guardian Creatures (Template) . 81

Gynnean.................. 242

Haklaa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Half-xxyth (Template) . . . . . . . . 83

Heart Reaper............... 217

Hertiza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Hexachela................. 87

Igran-krider ................ 88

Inscriber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Karg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Keeper of the Taint (Template) . . 93

Kehtor .................... 95

Kei-ehri ................... 96

Kenzasa (Template) . . . . . . . . . . 85

Khalor.................... 98

Khasep-Sa ................. 99

Knosirius.................. 108

Kulumar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Leech Bat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Lesser Vylar................ 223

Lesser Xxyth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Lightning Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Lumina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Lunar Creatures (Template) . . . . 112

Madness Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Madrir.................... 114

Magickin (Template) . . . . . . . . . 116

Malison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Melboreth ................. 120

Mindburned (Template)....... 158

Mistji..................... 121

Mi’thu .................... 123

Mokara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Morgathrell ................ 129

Myrcloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Narga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Narlaskin.................. 134

Naryd Grub................ 137

Necromantos (Template) . . . . . . 116

Necromercer............... 138

Nest Guardian.............. 63

Nether Wisp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Ngakoi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Nightbeast................. 145

Nightmare Collector . . . . . . . . . 147

Oozecrawler ............... 149

Ossecap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Painted Sentry .............. 151

Phylaern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Plague Apotheosis........... 154

Plague Bringer.............. 153

Planar Grimalkin............ 155

Psyros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Qeh’thral.................. 159

Raging Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Ranzeptera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Rotwood .................. 162

Saihar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Scion of Krüg (Template) . . . . . . 166

Servant of the Black Wind ..... 168

Shadow Puppet (Template) . . . . 169

Shard..................... 61

Shipwreck Ooze . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Skareth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Skarren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Solar Creatures (Template)..... 175

Soulless One............... 176

Soultrapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Spirit Pup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Spirit Swarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Stalassein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Stompling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Straga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Stygian Slaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Sulwynarii................. 187

Swallowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Taa’ran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Tangleweed................ 192

Tasked (Template) . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Teo-selerai................. 195

Threneghul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Time Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Trakza .................... 200

Transmutron (Template)....... 117

Tree Spinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

True Mistji................. 126

Tulgorth................... 203

Tzorda.................... 205

Ubu...................... 207

Ulnumaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Undead Stalker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Urgeld.................... 20

U’thic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Vacuous Engulfer............ 212

Valikir .................... 214

Vanthiir................... 216

Vohrahn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Void Spider ................ 221

Vylar..................... 223

Wailhaunt ................. 227

Warding Visage ............. 229

Water Swarm............... 182

Weeper in the Wastes . . . . . . . . 231

Winterbrood Fury . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Wispheri .................. 234

Wraithlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Wretchling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Xashuul................... 238

Xiir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Xxyth..................... 244

Yethil..................... 252

Zeidian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Zha’lari ................... 256

Chapter 1: Building a Creature . . . 7

New Subtypes.............. 7

New Skills................. 7

New Feats ................. 9

New Epic Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 2: New Creatures ....... 14

Abjuraton (Template)......... 116

Accursed Tulgorth . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Adithari................... 14

Agraukith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Air Swarm ................. 181

Alaihar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Arageld ................... 19

Arch-xxyth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Argill..................... 21

Ascetic Stalker.............. 135

Astral Sentinel.............. 64

Aszevara (Template) . . . . . . . . . 22

Automental ................ 24

Beasthound................ 26

Bestarius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Bhorloth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Blackwater Slough........... 30

Blood Ooze................ 32

Boil Spore ................. 33

Braershoot................. 34

Brood Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Burrower.................. 35

Bygone Creatures (Template)... 36

Bygone Uvuudaum .......... 37

Carcaetan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Cave Spinner............... 202

Centioch .................. 40

Coran’tul.................. 41

Cosmic Sentiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Crelith.................... 43

Crimson Mokara . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Crystal Relector . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Culkma ................... 46

Dagger Worm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Dark Wanderer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Darlith.................... 50

Darnu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Darnu, Albino .............. 51

Deep Zeidian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Devourer Worm . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Dharcanen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Doomweaver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Dreadspawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Dread Spire................ 58

Droth’yar.................. 60

Duogoth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Earth Swarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Eidoneus .................. 110

Empyrean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Enchantrix (Template) . . . . . . . . 116

Epicurean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Eri ....................... 69

Ethereal Adder.............. 71

Fire Swarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Flame Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Flame Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Glamwing................. 74

Goldencrest................ 75

Chapter 3: Other Creatures ...... 258

Mundane Animals........... 264

Chapter 4: Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

New Summoning Tables . . . . . . 265

Creatures by Type (and Subtype) . 266

Creatures by Challenge Rating . . 266

Alternative PC Races ......... 267

Cohorts ................... 267

Animal Companions, Familiars,

and Mounts................ 268

Template Level Adjustments . . . 268

Chapter 5: Sample Templates..... 269

Introduction

“We fear monsters because they are part of ourselves, or

because they are not. To defeat the former, we look into our

hearts, and vanquish our opponents through purity of thought

and act. To defeat the latter, we raise blade and torch, and

confront our problems directly.”

– From the essays of Virkar, zeidian warrior-poet

frequently take class levels are detailed further here.

Physiological Uses: Certain creatures have qualities which

allow the knowledgeable and skilled to make use of their

remains. Items that can be manufactured from a creature’s

body are given a value in gp and a creation DC (usually for a

Craft skill). Creating these items follows the standard rules for

the Craft skill, unless otherwise stated. Except where noted,

only one item can be created per creature carcass.

Some creatures can be used to reduce a magic item’s base

price for purposes of magic item creation. This does not change

any other creation requirements, but costs derived from the

base price (such as base creation cost, creation time, and XP

cost) are reduced accordingly. The item’s actual base price (as

well as its market price) does not change–the reduction only

applies to the costs for item creation. As with using creature

parts for mundane items, unless otherwise stated, each carcass

leaves enough material for use in one magic item.

Creature parts (such as soultrapper petals) which can be

added to spells as material components to add metamagic or

other effects can be used by any spellcaster. The spellcaster

does not need to have the metamagic feat duplicated, nor does

the spellcaster need to have access to a spell slot of the level

that the spell, when modiied by a metamagic feat, would

ordinarily require.

Adventure Ideas: This section contains suggestions and

ideas for using the creature in an adventure.

On Avadnu: This section explains how the creature its

into Avadnu, and offers history, legends, and cultural views

of the creature. Dates are from the sulwynarii calendar, which

divides recorded history into arcs of 1,000 cycles each. Each

cycle marks the speciic period between two winter solstices.

Other Creatures (Chapter 3): Chapter 3 explains how

creatures from sources other than Denizens of Avadnu it into

the setting of Avadnu, and offers alternative takes on traditional

monsters.

Tables (Chapter 4): Chapter 4 contains new tables for spells

such as summon monster , and listings of monsters by CR.

Denizens of Avadnu introduces over 140 new creatures for

use in fantasy games. Some are new twists on old favorites,

while others are original creations designed to surprise DMs

and players alike. Most of the creatures and nearly all of the

skills, feats, and special abilities can be easily used in any

fantasy setting, but plenty of background is provided to help

DMs integrate the material into their own campaign worlds.

Some DMs may wish to introduce new creatures sparingly,

using them to catch jaded players off-guard, while others may

wish to make them an essential part of their games’ lavor.

The World of Avadnu

The “natural habitat” of the creatures in this book is Avadnu,

the setting used by The Inner Circle’s Violet Dawn: The Time

of the Unravelling line of products. Avadnu is a dark fantasy

world suffering from the mistakes of its past, where more

people are struggling to survive than attempting to rebuild. All

creatures have sections describing how they it into the world

of Avadnu, and even DMs running games set elsewhere can

use these sections as examples of how a given creature might

it into a world’s history.

More information on Avadnu can be found at the oficial

Violet Dawn web site, at http://www.violetdawn.com.

Using This Book

Denizens of Avadnu is divided into four chapters:

Building a Creature (Chapter 1): This chapter details a

new subtype, new skills (such as Autoheal and Sculpt Self),

and new feats (such as Controlled Breathing and Draining

Weapon).

New Creatures (Chapter 2): Chapter 2 is the heart

of Denizens of Avadnu , and describes new creatures and

templates. Most creature writeups contain up to eight sections.

Some creatures have additional sections to explain unique

qualities.

Statistics: The creature’s statistics are listed in a black box

labeled with the creature’s name. In addition, the creature’s

Challenge Rating is displayed in a shield in the margin of

the page. (A ‘T’ in place of a Challenge Rating denotes a

template.)

Description: Following the statistics block is a summary of

the creature’s physical traits, habits, and habitat.

Combat: The combat section explains how the creature

ights, as well any special abilities the creature may have.

Society: Intelligent creatures with complicated societies

have expanded culture and lifestyle descriptions in this section.

Characters: Creatures appropriate for use as PCs or who

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