Creature Codex Pdf
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A seal herder is treated as an alpha by infected pinnipeds, and the animals behave favorably towards it even as their young kills the animal slowly. By concentrating, an okrillimari can see through the eyes of seals hosting its young, and thus are able to monitor a wide span of beach and ocean nearby. Okrillimari are simultaneous hermaphrodites that fertilize each other when they cross paths, but otherwise usually ignore others of their own kind. They can apparently smell the eggs inside a seal, and so do not attempt to parasitize a pinniped already hosting okrillimari eggs.
An okrillimari is most comfortable on the shoreline, but can remain on land or underwater indefinitely. Rumors exist of variant okrillimari capable of infecting any carnivoran animal, such as big cats, wolves and bears, with their young.
First mentioned here, Vodani is one of the least ambitious yet most active among the Nascent Lords, never vying for territory but viciously holding what power and reach he stumbles into with a ferocity and determination that cause most others to simply leave him to his own devices. His primary concerns in his day to day life are acquiring alcohol to drink and people to drink it around (not WITH, around), and though he can conjure seemingly bottomless amounts of it and convert even pond scum into a palatable beverage, he's always hounding for a flavor of spirit he's never tasted before, which is one of the motivators for venturing into the world of mortals.
The primary motivator, however, is little more complex than most demons: chaos, mayhem, destruction, and the corruption of innocents. Vodani takes on the appearance of a common human vagrant or wanderer to inveigle himself in established populations of the destitute and downtrodden. With endless gifts of cheap drink and drugs woven between sob stories he's collected from hundreds of past victims, Vodani establishes himself as a strange but beloved member of the community, where he works to ignite the fires of hatred within them.
Vodani uses inflammatory rhetoric to gradually unite the societies he infiltrates against specific targets, most of them nobles or government officials, or members of an organization with considerable power over the poor (such as bankers, guards, and local guild members), preferring to pick whomever would cause the largest power vacuum if they were removed from their position or which would cause the largest breakdown of societal order (his least favorite order). This habit causes many to call him the Prince of Paupers, believing him a figure of hope and unity, but this is false hope at best; Vodani is not driven out of a sincere desire to help, but a demonic desire to destroy. He intentionally steers people away from any solution that does not lead to violent revolution and utilizes drugs, social and societal pressures, and his magic to prevent anyone from speaking against him or offering his "friends" any alternatives to his lifestyle of violence, indulgence, and wallowing hate, becoming a violently toxic influence in the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby.
Were the Lord of Gin truly a bringer of rebellion and freedom, he would actually stay to help the reconstruction once the dust settled, or even help at all. As it is, the targets of ire he selects often have little to nothing to do with the actual reason inequality runs rampant; he may target a guard captain enforcing unjust laws while treating the council who made the laws as an afterthought, or call for the death of a king who is unaware that his advisors have been wringing areas of the city dry behind his back. Vodani gets his fill of destruction quickly once he's gotten a whole riot going, wading into the fray to kill and destroy with savage impunity, often felling friend and foe alike. Whether or not his assembled "freedom fighters" actually succeed in destroying their perceived "oppressors" and "enemies" or if they themselves are routed is of little true consequence to him, with the fiend vanishing from the world once his cruel work is done to let whatever happens, happen. Any actual good that may emerge in the wake of his riot is purely accidental, and hearing that he has bettered a city sends him into a frothing fury which takes him days to calm down from. He often goes out of his way to either send his followers into the same city or slither back in himself to make it burn down 'for good this time,' and this is one of the only things in creation which can give him actual focus and motivation to plan things over the course of the long term... provided he doesn't completely forget about why he was so angry in the first place during days of senseless rage and endless drinking.
Vodani appears to be a humanoid with an extremely severe case of jaundice and lengthy fingers that end in sharpened, bony points. He wears shabby local clothing and is always clutching a bottle of spirits he takes frequent drinks from. His head is his most startling feature, taking the shape of a tapering pillar of flesh that swirls as though it were smoke in a vortex, solid yellow eyes and a mouth filled with shark-like teeth emerging and disappearing at random in the twister. He has a strange amount of control over his malleable head, able to shape it into distorted faces and exaggerated expressions at will, or even lash his head out like a tentacle to deliver bites to distant foes.
Even when magically disguised, his pure yellow eyes or sharpened teeth randomly peek through to reveal his true nature, forcing him to take pains to hide them with long hair, facemasks, tall collars, or other coverings. His commonalities with the Ginever are noted by most who know of both him and the strange, alcoholic carnivores; many believe him to either be their progenitor, or a member of their kind who ascended to demonhood. He gives contradicting reports, alternatively calling them his children, his kin, his subjects, or his parasites, seemingly just to annoy anyone trying to find a concrete truth. What is known is that any mortal who drinks themselves to death with alcohol he's interacted with in some way has a chance of returning to life as a Ginever. When asked of this phenomenon, he is curiously quiet.
LiliCR 5 N Magical BeastThis skulking creature somewhat resembles a wild boar, with long tusks and a mane of bristly fur. Its legs end in curved claws, and it carries itself low to the ground.
A lili is of animal intelligence, and their behavior is similar to the pigs they superficially resemble. In areas where resources are plentiful, female lili will travel together in groups of multiple sows and their piglets. Lili boars leave their sounders when fully grown, and the boars are territorial and violent towards other boars. Fights for mating rights are common, with the winner impregnating multiple females. Lili piglets reach maturity in one or two years, and the creatures have a lifespan of about 10 years.
IchisongaCR 5 NE Magical BeastThis creature looks something like a rhinoceros, with a thick hide barely accented with hair and broad feet. A single curving horn grows from its head, and it bears a sneering, malevolent expression.
The ichisonga is a malicious creature that kills for pure spite. Although they are herbivorous, and have teeth suited for eating nothing but grass, they will go out of their way to murder other creatures. Large herbivorous animals such as hippos and elephants are the most common targets, but some ichisonga have a murderous inclination towards fey, other magical beasts, or even humans.
An ichisonga is surprisingly stealthy for its size, and usually approaches from cover of water before charging in to gore an opponent. After its initial onslaught, it typically uses its roar to panic the target and its allies, allowing it relatively free reign to continue to attack its chosen foe. Most of the time, an ichisonga prefers to focus its ire on the most impressive or largest target, the better to showcase its martial prowess.
Why ichisonga are filled with bloodlust is something of a mystery. An ichisonga will guard the carcass of its quarry for extended periods of time, and valuables or resources on the corpse will often be crushed or befouled intentionally. Some believe that the ichisonga is motivated by jealousy, and envies beasts for their simple lives and social bonds. Others believe that they are creatures engineered to damage the natural world, and are fighting for a cause long forgotten.
HammerclawCR 5 NE Magical BeastThis creature looks like a lobster the size of a horse, with a shell covered in bumps and ridges and mottled to look like sea rocks. Its stalked eyes somehow convey a sense of inquisitiveness.
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