ability_mods: cha_mod: 5 con_mod: 5 dex_mod: 3 int_mod: 5 str_mod: 7 wis_mod: 4 ac: 31 ac_special: null alignment: NE automatic_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: A spellcaster who targets a devourer with a __mental__ spell, __banishment__, __bind soul__, __divine decree__, __divine wrath__, __possession__, __spirit blast__, or __spirit song__ can attempt a counteract check to free a soul the devourer has trapped with Devour Soul. If this counteract attempt succeeds, the trapped soul is released (though the creature remains dead), and the devourer can't use any soul charges from that creature. Devourers are otherwise immune to these spells. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Spell Deflection range: null raw_description: '**Spell Deflection** (__abjuration__, __divine__) A spellcaster who targets a devourer with a __mental__ spell, __banishment__, __bind soul__, __divine decree__, __divine wrath__, __possession__, __spirit blast__, or __spirit song__ can attempt a counteract check to free a soul the devourer has trapped with Devour Soul. If this counteract attempt succeeds, the trapped soul is released (though the creature remains dead), and the devourer can''t use any soul charges from that creature. Devourers are otherwise immune to these spells.' requirements: null success: null traits: - abjuration - divine trigger: null description: 'When fiends and powerful evil spellcasters are lost beyond the farthest reaches of the multiverse, they sometimes return as horrific undead called devourers that consume the souls of the living to fuel their arcane machinations. Their bodies are ruined and rebuilt, hollow and twisted, even as their minds undergo a spiritual transformation. They gain the ability to bind other souls to their own and drain their essence for magical power, yet can never be sated in their pursuit of it. Seething masses of distorted ghostly shapes surge within their hollow rib cages—manifestations of the devourers'' most recently consumed souls. **__Recall Knowledge - Undead__ (__Religion__)**: DC 30' hp: 175 hp_misc: negative healing immunities: - death effects - disease - paralyzed - poison - spell deflection - unconscious items: null languages: - Abyssal - Celestial - Common - Infernal - Necril level: 11 melee: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d10+13 type: slashing name: claw plus_damage: - formula: null type: drain life to_hit: 24 traits: - agile - reach 10 feet name: Devourer perception: 22 proactive_abilities: - action_cost: Two Actions critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The devourer touches a creature within reach, dealing 8d6 negative damage (DC 31 basic Fortitude save). If a creature is slain by this attack, its soul becomes trapped within the devourer. While its soul is trapped, a creature can't be resurrected except by powerful magic such as a __wish__ spell. Destroying the devourer or successfully counteracting Devour Soul (see Spell Deflection above) releases the soul. The devourer can hold only one soul at a time. A soul has 5 soul charges per level of the originating creature (see Soul Spells below). The devourer can expend these charges to cast spells. If the soul is freed and the creature returns to life, the creature is drained 1 for every 5 soul charges expended. If reduced to 0 soul charges, the soul is consumed and can be restored to life only by powerful magic such as wish. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Devour Soul range: null raw_description: '**Devour Soul** [Two Actions] (__death__, __divine__, __necromancy__) The devourer touches a creature within reach, dealing 8d6 negative damage (DC 31 basic Fortitude save). If a creature is slain by this attack, its soul becomes trapped within the devourer. While its soul is trapped, a creature can''t be resurrected except by powerful magic such as a __wish__ spell. Destroying the devourer or successfully counteracting Devour Soul (see Spell Deflection above) releases the soul. The devourer can hold only one soul at a time. A soul has 5 soul charges per level of the originating creature (see Soul Spells below). The devourer can expend these charges to cast spells. If the soul is freed and the creature returns to life, the creature is drained 1 for every 5 soul charges expended. If reduced to 0 soul charges, the soul is consumed and can be restored to life only by powerful magic such as wish.' requirements: null success: null traits: - death - divine - necromancy trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: When the devourer damages a living creature with its claw Strike, the devourer gains 10 temporary Hit Points and the creature must succeed at a DC 24 Fortitude save or become __drained 1__. Further damage dealt by the devourer increases the condition value by 1 on a failed save, to a maximum of drained 4. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Drain Life range: null raw_description: '**Drain Life** (__divine__, __necromancy__) When the devourer damages a living creature with its claw Strike, the devourer gains 10 temporary Hit Points and the creature must succeed at a DC 24 Fortitude save or become __drained 1__. Further damage dealt by the devourer increases the condition value by 1 on a failed save, to a maximum of drained 4.' requirements: null success: null traits: - divine - necromancy trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: A devourer casts occult innate spells, but to do so it must expend a number of soul charges equal to the spell's level (similar to casting a spell using charges from a staff). It can heighten any spell to a maximum of 6th level by expending more charges as it Casts the Spell. When encountered, a devourer typically has one trapped soul with 10 soul charges. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Soul Spells range: null raw_description: '**Soul Spells** A devourer casts occult innate spells, but to do so it must expend a number of soul charges equal to the spell''s level (similar to casting a spell using charges from a staff). It can heighten any spell to a maximum of 6th level by expending more charges as it Casts the Spell. When encountered, a devourer typically has one trapped soul with 10 soul charges.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null ranged: null rarity: Uncommon resistances: null ritual_lists: - dc: 31 misc: null name: Rituals spell_groups: - heightened_level: null level: 2 spells: - frequency: null name: create undead requirement: null to_hit: null saves: fort: 20 fort_misc: null misc: +1 status to all saves vs. magic ref: 18 ref_misc: null will: 24 will_misc: null sense_abilities: null senses: - Perception +22 - darkvision size: Large skills: - bonus: 21 misc: null name: 'Arcana ' - bonus: 21 misc: null name: 'Deception ' - bonus: 23 misc: null name: 'Intimidation ' - bonus: 23 misc: null name: 'Occultism ' - bonus: 19 misc: null name: 'Stealth ' source: - abbr: Bestiary 2 page_start: 78 page_stop: null speed: - amount: 30 type: Land - amount: 30 type: fly spell_lists: - dc: 31 misc: null name: Occult Innate Spells spell_groups: - heightened_level: null level: 6 spells: - frequency: null name: feeblemind requirement: null - frequency: null name: true seeing requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 4 spells: - frequency: null name: confusion requirement: null - frequency: null name: suggestion requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 3 spells: - frequency: null name: bind undead requirement: null - frequency: null name: paralyze requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 2 spells: - frequency: null name: death knell requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 1 spells: - frequency: null name: harm requirement: null to_hit: null traits: - Uncommon - NE - Large - Undead type: Creature weaknesses: null