ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 7
  con_mod: 6
  dex_mod: 5
  int_mod: 2
  str_mod: 2
  wis_mod: 5
ac: 33
ac_special: null
alignment: CE
automatic_abilities:
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: 60 feet. The shining child sheds bright light. Any creature that starts
    its turn in the aura must succeed at a Fortitude DC 29 save. If it fails, it is
    blinded for 1 minute, and if it critically fails, it's permanently blinded. A
    creature that succeeds at its save is temporarily immune to this effect for 24
    hours.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Blinding Aura
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Blinding Aura** (__arcane__, __aura__, __incapacitation__, __light__)
    60 feet. The shining child sheds bright light. Any creature that starts its turn
    in the aura must succeed at a Fortitude DC 29 save. If it fails, it is blinded
    for 1 minute, and if it critically fails, it''s permanently blinded. A creature
    that succeeds at its save is temporarily immune to this effect for 24 hours.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - arcane
  - aura
  - incapacitation
  - light
  trigger: null
- action_cost: Reaction
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The shining child attempts to counteract the magical darkness (as a 7th-level
    spell).
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Overwhelming Light
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Overwhelming Light** [Reaction] (__light__) **Trigger** The
    shining child enters an area of magical darkness or begins its turn in an area
    of magical darkness. **Effect** The shining child attempts to counteract the magical
    darkness (as a 7th-level spell).'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - light
  trigger: The shining child enters an area of magical darkness or begins its turn
    in an area of magical darkness.
description: 'Shining children are wicked, enigmatic monsters that roam remote planes
  and untraveled corners of the universe in search of esoteric lore. With their abnormally
  gaunt frames, long white hair, and unnerving, four-fingered hands, shining children
  are both strangely familiar and otherworldly in appearance, though they are barely
  visible within the shroud of blinding light they continually emit. Their faces are
  truly horrible, however, as their overlarge eyes and distended, gaping mouths reveal
  their heads to be voids filled with unnatural light. Shining children use this light
  as a weapon, weaving illusions and focusing beams of fiery brilliance.




  Because of their reputation as scholars of the alien and the eldritch, shining children
  are sometimes summoned by powerful wizards or occultists in search of rare knowledge.
  The creatures never give away their lore without some price, though, and typically
  demand in return the performance of contemptible deeds that further their inscrutable,
  far-ranging plans.




  These mysterious beings are natives of the Astral Plane. In that vast plane, accretions
  of metaphysical matter gradually accumulate and eventually coalesce into demiplanes.
  During this tumultuous process, sparks of living light sometimes shear off the newly
  formed planes, and these sparks of raw planar energy somehow transform into shining
  children. Every newly formed demiplane leaves a different mental imprint on its
  shining "offspring," making it easy for shining children to telepathically recognize
  their brothers and sisters. Forever trapped in apparently adolescent bodies, shining
  children dedicate themselves to scholarship and violence with equal measure in a
  futile effort to understand their roles in the multiverse and the burning injustice
  of their births.




  Shining children confuse most other creatures with their refusal to use individual
  names in favor of alternating between referring to each other singularly and collectively.




  **__Recall Knowledge - Astral__ (__Occultism__)**: DC 30'
hp: 215
hp_misc: null
immunities:
- blinded
- dazzled
- fire
items: null
knowledge_checks:
  dc: 30
  skills:
  - Occultism
languages:
- Aklo
- telepathy 120 feet
level: 12
melee:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 3d4+5
    type: bludgeoning
  name: fist
  plus_damage:
  - formula: 4d6
    type: fire and 2d4 persistent fire
  to_hit: 25
  traits:
  - agile
  - finesse
  - magical
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 3d10+3
    type: fire,
  name: fire ray
  plus_damage:
  - formula: 2d10
    type: positive damage if the target is undead
  to_hit: 25
  traits:
  - arcane
  - evocation
  - magical
  - range 100 feet
name: Shining Child
perception: 23
proactive_abilities: null
ranged: null
rarity: Common
resistances: null
ritual_lists: null
saves:
  fort: 22
  fort_misc: null
  misc: null
  ref: 19
  ref_misc: null
  will: 19
  will_misc: null
sense_abilities:
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The shining child is flat-footed while in areas of darkness.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Radiance Dependence
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Radiance Dependence** The shining child is flat-footed while
    in areas of darkness.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
senses:
- Perception +23
- darkvision
size: Medium
skills:
- bonus: 18
  misc: null
  name: 'Arcana '
- bonus: 23
  misc: null
  name: 'Deception '
- bonus: 21
  misc: null
  name: 'Diplomacy '
- bonus: 21
  misc: null
  name: 'Intimidation '
- bonus: 18
  misc: null
  name: 'Occultism '
source:
- abbr: Bestiary
  page_start: 292
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 30
  type: Land
- amount: 50
  type: fly
spell_lists:
- dc: 33
  misc: null
  name: Occult Innate Spells
  spell_groups:
  - heightened_level: null
    level: 7
    spells:
    - frequency: null
      name: spell turning
      requirement: null
    - frequency: null
      name: sunburst
      requirement: null
  - heightened_level: null
    level: 6
    spells:
    - frequency: null
      name: dispel magic
      requirement: null
    - frequency: null
      name: vibrant pattern
      requirement: null
    - frequency: null
      name: wall of force
      requirement: null
  - heightened_level: null
    level: 5
    spells:
    - frequency: null
      name: dimension door
      requirement: null
    - frequency: null
      name: false vision
      requirement: null
    - frequency: null
      name: hallucinatory terrain
      requirement: null
  - heightened_level: null
    level: 4
    spells:
    - frequency: at will, self only
      name: dimension door
      requirement: null
  - heightened_level: null
    level: 2
    spells:
    - frequency: at will
      name: illusory object
      requirement: null
  - heightened_level: 6
    level: 0
    spells:
    - frequency: null
      name: light
      requirement: null
  to_hit: null
traits:
- CE
- Medium
- Astral
type: Creature
weaknesses: null