ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 5
  con_mod: 4
  dex_mod: 5
  int_mod: 3
  str_mod: 3
  wis_mod: 3
ac: 32
ac_special: null
active_abilities:
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The nilith reaches into the mind of the grabbed creature and implants disjointed
    images of the victim's worst fears and nightmares. The grabbed creature takes
    6d6 mental damage (DC 31 basic Will save). On a critical failure, the target is
    also affected as though by __feeblemind__, and it must attempt a second Will save
    against that effect.
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Mind Crush
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Mind Crush** [One Action]  (__enchantment__, __mental__, __occult__)
    **Requirements** The nilith has a creature grabbed. **Effect** The nilith reaches
    into the mind of the grabbed creature and implants disjointed images of the victim''s
    worst fears and nightmares. The grabbed creature takes 6d6 mental damage (DC 31
    basic Will save). On a critical failure, the target is also affected as though
    by __feeblemind__, and it must attempt a second Will save against that effect.'
  requirements: The nilith has a creature grabbed.
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - enchantment
  - mental
  - occult
  trigger: null
alignment: NE
automatic_abilities: null
description: 'The sleek, dark niliths resemble hairless, emaciated tree sloths. These
  creatures are intensely dangerous and fearsome, with red glowing eyes, wicked claws,
  and mouths full of needlelike teeth. Niliths feed off the emotions, fears, and flesh
  of the living, and folktales posit that those who have nightmares of these creatures
  are fated to one day be eaten by them. Niliths draw intense joy from tormenting
  sapient creatures, often focusing their predations on the pious and the just, from
  whom they draw forth their most basic fears and worst thoughts and revel in their
  victims'' subsequent terror. More often than not, these despicable manipulators
  wish to drive their victims into madness and even to suicide. Most niliths lack
  the patience to spend too much time fully tearing down an individual, and when a
  nilith tires of its current plaything and becomes bored with its particular thoughts
  and fears, it murders the quarry before feeding on its flesh and moving onto the
  next victim.




  Niliths are actually extensions of much deadlier creatures that dwell in a distant
  dimension beyond dreams—in a way, niliths are little more than remote feeding machines
  for the unknown alien entities to which they are connected. Scholars and dimensional
  travelers have attempted to uncover the exact mechanisms of this mysterious connection,
  but they have yet to decipher the truth. Indeed, many who investigate the nature
  of the nilith''s bond are driven to madness before getting anywhere close. The odd
  connection to otherworldly beings might help explain the longevity of these creatures,
  as it is believed that niliths can live for thousands of years.




  Thankfully for others, niliths are solitary creatures that hate the company of their
  own kind, likely because these harbingers of nightmares have no wish to taste the
  horrors they bring to others.




  **__Recall Knowledge - Aberration__ (__Occultism__)**: DC 27'
hp: 150
hp_misc: null
languages:
- Aklo
- Common
- telepathy 30 feet
level: 10
melee_attacks:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d10+9
    type: slashing
  name: claw
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: Grab
  to_hit: 23
  traits:
  - agile
  - finesse
  - magical
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d12+9
    type: piercing
  name: fangs
  plus_damage: null
  to_hit: 23
  traits:
  - finesse
  - magical
name: Nilith
perception: 19
ranged_attacks: null
resistances:
- amount: 10
  misc: null
  type: mental
- amount: 5
  misc: except silver
  type: physical
saves:
  fort: 17
  fort_misc: null
  misc: null
  ref: 20
  ref_misc: null
  will: 20
  will_misc: null
senses:
- darkvision
size: Medium
skills:
- bonus: 21
  misc: null
  name: Acrobatics
- bonus: 17
  misc: null
  name: Athletics
- bonus: 23
  misc: null
  name: Intimidation
- bonus: 19
  misc: null
  name: Occultism
- bonus: 21
  misc: null
  name: Stealth
- bonus: 17
  misc: null
  name: Survival
sources:
- abbr: Bestiary
  page_start: '245'
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 25
  misc: null
  type: Land
- amount: 30
  misc: null
  type: climb
spell_lists:
- attack_bonus: null
  cantrips:
  - level: 5
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: mage hand
    - misc: null
      name: message
    - misc: null
      name: read aura
    - misc: null
      name: shield
  constants: null
  dc: 29
  focus_points: null
  misc: null
  spell_lists:
  - level: 5
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: hallucination
    - misc: null
      name: mind probe
  - level: 4
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: blink
    - misc: null
      name: confusion
    - misc: null
      name: crushing despair
    - misc: null
      name: dream message
    - misc: at will, self only
      name: invisibility
    - misc: null
      name: nightmare
  - level: 3
    spells:
    - misc: at will
      name: mind reading
  spells_source: Occult Innate Spells
traits:
- Aberration