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5 Winterbrood Fury
Medium Fey
Hit Dice: 7d6+7 (31 hp)
Initiative: +6
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 17 (+2 Dex, +5 natural), touch
12, flat-footed 15
Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+3
Attack: Claw +3 melee (1d4 plus poison)
Full Attack: Claw +3 melee (1d4 plus poison)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Poison, spell-like abilities
Special Qualities: Control vermin, low-light
vision, nest dependent, resistance to cold 20
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +8
Abilities: Str 10, Dex 15, Con 12, Int 14, Wis
16, Cha 15
A winterbrood fury appears to be a beautiful
human woman with black hair and white skin.
However, a closer look reveals a fury’s thumbs end
in inch-long black claws, her eyes sparkle with tiny
blue crystals, and her skin shifts slightly in places,
as if tiny creatures crawl beneath the surface. Most
winterbrood furies wear gossamer dresses patterned
like spider webs.
Winterbrood furies are guardian spirits who
protect insects and other vermin in winter. They
only appear during winter, in areas normally replete
with vermin. Each fury finds a nest to call her own—
often an enormous spider web or a rotting tree—and
spends the season protecting her “children.”
Standing invisibly over their nests, furies wait
for creatures to disrupt their children’s activities.
Despite their fervor, winterbrood furies are open
to communication with those who treat them with
respect. They speak Common and Sylvan.
Combat
Winterbrood furies fight readily if they feel
a need to defend themselves, their nests, or their
children. Whenever possible, they attack with magic;
winter’s web and ray of frost are favorite abilities to
use from afar. Summon swarm, giant vermin, and
similar abilities are used only in dire situations; a
winterbrood fury hates to endanger her children.
Poison (Ex): Injury, Fortitude DC 14, initial
and secondary damage 1d6 Strength. The save DC is
Constitution-based.
Spell-Like Abilities: At will—animal
messenger, detect animals or plants, invisibility
(self only), ray of frost, repel vermin (DC 16), warp
wood; 3/day—neutralize poison, poison (DC 18),
sleet storm, summon swarm (spiders only), winter’s
web (DC 15); 1/day—giant vermin, polar ray. Caster
level 10th. The save DCs are Charisma-based.
Control Vermin (Su): A winterbrood fury
can mentally control all vermin within 30 feet. It
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Skills: Concentration +9, Diplomacy +4, Handle
Animal +12, Heal +9, Hide +8, Knowledge
(nature) +14, Listen +11, Move Silently +8,
Ride +4, Sense Motive +11, Spot +11, Survival
+13 (+15 natural environments)
Feats: Combat Casting, Improved Initiative,
Empower Spell-Like Ability (ray of frost)
Environment: Temperate forest, hills, marsh,
and plains
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 5
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Always chaotic neutral
Advancement: 8-14 HD (Medium)
Level Adjustment: —
commands the creatures by voice and they can
understand the winterbrood fury. Even if vocal
communication is impossible (in the area of a
silence spell, for instance), the controlled vermin
will not attack the winterbrood fury. Suicidal or selfdestructive
commands are simply ignored. This is a
transmutation effect, and not a mind-affecting effect.
Nest Dependent (Su): Each winterbrood
fury is connected to a nest, hive, or web where
hundreds of vermin or eggs are housed and must
never stray more than a mile from it. A winterbrood
fury receives its strength from those it guards, so one
that strays out of range of its nest or whose nest is
destroyed takes 1 point of Constitution damage per
hour until it dies. A winterbrood fury can voluntarily
detach itself from its nest whenever it wishes and
attach to an appropriate new one, suffering damage
in the meantime if it strays too far from the old one.
A winterbrood fury’s nest does not radiate magic.
Winter’s Web
Conjuration (Creation) [Cold]
Level: Drd 3, Sor/Wiz 3
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: Icy strands in a 20-ft.-radius spread
Duration: 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw: Reflex negates; see text
Spell Resistance: No
As web, except the web is composed of
icy filaments that freeze to whatever they touch.
Entangled creatures suffer 2d4 points of cold
damage every round they are stuck. Each 5-foot
section of webbing has 5 hit points, and can be
shattered with little difficulty. Fire deals only onequarter
damage to the filaments (but does no harm to
creatures stuck in the web).
Material Component: A frozen spider egg.