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Blood Naga
Large Aberration (Extraplanar,
Incorporeal)
Hit Dice: 10d8+30 (75 hp)
Initiative: +2
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 14 (-1 size, +2 Dex, +3
deflection), touch 14, flat-footed 12, or 16
(-1 size, +2 Dex, +5 natural), touch 11, flatfooted
14
Base Attack/Grapple: +7/— (+14)
Attack: —, or bite +9 melee (2d6+4 plus
poison)
Full Attack: —, or bite +9 melee (2d6+4
plus poison)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Blood-mist, poison, spells
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft,
incorporeal traits, low-light vision,
manifestation
A reddish mist resembling a gout of blood
suspended in water surrounds you.
Combat
Blood nagas hunt by isolating and attacking
a single victim with their blood-mist and ravaging
their victim with poison and spells once it reaches
the Ethereal Plane. These nagas tend to favor
intelligent prey.
A blood naga cannot use its bite attack
against material opponents, and its poison can
affect only ethereal or incorporeal creatures.
Blood-Mist (Su): After manifesting on the
material plane, a blood naga can attempt to draw
material targets onto the Ethereal Plane with its
blood-mist. To do so, it moves over them, covering
as many targets of Large size or smaller with
its blood-mist as it can. These targets can make
attacks of opportunity against the blood naga, but
it is incorporeal. The blood naga can then make
use of its blood-mist ability as a standard action.
Creatures covered by its blood-mist must succeed
on a DC 18 Fortitude saving throw or be drawn into
the Ethereal Plane. Such a creature is enveloped
within the blood-mist until it is brought to the
Ethereal Plane, where it appears 5 feet away from
the blood naga. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Creatures drawn onto the Ethereal Plane
function as if under the effects of etherealness and
possess all the items they were carrying on the
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Saves: Fort +6, Ref +7, Will +10
Abilities: Str 16, Dex 15, Con 17, Int 14,
Wis 16, Cha 17
Skills: Concentration +12, Diplomacy+7,
Intimidate +8, Listen +15, Sense Motive +8,
Spellcraft +12, Spot+15
Feats: Alertness, Combat Casting, Eschew
Materials B , Lightning Reflexes, Spell Focus
(any one school)
Environment: Ethereal Plane (warm marsh)
Organization: Solitary or nest (2-4)
Challenge Rating: 11
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually lawful evil
Advancement: 11-20 HD (Large); 21-30
HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
Material Plane. They can attack and be attacked by
the blood naga normally. Returning a victim to the
Material Plane requires a plane shift or similarly
powerful magic.
Poison (Ex): Injury, Fortitude DC 18, initial
and secondary damage 1d8 Con. The save DC is
Constitution-based.
Spells: A blood naga casts spells as an 8thlevel
sorcerer. The save DCs are Charisma-based.
Typical sorcerer spells known (6/7/7/6/3;
save DC 13 + spell level): 0—arcane mark,
dancing lights, detect magic, detect poison, daze,
disrupt undead, ray of frost, resistance; 1st—
Magic missile, protection from good, shield, true
strike; 2nd—Acid arrow, see invisibility, shatter,
summon monster II; 3rd—hold person, lightning
bolt; 4th— lesser globe of invulnerability.
Because of the blood naga’s Spell Focus feat,
the save DC of all spells from any one school is 14
+ spell level.
Manifestation (Su): A blood naga dwells
on the Ethereal Plane. As an ethereal creature,
it cannot affect or be affected by anything in the
material world (except that it can be targeted by
force effects and abjurations that originate on the
Material Plane). A blood naga can manifest itself
as an incorporeal cloud that looks like roiling red
vapor, which occupies the same space that the
blood naga does on the Ethereal Plane. When a