Mythic Vistas: SpirosBlaak - Property Is Theft!

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Alignment: Usually neutral
Advancement: 7–9 HD (Medium); 10–12 HD (Large)
Level Adjustment: +3 (cohort)
A strange green creature emerges, something of a cross between a great cat
and a ferocious lizard. Its body is covered in scales except for small tus of
hair around its shoulders and hindquarters. Its claws and fangs shine with
a silver hue.
Believed to have been mystically created and bred by the Church
of Spiros shortly aer Vas’ near destruction by the Witch Lords,
shelzeen are hunters of kav and arcane spellcasters. They are highly
sought, with buyers willing to pay exorbitant amounts to acquire
these beasts. The Dark Riders and witchfinders of Vas are both
known to keep large kennels of shelzeen to aid in their hunts.
Combat
A shelzeen uses its tail to trip its foe before leaping upon it to tear
with fangs and claws.
Huge Construct
Hit Dice: 20d10+30 (140 hp)
Initiative: –2
Speed: 20 . (4 squares; can’t run)
Armor Class: 29 (–2 size, –2 Dex, +23 natural) touch 6, flat-footed 31
Base Aack/Grapple: +14/+32
Aack: Large greataxe +24 melee (3d6+13/19-20/x3), or slam +23
melee (2d8+9); or sphere hurler +12 ranged (6d6)
Full Aack: Large greataxe +24/+19/+14 melee (3d6+13/19-20/x3), or
2 slams +23 melee (2d8+9); or 2 sphere hurlers +12 ranged (6d6)
Space/Reach: 15 ./15 .
Special Aacks: Breath weapon, sphere hurlers
Special Qualities: Construct traits, damage reduction 5/adamantine,
darkvision 60 ., limited regeneration, magic immunity, soul
crystal
Saves: Fort +7, Ref +4, Will +6
Abilities: Str 28, Dex 7, Con –, Int 10*, Wis 8*, Cha 10*
Skills: Listen +2, Spot +4, Speak Language (Ancient Dwarven)
Feats: Awesome Blow, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush,
Improved Critical (greataxe), Power Aack, Weapon Focus
(greataxe)
Environment: Any land
Organization: Solitary or small company (2–5)
Challenge Rating: 14
Treasure: None
Alignment: As the empowering dwarf soul
Advancement: —
Level Adjustment: —
This 15-foot-tall metal construct has clunky gears working at its joints,
protected by bulbous plates. The armored visor of the war golem’s head can
rise up, revealing a mouth-like tube from which billowing flames spill forth.
Built with the proportions of a dwarf, a war golem is about as
broad in the shoulders as it is tall. Perhaps the most noticeable
characteristic of the war golem, aside from its immense greataxe, is
the large, multi-faceted, pulsating green crystal resting squarely in
its torso, its foreboding green light echoed in the glow of its eyes.
The enchanted crystal is the construct’s fuel source and its
controlling intelligence, the gem containing the soul of a dwarf who
dies during the golem’s construction. The ritual to infuse the crystal
with a dwarven soul instills the best aspects of the volunteer’s
Chapter Six: Monsters of the Archduchy
Silvered Natural Weapons (Ex): A shelzeen’s claws and fangs
are made of solid, durable silver. For the purpose of overcoming
damage reduction, the shelzeen’s natural aacks count as silver.
Tail Trip (Ex): Instead of using its tail to make a damaging aack,
a shelzeen can opt to trip its foe with a +2 competence bonus to
the trip aempt. If the aempt fails, the target doesn’t then get to
try tripping the shelzeen if the laer has all four of its paws on the
ground. If the trip succeeds, the shelzeen may make an immediate
aack of opportunity with its bite aack.
Limited Telepathy (Su): Shelzeen may communicate with
telepathy, but only among themselves, allowing them to coordinate
their aacks with deadly precision.
Track Arcane (Su): Shelzeen have the benefit of an uncanny magical
sense, allowing them to track by sensing the magical residue le by
spellcasters or creatures with spell-like and supernatural abilities. When
using the Track feat to follow one of these types of creatures, a shelzeen
can move at half its normal speed without penalty, or up to twice its
normal speed with only a –10 penalty. In addition, it gains a +6 racial
bonus to Survival checks made to track these kinds of prey.
War Golem
personality into the machine: his loyalty, courage, and devotion
to his people. Thus those chosen to animate war golems are oen
heroic warriors in their twilight years, although in times of great
peril dwarves who are still in the prime of their lives have also been
selected.
Unfortunately, the ritual strips away the dwarf’s memories,
leaving the controlling intelligence of the war golem with a base
personality capable of doing as it is told for the defense of its people
but not much else. There are, however, unconfirmed tales of war
golems who regained their lost memories and personality, in part,
or entirely.
When not needed for the defense of their race, these powerful
machines are oen sequestered, inert, in vaulted armories or other
hiding places until needed. Sometimes great tragedies wipe out
entire cities and strongholds before the war golems can be awakened
and called to arms, leaving them in their unknowing slumber until
someone unwiingly wakes them.
Combat
A war golem fights intelligently, surging forward to engage in melee,
pretending to be an unthinking machine. When its opponents are
suitably fooled, it unleashes its breath weapon, and against those
who survive, it chops with its enormous weapon or pummels with
its sphere hurlers.
Breath Weapon (Su): A war golem can breath a 25-foot cone of
fire, up to three times per day, dealing 10d10 points of fire damage.
Reflex DC 20 halves. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Sphere Hurlers (Su): On each side of the golem’s chest, mounted
on the large shoulder plates, are 3-inch diameter iron spheres half
buried in the construct’s armor. Every four rounds the golem can fire
one or both spheres with a thunderous, smoking boom. The spheres
have a 10-foot range increment, and count as magical and adamantine
weapons for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction.
If a sphere reduces a target to 0 or lower hit points, the sphere
continues on its path to aack any targets in a line from the war
golem, beyond the initial victim. The sphere continues until it misses
or does not reduce a target to 0 hit points. Each aack aer the first
takes a –5 penalty to the aack roll, in addition to any range penalties.
Limited Regeneration (Su): A mending spell repairs 1 point of
damage to either the metal form or soul crystal for every three
levels of its caster. A make whole spell repairs 2d6 points of damage.