Aergian Amalgamation
A violent creature formed from failed adventurers' souls, resembling four monstrous hands with six tentacle-like appendages
Basic Fantasy Field Guide Omnibus
| Armor Class | 14 |
|---|---|
| Hit Dice | 13** (+10) |
| Number Appearing | 1 |
| Attacks | 1 grasp (2d4), 1d3 weapons (1d6 each) |
| Damage | 2d4 grasp, 1d6 weapon |
| Movement | 20' |
| Save As | Fighter: 13 |
| Morale | 10 |
| XP | 2395 |
| Treasure Type | G |
An Aergian Amalgamation forms from failed adventurers’ souls, yielding a violent, desperate creature resembling four monstrous hands with six tentacle-like appendages. It craves the souls of others to devour hope and ambition, its body adorned with gear from past victims.
Found near treasure troves, the aergian amalgamation targets one victim, ensnaring them in a crushing grip using the hands that make up its body, then draining the life force of its grasped foe. It fends off the victim’s allies during the struggle, extinguishing all light sources to heighten the chaos, and protect itself from the hated light.
Special Abilities
Tentacle Reach: Its tentacle-like appendages can reach up to 10 feet in any direction but lack precision, making it unclear how many weapons it can attack with each round. Roll the 1d3 each round to see how many weapon attacks it can make, however its appendages are relatively weak, so any weapon it wields only does 1d6 points of damage.
Magical Staff: One of its appendages usually holds a magical staff which it can use instead of making attacks with its weapons.
Energy Drain: When the aergian amalgamation is draining a victim, the victim must save vs. Death Ray for each round in its grasp, or lose 1 energy level.
Immune to Poison: An aergian amalgamation is immune to all poison.
Darkvision: It has Darkvision out to a range of 60'.
Light Sensitivity: Very sensitive to light, and takes 1d4 points of damage per round in any light brighter than a torch.
Blind Spot: It cannot reach anything on its underside, and struggles to detect anything behind it that is not giving off light or making noise.