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divide at the end into stubby, strong fingers. Its head is a bulbous case atop its trunk, crowned by three stalked eyes. Its three membranous wings fold tightly against its torso when not in use. Its hide is a slick, mottled blue and black color, soft and slimy to the touch, but its flesh is iron-hard beneath its skin. Star elves sometimes refer to nilshais as “ethereal theurges.” Combat A nilshai is a stranger to the Material Plane and is almost always on a mission when encountered. It may be in search of a magic item, spying on local residents, or looking for intelligent humanoid slaves to carry off to its alien home. Whatever its purpose, it brooks no interference from denizens of the Material Plane. It uses its spells profligately, figuring that any threat deserves the quickest possible death. A common tactic against magicusing foes is to cast a spell and then ready a dispel magic to counterspell in the same round. Spells: A nilshai casts spells as an 8th-level sorcerer. The save DC for its spells is 13 + spell level. A typical nilshai spell list follows (spells per day 6/7/7/6/3): 0—daze, detect magic, disrupt undead, light, mage hand, ray of frost, read magic, resistance; 1st—color spray, mage armor, magic missile, silent image, true strike; 2nd—mirror image, resist elements, Snilloc’s snowball swarm (FRCS); 3rd— dispel magic, lightning bolt; 4th—enervation. Ethereal Jaunt (Su): A nilshai can shift from the Ethereal to the Material Plane as a free action and shift back again as a move-equivalent action (or as part of a move-equivalent action). The ability is otherwise identical with ethereal jaunt cast by a 15th-level sorcerer. Fearsome Celerity (Ex): The nilshai’s trilateral symmetry and alien mind allow it to divide its attention among multiple tasks at the same time. A nilshai gains an extra partial action each round, during which it typically casts a second spell or activates a magic item after it moves and attacks or casts a spell. Mind Blank (Su): Nilshais are magically resistant to spells and effects of detection and mental influence. They are protected by a mind blank effect at all times. Skills: Due to their ability to multitask and their trilateral symmetry, nilshais receive a +4 racial bonus on Listen, Spot, and Use Magic Device checks. MONSTERS OF THE EAST Nilshai 68 Nilshai Society Few on the Material Plane or in Sildëyuir know much about how the nilshais organize themselves or what they do in their own alien world. Their cities are bizarre strongholds of ethereal stone shaped into maddeningly complex chambers and twisting passages. As many as five hundred nilshais live in a large stronghold, but most are smaller communities of fifty or so individuals. The most powerful sorcerer of a stronghold is its absolute master and commands the implicit obedience of all others. Nilshais associate with creatures from their own alien ecology. Ethereal marauders (their pets) and ethereal filchers (their servants) often populate nilshai strongholds. (Nilshai strongholds are also home to ethereal slayers, found in Monster Manual II.) The nilshais employ even stranger creatures as guards and raiders from time to time. Nilshai Characters Nilshais’ favored class is sorcerer. Levels of sorcerer add to a nilshai’s ability to cast spells as an 8th-level sorcerer, so a 5th-level sorcerer nilshai casts spells as a 13th-level sorcerer. Orglash Medium-Size Elemental (Air, Cold, Native) Hit Dice: 4d8+16 (34 hp) Initiative: +9 Speed: Fly 100 ft. (perfect) AC: 20 (+5 Dex, +5 natural), touch 15, flat-footed 15 Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+4 Attack: Slam +8 melee Full Attack: Slam +8 melee Damage: Slam 1d6+1 plus 1d3 cold Face/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft. Special Attacks: Air mastery, cone of cold 3/day, whirlwind Special Qualities: Cold subtype, elemental traits, cold fast healing 3, +2 save bonus against Red Wizard spells Saves: Fort +5, Ref +9, Will +1 Abilities: Str 12, Dex 21, Con 18, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 11 Skills: Listen +7, Spot +7 Feats: Flyby Attack, Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse B Climate/Terrain: Cold forest and plains Organization: Solitary Challenge Rating: 4 Illustration by Glen Angus
Illustration by Steve Prescott and Matt Cavotta Level Adjustment: +5 Treasure: None Alignment: Usually chaotic neutral Advancement: 5–7 HD (Medium-Size) An orglash, or ice spirit, is a kind of air elemental native to the colder parts of Rashemen. Alien and unpredictable, they are viewed as a mixed blessing by the Rashemi people, for despite their occasional danger to travelers, they have helped defend the land against the Red Wizards for hundreds of years. An orglash looks like an air elemental with wisps of snow spinning about and two barely visible, darker spots that look like eyes. Orglashes roam the frozen mountains and forests of Rashemen, attacking creatures that threaten the land. Their perspective of what is “threatening” is very broad, however, and they have been known to attack small parties in remote areas. Orglashes speak Auran. COMBAT The sample orglash uses a medium air elemental as the base creature. Air Mastery (Ex): Any airborne creature takes a –1 penalty on attack and damage rolls made against an orglash. Cone of Cold (Sp): 3/day as a 4th-level sorcerer. Cold Fast Healing (Ex): As long as it has at least 1 hit point, in extremely cold or cold weather conditions, an orglash recovers lost hit points at the rate of 3 per round. Fast healing does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation, and it does not allow the orglash to regrow or reattach lost body parts. Cold Subtype (Ex): An orglash is immune to cold damage. Orglashes take half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from fire, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. Elemental Traits (Ex): An orglash is immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, and stunning. It is not subject to critical hits or flanking. The creature also has darkvision (60-foot range). Whirlwind (Su): This orglash can transform itself into a whirlwind once every 10 minutes and remain in that form for up to 2 rounds. The whirlwind is 5 feet wide at the base, up to 30 feet wide at the top, and 10 to 30 feet in height. The orglash’s movement while in whirlwind form does not provoke attacks of opportunity, even if it enters the space another creature occupies. Another creature might be caught in the whirlwind if it touches or enters it, or if the orglash moves into or through the creature’s space. It deals 1d6 points of damage to Small or smaller creatures and may sweep them MONSTERS OF THE EAST Orglash 69 bodily up. The save DC to avoid the whirlwind is 13. This save is Strength-based. Creatures trapped in the whirlwind cannot move away except to escape the whirlwind. Creatures caught in the whirlwind can cast spells normally with a successful Concentration check (DC 10 + spell level). Creatures caught in the whirlwind take a –4 penalty to effective Dexterity and a –2 penalty on attack rolls. An orglash in whirlwind form cannot make slam attacks and does not threaten the area around it. The Orglash Template “Orglash” is a template that can be applied to any elemental creature with the air subtype (referred to hereafter as the “base creature”). Most orglashes use an air elemental as the base creature, but secret and undiscovered leaders could be based on another elemental being, such as an invisible stalker. It uses all of the base creature’s statistics and special abilities except as noted here. Speed: If the base creature cannot fly, it gains a fly speed equal to its land speed (poor maneuverability). If the base creature can fly, use the base creature’s fly speed and maneuverability. AC: Natural armor increases by +2. Damage: An orglash’s natural attacks deal cold damage in addition to the normal damage for the attack. This cold damage is half the number of dice of damage the natural attack deals, not including the Strength modifier. If the natural attack deals one die of damage, reduce the die type by two steps. For example, if the base creature deals 2d8 points of damage with a slam attack, add 1d8 points of cold damage. If the base creature deals 1d6 points of damage, add 1d3 points of cold damage. Special Attacks: An orglash retains all the special attacks of the base creature, and also gains the following special attack. Cone of Cold (Sp): 3/day as a sorcerer with a caster level equal to its Hit Dice. Special Qualities: An orglash retains all the base creature’s special qualities, and also gains those special qualities listed below. Cold Subtype (Ex): An orglash is immune to cold damage. Orglashes take half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from fire, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. Fast Healing (Ex): In extremely cold or cold weather conditions, an orglash recovers lost hit points at the rate of 3 per round. Native Elemental: Orglashes are native to the Material Plane. Spells that banish outsiders or elementals to their home plane do not work on orglashes. Spells that send outsiders or elementals to another plane (rather than to their home plane)
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Contents Introduction . . . . . . .
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Across the wide lands of Faerûn, b
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Chapter 5: Magic Items. The Red Wiz
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Races The races commonly found in o
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Star Elf Racial Traits Star elves h
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of adventuring party. At best, a gn
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ability, regardless of actual level
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Alignment: Volodnis are not activel
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Page 22 and 23: CLASS FEATURES All the following ar
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Page 30 and 31: CLASS FEATURES All the following ar
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Page 44 and 45: Great Stag Berserker REGIONS AND FE
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Page 56 and 57: Caster Level: 9th; Prerequisites: C
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Page 64 and 65: MONSTERS OF THE EAST Shrieking Hag
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Page 84 and 85: A Shadowmaster at work ADVENTURING
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Page 104 and 105: History of Aglarond The past of Agl
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the Dalesfolk and shield them from
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While the Dalesfolk don’t like ou
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-970 The Nentyarch of Tharos builds
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the only other settlements that mig
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Mettledale and Spearsmouth Dale Alo
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Foreigners view Rashemen as a myste
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with earthquakes, freakish storms,
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wealth. The water is glacial runoff
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others believe it is a gift from th
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People of Rashemen The people of Ra
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and are the face of the Rashemi peo
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THE VREMYONNI While the wychlaran s
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Rashemen’s forces except the Witc
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efore reaching the keep, and the go
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Mulsantir (LARGE TOWN) At Mulsantir
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Best known for the crimson-robed Re
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more than 17,000 feet high. In the
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Thayan bombards (see Chapter 5: Mag
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into the rock, highlighting the dif
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those on foot. As well, the lands a
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Tyraturos The tharch of Tyraturos i
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nobles, and his sergeants are Rashe
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The most successful soldier-breedin
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The zulkirs appoint tharchions, or
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Aglarondan spy who keeps an eye on
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too juicy a target for the Shadowma
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This has built up some resentment o
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Thesk is most famous for the Golden
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potential to be the most fertile la
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slaves of the Tuigan Horde or refug
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disciplined mercenary companies. Th
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Today, the Shadowmasters control or
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on supplies. Orc miners take over P
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his prodigious fortune and business
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hands just outside its walls. The 3
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The Wizards’ Reach Between the Th
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sinister past, concerned as they ar
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An Unapproachable East FORGOTTEN RE
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20 ft.; AC 16, touch 12, flat-foote
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usiness. Use the statistics below,
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from the next encounter called The
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