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Thomil A thomil is an animate piece of rock with a humanoid form from the waist up but merging into the rock and earth beneath it. It normally rests under the earth, only becoming active on the surface when it senses a threat. Thomils are respected and feared by the Rashemi people, for while they repel invaders, they also strike out at greedy or short-sighted natives who forget to pay homage to the spirits. Normally, before starting a mining operation or other action that involves disturbing a large amount of rock, the local people call a hathran to appease the thomils in the area. Thomils speak Terran. COMBAT The sample thomil uses a medium earth elemental as the base creature. Earth Mastery (Ex): This thomil gains a +1 bonus on attack and damage if both it and its foe touch the ground. If an opponent is airborne or waterborne, the elemental takes a –4 penalty on attack and damage. Engulf (Ex): For this thomil, the Reflex save DC to avoid the engulf attack is 17. The thomil can attempt to engulf Small or smaller opponents. See the template description, below, for more information. Push (Ex): This thomil can start a bull rush maneuver without provoking an attack of opportunity. The combat modifiers MONSTERS OF THE EAST 76 granted by earth mastery also apply to the thomil’s opposed Strength checks. Elemental Traits (Ex): A thomil is immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, and stunning. It is not subject to critical hits or flanking, and it cannot be raised or resurrected. The creature also has darkvision (60-foot range). The Thomil Template “Thomil” is a template that can be applied to any elemental creature with the earth subtype (referred to hereafter as the “base creature”). Most thomils use an earth elemental as the base creature, but in the deep places under Rashemen’s mountains where the magma warms the earth, some thomils may be based on other elemental creatures such as thoqquas. A thomil uses all of the base creature’s statistics and special abilities except as noted here. AC: Natural armor increases by +2. Special Attacks: A thomil retains all the special attacks of the base creature, and also gains the following special attack. Engulf (Ex): As a standard action, a thomil of size Small or larger may attempt to envelop an opponent at least one size category smaller than itself. It cannot make a slam attack on the round it engulfs prey. The thomil merely has to move over the opponents, affecting as many as it can cover. Opponents can make opportunity attacks against the thomil, but if they do, they are not entitled to a saving throw. Those who do not attempt opportunity attacks must succeed at a Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 thomil’s Hit Dice + thomil’s Constitution modifier) or be engulfed; on a success they are pushed back or aside (opponents’ choice) as the thomil moves forward. Engulfed creatures are considered grappled and trapped within the thomil’s body and automatically take crushing damage each round, based on the thomil’s size, as set out below. The thomil adds its Strength modifier to the damage dealt. Thomil Size Engulfing Damage Small 1d4 Medium-size 1d6 Large 1d8 Huge 2d6 Gargantuan 2d8 Colossal 4d6 An engulfed creature can attempt to cut its way out of the thomil’s body with either claws or a light slashing or piercing weapon. Dealing at least one-quarter of the elemental’s normal hit points (AC equal to its flat-footed AC) in this way creates an opening large enough to permit escape. Once a single swallowed creature exits, the thomil’s body reshapes to close the hole; thus, another swallowed opponent must cut its own way out. The engulfed creature can instead attempt an Escape Artist check (DC 15 + 1/2 thomil’s Hit Dice + thomil’s Constitution modifier) or Strength check (DC 20 + thomil’s Strength modifier). The thomil’s body can hold two creatures one size category smaller than itself, or four of two or more size categories smaller. The thomil can move and attack normally while enveloping a creature. Illustration by Steve Prescott and Matt Cavotta
Illustration by Adam Rex Special Qualities: A thomil retains all the base creature’s special qualities, and also gains those special qualities listed below. Boulder Defense (Ex): A thomil can change its shape to a smooth, immobile, boulderlike form. In this form, the thomil’s damage reduction increases to 15/— and its spell resistance increases by 5, but it cannot move or make attacks. Assuming this form takes a standard action, while returning to its semihumanoid form is a free action. Damage Reduction (Ex): A thomil’s rocky body grants it DR 10/+1. If the base creature already has damage reduction, use the better value. Cold Resistance (Ex): A thomil has cold resistance 5. Native Elemental: Thomils are native to the Material Plane. Spells that banish outsiders or elementals to their home plane do not work on them. Spells that send outsiders or elementals to another plane (rather than to their home plane) work normally. Thomils can be raised or resurrected, although their remains quickly vanish if killed, making it difficult to use these spells to restore them to life. Spell Resistance (Ex): A thomil has SR equal to 5 + the thomil’s Hit Dice. Saves: Thomils receive a +2 morale bonus on all saving throws against spells from creatures they recognize to be Red Wizards. Abilities: Adjust from the base creature as follows: Con +4, Int at least 10. Climate/Terrain: Cold mountains. Organization: Solitary or patrol (5–20). Challenge Rating: Same as the base creature +2. MONSTERS OF THE EAST 77 Level Adjustment: Same as the base creature +1. Alignment: Usually chaotic neutral. Troll Reviled and loathed throughout Faerûn, trolls are all too common in the Unapproachable East, especially along the shores of Lake Ashane, in the mountains of Thesk, and across the windswept North Country of Rashemen. Three distinct varieties not widely known in other lands plague the East: the fell troll, the ice troll, and the mur-zhagul (or demon troll). Fell Troll Standing taller than a hill giant, the two-headed fell troll is the largest of its horrid kind. Like any troll, it is a voracious meateater that delights in gorging itself on human prey, but it will devour anything that moves when humans aren’t around. A fell troll is more than 15 feet tall and weighs about 5,000 pounds. Its hide is thick and rubbery, a mottled moss-green and gray color with knobby protrusions, especially on the shoulders and back. Its lank, fleshy hair writhes of its own accord, and its maw is filled with large, sharp fangs. Like its lesser kin, the fell troll has a hunched, ungainly posture, with long arms that sometimes brush the ground as it walks. Fell trolls speak Giant. Ice Troll Fell Troll Mur-Zhagul
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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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The Unapproachable East is home to
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The griffon retains its own type an
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CLASS FEATURES All the following ar
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Telthor Companion: Beginning at 3rd
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Page 104 and 105: History of Aglarond The past of Agl
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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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