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Skills: Bluff +9, Diplomacy +5, Disguise +3 (+5 acting), Gather
Information +5, Hide +4, Knowledge (local) +4, Listen +7,
Move Silently +8, Search +5, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Improved Initiative
Climate/Terrain: Cold forest and hill
Organization: Solitary or pair
Challenge Rating: 3
Level Adjustment: +5
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually chaotic evil
Advancement: By character class
Uthraki are malevolent shapechangers
who haunt the remote
roads and dark places of
Rashemen. They take a human
shape, befriend a traveler, and
then slay and devour him.
An uthraki in its natural form
is a gray-white hairy apelike
thing with twisted limbs and
a dozen completely black
eyes set all the way around its head.
The face is vaguely humanlike but small
for the creature’s size. Evil and murderous,
the uthrakis avoid settlements,
where they might be more easily detected,
especially as the hathrans hunt
and kill them whenever they are discovered.
They prefer to assume the
guise of a nonthreatening traveler,
even a lost child, and then
turn on whomever they meet
when least expected.
Uthrakis speak Common and Rashemi.
Combat
Uthrakis prefer to fight in their disguised form so their opponents
cannot determine what sort of creature they truly are.
Their nails remain amazingly tough even in other forms, allowing
them to attack creatures without changing form beforehand.
They prefer to prowl and attack at night, for they
are stronger in the dark.
Alternate Form (Su): An uthraki can assume the shape of
any Small or Medium-size humanoid or monstrous humanoid
at will. This transformation works like alter self cast by an
18th-level sorcerer, but the uthraki can remain in the chosen
form indefinitely. It can assume a new form as a standard
action or return to its own form as a free action.
Improved Grab (Ex): If an uthraki hits an opponent that
is at least one size category smaller than itself with a claw
attack, it deals normal damage and attempts to start a grapple
as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity
(grapple bonus +14). If it gets a hold, it automatically
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deals claw damage. Thereafter, the uthraki has the option to
conduct the grapple normally, or simply use its claw to hold
the opponent (–20 penalty on grapple check, but the uthraki
is not considered grappled). In either case, each successful grapple
check it makes during successive rounds automatically
deals claw damage.
Rend (Ex): An uthraki that hits with both claw attacks
latches onto the opponent’s body and tears the flesh. This
attack automatically deals an additional 2d6+7 points of
damage.
All-Around Vision (Ex): In its natural
form, an uthraki’s circle of eyes allow it to see
in all directions at once. Because of this, it gains
a +4 racial bonus on Spot and Search
checks, and it can’t be flanked,
when in its natural form.
Night Fast Healing (Ex): At
night, as long as it has at least
1 hit point, an uthraki recovers
lost hit points at the rate of 2
per round. Fast healing
does not restore hit
points lost from starvation,
thirst, or suffocation, and it does
not allow the uthraki to regrow or
reattach lost body parts.
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Hit Dice: 1d8+4 (8 hp)
Initiative: +0
Speed: 30 ft.
AC: 17 (+2 natural, +3 studded leather,
+2 large wooden shield), touch 10, flatfooted
17
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+1
Attack: Flail +1 melee; or javelin +1 ranged
Full Attack: Flail +1 melee; or javelin +1 ranged
Damage: Flail 1d8; javelin 1d6
Face/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Qualities: Cold resistance 5, half damage from
piercing, low-light vision, plant traits, sustenance
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +0, Will +1
Abilities: Str 10, Dex 10, Con 13, Int 8, Wis 13, Cha 9
Skills: Hide –2*, Spot +2
Feats: Toughness
Climate/Terrain: Cold forest
Organization: Solitary or band (3–8)
Challenge Rating: 1
Level Adjustment: +2
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually chaotic neutral
Advancement: By character class
Illustration by Glen Angus