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ways to create one. A dagger to which Azarak’s own
ripped-out eye has been attached will work, if they
attempt it!
Azarak can communicate with the Player Characters
while he is bound. He makes no pretensions to be
anything other than what he is – an evil-aligned
dragonspawn. However, the Player Characters have
very few allies out here and Azarak wants Bastirak’s
destruction, so a temporary alliance (he argues) makes
sense for all of them.
If freed, Azarak wants to make straight for his brother’s
sanctum sanctorum and destroy him. With the quick
temper typical of red dragons, he needs vengeance now
and does not want to waste time making plans. If he
encounters Zamelak, he plays upon her guilt for having
helped Bastirak defeat him and convinces her to take his
side this time. Once Bastirak is out of the way, Azarak
and Zamelak prepare to turn on the Player Characters if
they do not leave the citadel swiftly.
Azarak, Male Half-Red Dragon Wiz15: CR 17;
Medium dragon (augmented humanoid); HD 15d4+30;
hp 67; Init +1; Spd 30 ft.; AC 15, touch 11, flat-footed
14; Base Atk +7; Grp +11; Atk +11 melee (1d4+4,
claw); Full Atk +11 melee (1d4+4, 2 claws) and +6
melee (1d6+2, bite); SA breath weapon, spells; SQ
darkvision 60 ft., immunity to fire, paralysis and sleep,
low-light vision; AL CE; SV Fort +7, Ref +6, Will +11;
Str 18, Dex 13, Con 14, Int 20, Wis 14, Cha 10.
Skills & Feats: Bluff +9, Concentration +20, Decipher
Script +23, Knowledge (arcana) +23, Knowledge
(history) +23, Move Silently +10, Sense Motive +11,
Spellcraft +23; Combat Casting, Craft Wondrous Item,
Empower Spell, Greater Spell Focus (Evocation),
Improved Counterspell, Lightning Reflexes, Quicken
Spell, Scribe Scroll, Spell Focus (Evocation), Spell
Mastery (fireball).
Breath Weapon: 30-ft. cone of flame, dealing 6d8 points
of fire damage, Reflex saving throw (DC 12) allowed
for half damage.
Spells: Azarak has no spells prepared, as he has not had
access to his spellbook for centuries. The only spells he
can prepare without borrowing a spellbook are fireball
and read magic. If the Player Characters can fetch him
his old spellbook (currently in Bastirak’s keeping) he
will prepare spells from it.
Azarak’s guardian is the 12-headed fiendish cryohydra
Sibiliss, who Bastirak loves like a favourite hound. He
was brought back from the frozen hells where the ice
devils walk on one of Bastirak’s first expeditions there.
Sibiliss, Male Fiendish Cryohydra: CR 15; Huge
magical beast (cold, extraplanar); HD 12d10+63; hp
129; Init +1; Spd 20 ft., swim 20 ft.; AC 22, touch 9,
flat-footed 21; Base Atk +12; Grp +26; Atk +17 melee
(2d8+6, 12 bites); Full Atk +17 melee (2d8+6, 12
bites); Space/Reach 15 ft./10 ft.; SA breath weapon,
smite good; SQ damage reduction 10/magic, darkvision
60 ft., fast healing 22, immunity to cold, low-light
vision, resistance to fire 10, scent, spell resistance 17,
vulnerability to fire; AL NE; SV Fort +13, Ref +9, Will
+6; Str 23, Dex 12, Con 20, Int 3, Wis 10, Cha 9.
Skills & Feats: Listen +9, Spot +10, Swim +14; Blind-
Fight, Combat Reflexes B , Improved Natural Attack
(bite), Iron Will, Toughness, Weapon Focus (bite).
Sibiliss has a +2 racial bonus on Listen and Spot checks,
thanks to his multiple heads. He has a +8 racial bonus
on any Swim check to perform some special action or
avoid a hazard. He can always choose to take 10 on a
Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. He can
use the run action while swimming, provided he swims
in a straight line.
Sibiliss’s Combat Reflexes feat allows him to use every
one of his heads for attacks of opportunity.
Sibiliss’s natural weapons are treated as magic weapons
for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction.
Sibiliss can be killed either by severing all his heads
or by slaying his body. To sever a head, an opponent
must make a successful sunder attempt with a slashing
weapon; a Player Character should declare where the
attack is aimed before making the attack roll. Making a
sunder attempt provokes an attack of opportunity unless
the foe has the Improved Sunder feat. An opponent can
strike at Sibiliss’s heads from any position in which he
could strike at the hydra itself, because the heads writhe
and whip about in combat. An opponent can ready
an action to attempt to sunder one of the heads when
Sibiliss bites at him.
Each of Sibiliss’s heads has ten hit points. Losing a
head deals five hit points of damage to the body. A
natural reflex seals the neck shut to prevent further
blood loss. Sibiliss can no longer attack with a severed
head but takes no other penalties. Each time a head is
severed, two new heads spring from the stump in 1d4
rounds. Sibiliss can never have more than 24 heads at
any one time, and any extra heads he gains beyond his
original number wither and die within a day.
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