Size:
± Medium
Type:
± Monstrosity
Form:
Temper:
# App:
± solitary, pair, or gang (3-6)
Lair:
Diet:
Combat Dice:
± 0
Hit Points:
± 33
Attack Rank:
± 0
Passive Defense:
± 0
Active Defense:
Damage Reduction:
± 0
Role:
Ground:
± 40
Climb/Arboreal:
± 20 ft.
Flight:
± 30 ft. (good)
Swim:
± 90 ft.
Benthic:
Burrow:
Ethereal:
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 1e
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 1e
Special
Implant (Ex)
As a standard action, a xill can lay 2d6 eggs in a helpless creature. A xill's eggs hatch in 24 hours, at which point the young consume the host from within, inflicting 1 point of Con damage per hour per young until the host dies. The young then emerge and planewalk to the Ethereal Plane, if possible, to mature. A remove disease spell (or similar effect) rids a victim of all implanted eggs or active young, or they can be cut out one at a time with DC 20 Heal checks (each attempt takes 10 minutes). If a check fails, the healer can try again, but each attempt (successful or not) deals 1d4 points of damage to the patient.
Special
Multiweapon Mastery (Ex)
A xill never takes penalties to an attack roll when fighting with multiple weapons, and treats claws as primary attacks even when also wielding weapons.
Special
Planewalk (Su)
A xill can shift from the Ethereal Plane to the Material Plane as a move action. Shifting from the Material Plane to the Ethereal Plane takes 2 consecutive full-round actions, during which time the xill is immobile. As a xill fades away, it becomes harder to hit: opponents have a 20% miss chance in the first round and a 50% miss chance in the second. A xill can take a single willing or helpless creature with it when it switches planes.
Action
Feat 1
Combat Reflexes
Action
Feat 2
Improved Initiative
Action
Feat 3
Iron Will
Action
Feat 4
Weapon Focus (claw
Action
Feat 5
short sword)
Action
Melee 1
short swords +13/+13/+8 (1d6+3/19-20)
Action
Melee 2
claw +13 (1d4+3 plus grab)
Action
Melee 3
bite +7 (1d3+1 plus paralysis)
Action
Melee 4
or 4 claws +13 (1d4+3 plus grab)
Action
Melee 5
bite +12 (1d3+3 plus paralysis)
Action
Ranged 1
2 longbows +13 (1d8/×3)
Treasure
standard (heavy steel shield, 2 short swords, 2 longbows with 40 arrows, other treasure)
Environments
any (Ethereal Plane)
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 1e
Deep within the Ethereal Plane are the demiplanes, miniatures worlds built by powerful archmages and other mighty entities to serve as a private domain. Each demiplane is a designed realm, built for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly realities. Such is the realm that spawned the xill, horrific, insectoid creatures created long ago to serve an ancient, evil master.
Gruesome Collectors
Xills are horrid, four-armed creatures that seem to be a cross between a lizard and insect. They emerge from the Ethereal Plane to fall upon their victims with their vicious claws, but their aim is no to kill. Instead, a xill injects its victim with a paralytic poison. When their the poison overwhelms their target, the xill snatches the victim and returns to the Ethereal. The ultimate fate of unfortunates carried off in this manner is not known, but plenty of speculation surrounds the xills' true nature and the demiplane that spawned them.
An Ancient Remnant
A variety of theories attempt to explain the xills and their origin. The one found most plausible by scholars of the planes concerns the enigmatic wizard Keraptis. Supposedly, Keraptis long ago crafted a demiplane to serve as personal domain from which he could dispatch his servitors to collect the powerful artifacts he longed to stockpile. The xills were his creation, servitors who could slip to and from the Ethereal plane and steal any artifact or kidnap any person he wished to collect.
A Mysterious Task
Little has been heard of Kerpatis. Save for the recent theft of three mighty items in the World of Greyhawk, he has remained primarily a figure of myth, rumor, and legend. As an inveterate collector of magic items, though, his demiplane is likely filled with powerful artifacts long thought lost to the multiverse. If the story is true, his demiplane is undoubtedly guarded by strange traps and logic-defying puzzles, along with a legion of brainwashed servitors and countless xills. As to the fate of the individuals seized by the xills, they perhaps form the bulk of Kerpatis's followers. Brainwashed by his magic and set to guard his many dungeons, these fanatics are among his most dangerous followers. It is telling that the xills rarely kidnap commoners. Instead, they target young but promising adventurers, those whose natural talent and aptitude point to a bright future but whose skills have not yet grown sharp enough to repel a dedicated assault.
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