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QuelauntCreature 15

Rare​Large​Aberration​Amphibious​
Source Pathfinder Adventure Path: Hell's Destiny
Perception +29 (tremorsense (imprecise) 60 feet, wavesense (imprecise) 60 feet)
Languages Aklo, (can't Speak Any Language), Telepathy 100 Feet
Skills Deception +30, Intimidation +30, Occultism +27
Str +6, Dex +5, Con +4, Int +5, Wis +6, Cha +8
AC 36; Fort +27; Reflex +26; Will +31; +2 to will saves vs. emotion
HP 305
Speed 40 feet (swim 25 feet)
Resistances Mental 15
Claw One Action +30 (+26, +22) to hit (agile, magical, reach 10, unarmed) 3d8+12 Slashing
Tremorsense (Imprecise) 60 feet

Tremorsense allows a monster to feel the vibrations through a solid surface caused by movement. It is an imprecise sense with a limited range (listed in the ability). Tremorsense functions only if the monster is on the same surface as the subject, and only if the subject is moving along (or burrowing through) the surface.

Telepathy 100 feet (aura, magical, mental)

A monster with telepathy can communicate mentally with any creatures within the listed radius, as long as they share a language. This doesn't give any special access to their thoughts, and communicates no more information than normal speech would.

Constant Spells

A constant spell affects the monster without the monster needing to cast it, and its duration is unlimited. If a constant spell gets counteracted, the monster can reactivate it by spending the normal spellcasting actions the spell requires.

+2 to Will Saves vs. EmotionEmotional Focus

The quelaunt can cast the following cleric domain spells as 8th-rank occult innate spells at will without spending Focus Points: Captivating Adoration, Delusional Pride, and Ignite Ambition.

Emotional Frenzy Three Actions

The quelaunt casts up to three spells chosen from its at-will innate spells and its emotional focus spells.

Feed on Emotion One Action (attack, emotion, incapacitation, mental)

Frequency once per round;

Effect The quelaunt feeds on the emotional unrest of a single creature within 30 feet that's under a harmful emotion effect. The target must succeed at a DC 37 will save or take 4d10 mental damage and be Stunned for 1 round.

If the target fails its saving throw, the quelaunt regains the same number of Hit Points and regains the action it spent to Feed on Emotion. It can't use the regained action to Feed on Emotion again.

Rapid Strikes Two Actions (attack)

The quelaunt makes three melee Strikes, each against a different target within reach. The multiple attack penalty applies to each attack but increases only after all the attacks have been made.

Spiral of Despair Free Action (emotion, mental)

Trigger A creature fails a saving throw to resist one of the quelaunt's innate spells or emotional focus spells

Effect As the quelaunt invades the triggering creature's mind and plants the seeds of negative emotions, it also strips away the target's feelings of hope or positivity. The quelaunt can immediately end a single emotion effect from which the triggering creature is benefiting.

Occult Innate Spells (DC 39, +31 to hit)

1st Level: Fear (At Will)
2nd Level: Laughing Fit
4th Level: Fly (Constant)
5th Level: Wave of Despair

Emotional Focus (DC 39, +31 to hit)

1st Level: Ignite Ambition
4th Level: Captivating Adoration, Delusional Pride

This three-armed, three-legged monster has no discernible eyes, nose, ears, or mouth, and no visible means of ingesting food. Its limbs are distributed so evenly across its body that it's all but impossible to tell which way the creature is oriented at any given time. Few who witness a quelaunt linger on its alien looks for long though, as the invasion of their minds becomes a more pressing concern, sowing doubt, sorrow, and rage. This monstrosity not only delights in the negative emotions of its prey, but feeds on them, gaining strength and sustenance from their dismay. For the quelaunt, no act is too terrible or cruel to inflict on its victims, since the more a creature suffers, the more the quelaunt feasts.

Quelaunts are known to associate with other aberrant horrors, including jah-tohls and other creatures associated with the Dominion of the Black. However, the more prevalent theory paints them as more alien—perhaps invasive beings from another dimension of pure thought and feeling—and claims that in their natural state they have no physical bodies at all. Few dare speculate further; the only known autopsy of a quelaunt resulted in the researcher's suicide just days afterward and all the notes were mysteriously destroyed. Whatever secrets there are to be unlocked in the anatomy of these bizarre monsters are apparently important enough to warrant great protection from quelaunts, even after death.

Traits

Rare

This rarity indicates that a rules element is very difficult to find in the game world. A rare feat, spell, item or the like is available to players only if the GM decides to include it in the game, typically through discovery during play. Creatures with this trait are rare. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to these creatures is increased by 5.

Aberration

Aberrations are creatures from beyond the planes or corruptions of the natural order.

Amphibious

An amphibious creature can breathe in water and in air, even outside of its preferred environment, usually indefinitely but at least for hours. These creatures often have a swim Speed. Their bludgeoning and slashing unarmed Strikes don't take the usual –2 penalty for being underwater.