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Vault BuilderCreature 23

Rare​Medium​Earth​Elemental​
Source Pathfinder Rage of Elements
Perception +37 (darkvision, tremorsense (imprecise) 120 feet)
Languages Orvian, Petran, Telepathy 300 Feet
Skills Lore +42, Lore +42, Lore +42, Acrobatics +39, Arcana +42, Athletics +39, Crafting +44, Nature +37, Stealth +41, Thievery +39
Str +8, Dex +10, Con +7, Int +11, Wis +6, Cha +8
AC 47; Fort +36; Reflex +41; Will +35; +1 status to all saves vs. spells (+4 status vs. earth)
HP 465
Speed 35 feet (burrow 35 feet, climb 35 feet)
Immunities bleed, paralyzed, poison, sleep, radiation
Resistances Physical 20
Claw One Action +37 (+33, +29) to hit (agile, finesse, magical, unarmed) 5d10+12 Slashing
Crystal Wand One Action +37 (+32, +27) to hit (finesse, magical, radiation) 4d4+12 Piercing + 4d6 Poison
Crystal Staff One Action +39 (+34, +29) to hit (magical, radiation, two hand d8) 4d6 Poison + 4d4+12 Bludgeoning
Crystal Shard One Action +37 (+32, +27) to hit (earth, magical) 7d6+4 Piercing
Tremorsense (Imprecise) 120 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 300 feet (aura, magical)

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.

+2 Status to Recall Knowledge About EarthCraft Crystal Wand (exploration)

Frequency twice per day

Effect The vault builder spends 10 minutes creating a magic wand out of radioactive green crystal, containing any 8th-rank or lower earth spell of their choice. The wand can be used by other creatures, but it crumbles to sand at the end of the day and has no monetary value. The vault builder can expend both daily uses to instead make a +3 greater striking Major Staff of Earth.

Item Caster

The vault keeper can Cast a Spell from any item (such as a staff or wand) as though it were on their spell list.

+1 Status to All Saves vs. Magic+4 Status to All Saves vs. EarthAttack of Opportunity Reaction

Trigger A creature within the monster's reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it's using.

Effect The monster attempts a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If the attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, the monster disrupts that action. This Strike doesn't count toward the monster's multiple attack penalty, and its multiple attack penalty doesn't apply to this Strike.

Constraining Crystal (earth, magical)

When the vault builder deals damage with a claw Strike, glowing green crystals cluster at the site of the attack. The target must succeed at a DC 31 fortitude save or become Clumsy 1 for 1 hour (or Clumsy 2 on a critical failure). If the creature is already clumsy due to constraining crystal, additional failures increase that clumsy value instead, to a maximum of clumsy 4. A target that fails its save while clumsy 4 is Petrified with an unlimited duration.

Crystal Burst Two Actions (arcane, earth)

An explosion of razor-sharp splinters deals 24d6 piercing damage in a 30-foot burst within 120 feet, with a DC 46 reflex save. The vault keeper can't use Crystal Burst again for 1d4 rounds.

Earth Glide

The vault builder can Burrow through any earthen matter, including rock. When they do so, the vault builder moves at their full burrow Speed, leaving no tunnels or signs of their passing.

Arcane Prepared Spells (DC 50, +42 to hit)

Cantrips (10th Level): Detect Magic, Read Aura, Scatter Scree, Sigil, Telekinetic Hand
1st Level: Ant Haul, Mending, Quick Sort
2nd Level: Knock, Magnetic Attraction, Magnetic Repulsion, Pave Ground, See the Unseen
3rd Level: Haste, One with Stone
4th Level: Clairvoyance, Creation, Fly, Grasping Earth, Mountain Resilience
5th Level: Blazing Fissure, Engrave Memory
6th Level: Disintegrate, Petrify, Wall of Force
7th Level: Heaving Earth
8th Level: Earthquake

Arcane Innate Spells (DC 50, +42 to hit)

2nd Level: Shatter (At Will), Summon Elemental (Earth Only)
3rd Level: Earthbind (At Will)
4th Level: Shape Stone (At Will), Translocate, Translocate (At Will)
5th Level: Speak With Stones (At Will), Wall of Stone
6th Level: Petrify, Scrying, Teleport

The vault keepers lost Sairazul's spark and have life spans of two to three millennia. They maintain and protect the xiomorns' many experiments.

When Sairazul created xiomorns, they were immortal. She created 65,536, all in her own image, and all imbued with a piece of her divine spark. During her imprisonment, Ayrzul used visions of a future extinction to manipulate them into sacrificing their power to him. This sacrifice split xiomorns into two classes: 32,768 vault builders who kept Sairazul's essence and 32,768 vault keepers who would live forever no longer. For millennia, xiomorns built a vast, magical civilization across the Plane of Earth, and when there was no space left to build, they left. On each new world, xiomorns build their vaults and conduct their experiments, endlessly searching for clues to help them avoid their extinction.

Vault Seeds

Xiomorns create magical underground caverns using vault seeds, ancient magical tools bequeathed to their species by Ayrzul as a reward for their sacrifice. The vault seeds were used to create the Vaults of Orv in Golarion's Darklands, and an accident involving an out-of-control vault seed created the mysterious Emerald Spire.

Crystal Crafters

Xiomorns have mastered the creation of numerous magic items made of crystal beyond generation stones and vault seeds. These include pillars of black stone called whisperstones that allow xiomorns to communicate telepathically across vaults, orvgates that use weblike funnels of green crystal to allow teleportation between Darklands vaults, and a vortex in Orv called the Crystal Womb that connects to a crucial stronghold on the Plane of Earth.

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.

Earth

Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.

Elemental

Creatures directly tied to an element and native to the elemental planes. Elementals don't need to breathe.