zec's codex guys

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## Ahuizotl
https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/009/321/005/large/wesley-lin-wesleylin-ahuizotl-final.jpg?1518325273

it's a mayan thing, a cat with a hand for a tail

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## Arcane Dead
https://i.gyazo.com/50d8cabcc9f04abc8d7713d32184105e.png
vesphelmy is the race, they're like, lich runoff?

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## Bolt Frog
very electric frogs

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## Crystal Nomads
once, they were demons, but now, they live in the Depths - the planeless existence between the planes, where nothing can exist without magic.

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## Defacer
http://www.dungeonsanddrawings.com/2010/12/defacer.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaOBSdwJP7k/TQ1eFzxgRyI/AAAAAAAABco/DZr2yjGqKOo/s400/defacer1.png

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## Dark Peeper
https://i.gyazo.com/aaf8d7ab5f204f5480c3e49b9d347be5.png

this is an aberration of sorts, and i like the idea that it somehow sticks to the edgeof your vision

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## Demons
Incarnations of chaos and evil, demons display endless variation in appearance and in how they go about wreaking havoc across the multiverse.

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### Astrademon
https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderChronicles/PZO9209-Astradaemon.jpg
https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5la7t?Snagged-from-the-Vault-The-Great-Beyond

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### Volthorus
With ice-blue bodies covered in shaggy black fur, and branch-like onyx crystals piercing out of their backs, bolts of lightning crackling between each gemstone, a volthorus is a demon that is a symbol of the temptation brought by starvation and gluttony. Their heads appear like the skull of a human, but with the jaws stretched forwards, their teeth as sharp as knives, and their claws are similar to humanoid hands, but with their fingers twice as long as they should be, and ending in sharp blood-red points.

***Cannibalistic Giants.*** In times of low food, starvation can be a horrifying problem for beings as large as the giants; with bodies as large as a fully grown tree, excessive amounts of food are required at all times. Some giants in these times of crisis will fall prey to the most basic of predatory animal instincts, being that everything that moves is food, and will kill another giant, consuming their body. The taste of giant's flesh, however, once sampled, is practically irresistible, and so the giant shall continue to butcher and devour its fellow kin, as its body begins the transformation into a volthorus.

***Hidden by Storms.*** A volthorus is an enemy to all giants, and as such, they hide out on top of the tallest mountains, where their foes are unable to reach them. Few bits of meat come to the summits of their homes, so instead, the demon is forced to starve itself for many days, until the night when a loud enough blizzard or thunderstorm shows itself, masking the presence of the volthorus. The demon then hunts everything it can find, ripping all meat to pieces and devouring it, sating its eternal hunger.

***Tempest-Touched.*** Each volthorus has minor control over storms, derived from their nature of once being mighty giants. This can be seen from how lightning dances between the branch-like spines in their backs, or how their howling laughter is carried by blizzards, with their breath as cold as ice. When in a particularly fierce storm, the powers of a volthorus increase, turning it far deadlier than it normally is.
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>## Volthorus
>*Huge fiend (demon), chaotic evil*
>___
>- **Armor Class** 17 (natural armor)
>- **Hit Points** 172 (15d12 + 75)
>- **Speed** 40 ft., climb 40 ft.
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|23 (+6)|15 (+2)|20 (+5)|8 (–1)|16 (+3)|9 (–1)|
>___
>- **Saving Throws** Con +9
>- **Skills** Deception +7, Stealth +6
>- **Damage Immunities** cold, lightning, poison
>- **Condition Immunities** poisoned
>- **Senses** darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
>- **Languages** Abyssal, Giant
>- **Challenge** 10 (5900 XP)
>___
>***Aggressive.*** As a bonus action, the volthorus can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
>
>***Lifesteal.*** When the volthorus hits a creature with a melee weapon attack, it regains 7 (2d6) hit points, or 14 (4d6) hit points if the attack reduced the creature to 0 hit points or if it was a critical hit. It does not gain this benefit if it hits a construct or undead.
>
>***Stormcloak.*** When the volthorus is in a space lightly obscured by snow or rain, it is counted as being heavily obscured, instead.
>
>### Actions
>***Multiattack.*** The volthorus makes three melee weapon attacks: one with its bite, and two with its claws.
>
>***Bite.*** *Melee Weapon Attack:* +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. *Hit:* 24 (4d8 + 6) piercing damage. If a Medium or smaller creature is reduced to 0 hit points by this attack, it must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw, or die, having its head bitten off.
>
>***Claws.*** *Melee Weapon Attack:* +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. *Hit:* 15 (2d8 + 6) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) lightning damage.
>

> ##### Variant: Volthorus in a Storm
> When a volthorus is in an intense storm, it is far deadlier. For such a volthorus, its CR is 13 (10000 XP), its claws deal 14 (4d6) lightning damage instead of only 7 (2d6), and as a reaction to being hit with a melee attack, it can make one claw attack on the attacker.

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  style='position:absolute;top:660px;left:30px;width:366px' />

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## Devils
Devils scheme and fight to reach the top of the infernal hierarchy of the Underworld. Several devils are introduced here, some that have a place in the social order and others that stand apart from it.

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### Card Devil (Luveliz)
summons 4 death jokers, have a design like a sort of cloaked boy with a clown mask. synergize in combat by fighting with their jokers, and have a 30-foot aura that buffs the jokers, giving them evasion, resistance to all damage, and +1d8 psychic damage on all hits.

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  src='https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/97/59/c8975975d6cc102c849184af8b4ba1bb.jpg'
  style='position:absolute;top:540px;left:30px;width:366px' />

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### Fiddle Devil
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?585284-D-amp-D-Subclass-Contest-VIII-Something-Borrowed&p=23831805#post23831805

faustian college bard. these boys have three arms, one to hold their fiddle which is in the center of their chest, and two hands that each have very long pointer claws, which they use to play on the fiddle. maybe give a variant for one with a golden fiddle, which has some kind of better shit, but drops the fiddle upon death, which is a bardic magic item

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## Flockwander
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RAiEdJ_3qno/UAgzJPlvl5I/AAAAAAAABE0/Uv4Lt22s3yA/s640/ravenqueen.png

they're made of birds (usually crows or doves) with a hivemind

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## Fleshvarra
monstrosities that were once people, but have shifted themselves into mutated beasts to try and escape a disease from the Pestilants, and it kinda fucked their mind.

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## Forgotten Lords
use "Tomb Kings" in fantasy pics - generic. they're servants that one of the ancients brought with them--probably Cross--which symbolize dead leaders of dead worlds, with dead soldiers.
specifically, these guys are a relic of Al'Naar that have come back for vengeance due to being abandoned

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## Grave Sovereign
for pic, use "bulaire" from the Game Stuff art, void champ. anyways, they're fucks that only manifest inside of graves filled with those that died violent deaths, and are basically a hivemind of specters. their bodies are just COVERED in screaming faces, except for on its head, which just has 2 blue eyes, and no face.
despite being pretty powerful and undead, they can actually be pacified through doing proper funerals for the fuckboys making it up.

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## Grootslang
a besswob non-true dragon, is like a fuckin' elephant basilisk wyrm thing. focused on collecting gemstones and hiding in caves - is the mortal enemy of spirit dragons.

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## Kasabuto-o
sort of like Giant Fire Beetle: 2. they eat steel dragon eggs

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## Leaping Whale
based on the "killer whale" pic i've got

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## Manakin
these boys are based on the grimmkin, come from space out of meteors n stuff. they're neutral or evil aligned celestials. nine kinds; one for each color, and then a lord of them all

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## Mirrorworlders

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## Mngwa
a cat of sorts. their true form is a Huge sized cat (like an actual housecat) with a stretchy neck. they can shapeshift into a normal cat though.
also, they're immune to all restraints - they literally just phase through them, rather than rip through them. automatically succeed on all saves against being restrained, all checks against being grappled, can't be net'd, etc

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## Necronaut
http://www.dungeonsanddrawings.com/2010/09/necronaut.html

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## Olitiau
giant besswob bats that wear ritual masks and are very intelligent. despite not being humanoids, they are demon summoners, and are just kind of evil bastards.

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## Oni
category of fiends like demons and devils, have like 10-ish things

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## Pestilants
also known as the "illcallers", they're the boyos that spread disease. fiends, and they have mechanics that are like "deal worse conditions and damage to diseased and poisoned fucks"
also they diseased the fleshvarra lol

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## Rune Bramble
based on the Bramble pic found in the google drive. they're like balefornian trees and stuff that get latent magical energy from the runesteins, and contain the souls of extremely old baleforns
tbh they'd probably make a great new race for the first season pass

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## Scarabs
gem scarab's a kind, based on the maquech beetle. generally, scarabs will probably be pack animals that have one leader and then the rest flee, but if the leader is killed, the others will rush

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VZ_CL3-1wes/WpU1sHC9JkI/AAAAAAAACKM/uOk4r69v2OQPkmXKxawod1OZAJvbyu6UQCLcBGAs/s640/gem%2Bscarab.png

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## Season Sprites
based on them from Konosuba

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## Season Warlords
based on the winter samurai from Konosuba

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## Sinner
effectively, they're like demons of sorts, except not really. they like sin, but in the sense of "it brings mortal beings pleasure". they offer pacts, much like a devil, but the terms of the pact are always the same: they possess the body of the mortal that the contract was made with, taking it over permanently, while the mortal's mind and soul is still kept inside - that mortal then experiences all that they've ever wanted in a sort of dreamscape-y world.

make it sort of ambigious if you can *really* call these guys evil: they do take over someone's life, but it's almost always going to be a sad life full of pain, and the one that they take it away from is still going to experience idealized versions of those that they knew, as well as impossible experiences they never could've experienced.

stat-wise, the sinner is pretty weak on its own, not really being one for combat, but they can be used as a template on any humanoid. the humanoid then gets advantage on all mental saves, can't be charmed or frightened, becomes the sinner's alignment, and a thing about how if the possession is removed, then their mind is just fucked and they become a vegetable.

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## Slimes
void slime, elemental slimes, royal slime

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## Tatzelwurm
based on a british cryptid, it's like, a serpent-cat?

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## Yuki-onna
yeah, they're like those ice yokai women. undead (yokai) for type

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## Zugahebai
based on the OTHER fleshling cousin, the bottom one. it's an ave-ett monster of sorts, and is a creation of Stibio that went wild. can breed with and turn cows into more of itself

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https://www.deviantart.com/magicofgames/art/Hollow-Knight-The-forsaken-Child-710262816

This hollow knight-ass thing

https://www.deviantart.com/magicofgames/art/Hollow-Knight-Nightmare-Realm-Enemies-Part-2-716037209

these too; maybe they're mirror world boyos?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-md66Ikwi2Es/TdFU6rMmL4I/AAAAAAAABqI/XqAAyBozT8M/s400/livingblasphemy.png
quodark, a servant of quodominus that comes from his own flesh

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/e1/22/3be12252640df149c1b51425e7244a78.jpg

this is probably a mirror worlder

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/31/a7/e2/31a7e2a6a0ebb75619015574777b4079.jpg
some weird golem things - maybe mana golems?

sylveon mimikyu https://www.deviantart.com/chaos55t/art/Fakemon-Sylvikyu-703312134

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misc creatures like animals:
Doratori, a flying lizard that's kind of like an owl but a lil more dangerous