Daemon, Obcisidaemon

Obcisidaemon CR 19

This massive fiend has thick claws like a lion’s, the broad wings of an eagle, and the legs of a massive canine. Its face is that of a three-eyed wolf with the jaws of a saber-toothed tiger. While two of the thing’s eye sockets are merely empty holes that trickle blood, the middle eye glows a sickly yellow. A cloud of globular soul-stuff cloaks the creature’s hulking body, bits dripping loosely from its barbwire-covered arms.

XP 204,800
NE Gargantuan outsider (daemon, evil, extraplanar)
Init +3; Senses blindsight (life) 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft., true seeing; Perception +37
Aura scorched earth (60 ft., DC 24)

DEFENSE HP 425

EAC 33; KAC 35
Fort +22, Ref +20, Will +16; DR 15/good and silver; Immunities acid, death effects, disease, poison; Resistances cold 30, electricity 30, fire 30; SR 30

OFFENSE

Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (Su, average)
Melee bite +31 (15d6+28 P) or unholy devastation apocalypse blade +34 (12d8+28 S plus inherit soul)
Space 20 ft.; Reach 20 ft.
Offensive Abilities cloak of souls, quickened corrosive haze
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 19th)

1/day—disintegrate (DC 24), gravitational singularity (DC 24), snuff life (DC 24), summon allies (1 CR 18 [or lower] daemon, 50%)
3/day—call cosmos (DC 23), greater dispel magic, greater synaptic pulse (DC 23)
At will—corrosive haze (DC 22), teleport

STATISTICS

Str +9, Dex +3, Con +11, Int +1, Wis +4, Cha +6
Skills Bluff +32, Intimidate +32, Mysticism +32, Sense Motive +32
Languages Abyssal, Draconic, Infernal; telepathy 100 ft.
Gear unholy devastation apocalypse blade

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Cloak of Souls (Su)

An obcisidaemon is attended by the souls it has captured—a mass often resembling a tattered, ethereal cloak or a roiling cloud of dust at its feet. When an obcisidaemon successfully captures a soul with its inherit soul ability, the soul becomes a part of its cloak of souls, taking up one soul slot. An obcisidaemon has a number of soul slots equal to its Charisma modifier (6 for the typical obcisidaemon).

Destroying the daemon frees any souls in its cloak, though this does not return the deceased creatures to life. Any attempt to resurrect a creature whose soul is trapped in a cloak of souls requires a DC 24 caster level check. Failure results in the spell having no effect, while success tears the victim’s soul free from the cloak and returns the creature to life as normal. If the daemon is in an unholy location, such as on Abaddon, the DC of this caster level check increases by 2. Once a soul is consumed, only miracle or wish can restore the creature to life. As a swift action, an obcisidaemon can consume a soul from its cloak to achieve one of the following effects.

• Increase the save DC of the next spell-like ability the obcisidaemon uses that round by 2.
• Gain the benefit of a mystic cure (6th-level) spell.
• Add +1d6 cold, electricity, or fire damage to the obcisidaemon’s next melee attack that round.

Inherit Soul (Su)

Whenever an obcisidaemon kills a creature with a weapon it wields, that creature must immediately succeed at a DC 24 Fortitude save or be consumed by the daemon’s cloak of souls. This is a death effect. If the cloak cannot consume this soul without exceeding its number of soul slots, the daemon can release a soul as a free action in order to make room for the new soul; otherwise, the killed creature automatically succeeds at its save and its soul is not absorbed.

Quickened Corrosive Haze (Sp)

Three times per day, an obcisidaemon can use its corrosive haze spell-like ability as a swift action.

Scorched Earth (Su)

A creature that dies within 60 feet of an obcisidaemon and is not drawn into the daemon’s cloak of souls via its inherit soul ability must immediately succeed at a DC 24 Fortitude save or its body is utterly consumed in unholy fire equivalent to the effect of a disintegrate spell.