Soulmarauder (CR 20)
Huge Outsider (Incorporeal)
Alignment: Always neutral
Initiative: +10 (+6 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative); Senses: soulsight, Listen +26, and Spot +26
Languages: Telepathy 100 ft.
AC: 32 (-2 size, +6 Dex, +18 deflection), touch 31, flat-footed 26
Hit Dice: 20d8+140 (230 hp); DR: 20/epic iron
Fort +21, Ref +20, Will +20
Speed: Fly 50 ft. good
Space: 20 ft./10 ft.
Base Attack +20; Grapple +23
Attack: 4 +25 incorporeal touches
Full Attack: 4 +25 incorporeal touches
Damage: Incorporeal touch 2d8 and soul sip, consumption
Special Attacks/Actions: Soul sip, roar, soul consumption
Abilities: Str -, Dex 22, Con 24, Int 5, Wis 23, Cha 21
Special Qualities: Incorporeal, positive energy lash, resistances, soulsight, phase change, regeneration 10, fast healing 5, SR 32, sonic vulnerability
Feats: Combat Reflexes; Great Fortitude; Improved Initiative; Iron Will; Lightning Reflexes; Weapon Focus (incorporeal touch)
Skills: Hide +8, Listen +26, Move Silently +26, Search +17, and Spot +26
Advancement: 21-40 HD (Huge); 41-60 (Gargantuan)
Climate/Terrain: Any land and underground
Organization: Solitary or pair
Treasure/Possessions: None
Source:
Bastion of Broken Souls
Incorporeal: Energons can be harmed only by other incorporeal creatures, +1 or better magic weapons, or magic, with a 50% chance to ignore any damage from a corporeal source. They can pass through solid objects at will, and their attacks pass through armor. They always move silently.
Soulsight (Ex): Spiritovore energons maneuver and fight living creatures as well as a sighted creature by using the energy of souls themselves, including preincarnate souls, which these energons are attuned to. Invisibility and darkness are irrelevant, though the creature still can't discern ethereal beings (if on a plane coexistent with the Ethereal Plane, which the Positive Energy Plane is not). Soulsight gives these spiritovore energons a "visual" range of 300 feet, if at least one soul is within direct line of sight (flimsy casings of skin, clothing, and armor do not count as a barrier to soulsight). Even physical objects such as buildings, trees, rocks, and other formations cannot always provide cover from spiritovore energons; they can sense the presence and general location of any soul within 150 feet. The energon usually does not need to make Spot or Listen checks to notice creatures within range of its soulsight ability.
Regeneration (Ex): Unholy weapons and negative energy attacks deal normal damage to spiritovore energons.
Phase Change (Ex): Spiritovore energons can disperse their form, becoming inactive and effectively nonexistent. The process takes 10 minutes, during which time the energon is helpless. Energons change phase from time to time as an energy equivalent of biological hibernation. While "out of phase," a spiritovore has a vague sense of the passage of time, and at some point may choose to reconstitute (another 10- minute process).
Resistances (Ex): Spiritovore energons ignore up to 10 points of acid, cold, electricity, and fire damage each round.
Explosion (Su): If an energon is reduced to 0 hit points, its body is instantaneously destroyed in an explosion of positive energy that deals 1d8+9 points of damage to everyone in a 20-foot-radius burst (Fort DC 22 half).
Sonic Vulnerability (Ex): Spiritovores are affected by loud noises and sonic spells (such as ghost sound or silence) and are more susceptible to sound-based attacks, suffering a -4 racial penalty on all saves, and on a failed save against sonic attacks that inflict damage, double damage. They suffer no particular penalties against sonic abilities that originate with other energons, such as the soulmarauder's roar.
Roar (Su): A soulmarauder can loose a terrifying roar every 1d4 rounds. All creatures (except soulmarauders and soulscapers) within 120 feet must succeed at a Will save (DC 26) or be weakened with fear, losing one-half their current Strength scores for 2d6 rounds. Those within 30 feet become deafened for 2d6 rounds, unless they make a successful Fortitude save (DC 26). Deafened creatures cannot be affected again by the soulmarauder's roar.
Soul Sip (Su): When the soulmarauder hits with an incorporeal touch attack, it permanently reduces a living opponent's Constitution score by 2d4, or twice that amount on a critical hit. The soulmarauder heals 5 points of damage (or 10 on a critical hit whenever it drains Constitution, using excess healing as temporary hit points. The attack allows a Fortitude save (DC 26).
Soul Consumption (Su): Once a soulmarauder has successfully "tasted" a victim's soul (by draining one or more of the victim's Constitution points), the creature can remove and eat the victim's soul. On each following successful melee attack that deals damage normally, the victim must make a successful Fortitude save (DC 26). Failure means one of the soulmarauder insubstantial tails curls into his or her body, become taut, then makes a sickening twist and emerges with the victim's soul (which appears as a multicolored pinpoint of light). The victim's body falls to the ground like a puppet whose strings have been cut -- the body appears loose, the skin too large for its bones, and is obviously missing a certain something. The soul is plunged into the soulmarauder's mouth like orifice, and consumed utterly over the course of 1 hour. If the soulmarauder is slain before 1 hour, the soul returns to the body, reanimating the victim; however, the victim gains 1d4 negative levels from the partially successful digestion of its essence.
No form of raising or resurrection can restore a victim whose soul is completely digested to life. A wish, miracle, or true resurrection has only a 25% chance to restore a victim to life.
Incorporeal Subtype
Some creatures are incorporeal by nature, while others (such as those that become ghosts) can acquire the incorporeal subtype. An incorporeal creature has no physical body. It can be harmed only by other incorporeal creatures, magic weapons or creatures that strike as magic weapons, and spells, spell-like abilities, or supernatural abilities. It has immunity to all nonmagical attack forms. Even when hit by spells, including touch spells or magic weapons, it has a 50% chance to ignore any damage from a corporeal source (except for positive energy, negative energy, force effects such as magic missile, or attacks made with ghost touch weapons). Non-damaging spell attacks affect incorporeal creatures normally unless they require corporeal targets to function (such as the spell implosion) or they create a corporeal effect that incorporeal creatures would normally ignore (such as a web or wall of stone spell). Although it is not a magical attack, a hit with holy water has a 50% chance of affecting an incorporeal undead creature.
An incorporeal creature's natural weapons affect both in incorporeal and corporeal targets, and pass through (ignore) corporeal natural armor, armor, and shields, although deflection bonuses and force effects (such as mage armor) work normally against it. Attacks made by an incorporeal creature with a nonmagical melee weapon have no effect on corporeal targets, and any melee attack an incorporeal creature makes with a magic weapon against a corporeal target has a 50% miss chance except for attacks it makes with a ghost touch weapon, which are made normally (no miss chance).
Any equipment worn or carried by an incorporeal creature is also incorporeal as long as it remains in the creature's possession. An object that the creature relinquishes loses its incorporeal quality (and the creature loses the ability to manipulate the object). If an incorporeal creature uses a thrown weapon or a ranged weapon, the projectile becomes corporeal as soon as it is fired and can affect a corporeal target normally (no miss chance). Magic items possessed by an incorporeal creature work normally with respect to their effects on the creature or another target. Similarly, spells cast by an incorporeal creature affect corporeal creatures normally.
An incorporeal creature has no natural armor bonus but has a deflection bonus equal to its Charisma bonus (always at least +1, even if the creature's Charisma score does not normally provide a bonus).
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid object but must remain adjacent to the object's exterior, and so cannot pass entirely through an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects a square adjacent to its current location, but enemies have total concealment from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. In order to see clearly and attack normally, a incorporeal creature must emerge. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it only has cover, so a creature outside with a readied action could strike at it as it attacks. An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect.
Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in water as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. Incorporeal creature cannot make trip or grapple attacks against corporeal creatures, nor can they be tripped or grappled by such creatures. In fact, they cannot take any physical action that would move or manipulate a corporeal being or its equipment, nor are they subject to such actions. Incorporeal creatures have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered by weight.
An incorporeal creature moves silently and cannot be heard with Listen checks if it doesn't wish to be. It has no Strength score, so its Dexterity modifier applies to both its melee attacks and its ranged attacks. Non-visual senses, such as scent and blindsight, are either ineffective or only partly effective with regard to incorporeal creatures. Incorporeal creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.