NilithCreature 10

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Source Pathfinder Bestiary
Perception +19 (darkvision)
Languages Aklo, Common, Telepathy 100 Feet
Skills Acrobatics +21, Athletics +17, Intimidation +23, Occultism +19, Stealth +21, Survival +17
Str +3, Dex +5, Con +4, Int +3, Wis +3, Cha +5

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AC 32; Fort +17; Reflex +20; Will +20;
HP 150
Speed 25 feet (climb 30 feet)
Resistances Mental 10, Physical 5

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Claw +23 (+19, +15) to hit (agile, finesse, magical) 2d10+9 Slashing
Fangs +23 (+18, +13) to hit (finesse, magical) 2d12+9 Piercing

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Darkvision

A monster with darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. Some forms of magical darkness, such as a 4th-level Darkness spell, block normal darkvision. A monster with Greater Darkvision, however, can see through even these forms of magical darkness.

Telepathy 100 feet (aura, divination, 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.

At-Will Spells

The monster can cast its at-will spells any number of times without using up spell slots.

Mind Crush (enchantment, mental, occult)

Requirements The nilith has a creature Grabbed.

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Effect The nilith reaches into the mind of the grabbed creature and implants disjointed images of the victim's worst fears and nightmares. The grabbed creature takes 6d6 mental damage (DC 31 basic will save). On a critical failure, the target is also affected as though by Feeblemind, and it must attempt a second Will save against that effect.

Grab

Requirements The monster's last action was a success with a Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or it has a creature grabbed using this action.

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Effect The monster automatically Grabs the target until the end of the monster's next turn. The creature is Grabbed by whichever body part the monster attacked with, and that body part can't be used to Strike creatures until the grab is ended. Using Grab extends the duration of the monster's Grab until the end of its next turn for all creatures grabbed by it. A grabbed creature can use the Escape action to get out of the grab, and the Grab ends for a grabbed creatures if the monster moves away from it.

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Occult Innate Spells (DC 29, +21 to hit)

Cantrips (5th Level): Mage Hand, Message, Read Aura, Shield
2nd Level: Invisibility (At Will) (Self Only)
3rd Level: Dream Message, Mind Reading (At Will)
4th Level: Blink, Confusion, Crushing Despair, Nightmare
5th Level: Hallucination, Mind Probe

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The sleek, dark niliths resemble hairless, emaciated tree sloths. These creatures are intensely dangerous and fearsome, with red glowing eyes, wicked claws, and mouths full of needlelike teeth. Niliths feed off the emotions, fears, and flesh of the living, and folktales posit that those who have nightmares of these creatures are fated to one day be eaten by them. Niliths draw intense joy from tormenting sapient creatures, often focusing their predations on the pious and the just, from whom they draw forth their most basic fears and worst thoughts and revel in their victims' subsequent terror. More often than not, these despicable manipulators wish to drive their victims into madness and even to suicide. Most niliths lack the patience to spend too much time fully tearing down an individual, and when a nilith tires of its current plaything and becomes bored with its particular thoughts and fears, it murders the quarry before feeding on its flesh and moving onto the next victim.

Niliths are actually extensions of much deadlier creatures that dwell in a distant dimension beyond dreams-in a way, niliths are little more than remote feeding machines for the unknown alien entities to which they are connected. Scholars and dimensional travelers have attempted to uncover the exact mechanisms of this mysterious connection, but they have yet to decipher the truth. Indeed, many who investigate the nature of the nilith's bond are driven to madness before getting anywhere close. The odd connection to otherworldly beings might help explain the longevity of these creatures, as it is believed that niliths can live for thousands of years.

Thankfully for others, niliths are solitary creatures that hate the company of their own kind, likely because these harbingers of nightmares have no wish to taste the horrors they bring to others.

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Traits