Daemon, Crucidaemon
Description
Bloody representations of death by traps or torture, crucidaemons spend their existence subjecting creatures to an eternity of pain and terror. Whereas many daemons are quick to feed on the soul of mortals they capture, a crucidaemon lets its victims linger, marinating their souls in torment and pain so that when the time for feeding finally comes, they welcome their final oblivion with tears of gratitude.
Crucidaemons are 6 feet tall and weigh 250 pounds.
Combat Stats
- Melee
- daggers +29/+29/+24/+19/+14 (1d4+11/17-20 plus bleed)
- Space
- 5 ft.
- Reach
- 10 ft.
- DR
- 10/good and silver
- SR
- 26
- Racial Modifiers
- +8 Craft (traps)
Ability Scores
Proficiencies
Weapons: Martial, Simple
Special Attacks
bleed (2d6)
Chained Daggers — A crucidaemon fights with the two daggers chained to its wrists as if dual wielding daggers with a reach of 10 feet (although it can also attack adjacent foes with no penalty). It takes no penalty on attack or damage rolls while wielding both of these daggers at once. These daggers are considered to be +2 daggers that deal 2d6 points of bleed damage. The daggers become nonmagical upon the daemon's death, and cannot be disarmed. A crucidaemon may remanifest a destroyed dagger as a standard action.
Trap Making — A crucidaemon can use Disable Device to disarm magic traps. When it uses its greater glyph of warding spell-like ability to create a spell glyph, it may utilize any 6th-level or lower spell from the cleric or the wizard spell list, even though it otherwise can't cast these spells. The Perception and Disable Device DCs for any traps a crucidaemon creates gain a +2 bonus.
Feats
Dodge, Improved Critical (daggers), Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Mobility, Spring Attack, Stealthy, Step Up, Weapon Focus (daggers)
Special Abilities
Universal Monster Rules
Special Abilities
Feats, Traits & Items
You gain a +1 dodge bonus to your AC. A condition that makes you lose your Dex bonus to AC also makes you lose the benefits of this feat.
When using the weapon you selected, your threat range is doubled.
You get a +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against attacks of opportunity caused when you move out of or within a threatened area. A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses.
Dodge bonuses stack with each other, unlike most types of bonuses.
As a full-round action, you can move up to your speed and make a single melee attack without provoking any attacks of opportunity from the target of your attack. You can move both before and after the attack, but you must move at least 10 feet before the attack and the total distance that you move cannot be greater than your speed. You cannot use this ability to attack a foe that is adjacent to you at the start of your turn.
You get a +2 bonus on all Escape Artist and Stealth skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Whenever an adjacent foe attempts to take a 5-foot step away from you, you may also make a 5-foot step as an immediate action so long as you end up adjacent to the foe that triggered this ability. If you take this step, you cannot take a 5-foot step during your next turn. If you take an action to move during your next turn, subtract 5 feet from your total movement.
You gain a +1 bonus on all attack rolls you make using the selected weapon.
Skills
Bluff +29, Craft (traps) +31, Disable Device +25, Escape Artist +7, Intimidate +29, Knowledge (arcana, engineering) +11, Perception +23, Sense Motive +16, Spellcraft +18, Stealth +29, Use Magic Device +19
Spells
- Type
- Outsider
- Alignment
- NE
- Size
- Medium
- Environment
- any (Abaddon)
- Organization
- solitary, pair, or inquisition (3-6)
- Treasure
- standard
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft., deathwatch, detect good, true seeing; Perception +23
- Languages
- Abyssal, Draconic, Infernal; telepathy 100 ft.
- Source
- Bestiary 3