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Ecorche

CR 16.00 Undead CE Large
This brawny creature has had its skin completely flensed from its form, revealing the violent pulsing of its massive, exposed muscles.

The bodyguards and spies of undead masterminds, ecorches appear as gory giants with musculatures overdeveloped by infusions of necromantic toxins and grafts of reanimated sinew. Although its natural form possesses no skin, an ecorche can steal the flesh of another creature, flaying its victim in mere seconds and leaving it in unimaginable shock and pain with only moments to seek aid before perishing. Yet this gruesome act of violence is only the first stage of the chaos an ecorche spreads with its violence. An ecorche possesses incredible control over its gruesome form, allowing it to compress its body into the skin of a much smaller creature. Wearing such grisly garb, these terrors walk among the living, doing the bidding of their terrible masters or searching for more influential individuals to murder, skin, and impersonate. If an ecorche's unholy nature is revealed, the monster is quick to dispose of its now-useless disguise, bursting from the suit of flesh and exposing its terrible form to the unprepared, few of whom can withstand such unabashed gore.

An ecorche stands approximately 8-1/2 feet tall and weighs upward of 600 pounds.

STR
32
DEX
20
CON
-
INT
9
WIS
11
CHA
21
HP
209 (22d8+110); fast healing 5
AC
30, touch 14, flat-footed 25 (+5 Dex, +16 natural, -1 size)
Speed
30 ft.
Init
+9
Melee
2 claws +27 (3d6+11/19-20)
Space
10 ft.
Reach
10 ft.
BAB
+16
CMB
+28
CMD
43
Fort
+12
Ref
+12
Will
+15
DR
15/good and silver
Defensive Abilities
channel resistance +2

bleed (1 Con drain)

rend (2 claws, 3d6+11 plus bleed and seize skin)

Wear Skin — An ecorche can steal the skin of a dead Small, Medium, or Large humanoid and wear it as its own. When it does this, the ecorche takes on the creature's size and appearance and gains a +10 bonus on Disguise checks made to impersonate the victim. While wearing a stolen skin, an ecorche cannot use its frightful presence. This stolen skin is preserved while the ecorche wears it, but is destroyed if the ecorche takes more than 10 points of damage or if the ecorche chooses to destroy the skin as a standard action. Those within 60 feet who see an ecorche's stolen skin destroyed are immediately subjected to its frightful presence and take a –5 penalty on the related Will save. An ecorche reverts to its normal size if its stolen skin is destroyed.

Disguise +30, Perception +25, Stealth +26

Details
Type
Undead
Alignment
CE
Size
Large
Environment
any land
Organization
solitary or gang (2-4)
Treasure
none
Senses
darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +25
Languages
Common
Source
Bestiary 3
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