Blast shadow
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| Blast shadow | |
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| Type | Undead (fire) |
| CR | 5 |
| Environment | Any land |
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| Source: The Armageddon Echo, pg(s). 82-83 | |
Blast shadows are born of intense, fiery conflagrations. They rise from the ashes filled with a burning hatred for all living things, looking to spread the pain they experienced during their demise.[1]
Appearance
A blast shadow looks like looks like a hellishly burnt version of whatever creature it once was, normally a humanoid, a blackened skeletal creature with many chunks of burned flesh still clinging to it. It's covered with tiny cracks that exude a fiery glow and smoke as if a furnace burned within, while what remains of its clothing or armour is fused to its body. Its eyes glow with unholy fire a seep smoke into the air above it. Due to their emaciated frames blast shadows normally weigh around sixty pounds. [1]
Habitat & Ecology
Blast shadows are normally found lingering near where they were created so they are most commonly found around the burnt wastelands caused by some fiery apocalypse. When blast shadows remain in such an area they will sometime try to recreate it as it was before the fiery disaster that birthed them. As they use only the materials available these recreations are invariably creepy, buildings rebuilt in blackened timbers and scorched stone, corpses arranged in the way they looked at the moment of their death. Blast shadows are sometimes found in the service of evil magic users from pyromaniac arcanists to priests devoted to dark fire deities.[2]
Blast shadows are created when a creature is killed in a magical, fiery conflagration, the most common cause is the spells of wizards and sorcerers. The magical fire must be one of great power to create a monster like the blast shadow, no mere burning hands or fireball spell will suffice it must be a truly potent invocation. Sometimes a natural event can create blast shadows as long as it is preceded by a great act of magic, for example a spell that pulls a flaming meteor from the sky. Interestingly blast shadows are not a unique type of undead, there are other varieties that are created by other potent elmental magic namely acid shadows, lightening shadows and freezing shadows.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jason Bulmahn, Hal Maclean, Rob McCreary. (2008). Bestiary.The Armageddon Echo, p. 82. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-128-2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jason Bulmahn, Hal Maclean, Rob McCreary. (2008). Bestiary.The Armageddon Echo, p. 83. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-128-2
