Ephialtes
CREATURE 16Ephialtes velstracs are consummate and fearless hunters of the doomed and the damned.
Ephialtes Prey
When they catch enough quarry, an ephialtes velstrac returns to the Shadow Plane, bringing victims for other velstracs to use for training or raw material. Velstracs respect ephialtes for their "generosity" in guiding and providing for others of their kind, yet are always wary about making assumptions about the limits of this generosity.
A creature with greater darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. A creature with greater darkvision can see through even forms of magical darkness.
A constant spell affects the monster without the monster needing to cast it, and its duration is unlimited. If a constant spell gets counteracted, the monster can reactivate it by spending the normal spellcasting actions the spell requires.
This monster regains the listed number of Hit Points each round at the beginning of its turn. Its Dying condition never increases beyond Dying 3 as long as its regeneration is active. However, if it takes damage of a type listed in the regeneration entry, its regeneration deactivates until the end of its next turn. Deactivate the regeneration before applying any damage of a listed type, since that damage might kill the monster by bringing it to Dying 4.
2d4+13 slashing, DC 37 basic Fortitude
The monster deals the listed amount of damage to any number of creatures Grabbed or Restrained by it. Each of those creatures can attempt a basic Fortitude save with the listed DC.
The ephialtes exhales a tangle of barbed chains. All creatures in a 50-foot cone must attempt a DC 37 Reflex save. The ephialtes can't Exhale Chains for 1d4 rounds.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success It takes 8d6 piercing damage.
Failure It takes 15d6 piercing damage, 2d6 persistent bleed damage, and is Off-Guard for 1 round.
Critical Failure As failure, but 30d6 piercing damage, 2d6 persistent bleed damage, and is Restrained until they Escape (Escape).
The ephialtes stares at a creature they can see within 30 feet. The creature must attempt a Will save against the nowhere to run aura. If it was already slowed, on a failed save its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn. After attempting this save, the targeted creature is then temporarily immune to Focus Gaze until the start of the ephialtes's next turn.
The monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn.