Scarecophagus
CREATURE 6Originally created by Gebbite necromancers during the war against Nex, the scarecophagus is an evil construct that draws power directly from the undead mummy trapped forever within its sealed core. This necromantic energy is channeled throughout the construct's body, allowing it to scuttle about on legs of stone, animate tentacles to strike at foes, and use the mummy's trapped mind for its own sapience and magical powers.
The scarecophagus detects the presence of magic items and spell effects within 30 feet as an imprecise sense.
30 feet. Living creatures are Frightened 1 while in a scarecophagus' despair aura. They can't naturally recover from this fear while in the emanation but recover instantly once they leave it. When a creature first enters the emanation, it must succeed at a DC 22 Will save (after taking the penalty from being frightened 1) or be Paralyzed for 1 round. The creature is then temporarily immune to this paralysis for 24 hours.
Effect: Despair
If a scarecophagus is reduced to 0 Hit Points by any damage other than vitality energy, it cracks open as it's destroyed, allowing the undead mummy trapped for eons within its core to rise. This is a weak Mummy Guardian; if the mummy guardian survives on its own for a month, it loses the weak adjustment. If the scarecophagus is reduced to 0 Hit Points by vitality energy, it cracks open as it's destroyed and the mummy within turns to dust, destroyed as well.
A scarecophagus takes damage from vitality energy as if it were an undead creature.
Until the next time it acts, the scarecophagus appears to be a normal stone sarcophagus. It has an automatic result of 34 on Deception checks and DCs to pass as a sarcophagus.