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Colossal Dragon (Evil, Fire, Intermediate god)
| Hit Dice: |
57d12+1140 (1510 hp) |
| Initiative: |
+3 (-1 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative) |
| Speed: |
30ft, Fly (poor) 100ft |
| Armor Class: |
61 (+30 natural, +15 deflection, +15 divine (profane),
-8 Size, -1 Dex), Touch 31, flat-footed 61 |
| Base Attack/Grapple: |
+57/ +90 |
| Attacks: |
3 Bites +67 melee (4d6+17/ 18-20) |
| Full Attack: |
3 Bites +67 melee (4d6+17/ 18-20), 2 stomps +61
melee (4d4+8) |
| Space/Reach: |
40ft./ 30ft. |
| Special Attacks: |
Breath Weapon, Energized Attacks, Improved Grapple,
Swallow Whole, Energy Drain, Windstorm, Burning Shockwave, Trample |
| Special Qualities: |
Divine Qualities, Drink Life, Multiple attacks,
Energy Resistance (Cold, Electrical, Force, Sonic) 50, Fire
and Negative-energy Immunity, Cold Vulnerability, Undead Friend,
No Breath, SR 79 |
| Saves: |
Fort +52, Ref +31, Will +34 |
| Abilities: |
Str 45, Dex 8, Con 50, Int 3, Wis 15, Cha 49 |
| Skills: |
Intimidate +64, Jump +62, Listen +49, Spot +49 |
| Feats: |
Ability Focus (Breath weapon, Energy drain) Alertness,
Awesome Blow, Blind-Fight, Cleave, Diehard, Endurance, Flyby
Attack, Great Fortitude, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical
(Bite), Improved Initiative, Improved Overrun, Iron Will, Lightning
Reflexes, Power Attack, Run, Weapon Focus (Bite), Wingover |
| Climate/Terrain: |
Any Land or Outer Space |
| Organization: |
Solitary |
| Challenge Rating: |
59 |
| Treasure: |
None |
| Alignment: |
Always Neutral Evil |
| Advancement: |
- |
| Domains: |
Death, Destruction, Evil, Fire, Magic |
| Holy Symbol: |
A dragon's skull surrounded by flames |
Desghidorah
is an anomaly among the evil gods, for while he is cruel, vicious
and thoroughly evil, his existence seems more focused towards creating
entropy and death than he is in causing suffering to the intelligent
races. If there were a death god among the kaiju gods, it would
be Desghidorah, for his mere existence drains the life from the
land, and brings an end to existence.
Desghidorah
resembles a massive dragon, with black scales that resembled cracked
magma, large, trunk-like legs, and three massive heads. A pair of
huge, fierce looking wings extends from his back, and gives the
god the ability to fly, though the flight is far from graceful.
Clerics
devoted to Desghidorah can chose from the following domains: Death,
Destruction, Evil, Fire and Magic. His favored weapon is the scythe.
Combat:
Desghidorah revels in combat, preferring to meet his
foes head on, bombarding them with his breath weapons and burning
shockwaves, before closing into melee combat. He makes abundant
use of his feats, especially improved bull-rush, power attack and
awesome blow. Like a hydra, Desghidorah can attack with all three
heads in one round, without the need to take a full attack action.
Breath
weapon (Su): Desghidorah has two breath weapons, either one
usable once every 1d4 rounds from each head. He can either breathe
a line of fire 300ft long and 10ft in diameter, or a cone of fire
150ft long. Creatures caught in either attack take 15d8 points of
damage. Half of the damage inflicted is fire damage, while the other
half is negative-energy damage, and therefore not subject to energy
resistance. A successful Reflex save (DC 60) reduces the damage
to half. The save is Con based.
Undead
are healed for an amount equal to the negative energy damage taken.
Energized
Attacks (Su): Once every turn for 1d4+1 rounds as a free action,
Desghidorah can charge his body with electrical energy. While charged,
his melee attacks inflict an additional 3d6 points of electrical
damage.
Also,
as long has he is charged, any creature that grapples him, or strikes
him with a natural or metallic weapon, takes 3d6 points of electrical
damage.
Improved
Grapple (Ex): If Desghidorah hits a foe in melee with a bite
attack, he can start a grapple without provoking an attack of opportunity.
If he wins the grapple check, he latches on with the head that scored
the hit. On subsequent rounds, he gains a +5 circumstantial bonus
on further grapple checks to attach his other heads.
If
he maintains his hold for more than one round, he deals bite damage
for each head attached and can use his energy drain attack. Against
huge or smaller opponents, he can also attempt to swallow the creature.
Swallow
Whole (Ex): Desghidorah can attempt to swallow a foe of huge
size or smaller my making a successful grapple check on the round
after he established a hold.
The
swallowed creature takes 3d6 points of bludgeoning damage, 3d6 points
of fire damage, and gains one negative level for every round she
is stuck in Desghidorah's gizzard. A swallowed creature can attempt
to cut her way out by inflicting 50 points of damage to the stomach
wall (AC 20). Once the creature exits, muscular action closes the
hole; another swallowed opponent must cut its own way out.
Desghidorah's
gut can hold 2 huge, 8 large, 32 medium or 128 small or smaller
opponents.
Energy
Drain (Su): On any round that Desghidorah maintains a grapple
on a foe, that creature automatically gains two negative levels.
Creatures swallowed by Desghidorah also gain a negative level for
each round they remain trapped. The DC is 59 for the Fortitude save
to remove a negative level. For each negative level he inflicts,
Desghidorah gains 5 temporary hit points.
Windstorm
(Ex): By flapping his wings as a standard action, Desghidorah
can create a powerful blast of wind. This wind fills a 100ft. long
cone. All flames within the cone are extinguished. All ranged attacks
are impossible in this windstorm (except siege weapons or the ranged
attacks of other kaiju, which take a -8 penalty to attack). Listen
checks are impossible. Creatures of Medium size or smaller on the
ground are blown back 1d4x10ft. and take 1d4 points of non-lethal
damage per ten feet traveled. Flying creatures of Medium size or
smaller are blown back 2d6x10ft. and take 2d6 points of non-lethal
damage. Creatures of Large size on the ground are knocked prone,
while flying creatures of Large size are blown back 1d6x10ft. Flying
creatures of Huge size are blown back 1d6x5ft.
Burning
Shockwave (Su): As a standard action once every 1d4 rounds,
Desghidorah can rise up and slam his forelegs down, sending out
localized tremors and waves of energy. All creatures standing on
the ground within 100-ft. of the god must make a two Reflex saves,
(DC 55 each). If the creature fails the first save, they fall prone.
If the creature fails the second save, it takes 6d6 points of fire
damage. A successful Reflex save reduces the damage by half.
Structures
within the area take 4d6 points of damage, in addition to the fire
damage.
Trample
(Ex): As a standard action during his turn each round, Desghidorah
can run over opponents of Gargantuan size or smaller, merely by
moving over them.
The
trample deals 4d12+17 points of damage. Trampled opponents can attempt
attacks of opportunity, but incur a -4 penalty. If they do not make
attacks of opportunity, trampled creatures can make a Reflex save
(DC 55) for half damage.
Drink
Life (Su): As an embodiment of entropy and death, Desghidorah
constantly radiates an aura of negative energy. All creatures within
600-ft. of the god are incapable of regaining hit points by any
means, including divine magic. If the creature has fast healing
or regeneration, it loses that quality while within this aura. Desghidorah
is immune to the effects of his own aura.
As
a full round action once every hour, Desghidorah can focus this
negative energy into a burst of negative life energy, sapping the
vitality from all plant life within 200-ft. of the god, inflicting
20d6 points of damage on all plants and plant type monsters. After
using this attack, Desghidorah regains 10d6 hit points.
Undead
within the aura gain fast healing 2, or if they already have fast
healing, the value increases by two. If undead are within the aura
when Desghidorah uses it to consume plant-life, they regain the
same number of hit points as the god.
Multiple
Attacks (Ex): Desghidorah can attack with all three of his heads
as part of a normal attack action. Each head can substitute a bite
attack for a breath weapon attack, and each is independent of the
others for the lag between uses of the breath attack.
Undead
Friend (Ex): Because of his association with negative life energy,
Desghidorah is one of the only Kaiju gods that has any influence
over undead. No undead creature can ever willingly attack Desghidorah,
and all undead within his Drink Life aura are treated as Charmed
by the god. There is no saving throw against this ability. Desghidorah
is accompanied by 4d12x10 HD worth of undead at any time.
Vulnerability
(Ex): Because of his connection to negative energy and death,
Desghidorah is treated as undead for the effects of negative and
positive energy, such as the cure and inflict wounds spells.
No
Breath (Ex): Desghidorah does not need to breath, and is immune
to gas based attacks that require a Fortitude saving throw. He can
also exist in an airless environment, such as outer space, with
no penalty.
Desghidorah's Worship and Worshipers
Desghidorah
is a feared, reviled and often hated deity, and is often called
the Soul Eater. Because of his nature as a vessel of pure entropy,
he is feared as the death bringer that he is. Even his brother King
Ghidorah has more worship that him, for people can relate to terror
and fear, and therefore comprehend them better than entropy. Few
beings wish to think of their end, let alone the end of all life,
and therefore they prefer not to think about Desghidorah. But, despite
all that, Desghidorah does have worshipers.
Desghidorah's
most abundant worshipers are necromancers, as well as sorcerers,
clerics and druids who are obsessed with death energy and entopic
forces. These death magic wielders are some of the best at what
they do, and what they do is used the forces of negative energy
to wither and corrode all life around them. Unlike the evil magic
users devoted to the other dark gods, the servants of the Soul Eater
care not who they target, be they the servants of the good, neutral
or evil gods. Desghidorah's sect has exterminated Triad monasteries
and Legion hives, for destruction and entropy have no friends, and
pander to no needs other than that of death.
Other
creatures that ally themselves with Desghidorah are the undead.
Because Desghidorah is a vessel of negative energy, he draws in
undead from all across the planet. Many powerful, self willed undead
worship him, and many of his mortal worshipers seek out means to
become undead themselves, often transforming themselves into ghosts,
liches and vampires.
Because
fire is often a tool for destruction, and because it is an element
associated with the god himself, many evil fire creatures are also
allies of the Soul Eater. Red dragons, evil fire elementals, and
salamanders.
Desghidorah's
sect seems to have no truly coherent goal, other than the spread
of death and entropy. Wherever a new town is built, they seek to
destroy it. Whenever a new life is born, they try to slay an old
one. Though they seem to revel in increasing the rate of death,
they do not appear to want to exterminate all life, for without
any life, death could not happen. Because of this, Desghidorah's
worshipers have been known to assist the agents of the other gods
when a force that could exterminate too much life threatens the
planet. Though their motives seem good, they are merely for the
selfish desire to continue killing and bringing entropy to the world.
Desghidorah
priests and worshipers often wear black clothing highlighted with
red, and are known to wear animal skulls that have been blackened
by fire as symbols of their dread master's will.
Desghidorah
has no allies among the gods, but he doesn't really have any enemies
either. The only gods who actively dislike him are the gods of good,
and even then, not as much as they seem to hate the other evil gods.
Desghidorah's actions are too unfocused by the standards of the
other gods to warrant them devoting to much energy to him. While
Desghidorah is not unfocused on his goals, his targets are seemingly
random, so the other gods devote less energy to him and more energy
towards those actively trying to destroy them. Whether this is merely
a diversionary tactic on Desghidorah's part, none can say.
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