Crimson Worlds

Dark Naga

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columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary"
name: "Dark Naga"
level: "Creature 7"
rare_03: [[Uncommon]]
alignment: ""
size: "Large"
trait_01: [[aberration]]
trait_02: [[evil]]
trait_03: [[lawful]]
modifier: 15
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+15; Darkvision"
languages: "Aklo, Common"
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +17, Arcana: +16, Athletics: +13, Deception: +16, Intimidation: +16, Stealth: +19"
abilityMods: [2, 6, 4, 3, 2, 3]
speed: 30 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary_"
ac: 27
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "27; __Fort__ +15, __Ref__ +17, __Will__ +15; guarded thoughts"
hp: 115
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "115"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""
 
abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Guarded Thoughts"
    desc: " (occult) Dark nagas are immune to any form of mind reading."
 
attacks:
  - name: ""
 
  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Fangs"
    desc: "+19 (agile, finesse)\n__Damage__  2d8 + 5 piercing plus dark-naga-venom"
 
  - name: "Arcane Spontaneous Spells"
    desc: "DC 26, attack +18; __4th __ (3 slots) _[[Spells/Flicker|Blink]]_, _[[Spells/Wall of Fire|Wall of Fire]]_; __3rd __ (4 slots) _[[Spells/Dispel Magic|Dispel Magic]]_, _[[Spells/Haste|Haste]]_, _[[Spells/Lightning Bolt|Lightning Bolt]]_; __2nd __ (4 slots) _[[Spells/Illusory Creature|Illusory Creature]]_, _[[Spells/Invisibility|Invisibility]]_, _[[Spells/Force Barrage|Magic Missile]]_; __1st __ (4 slots) _[[Spells/Gentle Landing|Feather Fall]]_, _[[Spells/Illusory Object|Illusory Object]]_, _[[Spells/Tailwind|Longstrider]]_\n__Cantrips__  __(4th)__ _[[Spells/Daze|Daze]]_, _[[Spells/Detect Magic|Detect Magic]]_, _[[Spells/Telekinetic Hand|Mage Hand]]_, _[[Spells/Read Aura|Read Aura]]_, _[[Spells/Shield|Shield]]_"
 
  - name: "Occult Innate Spells"
    desc: "DC 25, attack +17\n__Constant__  __(3rd)__ _[[Spells/Mind Reading|Mind Reading]]_"
 
  - name: "Dark Naga Venom"
    desc: " (incapacitation,poison) **Saving Throw** DC 25 Fortitude check\n* * *\n\n**Maximum Duration** 5 minutes\n\n**Stage 1** [[Conditions/Slowed|Slowed 1]] (1 round)\n\n**Stage 2** [[Conditions/Slowed|Slowed 2]] (1 round)\n\n**Stage 3** [[Conditions/Unconscious|Unconscious]] with no Perception check to wake up (1d4+1 minutes)"
 
name: Dark Naga
creatures:
  - 1: Dark Naga

Dark nagas are wicked, jealous creatures that crave power and wealth. Indeed, the dark naga sees such ideals as spiritual expressions of an essential truth: if one can take something, that something is theirs to have. The dark naga sees other creatures as lessers worthy only of subjugation or as rivals who must be eliminated.

Dark nagas dwell in remote places other creatures have forsaken, searching abandoned ruins for wealth and potent magic items. Those unlucky trespassers into a dark naga’s lair typically find themselves as the naga’s slaves or playthings, put to sleep with the monster’s poison or incinerated by its deadly magic. Some dark nagas are more disposed toward socializing than others; in these cases, they may become wicked despots who rule over enclaves of captive or unsuspecting subjects. Subtler dark nagas, especially those who crave finer luxuries, dwell in or under the wealthy settlements and use their wiles to garner a decadent following, forming something akin to a cult with the naga as the jewelry-bedecked object of worship.

Nagas are serpentine beings with magical powers and keen, nearly inscrutable intellects. Physically, they resemble massive snakes with eerie visages that resemble those of humans. Nagas use their innate magic and poisonous fangs to keep all but the most stalwart foes at bay. Beyond the natural weapons they use to ward away foes, little is understood of the naga’s unsettling physiology.

Nagas are intelligent creatures with powerful needs to pursue, be they the accumulation of knowledge, the collection of rare art, or the rule of an entire nation. On Golarion, the nation of Nagajor is one such society-an entire empire ruled by nagas and populated by reptilian humanoids who serve their naga rulers with a patriotic pride that borders on worship.

Still, most adventurers interact with nagas on a much smaller scale, encountering them as dangerous guardians in remote locations or not-so-abandoned ruins. In many cases, these nagas have heard of distant Nagajor, but they are usually unwilling to abandon their own pursuits to seek out a land where they might be worshipped as gods.

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