Nabasu

columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary 2"
name: "Nabasu"
level: "Creature 8"
 
alignment: ""
size: "Medium"
trait_01: [[chaotic]]
trait_02: [[demon]]
trait_03: [[evil]]
trait_04: [[fiend]]
trait_05: [[unholy]]
modifier: 17
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+17; Darkvision"
languages: "Chthonian, Draconic, Empyrean; telepathy 100 feet"
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +18, Arcana: +16, Religion: +16, Stealth: +18, Survival: +17"
abilityMods: [6, 4, 6, 2, 3, 4]
speed: 25 feet,  fly 50 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary 2_"
ac: 27
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "27; __Fort__ +19, __Ref__ +16, __Will__ +16; +1 to all saves vs. magic"
hp: 165
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "165; __Weaknesses__ cold iron 5, holy 5"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""
 
  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Telepathy|Telepathy 100 feet]]"
    desc: " (aura,magical) A monster with telepathy can communicate mentally with any creatures within the listed radius, as long as they share a language. This doesn't give any special access to their thoughts, and communicates no more information than normal speech would."
 
abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Death-Stealing Gaze"
    desc: " (aura,divine,visual) 30 feet. When a non-demon ends its turn in the aura, it must attempt a DC 23 Fortitude check save. If it fails, it becomes [[Conditions/Drained|Drained 1]]."
 
  - name: "Starvation Vulnerability"
    desc: " (mental) A nabasu denied food suffers painful backlash as their demonic nature feeds on their own corrupted spirituality. If a nabasu's Consume Death is disrupted (such as by a fighter using Disruptive Stance) or a creature resists the effect with a critical success, the nabasu takes 4d6 mental damage."
 
attacks:
  - name: ""
 
  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Jaws"
    desc: "+20 (magical, unholy)\n__Damage__  2d12 + 9 piercing 1d6 spirit"
 
  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Claw"
    desc: "+20 (agile, magical, unholy)\n__Damage__  2d8 + 9 slashing 1d6 spirit"
 
  - name: "Divine Innate Spells"
    desc: "DC 26, attack +16; __5th __  _[[Spells/Translocate|Dimension Door]]_; __4th __  _[[Spells/Translocate|Dimension Door (At will)]]_, _[[Spells/Grim Tendrils|Grim Tendrils]]_, _[[Spells/Paralyze|Paralyze]]_, _[[Spells/Vampiric Feast|Vampiric Touch]]_"
 
  - name: "Consume Death"
    desc: "`pf2:1` (concentrate,divine,visual) The nabasu focuses their death-stealing gaze upon a single target they can see within 30 feet. The target must immediately attempt a Fortitude save against death-stealing gaze.\n* * *\n\n**Critical Success** The creature is unaffected and the nabasu suffers starvation vulnerability.\n\n**Success** The creature is unaffected.\n\n**Failure** The creature is affected by death-stealing gaze and becomes [[Conditions/Drained|Drained 1]]. If the creature was already drained 1 by the death-stealing gaze before attempting the save, a failed save increases the value of the drained condition by 1, to a maximum of drained 4. The nabasu gains 10 temporary Hit Points, and the drained creature is temporarily immune until the start of the nabasu's next turn.\n\n**Critical Failure** As failure, but the creature increases the amount of drain by 2."
 
  - name: "Stolen Death"
    desc: "  A creature that dies while suffering drain from a nabasu's death-stealing gaze rises as a ghoul the next midnight."
 

name: Nabasu
creatures:
  - 1: Nabasu

Nabasus are birthed directly into the Material Plane from the Abyss, an invasive infestation that releases the newly formed and ravenously hungry demons directly into the midst of their favored prey: mortal life. Nabasus feed on sapient creatures, but they never quite manage to sate their eternal hunger, even as they grow more and more powerful. Once they have sufficiently feasted, the demons become worthy to make the return trip to the Abyss, where they undergo a vile transformation, finally digesting their accumulated meals and deforming further into powerful vrolikais.

Nabasus form from the souls of evil gluttons, particularly from cannibals, blood-drinkers, and those who prefer the tang of undead flesh.