Mist Sylph

Nearly human-sized, the mist sylph has fairy grace and elven features with a cruel edge. Its wavy hair is clinging mist and vapor trails behind it. Its dragonfly wings look dull and lifeless and clatter harshly with every beat; having lost the levitation of normal sylphs, it can fly only by flapping.

On first being summoned into the realm, a sylph must save vs. paralysis or go insane. Survivors are fragile and untrained, with no natural attacks and -5 to hit with weapons, so they hang back and cast.

All its spell-like powers work at 7th level, once daily unless noted: wall of fog (three times); feather fall, gust of wind and solid fog (twice each); and fog cloud, stinking cloud, dust devil, wind wall, whispering wind, ride the wind and cloud of putrefaction. It can take mist form for up to three hours, immune to harm. Monthly it may summon a mist elemental, but it cannot command the thing, which usually turns on it, so this is a last resort.

Though it lacks a true sylph's power to infuse evil, it delights in corrupting mortals. Hovering over a sleeper, it uses whispering wind to murmur vile thoughts, causing a vivid nightmare: the sleeper must make a System Shock roll at -25% or take -1 on all die rolls for 24 hours. The effect reaches a two-foot radius and catches every sleeper within it. Evil sleepers are unaffected; neutral ones roll at only -15%.

Losing levitation filled the sylph with spite. It must labor to fly and keep landing to rest, and its kind loathes the ground. It nests as high as it can while staying in concealing fog, favoring foggy forest dells and the misty marshlands of a domain of the dead, but avoids the perilous, barren mist-borders of the realm. It breeds as other sylphs do, except it never summons an elemental to guard its egg, fearing it would be smashed.

Mist sylphs can live 1,000 years, growing more haggard and hideous as death approaches.