Monster Dossier

Greiken Lion

Greiken Lions The appearance of the Faletraer|LOMM is a once-in-a-generation event, but the spawn of that legendary creature are well known in the W...

Level 12

Traits

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Rules & statistics

Monster Profile

Perception

25

Senses

  • Name
    low-light vision
  • Type
    imprecise
    Name
    scent
    Range
    60

Languages

Languages
  • common (can't speak any language)

Skills

Acrobatics
22
Athletics
25
Intimidation
25
Stealth
22
Survival
22

Ability Mods

Str
7
Dex
3
Con
7
Int
-3
Wis
4
Cha
-2

Defenses

Ac
32
Saving Throws
Fort
25
Ref
22
Will
19
Hp
  • Hp
    215
Immunities
  • disease
Resistances
  • Name
    fire
    Amount
    10
  • Name
    physical
    Amount
    10
    Note
    except bludgeoning

Speed

Walk
35
Climb
20

Attacks

  • Range
    Melee
    Name
    jaws
    Attack
    26
    Effects
    • Grab
    Damage
    3d10+14 piercing plus Grab
    Types
    • piercing
  • Range
    Melee
    Name
    claw
    Attack
    26
    Traits
    • agile
    Damage
    3d8+12 slashing
    Types
    • slashing

Abilities

  • Name
    Dual Pounce
    Activity
    Unit
    action
    Number
    2
    Entries
    • The greiken lion stride||Strides and makes two claw strike||Strikes against the same creature at the end of that movement. Each attack counts against the greiken lion's multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn't increase until after the greiken lion makes both attacks. If both attacks hit, combine their damage for the purpose of resistances and weaknesses.
  • Name
    Rend
    Activity
    Unit
    action
    Number
    1
    Entries
    • Claw. If the greiken lion Rends after a successful Dual Pounce, combine the Rend's damage with that from the Dual Pounce for the purpose of resistances and weaknesses.
  • Name
    Vicious Rend
    Activity
    Unit
    reaction
    Number
    1
    Trigger
    The greiken lion uses Rend
    Entries
    • The target's armor takes damage equal to the damage from Rend. The target can attempt a 37 basic Reflex save, negating the armor damage on a successful save.

Background

Lore

Greiken Lions

The appearance of the Faletraer|LOMM is a once-in-a-generation event, but the spawn of that legendary creature are well known in the World's Edge Mountains and throughout Kheithoun. These primal beasts don't travel in a pride as ordinary lions do. Instead, they avoid others of their kind, even to mate, and they seek out ordinary lions once a year or so for this purpose. A greiken lion who bears cubs nurses and tends their offspring only long enough for their young to become self-sufficient—which takes only a few months, thanks to their kind's incredibly rapid growth and development.

A full-grown greiken lion is as big as an elephant and exceedingly aggressive, hunting anything that comes across its path. While ordinary lions rely on stealth and pack tactics to secure a meal, the greiken lion is too big to hide in tall grass. Instead, it has adapted to the mountains, where it selects a large and hard-to-reach cave as its home before claiming it from whatever creature is so unfortunate as to already inhabit the place. A greiken lion is a canny hunter, able to track for miles, and remains behind rocky cliffs and outcroppings as it approaches its prey. Once close enough, it pounces, tearing open the prey's armor and shredding the flesh within. If threatened, a greiken lion seizes its meal in its mouth and leaps off, scaling a nearby cliff face and retreating to its den.

Although they're wild creatures that can never be tamed, greiken lions understand Morouvaem and occasionally agree to help those who defend nature. However, such alliances are temporary and unreliable at best.