Monster Dossier

Quelaunt

Quelaunt OTHER QUELAUNTS Perhaps the most frightening tales of quelaunts attribute them with abilities beyond those detailed here, suggesting that quela...

Level 15

Traits

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Rules & statistics

Monster Profile

Perception

29

Senses

  • Type
    imprecise
    Name
    tremorsense
    Range
    60

Languages

Languages
  • aklo (can't speak any language)
Abilities
  • telepathy

Skills

Deception
30
Intimidation
30
Occultism
27

Ability Mods

Str
6
Dex
5
Con
4
Int
5
Wis
6
Cha
8

Defenses

Ac
36
Saving Throws
Fort
27
Ref
26
Will
Std
31
Vs. emotion
33
Hp
  • Hp
    305

Speed

Abilities
  • air walk
Walk
40

Attacks

  • Range
    Melee
    Name
    claw
    Attack
    30
    Traits
    • agile
    • magical
    • reach
    Damage
    3d8+12 slashing
    Types
    • slashing

Spellcasting

  • Type
    Innate
    Tradition
    occult
    DC
    39
    Entry
    2
    Spells
    • Name
      hideous laughter
    3
    Spells
    • Name
      fear
      Amount
      at will
    7
    Spells
    • Name
      crushing despair
      Amount
      3
    Constant
    4
    Spells
    • Name
      air walk

Abilities

  • Entries
    • The quelaunt can cast the following cleric domain spells as 8th-level occult innate spells at will without spending Focus Points: blind ambition, captivating adoration, and delusional pride.
    Name
    Emotional Focus
  • Activity
    Number
    3
    Unit
    action
    Entries
    • The quelaunt casts up to three spells chosen from its at-will innate spells and its emotional focus spells.
    Name
    Emotional Frenzy
  • Activity
    Number
    1
    Unit
    action
    Traits
    • attack
    • emotion
    • incapacitation
    • mental
    Frequency
    Unit
    round
    Number
    1
    Entries
    • The quelaunt feeds on the emotional unrest of a single creature within 30 feet that's under a harmful emotion effect. The target must succeed at a 37 Will save or take 4d10 mental damage and be stunned for 1 round. If the target fails its saving throw, the quelaunt regains the same number of Hit Points and Feed on Emotion does not cost the quelaunt an action, allowing it to use another action this turn.
    Name
    Feed on Emotion
  • Activity
    Number
    2
    Unit
    action
    Traits
    • attack
    Entries
    • The quelaunt makes three melee Strike||Strikes, each against a different target within reach. The multiple attack penalty applies to each attack, but increases only after all the attacks have been made.
    Name
    Rapid Strikes
  • Activity
    Number
    1
    Unit
    free
    Traits
    • emotion
    • mental
    Trigger
    A creature fails a saving throw to resist one of the quelaunt's innate spells or emotional focus spells.
    Entries
    • As the quelaunt invades the triggering creature's mind and plants the seeds of negative emotions, it also strips away the target's feelings of hope or positivity. The quelaunt can immediately end a single emotion effect from which the triggering creature is benefiting.
    Name
    Spiral of Despair

Background

Lore

Quelaunt

OTHER QUELAUNTS

Perhaps the most frightening tales of quelaunts attribute them with abilities beyond those detailed here, suggesting that quelaunts might be an entire category of alien menace that has only recently turned its awful attention to humanity.

This three-armed, three-legged monster has no discernible eyes, nose, ears, or mouth or no visible means of ingesting food. Its limbs are distributed so evenly across its body that it is all but impossible to tell which way the creature is oriented at any given time. Few who witness the quelaunt linger on its alien looks for long though, as the most pressing concern quickly becomes the invasion of their minds, as the quelaunt sows doubt, sorrow, and rage. This monstrosity not only delights in the negative emotions of its prey, but feeds on them, gaining strength and sustenance from their dismay. For the quelaunt, no act is too terrible or cruel to inflict on its victims, since the more a creature suffers, the more the quelaunt feasts.

Quelaunts are known to associate with other aberrant horrors, including brain collectors and other creatures associated with the Dominion of the Black. However, the more prevalent theory paints them as more alien—perhaps invasive beings from another dimension of pure thought and feeling—and claims that in their natural state they have no physical bodies at all. Few dare speculate further; the only known autopsy of a quelaunt resulted in the researcher's suicide just days afterward and all the notes were mysteriously destroyed. Whatever secrets there are to be unlocked in the anatomy of these bizarre monsters are apparently important enough to warrant great protection from quelaunts, even after death.