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Naga, Lunar

CR 6.00 Aberration CN Large
Stark white hair frames the fair face of this snake-bodied woman, and its black scales sparkle hypnotically.

Lunar nagas are patient watchers of the night sky. They enjoy cosmology and believe strongly in astrology, maintaining a handful of complex zodiacs. A few lunar nagas even bear knowledge of the unspeakable things from the dark spaces between the stars. A lunar naga stretches over 10 feet from its pale face to the tip of its tail, and weighs close to 200 pounds.

Nocturnal creatures, lunar nagas often live in ruined towers or atop mountains—any place open to the sky at night. There they peer through astrological devices, closely monitoring passing celestial markers, eager to decipher more of the universe. Those living underground make nightly trips to the open sky when they can. Cloudy nights make lunar nagas agitated, and a creature is more likely to run afoul of a lunar naga on these dark evenings.

Lunar nagas sometimes lead small cults of sky-watchers. These followers aid the nagas in recording tome upon tome of calculations of the stars and planets moving through the inky black of the night sky. In small doses tempered with water, fruit juices, and alcohol, lunar naga venom is mildly hallucinogenic. The nagas' cultist allies often take the substance as a ritualistic drug.

STR
14
DEX
19
CON
18
INT
13
WIS
16
CHA
17
HP
68 (8d8+32)
AC
20, touch 14, flat-footed 15 (+4 Dex, +1 dodge, +6 natural, -1 size)
Speed
40 ft.
Init
+4
Melee
bite +7 (2d6+3 plus poison)
BAB
+6
CMB
+9
CMD
24 (can't be tripped)
Fort
+6
Ref
+8
Will
+9

hypnosis, sneak attack +3d6

Bluff +7, Diplomacy +7, Knowledge (arcana) +5, Knowledge (nature) +9, Perception +14, Spellcraft +8, Stealth +14

spells known:
(CL 5th; concentration +8)

2nd (5/day)-invisibility, scorching ray

1st (7/day)-charm person (DC 14), expeditious retreat, magic missile, ray of enfeeblement (DC 14)

0 (at will)-detect magic, disrupt undead, mage hand, open/close, prestidigitation, ray of frost

Details
Type
Aberration
Alignment
CN
Size
Large
Environment
any land
Senses
darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +14
Languages
Aklo, Common
Source
Bestiary 3