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Nightshade, Nightwave

CR 20.00 Undead CE Colossal

Immense almost beyond belief, this sleek, midnight-black shark rises from the sea like an unholy island heaved up from below.

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Description

The most powerful of the known types of nightshade is the ravenous nightwave, an unholy personification of the remorseless gluttony of death given the form of a shark the size of the largest whales. Although the nightwave is most at home in the ocean's deeps, it has no need to breathe, and its constant fly spell-like ability allows it to bring ruin above the waves as the need presents itself.

A nightwave is 100 feet long and weighs 200 tons.

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Combat Stats

HP: 391 (29d8+261)
AC: 36, touch 5, flat-footed 33 (+3 Dex, +31 natural, -8 size)
Speed: fly 60 ft. (good), swim 60 ft.
Init: +7
Melee: bite +35 (5d10+22/19-20 plus 4d6 cold, energy drain, and grab), tail slap +30 (4d8+12/19-20 plus 4d6 cold)
BAB: +21
CMB: +48 (+52 grapple)
CMD: 61 (can't be tripped)
Fort: +18
Ref: +16
Will: +25
DR: 15/good and silver
SR: 29

Special Attacks

channel energy (10d6, DC 33, 10/day), energy drain (2 levels, DC 31), swallow whole (5d10+28 bludgeoning plus energy drain, AC 25, 39 hp)

Feats

Combat Reflexes, Command Undead, Critical Focus, Greater Vital Strike, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (bite, tail slap), Improved Initiative, Improved Vital Strike, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Power Attack, Quicken Spell-Like Ability (cone of cold), Staggering Critical, Vital Strike

Skills

Fly +31, Intimidate +39, Knowledge (arcana) +38, Knowledge (planes) +35, Knowledge (religion) +38, Perception +37, Sense Motive +37, Spellcraft +38, Stealth +19 (+27 in darkness), Swim +59

Spells

spell-like abilities:

(CL 20th; concentration +27)

Constant-detect magic, magic fang, see invisibility

At will-confusion (DC 21), contagion (DC 21), deeper darkness, greater dispel magic, invisibility, unholy blight (DC 21)

3/day-quickened cone of cold (DC 22), finger of death (DC 24), haste, hold monster (DC 22)

1/day-mass hold monster (DC 26), plane shift (DC 24), summon (level 9, 1 nightwing), wail of the banshee (DC 26)

Details

Type: Undead
Alignment: CE
Size: Colossal
Environment: any (Negative Energy Plane)
Senses: darksense, darkvision 120 ft., detect magic, low-light vision; Perception +37
Languages: Abyssal, Common, Infernal; telepathy 100 ft.
Source: Bestiary 2

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