Homunculus, Furtive Filcher

With but a word, the small being of ashy shadow leaves your vision. Moving with unnatural grace, it crawls through an open arrow slit in the side of the fortress wall where the lord's guards are stationed. Knowing that you and your party could not hope for a frontal assault without being detected, the little shade is your best chance of sneaking through the gates. And sure enough, a small click later, the furtive filcher returns with the keys and the runeward stone necessary to bypass the sentries and letting your team enter unnoticed.

Furtive Filchers are homonculi, specially designed to be sneaky and good at theft. Made of little more than congealed smoke and standing a little taller than a foot and half, these constructs have eyes the color of dull embers. Their size and natural aptitude for stealth make them good at getting into places that their masters would not normally be able to enter and many guards of suddenly found their key rings missing once their work is done. Like all homunculi, should a furtive filcher be destroyed, its master takes 2d10 points of damage and should the master be destroyed, or the telepathic link somehow becomes severed), the furtive filcher goes insane, loosing its Intelligence, feats, and skills.

Construction:

Furtive filchers made from sculptor's clay, ash, raw shadow and one pint of blood. This body costs 100 gp. After the form is sculpted and baked in a kiln, it collapses in a puff of smoke and it is this smoke that is animated through magical rites, requiring an additional 1,000 gp worth of reagents and arcane materials. The person who donated the blood, which is not necessarily the creator, is the furtive filcher's master. Furtive filchers can be created with additional hit dice, each additional an additional 2,000 gp to the base cost.

Caster Level: 7th; Price: 2,100 gp

Requirements: Craft Construct, arcane eye, shadow conjuration; Skill: Craft (sculpture) DC 14; Cost: 1,100 gp.