D20_Larva

Old School Larval Extra Planar(Petitioner)

Special Qualities: Damage reduction 3/good or silver, darkvision 60 ft.,

Immunity to fire and poison, resistance to acid 5 and cold 5, see 15' in complete darkness

Skills: Climb +2, Hide +2, Move Silently +1, Spot +2, Swim +1, Listen +1, Escape Artist +4

Feats: Any One Related to its former life

Environment: Multitudes of them on Lower Planes, Solitary Captives on Prime Material Plane

Organization: Solitary or swarm (10-100)

Challenge Rating: 1

Treasure: None

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Advancement: to other daemonic sub type

Level Adjustment: 1

Larvae are the evil dead petitioners from the Prime Material plane who led especially selfish lives. They are doomed to spend their wretched existences serving the whims of evil on the lower planes. Horrifying in appearance, larvae appear as giant worms approximately five feet long. They are sickly yellow in color and are covered with a thick, viscous, foul-smelling fluid, Instead of a worm's head, they have distorted humanoid faces resembling the mortals they were in life. Larvae communicate with one another through basic body language that cannot be interpreted by anyone else. If a summoner on the prime material plane botches a skill roll,. He may wind up with an outflow of larva rather than the dire fiendish wolves for which he had prayed.

Combat Wounding (Ex): A hit from larva's bite causes a bleeding wound. The injured creature loses 1 additional hit points each round until the wound is bound (a DC 10 Heal check) or the creature dies.

Disease (Ex): Anyone bitten by a larva must make Fortitude save (DC 13)or contract a rotting disease. Those contracting the disease will develop a painful skin rot. After three weeks, they will lose 4 Con points a day unless they lie absolutely still. After one month, they will die. A cure disease spell will destroy the disease.

Habitat/Society Larvae are herded by night hags who use them as bargaining chips in the Gray Waste. The larvae are sought after by most of the lower planar powers because they are used to form quasits and imps.Powerful liches also seek larvae because they feed off the creatures' energies to maintain their immortal, undead status.The night hags will trade larvae to the lower planar denizens to keep them from entering their territory.The hags will also trade larvae to the liches for destroying those creatures that refuse to trade. It is a complex and wholly evil bartering system that is perpetuated by the growing numbers of lower planar inhabitants.

Ecology Larvae are actually very useful to the "ecology" of the lower planes. They are the main means for creating imps and quasits. Since the imps and quasits might later advance to become greater fiends, it can be said that larvae are the foundation of the population of the lower planes.There is no real criteria for selecting larvae to be made into greater creatures. Since all larvae are considered to be equally lowly, they are just randomly selected when the need for other types of creatures arises. How the larvae are transformed into greater creatures depends wholly on the race of fiends doing the transformation. The baatezu, for example, will cast the larvae into one of the many pools of flame found on their plane where the larvae must endure the suffering for 11days. Once their time in the pool is complete, they emerge as the new creature, perhaps a little crueler than they were before they entered.Other fiends have different ways to advance larvae. Occasionally legends surface about random larvae who can remember their past lives, but these are dismissed as foolish rubbish.