LAMIA

Spell-like Abilities. (CL 9)

1/day—change self, charm person, hallucinatory terrain, mirror image, permanent illusion, spectral force illusion, suggestion

Wisdom Drain. [curse] A lamia can touch a living victim, using a contact attack or incidental (non-combat) contact and drain 1 point of Wisdom per touch, permanently (no save). Wisdom drain can only be restored using a restoration spell or wish-type magic. A creature with a Wisdom score of 2 or lower will treat any request of the lamia as a suggestion effect (no save).

The hate-filled inheritors of an ancient curse, lamias appear as lean and attractive women from the waist up, while below they possess the bodies of beasts (typically lions). Even their humanoid features bear distinctly feline traits, their eyes slitted and feral and their teeth like predatory fangs. A typical lamia stands over 6 feet tall, measures about 6 to 7 feet long, and weighs upward of 350 pounds.

Lamias are attracted to the ruined and forsaken parts of the world. Crumbling keeps, abandoned cities, and forgotten monuments all satisfy these deadly hunters’ cruel aesthetic—particularly those in arid or otherwise lifeless environs. Foremost, though, lamias favor decrepit temples. They delight in seeing the shrines of good deities in ruins and go out of their way to bring hardship to thriving holy places.

Lamias use dagger or other weapons, frequently magical.

The lamia presented here is but the most common and least powerful member of this cursed race, with others bearing serpentine, avian, and even more perverse forms.

Environment. Tropical, Uninhabited (forest, rough, desert)