Hopefully, you can appreciate the mistwhale's majesty before it gets slaughtered. See you tomorrow with monster number 27!
This enormous cetacean
is visible as a darker form in the cloud of fog surrounding it.
Mistwhale CR 25
XP 1,638,400
N Colossal magical beast
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light
vision, mistsight; Perception +34
Aura fog bank
(120 ft.)
DEFENSE
AC 44, touch 4,
flat-footed 42 (+2 Dex, +40 natural, –8 size)
hp 577 (35d10+385)
Fort +29, Ref +21, Will +24
Defensive Abilities
amorphous; DR 20/magic; Immune cloud immunity
Weaknesses
vulnerability to wind
OFFENSE
Speed fly 60 ft.
(good); fog stride
Melee bite +43
(6d8+16 plus grab), slam +43 (8d8+16/19–20 plus cloudform curse)
Space 30 ft.; Reach 30 ft.
Special Attacks
energy charged fog, fast swallow, swallow whole (10d6 bludgeoning damage, AC
30, 57 hp), sweeping swallow
Spell-Like Abilities
(CL 35th; concentration +38)
At will—solid fog
3/day—quickened solid fog
STATISTICS
Str 43, Dex 14, Con 31, Int 8, Wis 33, Cha 16
Base Atk +35; CMB
+59 (+61 bull rush, +63 grapple); CMD
71 (73 vs. bull rush, can't be tripped)
Feats Awesome
Blow, Bludgeoner[UC], Bull Rush Strike[APG], Cleave, Cleaving Finish[UC],
Critical Focus, Great Cleave, Hover, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Cleaving
Finish[UC], Improved Critical (slam), Iron Will, Power Attack, Quicken
Spell-Like Ability (solid fog), Skill Focus (Fly), Staggering Critical,
Stunning Critical, Toughness
Skills Fly +22,
Perception +34
ECOLOGY
Environment
temperate and warm skies
Organization
solitary, pair, or pod (3–6)
Treasure standard
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Cloud Immunity (Su)
A mistwhale is immune to fog and cloud spells and effects. It ignores any benefits
provided by a creature’s gaseous shape (from gaseous form, for example), treating the creature as solid for
purposes of bypassing damage reduction and inflicting critical hits.
Cloudform Curse (Ex)
A creature hit by a mistwhale’s slam must succeed at a DC 30 Will save or
permanently become gaseous, as if it were the target of gaseous form. A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected
by the same mistwhale’s cloudform curse for 24 hours. This is a curse and polymorph
effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Energy Charged Fog
(Su) As a standard action, a mistwhale can cause the fog bank to deal 10d6
points of acid, cold, or electricity damage (chosen when the mistwhale uses
this ability) to all creatures within the fog’s current radius. A DC 37 Reflex
save halves this damage. A mistwhale is immune to its own use of this ability. The
mistwhale must wait 1d6 rounds before it can use this ability again. The save
DC is Constitution-based.
Fog Bank (Su) A mistwhale
is constantly surrounded by a 120-ft.-radius fog. While within this fog, it
gains resist 20 against acid, cold, electricity, and fire. All creatures within
the fog gain concealment from opponents within 5 feet and total concealment
from opponents farther away. Wind disperses the fog as follows: strong winds
reduce the radius to 60 feet, severe winds reduce the radius to 30 feet, and
windstorms (or stronger) reduce the radius to 10 feet. A mistwhale replenishes
the fog at the end of its turn.
Fog Stride (Ex) A
mistwhale can move through impeding fog (such as that produced by solid fog) without taking any penalties.
Sweeping Swallow (Ex)
As a full-round action, a mistwhale can attempt to swallow whole all creatures
at least two size categories smaller than itself. This works like the grapple
combat maneuver, but the mistwhale does not need to make a check; it merely has
to move over opponents in its path. Targets of this ability can make an attack
of opportunity, but at a –4 penalty. If targets forgo an attack of opportunity,
they can attempt a DC 29 Reflex save to avoid the mistwhale. The mistwhale can
only target one creature per round with this ability, no matter how many times
its movement takes it over a target creature. The save DC is Dexterity-based.
Vulnerability to Wind
(Ex) A mistwhale is treated as if it were a Medium creature for the
purposes of determining the effects high wind has upon it.
Mistwhales originated at the border between the Planes of
Air and Water and migrated, forcibly, to the Prime Material Plane. The shy
creatures travel from thundercloud to thundercloud, or they drive lazily in
areas where fog is almost always present, to hide their presence from those that
might hunt them. When the whales feel secure in their territories, they call to
one another with low-pitched, rumbling songs. Despite their ephemeral
appearance, they are solid creatures capable of delivering deadly blows.
However, when initially threatened, they check their attacks to nonlethally
harm foes with the intent of driving their opponents away. If a threat becomes
persistent, mistwhales switch to lethal attacks and sweep threatening creatures
into their mouths—as terrestrial whales would with krill—or transform opponents
into fog to neutralize the threat. It can also electrify or change the
composition of the fog surrounding it to devastate creatures within.
Mistwhales often form alliances with druids and
nature-oriented flying creatures for mutual protection, but break such alliances
when they see their allies proactively attacking others.
Mistwhales retreat to uninhabited locales to breed and rear
their young, which require 5 years to reach maturity. A typical mistwhale is 35
feet long and weighs 5,000 pounds.
