When it comes to ferrying the dead off to their afterlife, preventing them from haunting the living, I think Christmas. Well, a Dickens-inspired Christmas, at least. Of course there’s the holiday classic movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, or the 80’s variation I grew up on, One Magic Christmas. In more recent times my times my wife is a huge fan of the The Family Stone. What can I say, Christmas entertainment always involved quite a bit of death when I was a kid. That and someone saying, “you’ll shoot your eye out,” but that is beside the point.
Not long ago, I concluded a series where I was expanding the list of monsters on the summon monster lists. Well, given the season and my odd association, I submit the memitim psychopomp to be added to the summon monster IX list, if you are including Pathfinder Compatible supplements on the list of monsters you be summoned to the battlefield.
Psychopomp, Memitim
One arm covered in heavy metallic armor and the other covered in rune-like tattoos, this winged figure is both escort and executioner of the lost.
Memitim CR 14
XP 38,400
N Huge outsider (extraplanar, psychopomp)
Init +6; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, spiritsense 60 ft.; Perception +28
DEFENSE
AC 29, touch 14, flat-footed 23 (+5 armor, +6 Dex, +10 natural, -2 size)
hp 199 (19d10+95)
Fort +16, Ref +12, Will +17
Defensive Abilities hidden body; DR 15/adamantine; Immune death effects, disease, poison; Resist cold 10, electricity 10; SR 28
OFFENSE
Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft. (average)
Melee +1 mighty cleaving speed scythe +22/+22/+17/+12/+7 (3d6+7/19-20/x4)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 14th; concentration +18)
At Will–dispel magic, halt undead (DC 17), vampiric touch
3/day–bestow curse (DC 18), quickened dispel magic
1/day–finger of death (DC 21), undeath to death (DC 20), wavesof exhaustion
STATISTICS
Str 19, Dex 22, Con 20, Int 16, Wis 23, Cha 18
Base Atk +19; CMB+25; CMD41
Feats Combat Casting, Combat Reflexes, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Greater Spell Penetration, Improved Critical (scythe), Hover, Master Craftsman (Craft [weapons]), Quicken Spell-Like Ability (dispel magic), Spell Penetration, Vital Strike
Skills Craft (weapons) +25, Diplomacy +26, Fly +24, Intimidate +26, Knowledge (religion, planes) +25, Perception +28, Sense Motive +28, Stealth +20
Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Infernal, Shadowspeak, Undercommon
SQ ghost touch
ECOLOGY
Environment any (Plane of Shadows, Purgatory)
Organization solitary
Treasure standard (huge +1 mighty cleaving speed scythe, huge +4 full plate armor (arm only), other treasure)
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Armor While a memitim wears no armor, its left arm is made out of metal armor. Because it is a part of the memitim, it takes none of the penalties of wearing armor. If this arm is cut off, a huge size creature can wear it immediately as the arm from a suit of Huge +4 full plate armor. The arm possesses a maximum Dex bonus of +1, armor check penalty of -7, 35% arcane spell failure, no reduction in base speed, and weights 40 lbs.
Ghost Touch (Su) A memitim treats all natural and wielded weapons as if it had the ghost touch ability.
Hidden Body (Su) It is harder to score additional damage against the memitim due to the concealment provided by its long robe. When a critical hit or sneak attack is scored on the memitim, there is a 50% chance that the attack deals normal damage.
Spiritsense (Su) A memitim notices, locates, and can distinguish between living and undead creatures within 60 feet, just as if it possessed the blindsight ability. When the god of life and death selects a being to die. The marked one meets his death at the place and time appointed. Should his soul or body continue on and become one of the unliving, the memitim returns it to its intended destination—by force, if necessary.
This psychopomp first appeared in the JBE release Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane. Download this monster book today at the JBE Shop.
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