Akhana

Akhana

(Creature)

Common

Medium

Aeon

Monitor

Level

12

Source: Monster Core, pg(s). 9–10

Type

Outsider
(aeon, extraplanar)

CR

12

Environment

Any (Outer Sphere, Astral Plane)

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Bestiary 2, pg(s). 9

Akhanas are aeons that bear charge over the duality of birth and death.

Appearance

An akhana's torso is a swirling mass resembling a giant eye, which seems vaporous but is solid and slimy to the touch. It has four grey arms and a fifth tail-like appendage.

Abilities

An akhana can use its tail to siphon life essence from and trap the souls of foes. The victim's body remains preserved as long as the soul is held by the akhana. It can keep the soul indefinitely, but can only hold one at a time.

Ecology

Akhanas perceive that living things are crucial to maintaining cosmic balance but that they also possess the ability to create terrible consequences if left untended. In the latter case, the living things causing such trouble must die. They seem unconcerned about what happens to the souls of the lives they prune, which often results in scourges of undead or daemonic scavengers, such that psychopomps often clean up after or confront akhanas.

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