Astral leviathan

Astral leviathan

(Creature)

Type

Outsider
(extraplanar)

CR

18

Environment

Any (Astral Plane)

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Images of astral leviathans

Source: Bestiary 4, pg(s). 14

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Astral leviathans, at left, haul cargo to Yulgamot.

Astral leviathans are massive whale-like outsiders native to the Astral Plane.

Appearance

Astral leviathans resemble whales with asymmetrical eyes, many overlapping jaws, and twisted muscles without skin. An astral leviathan is approximately 70 feet long and weighs 60 tons.

Ecology

Astral leviathans primarily feed on planar energies and astral dust. While they require little physical sustenance, they prefer a varied diet. This drives them to open rifts to feed on food particles or hapless creatures that fall into the Astral Plane.

Astral leviathans have a flawless sense of the places to which they have traveled and the contents of those locations. They are dangerous if provoked and intelligent enough to be reasoned with, though most visitors to the Astral Plane mistake them for mere beasts.

Society

Astral leviathans are curious about unknown creatures and unvisited places. Shulsagas befriend and recruit them as companions and navigators, a symbiotic relationship for the nomadic shulsagas, who can sense interesting opportunities for the leviathans' meals. Other beings, however, trap or enslave them into becoming beasts of burden.