Feargaunt

Feargaunt

(Creature)

Type

Outsider
(extraplanar, incorporeal)

CR

9

Environment

Any (Dimension of Dreams)

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Occult Bestiary, pg(s). 28

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Feargaunts are nightmares of sleeping beings that persist in the Dreamlands after their dreamers have awakened.

Appearance

A feargaunt resembles a hulking shadow whose form is not fixed from moment to moment.

Ecology

Feargaunts sustain themselves on planar flotsam and find purpose from the greatest fears of their creators to live on after they awaken. They search for prey in the Dreamlands to ambush, turning all dreams darker and more frightening, and transforming mundane nightmares into terrors that can kill or gnaw away at their victims' sanity.

Through their familiarity with the Dreamlands, feargaunts often allow their enemies to escape only to strike again from another direction, ensuring that they can never leave the feargaunt behind no matter how they flee.