Pukwudgie

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Pukwudgie
(Creature)

Type
Monstrous humanoid
(shapechanger)
CR
7
Environment
Temperate forests, hills, or mountains
Alignment
Source: Bestiary 3, pg(s). 223

Pukwudgies are hunchbacked porcupine-like monstrous humanoids covered with venomous, necromantic quills.12

Appearance

Pukwudgies are slight creatures, weighing only thirty pounds while standing three-and-a-half feet tall.1

Abilities

Pukwudgies know spells to animate corpses, turn invisible, and mask themselves from divination. They can speak Diabolic and Draconic in addition to Taldane. They are stealthy, deceptive creatures knowledgeable in magic and religion and can take the form of a porcupine.1

Pukwudgies sometimes use their zombie creations to distract and separate wanderers from a group, and their invisibility to strike suddenly with their necromantic quills.3

Ecology

Thanks to their necromantic quills' ability to create zombies from creatures they kill and their magical ability to raise the dead, pukwudgies often keep company with undead creatures, preferably animals. While some work alone or in pairs, some pukwudgies form cults of up to 10 members.1

They avoid busy routes and large humanoid settlements, but menace small villages by stealing newborn infants—a delicacy to pukwudgies—and torching buildings.1

On Golarion

Pukwudgies are elusive creatures but are known to inhabit forests and dark corners of the Inner Sea region, including Varisia,4 Numeria,3 Irrisen,2 Nidal's Mindspin Mountains,5 Andoran's Verduran Forest,6 and the Hold of Belkzen.7

Known pukwudgies

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Jason Bulmahn, et al. “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 3, 223. Paizo Inc., 2011
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Tim Hitchcock. “Maiden, Mother, Crone” in Maiden, Mother, Crone, 46. Paizo Inc., 2013
  3. 3.0 3.1 Paris Crenshaw, et al. “Bestiary” in The Choking Tower, 83. Paizo Inc., 2014
  4. 4.0 4.1 Jerome Virnich. The Sanos Abduction, 3. Paizo Inc., 2012
  5. Liane Merciel, et al. “Bestiary” in Nidal, Land of Shadows, 55. Paizo Inc., 2018
  6. Tim Hitchcock & Jason Nelson. “Bestiary” in Andoran, Birthplace of Freedom, 49. Paizo Inc., 2015
  7. Benjamin Bruck, et al. “Bestiary” in The Hill Giant's Pledge, 83. Paizo Inc., 2015
  8. James L. Sutter. “The Asylum Stone” in The Asylum Stone, 44. Paizo Inc., 2012