Totenmaske
Totenmaskes are sapient undead driven by the same obsessive desires that drove them to ruin during their mortal lives.1
Appearance
In its natural form, a totenmaske resembles an emaciated humanoid with clawed hands, a gaping maw of sharp teeth, and a smooth eyeless head. Its pale flesh seems to be sloughing off of its dead frame. However, they can also take the form of a human-sized or smaller humanoid, either that of the last person from whom they drained flesh or their form prior to their transformation into a totenmaske.1
Habitat and ecology
Totenmaskes retain their mortal obsessions in undeath, making the desires, motivations, and actions of each unique. Food-obsessed totenmaskes might raid restaurants and suppliers, while those motivated by vanity might constantly pursue ever more beautiful victims in order to assume their forms.1
Abilities
Totenmaskes can drink the flesh from a creature's body through its claws, and their piercing bite is infused with void energy.
In addition to changing its own form, a totenmaske's curse can also reshape the flesh of another creature's face to cover their vital features, such the victim's eyes, ears, nose, or mouth, within minutes. Some totenmaskes derive particular pleasure from this act and spend long periods of time reshaping a creature or fusing it with others as forms of living, perpetually tortured furniture and sculpture.1
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 . “Monsters A-Z” in Bestiary 2, 262. Paizo Inc., 2020