This creatureâs thick, serpentine body is protected by dense, horny plates. A visible haze of heat rises from its red-hot scales.
Thoqqua CR 2
XP 600
N Medium outsider (earth, elemental, extraplanar, fire)
Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft.; Perception +10; Aura molten body
Environment any land (Plane of Fire)
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure none
Thoqquas are cantankerous creatures of fire and slag. Their bodies generate incredible heat that allows them to burrow or melt through most surfaces, even solid rock. Thoqquas are native to the vast ash deserts and lava fields where the Plane of Fire abuts the Plane of Earth. There they consume ore and minerals, which their furnace-like bodies then smelt into armor plates that grant the creatures their natural armorâas outsiders, these creatures have no need to eat to survive, but a âstarvingâ thoqqua generally has a lower natural armor bonus than a healthy one.
A thoqquaâs frontmost body segment tapers into a straight, horn-like beak that glows with a blistering heat. Steam and smoke constantly hiss from its joints, and from a distance a thoqqua can be mistaken for a strange metallic Construct. Adult thoqquas are 5 feet long and weigh 200 pounds.
Their fiery tempers make thoqquas dangerous to approachâthey attack without thinking when startled or frustrated. If a thoqqua does not immediately chase away humanoids within its territory, then it gradually comes to view that settlement as property, and even guards it.