This purple, seven-armed octopoid monstrosity is the size of a horse, with hook-lined tentacles and cold, blue eyes.
Devilfish CR 4
XP 1,200
NE Large magical beast (aquatic)
Init +3; Senses low-light vision, see in darkness; Perception +5
AC 17, touch 12, flat-footed 14 (+3 Dex, +5 natural, â1 size)
hp 42 (5d10+15)
Fort +7, Ref +7, Will +2
Resist cold 10
Speed 10 ft., swim 40 ft.; jet (240 ft.)
Melee tentacles +7 (3d6+4 plus grab)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Special Attacks savage bite (+7 melee, 2d6+4/18â20 plus poison), unholy blood
Str 17, Dex 17, Con 16, Int 3, Wis 12, Cha 8
Base Atk +5; CMB +9 (+13 grapple); CMD 22 (can’t be tripped)
Feats Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Power Attack
Skills Escape Artist +5, Perception +5, Stealth +3, Swim +15
Languages Abyssal, Aquan, Common
SQ water dependency
Savage biteâinjury; save Fort DC 15; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d2 Str; cure 2 consecutive saves.
A devilfish can attack with its savage bite whenever it makes a successful grapple check. This attack is in place of any other action made with a successful grapple check. The bite threatens a critical hit on a roll of 18â20, and injects the target with poison as well.
A devilfishâs blood is infused with fiendish magic. Once per day, as a swift action, a devilfish can emit a night-black cloud of this foul liquid, filling a 20-foot-radius cloud if underwater, or a 20-foot-radius burst on land. In water, the blood provides total concealment for everything but a devilfish (which can see through the blood with ease); on land the slippery blood coats the ground, making the area difficult terrain. The blood persists for 1 minute before fading. Anyone who enters a cloud of the blood in the water or who is within the area of a burst of blood on land must make a DC 15 Fortitude save or be nauseated for 1d4 roundsâthis save need be made only once per cloud. The save DC is Constitution-based.
A devilfish can survive out of the water for 1 hour, after which it becomes fatigued. After 2 hours, the devilfish becomes exhausted and begins to suffocate.
Environment any aquatic
Organization solitary
Treasure none
Although the devilfish superficially resembles a sevenarmed octopus, it is an altogether different creature. Possessing a rudimentary intellect, a devilfish can understand and even speak a few words and phrases in various languages, although when it speaks, it has a tendency to mix languages together, making it somewhat difficult to understand for anyone who doesnât speak all the languages known by the devilfish.
More than those of a mere animal, the devilfishâs intelligence and several of its abilities are gifts from a fiendish legacyâmost sages believe that the original devilfish were once outsiders from the Abyss, and that over the course of thousands of years they became true natives of the Material Planeâs oceans. Rumors of far more intelligent devilfish dwelling in the deepest ocean trenches persist, although if these rumors are true, these deep-dwelling devilfish do not often come to the surface.
A devilfish is 10 feet long and weighs 500 pounds.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 2, © 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors Wolfgang Baur, Jason Bulmahn, Adam Daigle, Graeme Davis, Crystal Frasier, Joshua J. Frost, Tim Hitchcock, Brandon Hodge, James Jacobs, Steve Kenson, Hal MacLean, Martin Mason, Rob McCreary, Erik Mona, Jason Nelson, Patrick Renie, Sean K Reynolds, F. Wesley Schneider, Owen K.C. Stephens, James L. Sutter, Russ Taylor, and Greg A. Vaughan, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.