Thoqqua

This creature’s 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

hp 22 (3d10+6)
Fort +5, Ref +4, Will +2
Immune fire, elemental traits
Weaknesses vulnerable to cold

Melee slam +4 (1d6+1 plus burn)
Special Attacks burn (1d6, DC 13)

Base Atk +3; CMB +4; CMD 15 (can’t be tripped)
Feats Nimble Moves, Skill Focus (Perception)
Skills Acrobatics +7, Perception +10, Stealth +7, Survival +7
Languages Ignan (cannot speak)

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 armor—as outsiders, these creatures have no need to eat to survive, but a “starving” thoqqua generally has a lower natural armor bonus than a healthy one.

A thoqqua’s 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 approach—they 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.