Crystal Strider
Level 10Attacks
Abilities
Trigger The crystal strider is targeted by a light effect
Effect The strider redirects the triggering effect to a different creature of its choice within 30 feet or absorbs the effect harmlessly, reducing the number of rounds left to recharge Release Light by 1.
The crystal strider's many narrow legs allow it to ignore difficult terrain.
The strider emits the light that continually refracts within them to cast Chromatic Ray as an innate primal spell heightened to 5th rank, with a +21 spell attack roll. The crystal strider can't Release Light again for .
Large or smaller, leg, DC 29 reflex
Each long, thin leg of a crystal strider is a single enormous crystal, typically quartz or selenite. The strider uses this panoply of legs and a fluctuating physical structure to rapidly move about crystalline caverns, unimpeded by terrain.
The vast ranks of earth elementals have been slow to respond to the return of the elemental lords and the Planes of Metal and Wood. These events have not broken the mountains, nor have they blown away the sands.
Earthy Emotions
Earth elementals talk even less than most elementals. They're ponderous, weighing decisions so slowly they can crush the energy from a discussion. Their foremost concern is whether a situation can be endured. Though a rare or resplendent treasure might entice an earth elemental, it's difficult to spur any sense of urgency in them without the presence of an immediate threat.