Gumiho
Level 17Attacks
Abilities
Any creature that converses with a gumiho must attempt a DC 35 will save. The creature then becomes temporarily immune for 24 hours.
Critical Success The target is unaffected but knows the gumiho tried to charm it.
Success The target is unaffected.
Failure The target is affected by the failure effects of 4th-rank Charm.
Critical Failure The target is affected by the failure effects of Dominate.
The gumiho changes into humanoid or fox shape. Their humanoid shape has a specific, persistent appearance but their true form is their fox shape. In humanoid shape, the gumiho uses their original size, loses their jaws strike but retains their claws strike, and their Speed is reduced to 25 feet. A gumiho is never able to completely conceal one of their nine tails through this transformation.
Trigger The gumiho critically hits with a claw or jaws Strike
Effect The gumiho uses its fox marble to channel the life force lost by the target and heal for half the amount of damage dealt.
Gumihos are legendary nine-tailed fox creatures who, when disguised in humanoid form, use charm and guile to lure prey deep into the forest before revealing their true form and striking. The green-eyed canids use brutally sharp fangs to tear out their victim's throat and feast on their liver. Those few who survive a gumiho's trap recall the canid's eerie green eyes as well as a strange marble amulet warn around the monster's neck.
Old stories claim that a fox transforms into a gumiho once it has lived for a thousand years, quadrupling in size, growing eight additional tails, and gaining the power to change shape. Terrifyingly, it also gains an insatiable hunger for the livers of people. This hunger is so closely connected to a gumiho's power that if it abstains from eating liver for one thousand days, the gumiho loses its magic and permanently takes on its humanoid guise-also losing its evil nature in the process.