Snow Oni
Level 13Attacks
Abilities
Snow doesn't impair the snow oni's vision; they ignore Concealment from snowfall.
Oni are curiously afraid of beans, especially as the seasons begin to change. If a creature Interacts to throw a handful of beans at the oni, the oni becomes Frightened 2. While frightened this way, their weakness to spirit damage is increased by 5. The oni then becomes immune to bean panic for 24 hours.
Trigger The snow oni is targeted by a ranged Strike or spell attack roll that doesn't have the fire trait
Effect The snow oni creates a reflective blockade of ice, gaining a +4 circumstance bonus to AC against the triggering attack roll. If the attack misses, the snow oni redirects the attack to another creature within 20 feet of the snow oni. The attacker rerolls the attack roll against the new target.
The snow oni can take on the appearance of any Medium or Large humanoid creature. This doesn't change their Speed or their attack and damage bonuses with their Strikes but might change the damage type their Strikes deal (typically to bludgeoning).
The snow oni makes two fist Strikes targeting the same creature. If they both hit, the target becomes Slowed 1 for 1 round.
The snow oni calls down a bolt of icy lightning, white as fallen snow. The bolt strikes a location within 60 feet, freezing the air into a cloud of snow that fills a 20-foot area and lasts for 1 minute.
All creatures within the snow become Concealed, and all creatures outside the snow become concealed to creatures within it. A creature that enters the snow or begins its turn there takes 15[cold|options:area-damage] damage, with a DC 33 fortitude save.
Snow oni maintain their seething temperaments even in their icy homes. The isolation of their environment gives them trappings of asceticism, and many snow oni pursue physical perfection, reveling in the process of turning their bodies into powerful fighting machines. They are just as hedonistic and brutal as any of their brethren, however, and eager to indulge in warm baths, strong drink, and humanoid flesh.
Like many oni, snow oni possess a third eye in the center of their forehead. This eye gives snow oni a mystical sense that allows them to peer through even the thickest flurries of snow.
Oni are large, brutal creatures originating in Tian Xia who resemble humanoids with brightly colored skin, tusks, and horns. Though commonly mistaken for fiends, the first oni were originally kami, tutelary nature spirits. These kami suffered a terrible trauma, losing their sacred wards to dramatic disasters or the callousness of others, and as a result transformed into the violent creatures they are today. While some believe that oni can be spiritually placated through proper ritual worship that transforms them back into kami, many of these would-be saviors fall to oni's notorious brute strength, flesh-rending teeth, and command of storms.
Oni possess the ability to disguise themselves as other humanoids. They are rarely creative in their disguises, often choosing a specific appearance similar to their oni form and sticking with it. This simplicity catches many by surprise, however, as people assume oni are limited to a single alternate form, which is by no means the case.