The Python

If the Python dies, he consumes souls stored within his scales and returns to life as if subject to a successful Resurrect ritual in area C5 of the Amaranthine Oubliette days later. The Python can't use Consuming Resurrection again for 9 years.

Frequency once per hour

Effect The Python consumes a soul that is trapped in one of his scales or is adjacent to, then gains 150 temporary Hit Points for 1 hour. A soul consumed in this way can only be restored to life by a rank 10 spell, an artifact, or divine intervention.

Trigger The Python Grabs a creature

Effect The Python uses Swallow Whole.

Trigger An adjacent or swallowed creature dies

Effect The Python casts Seize Soul on the creature.

The Python can use one of his scales to house a soul he captures with seize soul if that soul is from a creature that is level 22 or lower. When he casts seize soul to transfer such a soul to another vessel or to release it, the scale isn't destroyed. While a scale contains a soul, a screaming face can be seen within it.

Saving Throw DC 47 fortitude

Maximum Duration 6 rounds

Stage 1 10d6 spirit damage and Stupefied 1 (1 round)

Stage 2 12d6 spirit damage and Stupefied 2 (1 round)

Stage 3 14d6 spirit damage and Stupefied 3

Large, 4d10 bludgeoning 4d8 spirit, Rupture 45