Jursallu
Size/Category: Large Humanoid (Reptilian/Siren)
Stats:
Mind: Untrained 20
Body: Skilled 14
Magic: Skilled 14
Number of Attacks: 2
Damage/Attack: constrict/spell
Special Attacks: Voice
Special Defenses: Immune to charm
Special Abilities: Voice
Magic Resistence: Charm
Stats:
Mind: Untrained 20
Body: Skilled 14
Magic: Skilled 14
Number of Attacks: 2
Damage/Attack: constrict/spell
Special Attacks: Voice
Special Defenses: Immune to charm
Special Abilities: Voice
Magic Resistence: Charm
Climate/Terrain: Any warm forest and tropical jungle
Frequency: Rare
Organization: Solitary
Activity Cycle: Any
Intelligence: Average
Language: Jursu and various others, including but not restricted to Common, elven and draconic
Alignment: Chaotic evil
Description:
Jursallu have the torso like that of a human or elven woman, usually fairly attractive. Hair length, skin and eye color vary by individual. At the waist the resemblance ends; The lower body has 6 long, flexible tentacle-legs, like the arms of an octopus, but scaled like a snake. Again, the color of these tentacles varies by individual, and may be solid, spotted or barred.
Frequency: Rare
Organization: Solitary
Activity Cycle: Any
Intelligence: Average
Language: Jursu and various others, including but not restricted to Common, elven and draconic
Alignment: Chaotic evil
Description:
Jursallu have the torso like that of a human or elven woman, usually fairly attractive. Hair length, skin and eye color vary by individual. At the waist the resemblance ends; The lower body has 6 long, flexible tentacle-legs, like the arms of an octopus, but scaled like a snake. Again, the color of these tentacles varies by individual, and may be solid, spotted or barred.
Combat:
Often called Tree-sirens, Jursallu have an enchanting voice that charms and draws victims to them, to be strangled and eaten at their leisure. They enchant the victim with the magic of their voice, then immobilize him or her with their tentacles while other tentacle coil around throat and torso, slowly crushing the life from the unfortunate. This is also the attack they prefer if they themselves are attacked, although if their opponents are numerous enough, they will settle for a quickly crushed neck instead of slow torture.
Often called Tree-sirens, Jursallu have an enchanting voice that charms and draws victims to them, to be strangled and eaten at their leisure. They enchant the victim with the magic of their voice, then immobilize him or her with their tentacles while other tentacle coil around throat and torso, slowly crushing the life from the unfortunate. This is also the attack they prefer if they themselves are attacked, although if their opponents are numerous enough, they will settle for a quickly crushed neck instead of slow torture.
Habitat/Society:
Jursallu are a forest creature, traveling through the limbs of the trees with the aid of their powerful tentacles. They frequently live near trade routes, since the prey is easier to catch and less likely to be missed there. Jursallu themselves are all females. When they feel the urge to reproduce, they will mate with an elf or human that has been lured by their song and smitten by their spells, then pleasure themselves by slowly torturing their erstwhile mate to death afterwards, feasting on pain-spiced flesh. Offspring are invariably female, although occasionally a normal human or elven girl is born. If the child is not Jursallu, she is immediately and violently killed by her mother, who usually eats the body afterwards, regarding it as nothing more than any other human or elf, even though it was her who gave birth to it. If the child is Jursallu, the mother carefully raises her, teaching her daughter the nuances of voice control and magic, how best to torture each different race, and which males are best suited to mating. When the daughter is 20 years old, she parts with her mother and begins her own solitary life. She will live to be as old as 120, unless somebody or something kills her first.
Jursallu are a forest creature, traveling through the limbs of the trees with the aid of their powerful tentacles. They frequently live near trade routes, since the prey is easier to catch and less likely to be missed there. Jursallu themselves are all females. When they feel the urge to reproduce, they will mate with an elf or human that has been lured by their song and smitten by their spells, then pleasure themselves by slowly torturing their erstwhile mate to death afterwards, feasting on pain-spiced flesh. Offspring are invariably female, although occasionally a normal human or elven girl is born. If the child is not Jursallu, she is immediately and violently killed by her mother, who usually eats the body afterwards, regarding it as nothing more than any other human or elf, even though it was her who gave birth to it. If the child is Jursallu, the mother carefully raises her, teaching her daughter the nuances of voice control and magic, how best to torture each different race, and which males are best suited to mating. When the daughter is 20 years old, she parts with her mother and begins her own solitary life. She will live to be as old as 120, unless somebody or something kills her first.
Ecology:
Jursallu are singularly carnivorous, and by preference eat the flesh of other intelligent creatures. Elves are their favorite prey, with humans a close second.
Jursallu are singularly carnivorous, and by preference eat the flesh of other intelligent creatures. Elves are their favorite prey, with humans a close second.
