Exscinder
Level 13Attacks
Abilities
A monster with telepathy can communicate mentally with any creatures within the listed radius, as long as they share a language. This doesn't give any special access to their thoughts, and communicates no more information than normal speech would.
Trigger An enemy damages the archon's ally and both are within 15 feet of the archon Effect The ally gains resistance 15 to all damage against the triggering damage, and the archon can make a Strike against the enemy. Effect: Archon's Protection
When the exscinder hits a creature with a binding chains Strike, that creature must attempt a DC 30 will save. On a failure, it's controlled by the exscinder for its frst action on its next turn (or controlled for its entire next turn on a critical failure).
The exscinder changes size to their choice of Huge, Large, Medium, or Small.
The exscinder chooses one written text within 120 feet. They don't need to be able to observe the text, but they can't target one that's deliberately Concealed. The exscinder censors the text, modifying it to their wishes. The text can't be referenced, making it useless for functions like Casting a Spell from a scroll, preparing spells from a spellbook, or consulting a scholarly journal. If the text is attended, the creature possessing it can attempt a DC 33 will save; an unattended text automatically gets a critical failure.
Description
Mortals require protection from forbidden knowledge and heretical texts. Anywhere across the planes, an exscinder might arrive to claim, confscate, and destroy the dangerous thoughts within. Considering themselves avatars of the virtue of temperance, exscinders repeat the lesson that the cautious tongue refuses to speak wicked words. Though they pass on these words, it's rare for them to take much note of ordinary mortals. The danger is not necessarily the person who learns, but the evil knowledge itself. It's the weed that grows beyond the words on the page and must be torn out by its roots.