Gholdako
Level 10Attacks
Abilities
Frequency once per day Trigger The gholdako is about to roll a d20 Effect Instead of rolling normally, the gholdako attempts a DC 11 flat, getting a critical success on the triggering roll if the flat check succeeds or a critical failure if it fails.
A creature with void healing draws health from void energy rather than vitality energy. It is damaged by vitality damage and is not healed by vitality healing effects. It does not take void damage, and it is healed by void effects that heal undead.
The gholdako exhales a 60-foot cone of noxious breath that deals 7d8 void damage (DC 29 reflex). A creature that fails its save is also Blinded until the end of its next turn (or for 1 minute on a critical failure) as a milky film coats its eyes. The gholdako can't use Blinding Breath again for 1d4 rounds.
The first time each round the gholdako damages a creature with a claw Strike, the creature must attempt a DC 27 will save, as its mind is assaulted by horrifying visions. On a failure, the creature is Confused until the end of its next turn. On a critical success, the creature is immune for 24 hours.
Description
Cyclops necromancers created gholdakos untold ages ago by performing foul rituals over the corpses of their fellow cyclopes. Although these rituals varied through the history of Ghol-Gan, each involved the sacrifice of numerous humanoids whose blood was used to write the runes scribed upon a gholdako's linens. Rarely, a cyclops initiated their own transformation into a gholdako, scribing runes glimpsed from oracular visions and fevered dreams on their clothes or carving them into their bare flesh. Regardless of their origin, gholdakos are guardians, bound beyond death to protect a location, relic, or person—often the same thing they once defended in life.
Despite their death and subsequent reanimation, gholdakos retain many of the quirks of living cyclopes, including their ceaseless hunger, volatile temper, single-mindedness, and great strength.