Vault Builder
Level 23Attacks
Abilities
Tremorsense allows a monster to feel the vibrations through a solid surface caused by movement. It is an imprecise sense with a limited range (listed in the ability). Tremorsense functions only if the monster is on the same surface as the subject, and only if the subject is moving along (or burrowing through) the surface.
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.
Frequency twice per day Effect The vault builder spends 10 minutes creating a magic wand out of radioactive green crystal, containing any 8th-rank or lower earth spell of their choice. The wand can be used by other creatures, but it crumbles to sand at the end of the day and has no monetary value. The vault builder can expend both daily uses to instead make a +3 greater striking Major Staff of Earth .
The vault keeper can Cast a Spell from any item (such as a staff or wand) as though it were on their spell list.
Trigger A creature within the monster's reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it's using. Effect The monster attempts a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If the attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, the monster disrupts that action. This Strike doesn't count toward the monster's multiple attack penalty, and its multiple attack penalty doesn't apply to this Strike.
When the vault builder deals damage with a claw Strike, glowing green crystals cluster at the site of the attack. The target must succeed at a DC 31 fortitude save or become Clumsy 1 for 1 hour (or Clumsy 2 on a critical failure). If the creature is already clumsy due to constraining crystal, additional failures increase that clumsy value instead, to a maximum of Clumsy 4. A target that fails its save while Clumsy 4 is Petrified with an unlimited duration.
An explosion of razor-sharp splinters deals 24d6 piercing damage in a 30-foot burst within 120 feet, with a DC 46 reflex save. The vault keeper can't use Crystal Burst again for 1d4 rounds.
The vault builder can Burrow through any earthen matter, including rock. When they do so, the vault builder moves at their full burrow Speed, leaving no tunnels or signs of their passing.
Description
The vault keepers lost Sairazul's spark and have life spans of two to three millennia. They maintain and protect the xiomorns' many experiments.
When Sairazul created xiomorns, they were immortal. She created 65,536, all in her own image, and all imbued with a piece of her divine spark. During her imprisonment, Ayrzul used visions of a future extinction to manipulate them into sacrificing their power to him. This sacrifice split xiomorns into two classes: 32,768 vault builders who kept Sairazul's essence and 32,768 vault keepers who would live forever no longer. For millennia, xiomorns built a vast, magical civilization across the Plane of Earth, and when there was no space left to build, they left. On each new world, xiomorns build their vaults and conduct their experiments, endlessly searching for clues to help them avoid their extinction.
Vault Seeds
Xiomorns create magical underground caverns using vault seeds, ancient magical tools bequeathed to their species by Ayrzul as a reward for their sacrifice. The vault seeds were used to create the Vaults of Orv in Golarion's Darklands, and an accident involving an out-of-control vault seed created the mysterious Emerald Spire.
Crystal Crafters
Xiomorns have mastered the creation of numerous magic items made of crystal beyond generation stones and vault seeds. These include pillars of black stone called whisperstones that allow xiomorns to communicate telepathically across vaults, orvgates that use weblike funnels of green crystal to allow teleportation between Darklands vaults, and a vortex in Orv called the Crystal Womb that connects to a crucial stronghold on the Plane of Earth.