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IX Mythos Bestiary
activate your lure no more often than once per hour,

Talons: Your fingers have talons. You gain two

but once activated, it stays activated until you choose

claw primary natural attacks, which inflict damage

to deactivate it as a move action.

as appropriate for a creature of your size (1d4 for a

Overwhelming Bite: Your face is similar to that of
a shark. You gain a bite primary natural attack that

Medium creature). If you don’t normally possess arms,
you grow a pair of arms and taloned hands.

inflicts damage as a creature of your size (1d6 for a

Webbed Hands: Your fingers become webbed. You

Medium creature). You cannot select this mutation if

gain a swim speed equal to half your base speed. If you

you have already selected precise bite.

already possess a swim speed, it increases by 10 feet.

Precise Bite: Your face is similar to that of a barracuda.
You gain a bite primary natural attack that inflicts

If you don’t normally possess arms, you grow a pair of
arms and webbed hands.

damage as a creature of one size smaller than your size

Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each

(1d4 for a Medium creature), but you threaten a critical

time you select it, you must choose a different mutation

hit on a 19–20. You cannot select this mutation if you

from the list above.

have already selected overwhelming bite.

If your Constitution is ever reduced below the

Primordial Armor: Your body gains thick armor

minimum required to maintain this feat, you lose the

plating similar to that possessed by prehistoric fish like

ability to benefit from your mutations but they remain

the dunkleosteus (in most cases, your facial features

physically a part of you. As long as your Constitution

and head mutate to resemble this hideous ancient fish).

remains below 17, these unwieldy and painful

Your natural armor bonus increases by 2.

deformities reduce your base speed and land speed by
10 feet and lower your Dexterity score by 2.

"Two large and protruding eyes projected from sockets in chameleon fashion, and it had
a broad reptilian mouth with horny lips beneath its little nostrils. In the position of the
ears were two huge gill-covers, and out of these floated a branching tree of coralline
filaments, almost like the tree-like gills that very young rays and sharks possess. But
the humanity of the face was not the most extraordinary thing about the creature.
It was a biped; its almost globular body was poised on a tripod of two frog-like legs
and a long, thick tail, and its fore limbs, which grotesquely caricatured the human
hand, much as a frog’s do, carried a long shaft of bone, tipped with copper. The colour
of the creature was variegated; its head, hands, and legs were purple; but its skin,
which hung loosely upon it, even as clothes might do, was a phosphorescent grey."
—H.G. Wells, In the Abyss

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