TizherukThis serpentine beast undulates through the water. Its scaly skin
and its f lesh are clear, revealing its red-and-brown organs.Tizheruk CR 5Source Bestiary 5 pg. 249, Tears at Bitter Manor pg. 63
XP 1,600
N Large magical beast
Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision;
Perception +7DefenseAC 18, touch 12, flat-footed 15 (+3 Dex, +6 natural, –1 size)
hp 52 (5d10+25)
Fort +9, Ref +7, Will +2OffenseSpeed 10 ft., swim 40 ft.
Melee bite +12 (2d6+10 plus grab) or
tongue +12 (grab and pull)
Space 10 ft., Reach 10 ft. (20 ft. with tongue)
Special Attacks pull (tongue, 15 ft.), swallow whole (1d6 acid
damage, AC 14, 5 hp)StatisticsStr 24, Dex 17, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 6
Base Atk +5; CMB +13 (+17 grapple); CMD 26 (can’t be tripped)
Feats Power Attack, Skill Focus (Stealth), Weapon Focus (bite)
Skills Perception +7, Stealth +6 (+14 in water), Swim +19; Racial
Modifiers +8 Stealth in water
SQ compression, see-through skinEcologyEnvironment temperate rivers or marshes
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure noneSpecial AbilitiesCompression (Ex) A tizheruk can
use its compression ability to
remain in waterways as shallow
as 8 inches deep. While compressing
itself against the floor of a body of water,
a tizheruk gains a +4 circumstance bonus on
Stealth checks.
See-Through Skin (Ex) Because so much of a tizheruk’s body
is transparent, a creature swallowed whole by it has line
of sight to creatures outside the tizheruk, and
creatures outside the tizheruk can see any
creatures that were swallowed whole.
Tongue (Ex) A tizheruk’s tongue is a primary
attack with a reach equal to double the
tizheruk’s normal reach (20 feet for a Large
tizheruk). A tizheruk’s tongue deals no
damage on a hit, but can be used to grab a
creature and pull it closer. A tizheruk does not
gain the grappled condition while using its tongue
in this manner.DescriptionThe tizheruk is a vicious freshwater predator that wreaks
havoc in the lakes and rivers it inhabits. To make matters
worse, tizheruks also frequently travel inland via smaller
streams where animals and humanoids might think
themselves safe. When a tizheruk swims upstream in such
waters, it naturally compresses its muscles and organs,
enabling it to remain in water less than a foot deep. It
explodes to its full size as soon as it attacks, swallowing
smaller prey or dragging larger creatures into the water
before swimming away with its meal, crushing and
potentially drowning its victim.
Though tizheruks subsist mostly on aquatic prey, they
often supplement their diets with creatures caught on the
shore, particularly sizable mammals such as deer or wild
boars. To capture such creatures, a tizheruk extends its
tightly coiled, whiplike tongue to snare one of its prey’s
legs, then retracts the appendage to pull the creature to its
mouth, where it can seize the creature and drag its prey
into the water.
A tizheruk’s skin is nearly transparent, granting it
natural camouflage beneath the water, where its rustcolored
organs and tissue can easily be mistaken for
the bed of a creek or stream. After gorging itself on
fish or on land animals that wander near the shore, the
tizheruk compresses itself on the bottom of a lake or river
while it slowly digests its prey. Until then, its stealth is
compromised, as the ragged chunks of flesh within
its gullet are clearly visible, even if the tizheruk itself
remains unseen.
An adult tizheruk is 15 feet long and weighs 200 pounds,
though a tizheruk that has just fed may weigh up to two
or three times as much. Larger tizheruks with the giant
template are threats to even bigger prey.
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