Selkie Brute

Resembling massive, bipedal leopard seals in their native form, selkies are extremely talented shapeshifters who slip into and out of humanoid guises and personas like a Taldane lady changes outfits. Lone selkies are some of the most feared ambush predators in the northern seas, often mimicking a drowning person to lure in unsuspecting sailors to eat.

Recall Knowledge - Beast (Arcana, Nature): DC 20

Unspecific Lore: DC 18

Specific Lore: DC 15

Selkie Brute - Creature 5

Medium | Amphibious | Beast

Source Twin Continents

Perception +10; darkvision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet

Languages Common, Thalassic

Skills Athletics +12 (+14 to Swim), Deception +10, Stealth +9

Str +5, Dex +3, Con +2, Int +1, Wis +0, Cha +4

Echo of Reason _{(auditory, primal)} A selkie can instinctively alter the intonation of its voice to make anything it says sound more pleasant to those who understand it. When using its voice to lie, a selkie gains a +2 circumstance bonus to its Deception checks.

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AC 22; Fort +15, Ref +9, Will +12

HP 60; Resistances cold 10

Shake Prey (R) Trigger A creature the selkie has grabbed with its jaws fails an attempt to Escape; Effect The selkie shakes their jaws violently, causing the grabbed creature to become Stunned 1.

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Speed 20 feet, swim 50 feet

Melee ♦ jaws +14 [+9/+4] (deadly d8), Damage 2d6+5 piercing plus Grab

Melee ♦ claws +14 [+10/+6] (agile, finesse, versatile bludgeoning), Damage 2d4+5 slashing

Change Shape ♦ _{(concentrate, polymorph, primal)} The selkie takes on the appearance of a Small or Medium humanoid. This doesn't change the selkie's Speed or its attack and damage bonuses with its Strikes, though it does change the damage to an appropriate type, typically bludgeoning.

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All Monsters in "Selkie"

• Selkie Brute - 5
• Selkie Fabulist - 7
• Selkie Stormguide - 11

Selkie Skins

Many stories talk about selkies shedding their seal skins when they take a humanoid form, and feature a hero stealing the skin to lock a selkie in such a shape to either slay them or marry them, depending on the story's tone. There has proven to be no truth to these tales, though this has not stopped enterprising hunters from selling "genuine selkie skins" to the gullible, or from practitioners of transformative magic from attempting to create functioning selkie skins from scratch.