Creeping shade

Creeping shade

(Creature)

Type

Outsider
(incorporeal)

CR

8

Environment

Any (Shadow Plane)

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: The Penumbra Protocol, pg(s). 55

Creeping shades are plant-like outsiders from the Shadow Plane that ambush and enter the bodies of prey to infect them with gloom spores, which cause the victim to fall comatose and become easy prey for predators, leaving the corpse to fertilise the creeping shade.