Symbiend

Symbiend

(Creature)

Type

Aberration

CR

1/3

Environment

Any

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Alien Archive, pg(s). 112

Symbiend host

(Creature)

Type

Any (aberration, animal, dragon, humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid)

CR

Any

Environment

Any

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Alien Archive, pg(s). 113

Symbiends are a narrow category of symbionts that can form bonds with nearly any other creature.

Ecology

Symbiends come in many types and are spread across the galaxy, but are suspected to share a common origin due to biological similarities. They feed off, influence, and communicate empathically with their hosts, a rare few also being capable of speaking and overwhelming them. An individual symbiend never bonds twice to the same host, preferring more invested ones.

Types

Damoritosh's arm

The Damoritosh's arm is a many-legged arthropod that burrows into the host's flesh and sip on their hormones, especially adrenaline, the resulting adrenaline rush turning the host vicious and fearless. Such hosts can easily be identified by bulging eyes, bloodshot eyes and frothing mouths.

Dream peddler

The dream peddler is a fleshy creature that lives on the host's back and reaches the brain with its fine filaments, triggering the brain's pleasure centres. Hosts become mildly euphoric, unmotivated and risk averse, while also gaining psychic abilities.

Paragon

Paragons burrow into the host's chest, boosting intelligence and pheromone production while wearing down the host's body. They can communicate directly to the host, withdraw its bonuses, and cause pain or hallucinations to control them.