Veolisk

Veolisk

(Creature)

Type

Magical beast

CR

6

Environment

Any

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Splintered Worlds, pg(s). 60

Veolisks, also nicknamed void basilisks, are a species of lumbering lizard-like creatures rumoured to be descended from the basilisks  of lost Golarion and renowned for their maddening gaze.

Appearance

A typical veolisk is a quadrupedal lizard about 7 feet long from the tip of its snout to the end of its tail and weighs approximately 200 pounds.

Ecology

Veolisks can sustain themselves on very little food: usually only a small meal every day. The reason is unknown: they might have hyperefficient metabolisms, feed on cosmic radiation or don't need to eat at all and subsist solely on the arcane energies suffusing the universe.

Veolisks mate whenever there's the opportunity to. Each clutch consists of usually six to eight fist-sized leathery ebony eggs that give off faint wisps of odourless smoke. The eggs don't need to be incubated, are abandoned by the parents as soon as they can, and take a few weeks to hatch. The first veolisks to hatch tend to devour their unhatched siblings as their first meal, then start to hunt. Veolisks mature in less than a year.

A veolisk embodies the claustrophobic, dark and often maddening aspects of deep space, and it can project a sliver of the void into its enemies with its mere gaze.

Society

Veolisks are typically only found in remote planets, since their maddening gaze tend to drive off other species, intelligent or not, and cause settlements to ruthlessly hunt them down if they're discovered near one.

It is believed that the Cult of the Devourer first bred veolisks before the Gap, and the Devourer's servants continue to regularly use them as guards and pets. They are almost impossible to domesticate, but become docile and harmless if their eyes are covered.