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Archives of Nethys

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Hundreds of bloodshot eyes peek out from under the fleshy layers of a hyakume's skin. These hulking aberrations covet knowledge and go to great lengths to keep what they know to themselves; they'll destroy scriptoriums they've raided and burn books they've read to ensure no other soul learns their contents. While hyakume occasionally trade valuable information to garner greater knowledge, they are liable to trick their targets into revealing more than they should. Most frightening of all is the hyakume's ability to steal memories and erase any knowledge of their existence from the minds of their victims.

Recall Knowledge - Aberration (Occultism): DC 36
Unspecific Lore: DC 34
Specific Lore: DC 31

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HyakumeCreature 15

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Uncommon NE Large Aberration 
Source Bestiary 3 pg. 139
Perception +14; darkvision
Languages Aklo, Common; telepathy 100 feet
Skills Arcana +15, Bardic Lore +13, Crafting +15, Deception +12, Medicine +10, Nature +10, Occultism +15, Religion +12, Society +13, Thievery +10
Str +4, Dex +6, Con +4, Int +9, Wis +6, Cha +4
Light Blindness
Lore Master A hyakume can use their Bardic Lore skill to Recall Knowledge on any topic, and they know any languages common to an area they have spent a day or more in.
AC 21 all-around vision; Fort +8, Ref +10, Will +14; +2 status to all saves vs. magic
HP 275; Immunities confusion; Resistances mental 10
Speed 25 feet
Melee [one-action] fist +12 [+8/+4] (agile, finesse, magical, reach 10 feet), Damage 3d10+10 bludgeoning plus scatterbrain palmOccult Innate Spells DC 25, attack +17; 8th charm (×2), disappearance, mind blank; 7th dispel magic (×2), mindlink (at will); 4th air walk (at will), hypercognition (at will), zone of truth (at will); Cantrips (8th) daze, detect magic, read aura
Eye Probe [three-actions] (divination, occult) Frequency once per day; Effect Up to six of the hyakume's eyes detach from the hyakume's body. Each eye has AC 26, HP 1, and a fly speed of 40 feet. The hyakume can see through all of their eye probes. They can move the probes all in separate directions using a single action. A hyakume can have no more than six eye probes active at a time; using this ability to create more causes the eye or eyes farthest away to shrivel and die.
The hyakume can deliver touch spells through their eye probes and can make melee spell attacks through them. In addition, the hyakume can Steal Memories through an eye probe using a single action by touching the target with the eye.Scatterbrain Palm (divination, enchantment, incapacitation, mental, occult) A creature hit by the hyakume's fist Strike must attempt a DC 21 Will save. The creature is then temporarily immune until start of its next turn.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature is stunned 1.
Failure The creature is stunned 2.
Critical Failure The creature is stunned 3 and the hyakume can use Steal Memories on the target as part of this action.Steal Memories [three-actions] (emotion, mental, necromancy, occult) The hyakume reaches out with their mind and attempts to steal memories from a creature within 30 feet. The target must succeed at a DC 25 Will saving throw or become stupefied 2 and have some of its memories stolen. The hyakume learns some of the target's memories (chosen by the GM), which are then lost to the target.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Memory Thieves

Hyakume jealously hoard knowledge in the form of memories, their own or stolen. They stalk temples and libraries, memorizing hundreds of texts before obliterating them all. Hyakume have earned a mistaken reputation as nocturnal guardians of shrines and other archives of wisdom. Though they may occasionally thwart thieves and tomb raiders, they do so only to keep the repository's knowledge for themselves.