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Archives of Nethys

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PFS StandardBelker

These reclusive elementals have glowing red eyes, leathery wings, and long, sharp claws. While they always retain their shape, belkers can control the solidity of their forms at will, transforming into clouds of smoke, ash, and dust.

Recall Knowledge - Elemental (Arcana, Nature): DC 22
Unspecific Lore: DC 20
Specific Lore: DC 17

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BelkerCreature 6

Legacy Content

NE Large Air Elemental 
Source Bestiary 2 pg. 106 2.0
Perception +8; darkvision, smoke vision
Languages Auran
Skills Acrobatics +9, Stealth +9 (+11 in smoke)
Str +2, Dex +5, Con +3, Int -2, Wis +4, Cha +0
Smoke Vision The belker ignores the concealed condition from smoke.
AC 19; Fort +7, Ref +11, Will +6
HP 78; Immunities bleed, paralyzed, poison, precision, sleep
Smoke Form The belker can occupy the same space as other creatures.
Speed 25 feet, fly 40 feet
Melee [one-action] claw +11 [+7/+3] (agile, finesse), Damage 2d10+5 slashingMelee [one-action] wing +11 [+7/+3] (agile, finesse, reach 10 feet), Damage 2d8+5 bludgeoningNoxious Fumes [two-actions] Requirement The belker occupies the same space as a Medium or smaller creature; Effect The belker attempts to flow into the creature's lungs; the creature must attempt a DC 17 Fortitude save. On a failure, the creature partially inhales the belker and is immobilized by the pain of the smoke rasping in its throat and lungs. The creature can attempt to exhale the belker by spending an action coughing and succeeding at a DC 17 Fortitude save. Most of the belker remains outside the creature, so the belker can still act normally. If the belker moves out of the creature's space or uses Noxious Fumes again, the creature automatically exhales it.Smoke Slash [one-action] Requirement The belker is partially inhaled by a creature; Effect The belker automatically deals its claw damage to the inhaling creature by forming a claw to slash and scrape the creature from within.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Belker Lore

Fiercely territorial, belkers attack trespassers into their lands without mercy, slithering inside their lungs and raking their bodies from the inside. Many belkers are loyal to the Elemental Lord of Air, Hshura, but some hold secret allegiances to Ymeri, who holds domain over fire and smoke.

All Monsters in "Elemental, Air"

NameLevel
Belker6
Despairing Pall1
Elemental Hurricane11
Invisible Stalker7
Living Thunderclap4
Living Whirlwind5
Melody On The Wind10
Picture-in-Cloud13
Spark Bat2
Storm Lord9
Veiled Current8
Zephyr Hawk3

Elemental, Air

Source Bestiary pg. 144
Hailing from the Plane of Air, these beings appear in a variety of sizes and shapes.

Elemental

Related Groups Elemental, Air, Elemental, Earth, Elemental, Earth, Elemental, Fire, Elemental, Fire, Elemental, Mephit, Elemental, Metal, Elemental, Scamp, Elemental, Water, Elemental, Water, Elemental, Wisp, Elemental, Wood
The Elemental Planes—primordial realms defined by aspects of air, earth, fire, or water—are home to a diverse group of beings known as elementals. Spellcasters on the Material Plane call upon elementals for aid, though these enigmatic creatures can also travel to the world of mortals via interplanar gateways and rifts. The elementals on these pages exemplify the creatures of the Elemental Planes, but this list is by no means exhaustive.

Sidebar - Related Creatures "Civilized" Elementals

Some elementals, such as invisible stalkers, xorns, and salamanders, have specific cultures and personalities that elevate them beyond simple magical creatures or manifestations of living energy. These creatures are often found in larger settlements or living alongside genies on their respective planes.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Diverse Elementals

The Elemental Planes are more than expanses of sky, rock, fire, and ocean. Clouds of fog, dust, and storms float through the Plane of Air. The Plane of Earth includes verdant groves, shining metal and crystal, and irradiated wastelands. The Plane of Fire features magma, suffocating smoke, and radiant firelight. Amid the endless sea of the Plane of Water are pockets of ooze and brine, plus the otherworldly environs of the deep.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Elemental Beings

The Elemental Planes—primordial realms defined by aspects of air, earth, fire, or water—are home to a diverse group of beings known as elementals. Spellcasters on the Material Plane call upon elementals for aid, though these enigmatic creatures can also travel to the world of mortals via interplanar gateways and rifts. The elementals on these pages exemplify the creatures of the Elemental Planes, but this list is by no means exhaustive.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Elemental Creatures

Not all elementals are lumbering, humanoid-shaped creatures. Some take on the forms and natures of animals and beasts from the Material Plane. These creatures often behave in ways similar to their Material Plane counterparts, even though as elementals they lack the animalistic instincts mortal creatures have when it comes to hunting, reproducing, and the like. Elemental creatures are favorites of conjurers due to their small size, relative ease of summoning, and varied abilities.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Elemental Lords

The most powerful elementals are demigods known as elemental lords. Until recently, only four evil elemental lords ruled over realms on the Elemental Planes. However, recent events have allowed the previously imprisoned good elemental lords to return to their realms, causing massive conflicts that could lead to planar wars.

Sidebar - Locations Elemental Vortexes

Where the boundary between planes wears thin, elementals manifest in the world through churning vortexes. Such gateways might lie at the heart of a volcano, a deep ocean trench, in regions beset with earthquakes, or within great storms.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Invisible Courtiers

Formless and invisible elementals are the favored children of Hshurha, the air elementals' mother goddess. They receive favorable treatment in her realm, Verglas Precessional, where they serve as trusted advisors, emissaries to other planes, and members of her personal retinue, in addition to performing clandestine tasks the goddess wishes to keep hidden.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Monstrous Elementals

Some elementals are more than living incarnations of air, earth, fire, or water. Creatures like the genie, the uthul, or the zaramuun have their own complex ecologies and societies. While these creatures originally hail from an Elemental Plane, they can often be found on the Material Plane as well.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Other Elementals

When energies from elemental planes mix, unusual elemental life can form. The combination of fire and earth, for example, can spawn magma elementals, while air and water can create ice elementals. Lightning elementals form from a conjunction of fire and air, while water and earth give birth to mud elementals. It’s possible that in the vastness of the Great Beyond, even more unusual elementals might exist, although they are as rare as they are strange.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Primal Elementals

The most well known of all elementals are the primal elementals, creatures composed entirely of air, earth, fire, or water with roughly humanoid shapes. Many primal elementals are named after natural disasters, ranging from those relatively small in scale (and roughly the size of Medium humanoids) to much larger ones (often the size of small buildings). Primal elementals can often be found in areas where their namesake disasters have recently struck.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Tempestuous Spirits

Air elementals are often flighty contrarians, often more concerned with bringing about change than with the specific changes they enact. Art and writing created by such elementals is exceptionally rare, as they usually destroy their projects once the challenge and excitement of completing them fades.