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Strix Hunter

Where there is one strix hunter, more likely lie in wait. Strix hunters rely on practiced coordination with their kin, spending many hours training until their maneuvers seamlessly link together. This allows hunters to unleash a barrage of attacks while staying on the move and rapidly trading positions in battle. While strix hunters might train in groups of a dozen or more, a hunting party on the prowl is typically made up of no more than six individuals. These hunters interchange roles and have no set leader, with each member calling the shots in a loose rotation. This communal decision-making style shines when facing intelligent foes, baffling opponents who might normally rely on targeting a leader to break formation and morale.

Whether they fight together or alone, strix hunters rely on their ability to swoop in and out of melee while quickly changing weapons to disorient their enemies and keep them from finding any one tactic to fight back. The coordinated flurry of arrows, blades, and talons a strix hunting party can deliver is usually devastating to their prey. If the victim should live through it, they are left reeling.

Strix hunters rarely take trophies from their kills, as they consider the use of their martial skills to be practical elements of survival—whether they are hunting for food or driving off unwanted intruders.

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Strix HunterCreature 6

Uncommon Medium Humanoid Strix 
Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 214
Recall Knowledge DC 24 (includes +2 from Uncommon) • Humanoid (Society)
Perception +17; low-light vision
Languages Common, Diabolic, Strix
Skills Acrobatics +15, Athletics +13, Diplomacy +10, Intimidation +13, Nature +13, Performance +10, Survival +15
Str +4, Dex +5, Con +2, Int +0, Wis +2, Cha +0
Items +1 shortbow (20 arrows), leather armor, shortsword
AC 24; Fort +11, Ref +17, Will +13
HP 80
Speed 25 feet, fly 25 feet
Melee [one-action] talon +16 [+12/+8] (agile, finesse), Damage 1d4+8 slashingMelee [one-action] shortsword +16 [+12/+8] (agile, finesse, versatile S), Damage 1d6+8 piercingRanged [one-action] shortbow +17 [+12/+7] (deadly d10, magical, range increment 60 feet, reload 0), Damage 1d6+4 piercingDarting Swap [one-action] The strix hunter Strides or Flies once, then Interacts to swap weapons.Intimidating Dive [three-actions] The strix hunter Flies downward up to twice their Speed and then makes a Strike. If the Strike hits and the hunter moved at least 20 feet downward, the hunter attempts to Demoralize the target.Singing Shot [two-actions] (auditory) Requirements The hunter is holding a ranged weapon and their prey is within their first range increment; Effect The strix hunter sings out, calling for a tandem attack. The strix hunter makes a ranged Strike against their prey, and a single ally within 30 feet can use their reaction to make a Strike against the same target. If both attacks hit, the target is off-guard until the start of the hunter’s next turn.Stalk Prey [one-action] (concentrate) The strix hunter designates a single creature they can see and hear, or one they’re Tracking, as their prey. The hunter gains a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Seek the prey and to Survival checks to Track the prey. The first time the hunter hits their prey in a round, they deal an additional 1d8 precision damage. These effects last until the hunter uses Stalk Prey again.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Hunting Songs

Strix often sing to each other on a hunt as a way of secretly coordinating their movements. While a community has general calls that might be used for indicating emergencies and other important events, strix hunting teams often develop unique and intricate messages within the group. They drill these short melodic phrases until they are second nature. Over time, these phrases often get adapted by their community, becoming used as a leitmotifs in retellings of their hunts or even as casual slang among the next generation.

All Monsters in "Strix"

NameLevel
Strix Aerialist9
Strix Hunter6
Strix Kinmate2

Strix

Source Monster Core 2 pg. 307
Strix, called itarii in their own language, are avian humanoids with sprawling, dark-feathered wings and large talons. They possess angular features and piercing eyes that are fixed facing forward.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Strix Storytelling

Strix history and mythology are passed down through oral tradition. Every strix, even those from different tribes, knows nearly identical tales of their ancestral history and spiritual sermons. Always performing the tales in their own language, strix only share these ancestral stories with those they consider kin. Even among outsiders, strix hold the skill of storytelling in high regard and are fond of finely performed spoken narratives.
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