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Kikimora

According to folklore, the kikimora was once a swamp or forest spirit that came to prefer living in a peasant’s home to dwelling out in the muck and cold. They look rather like the people they live alongside but sometimes have animalistic features.

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Weak KikimoraCreature 3

Tiny Fey 
Source Feybound pg. 118
Weak Changes are marked. The -2 damage penalty to non-strike offensive abilities (-4 if the ability is limited, such as spells) is NOT factored in.
Recall Knowledge DC 18 • Fey (Nature)
Perception +11; tremorsense (imprecise) within their entire bound home
Languages Common, Fey
Skills Crafting +11, Household Lore +12, Stealth +9 (+11 within their bound home)
Str +2, Dex +4, Con +2, Int +3, Wis +5, Cha +3
Master of the Hearth A kikimora often shares custody of a home with a domovoi. When the two agree, the circumstance bonus or penalty the domovoi provides to checks to Craft, Earn Income, Repair, or Subsist in the home increases to +3 or –3, depending on their shared mood. When the domovoi and the kikimora disagree, all such checks always take a –1 circumstance penalty from the dispute. A kikimora must spend a week in a place before these benefits occur.
AC 18; Fort +6, Ref +10, Will +12
HP 50; Weaknesses cold iron 5
Shy A kikimora is naturally invisible while within sight of their bound home. The kikimora can become visible or even selectively visible—allowing only certain people to see them.
Speed 20 feet
Melee [one-action] claw +10 [+6/+2] (agile), Damage 2d4-2+6 slashingRanged [one-action] enraged home +12 [+7/+2] (primal, range increment 30 feet), Damage 2d6-2+6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing (depending on object)Primal Innate Spells DC 19, attack +11 (-4 dmg); 4th nightmare; 1st grease (at will; area only; appearing as puddles of water), mending (at will); Cantrips (2nd) prestidigitation, telekinetic hand, telekinetic projectile
Home Guardian By commanding their home to attack, the kikimora can Disarm, Grapple, Reposition, Shove, or Trip with their enraged home Strike. The kikimora uses their Household Lore instead of Athletics skill for these checks.Unravel [two-actions] The kikimora attempts a claw Strike against a creature that’s wearing clothing made of fabric. If it hits, the creature’s clothing starts to come apart. The creature is clumsy 1 (clumsy 2 on a critical hit) until it Interacts twice to fix its clothing. Once a creature has had its clothing unraveled, the kikimora can’t unravel it further until the target changes clothes.

All Monsters in "House Spirit"

NameLevel
Bannik5
Domovoi2
Dvorovoi3
House Spirit Mob6
Kikimora4
Ovinnik4

House Spirit

Source Monster Core 2 pg. 194
House spirits are shy, often helpful, sometimes wrathful fey who dwell alongside peasants and farmers. They reside in the house, the yard, the granary, the bathhouse—wherever people build and live. Due to this proximity, house spirits often take on the mannerisms or appearance of nearby mortals. Their reclusive nature and tendency to go unseen earned them the moniker of “spirits,” though in truth they're fully embodied fey.

House spirits take an almost parental interest in “their” mortals. Given proper respect, these fey work tirelessly for their charges—they chop wood, care for livestock, mend clothes, sweep the floor, and tend to the stove. If offended, though, the house spirit becomes a menace, frightening animals or children and ruining belongings.

Sidebar - Locations Bound Spirits

Every house spirit chooses a specific place to be their responsibility and their place of power. House spirits can and do leave, temporarily or permanently, but it’s never a trivial decision. Typically, a given location has only one spirit, which gains power if their home is particularly grand. A great palace’s domovoi is fearsome indeed.

Kith and Kin

House fey often treat each other as family. Sometimes, this is literally the case with the domovoi and the kikimora as a married couple, the dvorovoi their younger sibling, and the bannik as a curmudgeonly elder. More often, it's a sort of metaphor among the spirits—though fey treat metaphor very seriously indeed. This isn't limited to just the house spirits, either. A kikimora might call a poludnica a distant cousin or in-law, and the bannik has always had cordial relations with rusalkas and vodyanois.

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