Maita (3.5e Subtype)
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Maita Subtype[edit]
The maita subtype is a subspecies of outsider that is not contained to any particular alignment. They are soul devouring creatures who use souls for food instead of treasure or material components, and their hunger causes them to seek out the source of souls with great eagerness. They can starve for great periods of time, but it only serves to drive them further into madness. Some maita are barely sapient, little more than hungry animals. If added to another creature they can possess this subtype along with the original subtype (if any), such as tanar’ri or baatorian.
If adding the maita subtype to a pre-existing outsider, these traits raise the CR by +1.
Traits[edit]
A maita creature possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).
- Deathwatch (Ex): Maitas are under a constant extraordinary deathwatch effect. In addition they can identify a creature's exact HD and hp totals as a standard action out to 30 ft.
- Devour Soul (Ex): As a standard action touch attack, the maita can consume the soul of a creature which has perished within 1 minute, storing it within themselves. They automatically do this as a free action with no touch attack if they are the one who slew the creature. A devoured soul remains with the maita's body and the creature cannot be revived by anything short of true resurrection, miracle, wish, or a limited wish to release the soul followed by any valid revival attempt. Alternatively the death of the maita releases all consumed souls. Some maita eventually digest their souls, rendering recovery nearly impossible short of miracle or wish to restore the soul itself.
- Negative Soul (Ex): Maitas heal through negative energy and are harmed by positive energy as if they were undead. They are not otherwise affected by any abilities which affect undead.
- Soulless (Ex): Maitas have no souls themselves, and thus are immune to any effect which would transfer their soul elsewhere or possess the maita (even through magic jar).
- Soul Stone (Ex): On death within its natural plane, maita bodies leave behind a soul stone, a crystal which can be used as a focus for spells like trap the soul. Its effective value for trap the soul and similar spells is 1/2 the HD of the creature which produced it. In spite of its value in trapping souls the crystal is otherwise worthless, no more unusual than common quartz.
Maita Subtype Creatures[edit]
The following creatures have the maita subtype:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Abyssal Marauder | |
| Demiurgic Being | |
| Kaladraugr | The kaladraugrs is a strange maita, a half-undead half-outsider abomination looking like a mostly flayed decomposed corpse. |
| Lathe of Fate | A twisted eldritch tentacle which bursts forth from a runic portal, these things are supposes pieces of a bigger more terrifying entity. |
| Lifebane Scarecrow | |
| Nix | The nix is the weakest of all the soul eating maita, taking on the form of a skull (often human, sometimes animal) with subtle eldritch marks carved into its calcified form. |
| Ozzarbor | |
| The Wheel of Life and Death | The Wheel of Life and Death thus appears vaguely as some giant cephalopod of dark green color, though the exact hue seems to shift and pulse with mood and personal experience. Eyes cover its body, with usually one oversized eye around its core. |
| Vodnici | Soul devouring fiends of hedonism and temptation, vodnicis are gamblers who enjoy a thrill while collecting souls as easily as one might collect stamps. |
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