Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Rongotakafiu (Guardian of Punaika)
Merrow (Celestial)
Merrow are great hulking creatures of the sea covered in green scales with large eyes and hair like strands of kelp. They have both arms and legs ending in webbed and taloned claws and can move about on land provided their bodies remain moist and cool (thus they are mostly go ashore at night). Rongotakafiu is their leader and said by some to be immortal.
HD 5d8+15 (37 hp)
Initiative: +4 (improved)
Speed swim 40 ft
AC: 14 (-1 size, +5 natural,)
Attacks +7 melee +1 ranged
Huge longspear, damage 1d8+7
SA Spell-like abilities
SQ Regeneration 2, Darkvision 60 feet, Acid, cold, and electricity resistance (10), Damage reduction (5/+1), SR 18
Face/Reach: 5 ft. by 5 ft./10 ft. (15-20 ft. with longspear)
Saves: Fort +7, Ref +1, Will +3
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 10, Con 17, -Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 17
Skills: Concentration +6, Listen +5, Spellcraft +4, Spot +5
Improved Initiative
Alignment Neutral Good
CR 9
Spell-Like Abilities: At will-darkness and invisibility; 1/day-charm person, cone of cold, gaseous form, polymorph self, and sleep. These abilities are as the spells cast by a 9th-level sorcerer (save DC 13 + spell level).
Flight (Su): An ogre mage can cease or resume flight as a free action. While in gaseous form it can fly at normal speed and has perfect maneuverability.
Regeneration (Ex): Ogre mages take normal damage from fire and acid. An ogre mage that loses a limb or body part can reattach it by holding the severed member to the stump. Reattachment takes 1 minute. If the head or other vital organ is severed, it must be reattached within 10 minutes or the creature dies. Ogre mages cannot regrow lost body parts.
Smite Evil (Su): Once per day the creature can make a normal attack to deal additional damage equal to its HD total (maximum of +20) against an evil foe.
Greatest of the South Sea Marakihau is Rongotakafiu an ancient member of that race and said by some to be immortal. In ancient days Rongotakawhiu swam in a shadow of She-Who-Eats, he was a rapacious killer that reveled in the fury of his master.
None can say why he became interested in the Islanders. Perhaps it was the folly of age, perhaps he had become tired with the constant bloodshed and conflict, perhaps it had always been his nature, but at some time, between the Fall of She-Who-Eats and her return, Rongotakafiu took for himself the body of a premature human child that had been cast into the waves, revived it and raised the child as his own.
That child was Punaika, first King of Nukutea land of the Navigators Punaika learnt much from his unusual ‘father’ and he was the first Island dweller to gain such deep knowledge of Aquatic lore. Punaika taught the people of Nukutea many things but most of all to respect the Marakihau as ‘brothers’ an to care for them
Rongotakafiu fiction
As the small bundle fell through the water, a ripple seemed to rise dancing up from below, bubbles floating off as it moved and warmth seeping out around it. The ripple seemed to flit rough the water, rushing foward and then veering off on tiny swirling currents. The ripple was sapient, although not sentient in any conventional way. It was the oceanic form of the hakaturi found in the forest. In the forests they came as small birds and insects or simply as whispers in the leaves. Here in the vast domains they came as moving ripples or the flashing lapa.
As the dancing ripple reached the bundle it had to open wide and dart around the counter currents moving out from the solid mass. On the farside it closed again finding its way between folds of skin, into the small crevices and lines of the babies body, and around the gleaming edge of the matau still held in the childs tiny unformed hand. Setting to work the ripple drew flashes of the phospherescent lapa into a warm sheath around the body. A second swirl brought soft seaweeds in to envelop the body and keep it insulated. And then with a rush of oxygen bearing bubbles it sped forward with the bundle in tow.
The tupua Rongotakafiu stood waiting for the Fetch and the bundle to arrive. As it did the hulking spirit reached out a scaley hand and took the bundle from the shimmer of water which glowed faintly before swirling away again to resume its course
Rongotakafiu knew that the baby wrapped within the bundle was not fully formed, born too soon, the body was like a jellyfish and would never survive on the land above. However the tupua knew what it had was enough to work with, the premature body still smeared with the mothers blood was yet full of life and power and with concentration and the aid of his own ancient powers Rongotakafiu would soon have a son of his own.
ps tipua is a polynesian word roughly equating to 'Outsider'
Merrow (Celestial)
Merrow are great hulking creatures of the sea covered in green scales with large eyes and hair like strands of kelp. They have both arms and legs ending in webbed and taloned claws and can move about on land provided their bodies remain moist and cool (thus they are mostly go ashore at night). Rongotakafiu is their leader and said by some to be immortal.
HD 5d8+15 (37 hp)
Initiative: +4 (improved)
Speed swim 40 ft
AC: 14 (-1 size, +5 natural,)
Attacks +7 melee +1 ranged
Huge longspear, damage 1d8+7
SA Spell-like abilities
SQ Regeneration 2, Darkvision 60 feet, Acid, cold, and electricity resistance (10), Damage reduction (5/+1), SR 18
Face/Reach: 5 ft. by 5 ft./10 ft. (15-20 ft. with longspear)
Saves: Fort +7, Ref +1, Will +3
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 10, Con 17, -Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 17
Skills: Concentration +6, Listen +5, Spellcraft +4, Spot +5
Improved Initiative
Alignment Neutral Good
CR 9
Spell-Like Abilities: At will-darkness and invisibility; 1/day-charm person, cone of cold, gaseous form, polymorph self, and sleep. These abilities are as the spells cast by a 9th-level sorcerer (save DC 13 + spell level).
Flight (Su): An ogre mage can cease or resume flight as a free action. While in gaseous form it can fly at normal speed and has perfect maneuverability.
Regeneration (Ex): Ogre mages take normal damage from fire and acid. An ogre mage that loses a limb or body part can reattach it by holding the severed member to the stump. Reattachment takes 1 minute. If the head or other vital organ is severed, it must be reattached within 10 minutes or the creature dies. Ogre mages cannot regrow lost body parts.
Smite Evil (Su): Once per day the creature can make a normal attack to deal additional damage equal to its HD total (maximum of +20) against an evil foe.
Greatest of the South Sea Marakihau is Rongotakafiu an ancient member of that race and said by some to be immortal. In ancient days Rongotakawhiu swam in a shadow of She-Who-Eats, he was a rapacious killer that reveled in the fury of his master.
None can say why he became interested in the Islanders. Perhaps it was the folly of age, perhaps he had become tired with the constant bloodshed and conflict, perhaps it had always been his nature, but at some time, between the Fall of She-Who-Eats and her return, Rongotakafiu took for himself the body of a premature human child that had been cast into the waves, revived it and raised the child as his own.
That child was Punaika, first King of Nukutea land of the Navigators Punaika learnt much from his unusual ‘father’ and he was the first Island dweller to gain such deep knowledge of Aquatic lore. Punaika taught the people of Nukutea many things but most of all to respect the Marakihau as ‘brothers’ an to care for them
Rongotakafiu fiction
As the small bundle fell through the water, a ripple seemed to rise dancing up from below, bubbles floating off as it moved and warmth seeping out around it. The ripple seemed to flit rough the water, rushing foward and then veering off on tiny swirling currents. The ripple was sapient, although not sentient in any conventional way. It was the oceanic form of the hakaturi found in the forest. In the forests they came as small birds and insects or simply as whispers in the leaves. Here in the vast domains they came as moving ripples or the flashing lapa.
As the dancing ripple reached the bundle it had to open wide and dart around the counter currents moving out from the solid mass. On the farside it closed again finding its way between folds of skin, into the small crevices and lines of the babies body, and around the gleaming edge of the matau still held in the childs tiny unformed hand. Setting to work the ripple drew flashes of the phospherescent lapa into a warm sheath around the body. A second swirl brought soft seaweeds in to envelop the body and keep it insulated. And then with a rush of oxygen bearing bubbles it sped forward with the bundle in tow.
The tupua Rongotakafiu stood waiting for the Fetch and the bundle to arrive. As it did the hulking spirit reached out a scaley hand and took the bundle from the shimmer of water which glowed faintly before swirling away again to resume its course
Rongotakafiu knew that the baby wrapped within the bundle was not fully formed, born too soon, the body was like a jellyfish and would never survive on the land above. However the tupua knew what it had was enough to work with, the premature body still smeared with the mothers blood was yet full of life and power and with concentration and the aid of his own ancient powers Rongotakafiu would soon have a son of his own.
ps tipua is a polynesian word roughly equating to 'Outsider'
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