Ethereal marauder 5e

A greater geist variant can cast illusions that include sounds, but—like the geist—these are transparent. One type of memedi, the gendruwo, is known for its habit of kidnapping people into the Border Ethereal. The natural appearance of a gendruwo—a featureless humanoid made of shimmering mist—causes fear.

However, it can change its appearance and will often take the form of someone known to the victim of its mischief. In order to successfully kidnap someone, a gendruwo must get them to accept a morsel of offered food. If the food is accepted, the gendruwo whisks the quarry into the Border Ethereal, where they are abandoned. Despite this strange habit, gendruwo are generally more annoying than harmful. They enjoy eating paper, especially important documents.

In 3rd and 4th Edition this was watered down to ability point or necrotic damage, but in 5th Edition a ghost is once again able to cause ageing using its horrifying visage. An ability common to ghosts of all editions is some form of possession, where the ghost temporarily takes control of a host body. Always an isolated branch of the elven race, the ghost elves were almost wiped out by the drow during an ancient elven civil war.

Desperate to save themselves, they were tricked into making a bargain with one of the Archdukes of the Nine Hells and spent many centuries serving as pawns in the Blood War. Eventually escaping servitude by tricking other fiends into helping them, the ghost elves slew their master and flew into the Ethereal Plane. Ghost elves have blank, mirror-like eyes, and skin that glow with a pale white light.

This gives them a ghostly appearance and is why others refer to them as ghost elves. As a result of having their connection to the Material Plane severed for so long during their time in the Nine Hells, ghost elves have a special affinity for their adopted home plane, and gain some Ethereal powers over time.

Sources: Dragon 3e. There they hunt ghosts and other ectoplasmic beings. They resemble phantom fungi made of blue or grey ectoplasm. Ghosteaters are intelligent creatures and communicate with each other, but choose not to engage with other species. They attack ghosts with enthusiasm, draining their wisdom by means of a tentacle touch attack. Once a ghost has all of its wisdom drained, the ghosteater absorbs its body into one of its fleshy sacs where it is digested over the course of a few days.

Ghosteaters are able to absorb the spellcasting abilities of the ghost they consume making them occasionally surprisingly competent casters. Source: Ghostwalk 3e. The 2nd Edition version has a breath weapon which causes up to ! In some cases, a ghost dragon is created when the dragon dies protecting its hoard, and the only way to permanently dispatch the dragon is to give it sufficient treasure to replace what was stolen.

There are at least six species of gingwatzims, each of which has a different coloured glow. On the Ethereal Plane, gingwatzims are solitary predators. They can be summoned to the Material Plane by powerful spells first developed by the wizard Castanamir of Oerth, and bound into two other forms determined by the summoner.

One form is a tiny object and the other is a tiny animal. In earlier editions, the object form was typically a magical weapon, but 5th Edition restricts this form to non-magical objects. At the beginning of each night, it takes one of three forms: a great black dog, a huge black cat, or a black owl. At day break, a grim fades away, becoming ethereal. It must wait until night before it can return to the Material Plane to continue guarding, but it does so fully healed from any injuries suffered the night before.

A grim can make the physical attacks you would expect from its chosen forms: claws, talons, bite or beak. It can detect evil and gives a deep howl if an evil creature approaches, sometimes causing it to flee. Grims are also able to turn undead. A grim has no need to eat or sleep and never abandons the location it guards, even if that location becomes dilapidated and desolate. Originally, the Huldre may have settled Krynn from the Ethereal. Most of them retreated from Ansalon into the Ethereal Plane thousands of years ago, leaving only a few of their kind behind.

Huldrefolk are sensitive to light. They are accomplished sorcerers; each one specialisee in an elemental sphere which grants related magical powers. In personality, huldrefolk are given to extreme passions and manic behaviour, leaping from melancholy to incoherent joy.

They are fascinated by toys and machines. It is bound to the Ethereal Plane, but present on the Material Plane as visible but incorporeal. A joystealer feeds on the emotions of creatures from the Material Plane. This can only be restored by killing the thieving joystealer, or using a combination of the remove curse and hallow spells.

Joystealers call themselves insoril. Modern insoril resent the ethergaunts for binding them to the Ethereal Plane and turning them into the desperate hunters they are now. Source: Monster Manual IV 3e. A magran dangles a glowing light in front of a maw filled with sharp teeth. The hypnotising pulse of the light transfixes those nearby.

The body of a magran except for the light is usually invisible, becoming visible only for an instant when an entranced target is bitten or swallowed whole. Swallowed prey remain visible and struggling inside an invisible magran until they die. Magran are usually solitary but gather schools to spawn. The light organ remains functional for a few weeks after the magran dies, but enchants its possessor.

It looks like a vaguely humanoid shape moving under a sheet, if the sheet was the fabric of the Ethereal Plane. They look like strong, heroic humans. The interests of the gods on the Ethereal and Inner Planes are represented by the patient and stoic monadic devas. In the original Dragon 63 article and in the Monster Manual II, monadic devas had milky white skin, silvery hair and colourless eyes.

In 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition, they have dark brown skin, jet black hair and green eyes. All devas enjoy a variety of immunities and have a wide range of spell-like powers. The monadic deva is also immune to death magic and level draining, can cast hold monster and mirror image at will, and can charm elemental creatures.

In combat, a monadic deva wields a deadly mace of smiting. Originally created when the magic of the Feywild suffused eggs left there by a visiting dragon, the moonstone dragon spends much of its time on the Ethereal Plane. Moonstone dragons cherish treasures with hard-to-quantify value, such as a story of happy times fondly remembered. The faithful hound summoned by the spell is a creature of the Ethereal Plane.

It is temporarily called into cohesion by the spell to function as a guardian. Invisible to all but its summoner, the faithful hound starts to bark if an intruder gets close. It can see both invisible and ethereal intruders and will attack a target within the range of its bite. A faithful hound cannot be attacked from the Material Plane. It can be attacked normally by someone in the Border Ethereal, but the attacker requires a magic weapon to hit.

A dispel magic spell dissipates a faithful hound whether the caster is on the Material Plane or in the Border Ethereal. They are completely at home in the Ethereal, and can see into the Border Ethereal when on a neighbouring plane. Nathri raid demiplanes for resources and are comparative experts on such places. They have venom producing barbs on the backs of their hands. Nathri are as likely to coat a weapon with this, as to try to inject it using the barbs. The toxin makes a target disoriented and dizzy.

Although they are not too powerful individually, nathri attack in swarms. They are hard to negotiate with since they are used to taking whatever they covet by force from those who would try to negotiate with them. It originates from some other dimension, probably the Demiplane of Nightmares or the Far Realm.

It wanders the known planes, including the Ethereal Plane and the world of Mystara in particular. Once it has collected a full complement of twelve brains, the neh-thalggu immediately returns to its home plane. Neogi are arachnids with eel-like heads.

They are mind-controlling slavers who use dominated umber hulks as servants. Neogi mark themselves and those they capture in various ways to keep track of their status within neogi society, and neogi are punished harshly for failing to defer to those of higher societal status. Some neogi make pacts with aberrant entities in order to gain spellcasting abilities. Aggressive carnivores, nethersight mastiffs hunt in packs of up to twenty, but are occasionally encountered solo.

They are about eight feet long with huge paws. Mastiffs are found in arctic and subarctic regions of the Material Plane, but prefer to hunt creatures in the Border Ethereal. Their pack tactics, excellent senses, and continuous true seeing make them perfect ethereal hunters. This glowing bite reaches into the Ethereal Plane, and mastiffs have a talent for grappling a foe and then wrenching the grappled prey right out of the Border Ethereal into the Material Plane, potentially stranding it.

Nethersight mastiffs are sufficiently intelligent to be able to speak Common. The shape of a nethling rapidly changes to reflect its purpose, usually matching the shape of those it meets. Each nethling eventually returns to merge into Neth. Source: A Guide to the Ethereal Plane 2e. From a ropy body spring three clawed legs, three long whiplike tentacles with fingers, a bulbous head with a trio of eyestalks and membranous wings.

Nilshais spend most of their time in bizarre stone strongholds hidden in the Ethereal Plane. They can ethereal jaunt at will and engage in raids to the Material Plane to plunder magic and lore. A group of them infiltrated the Yuirwood in the Forgotten Realms. Nilshais are accomplished sorcerers and contemptuous of Material Plane life. They use their impressive array of spells to deal with anyone trying to interfere with their purpose.

Source: Unapproachable East 3e. Defining the phase spider across editions is the ability to rapidly phase between the Ethereal and Material Planes, except in 4th Edition, where they just teleport a lot. Phase spiders have a poisonous bite. For quite a while in 2nd Edition, they were described as having human-like heads attached to their thoraxes.

They spin large web habitats in the Ethereal, but only a few of their kind can spin stable ether webs. Once every years, it can plane shift to the Material Plane, where it can stay for up to, but no longer than, a year. It looks like a large white deer with rainbow-coloured wings. A phantasm will flee from combat, fighting only if it cannot escape.

While a phantasm is visiting the Material, it collects magical items to take back with it; it can draw nourishment from them. Phantasms can speak and continuously detect magic and read magic. If someone tries to harm a phantasm, and the phantasm escapes, it will cast a special antipathy curse on its attacker to repel humanoids of all sorts. Other phantasms will not go near anyone so marked.

Sources: Dungeon 5 1e. In the world of Mystara, a phantom is an ethereal undead creature with a fear attack, but a lesser phantom is a misty, magical creature that leads people into danger to feed on their fear. In 1st and 2nd Edition, phantoms are residual images left behind by traumatic deaths, harmless except that they instil fear. In 3rd Edition, the phantom template is used to give corporeal creatures the ability to become incorporeal. A phantom warrior's memories are faded. It remembers its death, and has some memories from shortly before it died; everything before that is an impenetrable fog.

A phantom warrior is surrounded by an invisible sheath of energy that it can use to deflect incoming blows. It can see into the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane and vice versa and is able to move freely between the two planes.

An earlier phantom warrior appeared in the 4th Edition Monster Manual. This version is a type of ghost that patrols the location where it died. It is usually encountered in groups. Sources: Monster Manual 4e , Curse of Strahd 5e. The style of the script may convey additional information: elegant writing is used for a formal announcement, a messy scrawl indicates the phirblas is in a hurry. Although phirblas are most often encountered in the Ethereal Plane, they originate from the ancient demiplane of Inphirblau.

Millions of phirblas live in this endless city-realm filled with tall towers. To an outsider, the organisation of phirblas society appears fluid, with responsibilities and areas of influence constantly in flux. Phirblas are long-lived vegetarians whose cooks labour for days to prepare intricate meals. Some sages speculate that planar spiders are related to phase spiders, but this remains conjecture. Planar spiders can move freely between the Material, Ethereal and Astral Planes, and they use this to their advantage when in combat, keeping their opponents constantly off balance.

Planar spiders do not usually attack without provocation; most prefer to first communicate with strangers to determine their intentions. They generally speak Common and at least one other humanoid language. Planar spiders are not a homogeneous species, but have many different nations.

Planar spider encounters are usually with seasoned explorers, but there are also groups of spiders who seek riches as wandering bandits. Planar spiders produce a deadly poison in their fangs, but are able to control its deployment, and can bite without injecting it, if they so choose.

Planar spiders can use most magic items, and in rare cases practice spellcasting as a wizard or even a priest. The malevolent nature of a phasm is mirrored in its appearance as a humanoid skeleton, typically six feet tall, but sometimes twice that size. Fire plasms have skeletons flickering with flames.

Water plasms have bones made of solid water. Air plasms have bones visible only while moving. Earth plasms are covered in clumps of gooey dirt. A plasm attacks with its clawed hands or by summoning an elemental cloud. Plasms are encountered only on the Ethereal Plane or their corresponding elemental plane as they rapidly degenerate if they end up elsewhere.

Normal elementals loathe plasms and will attack them on sight. The first appeared in B3: Palace of the Silver Princess but only in the orange cover version. It is a mischievous spirit that animates objects to attack. In the Rules Cyclopedia, it is a cluster of ectoplasmic tentacles with tiny eyes, a paralysing gaze attack and a net that drags creatures into the Ethereal.

In Dragon 55, a poltergeist is the spirit of a chaotic gnome from Limbo or Gladsheim, said to enjoy jokes and tricks. The 1st Edition Fiend Folio and 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual both describe the poltergeist as an invisible undead that animates objects. In 3rd Edition Ravenloft poltergeists are a geist variation. In etherless 4th Edition poltergeists are cowardly Shadowfell ghosts.

In 5th Edition they are confused spectres who enjoy throwing people around. Fortunately, A Guide to the Ethereal Plane expands on this rather minimal initial description. There, rabbiun are described as resembling brightly-coloured snakes, no more than two feet long. They were originally wild animals that migrated to the Ethereal Plane.

Rabbiun evolved from these migratory species to better survive the currents of the Deep Ethereal, but still have the intelligence of an animal. Rabbiun are most often spotted flying in a flock through the ethereal mists. They are able to absorb nutrients directly from the ethereal medium. Rabbiun are inoffensive and unaggressive towards others Ethereal Plane travellers.

They always try to avoid combat, and have a flying speed that generally allows them to successfully flee. If forced to do so, rabbiun defend themselves by biting. Some eccentric planar travellers hunt rabbiun and serve them as delicacies on special occasions. A rusalka looks like the deceased person but with a pale complexion, faded clothes, and a green tint.

Its hair is long and sometimes contains tangled sea plants. A rusalka is driven by a desire for revenge. It can only leave the Prime Material plane once it has avenged its own death. A rusalka lures victims to their deaths with enticing songs and then drowns them with a deadly embrace. Rusalki can control the water around them to their advantage. If a rusalka becomes seriously harmed, it withdraws to the Ethereal Plane where it remains for a full year, gaining enough energy to manifest again.

Rusalki cannot come onto dry land and are bound to a body of water, but can stand in water as shallow as one inch. Sources: Polyhedron Gencon Special Edition 2e. They are created when a virtuous person dies while another person is in their care. Even in death, the sacred watcher continues to watch over their ward until someone else can take over that responsibility. A sacred watcher spends most of its time on the Ethereal Plane, out of sight, and unable to attack, but still able to keep watch.

When manifesting on the Material Plane, a watcher takes on a silvery translucent radiance, and can use a positive energy touch attack. Even if destroyed, a sacred watcher restores itself in a matter of days. Only by fulfilling its purpose can its existence be ended. The example presented is a humanoid watcher, but the sacred watcher template can also be applied to many other creature types. Source: Book of Exalted Deeds 3e. From the neck down, they are winged bulls with five legs.

Each shedu wears a crown, as if it was the ruler of some lost kingdom, but a shedu never discusses its crown with anyone. Shedim epitomise lawful good, roaming the Astral, Ethereal and Material Planes helping those in need. A shedu has psionic abilities that permit it to move easily between planes, and which offer protection against evil beings. If it needs to engage in physical combat, a shedu will trample opponents. Shedim communicate using telepathy.

The more powerful of their kind are sometimes referred to as a greater shedu. Shyfts are inconspicuous by nature, and have elevated not being noticed to an artform. Their ability to listen in on conversations from the Ethereal Plane makes them efficient spies, but they also excel in assassination, thievery and other criminal activities.

When encountered, shyfts are either travelling solo, or in small bands of up to eight. They live in settlements with clans of up to twenty. Shyfts speak Common. They have darkvision and minor resistances to cold, fire and sonic attacks.

Like many other planetouched, shyfts cannot be raised or resurrected. This cabin was constructed by a ranger of the Far North before the Ten-Towns were founded. Since then, the cabin has become a refuge for those seeking sanctuary from the howling glacial winds. In the adventure, a sage named Macreadus recently accidentally incinerated himself, leaving a charred skeleton behind in the cabin.

His spirit lingers in the Border Ethereal manifesting as a giant, floating, spectral head. He departs only if the adventurers fix a flaw in the magical item he was attempting to activate. A black cabin spirit can interact with the Material Plane only in limited ways. A spirit can see other spirits in the Border Ethereal, and it can move around inside the cabin and in the area within 30 feet of it.

A spirit can also attempt to move small Material Plane objects around, perhaps to write a message in the dust or to tap someone on the shoulder. Sources: Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden 5e. Terithran spend most of their lives asleep in Deep Ethereal tombs made entirely of the ether.

A terithran views arcane magic as an abomination. If magic is used on the Material Plane that is powerful enough for a terithran in the Ethereal to sense, it will awaken and travel to the Material Plane to punish the offender. Although a terithran can slash with its sharp claws, it is its array of magic powers that is more likely to end the life of a magic-user. Since it can use its powers only a limited number of times while visiting the Material Plane, a terithran usually drags an opponent back to the Ethereal to finish them off.

This imprisonment has driven many of them to madness and hostility, and they seek only to absorb enough magical energy to be able to transport themselves back to their home Plane. Thaumavores appear insubstantial, since they exist partially in the Ethereal, and appear to move through the air by swimming. They have mouths filled with razor-sharp teeth and their eight-foot long bodies radiate a noxious purple-green aura.

Thaumavores can detect magic and seek out strong sources so that they can consume the magical energies, much like a rod of absorption. While magic drained from a spellcaster does return over the next few hours, the draining process removes prepared spells, often leaving the caster relatively helpless.

A thaumavore will plane shift home once it has absorbed enough energy. Thuamvores have a number of other spell-like abilities, but they must expend some of the magical energy they have drained to use them. Sources: Towers of High Sorcery 3e. It has wisps of ethereal protomatter for flesh. Thought eaters lurk on the Border Ethereal. When they detect a target—someone with psionic capability or high intelligence—they shift into the Material Plane to attack.

They can only remain there for a limited amount of time, as their ethereal flesh quickly dissipates, killing them. Thought eaters drain psionic ability or intelligence. Early versions can do this at a distance, and can attack Material targets from the Ethereal. The 3rd Edition version must make a touch attack to drain a target.

Let's allow ourselves to speculate a bit. Dimensional marauders "travel the planes", and I guess that means they don't have a fixed territory and follow sources of food instead. If you look at their stat block you'll see their level is a lot lower than that of almost any creature they're likely to find in the planes. This means they're opportunistic, looking for creatures that have already been weakened by some other hazard or who are busy fighting someone else.

Then they jump in and take a bite. If the meal is still kicking, they might run away, otherwise they stay and finish it off. Evolutionary pressure has given then a rudimentary sapience, which aids them in evaluating the strength of potential prey.

It also often leads marauders to the conclusion that the easiest prey can be found in the world, near population centers filled with juicy non-combatants whom they might even be able to beat in a fair fight. Not that they'll fight fair. They have low-light vision, a ground speed of 7 and a teleport speed of 3.

Their basic attack is a bite with that cool triangular jaw. They can also use their standard action to assume a Planephase Form, partially shifting to some other plane. This gives them the Insubstantial and Phasing qualities for a turn, or until they miss with an attack. They can also sustain this with a minor action, but it ends immediately when they take psychic damage. While in this state, the marauder can use a Reality Warp attack melee 1 vs.

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Marauders spend most of their time on the Ethereal Plane , invisibly stalking creatures on the Material. When a victim is found, the marauder strikes quickly, using its ability to attack and flee to the safety of the Ethereal Plane before the target counterattacks. Victims often believe, much to their dismay, that shutting themselves behind doors or magical wards will thwart a marauder. Travel in the Ethereal Plane attracts marauders.

Spells such as blink and ethereal jaunt make the user stand out against the background of the Material Plane. This increases the likelihood an ethereal marauder will follow the creature back to its home and attack it when it is vulnerable. The ethereal marauder's head is triangular, extending from the body into a large, triangular mouth with a single, hook-like claw at each point and rows of teeth going back down the throat also going down each point.

Like the ethereal filcher and phase spider, the ethereal marauder is an expert at traveling between the Ethereal Plane and the Material Plane. Unlike the filcher, whose purpose for doing this is to steal, the marauder is more like the spider and does it for the purpose of hunting.

It looks in the ethereal plane for a place where it suspects a victim will be, and then goes to the material plane, hoping to catch its prey unaware. It bites them, kills them, and then shifts back to the ethereal plane.