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Natural Armor:-
Natural Armor +348 0 gp
Natural Weapon(s):-
Tail (10) (2d6)167.82
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Slam (d6)
- Passive Abilities:
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Living Weapon (d6)
- Attack Abilities:
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Restraining Attack29.28 150 gp
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Fire Attack (2d6)12.78 1600 gp
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Palm Burst100 gp
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Iron Grip11.51 500 gp
Free Abilities:-
Fire Retalation (2d6)12.09
- Reaction Abilities:
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Thick Hide Absorption, Adept75
Monster Bits:-
300 Elemental Essence2 gp
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100 Elemental Shard3 gp
Advancing with sinuous grace, the snake-man's body appears forged from fire-filled bronze, evoking an anticipation of metal scraping. Eyes, lips, and the interscale skin emit a fiery glow, suggesting intense heat. The pointed metal rod it wields resembles a blacksmith's tool, having absorbed the forge's relentless intensity.
Salamanders slither across the Sea of Ash on the Elemental Plane of Fire, their sinuous coils and jagged spines smoldering. Intense heat washes off their bodies, while their yellow eyes glow like candles in the deep-set hollows of their hawkish faces.
Salamanders adore power, and they delight in setting fire to things. Outside their home plane, they play among the burning skeletons of charred trees as forest fires rage around them, or slither down the slopes of erupting volcanoes to linger in fire pits and magma floes.
Fire Snakes
Salamanders hatch from eggs that are two-foot-diameter spheres of smoldering obsidian. When a salamander is ready to hatch, it melts its way through the egg's thick shell and emerges as a fire snake. A fire snake matures into a salamander adult within a year.
Slaves of the Efreet
Long ago, the efreet hired azers to build the fabled City of Brass, but then failed in their attempt to enslave that mystical race when the azers' work was done. Turning instead to strike against the salamanders, the efreet had better luck in establishing a slave race, which they use to unleash war and destruction across the planes.
Salamanders despise the azers, believing that if the efreet had succeeded in dominating that race of elemental crafters, the salamanders would still be free. The efreet use this enmity to their own advantage, stoking the salamanders' hatred and pitting them against the efreets' former servants.
The efreet suffer salamanders to serve no other master; when efreet encounter salamanders dedicated to the cults of Elemental Evil, they slay them rather than taking them as slaves.
Domineering Nobles
Although salamanders follow the destructive impulses of their fiery nature, slavery under the efreet has impacted the culture of free salamanders. They rule their own societies according to the efreet model, in which larger and stronger salamanders claim dominion over their lesser kin.
As salamanders age, they increase in size and status, rising to positions of power as cruel nobles among their kind. Nobles rule wandering bands of salamanders, which move across the Elemental Plane of Fire like desert nomads, raiding other communities for treasure.
Living Forges
Salamanders generate intense heat, and when they fight, their weapons glow red and sear the bodies of their enemies on contact. Even approaching a salamander is dangerous, since flesh blisters and burns in its proximity.
This inherent heat is an asset to salamanders' skill as smiths, allowing them to soften and shape iron and steel with their bare hands. Although not as meticulous as azers, salamanders number among the greatest metalsmiths in all the planes. Powerful creatures summon them as warriors, but others enlist the salamanders for their crafting skills, or bind them to forges and ovens to generate limitless heat.
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