Rakshasa, Tataka

Tataka CR 15

XP 51,200
LE Large outsider (native, rakshasa, shapechanger)
Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft., scent, true seeing; Perception +19

DEFENSE

AC 28, touch 13, flat-footed 24 (+3 Dex, +1 dodge, +15 natural, -1 size)
hp 225 (18d10+126)
Fort +18, Ref +9, Will +12
DR 15/good and piercing; SR 30

OFFENSE

Speed 40 ft.; air walk
Melee unarmed strike +24/+19/+14/+9 (2d6+7/19-20), bite +19 (1d8+3)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks detect thoughts (DC 24), martial artist
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 15th; concentration +20)

Constant—air walk, true seeing

Spells Known (CL 12th; concentration +17)

6th (3/day)—heal
5th (6/day)—flame strike (DC 20), telekinesis (DC 20)
4th (7/day)—charm monster (DC 19), dimension door, freedom of movement
3rd (7/day)—dispel magic, fireball (DC 18), haste, rage
2nd (7/day)—acid arrow, cure moderate wounds, death knell (DC 17), invisibility, misdirection
1st (8/day)—command (DC 16), mage armor, magic missile, ray of enfeeblement (DC 16), shield of faith
0 (at will)—acid splash, bleed (DC 15), light, mage hand, mending, message, open/close, prestidigitation, read magic

STATISTICS

Str 24, Dex 16, Con 25, Int 13, Wis 13, Cha 20
Base Atk +18; CMB +26; CMD 40
Feats Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Critical Focus, Dodge, Great Cleave, Improved Critical (unarmed strike), Improved Vital Strike, Power Attack, Vital Strike
Skills Acrobatics +18 (+22 when jumping), Bluff +23, Climb +17, Disguise +26, Intimidate +23, Knowledge (religion) +10, Perception +19, Sense Motive +19, Survival +16, Swim +18; Racial Modifiers +4 Bluff, +8 Disguise
Languages Common, Infernal, Undercommon
SQ change shape (any humanoid; alter self or giant form I)

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Martial Artist (Su)

A tataka’s unarmed strikes deal 2d6 points of damage. If a tataka gains monk levels, it uses its tataka unarmed strike damage or its monk unarmed strike damage, whichever is higher. Its unarmed strikes function as lawful and evil weapons for overcoming damage reduction.

Spells

A tataka casts spells as a 12th-level sorcerer. A tataka can cast spells from the cleric list as well as those normally available to a sorcerer. Cleric spells are considered arcane spells for a tataka.

ECOLOGY

Environment any
Organization solitary, pair, patrol (3-6)
Treasure standard

Tataka rakshasas are the least subtle and largest of their kind. They are philosophers and fanatics, loyal servants of the rakshasa immortals. Their familiarity with religion and its trappings makes them excellent corruptors and blasphemers. Such rakshasas might assault sacred sites or rituals directly so as to foil good works and slay holy people. A tataka holds all religions in contempt save the worship of rakshasas, and it openly mocks and assaults any who dare believe otherwise.

Tataka rakshasas are more than zealots, though, and they train from an early age in martial arts—their strikes can break bones as surely as any unarmed strike from a monk or other practitioner of such styles of combat.

A typical tataka is 12 feet tall and weighs 1,300 pounds.