Onaryx

One of the oldest of the Elder Evil species, the bat-like onaryx are born predators possessed of both power and prowess that few can match upon battlefield. Theirs is a militant race whose people swell forces both as rank-and-file soldiers as well as commanding officers and even generals. Fortunately, their constant warfare (even among their peers) has caused both the waxing and waning of their empires over the past millennia, thus preventing them ever posing a unified threat. Arrogantly, many onaryx think of themselves as superior to other races.

Onaryx have become an extremely diverse race, and a good many mutate as they age. Few understand why the mutations occur, and a variety of explanations such as sickness and forced genetic alterations have been credited as the cause of the shift. For the most part, they are hideously formed creatures, with strangely jointed bodies that appear almost crumpled beneath thick knots of sinew and muscle.

When standing upright, an onaryx can twist its wings alongside its arms so that they fold backwards, making them nearly undetectable. Their legs too are sized similar to those of a human; however, the knees turn slightly outward and its feet are flat, wide and clawed, extending a from its raised ankle. Their mottled flesh has a slightly greasy sheen and few hairs. Coloration ranges from drab grayish-green, to ocher and dark brown, with dark stains and blotches that make them difficult to spot in the dark. Nails and teeth are a sickly ocher color rimed with umber. Depending on age, they stand between 6 to 18 feet.

Onayrx prefer the darkness of both night and space and use their uncanny abilities to navigate in complete darkness. They also wield advanced technological weaponry and equipment developed over thousands of years. They speak their own language, as well as Ultari, the official language of the Hegemony.

Age Categories

As an onaryx ages, it undergoes a slow metamorphosis. As a result, many of an onaryx’s abilities, attacks, and other statistics change as an onaryx grows older. These increases are divided into 5 age categories—as a onaryx ages, its base statistics change as noted on Table: Onaryx Age Categories.

Table: Onaryx Age Categories

Age Category	Age in Years	CR	Size	Hit Dice	Natural Armor	Sonic Cry
Mature	15	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base +1
Ravager	16–50	Base + 1	Base	Base + 3	Base	Base + 2
Dread	26–75	Base + 3	Base + 1	Base + 5	Base + 2	Base + 4
Titan	76–125	Base + 5	Base + 1	Base + 8	Base + 5	Base + 6
Elder	126–250	Base + 7	Base + 2	Base + 11	Base + 8	Base + 8

Table: Onaryx Ability Scores

Age Category	Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
Mature	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base
Ravager	Base + 2	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base
Dread	Base + 4	Base	Base + 2	Base	Base	Base + 2
Titan	Base + 8	Base –2	Base + 4	Base	Base + 2	Base + 2
Elder	Base + 12	Base –2	Base + 6	Base + 2	Base + 2	Base + 4

Table: Onaryx Attacks and Speeds

Size	Fly Speed (maneuverability)2	Claws	Sonic Cry
Medium	90 ft. (good)	1d6	60 feet
Large	120 ft. (good)	1d8	90 feet
Huge	150 ft. (average)	2d6	120 feet

Age Category: The age category’s name.

Age in Years: The onaryx’s actual age.

CR: This column modifies the onaryx’s base CR.

Size: This shows how many size categories by which to increase the onaryx’s base size, depending on its age (from Medium to Large and from Large to Huge). An onaryx does not gain the standard increases to ability scores when it achieves a larger size—instead, an onaryx gains ability score increases according to its age category, as indicated on the Onaryx Ability Scores table.

Hit Dice: This shows how many additional Hit Dice an onaryx gains over its base Hit Dice as it grows. Increases to Hit Dice grant extra hit points, feats, and skill ranks as well as increase the onaryx’s base attack bonus and base save bonuses. An onaryx has skill ranks equal to 6 + its Intelligence modifier per Hit Die. An onaryx’s increases to ability scores for gaining Hit Dice are included in the total ability score increases (see Table: Onaryx Ability Scores).

Natural Armor: This shows by what amount the onaryx’s base natural armor bonus increases with each age category.

Combat: Table: Onaryx Attacks and Speeds lists the attacks an onaryx can employ and the damage it deals. It also lists the distance of an onaryx’s sonic cry. Additional sonic cries described below are gained as the onaryx’s reaches a specific age categories.

Fly Speed: An onaryx’s fly speed increases as indicated, according to its size.

Claws: These primary attacks deal the indicated damage plus the onaryx’s Strength bonus.

Special Abilities All onaryx, regardless of age, share the following special abilities:

Battle-tech trained (Ex)

Onaryx are trained from birth in the use of high tech weaponry and armor, and as a result are automatically proficient with martial weapons as well as modern firearms, tech-based martial weapons, and explosives (including arc guns, atom rifles, EMP guns, gravity guns, Id guns, laser guns, null blades, monowhips, paralytic needlers, plasma guns, plasma javelins, sonic guns, stun guns, vortex guns, x-lasers, and zero guns; see Technological Weapons for further details on such weapons).

Fast Healing (Su)

An onaryx has fast healing equal to ½ its racial hit dice.

Flyby Rake (Ex)

Onaryx are skilled at swooping down on opponents and using their claws to rake them to shreds as they fly past. Whenever they are at least 30 feet from a target, they can attempt an opposed Fly skill check against their intended target’s Reflex save. If the creature succeeds, the opponent loses its ability to take any attacks of opportunity against the onaryx during the flyby. Furthermore, any critical threats dealt to the target are automatically confirmed.

Onaryx Senses (Ex)

Onaryx have darkvision 60 ft. and blindsense 90 ft. They see four times as well as a human in dim light and twice as well in normal light.

Wing Jumper

Deft at using their wings to propel themselves, onaryx gain a +4 racial bonus on Acrobatics checks to jump and take no armor check penalty on Acrobatics checks made to jump, whether from wearing armor or carrying a medium or heavy load.

Additionally, onaryx gain the following special ability that improves as it ages.

Sonic Cry (Ex)

An onaryx is capable of using its unique vocal structures to produce potent sonic effects. The sonic cry produces a ray-like wave of sonic energy that varies in form and intensity depending on the onaryx’s age category.

Using a sonic cry is a standard action. An onaryx can use its sonic cry once every 1d4 rounds. A sonic cry always starts at an intersection adjacent to the onaryx and extends in a direction of the onaryx’s choice. The save DC against a sonic cry is 10 + 1/2 onaryx’s HD + onaryx’s Constitution modifier, though the type of save required depends on the type of cry it uses, as noted in the descriptions of each cry below.

A mature onaryx knows only a single sonic cry; however, it gains additional cries as it increases in age. Once a cry is selected, it cannot be changed. When gaining a new cry, the onaryx is free to choose from any group of cries, provided it meets the minimum age requirements for that sonic cry.

Alternately, an onaryx with class levels can learn any of the cries below in place of a feat that it would normally gain, provided it meets the minimum age level for learning the sonic cry. It cannot exchange feats that must be chosen from a specific list, such as a wizard’s item creation or metamagic bonus feats or a fighter’s bonus combat feats.

Mature

The following cries can be selected by a mature or older onaryx.

Ravager

The following cries can be selected by a ravager or older onaryx.

Dread

The following cries can be selected by a dread or older onaryx.

Titan

The following cries can be selected by a titan or older onaryx.

Elder

The following cries can be selected only by an elder onaryx.