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Faltering Sapient Green Orb Creature 1

Recall Knowledge - Aberration (Occultism): DC 17
Unspecific Lore: DC 15
Specific Lore: DC 12

Elite | Normal | Weak

Faltering Sapient Green Orb Creature 1

Source Guilt of the Grave World pg. 24
Perception +7 (darkvision)
Languages Orbian; telepathy 30 feet
Skills Athletics +6
Str +2 Dex +4 Con +3 Int +1 Wis +0 Cha -1
Confusion Due to their confused state, the faltering green orbs take a –2 circumstance penalty to Intelligence- based checks.
Mistvision A sapient orb always ignores concealment caused by fog, smoke, and mist.
AC 16
Fort +4
Ref +7
Will +2
HP 20
Immunities bleed, cold, disease, poison
Speed 5 feet (hover), fly 60 feet
Melee [one-action] slam +6 , Damage 1d6+2 bludgeoning
Bitter Mist [two-actions] Frequency once per minute; Effect The faltering green orb emits a green mist (as the spell) centered on itself. Sapient orbs can choose to emit transparent mist, granting no concealment. Additionally, any enemy in the mist when it appears, that enters the mist, or that ends its turn in the mist must attempt a DC 21 Will save unless they are fascinated. Critical Success The target is unaffected and becomes temporarily immune for 24 hours. Success The target is unaffected. Failure The target becomes confused for 1 round. Critical Failure The target becomes confused for 1 round, then sickened 1.

All Creatures in "Sapient Orb"

NameLevelSpoiler
Faltering Sapient Green Orb1Guilt of the Grave World
Sapient Purple Orb4
Sapient Green Orb6

Sapient Orb

These enigmatic, orb-shaped beings seem to have no home world, organized society, traditions, or religion. Sightings of the orbs are sporadic—they briefly appear in large numbers, then vanish for a year or more, only to reappear in an entirely different region of space for a few months. Scholars and friends of the orbs have noticed that each time the orbs appear, their numbers have diminished.

Sapient orbs occasionally form permanent bonds, merging three to six orbs (always of the same type, as far as anyone knows) into a cluster called a luminant. Only sapient orbs at advanced stages of their life cycle can form such clusters, and the merge is permanent and irrevocable. Luminants are highly intelligent but far more reclusive than other sapient orbs, making it difficult to discern their motivations or purpose in sapient orb society.

Sapient Orb Origins

Some who have interacted with sapient orbs believe, based largely on the imagery the orbs display, that they originate from the Drift—or at least that they once lived there in large numbers. However, anyone who's asked a purple orb about their home world has found that the beings are uniquely unwilling (or perhaps unable) to identify it, if such a place even exists. Sapient green orbs are willing to talk about their home world, but their inclination to lie makes them a terrible source of information.

Sapient Gray Orbs

Neither sapient purple orbs nor sapient green orbs are especially willing to acknowledge the existence of sapient gray orbs. The gray orbs, for their part, love to talk, though even after hours of conversation, it's difficult to discern what, if anything, they truly had to say. Sapient gray orbs are notable mostly for being completely dull; those who have encountered them often describe the experience as one that made them vaguely uncomfortable, but not for any discernible reason. Scholars who study sapient orbs once assumed that gray orbs' eagerness for conversation would lead to secret knowledge of sapient orbs' origins; they were wrong. No gray orb has ever been known to say anything interesting to anyone.