#tsukumogami

[thefluffmother]

i made more

i love the monster designs

last set: Here

[catbatart]

Got to do some of the badge art for Ohayocon this year! The theme was "supernatural," so I had a lot of fun!

[lyricalive]

Congratulations! 🎊 👶

I imagine Raiko likes to "adopt" and mentor newborn tsukumogami. Especially if they're percussion instruments that were previously used by her band… If you cause a spirit to be born, it's like your child. 🥁 "Lyrica, haven't you always wanted to be a big sister?" 🎹 "That's WAY different!"

[northernolddragon]

[thecreaturecodex]

Kyōrinrin

Image © Matthew Meyer, accessed at Yokai.com here

[Not gonna lie, as the kyōrinrin was being written, I realized it was becoming increasingly autobiographical. No secret to anyone who's been around for any length of time, but I love books and I love reading. When I was a kid, I was really good at making stuff up and seeming authoritative about it (although now I'm much better at admitting when I don't know). And there certainly were times when I was a teacher when I really wished I could just beam information directly into a recalcitrant student's head instead of telling them for the 10th time that ChatGPT was just going to regurgitate garbage and all the information they needed is actually in the text I assigned them, but noOOoo... wait, where was I?]

Kyōrinrin CR 8 LN Construct (tsukumogami) This creature appears to be something like a miniature dragon made out of paper. Multiple scrolls make up its serpentine body and long flexible arms, all covered in writing. It wears tasseled scrolls on its head like a wig, and the covers of books like a kimono.

A kyōrinrin is a tsukumogami formed from neglected scrolls and books. Regardless of the original format of the text, upon creation it tears and joins its pages together to form a sinuous, snake-like body with long arms and a beaky head. Kyōrinrin are motivated by knowledge, both to collect more of it and to encourage others to embrace it. They tend to lair in abandoned libraries and scriptoriums, but any place they take up residence will become a library of sorts, as the kyōrinrin fills it with the books they have collected. Kyōrinrin hate illiteracy and incuriosity, and will force people to read upon threat of violence if their temper is up.

Kyōrinrin will enter combat against inveterate book haters, or to defend their stashes of books and scrolls from vandalism or theft. They are experts with using magical scrolls, and they typically carry a number of scrolls for offense and defense. Their natural attacks are fairly weak, but bear a couple of nasty surprises. Their bite is essentially a scissoring paper cut, and inflicts deep wounds that bleed for a long time. Kyōrinrin use prestidigitation spells to clean any pages that might be marred with the bloodstains that result. A kyōrinrin can psychically force the contents of the texts making up its body into the head of the creature they grab, which both overwhelms the creature’s senses and imparts their knowledge. This intimate knowledge of their text lasts only briefly—a creature that intends to employ a kyōrinrin’s teachings in the long term usually has to read them the old fashioned way. Most kyōrinrin are happy to allow themselves to be read, as long as their readers are polite.

Most kyōrinrin has personalities that are best described as “passionately nerdy”. They want other creatures to learn, particularly about their area of expertise. Other monsters, particularly tsukumogami, view them as sages worthy of respect, although often they only listen to the parts of a kyōrinrin’s teachings they want to hear. For their part, kyōrinrin are often embarrassed to admit that they don’t know something, and may simply make something up if at a loss for an answer. Kyōrinrin get along famously with globgogabgalabs, and the two creatures may share a library lair for years or decades.

Kyōrinrin CR 8 XP 4,800 LN Small construct (tsukumogami) Init +5; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +7 Defense AC 22, touch 16, flat-footed 17 (+1 size, +5 Dex, +4 armor, +2 natural) hp 95 (9d10+10 plus 45) Fort +3, Ref +8, Will +5; +4 vs. magical writing effects DR 10/magic and slashing; Resist cold 10, electricity 10 Defensive Abilities soul powered; Weakness haunted, vulnerable to fire Offense Speed 30 ft., climb 15 ft. Melee 2 slams +15 (1d4+2 plus grab), bite +15 (1d4+2 plus bleed) Special Attacks bleed (1d4), improved scroll use, READ! Spell-like Abilities CL 9th, concentration +12 Constant—mage armor, prestidigitation, read magic 3/day—comprehend languages, identify, share language 1/day—explosive runes (DC 16), parchment swarm (DC 18), sepia snake sigil (DC 16) Statistics Str 14, Dex 21, Con -, Int 18, Wis 15, Cha 16 Base Atk +9; CMB +10; CMD 25 (cannot be tripped) Feats Careful Reader, Combat Expertise, Nimble Moves, Stealthy, Weapon Finesse Skills Climb +10, Escape Artist +13,Knowledge (any three) +14, Linguistics +14, Perception +9, Spellcraft +11, Stealth +17 Languages Common, Senzar, 7 others SQ intellectual, word sense Ecology Environment urban Organization solitary or collection (2-5) Treasure double standard Special Abilities Haunted (Ex) A kyōrinrin is treated as undead for the purposes of positive and negative energy. Any spell or effect that has special effects when used against the undead affects the kyōrinrin as if they were undead as well. Improved Scroll Use (Su) A kyōrinrin can use scrolls from any spell list as if they were on its own spell list. In addition, it can use its own Intelligence score to set the save DC for the spell and use its own caster level if it is higher than that of the scroll. The kyōrinrin must have already deciphered the writing on the scroll to use this ability. Intellectual (Ex) A kyōrinrin gains all Knowledge skills and Linguistics as class skills. READ! (Su) As part of the action to maintain a grapple, the kyōrinrin can force the information it contains into the mind of the grappled creature. The creature must succeed a DC 17 Will save or be stunned for 1d3 rounds as it processes the information. A creature that fails this save cannot be affected by the same kyōrinrin’s READ! ability for the next 24 hours. During that time, it gains a +4 bonus to any Knowledge checks related to the topics contained in the kyōrinrin’s body, and can make these Knowledge checks untrained. A kyōrinrin can also use this ability on a willing adjacent creature without grappling. This is a mind-influencing effect, and the save DC is Charisma based. Soul-Powered (Su) A tsukumogami adds its Charisma modifier to hit points for every Hit Die it has. Word Sense (Su) A kyōrinrin can automatically detect the general topic of a piece of writing by looking at it, as well as whether the writing contains a magical scroll or tome. If it concentrates on a text within 30 feet for 1 round per 100 pages, it can gain a sense of that text’s contents as if it had skimmed it.

[nightmaresyrup]

Kanazuchi bo and Ooka

Always a the fun yokai pair to draw.

[switchbit]

draw every day - week forty two yokai

[danieesketches]

WIP