Dhour (GAP)

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Like so many other creatures, this resident of the Astral isn't a native, but instead hails from an unknown primematerial world or demiplane. They've only recently come to the planes, able to make it to the Astral or Ethereal but no farther. Only when some other basher uses a way out - like a portal or color pool - can the dhour travel to any other plane.
These predators, then, like to stake out such a place and wait for prey. They're as evil as any fiend, hunting their quarry down mercilessly. Chant is, they devour a body's spirit when they've got her in their amorphous clutches. The worst thing is, a body doesn't even know the dhour's after her until it's too late. The murderous beast doesn't kill immediately. It insidiously marks a cutter's spiritual aura, so that it can follow him anywhere. The dark of it is a victim must find a blood trained in such matters to find and erase the mark or he'll be put in the dead-book. The githyanki would look favorably upon any known dhour-slayer.
These creatures have also quickly gained hated enemies in the shedu, foo creatures, and devas found on this plane. These large creatures have amorphous bodies of translucent protoplasm. Pulses of light and strange organs move in their bodies. In the center of the mass is a suspended three-lobed brain. When a dhour successfully attacks with a pseudopod, it will inflict 4d4 points of damage. Dhours dislike to use their psionic powers unless they have to. For further information, look for the dhour in the PLANESCAPE MONSTROUS COMPENDIUM Appendix II.