Devourer (Lankhmar)

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The Devourers are a race of rapacious alien merchants whose only purpose is to sell trash and reap huge profits. They set up shop in large urban areas (such as Lankhmar) and, using their potent powers of illusion, persuade the populace that they are selling fabulous treasures at bargain rates.
In their true form, Devourers resemble large iron statues, something like iron golems. Their illusionary powers allow them to appear as anything and anyone they desire (usually the most inoffensive and naive salesman imaginable, for example). Their illusions cannot be dispelled, nor is there a saving throw. They can only be penetrated by magical means.
==Combat==
Devourers prefer not to fight, but they can be awesome enemies. Devourers are 75% likely to be armed with enchanted weapons (+2 to +4). They are intelligent and cunning, and they will withdraw from a fight they cannot win.
The Devourers are capable of disguising the true nature of any object within 100 feet. Illusory items can be seen truly only by using true sight, Ningauble's magic blindfold, or through similar magical means. Once disguised, items retain their illusory appearance until the last Devourer leaves the world.
==Habitat/Society==
The Devourers originate in a parallel universe, but they have spread to numerous other worlds, bankrupting them and ransacking their wealth. Devourers carry individual type Q and Z treasures. Note that their fabulous hoards (the D, F, H type treasures) are hidden on the Devourers' home plane (which remains undiscovered). The hoards are all extremely well guarded.
==Legends & Lore==
The Devourer is an alien merchant from a magical dimension whose only purpose in life is to sell things. The junkier these things are the better the strange mind of the Devourer likes them.
Each Devourer is a 20th level Illusionist. Scout Devourers come to another plane and open single stores. These stores are filled with seemingly wondrous magical items; all at bargain store prices. Each of these items has several different types of illusions on them. If the audience for these goods is found to be large, more and more Devourers come onto the new plane and sell more and more junk. Eventually, on plane after plane, the Devourers create slave planets where the inhabitants struggle to meet the mortgage demands on piles of magical junk.
Special Att/Def: Devourers are all powerful spell casters (20th level Illusionists) and will use their magic to great advantage in all situations.
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