Protean, Amalgessi

The chaotic realm of Limbo is a place without constants or certainties, strange and overwhelming to all who are not native to its shifting tides. It does however have certain tendencies, and one of them are that large parts of Limbo take the form of roiling elemental storms, with waves, avalanches, inferno’s and tornado's mingling and crashing into one another.
To some this is the whole of Limbo, often called the Elemental Chaos, to the Amalgessi however, it is their home and birthplace.

Like all (or most) Proteans Amagessi take a anguine form. The core of their body are a writhing mass of serpent coils, with three heads and a long tail coming out of it at ever-shifting angles.

Shifting elemental energies flicker around an Amalgessi, and their bites and tail carry it onto their victims. The power carried by their tail slap in particular can blasts to all creatures close to their target and remains harmful for several rounds.
These proteans are also capable of moving though the ethereal realm, both for dimension door at will and ethereal jaunt once per day.

Amalgessi are every bit as unpredictable as any protean, but their behavior towards elemental beings is particularly baffling. They treats such beings with either unwavering hostility or servile friendliness, seemingly independent of earlier interactions or the manner of meeting.

CR: 8
CN Medium outsider (chaotic, extraplanar, protean, shapechanger)
Combat Role: Flanker

With their varied movement options it should be easy for an Amalgessi to get to the party’s casters to deal some damage. A lone amalgessi can also serve as an excellent ambusher.


While they are usually produce a steady source of both rare and common ores, lately the rumbling pits in and around the Towering Plains have been getting more and more unreliable. The new flares of burning and freezing magic are a serious hazard to the lives of the rumbleminers, though the most daring ones are making good profits of the newly occurring elementally infused ores.

After an experiment on the intercohesion of space and intraplanar coordination went horribly awry, and a large number of elementally aspected proteans have now infested the south-tidal wing of the local magical university. Adventurers are needed not only to root out the outsiders, but also to retrieve the Adamantive Jounal of Nine from the area.

Idelixar Vivo, an evolutionary thaumaturgist is hiring experienced planar travelers for a journey to study rare kinds of proteans.

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