Mythic Monsters

We meet once again! By the time this blog goes live, it’s likely that some of you canny subscribers will already have your PDFs in hand, so welcome to the last preview blog for War of Immortals! Larger than life mythic heroes demand equally terrifying threats, and we made sure to load some up for your adventures.

First, there’s a variety of mythic role templates. These role templates are based on four of the base road maps for monster creation presented in GM Core, to help make it easy to create your own mythic monsters from scratch, but they can be applied to any existing monster. Each of these templates is also presented with a pre-templated monster to show what it looks like in practice, so in addition to the monsters I’ll be talking about next (which have tons of story elements and hooks included), you also have stat blocks for the mythic gogiteth, mythic ogre boss, mythic lich, and mythic griffon to show simple examples of mythic monsters across a variety of levels.

The Oliphaunt’s rampage. Art by Sandra Posada.

However, truly mythic monsters are terrifying forces whose impact shapes the world itself, and we’ve packaged up seven of the most wondrous creatures imaginable to expand your games with. Each of these monsters includes a couple pages of lore and fiction showcasing them in the game world, as well as examples of how to deploy them in adventures across all levels of play. A party of 5th-level characters likely won’t face the demon lord Vulot directly in combat, but his activities can steer the course of their destinies even at that humble point in their careers!

Some mythic monsters, like the beautiful and ephemeral creatures known as sublime breaths, might use their mythic powers to evade the party. Relatively weak as a combatant, a sublime breath might dance forever out of the party’s reach while possessing an essential key to whatever plot they seek to unravel. Only by outwitting and outmaneuvering one of these elusive fey will the party be able to truly overcome the challenge they represent.

Other terrifying monsters like the kaiju Agyra might be engaged with as a disastrous series of hazards at lower levels, only for a party that survives an encounter to grow in power and finally face Agyra in true combat. Wielding mythic weapons, clad in mythic armor, and enshrined in mythic power, will your party be able to cut through Agyra’s conjured hurricanes and strike down one of the most massively monstrous creatures to ever terrorize Golarion?

To match might and wits with these mystical mythic monsters, be sure to preorder War of Immortals product page today!

Michael Sayre (he/him)
Director of Rules & Lore