Hail fellow Pathfinders!
I'll probably be posting several questions on this board as I prepare to launch a PbP set in Lastwall and the Hold of Belkzen in the next few days. I hope they don't all sink below the surface!
Cities of Golarion's entry on Vigil in Lastwall briefly mentions creatures called vodyanov; "a group of malign watermen supposedly able to transform into fish ... given their ability to hide among the animals or even local humans, these creatures have proven impossible ... to extirpate."
Have these creatures ever been presented fully as monsters (perhaps in the Carrion Crown adventure path given the Ustalavic ties)? The closest I could find was the vodyanoi in Bestiary III , but this seems more like a newtman than the monster described above.
If nothing else exists that suits me fine, I can homebrew something tailor made to fit the party, but I prefer to use canon where available.
Weren't aquatic Umber Hulks called voda..., vodya... vodoyocallem anyways?
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Never officially statted up, alas. I had plans to do so at some point but never did, but they weren't the same guys as in B3. Likewise, the grindylows I had in mind when writing the Storasta entry for Lost Cities of Golarion (and for that matter the Worldwound entry in the Campaign Setting) were different from the octo-goblins that they ended up being in B2, but that's the problem with creating a monster based on a real-world folkloric reference - somebody else will probably do it too!
Vodyanoi were aquatic umber hulks in 1st Ed, but the vodyanoy referenced in Cities of Golarion were intended to be more akin to male hags.
vodyanoy referenced in Cities of Golarion were intended to be more akin to male hags
Thanks Jason, I'll take that and run off with it, and see what I can come up with.
Plus I'd forgotten about those old aquatic umber hulks from way back when. Did anyone ever meet one on their adventures?