So, I thought this was a Starfinder monster but I asked there and no one could find it, so I think it's a 2e Pathfinder monster. All I remember is they were evil-aligned, and it was mainly because they think they are the only conscious life, and that other creatures don't have any thoughts or feelings, so they can do anything they want to them. Does this ring any bells?
Do you remember roughly what level-range a party was supposed to be at to encounter it?
I think it was mid-level like 7-12 or so?
It's very little to go on...
I mean to me you're describing Fey in general !
I assumed an Aberration, honestly. Do you recall what it looked like?
Not really. This is so weird, I remember it so clearly, but no one can find it.
It's cause we don't have much to go on!
Do you remember its powers? Appearance? Type?
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So, I thought this was a Starfinder monster but I asked there and no one could find it, so I think it's a 2e Pathfinder monster. All I remember is they were evil-aligned, and it was mainly because they think they are the only conscious life, and that other creatures don't have any thoughts or feelings, so they can do anything they want to them. Does this ring any bells?
PCs.
Not really. This is so weird, I remember it so clearly, but no one can find it.
It sounds familiar to me, as well.
Shoggoths?
Shoggoths description:
The first shoggoths were created by an alien species to serve as mindless beasts of burden. Their vast bulk, incredible strength, and amorphous nature made them useful slave labor, and their ability to spontaneously form whatever new eyes, mouths, limbs, and other organs they might need made them incredibly versatile.
Eventually, the shoggoths developed enough intelligence to rebel against their masters, and now they lurk, patient but potent, in the Lightless deeps.
A shoggoth has goals and methods unknowable to humanoid beings. They remember their eons of servitude and, compared to their mysterious masters, humans, elves, dwarves and other intelligent beings are mere specks which crawl upon the surface of the world, indistinguishable from animals. When a shoggoth rolls its immense, hideous body over a band of explorers, engulfing them in a gelatinous press of flesh and gnawing teeth, it is not so much evil as uncaring.
Shoggoths can become the object of worship for humanoid cults dedicated to chaos and entropy. The shoggoth does not respond to this worship, but it can be counted on to consume any hapless victim the cult can capture and sacrifice to it.
Rumors of shoggoths that have developed even greater intellects are, one would hope, just that, for the damage a shoggoth capable of reasoning could wreak upon a world is unsettling to say the least.
So I'd say no.
Is it perhaps the Alghollthu Master (Aboleth) ?
It has the "better than thou" attitude, so maybe?
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I swear this is a Dominion of the Black species, but can’t find it for the life of me.
I swear this is a Dominion of the Black species, but can’t find it for the life of me.
This was my first train of thought as well. I'm gonna have to really pour through my books to find this.
EDIT: Just to ensure maximum efficiency here, we are certain it is a Pathfinder creature right? Not a Starfinder or D&D creature? Perhaps even one that is shared between Pathfinder and D&D, but with differing lore? Because I still have all my D&D books from 3.5 and beyond. I have no issue checking them too. :D