Help Identifying a specific Monster

[Inukotsu17]

Hello fellow GM's and players, I have run into an issue with my game;

A while back, they entered a Transmutation wizards tower and I found a pretty interesting enemy/monster for them to encounter...a mask that would possess/consume the wearer's soul and just become them albeit with the mask still covering their face.

I for the life of me CANNOT remember what it was called but I vaguely remember those descriptions of it; consuming the wearer, the creature just being the mask, and if the mask was removed from the body it would just fall to the floor.

Anyone have any idea what it is called? It would really help because for whatever reason(without knowing it's true intents)they...recruited it to join on their adventure. Major thanks.

P.S. I have searched in google, the forums, and I have had 0% luck in firguring it out and looking through every single monster entry is just...a lot but I will keep trying.

[DeathlessOne]

I am not familiar with that particular creature but it sounds like a custom monster (or at least 3rd party). It has some themes of the Spirit Oni (mask) and the Exiled Shade ('possession'), so it could be a haunted mask of a Spirit Oni that once served as a familiar for a transmutation wizard.

What were the levels of the characters? That might help narrow down the list of monsters you need to search through.

[Inukotsu17]

DeathlessOne wrote:

I am not familiar with that particular creature but it sounds like a custom monster (or at least 3rd party). It has some themes of the Spirit Oni (mask) and the Exiled Shade ('possession'), so it could be a haunted mask of a Spirit Oni that once served as a familiar for a transmutation wizard.

What were the levels of the characters? That might help narrow down the list of monsters you need to search through.

The dungeon was a CR 10-12, I will look into the Oni and I am pretty sure it wasn't 3rd party(I never allow 3rd party, too many bad OP instances with characters) but it might've been since I have had no luck in finding it.

[Zepheri]

It could be an intelligent mask. Remember that if the creature don't pass a savings throw against the item ego that creature is possessed by the item

[Inukotsu17]

Zepheri wrote:

It could be an intelligent mask. Remember that if the creature don't pass a savings throw against the item ego that creature is possessed by the item

That's an idea, I could probably make that idea work. I like making Intelligent items, thanks for the suggestion!

[Belafon]

Avatarna Rakshasa?

Mask Golem?

Intellect Devourer?

I agree with DeathlessOne that this really does sound like a customized Spirit Oni. That doesn't necessarily make it 3rd party. There's a lot of Paizo monsters, especially in modules and PFS scenarios, that were custom and aren't easily findable online. I remember one PFS scenario had Brain Spiders that attached themselves to your head, attacking you with dominate monster. Just double-checked to verify the name in the scenario, but "Brain Spider" doesn't appear in Archives of Nethys.