Eurynomus, the Corpse Eater

Eurynomus, the Corpse Eater

CR 13 XP: 25,600
CE Huge ooze (chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar)
Init +0; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +21
AC 24, touch 8, flat-footed 24 (-2 size, +16 natural)
HP 136 (16d10+48)
Fort +13, Ref +10, Will +12
DR 10/good; Immune electricity and poison; SR 24; Resist acid 10, cold 10, and fire 10
Speed 40 ft.
Melee 2 claws +21 (2d6+7), tail slap +16 (2d6+7)
Space 15 ft., Reach 15 ft.
Special Attacks Breath weapon, greater bull rush, spell-like abilities, toothy maw 3d6+3
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 16th) At will—greater teleport (self plus 50 pounds of objects only); 1/day—desecrate, plane shift (DC 18). The save DC is Charisma-based.
During Combat Eurynomus loves to muscle his enemies around, so he usually charges at the first good opportunity and uses his greater bull rush ability to fling back and hopefully knock down the toughest-looking opponent. Then it’s time for the toothy maw to do its work. When faced with a multitude of foes, Eurynomus starts with his breath weapon to even the odds. Eurynomus’s natural weapons, as well as any weapons he wields, are treated as chaotic-aligned and evil-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Str 24, Dex 10, Con 17, Int 14, Wis 15, Cha 13
Base Atk +16; CMB +25; CMD 35
Feats Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Overrun, Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Skills Acrobatics +19, Climb +26, Diplomacy +3, Intimidate +20, Knowledge (planes) +21, Perception +21, Sense Motive +21, Survival +2, Swim +26
Languages Eurynomus speaks Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Dwarven, and Elven; telepathy 100 ft.
Environment The Abyss
Organization Unique or with ghoul pack (1–4 ghasts, 2–12 ghouls)
Treasure standard
Breath Weapon (Su) Once every 1d4 rounds, Eurynomus can spew forth a cloud of foul corrosive gas from the depths of his bowels. 40-foot cone, damage 10d6 acid, Reflex DC 21 half. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Greater Bull Rush (Ex) Eurynomus receives a +8 bonus on Strength checks when making bull rush attacks. Such is the force of his impact that if his Strength check result exceeds that of his opponent by more than 5, the opponent is knocked prone in addition to being pushed back.
Toothy Maw (Ex) The vile maw in Eurynomus’ distended stomach chomps at nearby opponents in combat. If Eurynomus hits a single opponent with both his claw attacks, he can make one additional bite attack against that opponent with a +17 attack bonus that deals 3d6+3 damage.
With cloven hooves, a barbed tail, tall twisted horns, and wicked claws, this great fiend is an imposing sight. Where its belly would be, a second face licks its lips, its maw looking like it could swallow a person whole.
Eurynomus is a primal demon lord who owes allegiance to no power or prince. He and his followers rule no territory and fight for no cause. On a plane obsessed with souls, Eurynomus’s taste runs to something else: flesh.
Known as the Corpse Eater, Eurynomus has a voracious appetite for flesh of all sorts. Nothing gives him more pleasure than sucking the meat off the bones of a freshly killed victim, a passion he shares with the ghouls that follow him. He is such a glutton, so the story goes, that he grew a second mouth in his belly so he could eat faster. Whatever the truth of its origin, his horrific lower maw is legendary. It never speaks, moving only to eat or to lick its lips in anticipation of its next feeding.
The Corpse Eater does what he must to feed his addiction. He sometimes hires himself out to demon princes, though in truth he isn’t a very reliable mercenary. He often visits the Material Plane to feed, and he especially enjoys traveling to worlds at war. Blasted battle-scapes, filled with the wounded and the dying, are places of beauty to Eurynomus.
Men crying out for their mothers before the oblivion of death are like invitations to dinner for the Corpse Eater and his followers.
In some lands graced by visits from Eurynomus, funerary customs changed quickly. Several churches have taken to cremating corpses instead of burying them, to better protect the honored dead from desecration.
Source: The Book of Fiends