Intellect Devourer Deadener (Basic Lore)

Intellect Devourer Deadener (CR 3)
Pure Evil - Small - Aberration
Intellect Devourers look like a rounded, folded, fleshy mass, usually a glistening grey-pink, with four powerfully clawed legs holding it up. Savants who know such things claim that they look exactly like large human brains, torn from their skulls, with legs. They have no evident heads or eyes, no muscles or ribs or evidence of breath. It is obvious that they are very alien indeed. Intellect Devourers are suspected of being from another Plane, although which it might be is speculative at best. What is known, is that Intellect Devourers possess weird, eldritch abilities, able to shrink and grow in size, project shimmering attacks like heat-waves in the air, and they are known for crawling into the dead and 'wearing' their bodies in a manner most horrid. Intellect Devourers are inimical to all life, but they particularly target sentient beings. They greatly relish those with the Spark, but they will attack and inhabit anything intelligent. In a pinch, they have even been known to attack and wear animals, but such things are apparently rare. If an Intellect Devourer attacks, kill it with sword and fire, because if you are defeated, your flesh will become the property of the...thing. Intellect Devourer Deadeners, as they are known, are the smallest and most numerous of these hideous things, although they are by no means common. They haunt ruins and wildernesses, dungeons and caves and all manner of semi-deserted places, where intelligent creatures go, but not often, and often alone. The size of a dog, Deadeners attack from a distance in a sudden flurry of eerie rays, and if they are victorious, they wear the bodies of their victims like an ill-fitting suit. Deadeners cannot 'pass' for the being they once were for any length of time, but they have been known to overcome a group of people, and then walk their stolen bodies, numbly, to a town and continue their attack.