Xorn Stanchion (Basic Lore)

Xorn Stanchion (CR 4)
Neutral - Medium - Outsider
This squat beast is as wide as it is tall. Strangely symmetrical, it has three arms, three legs, three eyes, and one huge mouth. It appears to be made from some smooth, dense material, that most closely resembles dense potters clay, frequently embedded with grit, stones, and even cobbles of stone, arranged in pleasing patterns or simply random, depending upon the specimen. Xorns are wildly alien compared to most creatures of the Prime Material, lacking the matching pairs of limbs, eyes, and ears, and with their apparent 'mouth' placed at the very tip of their bodies. They have no readily apparent 'front' or 'back', and watching Xorns performing everyday tasks is wildly disconcerting, as the Xorn will pass objects it is holding and working on around its body in seemingly random 'orbits', so that it surveys its activities with first one pair of eyes, then another, while the eye opposite the work seems to peer about in deep thought. Xorns are obviously related to the elements of Earth, given their appearance, and are also obviously not natives of the Prime Material Plane, given their appearance. Xorns are tremendously heavy, and move with a ponderous grace in twirling motions that match the way they work with their hands moving in circles. A Xorn that is moving and working at the same time either synchronizes this motion, so the object held is always towards or away from their direction of movement, or, even worse, they move things opposite their movements, so that held objects spin at dizzying speed. Xorns appear immune to the vertigo of their motions, and indeed, seem to be at least as 'creeped out' by a symmetrical creature's stillness as we are by their motion. Xorns, finally, seem able to walk through Earth the way other beings walk through air, and as such, the concept of buildings, privacy, and property seem confusing to them. Many Xorn seem offended by the very existence of 'flatters', and they are violent and aggressive against what they see as lesser vermin. This makes conversations with Xorn difficult, at best.