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Soul Eater
The Devouring Void (CR 7)
Home Plane: Gray Waste / Hades
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Themes: Harvester of mortal essence
Philosophy: The soul eater is a fearsome—and nebulous—fiend known for its relentless hunger for souls. If these creatures have a real name, they haven’t revealed it to any planewalker, and the yugoloths certainly aren’t telling. Their gaunt forms move with eerie swiftness and silence, their elongated tentacle-arms always moving, always seeking life force. In the deathly gray landscape of Hades, these fiends can sniff out mortality from leagues away, and they are drawn to the living like dark moths to a doomed flame. They’re not driven by emotion or cunning, but by insatiable hunger.
Their favourite kind of sustenance seems to be the souls of cutters on the very brink of death. While they are not averse to striking the killing blow themselves, soul eaters are known for their unsettling habit of watching from a distance as a combat unfolds, only sweeping in at the last moment as the delicious killing blow is landed. They linger over cutters who are in their dying throes, almost reverentially. But when the time comes, they float over the would-be corpse, their appendages twitching in a horrifying ecstasy as they drink. Soul eaters are particularly feared by planewalkers because once they’ve drunk a soul, it’s virtually impossible to restore the victim. Only the most powerful of rituals or magics is able to reverse the effect.
Soul Eaters are also known for their implacable tracking of targets. Lower Planar summoners will conjure to pursue a specific quarry. Chant goes these fiends are able to locate a named target anywhere on the same plane of existence, and they fly with a frightening speed. Although those who deal with soul eaters are warned, they are prone to turning on their masters, if they get the slightest chance. Summoning a soul eater in Sigil is strictly illegal, punishable by a one-way trip to the Wyrm.
Canonical Sources: Bestiary 2 [PF1e] p254; Bestiary 2 [PF2e] p247
Source: Jon Winter-Holt
