Marrulurk
A people known as the marru once lived and warred in the world, but their civilization has long since passed into the waste, devastated and destroyed by internecine wars of terrible magnitude. As a result of these so-called Flesh Wars, the marru turned to a little-understood art called spawncraft, and in so doing created living weapons to wage their battles. These spawncrafted creatures have come to be known collectively as the spawn of marru, but are more commonly referred to as marruspawn. The marru were advanced in other areas as well, but all their arts couldn't save them from destroying themselves. However, marruspawn linger on in forgotten and blasted wastelands across many worlds.
Sometimes victory is gained through guile rather than through headstrong charges into battle. This consideration led to the marru's creation of the marrulurk subrace. The marru used these creatures as assassins or treacherous adjuncts to units that also included marrusaults and marrutacts. Marrulurks always look for an advantage in any situation, but like other subraces created by the marru, they have a racial inclination to follow the dictates of marrutacts. This compulsion is somewhat stronger in marrulurks than in marrusaults, but after generations of unmonitored breeding, the compulsion has faded to the point where some marrulurks can ignore it entirely. However, those that openly display disobedience to a marrutact in the confines of a creche are ordered immediately destroyed.
Ability Adjustments: +2 Strength, +6 Dexterity, +4 Constitution, +6 Wisdom, +4 Charisma
Favored Class (Rogue): A multiclass marrulurk's rogue class does not count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty for multiclassing.
Special Abilities:
- Small creature
- 20' base speed
- Level Adjustment: +1
- 3 Racial Hit Dice of Monstrous Humanoid
- Darkvision
- Low light vision
- Natural armour +2
- Fire resistance 5
- +4 Listen, Hide, Move Silently
- 2d6 Sneak Attack
- Point Blank Shot
- Rapid Shot
- Poison Use
- Death Attack
- Armor Proficiency (Light)
- Nauseating Breath - 1/day cone of nausea
- Monstrous Humanoid: Marrulurk count as Monstrous Humanoid for the purpose of spells.