Lillend

The creature looks like a female human or elf with the lower torso of a multicolored serpent and huge, strikingly patterned wings like a bird’s.

Lillends are mysterious visitors from the plane of Ysgard. Many are skilled in one or more forms of artistic expression.

Lillends are lovers of music and art. Gold, even food, means little to them, while a song, story, or piece of artwork holds great value. The destruction of art and the ill treatment of artists enrages them. They are infamous for holding grudges, and they are often encountered seeking violent retribution against enemies of their favorite arts.

Lillends also have a great love of unspoiled wilderness. The wilds remind them of the natural beauty of their home plane, and they occasionally visit and enjoy similar regions. A lillend is as protective of its chosen wilderness as it is of the arts. These beings sometimes form temporary alliances with rangers, druids, and bards to defend their favorite retreats against the encroachment of civilization. Sometimes a covey of lillends adopts a tract of wilderness, using any means necessary to drive off despoilers.

A typical lillend’s coils are 20 feet long. The creature weighs about 3,800 pounds. A few lillends have male torsos.

Lillends speak Celestial, Infernal, Abyssal, and Common.

Combat

Lillends are generally peaceful unless they intend vengeance against someone they believe guilty of harming, or even threatening, a favored art form, artwork, or artist. Then they become implacable foes. They use their spells and spell-like abilities to confuse and weaken opponents before entering combat. A covey of lillends usually discusses strategy before a battle.

A lillend’s natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as chaotic-aligned and good-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Constrict (Ex): A lillend deals 2d6+5 points of damage with a successful grapple check. Constricting uses the entire lower portion of its body, so it cannot take any move actions when constricting, though it can still attack with its sword.

Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a lillend must hit with its tail slap attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If it wins the grapple check, it establishes a hold and can constrict.

Spells: A lillend casts arcane spells as a 6th-level bard.

Typical Bard Spells Known (3/4/3; save DC 14 + spell level): 0⁠—​dancing lights, daze, detect magic, lullaby, mage hand, read magic; 1st⁠—​charm person, cure light wounds, identify, sleep; 2nd⁠—​hold person, invisibility, sound burst.

Spell-Like Abilities: 3/day⁠—​darkness, hallucinatory terrain (DC 18), knock, light; 1/day⁠—​charm person (DC 15), speak with animals, speak with plants. Caster level 10th. The save DCs are Charisma-based. A lillend also has the bardic music ability of a 6th-level bard.

Skills: Lillends have a +4 racial bonus on Survival checks.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 168.