Fantasy Monster: Sky Wolf

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Sky Wolf

A slender wolf with indigo coat, marked with silvery dots and lines that resemble constellations, with a pair of fuzzy and feathery cloud-grey wings wings.

CR 3; XP 800
N Medium Magical Beast

Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, scent; Perception +10

Defense
AC 15, touch 12, flat-footed 13 (+2 Dex, +3 natural)
hp 30 (4d10+8)
Fort +6; Ref +6; Will +2

Resist cold 5, electricity 5

Offense
Speed 40 ft., fly 50 ft. (average)

Melee bite +6 (1d6+2), 2 wing buffets +4 (1d4+1)

Special Attacks pack tactics

Statistics
Str 14, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 2, Wis 15, Cha 11
Base Atk +4; CMB +6; CMD 18 (22 vs. trip and overrun)

Feats Combat Reflexes, Multiattack

Skills Acrobatics +10, Fly +10, Perception +10, Stealth +10; Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics, +4 Fly, +4 Perception, +4 Stealth

SQ cloud-dweller

Ecology
Environment temperate forests, plains, hills, and mountains
Organization pair or pack (3–7)
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Cloud-Dweller (Su) Sky wolves treat clouds as solid ground. They can also dig and burrow in cloud-stuff as if it was soil. As long as a pack of sky wolves lives on a cloud, it doesn't naturally disperse. After approximately a month of being inhabited by a pack of sky wolves, the cloud becomes solid to other creatures. This effects reverse themselves if no sky wolf stays on a cloud for longer than 1d3 days. Sky wolves are never hit by naturally occurring lightning strikes.

Pack Tactics (Ex) Sky wolves are very efficient pack hunters. When two sky wolves flank a creature, they gains additional +2 bonus to their attack rolls. They can forego the bonus from flanking and attempt dirty fighting, reposition, or trip combat maneuvers without provoking attacks of opportunity. When two or more sky wolves are adjacent to each other, each gains +1 bonus to AC and saving throws.

Sky wolves are winged wolves that dwell in the relative safety of low clouds, which they treat as if they were floating islands, living on them and making lairs for their cubs—though obviously they need to venture off the clouds to hunt. Their very presence seems to reinforce and sustain the clouds slowly turning them into actual floating islands, as long as inhabited by sky wolves.

Sky wolves might be descendants of storm spirits and mundane wolves—they certainly seem to be able to breed with the later, producing puppies that have hints of their aerial heritage.