Fantasy Monster: Bone Gremlin

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Gremlin, Bone

A wiry, bony creature with long, chisel-like claws and small but wicked jaw that splits into three, revealing long, slick, ash-grey tongue.

CR 1; XP 400
N Tiny Fey
Init +1; Senses low-light vision; Perception +7

Defense
AC 13, touch 13, flat-footed 12 (+1 Dex, +2 size)
hp 14 (4d6)
Fort +1, Ref +5, Will +4
Immune disease

Offense
Speed 30 ft., climb 20 ft.
Melee 2 claws +3 (1d3–1) and tongue +3 touch (2d4 acid)

Space 2-1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft. (5 ft. with tongue)

Statistics
Str 8, Dex 12, Con 10, Int 7, Wis 11, Cha 7
Base Atk +2; CMB –1; CMD 10
Feats Nimble Moves, Skill Focus (Craft [bone-sculpting])
Skills Climb +7, Craft (bone-sculpting) +10, Perception +7, Profession (anatomist) +7, Stealth +16

Languages understands Aklo and Sylvan

SQ bone-candles, bone-sculpting

Ecology
Environment urban, underground, ruins
Organization solitary, pair, or band (3–10)
Treasure standard

Bone-Candle (Ex) A bone gremlin can take 1 minute to make a candle out of piece of bone. It will burn for an hour. Bone gremlins use them to illuminate their surroundings when working on their creations underground.

Bone-Sculpting (Ex) A bone gremlin can use its chisel-like claws, teeth, and its corrosive saliva to mold, shape, and fuse bones, creating works of disturbing art. Its appendages act as masterwork tools for that purpose with their bonus to skill checks already included in the stat block.

Bone gremlins are usually considered the pests of graveyards, boneyards, catacombs, battlefields, and morgues—they gather and move bones, turning them into weird and disturbing sculptures, totems, and trinkets. Their claws are shaped like chisels, and their corrosive saliva softens bones, making them malleable for a time, fusing together when they harden.

Bone gremlins don't kill living beings, aside of self-defense, but they will take bones from any dead things they encounter, steal exhibits from museums and corpses from their resting place, and scrounge reserve bodies from under necromancers' noses. They also occasionally become targets of ghouls and other bone-eating scavengers, intelligent or not, trying to consume the gremlins' works of art.