Ravenloft Renaissance: Baltoi
Baltoi
Demon, Marilith: CR 17; Huge Outsider (Chaotic, Evil,
Tanar`ri, Extraplanar); HD 21d8+252 (Outsider); hp 346;
Init +5; Spd 40; AC: 32 (Flatfooted: 27 Touch: 13); Atk +32
base melee, +24 base ranged; +32 (2d6+19, Slam); +32
(4d8+19, Tail Slap); +32 (2d6+13, 6 Slam); SA: Constrict
(Ex), Improved Grab (Ex), Spell-like Abilities *Align
Weapon, *Blade Barrier, Magic Weapon, *Project Image,
*Polymorph, *See Invisibility, *Telekinesis, *Teleport,
Greater, *Unholy Aura, *Summon Tanar`ri (Sp); SQ:
Damage Reduction (Su): 10/Cold Iron or Good,
Darkvision (Ex): 60 ft., Immunity: Electricity and Poison
(Ex), Resistance: Acid, Cold and Fire (Ex): 10, Spell
Resistance (Ex): 25, Telepathy (Su): 100 ft., True Seeing
(Su), No Dual Nature (Ex); AL CE; SV Fort +24, Ref +17,
Will +15; STR 36, DEX 20, CON 34, INT 21, WIS 16, CHA
29.
* Magically suppressed.
Skills & Feats: Bluff +33, Concentration +36, Diplomacy
+37, Disguise +33, Hide +21, Listen +35, Move Silently
+29, Search +29, Sense Motive +27, Spellcraft +29, Spot
+35, Survival +27, Use Magic Device +33; Combat
Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Leadership, Multiattack,
Multiweapon Fighting, Open Mind, Power Attack, Simple
Weapon Proficiency, Weapon Focus: Longsword.
The Dark Powers have been at work on Baltoi’s
body while she has slept, increasing her body size to
the point where she is almost twice her original size.
Baltoi is Marilith Tanar’ri, a six-armed demon
woman with the lower body of a massive serpent.
Her body is lean and muscular even after all the
time she has spent in her magical slumber. Baltoi
was disarmed after she was put to sleep, and no
longer has her longswords.
Background
Baltoi is a Marilith demon whose tactics were
responsible for a major tanar’ri defeat in the Blood
War against the baatezu. As a result, Baltoi was
banished to a cavern beneath the mountains of
Lamordia by a tanar’ri Guardian (Molydeus) of
extraordinary power.
Her magical abilities were divested from her and When miners discovered her lair centuries ago, a
she was even stripped of the power to summon in wizard was called in. She used a wish spell to put
other tanar’ri. Baltoi still retains her natural spell Baltoi to sleep. Priests then sealed off all known
resistance 25, and is a formidable foe. exits from the cavern and built the monastery to
Nor has Baltoi been unaffected by the forces that protect the mine entrance. But now the wizard’s
play on the Demiplane of Dread; she has grown in spell is starting to wane, and in the coming decades
size and is now fully 20 feet in length, almost filling Baltoi will finally awaken. With the original
the chamber of her cavernous prison. guardians of the monastery long gone, the sleeping
demon has all but been forgotten, the only evidence
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Ravenloft Renaissance: Baltoi
for her existence being the name of the mountains marilith with a 20% chance of success. This ability is
under which she slumbers. the equivalent of a 5th-level spell.
Current Sketch Special Qualities: Immunities (Ex): Baltoi is immune
Baltoi currently slumbers under the Sleeping Beast to poison and electricity.
as she has done for centuries, though the powerful Resistances (Ex): Baltoi is resistant to cold, fire, and
arcane magic that keeps her dormant is beginning to acid hand has a resistance 10 for each.
wane. When the spell eventually fails, she will
undoubtedly rise and bring chaos to the realms as Telepathy (Su): Baltoi can communicate telepathically
she plots a plan of vengeance against her jailers. with any creature within 100 feet that has a
language.
Combat
Baltoi is newly awakened form her imprisonment
Lair
and slightly disoriented. Her weapons have long Currently Baltoi slumbers under the Sleaping Beast
ago been taken from her by the priests and have Mountains of Lamordia, in the abandoned mines
long been thought destroyed, while most of her guarded by the Monastery of the Quickening
supernatural powers have been stripped from her. Thunderbolt. She has grown so large in her slumber
that she nearly fills the entire chamber she occupies.
Even so, Baltoi has grown in physical size and If she is to escape, she will need to claw her way out
power over the centuries and will unleash her full through dirt and stone.
force upon anyone who gets in the way of her
extracting vengeance on jailers.
Special Attacks: Constrict (Ex): Baltoi deals 4d6+7
points of damage with a successful grapple check.
The constricted creature must succeed on a DC 27
Dread Possibility: Book of Vile Darkness
As a high-ranking commander of demon armies,
Fortitude save or lose consciousness for at long as it
Baltoi once had access not only to legions of
remains in the coils and for 2d4 rounds thereafter.
followers, but also a variety of dark and evil
The save DC is Strength-based.
magical artifacts. After her defeat she was aware
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, Baltoi must that shortly she would be punished and intended to
hit with her tail slap attack. It can then attempt to flee the abyss, but not before stealing an artifact of
start a grapple as a free action without provoking an incredible power – the Book of Vile Darkness. When
attack of opportunity. If it succeeds on the grapple the Tanar’ri Guardian caught up with her and
check, it can constrict. banished her, he was not aware that the Marilith
was in possession of the book, and so it traveled
Spell-Like Abilities: Currently Baltoi’s spell-like
with her into Ravenloft, along with her weapons
abilities have been stripped from her.
and all the other equipment she was carrying.
If she were to somehow be granted her powers back,
Intent on devouring its contents to help her
she would be able to cast the following at will
extract future vengeance, Baltoi was performing
(caster level 16th): align weapon, blade barrier (DC
one of the dark rituals required before one can learn
25), magic weapon, project image (DC 25),
from the book before the miners discovered her and
polymorph, see invisibility, telekinesis (DC 24),
the wizard was summoned. When she was put to
greater teleport (self plus 50 pounds of objects only),
sleep, the priests removed her weapons from her
unholy aura (DC 27). The save DCs are Charisma-
person but overlooked the hiding place of the book
based.
in her lair.
Summon Tanar’ri (Sp): Baltoi has been stripped of her
Should the Book of Vile Darkness fall into the
ability to summon other tanar’ri. If her powers were
wrong hands it could be the catalyst for terrible evil
somehow restored, she would be capable of the
to be unleashed across Ravenloft. Needless to say,
following:
the outcome may be worse if Baltoi herself wakes
Once per day Baltoi can attempt to summon 4d10 and absorbs the evil knowledge contained within.
dretches, 1d4 hezrou, or one nalfeshnee with a 50%
chance of success, or one glabrezu or another
