# Visage >[!rimg]+ > ![[Placeholder2.png]] *This creature appears only somewhat solid, with a mostly shapeless body. Its only definite features include a pale, white, masklike face bearing a perpetual grin and a pair of particularly long and nasty claws.* <div class="grid-container"><div class="MON">Visage</div> <div class="CR">CR 9 (6,400 XP)</div> <div class="SOU">Libris Mortis pg. 130</div> <div class="SYS">Dungeons & Dragons 3.5</div></div> CE Medium Undead (chaotic, evil) **Init** +8 **Senses** darkvision 60 ft.; **Perception** +1 #### defense **AC** 22, 14 touch, 18 flat-footed (+4 Dex, +8 natural) **hp** 68 (8d8+32) **Fort** +5, **Refl** +6, **Will** +7 **Feint** 22, **Demoralize** 19 **DR** 10/lawful or good; **SR** 20 **Immune** positive energy, undead traits #### offense **Speed** fly 40 ft. (perfect) **Melee** 2 claws +10 (1d6+1) **Space** 5 ft., **Reach** 5 ft. **Special Attacks** create spawn, sneak attack +4d6 **Spell-Like Abilities** (CL 12th, Concentration +15) > **1/day**— _dominate person_ (DC 17) #### statistics **Str** 13, **Dex** 18, **Con** —, **Int** 14, **Wis** 13, **Cha** 16 **BAB** +6, **CMB** +7, **CMD** 21, **TA** +7, **RTA** +10 **Feats** [[Ability Focus]] (lucidity control), [[Improved Initiative]], [[Toughness]], [[Weapon Finesse]] **Skills** Bluff +11, Disguise +14, Escape Artist +20, Fly +23, Perception +1, Sense Motive +12, Stealth +23 **Racial Modifiers** +8 Escape Artist, +8 Stealth **Languages** Abyssal, Common **SQ** assume identity #### special abilities ### Assume Identity (Su) A visage can, as a free action, take on the form of someone it has killed within the last round. A visage in an assumed identity gains a +20 bonus on Bluff and Disguise checks made to pass as the victim. It also gains proficiency in the skills of the victim; treat this as an enhancement bonus to the skill check equal to the number of ranks the victim had in life. The visage does not gain the victim's extraordinary, supernatural, or spell-like abilities, not does it gain any spellcasting powers of the victim. The visage retains its own ability scores, special attacks, and special qualities. This effect lasts for 24 hours, though the visage can dismiss it at will. While a visage is in the form of its victim, that victim can't be returned to life except by a true resurrection spell (which also immediately ends the effect on the visage). After 24 hours, or if the identity is dismissed, the soul is damaged, and the victim can be returned to life only if the caster attempting to resurrect the victim succeeds on a DC 17 caster level check. ### Create Spawn (Su) Any evil outsider slain by a visage becomes a visage 24 hours after death. Spawned visages are under the command of the visage that created them and remain enslaved until destruction. They do not possess any of the abilities they had in life. ### Lucidity Control (Su) A visage can create a major image, similar to the major image spell except that only one target, selected by the visage, can perceive the illusion (Will DC 19 disbelief). The save DC is Charisma-based. #### tactics Visages prefer subterfuge to overt combat, since their physical attacks aren’t very threatening. They use their dominate person and lucidity control abilities to influence weak-willed individuals, hoping to draw them to places where they can finish them off secretly and assume their identities. Then, the visage uses this new identity to sow chaos and discord as long as possible. #### ecology **Terrain** Abyss **Organization** Solitary, pair, or gang (3–4) **Treasure** None **Advancement** 13–18 HD (Medium) The visage is a devious undead creature that steals the identity of its victims to further its chaotic and evil aims. The first visages were formed from the spirits of demons by Orcus, Demon Prince of Undead, while he had assumed the identity of Tenebrous. When he reassumed his true identity and mantle, however, Orcus discarded the visages from his service, and since that time, they have reproduced by spawning new visages from any evil outsiders. Though a visage appears incorporeal, it does not actually possess that quality. A visage isn’t very dense, though, and only weighs about 75 pounds despite its size. In its normal form, it is sometimes mistaken for a wraith.