Anophilex

The sight of blood is frightening proof of another's suffering, and when that blood is one's own, that fear can turn to blinding terror. Such are the horrors that the skittering, constantly bleeding anophilex sahkil revels in. With a glistening, spiderlike body covered in pulsing sacs of blood caught amid tangles of thorny vines, an anophilex's head is a freshly skinned skull with sharp fangs and patches of long black hair pulled back to tangle amid the thorns of their bodies. As an anophilex moves, their thorns rip and tear at their bloody blisters and bloated organs, yet the bleeding only flows back along their body to form new thorny lengths in a constant recreation that gives off an unsettling, gurgling susurrus. An anophilex has little patience for subtlety or manipulation, preferring to skitter through or flap above battlefields, among refugees, or amid any area where the wounded gather, so they can spread fear and drink the wounded's crimson pain.

About Sahkils

Sahkils are fiends associated with primal fears and phobic terrors that haunt mortal minds. They hail from the depths of the Ethereal Plane and serve sinister demigods known collectively as tormentors, such as Charg himself. For more information about sahkils, see page 274 of Pathfinder Monster Core 2.