#sibriex

oh that would've been horrible! Sadly I did use standard tournament seeding. But I've got a few minutes while I wait for my cupcakes to bake, we can do a sort of unofficial back alley match!

On the left, Sibriex, the flesh-warping demons as old as the Abyss, and the source of many demon types. They can break your intelligence down to that of an animal, they can dominate a monster's mind, and it can warp your body into something new! Claws, height change, extra limbs, tusks or tails or wings, wreck your body into a feeble mess or just change your hair color, sky's the limit! So just warning you, you likely won't leave that encounter the same.

New minis this month, including the Stone Juggernaut, Keelbreaker Crab, Astral Dreadnought, and a whole host of demons. These are available for free on the Patreon, along with this month’s posts.

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Artist unknown, accessed at dnd-wiki here

[Commissioned by @justicegundam82. The sibriex was a 3.5 monster from Fiendish Codex 1, but has recently seen a 5e conversion with the release of Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. My version draws some inspiration from both of these. The artist went by the internet alias “Gandhi” back in the day, and had a great gallery full of monster art. Their site is now lost, but some of the D&D pieces, like this one and his aminzu, have escaped total oblivion.]

Qlippoth, Sibriex This grotesque creature looks something like a balloon made of flesh, a swollen head dripping bile and black ooze. Its teeth are a tangle of crooked spikes, and small, delicate arms grow where its ears should be. Greasy tubes like intestines dangle from its undercarriage. It bobs as if on the wind, holding itself in place with disturbingly animate chains.

Sibriexes are hideous creatures that revel in the alteration of flesh and embody the qlippoth disdain for stable forms. They are master fleshwarpers, and claim that their lore was stolen millennia ago by the demons. They are somewhat less hostile towards demons than other qlippoth, although this means that they control these monsters with mind-influencing magic and strip them for parts, rather than immediately killing them as other qlippoth do.

A sibriex will often position itself in a position of servitude towards a mortal or other fiend, acting to provide its clients with physical alterations with no strings attached. As its trust grows, it slowly begins to warp the mind of its clients as well, and those clients who do not willingly surrender themselves totally to the sibriex are eventually forced to as the qlippoth tires of the game. They surround themselves with aberrant minions and fawning apprentices, and the latter frequently end up as the former in time.

In combat, a sibriex typically stays mobile, using its spells and sprays of mutagenic bile to wear opponents down. If enemies prove resistant to acid or mind-influencing spells, they will resort to physical combat. Their chains, animated by telekinetic energy, serve multiple purposes. It can lash out with them as weapons, use them to crawl across surfaces, or anchor them in place to secure themselves.

A sibriex is about eight feet in diameter, but exceptionally light for its size, as it flies with the aid of buoyant gases.

On the left, Star Spawn Mangler! Creatures formed by the Elder Evils, twisted out from the squirming cracks in reality. These ones excel as guards and assassins. They have 4 to 8 arms, can move their incredibly dexterous limbs with alarming swiftness, and are likely at least human height since they're medium size. I miss when they gave us actual heights.