Sometimes travelers between crystal spheres fall (or are thrown) into the phlogiston flow. Most simply calcify. Some evil folk are spared this fate; the powerful and mysterious evil entity called the Great Father “rescues” the castaways by transforming them into smaller versions of himself. Thus the flow fiends are born, and no one knows why the Great Father is creating flow fiends. Some speculate that the monster plans to conquer wildspace.
    Flow fiends very in height, depending on the race of the original victim; as a rule, a victim grows between a quarter and a third of its original height. Flow fiends have four muscular arms, each with a powerful hand with overgrown fingernails. The flow fiend's mouth is filled with razor sharp teeth. The creature walks upright, its body bulging with exaggerated, twisted muscles rippling under a sickly yellow skin. Sometimes, the victim's previous features are recognizable. It has its own language, a form of Common as ugly and transformed as it is.
    Flow fiends are genderless, but may seem to have a gender. They “swim” through the flow in search of food or other victims to convert, as this is the only way to add to their numbers. These beasts relish combat and waylay as many ships as possible for they know the flow offers many spelljamming vessels traveling between crystal spheres. When a ship passes by them they use their powerful claws and jaws to grab a spelljammer hull and climb on the deck. If more than three flow fiends are encountered, they attack at different parts of the ship to surround their victims. Sometimes they just toss sailors overboard to other flow fiends waiting in the flow.
    Only evil or chaotic neutral characters are “eligible” for “conversion” into flow fiends, and as such the flow fiends will only seek to “subdue” such individuals not kill. They have the ability to discern who is chaotic, evil and good in alignment.

CREATING A FLOW FIEND
    “Flow Fiend” is a template that can be added to any humanoid creature (referred to hereafter as the “character”) that has been “converted” by the Great Father. The creature's type changes to “outsider”, and is typically one size larger. It uses all the character's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

Hit Dice: Same as characters or 1d8, whichever produces the higher hit point total.
Speed: Same as character, plus fly 60 feet (good).
AC: The flow fiend has +8 natural armor or the creatures natural armor whichever is better.
Attacks: A flow fiend gains bite and four attacks with its clawed arms (a few flow fiends may have weapons it likes to use) if it did not have them already.
Damage: Use the damage values in the table below to determine bite and claw attack of a flow fiend:

		Bite	Claw
	Size	Damage	Damage
	Diminutive	1d2	1
	Tiny	1d3	1d2
	Small	1d4	1d3
	Medium	1d6	1d4
	Large	1d8	1d6
	Huge	2d6	1d8
	Gargantuan	2d8	2d6
	Colossal	4d6	2d8

Face/Reach: Determine by creature's size, for example: medium-sized creature typically has 5 feet by 5 feet /5 feet and large humanoid has 5 feet by 10 feet /5 feet.
Special Attacks: A flow fiend retains all the character's special attacks and also gains the following:
    Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the flow fiend must hit with two claw attacks in the same round, the victim is considered pinned. The flow fiend's jaws and other arms hit a pinned foe automatically, to reduce the victim to a bloody pulp. A pinned foe may attempt to break the beast's pin as an action, using the grappling rules found on page 137 of the Player's Handbook.
Special Qualities: A flow fiend retains all the character's special qualities, plus dark vision of 60 feet if not has such already and those listed below.
    Damage Reduction (Su): A flow fiend's body is tough, giving the creature damage reduction 15/+1.
    Immunities (Ex): Flow fiends are immune to the calcifying processes of the flow and to all hold, flesh to stone, paralyzation, and petrifaction.
    Regeneration (Ex): The flow fiend seems to draw from the Phlogiston to heal it self very rapidly, only fire and holy and blessed weapons deal normal damage to a flow fiend, allowing the creature to heal 4 hit points of subdual damage per round.
    Spell-like Abilities: At will — detect chaos, detect evil, detect good and detect magic. These abilities are as the spells cast by a 7th level sorcerer (save DC 10 + spell level).
    Spell Resistance (Ex): The flow fiend has a spell resistance rating of 14.
Saves:Same as character
Abilities: Modify the character as follows: Str +6, Con +2, Cha –2
Skills: Flow fiends receive a +2 racial bonus to Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Search, Sense Motive and Spot checks, other wise same as character.
Feats: Same as the character plus bonus feat Multidexterity

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