Pack Tactics: When an ally is in melee range of an enemy the Ají Monster targets with an attack it gains advantage on that attack.
Multiattack: As an action on each of its turns an Ají monster can make 2 attacks, one with their claws and one with their bite.
Bite. Melee +5, Hit: 6 (1d6+3)
Claw. Melee +5, Hit: 5 (1d4+3)
Spice Shake. Once per day, as an action an Ají monster can shake the spicy powder that covers its body rub it on the wounds of its pray making them sing and burn. Any creature within 10 ft of the Ají monster must make a CON save DC 14 or take 2d4 poison damage, 2d4 Fire damage and fall prone from the pain. A succesful save takes half damage and doesnt fall prone. Creatures hit by slashing or piercing damage since the Ají Monster´s last turn have disadvantage on this save.
Description
Ají Monsters are close relatives to dinosaurs that only exist in Perdida Island and have evolved to match the island´s limited food supply and ecosystem.
Ají monsters are pack predators who preffer jumping on top their pray from high treetops to cause bleeding wounds that weaken their pray and later imbue them with painful spice spores that leave their target vulnerable to being killed on the ground. Packs of Ají monsters normally consist of between 4 and 12 creatures that spend most of their time climbing trees i search for spicy plant life or guarding the ground for potential prey. Despite them being completely able to survive purely on meat, Ají monsters enjoy spicy foods to an unnatural degree, for this reason, Ají monsters can often be seen eating flowers, fruits and leaves off of trees. Their liking for all things spice goes to such degree that adult Ají monsters go out of their way to cover their feathers, teeth and claws with spice from the natural flora arround them. This coat of spicy juices eventually dries and sticks to the bodies of Ají monsters forming a thin layer of extremely powerful spicy dust that they utilize during their hunts to cause paralizing pain to their prey. It is believed that despite this effect being extremely useful during hunts, the real reason Ají Monsters cover their bodies in spice is not for a strategic purpose but merely for their own enjoyment. Some naturalists believe that Ají Monsters actively try to cover their prey in spice, not to cause them pain, but to make them taste more like their favourite spicy fruits before they eat their flesh.
A typical Ají monster pack includes one alpha female that is bright red in color while all other members of the pack display green, brown or yellow coloration that helps them blend in with their surroundings. During a normal hunt, the alpha Monster will jump in sight of their pray to either scare them or lure them closer to the rest of the pack with their bright crimson color, when the prey is close enough the rest of the pack jumps on top of them and dispatches their meal with fierce velocity, covering their wounds with their powerful spice to minimize resitence and maximize flavour. Packs of Ají monsters have been observed living near Volcano Trees where they form a simbiotic relationship with the magical plants. The Volcano Trees provide Ají monsters with extremely spicy fruits to eat while the pack provides fertilizer and protection to the plant with their excrements and the spoils of their hunts.
Some exentric nobles and merchants send small hunting parties to Perdida to hunt for Ají Monsters for their feathers or for the fruit of Volcano Trees. These items are extremely rare and powerful spices that Spice enthusiast pay fortunes to get on their mouths.
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