Greater Barghest and leader of the Foul Fingers goblin tribe. He wants to eat you.
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Called to Golarion through some foul ritual, the beast Xibalba currently stands at the head of the Foul Fingers tribe. As a child and champion of the abyssal demigod Hadregash, he exists as a fiendish paragon of slaughter, violence, bloodthirsty hunger, and goblinoid superiority. His sheer strength and power is enough to inspire the near-feral tribe of goblins to achieve something close to discipline and order. Xibalba seeks to transform his followers into a fighting force capable of conquest, and will not hesitate to enslave, consume, or destroy anything (or anyone) that stands in his way. How the lost and leaderless Foul Fingers could possibly have managed to call an Outsider of such power to their side is still a mystery.
During the Battle of Sauerton, Xibalba called out for the aid of a mysterious masked ally named Bellinos, who magically activated an artifact implanted in his head, granting him immense size and strength. Despite this, Xibalba was soundly destroyed by Jarn's Best Friends, who somehow absorbed a measure of his power into their own artifacts.
The fiendish barghest is said to be related to the goblinoid races of Golarion. It resembles a cross between a wolf and a goblin, and comes to this world to feed on the flesh and souls of mortals. Being shapechangers, barghests can take on the form of a wolf or a goblin. Their natural shape is a worg-sized hybrid of the two. They generally walk on all fours, although their feet bear a greater resemblance to clawed hands than paws. Like goblins, they have oversized pointed ears, and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. Their powerful bite can tear through flesh and bone, and they can devour an entire human-sized creature in under six seconds. Their bodies are covered with dark hair, and they posses a wolf-like tail.
Barghests have a keen intelligence equal to that of most humanoids, and possess innate magical abilities that allow them to charm prey, levitate, teleport across short distances, become invisible, and avoid detection through divination magic. They can also insinuate themselves into the minds of their prey and flood them with thoughts of utterly hopeless despair.
Although most barghests are disciplined, cunning hunters who generally wish to have no part in the unbridled chaos of demons, they share a special connection with the demon goddess Lamashtu. Scholars claim that in the time before written history, the goddess freed a group of beasts kept in a kennel by the god Asmodeus. She elevated them to demigod status and created small realms within her Abyssal realm for them. Worshipers of the Goddess of Monsters have been known to be able to summon these creatures as well. Goblins believe that the four strongest of these - Hadregash, Venkelvore, Zarongel, and Zogmugot—founded their species.
During the Battle of Sauerton, Xibalba called out for the aid of a mysterious masked ally named Bellinos, who magically activated an artifact implanted in his head, granting him immense size and strength. Despite this, Xibalba was soundly destroyed by Jarn's Best Friends, who somehow absorbed a measure of his power into their own artifacts.
The fiendish barghest is said to be related to the goblinoid races of Golarion. It resembles a cross between a wolf and a goblin, and comes to this world to feed on the flesh and souls of mortals. Being shapechangers, barghests can take on the form of a wolf or a goblin. Their natural shape is a worg-sized hybrid of the two. They generally walk on all fours, although their feet bear a greater resemblance to clawed hands than paws. Like goblins, they have oversized pointed ears, and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. Their powerful bite can tear through flesh and bone, and they can devour an entire human-sized creature in under six seconds. Their bodies are covered with dark hair, and they posses a wolf-like tail.
Barghests have a keen intelligence equal to that of most humanoids, and possess innate magical abilities that allow them to charm prey, levitate, teleport across short distances, become invisible, and avoid detection through divination magic. They can also insinuate themselves into the minds of their prey and flood them with thoughts of utterly hopeless despair.
Although most barghests are disciplined, cunning hunters who generally wish to have no part in the unbridled chaos of demons, they share a special connection with the demon goddess Lamashtu. Scholars claim that in the time before written history, the goddess freed a group of beasts kept in a kennel by the god Asmodeus. She elevated them to demigod status and created small realms within her Abyssal realm for them. Worshipers of the Goddess of Monsters have been known to be able to summon these creatures as well. Goblins believe that the four strongest of these - Hadregash, Venkelvore, Zarongel, and Zogmugot—founded their species.
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