+2 Strength, +1 Con­sti­tu­tion, –1 Charisma.

Base land speed 30 feet.

Fly­ing speed 30 feet.

Sta­bil­ity: A Devil Man­tis gains a +4 bonus on abil­ity checks made to resist being bull rushed or tripped when stand­ing on the ground and when climb­ing, fly­ing or riding.

Immu­nity to sleep.

+6 racial bonus to Balance.

+4 racial bonus to Climb.

+4 racial bonus to Hide in cho­sen environment.

+2 racial bonus to Armor Class.

Mon­strous: Devil Man­tis are not sub­ject to spells or effects that affect humanoids only, such as charm per­son or dom­i­nate per­son.

Telepa­thy (Su) 100 ft.

Favored class: Monk

Thou­sands of years ago, armies of man-sized fly­ing man­tis war­riors har­ried the Vanara and their humanoid slaves. Known sim­ply as Devil Man­tises, these for­mer shock troops of the Doom Weavers look like giant ver­sions of their tiny name­sakes, but have clawed hands with oppos­able thumbs capa­ble of wield­ing melee and ranged weapons. The col­ors, spines, and tex­tures of their cara­paces vary between dif­fer­ent tribes and help them blend in to their native envi­ron­ment (which play­ers choose dur­ing char­ac­ter cre­ation.) They lack the mouth parts to speak, but they com­mu­ni­cate telepathically.

The Doom Weavers cre­ated Devil Man­tises to serve as scouts and flank­ing troops (not to men­tion a food source) dur­ing the mil­lenia in which they tried to con­quer Numa­naria. Females lay a clutch of 1d6 eggs once per year, which she guards fiercely until they hatch. Most Devil Man­tises in the wilds live in small tribes, so the females are fed and pro­tected dur­ing their vigil.

After the cat­a­clysms, humans cap­tured Devil Man­tises and used them as guards in their old empire. Today, they live and breed in spe­cial cam­bers of the Five-Sided Tem­ple and guard the Black Obelisk in Kyr­ishia. How­ever, they are no longer slaves and enjoy the same rights as all other sen­tient beings in Kyrisha.

Devil Man­tis adven­tur­ers ven­ture into the wild for the pure joy of the hunt. They have a dis­con­cert­ing habit of eat­ing what they kill. Their cara­paces pro­tect them from dis­com­fort in all but the most harsh cir­cum­stances, and they need only a full belly to be happy. The need to hunt food and their insa­tiable curios­ity are the only desires that vex the Devil Man­tis; breed­ing is as pas­sion­less as reliev­ing a severe itch. There­fore, even non-monk Devil Man­tises are serene in times of com­fort and adver­sity alike.