---
title: "Azarketi Explorer"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.aksE6Svxo0yPvHjZ" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/amphibious
  - pf2e/creature/type/azarketi
  - pf2e/creature/type/chaotic
  - pf2e/creature/type/humanoid
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/2
statblock: inline
name: "Azarketi Explorer"
level: 2
license: OGL
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary 3"
name: "Azarketi Explorer"
level: "Creature 2"

alignment: ""
size: "Medium"
trait_01: [[amphibious]]
trait_02: [[azarketi]]
trait_03: [[chaotic]]
trait_04: [[humanoid]]
modifier: 8
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+8; Low-Light Vision"
languages: "Alghollthu, Azlanti, Common"
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +5, Athletics: +8, Deception: +7, Diplomacy: +7, Intimidation: +7, Nature: +4, Society: +4"
abilityMods: [4, 1, 2, 0, 0, 3]
speed: 20 feet,  swim 30 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary 3_"
ac: 18
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "18; __Fort__ +10, __Ref__ +7, __Will__ +6"
hp: 30
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "30"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Items"
    desc: "[[Equipment/Dagger|Dagger]], [[Equipment/Trident|Trident]]"
abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Attack of Opportunity|Attack of Opportunity]]"
    desc: "`pf2:r`  **Trigger** A creature within the monster's reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it's using.\n* * *\n\n**Effect** The monster attempts a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If the attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, the monster disrupts that action. This Strike doesn't count toward the monster's multiple attack penalty, and its multiple attack penalty doesn't apply to this Strike."

  - name: "Hydration"
    desc: "  An azarketi must regularly submerge themself in water to rehydrate their water-acclimated skin. After the first 24 hours outside of water, they take a -1 status penalty to Fortitude saves as their skin cracks and their gills become painful. After 48 hours, they struggle to breathe air and begin to suffocate until returned to water."

attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Trident"
    desc: "+10 ()\n__Damage__  1d8 + 6 piercing"

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Dagger"
    desc: "+10 (agile, versatile s)\n__Damage__  1d4 + 6 piercing"

  - name: "**Ranged** `pf2:1` Trident"
    desc: "+7 (thrown 20 ft.)\n__Damage__  1d8 + 6 piercing"

  - name: "Hydraulic Deflection"
    desc: "`pf2:1` (water) Drawing moisture from the surrounding atmosphere, the azarketi explorer creates a disc of hovering water that deflects incoming attacks. They gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC until the start of their next turn."

  - name: "Surface Skimmer"
    desc: "  While the azarketi explorer is submerged just below the water's surface, they have [[Other Effects/Effect_ Cover|Cover]] from attacks made by creatures out of the water."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Azarketi Explorer
creatures:
  - 1: Azarketi Explorer
```



This rakish azarketi explores the wrecks and ruins of the Inner Sea's coasts. At home above and below the waves, they fight to protect their discoveries, their life, and their reputation.

* * *

During the cataclysmic events of Earthfall, a fraction of the Azlanti populace was mutated by their hated alghollthu enemies to survive in the ocean depths. Commonly called "gillmen" or sometimes "Low Azlanti," azarketis primarily live in the Arcadian Ocean, Inner Sea, and ruins of Azlant. They retain the imperious attitude and violet eyes of their ancestors, but they have hairless bodies, prominent gills, and webbed hands and feet. Most have innate hydrokinetic powers, which they use to make tiny currents, cushion their dives, and read the weather. Whether this power springs from the latent magic of their Azlanti heritage or alghollthu meddling is unknown.

Azarketis endured centuries of alghollthu enslavement and experimentation before being abandoned by their alghollthu masters. In the ages since, azarketis have built their own settlements and societies, traveled the breadth of Golarion's waterways, and explored both the ruins of their shattered empire and the myriad cultures that dot the coasts of the world.

Proud of their heritage, azarketi are secretive and territorial. They don't take kindly to outsiders in their underwater settlements or explorers seeking to pillage the ruins of Azlant. Only a few build relationships with coastal or island settlements, defending them from aquatic dangers or supporting naval trade.
