If they come into contact, they annihilate themselves in a conflagration of energy that damages every living thing in a 30-foot radius. Should a xag-ya and a xeg-yi ever meet, they instantly rush toward each other. While they’re not outright hostile, their touch endangers virtually all things, so it’s inevitable that they find themselves in combat fairly often – others can’t help but perceive them as a threat. Still, they’re also quite curious about what lies beyond their own planes and often wander about the multiverse, observing. Though they’re thought to be highly intelligent, they have no language or real means of communication. Neither the xag-ya nor the xeg-yi seems to interact with other creatures – not even those of their own kind. What are xag-ya/xeg-yi habitats and societies like? Victims and objects are also affected as if struck by a bolt of energy loosed by the creature. If a xag-ya or xeg-yi is slain, it explodes in the appropriate release of energy – either an overloading jolt or an enervating drain). What’s more, these four magical items can’t be harmed by either creature. No other spells can affect them.Ī rod of absorption or a wand of negation can thwart the attack of a xag-ya, while a rod of cancellation or a mace of disruption provides protection from the assaults of a xeg-yi. If a cutter runs into either monster elsewhere in the multiverse, he can send it back to its home plane with one of the following spells: abjure, banishment, dismissal, dispel magic (treat the level of magic as twice the creature’s Hit Dice total), holy word, limited wish, plane shift, or wish. Both are subject to disintegration and magic missile, and neither can penetrate a shield spell. Xag-ya are vulnerable to cold-based spells, while xeg-yi are harmed by magical fire. And rather than discuss what kind of magic the pair is immune to, it’s easier to list the few spells that do affect them. On the other hand, the life-draining tendrils of the xeg-yi corrode and rot whatever they touch.Ī basher’s got to have a magic weapon or better enchantment in order to harm either creature. Such items glow white-hot and remain so for half a minute. Like the touch of the creature’s tendrils, the bolt ignites combustibles, but it also heats metal objects. Combustible, nonliving items such as paper, cloth, and wood catch on fire when exposed to this raw force.Įvery other round, the xag-ya can fire a bolt of this energy at a target up to 10 feet away. The touch of the xag-ya carries with it a powerful jolt that overloads living creatures. How do Xag-ya/Xeg-yi fight?īoth monsters attack foes by striking with their whiplike tendrils of energy. At first glance, there’s only one way to tell the two creatures apart: The xag-ya appears silvery and lustrous, while its negative counterpart is black and dull. These eyes, in turn, suggest an unknowable and alien intelligence. Each creature’s main body is a globe of energy that’s unremarkable except for two narrow spots that suggest eyes. In any event, both are spherical beings with multiple tendrils of energy writhing about them, almost like the tentacles of an octopus. The two creatures are similar and yet opposite in appearance and nature – so much so that it makes a body wonder if their geneses didn’t have something in common. The graybeards can rattle their bone-boxes all they like about these problems, but the fact is that no one really knows how or why the xag-ya and the xeg-yi exist. How could a creature attain enough true individuality in such a place to achieve consciousness and an ambulatory body? And the Negative Energy Plane is as anti-life as a basher can conceive, which makes the idea of a living creature of negative energy seem a bit of a contradiction. The Positive Energy Plane is practically life incarnate. ‘Course, this is just idle speculation, but it comes about for a very good reason. The beasts might even have been created by some intelligent agency for an unknown purpose. These folks claim that the xag-ya and xeg-yi came into existence elsewhere (perhaps on the same plane, perhaps on different planes), forming in isolated pockets of positive and negative energy. On the other hand, some say that neither creature is a true native of its plane at all. The Positive Energy Plane – a brilliant sea of explosive vitality – spawned the creature known as the xag-ya, whereas the Negative Energy Plane – a cold pit of devouring darkness – brought forth the xeg-yi. Somehow, on both of these seething planes of force, consciousnesses formed and adopted bodies made of the essence around them. The Positive and Negative Energy Planes are no exception to this rule. Perhaps, in a tome dedicated to the creatures of the inhospitable Inner Planes, such a concept should be a theme or even the theme. DM Dave 2 Comments on Xag-ya/Xeg-yi for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Posted in MonstersĪh, life – there’s no spot in the multiverse where it hasn’t managed to take hold.