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===Strategies and Tactics===

Reapers are soulphages vultures that have grown by eating a lot of souls, developing larger bodies and necromantic abilities. They work essentially the same, but their increased size allow them to become more aggressive, especially because they are often followed by minor undead that they themselves have animated. In fact, sometimes they use their dead followers to attract weak adventurers and then ambush them, or reap their souls if their undead succeded. Against particularly hardy opponents they try to grapple them with their claws, fly high and let them plummet to the ground from the air. They use their aura of fear to scatter their opponents and pick the weaker ones.

If they win over their prey, they transform all the corpses they can in undead (they prefer to use shadows, but each individual reaper may employ different undead, depending on their tactics), especially if some have fallen in combat. They flee if losing, often abandoning their undead to cover the retreat. Because they need to obtain onyx to reanimate the dead they often associate themselves with necromancers and similar characters to obtain the precious gems, or buy them with the goods of their victims (though this requires the seller to be willing to perform such trades) or they steal them.
Challenge Rating	9 +
Name	Soulphage Vulture Reaper +
Size	Large +
Subtype	Living Dead +
Summary	A terrible undead vulture which feeds on souls +
Type	Undead +