Editing Psurlon (section)

==5e==
The 5e psurlon is a different beast to its predecessors. Now resembling giant, 7ft long maggots carried around on half a dozen little legs that end in hooves, they are led by a minority (1 in 100) of super-genius mutants with two heads; one at either end of their body. They're still malevolent denizens of the Astral Plane, but their origins are a complete mystery; all that anybody knows is that they are manipulative bastards who spend most of their time lurking in the Deep Astral, invading [[Wildspace]] for a seven-year period once a century that they call "The Feast of Worlds", during which their objective is to devour as many humanoids as possible (but [[human]]s and [[halfling]]s are particular delicacies). Once the Feast is over, the survivors flee back to the Deep Astral to wait for the next one. These psurlons are nominal allies of the [[illithid]]; as they have no particular interest in brain tissue, they are happy to give the brains to the mind flayers and eat the leftovers. As a result, [[gith]] ''despise'' psurlons and hunt them bitterly, with the [[githyanki]] in particular often launching crusades to wipe out their strongholds.

If a job requires something that holds up under scrutiny better than a simple disguise self (illusions only work from a distance when you are a three-fingered worm man), while they still use infiltrators, these "Ringers" are now psurlons who have psionically absorbed the memories of a devoured humanoid and permanently reshaped themselves into its physical double.