These creatures resemble lions sketched in the air out of cords of bright fire. Human eyes that look upon them burn. Eyelids and blindfold do not help much as they burn away, leaving your eyes exposed. Averting your gaze will help but the saklas are swift, stalking and circling their victims until they are blinded.
The saklas can only be safely summoned and tamed by blind priests in the service of The King in Splendor. It is said that a single lion priest was on the verge of driving off an entire gnollish army with the threat of setting saklas upon them when an unseasonal hailstorm put out the lot of them. Things did not go well for the lion priest after that.
Connections:
Hook:
- -Do saklas do anything to their victims except for burning their eyes out?
- -Is there any way to defeat them except for putting out their fires?
- -Who are some blind priests that can bind saklas to their will?