Skeletal Flayer

The Skeletal Flayer appears to be a regular skeleton with its forearms and hands replaced with a long whip and a steel curved blade. A skeletal flayer is disturbingly unique in its method of attack; attempting to flay the skin off its victim during combat, using the blade and whip to brutal and grisly effect. If successful a skeletal flayer will proceed to wear the victim’s skin as a grotesque mockery of life, and is often mistaken for a zombie as a result of the skin’s progressive decomposing. A skeletal flayer that has not recently killed and skinned a victim is mechanically similar to a regular skeleton, but when wearing the skin of a humanoid of roughly the same size it gains the following benefits: +2 to all damage, half damage from both bladed and blunt weapons, and a 10 foot movement bonus. As a skeleton it can be Turned as a regular skeleton; if wearing skin it can be Turned as a zombie.