# Arcanaloth

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> [!infobox]
> ![arcanaloth](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/arcanaloth.webp)
> **Type:** Medium fiend
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 12 (8400 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 18
> **Hit Points:** 175 (27d8+54)
> **Speed:** 30 ft, fly 30 ft

## Stat block

A jackal-headed yugoloth scholar that hoards secrets and sells them dear.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 175 (27d8+54) | 30 ft, fly 30 ft | 12 | 8400 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 (+3) | 12 (+1) | 14 (+2) | 20 (+5) | 16 (+3) | 17 (+3) |

- **Saving throws:** DEX +5, CON +6, INT +9, WIS +7
- **Skills:** Arcana +9, Deception +7, Insight +7, Perception +7
- **Resistant:** cold, fire, lightning
- **Immune:** acid, poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, poisoned
- **Senses:** truesight 120 ft; passive Perception 17
- **Languages:** all

### Traits

- **Fiendish Restoration.** Slain away from Gehenna, it melts into ichor and re-forms there at once.
- **Magic Resistance.** Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
- **Soul Tome.** Carries a magic tome (AC 17, 35 HP, healing fully each turn) that powers its Banishing Claw.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Three Fiendish Bursts; one can be a Banishing Claw.
- **Banishing Claw.** A claw that can drag a creature into the pages of its Soul Tome (DC 17 Cha save each turn to escape; three failures bind it).
- **Fiendish Burst.** A blast of fiendish power, close up or up to 120 ft.
- **Spellcasting.** Intelligence, DC 17: Alter Self, Detect Magic and other small magics at will; Dimension Door, Mind Blank and two divinations once a day.

### Bonus actions

- **Teleport.** Teleports up to 30 ft to a space it can see.

### Reactions

- **Counterspell.** Casts Counterspell when a spell is cast in range.

## Where you meet it

- [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md): [The Amber Temple](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-amber-temple.md) · *Vosk's shape slips like a badly hung coat. Under it: a jackal's head, a scholar's robe, and claws that shake.*