Banshee

Stat block

A wailing spirit: a withering touch, a face that terrifies, and a cry that can kill outright.

• Saving throws: WIS +2
• Resistant: acid, bludgeoning, fire, lightning, piercing, slashing, thunder
• Immune: cold, necrotic, poison
• Condition immunities: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
• Senses: darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10
• Languages: Common, Elvish

Traits

• Detect Life. Senses the direction of living creatures (not Constructs or Undead) within a mile.
• Incorporeal Movement. Moves through creatures and objects as Difficult Terrain; 5 (1d10) Force if it ends a turn inside one.

Actions

• Multiattack. Two Corrupting Touches and Horrify.
• Corrupting Touch. A withering touch.
• Horrify. DC 13 Wis save by a creature within 60 ft that sees it, or Frightened until the banshee's next turn; success gives a day's immunity.
• Deathly Wail. Once a day: everyone within 30 ft but Constructs and Undead makes a DC 13 Con save; a failure drops one at 25 HP or fewer to 0, else 3d6 Psychic.

Where you meet it

• The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God: The Wailing Hall · Patrina screams, and the frozen students at their desks lift their heads to scream with her.
• The Ruins of Berez: The One-Horned Billy · The Rag Queen steps down off her post, twice the height of a man, all rotten silk and lace and faces in the…
• Under Van Richten's Tower: The books on every shelf open at once with a sound like birds, and the people written in them come out of the…
• Village of Barovia: The water in the well climbs the shaft on its own. She comes up out of it in her wedding veil, screaming, and…