# Cultist

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> [!infobox]
> ![cultist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/cultist.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 1/8 (25 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 9 (2d8)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

A zealot who rushes in with a ritual sickle; fragile alone, dangerous in numbers.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 9 (2d8) | 30 ft | 1/8 | 25 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (+0) | 12 (+1) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 11 (+0) | 10 (+0) |

- **Saving throws:** WIS +2
- **Skills:** Deception +2, Religion +2
- **Languages:** Common

### Actions

- **Ritual Sickle.** Slashes with a consecrated sickle for slashing plus 1 necrotic damage.

## Where you meet it

- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Knives come out of sleeves all over the square. Lady Wachter's people were never here to watch the sun.*
- [Wachterhaus](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/wachterhaus.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Seven heads turn from the shrine at once. 'You're early,' says Nikolai Wachter, drawing, 'and you weren't…*