# Flameskull

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> ![flameskull](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/flameskull.webp)
> **Type:** Tiny undead
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 4 (1100 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 13
> **Hit Points:** 40 (9d4+18)
> **Speed:** 5 ft, fly 40 ft

## Stat block

A flying, burning skull: twin fire rays, Magic Missile and a Fireball, and it re-forms unless its remains are blessed.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 40 (9d4+18) | 5 ft, fly 40 ft | 4 | 1100 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (-5) | 17 (+3) | 14 (+2) | 16 (+3) | 10 (+0) | 11 (+0) |

- **Skills:** Arcana +5, Perception +2
- **Immune:** fire, necrotic, poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, prone
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 12
- **Languages:** Common

### Traits

- **Illumination.** Sheds Bright Light 15 ft and Dim Light 15 ft more.
- **Magic Resistance.** Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
- **Undead Restoration.** Destroyed, it re-forms in an hour unless Holy Water or Dispel Evil and Good is used on its remains.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Two Fire Rays.
- **Fire Ray.** A jet of green fire, close up or up to 60 ft.
- **Spellcasting.** Intelligence, DC 13: Mage Hand at will; Magic Missile (2nd level) twice a day; Fireball once.

## Where you meet it

- [The Amber Temple: the Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-library.md): *Four skulls rise from the top shelves, each wearing a crown of green fire. They were wardens once, and they…*
- [The Amber Temple: the Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-library.md): *The sparks in Exethanter's eyes go from candle to forge. Somewhere in the shelves, two skulls catch fire.*
- [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) · *The scholar takes off his spectacles, and his face goes with them: a jackal's head, black-lipped and smiling.…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *Two burning skulls rise from the coal heaps, and the fire in the furnace stands up on legs of its own.*
- [Under Mount Ghakis](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-mount-ghakis.md): *The cracks in the floor flare white. Something climbs out of the biggest of them, shaped like a man made of a…*