Guardian Portrait

Stat block

A painted guardian whose eyes follow you: it can't move or strike, but it bewitches and hurls intruders with magic.

• Immune: poison, psychic
• Condition immunities: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
• Senses: darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10
• Languages: Common, up to two other languages

Traits

• False Appearance. As long as the figure in the frame doesn't move, nothing marks it out from a normal painting.

Actions

• Innate Spellcasting. The portrait casts spells using Intelligence (spell save DC 12), needing no material components. 3/day each: Counterspell, Crown of Madness, Hypnotic Pattern, Telekinesis.

Where you meet it

• Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping: The painted count turns his head to follow you down the gallery. The armour on either side of him lifts its…
• Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor: The fire dies, and every face in the hall turns toward you. Two portraits lean out of their frames; helmed…
• Haralamb's Studio: The Count's Portraitist · The great canvas leans out of its frame on its own, and the portraits round the walls come with it, frames…