# Guardian Portrait

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> [!infobox]
> ![guardian portrait](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/guardian-portrait.webp)
> **Type:** Medium construct
> **Alignment:** unaligned
> **Challenge:** 1 (200 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 5
> **Hit Points:** 22 (5d8)
> **Speed:** 0 ft

## Stat block

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

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 22 (5d8) | 0 ft | 1 | 200 |

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

- **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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md): *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-main-floor.md): *The fire dies, and every face in the hall turns toward you. Two portraits lean out of their frames; helmed…*
- [Haralamb's Studio](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/haralambs-studio.md): [The Count's Portraitist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-counts-portraitist.md) · *The great canvas leans out of its frame on its own, and the portraits round the walls come with it, frames…*