# Helmed Horror

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> [!infobox]
> ![helmed horror](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/helmed-horror.webp)
> **Type:** Medium construct
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 4 (1100 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 20
> **Hit Points:** 60 (8d8+24)
> **Speed:** 30 ft, fly 30 ft

## Stat block

An empty, flying suit of plate that fights with a longsword and shrugs off most magic.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 60 (8d8+24) | 30 ft, fly 30 ft | 4 | 1100 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 (+4) | 13 (+1) | 16 (+3) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) |

- **Skills:** Perception +4
- **Resistant:** bludgeoning, piercing, slashing
- **Immune:** force, necrotic, poison
- **Condition immunities:** blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, stunned
- **Senses:** blindsight 60 ft; passive Perception 14
- **Languages:** understands its creator's languages but can't speak

### Traits

- **Magic Resistance.** Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
- **Spell Immunity.** The horror is immune to three spells picked by whoever made it. Fireball, Heat Metal and Lightning Bolt are the usual choices.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Makes two Longsword attacks.
- **Longsword.** Cuts with a longsword.

## Where you meet it

- [Castle Ravenloft, the Catacombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-catacombs.md): *Corvina stands up out of her crypt, and the iron gates along the row swing shut by themselves, one after…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Old Tombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-old-tombs.md): *Three of the stone knights were never stone. They step off their plinths into the aisle, visors turning…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Court of the Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-court-of-the-count.md): *The armour on its stand turns its helm toward the door. Behind it, three more suits step down from the wall…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Treasury](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-treasury.md): *He sits on his hoard in a chair that has sunk to its knees in gold, turning one coin over and over in his…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-larders-of-ill-omen.md): *Dead men in the castle's livery sit up on their pallets. Two suits of armour by the door turn their empty…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-larders-of-ill-omen.md): *Cyrus's shriek goes down the guards' run like a bell. Boots answer it, and some of them are not boots.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *Three suits of armour stand at the jailers' table as if waiting for a fourth hand. They are empty, and they…*
- [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…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Heart of Sorrow](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-heart-of-sorrow.md): *He is standing beside the heart with one hand resting on the glass, as a man rests a hand on a horse he is…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Heart of Sorrow](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-heart-of-sorrow.md): *The heart rings like a struck bell. Below, armour comes clanking up the last turn of the stair, and something…*
- [The North Shoulder of Ghakis](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-north-shoulder-of-ghakis.md): *The figures by the cart turn round all together. Under the wet hoods their faces are grey and dry as old…*