# Khazan

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> [!infobox]
> ![exethanter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/exethanter.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 14 (11500 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 18
> **Hit Points:** 190 (20d8+100)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

The archmage who built the tower on the tarn, before the count was born. He became a lich the cheap way: not with souls but with his own name, cut over his door so that everyone who comes in says it. Courteous, curious and very old, he collects the names of his visitors. His touch freezes, his bursts tear, and his undercroft whispers your name back to you.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 190 (20d8+100) | 30 ft | 14 | 11500 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (+0) | 16 (+3) | 20 (+5) | 21 (+5) | 14 (+2) | 16 (+3) |

- **Saving throws:** CON +10, INT +10, WIS +7
- **Skills:** Arcana +15, History +15, Insight +7, Perception +7
- **Resistant:** cold, lightning, necrotic
- **Immune:** poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned
- **Senses:** truesight 120 ft; passive Perception 17
- **Languages:** Common, Old Barovian

### Traits

- **Legendary Resistance (3/Day).** When Khazan fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead, three times a day.
- **Remembered.** Khazan's phylactery is his own name, cut into the lintel of his tower and spoken by everyone who opens the door. While it stands, a body destroyed comes apart into dust that goes back into the name, and he forms again below the tower. Unmake the name, and the next body is the last.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Khazan makes two Eldritch Burst attacks, or one Paralyzing Touch and one Eldritch Burst.
- **Eldritch Burst.** Ranged Spell Attack Roll: +10, range 120 ft. Hit: 22 (4d10) Force damage.
- **Paralyzing Touch.** Melee Spell Attack Roll: +10, reach 5 ft. Hit: 14 (4d6) Cold damage, and the target makes a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or has the Paralyzed condition until the end of its next turn.
- **Disrupt Life.** Constitution Saving Throw: DC 18, each creature within 20 feet of Khazan that isn't Undead. Failure: 14 (4d6) Necrotic damage. Success: Half damage.
- **Spellcasting.** Khazan casts one of the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18, +10 to hit with spell attacks): at will, Mage Hand and Ray of Frost; twice a day each, Fireball and Lightning Bolt; once a day each, Cone of Cold and Hold Monster.

### Lair actions

- **Every Name He Knows.** Every book in the undercroft whispers the name of up to two creatures Khazan can see. Each makes a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. Failure: 7 (2d6) Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the start of Khazan's next turn.
- **The Lake Comes Through.** The cold of the lake overhead comes down through the stone onto up to two creatures Khazan can see. Each makes a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) Cold damage on a failure or half as much on a success.

## Where you meet it

- [Under Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-van-richtens-tower.md): [The Name Over the Door](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-name-over-the-door.md) · *Khazan stands up out of his chair, and every candle in the study leans toward him, and the books in the hall…*
- [Under Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-van-richtens-tower.md): [The Name Over the Door](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-name-over-the-door.md) · *For one moment more Khazan is himself, and he doesn't lift a hand. Then the lights in his eyes go out, and…*