# Nothic

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> [!infobox]
> ![nothic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/nothic.webp)
> **Type:** Medium aberration
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 2 (450 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 15
> **Hit Points:** 45 (6d8+18)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

A one-eyed, clawed horror: a gaze that rots flesh and an uncanny knack for secrets.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 45 (6d8+18) | 30 ft | 2 | 450 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 (+2) | 16 (+3) | 16 (+3) | 13 (+1) | 10 (+0) | 8 (-1) |

- **Skills:** Arcana +3, Insight +4, Perception +4, Stealth +5
- **Senses:** truesight 120 ft; passive Perception 14
- **Languages:** Undercommon

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Two Claw attacks.
- **Claw.** Long hooked claws.
- **Rotting Gaze.** DC 13 Con save by a creature within 120 ft it can see: 5d6 Necrotic, half on a success.

### Bonus actions

- **Weird Insight.** Recharge 6. A creature within 120 ft makes a DC 14 Wis save or the nothic learns one of its secrets.

## Where you meet it

- [The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md): *Things that were people once come scuttling from behind the sarcophagi, each with one great eye where a face…*