# Rictavio

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> [!infobox]
> ![rictavio](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/rictavio.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** lawful good
> **Challenge:** 5 (1800 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 77 (14d8+14)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

Van Richten behind a showman's bluster: a silvered sword cane that bites deep into the undead, and a scholar's wizardry.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 77 (14d8+14) | 30 ft | 5 | 1800 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 (+1) | 13 (+1) | 13 (+1) | 20 (+5) | 19 (+4) | 16 (+3) |

- **Saving throws:** CON +4, WIS +7
- **Skills:** Arcana +8, Insight +7, Medicine +7, Perception +7, Religion +8, Sleight of Hand +4
- **Languages:** Abyssal, Common, Elvish, Infernal

### Traits

- **Special Equipment.** Besides his sword cane, Rictavio wears a hat of disguise and a ring of mind shielding, and he carries a spell scroll of Raise Dead.
- **Undead Slayer.** When Rictavio hits an Undead with a weapon attack, it takes an extra 10 (3d6) damage of the weapon's type.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Two Sword Cane attacks.
- **Sword Cane.** Melee attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) Piercing damage with the silvered blade drawn, or 4 (1d6 + 1) Bludgeoning damage with the wooden cane.
- **Spellcasting.** Rictavio casts spells as a 9th-level wizard, using Intelligence (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). Cantrips (at will): Friends, Light, Mage Hand, Message, Prestidigitation. 1st level (4 slots): Comprehend Languages, Detect Magic, Protection from Evil and Good, Sleep. 2nd level (3 slots): Detect Thoughts, Gentle Repose, Hold Person. 3rd level (3 slots): Clairvoyance, Magic Circle, Remove Curse. 4th level (3 slots): Arcane Eye, Banishment, Locate Creature. 5th level (1 slot): Hold Monster.