# Shadow

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> [!infobox]
> ![shadow](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/shadow.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** chaotic evil
> **Challenge:** 1/2 (100 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 27 (5d8+5)
> **Speed:** 40 ft

## Stat block

Hides in darkness, slips through cracks and drains Strength; weak to radiant damage and sunlight.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 27 (5d8+5) | 40 ft | 1/2 | 100 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 (-2) | 14 (+2) | 13 (+1) | 6 (-2) | 10 (+0) | 8 (-1) |

- **Skills:** Stealth +6
- **Vulnerable:** radiant
- **Resistant:** acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder
- **Immune:** necrotic, poison
- **Condition immunities:** exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10

### Traits

- **Amorphous.** The shadow can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch, and doing so costs it no extra movement.
- **Sunlight Weakness.** While the shadow is in sunlight, it has Disadvantage on D20 Tests.

### Actions

- **Draining Swipe.** Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) Necrotic damage, and the target's Strength score is reduced by 1d4. If this brings the score to 0, the target dies. A Humanoid killed by this attack rises as a new Shadow 1d4 hours later.

### Bonus actions

- **Shadow Stealth.** If the shadow is in Dim Light or Darkness, it can take the Hide action as a Bonus Action.

## Where you meet it

- [The Goat Path Camp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-goat-path-camp.md): [The Guide to the Temple](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-guide-to-the-temple.md) · *The guide gets up. His shadows stand up off the snow without him, and out of the drifts below the shelf come…*
- [Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-upper-level.md): *Five shadows peel off the walls, and none of them is yours.*
- [Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-lower-level.md): *The shades will not let you leave so easily.*
- [Wachterhaus](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/wachterhaus.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Seven heads turn from the shrine at once. 'You're early,' says Nikolai Wachter, drawing, 'and you weren't…*
- [Wachterhaus](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/wachterhaus.md): [The Cat in the Window](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-cat-in-the-window.md) · *Stella's shadow peels off the wall and stands up, and the shadows under the bed and behind the door stand up…*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): *The water in the well climbs the shaft on its own. She comes up out of it in her wedding veil, screaming, and…*