Construct CR 8

The Count's Likeness

Stat block

A great canvas in a gilt frame: a young woman in a white gown, painted as no living painter could paint her, from a dead man's memory. It's an eye of the castle. Her look burns, her frame swings like a door, and the count speaks through her mouth.

ACHPSpeedCRXP
13181 (22d10+60)0 ft, fly 10 ft83900
STRDEXCONINTWISCHA
8 (-1)10 (+0)14 (+2)18 (+4)16 (+3)20 (+5)
  • Saving throws: WIS +7, CHA +9
  • Immune: poison, psychic
  • Condition immunities: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone
  • Senses: truesight 60 ft; passive Perception 13
  • Languages: Common

Traits

  • Legendary Resistance (2/Day). When the Likeness fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead, twice a day.
  • The Count's Eye. The Likeness is an eye of Castle Ravenloft: what the woman in it looks at, the count sees, and he can speak through her mouth. Every portrait Haralamb painted from it does the same, until it burns.

Actions

  • Multiattack. The Likeness uses The Count's Regard or casts a spell, and makes one Frame Strike.
  • Frame Strike. Melee Attack Roll: +7, reach 10 ft. Hit: 16 (3d8 + 3) Bludgeoning damage.
  • The Count's Regard. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 16, one creature the Likeness can see within 60 feet. Failure: 27 (5d10) Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the end of the Likeness's next turn. Success: Half damage only.
  • Spellcasting. The Likeness casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16): once a day each, Hypnotic Pattern and Hold Person.

Where you meet it