# Tree Blight

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> [!infobox]
> ![tree blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/tree-blight.webp)
> **Type:** Huge plant
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 7 (2900 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 15
> **Hit Points:** 115 (10d12+50)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

A dead-looking tree that walks: long branches batter, roots grab and crush, and its maw bites anyone it holds.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 115 (10d12+50) | 30 ft | 7 | 2900 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 (+6) | 10 (+0) | 20 (+5) | 6 (-2) | 10 (+0) | 3 (-4) |

- **Condition immunities:** deafened
- **Senses:** blindsight 60 ft; passive Perception 10
- **Languages:** Common and Druidic (understands but can't speak)

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Two Branch attacks and Grasping Root.
- **Branch.** A sweeping branch with 15 ft reach.
- **Grasping Root.** DC 17 Str save by a Large or smaller creature within 15 ft: pulled 10 ft closer and held by a root (escape DC 16), crushed 2d6+6 at the start of each of its turns.

### Bonus actions

- **Gnash.** A creature it holds: DC 17 Dex save or 3d8+6 Piercing, half on a success.

## Where you meet it

- [The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md): [The Fourth Sister](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-fourth-sister.md) · *Granny Ash comes across the lane with her dogs at her heels, and in the hag garden behind her the blights…*
- [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-wizard-of-wines.md): *The vines on both sides of the lane shiver, though there's no wind. Then, row by row, they stand up.*
- [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-wizard-of-wines.md): [The Black Row](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-black-row.md) · *The Seventh Row stands up out of the ground, and the vines in the rows on either side pull their roots up…*
- [The Crown of Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-crown-of-yester-hill.md): *The humming breaks into a shout. The effigy's chest splits like a log in frost, and out of it, unfolding,…*