Stat block
A shadow of hatred that passes through walls, drains life with a touch and raises its victims as specters.
| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 67 (9d8+27) | 5 ft, fly 60 ft | 5 | 1800 |
| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 (-2) | 16 (+3) | 16 (+3) | 12 (+1) | 14 (+2) | 15 (+2) |
- Resistant: acid, bludgeoning, cold, fire, piercing, slashing
- Immune: necrotic, poison
- Condition immunities: charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
- Senses: darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 12
- Languages: Common plus two other languages
Traits
- Incorporeal Movement. Moves through creatures and objects as Difficult Terrain; 5 (1d10) Force if it ends a turn inside one.
- Sunlight Sensitivity. Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls while in sunlight.
Actions
- Life Drain. Necrotic touch that also lowers the target's Hit Point maximum by the damage taken.
- Create Specter. Text only for the engine.
Where you meet it
- The Goat Path Camp: The Guide to the Temple · The guide gets up. His shadows stand up off the snow without him, and out of the drifts below the shelf come…
- The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God: Things that were people once come scuttling from behind the sarcophagi, each with one great eye where a face…
- The Amber Temple: the Vaults: The alcove beside the doors was not empty. Something tall and golden steps out of it, and the hall's light…
- The Beacon Tower: The ash in the cradle stirs with no wind to stir it. The dark that settled into the dead lamp gathers itself…
- Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs: Escher's Petition · Querreth comes down onto the tower roof on red wings, and its chains come with it, full of grey shapes that…
- Under Van Richten's Tower: The books on every shelf open at once with a sound like birds, and the people written in them come out of the…
- Lake Zarovich: the Fishers' Landing: The Bell Under the Lake · The water along the shore stands up in the shape of people: the drowned of Pescari, grey and swollen, in…
- Wachterhaus: The Cat in the Window · Stella's shadow peels off the wall and stands up, and the shadows under the bed and behind the door stand up…
On the road: Amber Temple Road