Actions

Slashing Roll. Mahlyn makes two bloodletter attacks and can move up to her speed without provoking attacks of opportunity. Once Mahlyn enters combat her features become feral.   Bloodletter (Unarmed Strike). Melee Weapon Attack: 1d20+9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 8 ( 1d8+4 ) slashing damage and ongoing 10 necrotic damage (CON save ends). Instead of dealing damage, Mahlyn can grapple the target (escape DC 18). The target also must make a CON save or suffer the effects of energy drain and lose experience 1 level.   The Nameless Bow of Mahlyn il Xafra. Ranged Weapon Attack: 1d20+9 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 7 ( 1d6+4 ) piercing damage, and the target must make a CON saving throw, taking 24 ( 7d6 ) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The target is also affected by faerie fire (single target, no save). Mahlyn may choose a secondary effect:

• Corpse offal and Carrion meat. Infection kills you slow and doesn’t go away. If not healed by magic within one hour, CON save. Fail and the infection sets in. Infection grows to infect one HD each day and subtracts one hp for each die affected each night. So if a player had eight hit dice and goes untreated for eight days, they will lose 8 hit points each night. It takes one heal spell per HD affected to cure the disease. The same player would require eight Cure Light Wounds spells in one 24 hour period to be safe. If they only get seven, the infection is still there and will re-grow as before.
• Mushrooms in Jellyfish Bile. This causes hallucinations and fear. The DM can describe an encounter to the affected player once per hour. The player must treat this as real, or run away. Only they can see it. The player must roll a fear test at the start of any combat or flee. It lasts for 3d6 hours minus your CON bonus.
• Eel Cyst. This microscopic Eel migrates into your bloodstream. After 3 days it gets into your stomach and scoots up your mouth to eat your food before you do. You begin to starve. In the intervening time you feel it writhing around under your skin. To cut it out you must win initiative and hit an AC of 19. You take damage either way.
• Liquid Dyslexia. Lasts for d4 weeks. Can’t be healed as not a disease. Can’t be lifted as not a curse. Used on wizards.
• Thaumo-Conductor. Barbed bolt with metre-long hair-thin copper wire attached. 1 hp damage on hit, 2d6 to pull out. Wire does not impede movement but grounds all offensive magic within ten metres in your flesh, regardless of who casts it.
• Eye Bolt. Tiny silver dart tip breaks off in your skin when you pull out the bolt. One eyeball develops an eightball hemmorage which does not impede vision much. Mahlyn has a coin-sized mirror that lets him see whatever you do from that eye.

Blood Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: 1d20+9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one willing creature, or a creature that is grappled by the Mahlyn, she has advantage on, incapacitated, or restrained. This attack can be used as a free action if an adjacent target (5 feet) is bloodied. Hit: 7 ( 1d6+4 ) piercing damage plus 10 ( 3d6 ) necrotic damage. The target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and Mahlyn regains hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A humanoid slain in this way and then buried in the ground rises the following night as a vampire spawn under the vampire’s control. The target is also weakened (deals half damage on any attack that requires an attack roll) (CON save ends). The target also must make a CON save or suffer the effects of energy drain and lose experience 1 level.   Eviscerate (Recharge 5-6). Melee Weapon Attack: 1d20+9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one or two creatures. Automatically recharges if the attack misses. Hit: 28 ( 7d6+4 ) necrotic damage and the target is dazed (grants advantage to attackers, can take only 1 action, no reactions, can’t flank) (CON save ends). The target also must make a CON save or suffer the effects of energy drain and lose experience 1 level.   Betraying Gaze (Recharges on a 1). Mahlyn targets all humanoids she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target can see her, the target must succeed on a WIS saving throw (males have disadvantage) against this magic or attack a target of Mahlyn’s choice and is then immobilized – it may move unto its speed and take the Cast a Spell action if not already used this turn. An immobilized target can repeat the saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts for 1 minute or until Mhalyn is destroyed, is on a different plane of existence than the target or takes a bonus action to end the effect.   I Am Legion (Timer of 1d4). Mahlyn magically calls 4 zombies (treat as a swarm creature that uses the base statistics of an ogre zombie) and 18 skeletons (treat as a swarm creature that uses the base statistics of a giant skeleton), provided the area has corpses to raise (such as an ancient battleground or graveyard) The called creatures rise immediately and act on their own turn, acting as allies of her and obeying her spoken commands. The undead remain for 1 hour, until Mahlyn dies, or until the she dismisses them as a bonus action.  

BONUS ACTIONS

Mist Step. As a bonus action, Mahlyn teleports up to 30 feet and becomes insubstantial until the end of her next turn. While insubstantial she gains the following additional resistances and immunities:

• Damage Resistances: acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder
• Damage Immunities: necrotic, poison
• Condition Immunities: charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained

Reactions

Till The Blood Runs Clear. When a creature not immune to necrotic damage is bloodied Mahlyn may use her reaction to make a Blood Drain attack up to a range of 60 feet.   Corpse Lance. As a reaction when a creature is dead or unconscious Mahlyn can select any number of corpses or unconscious creatures she can see and magically rips three bones from the bodies. These magical missiles are wrapped in necrotic energy. Each bone dart hits a creature of her choice that she can see within 120 feet. A bone dart deals 3 ( 1d4+1 ) necrotic damage to its target. The bone shards all strike simultaneously, and Mahlyn can direct them to hit one creature or several. For each size category above Medium the corpse provides an additional missile. If the target creature is a character that is unconscious instead of dead, it must make a CON save or automatically gain 1 failed Death saving throw at their next check. A corpse can only be used once as the fuel for corpse lance. Finally, Mahlyn may spend her hit point pool to fuel the lethality of the darts by spending 10 hit points for another bone shard. No matter how many corpses or hit points spent the maximum number of bony darts she may summon is 11.

Legendary Actions

Mahlyn can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. She regains spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.

• Move. Mahlyn moves up to her speed without provoking opportunity attacks or uses mist step. She may also shapeshifter as part of this action.
• Ambidextrous. Mahlyn uses an available action.
• Pumpkin-Bomb. Mahlyn throws an orange grenade at point she can see up to 60 feet away. As soon as the bomb lands it summons a great pumpkin (use a Shambling Mound as the base creature and then outrageously embellish). The great pumpkin sheds dim light as a candle from its carved head. There is a 50% chance that the great pumpkin will drop a hallow craver.

 

HALLOW CARVER
rare dagger (requires attainment)
GP/XP: 4,800/480
A small filleting knife with a soon on the white wooden handle for scooping out pumpkin seeds. There is an orange gem embedded into the handle that, upon closer examination, reveals a tiny white flame in the centre of the gem. It functions as a +1 magical dagger. Whenever you deal damage to a creature or otherwise slice/carve into the surface of an object, the wound/scar you create is treated as if the spell light is cast upon it for the next 24 hours.

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