monster

Death Embrace

CR 11

Huge Aberration, Chaotic Evil

Reveal Stat Block

Armor Class

13 (natural armor)

Hit Points

147 (14d12 + 56)

Speed

swim 20 ft.

str

dex

con

int

-2

wis

-1

cha

-3

Traits

Petrifying Tendrils.Any creature that starts its turn in the death embrace's space must make a 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failed saving throw, the creature is restrained. A creature restrained in this way must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn, becoming petrified on a failed saving throw or ending the effect on a successful one. The petrified condition lasts until the effect is ended by a greater restoration spell or similar magic.

Reel.At the start of each of its turns, the death embrace can pull each creature it is grappling up to 20 feet toward it (no action required).

Water Breathing.The death embrace can breathe only underwater.

Actions

Multiattack.The death embrace makes two Tentacle attacks.

Tentacle.mw 10 to hit, reach 60 ft., one target. ({@damage 2d6 + 6) piercing damage plus 11 (2d10) psychic damage. If the target is Large or smaller, it is also grappled (escape 16). The death embrace has six tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.

Reactions.Reactions the creature can take:

Body Shield.When the death embrace is hit by an attack, one creature the death embrace is grappling (chosen by the death embrace) takes the damage instead.

Death Embrace

Drifting through the dark waters of the Netherdeep, the death embrace is an ominous sight. Beneath its bell hangs a lacy, tendrilous mass that thrums with magic, surrounded by six 60-foot-long, barbed tentacles. The death embrace uses these tentacles to grasp and petrify its prey.

Despite its foreboding name, the death embrace is not an overly aggressive creature. It prefers to bide its time, using creatures it has caught in its tentacles as shields to absorb attacks.