monster

Death Tyrant

CR 14

Large Undead (beholder), Lawful Evil

Reveal Stat Block

Armor Class

Hit Points

195 (26d10 + 52)

Speed

5 ft., fly 40 ft. (hover)

str

dex

con

int

wis

cha

Traits

Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair).If the death tyrant fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Actions

Multiattack.The death tyrant uses Eye Rays three times.

Bite.m 9, reach 5 feet. ({@damage 2d8 + 4) Piercing damage.

Eye Rays.The death tyrant randomly shoots one of the following magical rays at a target it can see within 120 feet of itself (roll 1d10; reroll if the death tyrant has already used that ray during this turn): {'type':'item','name':'1: Charm Ray','entries':['wis 17. 13 ({@damage 3d8) Psychic damage, and the target has the Charmed|XPHB condition for 1 hour or until it takes damage. Half damage only.'] {'type':'item','name':'2: Paralyzing Ray','entries':['con 17. The target has the {'type':'item','name':'3: Fear Ray','entries':['wis 17. 10 ({@damage 3d6) Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened|XPHB condition until the end of its next turn. Half damage only.'] {'type':'item','name':'4: Slowing Ray','entries':['con 17. 18 ({@damage 4d8) Necrotic damage. Until the end of the target's next turn, the target can't take Reactions; its Speed|XPHB is halved; and it can take either an action or a Bonus Action|XPHB on its turn, not both. Half damage only.'] {'type':'item','name':'5: Enervation Ray','entries':['con 17. 16 ({@damage 3d10) Poison damage, and the target has the Poisoned|XPHB condition until the end of its next turn. While Poisoned|XPHB, the target can't regain Hit Points|XPHB. Half damage only.'] {'type':'item','name':'6: Telekinetic Ray','entries':['str 17 (the target succeeds automatically if it is Gargantuan). The death tyrant moves the target up to 30 feet in any direction. The target has the {'type':'item','name':'7: Sleep Ray','entries':['wis 17 (the target succeeds automatically if it is a Construct or an Undead). The target has the {'type':'item','name':'8: Petrification Ray','entries':['con 17. 1 The target has the Restrained|XPHB condition and repeats the save at the end of its next turn if it is still Restrained|XPHB, ending the effect on itself on a success. 2 The target has the Petrified|XPHB condition instead of the Restrained|XPHB condition.']} {'type':'item','name':'9: Disintegration Ray','entries':['dex 17. 36 ( {'type':'item','name':'10: Death Ray','entries':['dex 17. 55 (

Legendary Actions.The creature can take 3 legendary actions...

Chomp.The death tyrant makes two Bite attacks.

Glare.The death tyrant uses Eye Rays.

Death Tyrant

Beholder beyond Death

A death tyrant is a beholder that pursues aberrant goals beyond its death. Ten magical singularities—all that remains of its magical eyes—orbit its floating, cyclopean skull, while the hateful gaze of its central eye socket stifles life and raises the dead.

Beholders typically transform into death tyrants over years when their dreams fixate on death, morbid apotheoses, or journeys to realms inhospitable to life. Some death tyrants rise from the corpses of slain beholders or result from exposure to strange magic or Underdark radiation. Sometimes beholders purposefully pursue this undead state, just as depraved magic-users pursue lichdom, although it is rare, as most beholders already believe themselves to be perfect beings.

No matter how death tyrants come into being, bizarre impulses drive their deathless existences. Their motivations tend to be extreme or beyond the reason of living creatures.

Death Tyrant Lairs

Death tyrants often lurk deep in the Underdark, in the tunnel-mazes they occupied in life or in the lairs of enemy beholders they conquered. These lairs are devoid of life, as death tyrants change their servants into Undead horrors.

A cluster of tiny lights descended from a dark crevice in the ceiling. These motes cast an eerie glow on the great, alien skull that hung beneath them.