monster

Devkarin Lich

CR 14

Medium Undead, Neutral Evil

Reveal Stat Block

Armor Class

14 (natural armor)

Hit Points

97 (15d8 + 30)

Speed

30 ft.

str

dex

con

int

wis

cha

Traits

Legendary Resistance (3/Day).If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Regeneration.The lich regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the lich takes fire or radiant damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the lich's next turn. The lich dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.

Turn Resistance.The lich has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.

Undead Fortitude.If damage reduces the lich to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the lich drops to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Noxious Touch.ms 9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. ({@damage 4d6) poison damage, and the target must succeed on a 17 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

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

Cantrip.The lich casts one of its cantrips.

Noxious Touch (Costs 2 Actions).The lich uses Noxious Touch.

Disrupt Life (Costs 3 Actions).Each creature within 30 feet of the lich must make a 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Devkarin Lich

Powerful spellcasters of the Devkarin elves, steeped in Golgari magic, can transcend death to become liches. For them, life and death don't merely chase each other in an inevitable cycle; the two can intersect, and at that nexus the liches find immense power, which commands the awe, envy, and fear of other Golgari.

Unlike the shambling zombies they command, liches retain their memories, their personalities, and especially their ambition. They also retain the grace and stature of living elves, but their bodies are in a constant state of slow decay. Various forms of fungus grow in and over the rotting flesh to hold the body together.

Undead Nature

The lich doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.