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Ettin Ceremorph

Ettin Ceremorph
Ettin Ceremorph
CR 8
Large Aberration, Lawful Evil
Reveal Stat Block
Armor Class
15 (natural armor)
Hit Points
104 (11d10 + 44)
Speed
40 ft.
str
18
+4
dex
14
+2
con
18
+4
int
18
+4
wis
15
+2
cha
14
+2

Traits

Magic Resistance.The ceremorph has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Actions

Multiattack.The ceremorph makes one Slam attack and one Tentacles attack. The ceremorph can replace one of the attacks with a Mind Bolt attack, if available.
Slam.mw 7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. ({@damage 4d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Tentacles.mw 7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. ({@damage 2d10 + 4) psychic damage. If the target is Large or smaller, it has the grappled condition (escape 14) and must succeed on a 15 Intelligence saving throw or have the stunned condition until this grapple ends.
Extract Brain.mw 7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one incapacitated Humanoid grappled by the ceremorph. ({@damage 10d10) piercing damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the ceremorph kills the target by extracting and devouring its brain.
Mind Bolt (3/Day).rs 7 to hit, range 120 ft., one creature. ({@damage 2d12 + 4) psychic damage, and the target must succeed on a 15 Intelligence saving throw or have the stunned condition until the end of its next turn.

Ettin Ceremorph

Mind flayers, which are described in the Monster Manual, are created through ceremorphosis, a process that begins with the implantation of an illithid tadpole in the brain of a Humanoid host. Mind flayers have subjected giants to this process in an effort to create larger, stronger mind flayers, but those experiments all ended in failure: a giant's body is simply too large for a single tadpole to take over. Ettins, however, proved to be perfect subjects. An ettin's two brains provide sufficient food for two tadpoles, and the two tadpoles are able to transform the entirety of the ettin's body, creating an ettin ceremorph. As part of the transformation process, one of the ettin's heads sinks into the body, with that brain focused on controlling the body. The other head focuses on cogitation and psionic power, though its power is not as great as a mind flayer's.

Ettin ceremorphs serve mind flayer colonies, protecting the elder brains that rule the communities and guarding their treasures. They retain no memory of their previous existence as ettins.