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Grim Champion of Pestilence

Grim Champion of Pestilence
Grim Champion of Pestilence
CR 15
Medium Undead, Neutral Evil
Reveal Stat Block
Armor Class
14
Hit Points
120 (16d8 + 48)
Speed
40 ft.
str
10
+0
dex
18
+4
con
16
+3
int
17
+3
wis
15
+2
cha
21
+5

Traits

Halo of Pestilence.The champion is surrounded by an aura of deadly magic that takes the form of a host of glowing white insects. Each creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of the champion must succeed on a 18 Constitution saving throw or have the incapacitated condition until the start of its next turn, as the insects ravage its body.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day).If the champion fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Actions

Multiattack.The champion makes two Blight Staff attacks, two Plague Bolt attacks, or one of each.
Blight Staff.mw 9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. ({@damage 1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 21 (6d6) necrotic damage.
Plague Bolt.rs 10 to hit, range 120 ft., one target. ({@damage 4d8 + 5) poison damage, and the target has the poisoned condition until the start of the champion's next turn.
Legendary Actions.The creature can take 3 legendary actions...
Attack.The champion makes one Blight Staff or Plague Bolt attack.
Furious Pursuit.The champion moves up to its speed or commands its mount to move up to its speed. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.
Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions).The champion uses Spellcasting.

Grim Champion of Pestilence

Aleron was once a tiefling adventurer, but unlike so many victims of the Deck of Many Things, he never drew the Skull card. Instead, when one of his allies drew the card and faced the avatar of death, Aleron came to his ally's aid. A second avatar of death appeared, and Aleron was slain; soon after, his Undead corpse crawled from Withered Vineyard, tainted with plague. Aleron resents his fellow Undead in the Grim Harrow, considering himself better than all of them and unjustly condemned to the Gardens of Decay for an act of altruism.

Though the weakest of the Harrow's three leaders, the Grim Champion of Pestilence is nonetheless a fearsome entity of sickness and blight. A swarm of insects surrounds him in a mockery of a halo, and debilitating plagues flow from his fingertips. Aleron rides a warhorse skeleton with flies buzzing in its gaping eye sockets.

The Grim Champions

The Grim Harrow is led by three powerful entities with the title of grim champion. Each champion embodies a terrible facet of death. Jyn Corvis, Grim Champion of Desolation, is the oldest and most powerful of the three and embodies all-consuming nothingness. She led the Grim Harrow to the Gardens of Delight long ago and is the nominal leader of all the Undead in the demiplane. The other two champions—Wynemar Brack, Grim Champion of Bloodshed, and Aleron, Grim Champion of Pestilence—rival Jyn for power and together can oppose her. The fact that the three champions rarely agree on anything is a major check on the group's power. Instead of the Grim Harrow acting as a unified force, each of the three champions usually pursues their own interests, seldom cooperating or sharing intelligence or resources.