Cambium

Large fiend, neutral evil

Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
Hit Points 264 (23d10 + 138)
Speed 40 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
21 (+5)	16 (+3)	23 (+6)	17 (+3)	16 (+3)	18 (+4)

Saving Throws Dex +8, Con +11, Int +8, Wis +8, Cha +9
Skills Arcana +8, Deception +9, Insight +8, Medicine +8, Perception +8, Stealth +8
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned, prone
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18
Languages Common, Draconic, Infernal
Challenge 14 (11,500 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +5

ACTIONS

• Multiattack. The cambium makes four Needle Fingers or Poison Ray attacks. It can replace two attacks with a use of Spellcasting.
• Needle Fingers. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5) piercing damage.
• Poison Ray. Ranged Spell Attack: +9 to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d8 + 4) poison damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned until the end of its next turn.
• Spellcasting. The cambium casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
• At will: alter self, detect thoughts, spare the dying
• 3/day each: hold person, protection from poison, heal
• 1/day: plane shift (self only)

BONUS ACTIONS

• Damage Ability. The cambium twists the bodily humors of a creature within 30 feet of it that isn’t a Construct or Undead and that it hit with Needle Fingers in the past minute. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or its Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score (the cambium’s choice) is reduced by 1d4. The target falls unconscious if this reduces an ability score to 0. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest.
• Imbalance Humors. If the cambium has hit a creature that isn’t a Construct or Undead with Needle Fingers in the past minute, it can cause a surge in one of the target’s bodily humors, causing an imbalance. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or suffer one of the following effects of the cambium’s choice. Unless noted otherwise, the target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
• Sanguine Flux. The target can’t regain hp—naturally or magically—until after it finishes a long rest.
• Choleric Flux. The target becomes confused for 1 minute. This effect works as if the target failed a saving throw against the confusion spell, except the cambium doesn’t have to maintain concentration.
• Melancholic Flux. The target is incapacitated and its speed is halved for 1 minute.
• Phlegmatic Flux. The target is poisoned for 1 minute.

ABOUT

Unfolding impossibly from beneath voluminous robes, this creature’s pockmarked, spindly arms end in clusters of narrow spikes. Its long, hollow, needle-like fingers and its many-jointed arms move with surprising speed and strength for such an emaciated creature.

Hunched and Robed. The cambium skulks through mortal society, hunched and contorted, concealing its nine-foot height and its supernumerary arms.

Devours Bodily Humors. The source of a cambium’s interest lies in every mortal body: the four humors. It drains these from victims in precise amounts, sometimes to fix its own imbalances, sometimes to concoct serums to sell in hellish markets. Its victims are left in a desperate state, eager for a corrective fix and willing to obey the cambium’s every whim as servants and toadies.

Abandons Victims. After a sufficient crop has been harvested, the cambium abandons these addicts to die slowly from violent withdrawals, and allows the local population to lie fallow for a decade or so.