Mamura

Small aberration, neutral evil

Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 112 (15d6 + 60)
Speed 20 ft., fly 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	18 (+4)	19 (+4)	17 (+3)	11 (+0)	16 (+3)

Saving Throws Dex +7, Con +7, Cha +6
Skills Acrobatics +7, Perception +6, Stealth +7
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16
Languages Common, Goblin, Sylvan, Void Speech
Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +3

SPECIAL TRAITS

• Distracting Babble. When a spellcaster that is concentrating on a spell starts its turn within 20 feet of the mamura, the spellcaster must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or lose concentration on the spell. In addition, if a spellcaster within 20 feet of the mamura casts a spell, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or the spell fails to cast, using the action, bonus action, or reaction to cast the spell but not expending the spell slot.
• Flyby. The mamura doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
• Magic Resistance. The mamura has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
• Radial Eyes. The mamura has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight and on saving throws against being blinded. In addition, if the mamura isn’t blinded, creatures attacking it can’t benefit from traits and features that rely on a creature’s allies distracting or surrounding the mamura, such as the Pack Tactics trait or Sneak Attack class feature.

ACTIONS

• Multiattack. The mamura makes three Claw attacks and one Whiptail Stinger attack.
• Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage.
• Whiptail Stinger. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 10 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 7 (2d6) poison damage and be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned, the creature takes 3 (1d6) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

BONUS ACTIONS

• Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the mamura takes the Hide action.

ABOUT

This atrocity combines the worst elements of a dead frog and a rotting fish. Its slimy, scaly, vaguely humanoid form has eyes and three clawed arms arranged radially about its body. Its green, bat-like wings seem too small to work, yet it flies well.

Twisted Field Sprites. Mamuras are the twisted faeries of magical wastelands and barren plains. They were once good-aligned, pixie-like fey called “polevoi,” or “field sprites.” At some point, they swore their souls to a dark goddess and were corrupted by her foul magic. Now they are twisted, alien things.

Cross-Dimensional. The mamura is one degree out of phase with reality. It appears blurry and indistinct even in bright light, and it seems translucent in dim light. They babble constantly, but their talk is mostly nonsense. Their minds operate in multiple dimensions in time as well as space, and this allows them to talk to and understand creatures of the Void. Because of this, their babble may be prophetic for the few who can decipher it.

Prophetic Followers. They occasionally align themselves with powerful goblin tribes or evil wasteland sorcerers for their own unknowable purposes.