Svartalfar

Medium fey, lawful evil

Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 119 (15d8+52)
Speed 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	21 (+5)	17 (+3)	18 (+4)	14 (+2)	21 (+5)

Damage Resistances cold, lightning
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages Aklo, Common, Elven, Sylvan
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)

SPECIAL TRAITS

• Innate Spellcasting. The svartalfal’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
  • At will: acid splash, booming blade, chill touch
  • 3/day each: hunter’s mark (no concentration requirement), misty step, thunderclap
  • 1/day each: greater invisibility, ray of enfeeblement, telekinesis
• Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the svartalfar has disadvantage on Attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
• Spell Strike (3/Day). After hitting a target with a longsword attack, it may use a bonus action to cast one of its spells on the target. This spell hits automatically without an attack roll.

ACTIONS

• Multiattack. The svartalfar makes three ebon sword attacks.
• Ebon Sword. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, 5 ft. reach, 1 target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) slashing damage.

ABOUT

The ancestors of the svartalfars were exiled from their primordial home for grave crimes that no fey will speak of.

Fleeing to the Shadow Plane, they formed assassin clans, and now they hire their services to any who pay them. Their payment must be in secrets, bits of occult science, and obscure information to add to their huge, dark libraries in underground warrens hidden away on the Shadow Plane. Svartalfars are extremely interested in knowledge about the realm of the fey.

Many fear the svartalfars are searching for a way to finally take their revenge upon those who expelled them.

Cold Hearted. These cold, calculating killers are not swayed by whimsy or deeper passions. They pride themselves on their pitilessness and inability to be bribed or dissuaded from ending a target’s life once they’ve been contracted to do so. Once an assassination is paid for, it’s the duty of all the svartalfars of a clan or cabal to make sure it gets done. If a clan or cabal fails, another one will finish the job.

Svartalfars seem to feel no love or real friendship. All their actions are committed for practical reasons—political gain, procreation, or relieving boredom. Focused and utterly unyielding, they are considered by many to be the perfect killers, and their tenacity and mastery over magic and shadows are a death sentence for anyone who has been marked as their quarry.