Witchfire

Medium undead, chaotic evil

Armor Class 16
Hit Points 90 (20d8)
Speed fly 50 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
10 (+0) 20 (+5) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 14 (+2) 16 (+3)

Skills Performance +9
Damage Resistances acid, fire, lightning bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages Common, Infernal
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)

SPECIAL TRAITS

  • Incorporeal Movement. A witchfire can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. She takes 5 (1d10) force damage if she ends her turn inside an object.
  • Innate Spellcasting. A witchfire’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

ACTIONS

  • Witchfire Bolt. Ranged Spell Attack. +9 to hit, range 60. Hit: 33 (8d6 + 5) fire damage and target has disadvantage on hide checks and cannot benefit from invisibility for 10 minutes.

ABOUT

When an exceptionally vile hag or witch dies with some malicious plot left incomplete, or proves too horridly tenacious to succumb to the call of death, the foul energies of these wicked old crones sometimes spawn incorporeal undead known as witchfires. These ghostly creatures appear much as they did in life, although the grotesque undead energy that births them makes them appear young and attractive and wreathes their insubstantial bodies in a powerful aura of sickly green flame, a ghostly fire referred to as “witchflame” in local legends. Strings of will-o’-wisps are often found in the immediate vicinity of witchfires and are typically led by the undead, leading scholars to speculate that the creatures feed off of a witchfire’s flames and fury.

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