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Bishop Keppira D'BearCreature 11


UniqueMediumEvilLawfulShadowUndeadUnholyVampire
Source Pathfinder Adventure: Shadows at Sundown
Perception +20 (greater darkvision)
Languages Common, Necril, Shadowtongue, Thassilonian
Skills Acrobatics +22, Athletics +23, Deception +22, Stealth +22
Str +6, Dex +7, Con +5, Int +3, Wis +5, Cha +5

AC 31; Fort +20; Reflex +24; Will +22;
HP 150 (coffin restoration, fast healing 10, void healing)
Speed 25 feet
Immunities death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, sleep
Resistances Physical 10

Claw One Action +22 (+18, +14) to hit (agile, magical, unarmed) 2d8+8 Slashing

Greater Darkvision

A creature with greater darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. A creature with greater darkvision can see through even forms of magical darkness.

Fast Healing 10

A monster with this ability regains the given number of Hit Points each round at the beginning of its turn.

Coffin Restoration (divine, void)

Unlike other undead, a vampire isn't destroyed at 0 HP. Instead, it falls Unconscious. If its body rests in its coffin for 1 hour, the vampire gains 1 HP, after which its fast healing begins to function normally.

Shadow Form One Action (concentrate, divine, shadow)

The strigoi reverts to pure shadow and absorbs its body and its gear into the darkness, or it shifts back to its physical form. In shadow form, the strigoi gains a climb Speed equal to its land Speed and can move through any gap that isn't airtight. However, it can only move along solid surfaces that aren't highly reflective, not liquid or mirrored surfaces. If the surface it's on is destroyed, the strigoi returns to physical form and is Stunned 1. The strigoi loses fast healing while in shadow form but can remain in shadow form indefinitely.

A strigoi that is exposed to sunlight while in shadow form becomes Slowed 2 and must attempt a DC 16 flat at the end of each of its turns. If it fails this flat check, it is destroyed, the shadow vanishing with a blood-curdling wail.

Strigoi Weaknesses

All strigoi possess the following weaknesses:

Void Healing

A creature with void healing draws health from void energy rather than vitality energy. It is damaged by vitality damage and is not healed by vitality healing effects. It does not take void damage, and it is healed by void effects that heal undead.

Blasphemous Invocation Two Actions (divine, void)

While Bishop Keppira D'Bear lost her spellcasting abilities and other clerical powers upon being transformed into a strigoi, Urgathoa is pleased with the development and granted the fallen bishop a boon. In time, and if she's allowed to continue her undeath, the bishop may well regain many of her spellcasting powers as a cleric of Urgathoa, but until that time she can draw upon this connection to the goddess of undeath to utter a blasphemous invocation. When she does so, shadows within a 20-foot emanation from Bishop Keppira twist, writhe, and animate before lashing out. All living creatures in the area must attempt a DC 30 fortitude save. Bishop Keppira cannot use Blasphemous Invocation again for 1d4 rounds.


Critical Success The creature is unaffected.

Success The creature takes 5d6 void damage.

Failure The creature takes 10d6 void damage and is Slowed 1 as their own shadows animate and pull against them.

Critical Failure The creature takes 20d6 void damage and is Slowed 2 as their own shadows animate and pull against them.

Drink Essence One Action (divine)

Requirements A Grabbed, Paralyzed, Restrained, Unconscious, or willing creature is within the strigoi's reach


Effect The strigoi sinks their fangs into the targeted creature to drink its blood and draw out its vital essence. This requires an athletics check against the creature's Fortitude DC if the creature is grabbed and is automatic for any of the other conditions. The creature becomes Drained 1 and Stupefied 1, and the strigoi regains 15 healing HP, gaining any excess HP as temporary Hit Points. Drinking Essence from a creature that's already drained or stupefied doesn't restore any HP, but increases either the creature's drained condition value or its stupefied condition value by 1 (whichever value is lesser is increased; if both values are equal, then the strigoi chooses which condition to increase the value of).

A victim's drained condition decreases by 1 per week. A blood transfusion, which requires a successful DC 20 medicine check and sufficient blood or a blood donor, reduces the drained value by 1 after 10 minutes.

A victim's stupefied condition decreases by 1 per day after performing daily preparations. If the daily preparations are done in full sunlight, the stupefied condition is removed entirely.

Grab One Action

Requirements The monster's last action was a successful Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or the monster has a creature Grabbed or Restrained


Effect If used after a Strike, the monster attempts to [/act grapple] the creature using the body part it attacked with. This attempt neither applies nor counts toward the creature's multiple attack penalty.

The monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn.


Divine Innate Spells (DC 27, +19 to hit)

3rd Level: Levitate (At Will)



Traits

Unique

A rules element with this trait is one-of-a-kind. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to creatures with this trait is increased by 10.

Shadow

This magic involves shadows or the energy of the Netherworld.

Undead

Once living, these creatures were infused after death with void energy and soul-corrupting unholy magic. When reduced to 0 Hit Points, an undead creature is destroyed. Undead creatures are damaged by vitality energy and are healed by void energy, and don't benefit from healing vitality effects.

Unholy

Effects with the unholy trait are tied to powerful magical forces of cruelty and sin. They often have stronger effects on holy creatures. Creatures with this trait are strongly devoted to unholy causes, and often have weakness to holy. If a creature with weakness to unholy uses an unholy item or effect, it takes damage from its weakness.

Vampire

Undead creatures who thirst for blood, vampires are notoriously versatile and hard to destroy.