The Heartwood RotsCreature 4

---

Source Pathfinder Society Scenario #6-06: Rotten Apples
Perception +12 (darkvision)
Languages Common, Fey, Necril, Plus One Regional Language
Skills Acrobatics +11, Athletics +9, Intimidation +8, Nature +11, Religion +11, Society +5, Stealth +12
Str +3, Dex +5, Con +1, Int -1, Wis +3, Cha +2

---

AC 22; Fort +9; Reflex +13; Will +11;
HP 40 (coffin restoration, fast healing 5, void healing)
Speed 25 feet (climb 25 feet)
Immunities death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, sleep
Resistances Physical 5

---

Claw +14 (+10, +6) to hit (agile, unarmed) 1d8+6 Slashing

---

Constant Spells

A constant spell affects the monster without the monster needing to cast it, and its duration is unlimited. If a constant spell gets counteracted, the monster can reactivate it by spending the normal spellcasting actions the spell requires.

Fast Healing 5

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.

Rotten Burst (healing, void)

When The Heartwood Rots dies, a burst of primal void energy explodes from her body, restoring 2d8 healing,void2d8 Hit Points to each undead fungi or plant creature in a 30-foot emanation and killing all natural plants, though merely causing discomfort to creatures with the plant trait. This area is filled with rotten vegetation, becoming difficult terrain.

Vampire Vulnerabilities

All vampires possess the following vulnerabilities.

• Compulsions Vampires are creatures with strange and unknowable compulsions. A typical vampire can't voluntarily cross running water unless they're transported while they hide within their coffin, nor can they enter a private dwelling unless invited in by someone with the authority to do so. At your discretion, vampires might have different compulsions—a pirate vampire might not be able to set foot on solid ground without being invited, for example. The vampire can still be forced to do these things and might be able to overcome their compulsion just as they do their revulsion.
• Revulsion A vampire can't voluntarily come within 10 feet of brandished garlic or a brandished religious symbol of a deity with a holy sanctification option. To brandish garlic or a religious symbol, a creature must Interact to do so, and it remains brandished for 1 round (similar to Raising a Shield). If the vampire involuntarily comes within 10 feet of an object of their revulsion, they gain the Fleeing condition, running from the object of their revulsion until they end an action beyond 10 feet. After 1 round of being exposed to the subject of their revulsion, a vampire can attempt a DC 25 will save as a single action, which has the concentrate trait. On a success, they overcome their revulsions for 1d6 rounds (or 1 hour on a critical success).
• Stake A wooden stake driven through a vampire's heart drops the vampire to 0 HP and prevents them from healing above 0 HP, even in their coffin. Staking a vampire requires 3 actions and works only if the vampire is Unconscious. If the stake is removed, the vampire can heal above 0 HP again, and if they're in their coffin, the 1-hour rest period begins once the stake is removed. If the vampire's head is severed and anointed with holy water while the stake is in place, the vampire is destroyed.
• Sunlight If exposed to direct sunlight, a vampire immediately becomes Slowed 1. The slowed value increases by 1 each time the vampire ends their turn in sunlight, and the condition ends when they're no longer in sunlight. If the vampire loses all their actions in this way, they're destroyed. Due to their supernatural aversion to light, vampires don't cast shadows or show a reflection in mirrors

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.

Drink Blood (divine)

Requirement A Grabbed, Paralyzed, Restrained, Unconscious, or willing creature is within the vampire's reach.

---

Effect The vampire sinks its fangs into that creature to drink its blood. This requires an athletics check against the victim's Fortitude DC if the victim is grabbed and is automatic for any of the other conditions.

The victim is Drained 1 and the vampire regains 5 healing5 HP, gaining any excess HP as temporary Hit Points. Drinking Blood from a creature that's already drained doesn't restore any HP to the vampire but increases the victim's drained value by 1, killing the victim when it reaches drained 5. A vampire can also consume blood that's been emptied into a vessel for sustenance, but it gains no HP from doing so.

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

Sneak Attack

The Heartwood Rots deals 1d6 extra precision damage to Off-Guard creatures.

Grab

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.

---

Primal Innate Spells (DC 21, +13 to hit)

3rd Level: Speak with Plants (Constant)

---

Vampires use their servitor pawns for infiltration and reconnaissance.

---

Vampires are undead creatures that feed on the blood of the living.

---

Traits