Witchfire WardenCreature 9
Source Pathfinder #164: Hands of the Devil
Perception +18 (darkvision)
Languages Aklo, Common, Necril
Skills Acrobatics +17, Deception +19, Intimidation +21, Occultism +18, Stealth +19
Str -5, Dex +6, Con +0, Int +3, Wis +3, Cha +6
AC 28; Fort +15; Reflex +21; Will +18;
HP 125 (void healing)
Speed 0 feet (fly 40 feet)
Immunities bleed, death effects, disease, fire, paralyzed, poison, precision, unconscious
Resistances All Damage 10
Witchflame Caress
+21 (+17, +13) to hit (agile, evil, finesse, magical, unholy) 3d6 FireWitchflame Bolt
+21 (+16, +11) to hit (evil, magical, unholy) 2d6 FireCoven (mental, occult)
The witchfire adds Nightmare, Phantasmal Killer, Phantasmal Calamity, and Summon Entity to their coven's spells.
A coven can contain one or more witchfires, but it must also include at least one living creature capable of forming a coven; three witchfires cannot form a coven.
This monster can form a coven with two or more other creatures who also have the coven ability. This involves performing an 8-hour ceremony with all prospective coven members. After the coven is formed, each of its members gains elite adjustments, adjusting their levels accordingly. Coven members can sense other members' locations and conditions by spending a single action, which has the concentrate trait, and can sense what another coven member is sensing as a two-action activity, which has the concentrate trait as well.
Covens also grant spells and rituals to their members, but these can be cast only in cooperation between three coven members who are all within 30 feet of one another. A coven member can contribute to a coven spell with a single action that has the concentrate trait. If two coven members have contributed these actions within the last round, a third member can cast a coven spell on her turn by spending the normal spellcasting actions. A coven can cast its coven spells an unlimited number of times but can cast only one coven spell each round. All covens grant the 8th-rank Cursed Metamorphosis spell and all the following spells, which the coven can cast at any rank up to 5th: Augury, Charm, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Dream Message, Illusory Disguise, Illusory Scene, Scouting Eye, and Talking Corpse. Individual creatures with the coven ability also grant additional spells to any coven they join. A coven can also cast the Control Weather ritual, with a DC of 23 instead of the standard DC.
If a coven member's departure or death brings the coven below three members, the remaining members keep their elite adjustments for 24 hours, but without enough members to contribute the necessary actions, they can't cast coven spells.
Opportune Witchflame
Trigger A creature makes a melee Strike against or touches the witchfire
Effect The witchfire makes a witchflame caress Strike against the triggering creature.
Rejuvenation (divine)When the witchfire warden is destroyed, and as long as any creatures remain in stasis in this room, she reforms in 1d4 days at the soot-blackened pillar, fully healed.
Void HealingA 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.
Witchflame (curse, fire, occult)Any creature that takes void damage from a witchfire's Strike must attempt a DC 26 will save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected and is temporarily immune to witchflame for 1 hour.
Success The creature appears to catch fire with sickly green flames. These flames deal no damage on their own, but as long as the flames burn, the creature can't be Concealed (Invisible creatures are Concealed rather than being Undetected) and gains weakness 5 to fire for 1 round.
Failure As success, but the effect is permanent until removed.
Critical Failure As failure, but the creature gains weakness 10 to fire.
Effect: Witchflame (Success)
Effect: Witchflame (Failure)
Witchflame Kindling
(fire, occult)Requirements A creature within 30 feet of the witchfire burns with witchflame
Effect The witchfire's eyes and mouth glow brightly, and the witchflame on the target creature momentarily burns much hotter, dealing 5d6[fire],5d6 void5d6 fire damage and 5d6 void damage to that creature (DC 28 fortitude save).
The witchfire can't use Witchflame Kindling for 1d4 rounds.
Occult Innate Spells (DC 28, +20 to hit)
Cantrips (5th Level): Dancing Lights, Ghost Sound
1st Level: Illusory Disguise (At Will), Phantom Pain
2nd Level: Invisibility
4th Level: Phantasmal Killer
5th Level: Crushing Despair, Summon Entity (Will-o'-Wisp Only)
1st Level: Charm, Illusory Disguise
2nd Level: Augury
3rd Level: Clairaudience, Dream Message
4th Level: Clairvoyance, Nightmare, Phantasmal Killer, Talking Corpse
5th Level: Illusory Scene, Prying Eye, Summon Entity
6th Level: Baleful Polymorph, Phantasmal Calamity
Rituals
Manifesting as a sinuous form wreathed in sickly green flames, this incorporeal undead forms when a powerful hag or witch dies in agony or rage. The body at the center of the flames usually resembles the witch's idealized self-image, regardless of their age and appearance at the time of their death.
A witchfire often resides in a bog or swamp, which slowly blackens and decays around them. These regions are often plagued by will-o'-wisps, which seem to have an uncanny relationship with the resident witchfire. A witchfire might visit villages on the edge of their home terrain to lure away villagers, but always attack victims within earshot to make sure that other villagers hear the screams. A witchfire might also ally with other hags or witches and even join their covens, but a witchfire is incapable of forming covens entirely on their own.
Traits
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
IncorporealAn incorporeal creature or object has no physical form. It can pass through solid objects, including walls. When inside an object, an incorporeal creature can't perceive, attack, or interact with anything outside the object, and if it starts its turn in an object, it is slowed 1 until the end of its turn. A corporeal and an incorporeal creature can pass through one another, but they can't end their movement in each other's space. An incorporeal creature can't attempt Strength-based checks against physical creatures or objects—only against incorporeal ones—unless those objects have the ghost touch property rune. Likewise, a corporeal creature can't attempt Strength-based checks against incorporeal creatures or objects. Incorporeal creatures usually have immunity to effects or conditions that require a physical body, like disease, poison, and precision damage. They usually have resistance against all damage (except force damage, spirit damage, and damage from Strikes with the ghost touch property rune), with double the resistance against non-magical damage.
SpiritEffects with this trait can affect creatures with spiritual essence and might deal spirit damage. A creature with this trait is defined by its spiritual essence. Spirit creatures often lack a material form.
UndeadOnce 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.
UnholyEffects 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.