Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

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NIGHTWALKER

Huge undead,

chaotic evil

Armor Class 14

Hit Points 297 (22dl2

+ 15 4)

Speed 40 ft., fly 40

ft.

STR

22 (+6)

DEX

19 (+4)

CON

24 (+7)

Saving Thr

ows Con + 13

INT

6 (-2)

WIS

9 (-1)

CHA

8 (-1)

Da

mage Resistances acid, cold , fire, lightning, th

unde r;

bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical

attacks

Damage Immunities necrotic, poison

Condition Immun

ities exhaustion, frighte ned, grappled,

paralyzed

, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained

Senses darkvision

120 ft., passive Perception 9

Lang

uages-

Challe nge 20 (25,0 00 XP)

Annihilating A ura. Any creat ure that starts

its turn within 30

feet of the nightwalker

must succeed on a DC 21 Constitution

saving throw or

take 14 (4d6) necrotic damage and grant the

nightwalker advantage on attack rolls

against it until the start

of the creature's

next turn. Undead are immune to this a ura.

CHAPTER

6 I BESTIARY

N IGHTWALKER

T he Negative

Plane is a place of d arkness and death

,

anathe ma to all livin g things

. Yet there a re those who

would tap into its fell powe

r. to use its e nergy for s in ister

end

s. Most often, when s uch individua ls approac

h the

midnight r e a lm , they fi

nd they a re une qual to the task.

T hose not des troyed o

utright a re som etimes drawn in-

s ide the plane a nd replaced by nightwa lke

rs, te rrifyin g

undead creatures that

devour all life they encounter.

Mighty Sp awn

. One can reach the Negative Plane

from the Shadow fell, much in the sa me

way that it

is possible to st

e p from the Mate rial Plane into the

S hadowfell in a place where the barr

ier between the

planes is thin.

Stepping int

o the Negative Pla ne is tantamount to

suicide, s ince

the plane sucks the life and soul from

such audacious creatures and annihilates

them at

once. Those few w ho survive the e

ffort do so by sheer

luck or by harnessing some ra

re form of magic that

protec

ts them against the hostile atmosphere. Th

ey

soon

d iscover, however, that they can't l eave as

easily

as they arrived. For each

creatu re that enters the plane,

a nightwa lke r i s released

to take its place. In order for

a trapped creature to

escape, the released nightwalker

mu

st be lured back to th e Negative P la ne

by offe rings of

life for i t to devou r. If the nightwalker is

destroyed, the

trapped cre ature has

no hope of escape.

Beings of Anti

• Life. One can discern the nature of

creatures trapp

ed in the Negative Plane from the s ites

that nightwalk

ers frequent. Ge ne rally, a nightwalke r on

the Material Plane is attracted to

e lements of the world

associated with the creature res

pons ible for its cre ation.

Such in terest doesn't indicate

a willingness to engage

with the world; n ightwalkers exist to ma ke life e

xtinct

and never

to serve living things.

Und

ead Nature. A nightwalke r doesn't requir

e air,

food, drink, or s leep.

Life

Eater. A creature reduced to 0 hit points from

damage

dealt by the nightwalker d ies and can't be revived

by any means

short of a wish s pell

.

ACTIONS

Multiattack. The nightwalker uses Enervat

ing Focus twice, or it

uses Enervati

ng Focus and Finger of Doom, if available.

Enervating Focus. Melee

Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 15

ft. , one target. Hit: 28 (5d8 + 6) necrotic da

mage. The target

must succeed o n a

DC 21 Constit ut io n saving throw o r its hit

point maximum is reduced by an amount

equal to the necrotic

damage taken. This reduction lasts

until the target finishes a

long rest.

Finger of Doom (Rech

arge 6). The nightwalker points at one

creature it can see

within 300 feet ofit. The target must

succeed on a DC 21 Wisdom saving throw

o r t ake 26 (4dl2)

necrotic da mage

a nd become frightened until the e nd of the

nightwalker's next turn. While frig

htened in this way, the crea-

tu re is

also paralyzed. If a t arget's saving throw is successful

,

the

target is immune to the nightwalker's Finger of

Doom for

the next 24 hours.