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MEAZEL

In places where the Shadowfell washes

against the

shores of the Material Plane dwell meazels,

hateful her-

mits who left

behind their old lives to contemplate their

misery in shadow.

Now evil burns in their hearts, and

they resent

any intrusion into their suffering.

Hateful Hermit. Meazels are

all that remain of peo-

ple who

fled into the Shadowfell to escape their mortal

existence.

There the darkness transformed them,

and

their bitterness made them

twisted and cruel. Now, they

loiter near Shadowfell crossings

to waylay travelers who

venture too close to their

lairs.

Divide and Conquer. The stain of dark-

ness responsible for the existence of meazels

imparts to them magical powers that allow

them to move through

shadows with ease.

Merely stepping

into one pool of darkness

allows a meazel to move to another

one. They

use this talent to ambush creatures,

snatch-

ing them around the throat with

their stran-

gling cords

and then stepping away. Meazels

also use th is ability

to ferry their victims to

isolated

spots and then leave the hapless

souls to the designs of whatever

horrors

lurk there.

Creatu

res that are drawn through the shad-

ows

by meazels are cursed by the meazels'

ba

leful magic. The curse acts as a beacon;

sorrowsworn, undead, and other terrors

sense where they are

located and descend on

the stranded victims

to tear them apart.

MEAZEL

Medium

humanoid (meazel), neutral evil

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Armor Class 13

Hit Points 35 (10d8

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Speed 30 ft.

STR

8 (-1)

DEX

17 (+3)

CON

9 (-1)

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INT

14 (+2)

Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5

WIS

13 (+1)

Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception

13

Languages Common

Challenge 1 (200 XP)

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CHA

10 (+0)

Shadow Stealth. While in dim

light or darkness, the meazel can

take

the Hide action as a bonus action.

ACTIONS

Carrote.

Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach

5 ft. , one target

of the meazel' s size or smaller. Hit: 6 (1 d6 + 3)

bludgeoning

damage, and the target

is grappled (escape DC 13 with disad-

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vantage). Until the

grapple ends, the target takes 10 (2d6 + 3)

bludgeoning damage at the start of each

of the meazel's turns.

The meazel

can't make weapon attacks while grappling a

crea-

ture in this

way.

Shortsword. Melee

Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one

target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage

, plus 3 (1d6) ne-

crotic damage.

Shadow Teleport (Recharge

5-6). The meazel, any equipment it

is wearing or carrying,

and any creature it is grappling teleport

to an unoccupied space within 500 feet ofit,

provided that the

starting space

and the destination are in dim light or darkness.

The destination must be a place the

meazel has seen before,

but it need

not be within line of sight. If the destination

space

is occupied,

the teleportation leads to the nearest unoccu

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pied space.

Any other creature the meaz

e l teleports becomes cursed by

shadow for 1 hour. Until this curse ends, every

undead and

every creature native

to the Shadowfell within 300 feet of the

cursed creature can sense it, which prevents

that creature from

hiding from them.