Descent into Avernus

KRULL

Medium humanoid (tortle), lawful evil

Armor Class 17 (natural armor)

Hit Points 117 (18d8 + 36)

Speed 30 ft.

STR

20 {+5)

DEX

14 (+2)

CON

15 (+2)

Saving Throws Wis +8. Cha +4

INT

12 (+l )

WIS

20 {+S)

Skills Arcana +4, Medicine +8, Nature +4, Survival +8

Senses passive Perception 15

Languages Aquan, Common, Draconic

Challenge 6 (2, 300 XP)

CHA

12 {+1)

Hold Breath. Krull can hold his breath for 1 hour.

Inescapable Dest ruction. Necrotic damage dealt by Krull's

spells ignores r esistance to necrotic damage.

Spel/casting. Krull is a 14th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting

ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell at·

tacks). He has the following cleric spells prepared:

Cantrips (at will): chill touch, mending, resistance, sacred flame,

spare the dying, thaumaturgy

CHAPTER 3 I AVERNUS

ARKHAN'S TOWER

HE WEARS THE HAND OF EVIL, YET HIS GOAL REMAINS

just beyond his fingertips.

- The Cartographer

When the characters arrive at this location, read or

paraphrase the following boxed text to the players:

A dark tower looms on the horizon, its black spire rising

hundreds of feet, its ramparts bristling with charred

skulls mounted on iron spikes. The tower's apex splits

into five narrower spires that jab at the sky like clawed

fingers. Circling above the tower's peak is a great white

dragon stained with ash and soot.

As you get closer to the tower, you notice figures shuf-

fling atop its ramparts-undead guards in various states

of decay.

Arkhan the Cruel has claimed this tower as his base.

Here, with the help of a tortle death-priest ofTiamat

named Krull, the dragonborn warrior researches ways

to assert his will over the artifact known as the Hand of

Vecna, so he can use its secrets to free the evil dragon

queen Tiamat from the Nine Hells. Arkban has traveled

to a nearby monument to commune with his goddess,

leaving Krull behind.

Dragons tore the obsidian rocks of Arkhan's tower

from the fiery volcanoes of Avernus. Fifty skeletons and

thirty zombies stand ready to defend the tower, which is

also guarded by the adult white dragon Obatala. When

it detects intruders, the dragon roars to alert Krull (see

1st level (4 slots): cure wounds, detect evil and good.false life,

inflict wounds, ray of sickness

2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, gentle repose, hold person,

ray of enfeeblement, spiritual weapon

3rd level (3 s lots): animate dead, magic circle, speak with dead,

spirit guardians, vampiric touch

4th level {3 slots): banishment, blight, death ward, divination,

locate creature

5th level (2 slots): antilife shell, cloudkill, contagion, greater

restoration

6th level (1 slot): create undead, true seeing

7th level (1 slot): divine word, regenerate

A CTIONS

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.

Hit: 7 (1d4 + 5) piercing damage.

+1 Maul. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit , reach 5 ft. , one

target. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage plus 9 (2d8)

necrotic damage.

Shell Defense. Krull withdraws into his shell. Until he emerges

as a bonus action, he has a +4 bonus to AC and has advantage

on Strength and Constitution saving throws. While in his shell,

Krull is prone, his speed is 0 and can't increase, he has disad-

vantage on Dexterity saving throws, he can't take reactions,

and the only action he can take is to emerge from his shell.