The blightspawn ravener is a crawler grown into a true hunter, its devoured host's face still surfacing in the fungus to scream. Worst of all, it has learned to smell the bonded — and to tear a symbiote loose and wear it like a trophy.
- CR
- 4 (XP 1,100)
- Type
- Aberration
- AC
- 15
- HP
- 76
- Habitat
- Mycelial Deep
Medium Aberration, Chaotic Evil
AC 15 Initiative +3 (13)
HP 76 (9d8 + 36)
Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft.
Resistances Necrotic, Poison
Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5
Senses Darkvision 90 ft.; Passive Perception 13
Languages understands Deep Speech but can't speak
CR 4 (XP 1,100; PB +2)
Traits
Weave-Scent. The ravener knows the location of any creature bonded to a symbiote within 90 feet, unless that creature is behind total cover, and has Advantage on attack rolls against it.
Actions
Multiattack. The ravener makes two Claw attacks and one Blight Bite attack.
Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) Slashing damage.
Blight Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) Piercing damage plus 5 (2d4) Necrotic damage.
Sever the Bond (Recharge 6). The ravener rips at the living second self of one creature it can see within 5 feet that is bonded to a symbiote. That creature makes a DC 14 Constitution saving throw. Failure: The creature takes 10 (3d6) Psychic damage, must make a Communion saving throw (see Chapter 5), and one symbiote bonded to it is Suppressed for 1 minute, granting none of its Boons or Gifts. Success: Half damage only.