A chorus-hound is what the Pale Chorus makes of a hunting-pack: a blight-hound's grimmer cousin, its throat regrown into a nest of small singing mouths that keen in unison as it courses. The hounds hunt the bonded by the warmth of the Weave, and their howl is a fragment of the Chorus's one note, meant to make prey falter long enough to be surrounded.
- CR
- 1 (XP 200)
- Type
- Aberration
- AC
- 13
- HP
- 39
- Habitat
- Mycelial Deep
Medium Aberration (Blight), Chaotic Evil
AC 13 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 39 (6d8 + 12)
Speed 40 ft.
Resistances Necrotic
Skills Perception +3, Stealth +4
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 13
Languages understands Deep Speech but can't speak
CR 1 (XP 200; PB +2)
Traits
Pack Tactics. The hound has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the hound's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn't have the Incapacitated condition.
Blight-Touched. When a creature bonded to a symbiote takes Necrotic damage from the hound, that creature must make a Communion saving throw (see Chapter 5) as though it had been exposed to blight.
Actions
Rending Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +4, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) Piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) Necrotic damage.
Discordant Howl (Recharge 5–6). Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 11, each creature in a 15-foot Emanation. Failure: 5 (2d4) Psychic damage, and the target has Disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.