A pale chorister is a true voice of the Pale Chorus: many mouths braided into one throat, singing the Blight's single doctrine — that the self is a wound and the Chorus is the cure. Bonded heroes report the worst part: their own symbiote begins, softly, to hum along.
- CR
- 5 (XP 1,800)
- Type
- Aberration
- AC
- 15
- HP
- 120
- Habitat
- Mycelial Deep
Medium Aberration, Chaotic Evil
AC 15 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 120 (16d8 + 48)
Speed 30 ft.
Resistances Necrotic
Immunities Psychic; Charmed, Frightened
Skills Insight +6, Persuasion +7
Senses Truesight 30 ft., Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 13
Languages Deep Speech; telepathy 120 ft.
CR 5 (XP 1,800; PB +3)
Traits
Chorus-Linked. The chorister shares what it senses with every creature of the Pale Chorus within 5 miles. While within 30 feet of another Pale Chorus creature, it has Advantage on saving throws.
Doctrine of the One Song. When a creature bonded to a symbiote starts its turn within 30 feet of the chorister and can hear it, that creature must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or its Communion saving throw DCs increase by 2 until the start of its next turn (see Chapter 5).
Actions
Multiattack. The chorister makes two Withering Touch attacks.
Withering Touch. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d8 + 2) Necrotic damage.
Dissonant Chorus (Recharge 5–6). Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature the chorister chooses in a 30-foot Emanation. Failure: 18 (4d8) Psychic damage, and the target has the Charmed condition until the end of its next turn. A creature bonded to a symbiote that fails also makes a Communion saving throw (see Chapter 5); on a failed Communion save it gains 1 Infestation. Success: Half damage only, and the target isn't Charmed.