Allip

Medium undead, neutral evil

When a mind uncovers a secret that a powerful being has protected with a mighty curse, the result is often the emergence of an allip. Secrets protected in this manner range in scope from a demon lord's true name to the hidden truths of the cosmic order. The allip acquires the secret, but the curse annihilates its body and leaves behind a spectral creature composed of fragments from the victim's psyche and overwhelming psychic agony.

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Basic Character Attributes

Attribute STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Value 6 17 10 17 15 16
Modifier -2 +3 +0 +3 +2 +3

Armor Class: 13

Hit Points: 40 (9d6)

Speed: 0 ft., fly 50 ft. (hover)

Saving Throws: Int +6, Wiz +5

Skills: Perception +5, Stealth +6

Damage Resistances: Acid, Fire, Lightning, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Damage Immunities: Cold, Necrotic, Poison

Condition Immunities: Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained

Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 15

Languages: The languages it knew in life

Challenge: 5 (1,800 XP)

Proficiency Bonus: +3

Incorporeal Movement: The allip can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.

Actions

Maddening Touch: Melee Spell Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (4d6+3) psychic damage.

Howling Babble (Recharge 6): Each creature within 30 feet of the allip that can hear it must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 12 (2d8+3) psychic damage, and it is stunned until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage and isn’t stunned. Constructs and Undead are immune to this effect.

Whispers of Compulsion: The allip chooses up to three creatures it can see within 60 feet of it. Each target must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw, or it takes 12 (2d8+3) psychic damage and must use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack against one creature of the allip’s choice that the allip can see. Constructs and Undead are immune to this effect.

Blasphemous Secrets Undead Nature
Blasphemous Secrets

Every allip is wracked with a horrifying insight that torments what remains of its mind. In the presence of other creatures, an allip seeks to relieve this burden by sharing its secret. The creature can impart only a shard of the knowledge that doomed it, but that piece is enough to wrack the recipient with temporary madness. The survivors of an allip's attack are sometimes left with a compulsion to learn more about what spawned this monstrosity. Strange phrases echo through their minds, and weird visions occupy their dreams. The sense that some colossal truth sits just outside their recall plagues them for days, months, sometimes years after their fateful encounter.

Undead Nature

An allip doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.