Witchfire Warden
Level 9Attacks
Abilities
The witchfire adds Nightmare, Phantasmal Killer, Phantasmal Calamity, and Summon Entity to their coven's spells.
A coven can contain one or more witchfires, but it must also include at least one living creature capable of forming a coven; three witchfires cannot form a coven.
Trigger A creature makes a melee Strike against or touches the witchfire
Effect The witchfire makes a witchflame caress Strike against the triggering creature.
When the witchfire warden is destroyed, and as long as any creatures remain in stasis in this room, she reforms in 1d4 days at the soot-blackened pillar, fully healed.
Any creature that takes void damage from a witchfire's Strike must attempt a DC 26 will save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected and is temporarily immune to witchflame for 1 hour.
Success The creature appears to catch fire with sickly green flames. These flames deal no damage on their own, but as long as the flames burn, the creature can't be Concealed (Invisible creatures are Concealed rather than being Undetected) and gains weakness 5 to fire for 1 round.
Failure As succes
Requirements A creature within 30 feet of the witchfire burns with witchflame
Effect The witchfire's eyes and mouth glow brightly, and the witchflame on the target creature momentarily burns much hotter, dealing 5d6 fire damage and 5d6 void damage to that creature (DC 28 fortitude save).
The witchfire can't use Witchflame Kindling for 1d4 rounds.
Manifesting as a sinuous form wreathed in sickly green flames, this incorporeal undead forms when a powerful hag or witch dies in agony or rage. The body at the center of the flames usually resembles the witch's idealized self-image, regardless of their age and appearance at the time of their death.
A witchfire often resides in a bog or swamp, which slowly blackens and decays around them. These regions are often plagued by will-o'-wisps, which seem to have an uncanny relationship with the resident witchfire. A witchfire might visit villages on the edge of their home terrain to lure away villagers, but always attack victims within earshot to make sure that other villagers hear the screams. A witchfire might also ally with other hags or witches and even join their covens, but a witchfire is incapable of forming covens entirely on their own.