Charybdis (5e Creature)

Charybdis

Huge fiend (demon), chaotic evil Armor Class 21 (natural armor) Hit Points 377 (26d12 + 208) Speed 10 ft., swim 50 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 26 (+8) 12 (+1) 27 (+8) 15 (+2) 24 (+7) 20 (+5) Saving Throws Str +16, Con +16, Wis +15 Skills Athletics +16, Intimidation +13, Perception +15 Damage Resistances cold, fire, lightning Damage Immunities poison; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons. Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened Senses blindsight 60 ft., truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 25 Languages all, telepathy 120 ft. Challenge 25 (75,000 XP) Abhorred Stench. Any creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of Charybdis must succeed on a DC 24 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned and stunned until the start of the creature's next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the stench of Charybdis for 1 hour. Creatures with the Keen Smell trait have disadvantage on the save. Aggressive. As a bonus action, Charybdis can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that he can see. Innate Spellcasting. Charybdis’s spellcasting abillity Charisma (spell save DC 24, +11 to hit with spell attacks). Charybdis can innately cast the following spells. At will: detect magic, ray of frost 3/day: dispel magic, fear, grease Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Charybdis fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. Charybdis has advantage on saving throws against spells or other magical effects. Magic Weapons. Charybdis’s weapon attacks are magical. Slippery. Charybdis has advantage on ability checks and saving throws made to escape a grapple. Rampage. When Charybdis reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, Charybdis can take a bonus action to move up to half its speed and make a bite attack. Reckless. At the start of his turn, Charybdis can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls it makes during that turn, but attack rolls against it have advantage until the start of its next turn. Underwater Camouflage. Charybdis has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater. ACTIONS Multiattack. Charybdis makes three attacks, only one of which may be a bite. Charybdis cannot bite another creature, until he ends the grapple on the creature he has previously bitten. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +20 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d10 + 8) piercing damage and the target is grappled. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and Charybdis can't bite another target. If the target is Large or smaller, it is swallowed and the grapple ends. If it is a Huge creature, Charybdis must make a second bite attack to swallow it. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside Charybdis, and it takes 42 (12d6) acid damage at the start of each of Charybdis' turns. If the target is a Huge creature, it must succeed a DC 25 Strength saving throw or be swallowed. If Charybdis takes 60 damage or more on a single turn from the swallowed creature, Charybdis must succeed on a DC 25 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate the creature, which falls prone in a space within 15 feet of Charybdis. If Charybdis dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by him and can escape from the corpse by using 25 feet of movement, exiting prone. Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +20 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d6 + 8) slashing damage. Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +20 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d10 + 8) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it must succeed a DC 25 Strength saving throw or be pushed 15 feet away. REACTIONS Unbridled Fury. In response to being hit by a melee attack, Charybdis can make one melee weapon attack with advantage against the attacker. LEGENDARY ACTIONS Charybdis can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Charybdis regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn. Attack. Charybdis makes one claw attack or tail attack. Move. Charybdis moves up to half his speed. Chomp (Costs 2 Actions). Charybdis makes one bite attack or uses his Swallow.

The Deep Devourer by Dinomaster337 The Deep Devourer, Son of Demogorgon, Charybdis is a repugnant, muculent monster who devours any creature he can get his teeth upon. He is as destructive and sadistic as Hethradiah, the right head of Demogorgon, and only has one being he wants to destroy more than him: his sister, Scylla. Charybdis's appearance is that of a humungous lamprey-like fish, about 25 feet long, with clawed fins and slim secreting from his skin. His scaled, smooth skin is a dull, muted green and yellow, interweaving in an irregular pattern, always glistening from the sickening, foul-smelling mucus that forever coats his body. This mucus commonly mixes with the blood, viscera, and decay from his many victims and meals, blending with the already pungent slime to create a horrific odor that can stop even the most naturally foul of creatures in their tracks. His maw is an expansive, elastic orifice lined with rows of jagged teeth, only surpassed in size by his stomach: he can easily swallow a beast of equal size to him, and hold them there until they are digested. Charybdis' Lair Charybdis dwells on the layer of the Abyss known as the Strait of Messina, a great canyon formed from a tributary of the Gaping Maw. He is forced to share this realm with Scylla, who dwells on one side of the canyon while Charybdis takes the other, his side being heavily waterlogged and deep, and hers having high rocks and being shallow. Charybdis's principal lair is the Sunken Cove, which can only be accessed underwater. The layer itself is a water-logged cavern, covered in torn-up born, dried blood, and slime, and the air is choking with the stench of death. Lair Actions On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Charybdis takes a lair action to cause one of the following magical effects; he can't use the same effect two rounds in a row: Regional Effects The region containing Charybdis’s lair is warped by his magic, creating one or more of the following effects: The area within 6 miles of the lair becomes overpopulated with hagfish, octopi, and other deep-sea beasts. If a humanoid spends at least 1 hour within 1 mile of the lair, that creature must succeed on a DC 24 Wisdom saving throw or descend into madness determined by the Madness of Charybdis table. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw can’t be affected by this regional effect again for 24 hours. If Charybdis dies, these effects fade over the course of 1d10 days. Madness of Charybdis If a creature goes mad in Charybdis's lair or within line of sight of the demon lord, roll on the Madness of Charybdis table to determine the nature of the madness, which is a character flaw that lasts until cured. See the Dungeon Master's Guide for more on madness. d100 Flaw (lasts until cured). 01-20 "Those closest to me have finally betrayed me. I will destroy them for this!" 21-40 "I have a hunger that can never be satiated and I will devour everything I can!" 41-60 "I find myself drawn to the water. I might go crazy if I don't get in there!" 61-80 "My companions are starting to look mighty delicious!" 81-00 "My companions, their possesions are so...shiney! I need them!"

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