Empress Lakambi (Grisaire Supplement)

Medium undead, neutral evil Armor Class 16 (light armor) Hit Points 71 (11d8 + 22) Speed 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 12 (+1) 16 (+3) 14 (+2) 13 (+1) 12 (+1) 14 (+2) Saving Throws Dex +6, Con +5, Cha +5 Skills Perception +4, Stealth +6, Survival +4 Condition Immunities poisoned Senses passive Perception 14 Languages Common (Lunan) Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Magic Resistance. ACTIONS Multiattack. The shotgun princess makes two attacks with her hunting rifle. Serpent. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 10/30 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) piercing damage. Must be reloaded as an action after 12 shots. Poison Blast. The shotgun princess fires buckshot out in a 10-foot cone. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 55 (10d10) piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. BONUS ACTIONS Levitate. The lich rises or descends vertically up to 20 feet and can remain suspended there. This trait works like the levitate spell, except there is no duration, and the lich doesn’t need to concentrate to continue levitating each round. LEGENDARY ACTIONS The Lakambi 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. The Lakambi regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. Cantrip. The lich casts a cantrip. Unholy Smite (Costs 2 Actions). The lich uses its Unholy Smite. Revelation (Costs 2 Actions). Illit threatens one creature within 10 feet of it with a mental visage of eternal suffering. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a target’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to the lich’s Revelation for the next 24 hours.

By Yanied Empress Lakambi, born Anaconona Chuitl Lakambi, was a matriarch of Khaire from 6,892-6,940 AP. She was less known for her reign and more for her personal life as a woman obsessed with beauty. Her obsession drove her to seek a forbidden ritual known as the Magic of Shed Skin from old scriptures by the bygone Cult of the Serpent. This ritual's preparation was rumoredly grisly, but there is a lack of evidence implicating the Empress directly. There was, however, a strange series of disappearances of young women that plagued Khaire's countryside from 6,948 AP to 6,950 AP, after her nephew Olukun succeeded her as emperor. The ritual was believed to be incomplete and she died old and wrinkly. However Lakambi's Lair: Coiling Mire Lair Actions

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