{"id":1409,"date":"2012-07-26T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2015-08-17T00:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T00:38:31","slug":"1409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"The Phantom Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The slain, damned, and risen soul of Brashel Oktor, priest of Orcus, appears as\u00a0a shade of his former self \u2013 enormously tall and corpulent, and dressed in mail,\u00a0gauntlets\u00a0and helm, all of an impenetratable blackness, but with the legs trailing into a smoky base.<\/p>\n<p>When encountered he is likely to hold forth at some length about the circumstances of his\u00a0existence, how when a mortal man had worshiped at the altar of Orcus, building a gory and groutesque cult in the sewers and basements beneath the streets of Soguer, \u201cThe Crown of the Soral\u201d, as it was known at that time, before the cataclysm. \u00a0His death at the hands of the valliant Kedmar, Turrn, and Coyote he will belabor in hateful detail. \u00a0He will then go on to gloat about his rise from a nearly helpless larvae of the abyss through murderous appetite, both in his character and in his literal actions, to the\u00a0indestructible, \u00a0shade-form shaped like his former corpus. \u00a0He will then likely go on to offer the crusaders eternal undeath and respite from the Raven Queen\u2019s judgment in his master\u2019s growing kingdom upon the mortal realm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoin me and die.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Phantom Lord<br \/>\nmedium natural humanoid (undead)<br \/>\nLevel 25 Elite Brute \u2013 XP 14000<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Initiative<\/strong> +14 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Senses<\/strong> Perception +15; Darkvision<br \/>\n<strong>Baleful\u00a0Presence<\/strong> (Fear) aura 3; any living creature that starts its turn with the aura takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls against the Phantom Lord.<br \/>\n<strong>HP<\/strong> 450;\u00a0<strong>Bloodied<\/strong> 225<br \/>\n<strong>AC<\/strong> 39;\u00a0<strong>Fortitude<\/strong> 39,\u00a0<strong>Reflex<\/strong> 32,\u00a0<strong>Will<\/strong> 37<br \/>\n<strong>Immune<\/strong> disease, fear, poison;\u00a0<strong>Resist<\/strong> 15 necrotic;\u00a0<strong>Vulnerable<\/strong> 10 radiant<br \/>\n<strong>Saving Throws<\/strong> +2<br \/>\n<strong>Speed<\/strong> fly 6<br \/>\n<strong>Action Points<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121101012927im_\/http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/dnd\/images\/symbol\/S2.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Skull-Tipped Mace <\/strong>(standard, at-will)<br \/>\n+28 vs AC; 3d8 + 10 damage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121101012927im_\/http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/dnd\/images\/symbol\/Z2a.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Dread Smash<\/strong> (standard, recharge)\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121101012927im_\/http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/dnd\/images\/symbol\/6a.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n+28 vs AC; 5d8 + 10 damage, and the target is knocked prone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121101012927im_\/http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/dnd\/images\/symbol\/Z1a.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/strong>Shroud <\/strong>(recharge 5-6)<br \/>\nclose blast 5; +26 VS Fort; 3d8 + 10 necrotic damage. \u00a0The blast creates a zone that slows and deals 15 points of ongoing damage to any non-undead who start their turn in or enter the zone, and which persists until the end of the Phantom Lord\u2019s next turn.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Move Actions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Dissappear <\/strong>(move, at-will)<br \/>\nThe Phantom Lord becomes invisible until he attacks or\u00a0chooses\u00a0to end the invisibility.<\/p>\n<h2>Immedeate Reactions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Discorporate<\/strong> (whenever the the Phantom Lord\u00a0drops to 225 hit points)<br \/>\nThe Phantom Lord does not die, but instead discorporates, and rises an hour later with\u00a0450 hit points.<\/p>\n<h2>Free Actions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Death\u2019s Touch <\/strong>(at-will)<br \/>\nThe creature just slain by the phantom lord will rise as undead suitable to their\u00a0previous\u00a0station in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alignment<\/strong> Chaotic Evil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong> Languages<\/strong> Common<br \/>\n<strong>Str<\/strong> 30 (+22) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Dex<\/strong> 12 (+13) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Wis<\/strong> 26 (+20)<br \/>\n<strong>Con<\/strong> 26 (+20) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Int<\/strong> 3 (+8) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Cha<\/strong> 14 (+14)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slain, damned, and risen soul of Brashel Oktor, priest of Orcus, appears as\u00a0a shade of his former self \u2013 enormously tall and corpulent, and dressed in mail,\u00a0gauntlets\u00a0and helm, all of an impenetratable blackness, but with the legs trailing into a smoky base. When encountered he is likely to hold forth at some length about the circumstances of his\u00a0existence, how when a mortal man had worshiped at the altar of Orcus, building a gory and groutesque cult in the sewers and basements beneath the streets of Soguer, \u201cThe Crown of the Soral\u201d, as it was known at that time, before the cataclysm. \u00a0His death at the hands of the valliant Kedmar, Turrn, and Coyote he will belabor in hateful detail. \u00a0He will then go on to gloat about his rise from a nearly helpless larvae of the abyss through murderous appetite, both in his character and in his literal actions, to the\u00a0indestructible, \u00a0shade-form shaped like his former corpus. \u00a0He will then likely go on to offer the crusaders eternal undeath and respite from the Raven Queen\u2019s judgment in his master\u2019s growing kingdom upon the mortal realm. \u201cJoin me and die.\u201d The Phantom Lord medium natural humanoid (undead) Level 25 Elite Brute \u2013 XP 14000 Initiative +14 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Senses Perception +15; Darkvision Baleful\u00a0Presence (Fear) aura 3; any living creature that starts its turn with the aura takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls against the Phantom Lord. HP 450;\u00a0Bloodied 225 AC 39;\u00a0Fortitude 39,\u00a0Reflex 32,\u00a0Will 37 Immune disease, fear, poison;\u00a0Resist 15 necrotic;\u00a0Vulnerable 10 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1409\">Continue Reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[597,672],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creature","tag-creature-type-undead","tag-creature-epic-brute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}