Ravener
Level 21Attacks
Abilities
Smoke doesn't impair a cinder ravener's vision; it ignores the Concealed condition from smoke.
A ravener senses the spiritual essence of living and undead creatures within the listed range. Creatures whose material bodies are one unit with their souls, like celestials and fiends, appear brighter to this sense.
90 feet. DC 42 will
A ravener's frightful presence causes creatures to cower in fear as well. As long as a creature is at least Frightened 2 or more as a result of the ravener's frightful presence, it's also Immobilized from the fear.
Trigger The ravener takes excess damage to their soul ward but still has at least 51 Hit Points in their soul ward
Effect The ravener draws deeply into their soul ward, discorporating their body into soul energy to escape. They take 50[untyped] damage to their soul ward and their physical body vanishes, reappearing later in a random location within 1 mile from the location where they used Discorporate.
200 HP
An intangible field of necromantic energy protects a ravener from total destruction. A soul ward has 150 maximum Hit Points, or 200 if the ravener is level 21 or higher. Whenever a ravener would be reduced below 1 Hit Point, all damage in excess of what would reduce them to 1 Hit Point is instead dealt to their soul ward. If this damage reduces the soul ward to fewer than 0 Hit Points, the ravener is destroyed. A soul ward's Hit Points can be restored only via specific ravener abilities
The ravener curses a creature within 60 feet to have their magic replaced with primordial flames. The creature must attempt a DC 42 will save. Regardless of the result, the target becomes temporarily immune for 1 day. Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature is cursed for 1 round. While cursed, any spells that the creature casts gain the fire trait and have their damage type changed to fire damage, regardless of the original damage type or types of the spell. Additiona
Trigger A living creature within 30 feet of the ravener dies
Effect The ravener tears the creature's soul from its body with their maw and gulps it down. The dying creature must attempt a DC 44 fortitude save with the same DC as the ravener's breath ability.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The ravener tears off a small chunk of the creature's soul. If the victim is restored to life, they are Drained 1 in addition to any other side effects of returning to life.
The ravener intensifies nearby fires. Every foe within 60 feet taking persistent fire damage takes 5d6 fire damage.
The ravener treats an attack roll as a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20, as long as the attack roll was a success. Additionally, whenever the ravener makes a critical hit with one of their Strikes, the target must succeed on a DC 42 fortitude save or gain the Drained 1 condition. If the target already has a drained value of greater than 0, their drained value instead increases by 1, to a maximum of drained 4. Whenever the ravener applies drain to a creature in this way, their soul ward gains 5
The ravener breathes a blast of necrotic flame that deals 20d6 fire damage plus 4d6 persistent void damage (DC 44 reflex save). A creature that fails its save is also Drained 1 (or Drained 2 on a critical failure). If a creature is drained by the ravener's Void Breath, the ravener's soul ward gains 5 HP. The ravener can't use Void Breath again for .
The ravener presented here was once an ancient cinder dragon.
Though their lifespans can measure in millennia, all dragons must eventually perish. While many do so on the blades or under the spells of dragonslayers, some manage to outlast their enemies and must, in time, face the truth that awaits all living creatures at the end of their natural life span. As with many other creatures, some dragons respond to such looming reminders of their own mortality poorly, and the particularly prideful or wrathful of their kind often lash out in anger when confronted by this grim truth. Peace and acceptance are found by some dragons, but the most stubborn of their ilk (and invariably the most wicked) can pursue a different answer to the problem. These dragons seek out sinister rites that can transform them into undead creatures known as raveners.
A ravener's flesh is stripped away as part of the transformation, leaving only bones. What they lose in flesh, however, the dragon gains in soul-rending power, as their spiritual energy forms a protective barrier around their body, keeping it intact and allowing flight with now-skeletal wings. This existence isn't as easy to maintain as other forms of undeath, however, and the ravener must feed regularly on living souls to power their profane metabolism. Their hunger is much greater than that of a living dragon, so raveners are forced to relocate regularly, traveling to fresh hunting grounds each time they strip their current home of prey.