Dungeon Church; Pyora NPCs.json

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        "url": "https://www.dungeon.church",
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              "{@spell counterspell}",
              "{@spell dispel magic}",
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            "If Amelia fails a saving throw, she may choose to succeed instead and reflect the effect of the failed saving throw onto one enemy within 30 feet. Amelia still suffers the effect of a successful saving throw, if any. The new target is entitled to a saving throw as if it were the original target of the attack, but with disadvantage."
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            "Amelia has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."
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            "Amelia can step between places as a bonus action."
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          "name": "Sealed Destiny (1/Day)",
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            "Amelia attunes herself to the threads of the PCs' fates. Ask each player to write down their prediction of how the PC to their left will die, and at what level. Collect the notes without revealing the answers. When one of those PCs dies, reveal the prediction. If the character died in the manner predicted, they fulfill their destiny and are immediately resurrected by the gods as a reward. If they died at or within one level of the prediction, they return to life with some useful insight into the destiny of someone important."
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            "Amelia regains 20 hit points at the start of her turn if she has at least 1 hit point and isn't in sunlight or running water. If she takes radiant damage or damage from holy water, this trait doesn't function at the start of her next turn."
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            "Amelia makes two Inexorable Thread attacks."
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          "name": "Inexorable Threads",
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            "{@atk mw} {@hit 9} to hit, reach 30 ft., one target. {@h}27 ({@damage 5d8 + 5}) radiant damage, and the target is \"one step closer to death.\" If the target is reduced to 0 hit points, it's treated as if it's already failed one death saving throw. This effect is cumulative; each inexorable threads hit adds one unsuccessful death saving throw. A creature can remove this cumulative effect by completing a long rest or by being the target of a {@spell greater restoration} or {@spell heal} spell. If a creature who's been hit three or more times by inexorable threads is reduced to 0 hit points, they die immediately."
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            "One target within 60 feet of Amelia must make a {@dc 18} Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target's fate is bound to one random ally of the target within 60 feet. Any damage or condition the target suffers is inflicted on the individual to which they are bound instead, and vice versa. A creature can be bound to only one other creature at a time. This effect lasts until 7 days pass, either of the affected creatures gains a level, or until a {@spell heal} or {@spell heroes' feast} spell is used to lift this binding."
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          "name": "Destiny Distortion Wave {@recharge 5}",
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            "Amelia projects a 60-foot cone of distortion that frays the strands of fate. Each creature in that area must make a {@dc 18} Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 55 ({@damage 10d10}) force damage, and if more than one creature failed its saving throw, all conditions affecting those creatures are randomly redistributed among them. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn't affected by the condition redistribution."
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            "name": "A Dark Bargain",
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              "An orphan in early {@link Saltmarsh|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/saltmarsh-GkGI6ISio5} who showed a natural affinity for magic, Amelia was driven out of town by a mob after killing the young {@link Oweland|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/oweland-estate-pW6osn13sD} twin boys. {@link Sir Thomas Oweland|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/sir-thomas-oweland-A6kJDPu7SS} and {@creature Lamont Solmar, Knight of Night|DungeonChurchNPCs|Lamont Solmar} stepped in to save her life. As punishment, she was sent to assist the old and sickly alchemist on the outskirts of Saltmarsh.",
              "Not safe to show her face in town, she took to exploring the {@link Dreadwood|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/dreadwood-GcfKdBzGyT} at night, where she met {@link Lady Nightshade|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/lady-nightshade-3kjLNj2Zbs}. The Lady promised her great power and eternal life if she would bring her the heart of someone pure. Amelia betrayed Lamont Solmar, and they were both turned into the Lady's vampire knights."
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                "{@spell spider climb}"
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                "{@spell sleet storm}"
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                "{@spell contagion}",
                "{@spell reincarnate}"
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            "name": "Duskmire Refugee",
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              "A druid who lives in a crooked and dilapidated hut in the {@link Dreadwood|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/dreadwood-GcfKdBzGyT}. He escaped from {@link Duskmire|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/duskmire-hJey19lfsu}, one of the human cattle who was preyed on for blood by the {@creature vampire|MM|vampires}. Although he physically made it out of the dark city, his mind was irreparably broken.",
              "He spends his time alone in the woods experimenting on strange new potions and tending after the undead animals who are turned from feeding on the carrion outside the gates of the vampire city. His closest friends are a one-eyed crow named Murder and a mischievous band of {@creature zombie raccoon|dungeonchurch|zombie raccoons} who love fingers."
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            "name": "Noctiflora",
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              "After experimenting on {@item Nightshade Poison|dungeonchurch}, a concentrated form of {@link Sapphire Nightshade|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/sapphire-nightshade-Qvbjiqksvy}, Caelum discovered it causes profound transformations under the light of a full moon. His findings were published as a book: {@i {@table Books of Pyora|dungeonchurch|Noctiflora: Lunar Mutagens in Solanaceae}}."
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        "investigation": "+5",
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                "{@spell hunter's mark}",
                "{@spell speak with animals}",
                "{@spell wrathful smite}"
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                "{@spell detect thoughts}",
                "{@spell lesser restoration}",
                "{@spell moonbeam}",
                "{@spell zone of truth}"
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              "slots": 3
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                "{@spell dispel magic}"
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              "slots": 3
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          "will": [
            "{@spell beast sense}",
            "{@spell green-flame blade|TCE}",
            "{@spell holy word|GH}",
            "{@spell sacred flame}"
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            "While within 10 feet of a conscious Commodore Daniel, creatures of the Commodore's choice can't be {@condition blinded} or {@condition frightened}, and creatures and objects can be {@condition invisible} only if the commodore allows it."
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          "name": "Brand Heretic (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)",
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            "As a bonus action, the Commodore Daniel chooses one creature the Commodore can see within 30 feet of it. The Commodore marks the target as a heretic. For 1 minute, the Commodore's weapon attack rolls against the heretic score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20. At the start of each of the heretic's turns, the Commodore can use a reaction to make one weapon attack against the heretic."
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          "name": "Smite",
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            "When Commodore Daniel hits with a melee weapon attack, it can expend one spell slot to deal extra radiant damage. The extra damage is 9 ({@dice 2d8}) for a 1st level spell slot, 13 ({@dice 3d8}) for a 2nd-level one, and 18 ({@dice 4d8}) for a 3rd level slot."
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            "As an action, Commodore Daniel can polymorph into one of his lycanthrope forms: a boar-humanoid hybrid or a {@creature Boar}. While in lycanthrope form, the wereboar gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-silvered, non-magical sources. Any equipment he is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. He reverts to its true form if he dies."
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            "If the wereboar moves at least 15 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with its tusks on the same turn, the target takes an extra 7 ({@dice 2d6}) slashing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a {@dc 13} Strength saving throw or be knocked {@condition prone}."
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        },
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          "name": "Lust for the Hunt (Lycanthrope Form)",
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            "The savage nature of your curse causes you to lose control. When in hybrid form, make a {@dc 12} Wisdom saving throw at the beginning of each turn. On a fail, the wereboar is overcome with bloodlust and attacks the nearest creature, or dashes towards the nearest helpless or weak creature."
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            "{@atk mw} {@hit +5} to hit, reach ft., one target. {@h}10 ({@damage 2d6+3}) slashing damage. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a {@dc 12} Constitution saving throw or be cursed with wereboar lycanthropy."
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            "name": "Iron Rider",
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              "A {@creature Iron Rider Commodore|dungeonchurch|Commodore} in the {@link Iron Riders of Abraxas|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/iron-riders-of-abraxas-P77pTaxjou}, Daniel first arrived in {@link Saltmarsh|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/saltmarsh-GkGI6ISio5} at the {@link Feast of the Seven Fishes|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/session-14-festivals-eve-VAcA8ZfizE} festival, where he fought adventurers in the carnival arena before they disrupted the event and caused chaos."
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            "name": "Lust for Vengeance",
            "entries": [
              "His {@link father|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/commodore-wardell-warrington-JVLIYKxGXE} the former Commodore was {@link killed aboard|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/session-15-16-murder-on-the-jubilee-b5dYJiJkGZ} the Dragon's Jubilee by the vampire {@creature Lamont Solmar, Knight of Night|DungeonChurchNPCs|Lamont Solmar}, who was shapechanged as {@link Skerrin Wavechaser|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/skerrin-wavechaser-sCnR3QOnff}. The young Lieutenant became the new Commodore, bent on avenging his father's death. He consolidated control of security forces after the {@link sahuagin attack|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/session-17-the-fate-of-saltmarsh-mBiDgChv72}, taking over what was left of the {@link Saltmarsh Town Guard|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/saltmarsh-town-guard-v63eLpRU1Q} and thus gaining himself a seat on the {@link Saltmarsh Council|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/saltmarsh-council-8KxfpMfTQ0}."
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            "name": "Curse of Lycanthropy",
            "entries": [
              "During a {@link brazen assault|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/the-ladys-price-9GqAM1W0Pw} on his mansion by an assassin squad sent by {@link Lady Nightshade|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/lady-nightshade-3kjLNj2Zbs}, Daniel was dosed with {@item Nightshade Poison|dungeonchurch}, transforming him into a {@creature wereboar} lycanthrope. His baby boy was stolen from his wife's arms during the attack.",
              "Adventurers from the {@link Gold Scale Company|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/gold-scale-company-m1WdlmIYwP} later tracked his wereboar form down in the forest, discovering that he was the murderous beast that had been terrorizing the town."
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            "entries": [
              "Learn more about {@link Commodore Daniel Warrington in the wiki|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/commodore-daniel-warrington-OHzOMkhMHS}."
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              "The fey have long used the children of the briar as spies and informants, and the power of the Otherworld now courses through their veins, allowing them to work simple magical tricks and slip between the mortal and faerie realms with relative ease."
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            "While in bat form, the vampire can't speak, its walking speed is 5 feet, and it has a flying speed of 30 feet. Its statistics, other than its size and speed, are unchanged. Anything it is wearing transforms with it, but nothing it is carrying does. It reverts to its true form if it dies.",
            "While in mist form, the vampire can't take any actions, speak, or manipulate objects. It is weightless, has a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover, and can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. In addition, if air can pass through a space, the mist can do so without squeezing, and it can't pass through water. It has advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws, and it is immune to all nonmagical damage, except the damage it takes from sunlight."
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            "Lamont keeps an eye on the town he knew and loved in life, including his living son {@link Anders|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/anders-solmor-njTKn6ITMV}. Whenever Lamont visits {@link Saltmarsh|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/saltmarsh-GkGI6ISio5} after dark, he is able to shapechange into the form of any of his vampire thralls."
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            "While it has 0 hit points in mist form, it can't revert to its vampire form, and it must reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it reverts to its vampire form. It is then {@condition paralyzed} until it regains at least 1 hit point. After spending 1 hour in its resting place with 0 hit points, it regains 1 hit point."
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        {
          "name": "Spider Climb",
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        {
          "name": "Vampire Weaknesses",
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            "The vampire has the following flaws:",
            "{@i Forbiddance.} The vampire can't enter a residence without an invitation from one of the occupants.",
            "{@i Harmed by Running Water.} The vampire takes 20 acid damage if it ends its turn in running water.",
            "{@i Stake to the Heart.} If a piercing weapon made of wood is driven into the vampire's heart while the vampire is {@condition incapacitated} in its resting place, the vampire is {@condition paralyzed} until the stake is removed.",
            "{@i Sunlight Hypersensitivity.} The vampire takes 20 radiant damage when it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks."
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            "{@atk mw} {@hit 9} to hit, reach 5 ft., one willing creature, or a creature that is {@condition grappled} by the vampire, {@condition incapacitated}, or {@condition restrained}. {@h}7 ({@damage 1d6 + 4}) piercing damage plus 10 ({@damage 3d6}) necrotic damage. The target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and the vampire regains hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A humanoid slain in this way and then buried in the ground rises the following night as a {@creature vampire spawn} under the vampire's control."
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        {
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            "The vampire targets one humanoid it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see the vampire, the target must succeed on a {@dc 17} Wisdom saving throw against this magic or be {@condition charmed} by the vampire. The {@condition charmed} target regards the vampire as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under the vampire's control, it takes the vampire's requests or actions in the most favorable way it can, and it is a willing target for the vampire's bite attack.",
            "Each time the vampire or the vampire's companions do anything harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until the vampire is destroyed, is on a different plane of existence than the target, or takes a bonus action to end the effect."
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          "name": "Bite (Costs 2 Actions)",
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              "Known in life as Lamont Solmar, the wealthy owner of a shipbuilding company and patriarch of a founding family of {@link Saltmarsh|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/saltmarsh-GkGI6ISio5}. A tall, blonde man known for his fairness, good character, and generosity. He mysteriously disappeared on a hunting trip in the {@link Dreadwood|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/dreadwood-GcfKdBzGyT}, leaving behind his son {@link Anders|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/anders-solmor-njTKn6ITMV} to carry on the family business and take his seat on the {@link Saltmarsh Council|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/saltmarsh-council-8KxfpMfTQ0}.",
              "His disappearance was actually the result of a betrayal by the witch {@creature Amelia, Knight of Twilight|DungeonChurchNPCs|Amelia}, and he was turned into one of {@link Lady Nightshade|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/lady-nightshade-3kjLNj2Zbs}'s {@creature vampire|MM} knights."
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              "Turned into a {@creature vampire|MM} by the {@link Lady Nightshade|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/lady-nightshade-3kjLNj2Zbs}, he ran an underground plantation in the perpetual twilight beneath {@link the Sunless Temple|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/sunless-temple-yS5i3gqWiO}. Using the souls of the dragonborn who died in the temple as slave labor, he produced large amounts of {@item Sapphire Nightshade|dungeonchurch} to aid the witch-lich's plans."
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              "A party of adventurers from the {@link Gold Scale Company|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/gold-scale-company-m1WdlmIYwP}, accompanied by a brave {@creature kobold|MM} named {@link Meepo|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/meepo-UMrKyHk53I}, tracked Solmar into his lair and killed him."
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            "The changes wrought by this effect fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, the hag could appear to have smooth skin, but someone touching her would feel her rough flesh. Otherwise, a creature must take an action to visually inspect the illusion and succeed on a {@dc 22} Intelligence ({@skill Investigation}) check to discern that the hag is disguised."
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        "source": "MM",
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                    "name": "Dark Arbiter",
                    "entries": [
                      "Mildred Magpie is one of the most ancient {@creature hag|MM|hags} living in the {@link Dreadwood|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/dreadwood-GcfKdBzGyT}. Among all factions both fell and fey in this dark forest, she is respected as an arbiter of contracts, a negotiator of disputes, and a fair judge of matters brought before her.",
                      "But like most hags, she demands a high price: in the fine print of all of the contracts within her {@i {@table Books of Pyora|dungeonchurch|Black Book}}, at least one soul must be wagered for her to take interest. It is rumored Mildred is so old that she learned this type of soul binding sorcery from the dragon emperor herself."
                    ]
                  },
                  {
                    "type": "entries",
                    "name": "The Wraithwoven",
                    "entries": [
                      "What she and her coven, the {@link Wraithwoven|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/wraithwoven-9LLv5L3Ka8}, do with these souls is unclear, a closely guarded secret by its members. It is known that one of Mildred's personal apprentices, {@link Sakabatha|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/sakabatha-Jw9m5UyWoA}, stole some of these secrets and fled to join the carnival of {@link Revelia|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/revelia-hGJF8ybX3K}."
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                  "The wretched and hateful green hags dwell in dying forests, lonely swamps, and misty moors, making their homes in caves. Green hags love to manipulate other creatures into doing their bidding, masking their intentions behind layers of deception. They lure victims to them by mimicking voices calling out for help, or drive unwanted visitors away by imitating the cries of fierce beasts.",
                  {
                    "type": "entries",
                    "name": "Obsession with Tragedy",
                    "entries": [
                      "Green hags revel in the failings and tragedies of other creatures. They derive joy from bringing people low and seeing hope turn into despair, not just for individuals but also for whole nations."
                    ]
                  },
                  {
                    "type": "inset",
                    "name": "Dungeon Church Lore",
                    "entries": [
                      "Learn more about {@link Mildred Magpie in the wiki|https://lore.dungeon.church/doc/mildred-magpie-y6vemFK5Bi}."
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            "type": "section",
            "name": "Hags",
            "entries": [
              "Hags represent all that is evil and cruel. Though they resemble withered crones, there is nothing mortal about these monstrous creatures, whose forms reflect only the wickedness in their hearts.",
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                      {
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                        "name": "Faces of Evil",
                        "entries": [
                          "Ancient beings with origins in the Feywild, hags are cankers on the mortal world. Their withered faces are framed by long, frayed hair, horrid moles and warts dot their blotchy skin, and their long, skinny fingers are tipped by claws that can slice open flesh with a touch. Their simple clothes are always tattered and filthy.",
                          "All hags possess magical powers, and some have an affinity for spellcasting. They can alter their forms or curse their foes, and their arrogance inspires them to view their magic as a challenge to the magic of the gods, whom they blaspheme at every opportunity.",
                          "Hags name themselves in darkly whimsical ways, claiming monikers such as Black Morwen, Peggy Pigknuckle, Grandmother Titchwillow, Nanna Shug, Rotten Ethel, or Auntie Wormtooth."
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "type": "entries",
                        "name": "Monstrous Motherhood",
                        "entries": [
                          "Hags propagate by snatching and devouring human infants. After stealing a baby from its cradle or its mother's womb, the hag consumes the poor child. A week later, the hag gives birth to a daughter who looks human until her thirteenth birthday, whereupon the child transforms into the spitting image of her hag mother.",
                          "Hags sometimes raise the daughters they spawn, creating covens. A hag might also return the child to its grieving parents, only to watch from the shadows as the child grows up to become a horror."
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "type": "entries",
                        "name": "Dark Bargains",
                        "entries": [
                          "Arrogant to a fault, hags believe themselves to be the most cunning of creatures, and they treat all others as inferior. Even so, a hag is open to dealing with mortals as long as those mortals show the proper respect and deference. Over their long lives, hags accumulate much knowledge of local lore, dark creatures, and magic, which they are pleased to sell.",
                          "Hags enjoy watching mortals bring about their own downfall, and a bargain with a hag is always dangerous. The terms of such bargains typically involve demands to compromise principles or give up something dear-especially if the thing lost diminishes or negates the knowledge gained through the bargain."
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "type": "entries",
                        "name": "A Foul Nature",
                        "entries": [
                          "Hags love the macabre and festoon their garb with dead things and accentuate their appearance with bones, bits of flesh, and filth. They nurture blemishes and pick at wounds to produce weeping, suppurating flesh. Attractive creatures evoke disgust in a hag, which might \"help\" such creatures by disfiguring or transforming them.",
                          "This embrace of the disturbing and unpleasant extends to all aspects of a hag's life. A hag might fly in a magical giant's skull, landing it on a tree shaped to resemble an enormous headless body. Another might travel with a menagerie of monsters and slaves kept in cages, and disguised by illusions to lure unwary creatures close. Hags sharpen their teeth on millstones and spin cloth from the intestines of their victims, reacting with glee to the horror their actions invoke."
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "type": "entries",
                        "name": "Dark Sorority",
                        "entries": [
                          "Hags maintain contact with each other and share knowledge. Through such contacts, it is likely that any given hag knows of every other hag in existence. Hags don't like each other, but they abide by an ageless code of conduct. Hags announce their presence before crossing into another hag's territory, bring gifts when entering another hag's dwelling, and break no oaths given to other hags-as long as the oath isn't given with the fingers crossed.",
                          "Some humanoids make the mistake of thinking that the hags' rules of conduct apply to all creatures. When confronted by such an individual, a hag might find it amusing to string the fool along for a while before teaching it a permanent lesson."
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "type": "entries",
                        "name": "Dark Lairs",
                        "entries": [
                          "Hags dwell in dark and twisted woods, bleak moors, storm-lashed seacoasts, and gloomy swamps. In time, the landscape around a hag's lair reflects the creature's noxiousness, such that the land itself can attack and kill trespassers. Trees twisted by darkness attack passersby, while vines snake through the undergrowth to snare and drag off creatures one at a time. Foul stinking fogs turn the air to poison, and conceal pools of quicksand and sinkholes that consume unwary wanderers."
                        ]
                      },
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                        "type": "inset",
                        "name": "Hag Covens",
                        "entries": [
                          "When hags must work together, they form covens, in spite of their selfish natures. A coven is made up of hags of any type, all of whom are equals within the group. However, each of the hags continues to desire more personal power.",
                          "A coven consists of three hags so that any arguments between two hags can be settled by the third. If more than three hags ever come together, as might happen if two covens come into conflict, the result is usually chaos.",
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                            "name": "Shared Spellcasting",
                            "entries": [
                              "While all three members of a hag coven are within 30 feet of one another, they can each cast the following spells from the wizard's spell list but must share the spell slots among themselves:",
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                                  "1st level (4 slots): {@spell identify}, {@spell ray of sickness}",
                                  "2nd level (3 slots): {@spell hold person}, {@spell locate object}",
                                  "3rd level (3 slots): {@spell bestow curse}, {@spell counterspell}, {@spell lightning bolt}",
                                  "4th level (3 slots): {@spell phantasmal killer}, {@spell polymorph}",
                                  "5th level (2 slots): {@spell contact other plane}, {@spell scrying}",
                                  "6th level (1 slot): {@spell eyebite}"
                                ]
                              },
                              "For casting these spells, each hag is a 12th-level spellcaster that uses Intelligence as her spellcasting ability. The spell save DC is 12 + the hag's Intelligence modifier, and the spell attack bonus is 4 + the hag's Intelligence modifier."
                            ]
                          },
                          {
                            "type": "entries",
                            "name": "Hag Eye",
                            "entries": [
                              "A hag coven can craft a magic item called a hag eye, which is made from a real eye coated in varnish and often fitted to a pendant or other wearable item. The hag eye is usually entrusted to a minion for safekeeping and transport. A hag in the coven can take an action to see what the hag eye sees if the hag eye is on the same plane of existence. A hag eye has AC 10, 1 hit point, and {@sense darkvision} with a radius of 60 feet. If it is destroyed, each coven member takes {@damage 3d10} psychic damage and is {@condition blinded} for 24 hours.",
                              "A hag coven can have only one hag eye at a time, and creating a new one requires all three members of the coven to perform a ritual. The ritual takes 1 hour, and the hags can't perform it while {@condition blinded}. During the ritual, if the hags take any action other than performing the ritual, they must start over."
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                "name": "Lair Actions",
                "entries": [
                  "The following lair actions are options for grandmothers and powerful aunties. Grandmothers usually have three to five lair actions, aunties usually only one (if they have any at all). Unless otherwise noted, any lair action that requires a creature to make a saving throw uses the save DC of the hag's most powerful ability.",
                  "On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the hag can take a lair action to cause one of the following effects, but can't use the same effect two rounds in a row:",
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                      "Until initiative count 20 on the next round, the hag can pass through solid walls, doors, ceilings, and floors as if the surfaces weren't there.",
                      "The hag targets any number of doors and windows that she can see, causing each one to either open or close as she wishes. Closed doors can be magically locked (requiring a successful {@dc 20} Strength check to force open) until she chooses to make them unlocked, or until she uses this lair action again to open them."
                    ]
                  },
                  "A powerful green hag might have the following additional lair action:",
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                      "The hag creates an illusory duplicate of herself, which appears in its own space. As long as she can see her duplicate, the hag can move it a distance equal to her walking speed as well as make the illusion speak on her turn (no action required). The illusion has the same statistics as the hag but can't take actions or reactions. It can interact with its environment and even pick up and hold real objects. The illusion seems real in every way but disappears if it takes any amount of damage. Otherwise, it lasts until the hag dismisses it (no action required) or can no longer see it. If the hag uses this lair action to create a new duplicate, the previous one vanishes, dropping any real objects in its possession."
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    {
      "name": "Pyoran NPCs",
      "source": "DungeonChurchNPCs",
      "caption": "People and acquaintances from the realm of Pyora.",
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        "d7",
        "Person"
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        [
          "1",
          "Lady Nightshade"
        ],
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          "2",
          "{@creature Amelia, Knight of Twilight|DungeonChurchNPCs}"
        ],
        [
          "3",
          "{@creature Lamont Solmar, Knight of Night|DungeonChurchNPCs}"
        ],
        [
          "4",
          "Knight of Day"
        ],
        [
          "5",
          "{@creature Mildred Magpie|DungeonChurchNPCs}"
        ],
        [
          "6",
          "{@creature King Thistletongue|DungeonChurchNPCs}"
        ],
        [
          "7",
          "{@creature Commodore Daniel Warrington|DungeonChurchNPCs}"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ]
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