Illustration Xan Drake

Borother

horatio.fairburn
Challenge 3
(700 XP)
Robinloft Estimated CR 4
Small undead (incorporeal), unaligned
Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
Hit Points 66 (12d6+24)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
16 (+3)
DEX
16 (+3)
CON
14 (+2)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
8 (-1)
Saving Throws Dex +5, Wis +4
Skills Insight +4, Intimidation +1, Medicine +4, Perception +4, Stealth +5
Damage Vulnerabilities radiant
Damage Resistances psychic
Damage Immunities necrotic
Condition Immunities grappled, incapacitated, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, unconscious
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages common
Environments urban
Join the Borotherhood.

If a creature is killed (but not consumed) by a Borother, it rises as a new Borother the next night, consuming its own body as its first meal. Destroying the body prevents this.

If there are less or more than three Borothers in the area (including itself), it will stalk its previous friends or family and kill them, resisting its urge to feed in order to form its own trio.
Seek Flesh.

A Borother can use Locate Creature on any creature it has hit with its Bite attack, or that it has otherwise consumed the flesh of.
Innate Spellcasting. The borother's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: locate creature

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Grabbing Tongue. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13) if it is a Medium or smaller creature and the borother doesn’t have any other creature grappled.

Borother

You wake up in a cold sweat. There's something in the bedroom doorway. A legless torso slithers towards you. It's wearing a long coat and a wide-brimmed hat on its head, and all you can see of its face is a gaping maw, filled with sharp teeth and a tongue that lolls out of its mouth, waving as if searching for something.

It is said that the first Borothers were born from a set of triplets who turned to cannibalism and were bisected at the hip for their crimes.

Almost always found in groups of three, Borothers appear as heavily clothed figures without a lower half. Their faces are usually shadowed by a cowl or hat, leaving little visible besides their large mouths which extrude a forked, prehensile tongue. They glide quickly but silently along the ground.

Borothers are patient and strategic- they will even wait to attack lone travelers into their territory until they are sure their quarry is surrounded.

If offered a piece of flesh of another sentient creature, the trio will spare the offerer. The next night, the Borothers will rise and begin seeking out any other flesh from that specific creature. They will continue to do so night after night until either they have consumed all of that creature’s flesh, or until one of their number is slain. In that case, the remaining two will retreat and seek out the one who offered them flesh, attempting to slay them to replenish their number.

Described by horatio.fairburn

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