Deathless Rider
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4 - Eldraine Creatures
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- undead
- Alignment
- lawful evil
- AC
- 18 (chain mail, shield)
- Hit Points
- 84 (13d8+26)
- Speed
- walk 20 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Str +7, Con +5
- Skills
- Athletics +7, Perception +1
- Resistances
- Necrotic
- Immunities
- Poison
- Condition Immunities
- Exhaustion, Poisoned
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 11
- Languages
- understands the languages it knew in life but can't speak
- Challenge
- 5
- Lineage
- Rider
Traits
Proficiency Bonus
+3
Mounted Adept
While mounted and without the incapacitated condition, the rider has advantage on melee attack rolls against any unmounted creature smaller than its mount, the rider and its mount have advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and the rider can force an attack targeted at its mount to target the rider instead.
Undead Fortitude
If damage reduces the rider to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the rider drops to 1 hit point instead.
Actions
Multiattack
The rider makes two Axe attacks. It can replace one of these attacks with Fell Glare.
Axe
Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage.
Fell Glare
The rider gazes at a creature within 30 feet of itself. The creature must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or have the frightened condition for 1 minute. The frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if it can see the rider, ending the condition on itself on a success.
Other data
description
Legends told in the courts of Eldraine suggest that the deathless riders serve a warlock-queen, known simply as the Shadow Queen, who rules from a castle called Dynnistan. It isn't known whether these legends are based on any true experience or are simply the result of imagination trying to account for a terrifying and unexplained phenomenon. In either case, deathless riders are undeniably real. They are undead knights, once human, who ride undead steeds through the remotest parts of the wilds. They are sometimes called lich-knights or fell horsemen. In stark contrast to the knights of Eldraine, the deathless riders are without virtue of any kind. They are few in number—unless many more lurk in the dark heart of the forest than anyone is aware. But when mortal knights meet them in the wilds, the encounter rarely ends well for the living. The deathless riders fight with superhuman strength, heedless of wounds and relentless in their assault. A typical deathless rider's mount is a warhorse skeleton, though some lich-knights ride equine spirits like nightmares.
"Headed to the wilds? Beware the dead riders who serve the Shadow Queen." — Scalan, Edgewall innkeeper