Maurezhi
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes p. 133
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- fiend (demon)
- Alignment
- chaotic evil
- AC
- 15 (natural armor)
- Hit Points
- 88 (16d8+16)
- Speed
- walk 30 ft.
- Skills
- Deception +5
- Resistances
- cold, fire, lightning, necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks
- Immunities
- poison
- Condition Immunities
- charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
- Senses
- darkvision 120 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 11
- Languages
- Abyssal, Elvish, telepathy 120 ft.
- Challenge
- 7
- Environment
- swamp, urban
Traits
Assume Form
The maurezhi can assume the appearance of any Medium humanoid it has eaten. It remains in this form for 1d6 days, during which time the form gradually decays until, when the effect ends, the form sloughs from the demon's body.
Magic Resistance
The maurezhi has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Actions
Multiattack
The maurezhi makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite
Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) piercing damage. If the target is a humanoid, its Charisma score is reduced by 1d4. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. The target dies if this reduces its Charisma to 0. It rises 24 hours later as a ghoul, unless it has been revived or its corpse has been destroyed.
Claws
Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an undead, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Raise Ghoul (Recharge 5-6)
The maurezhi targets one dead ghoul or ghast it can see within 30 feet of it. The target is revived with all its hit points.
recharge
D5
Other data
description
When Doresain, the King of Ghouls, corrupted a society of elves, he created a new breed of demons to lead packs of ghoul and ghast in the material world.
Horrid Infiltrators: When a maurezhi consumes the corpse of a humanoid it has slain—a process that takes about 10 minutes—it instantly assumes the creature's appearance as it was in life. The new appearance begins to rot away over the next few days, eventually revealing the demon's original form.
A Plague of Ghouls. . Maurezhi are contagion incarnate. Their bite attacks can drain a victim's sense of self. If this affliction is allowed to go far enough, the victim is infected with an unholy hunger for flesh that overpowers their personality and transforms them into a ghoul.