Shoosuva
Volo's Guide to Monsters p. 137
- Size
- Large
- Type
- fiend (demon)
- Alignment
- chaotic evil
- AC
- 14 (natural armor)
- Hit Points
- 110 (13d10+39)
- Speed
- walk 40 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Dex +4, Con +6, Wis +5
- Resistances
- cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks
- Immunities
- poison
- Condition Immunities
- charmed, frightened, poisoned
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 12
- Languages
- Abyssal, Gnoll, telepathy 120 ft.
- Challenge
- 8
- Environment
- grassland, forest, hill, arctic
Traits
Rampage
When it reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, the shoosuva can take a bonus action to move up to half its speed and make a bite attack.
Actions
Multiattack
The shoosuva makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its tail stinger.
Bite
Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 26 (4d10 + 4) piercing damage.
Tail Stinger
Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned.
While poisoned, the target is also paralyzed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Other data
description
Demon lords create lesser demons for the purpose of spreading chaos and terror throughout the multiverse.
Shoosuva: A shoosuva is a hyena-demon gifted by Yeenoghu to an especially powerful gnoll (typically as a fang of Yeenoghu). A shoosuva manifests shortly after a war band achieves a great victory, emerging from a billowing, fetid cloud of smoke as it arrives from the Abyss. In battle, the demon wraps its slavering jaws around one victim while lashing out with the poisonous stinger on its tail to bring down another one. A creature immobilized by the poison becomes easy pickings for any gnolls nearby.
Each shoosuva is bonded to a particular gnoll and fights alongside its master. A gnoll that has been gifted with a shoosuva is second only to a flind in status within a war band.