Ye Olde Shoppe of Magicks – Infernal Watcher

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Infernal Watchers

Medium Construct, Lawful Evil

Armor Class 17 (stone body)
Hit Points 136 (16d8 + 64)
Speed 40 ft. (when unobserved)

STR 20 (+5) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 18 (+4)
INT 8 (–1) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA 16 (+3)

Saving Throws Dex +8, Wis +6
Skills Stealth +8, Perception +6
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Vulnerabilities acid
Damage Immunities poison, psychic
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16
Languages understands Common and Infernal, speaks in guttural whispers only when unseen
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +4

Traits

  • Statue’s Guise (Quantum Lock). While being observed by a conscious creature, the Infernal Watcher becomes petrified (as if under the petrified condition), appearing as a mundane statue. While petrified in this way, it cannot be harmed or moved except by magical means such as disintegrate.
  • Unseen Predator. The Watcher has advantage on attack rolls against creatures that cannot see it (including those who are blinded, looking away, or have their eyes closed).
  • Infernal Grasp. A creature hit by the Watcher’s Slam must succeed on a DC 16 Charisma saving throw or be magically frozen in place, locked in a psychic struggle against the Watcher’s will. While frozen, the creature is incapacitated and restrained but remains aware of its surroundings. At the end of each of its turns, it can make another Charisma saving throw, ending the effect on a success.

Actions

  • Multiattack. The Watcher can make two Slam attacks. But only if unobserved.
  • Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage.
  • Horrific Advance. The Watcher magically teleports up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see, provided no conscious creature can see it move. This does not provoke opportunity attacks.
  • Frozen Terror (Recharge 5–6). Each creature within 30 feet that can see the Watcher must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened until the start of the Watcher’s next turn.

Description
Infernal Watchers are statues of grief-stricken figures—faces twisted in agony, hands covering their visages, wings carved in unnatural poses. When unobserved, they surge forward with impossible speed, their stony hands seizing prey in a grip colder than death. Victims are not slain but trapped within their own minds, their bodies paralyzed as the Watcher feeds on their torment.

Legends whisper that Watchers were once guardians of forgotten temples, cursed by dark pacts to hunger for mortal souls. Now they haunt ruined estates, crypts, and haunted halls, waiting silently for eyes to blink.

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