Ye Olde Shoppe of Magicks – Millennial Falcon Hatchling

Millennial Falcon Hatchling

Small celestial (phoenix), neutral good

Armor Class 15 (frost-feathered hide)
Hit Points 136 (16d10 + 48)
Speed 20 ft., fly 80 ft.

STR 18 (+4) | DEX 16 (+3) | CON 16 (+3)
INT 10 (+0) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA 16 (+3)

Saving Throws Dex +6, Con +6, Wis +5, Cha +6
Skills Perception +8
Damage Resistances cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities fire, poison
Condition Immunities frightened, poisoned, paralyzed
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 18
Languages – understands Celestial and Auran but cannot yet speak
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +4

Traits

• Frozen Rebirth Instinct. When the Hatchling is reduced to 0 hit points, it explodes in a burst of sub-zero energy, leaving behind a fragile egg of pure ice. One hour later, it reforms from the egg with 50 hit points unless the egg is destroyed (AC 10, HP 10, immune to cold damage).
• Aura of Bitter Cold. Any creature that starts its turn within 20 feet of the Hatchling must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 9 (2d8) cold damage on a failed save or half as much on a success.
• Unstable Cry (Recharge 5–6). The Hatchling releases an unbalanced screech of proto-elemental power. Each creature of its choice in a 30-foot cone must make a DC 15 Constitution save or take 22 (4d10) cold damage and be restrained by ice until the end of the Hatchling’s next turn. On a success, they take half damage and aren’t restrained.
• Young Memory. The Hatchling has flashes of ancient wisdom from its past lives. Once per day, it can add +1d6 to any saving throw, attack roll, or ability check. When it does, its eyes glow with aurora light for 1 round.
• Feather of Frostfire – one of its feathers can be forged into a legendary weapon or artifact.

Actions

• Multiattack. The Hatchling makes two attacks: one with its Talon and one with its Icy Breath (if available).
• Talon. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 4) slashing plus 7 (2d6) cold damage.
• Icy Breath (Recharge 6). The Hatchling exhales a cone of freezing air 30 feet long. Each creature in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 36 (8d8) cold damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. Creatures who fail are slowed (as the Slow spell) until the end of their next turn.

Description
A newly reborn Millennial Falcon Hatchling is both breathtaking and perilous. Its wings are still translucent, rimed with crystalline frost that refracts light into spectral colors. Despite its youth, the creature embodies the winter’s soul: beautiful, ancient, and unpredictable.

Hatchlings are born knowing they are fragments of something vast and cyclical — confused, curious, and drawn to the ruins of their previous life. Their cries summon blizzards, their tears freeze into gemstones, and their presence bends the weather around them.

Scholars and cults seek these hatchlings as living relics, while druids protect them fiercely, knowing that every hatchling carries the seed of a future age.

Adventure Hook:
A band of explorers discovers a newly hatched Millennial Falcon atop a glacier, its icy cries threatening to bury a nearby settlement in a weeks-long storm if not calmed or guided to safety.

📜 Excerpt from “The Dual Cycles: Flame and Frost”

by Nevets the Alien Wizard, Planar Naturalist of the Shoppe of Magicks

On the Nature of Eternal Renewal
The phoenix and the so-called Millennial Falcon are twin reflections of the same cosmic principle — renewal through elemental transformation. One burns, the other freezes, yet both embody the endless rhythm by which creation renews itself.

The Phoenix is passion unbound: its incandescent heart consumes, purifies, and begins again through the cleansing agony of flame. Its cycle is brief — centuries, perhaps less — for the lesson of fire is that all things must end before they can begin anew.

The Millennial Falcon, by contrast, is patience incarnate. Where the phoenix scorches, the falcon preserves — entombing time itself in frost. Its thousand-year dormancy is not death but meditation, a long breath between ages. It does not destroy to renew; it endures until renewal is inevitable.

I have come to suspect these creatures are not opposites but resonant frequencies of the same divine mechanism — one quick, one slow, both bound to the pulse that moves between stars. When the Phoenix exhales fire, the Falcon inhales ice; and thus, the cosmos keeps its balance.

— Nevets the Alien Wizard, Shoppe of Magicks, marginal notes to “Codex Auroralis”

The Life Cycle of the Millennial Falcon: Egg – Hatchling – Falcon

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