Angatra
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- Undead
- Challenge Rating
- 6
- Source
- Tome of Beasts
- Alignment
- Neutral-Evil
- Armor Class
- 17
- Speeds
- 50
- Walking Speed
- 50
- Strength Score
- 14
- Dexterity Score
- 20
- Constitution Score
- 18
- Intelligence Score
- 8
- Wisdom Score
- 12
- Charisma Score
- 15
- Skill Proficiencies
- Perception, Stealth
- Vision
- Darkvision (60ft)
- Languages Ref
- all languages it knew in life
- Hit Points
- 85
- Condition Immunities
- Charmed, Exhaustion 1, Frightened, Poisoned
- Resistances
- Resistant to Necrotic Damage, Resistant to Non-Magical Damage, Immune to Poison Damage
Medium undead, neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 85 (10d8+40)
Speed 50 ft.
- STR
- 14 (+2)
- DEX
- 20 (+5)
- CON
- 18 (+4)
- INT
- 8 (−1)
- WIS
- 12 (+1)
- CHA
- 15 (+2)
Skills Perception +4, Stealth +8
Damage Resistances necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14
Languages all languages it knew in life
Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)
Agonizing Gaze. When a creature that can see the angatra's eyes starts its turn within 30 feet of the angatra, it must make a DC 13 Charisma saving throw if the angatra isn't incapacitated and can see the creature. On a failed saving throw, the creature has its pain threshold lowered, so that it becomes vulnerable to all damage types until the end of its next turn. Unless it's surprised, a creature can avoid the saving throw by averting its eyes at the start of its turn. A creature that averts its eyes can't see the angatra for one full round, when it chooses anew whether to avert its eyes again. If the creature looks at the angatra in the meantime, it must immediately make the save.
Ancestral Wrath. The angatra immediately recognizes any individual that is descended from its tribe. It has advantage on attack rolls against such creatures, and those creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against the angatra's traits and attacks.
Actions
Multiattack. The angatra makes two attacks with its claws.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (2d4 + 5) piercing damage, and the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed by pain until the end of its next turn.
Description
This withered creature wrapped in gore-stained rags. They can pull back a tattered hood to reveal glowing eyes hungry with bloodlust.
In certain tribes, the breaking of local taboos invites terrible retribution from ancestral spirits, especially if the transgressor was a tribal leader or elder. The transgressor is cursed and cast out from the tribe, and then hunted and executed.
Bound Remains Entombed. The body is wrapped head to toe in lamba cloth to soothe the spirit and to bind it within the mortal husk, then sealed in a tomb far from traditional burial grounds so none may disturb it and its unclean spirit does not taint the blessed dead.
Slow Ritual Cleansing. Each such body is visited every ten years as the tribe performs the famadihana ritual, replacing the lamba bindings and soothing the suffering of the ancestors. Over generations, this ritual expiates their guilt, until at last the once‑accursed ancestor is admitted through the gates of the afterlife. If a spirit’s descendants abandon their task, or if the sealed tomb is violated, the accursed soul becomes an angatra.
Angry Spirit. The creature’s form becomes animated by a powerful and malicious ancestor spirit and undergoes a horrible metamorphosis within its decaying cocoon. Its fingernails grow into scabrous claws, its skin becomes hard and leathery, and its withered form is imbued with unnatural speed and agility. Within days, the angatra gathers strength and tears its bindings into rags. It seeks out its descendants to to share the torment and wrath it endured while its spirit lingered.
Stat block from Tome of Beasts (Kobold Press), Open Game Content used under the Open Game License 1.0a. Tome of Beasts. Copyright 2016, Open Design; Authors Chris Harris, Dan Dillon, Rodrigo Garcia Carmona, and Wolfgang Baur. It is not Geminaea material. See Legal.