Ability

Ability

+1 status to all saves vs. positive

 

Ability

Arcane Innate Spells

DC 43, attack +37; 10th wail of the banshee; 8th spell turning (at will); 4th blink (at will), dimension door (at will), telekinetic maneuver (at will); Cantrips (10th) mage hand, telekinetic projectile; Constant (6th) true seeing

 

Ability

Contingency [Reaction]

Circumstance: Trigger: While the lich is in torpor, a creature disturbs the dem

The demilich ends torpor, rolls initiative, and gains the effect of its contingency's companion spell. The contingency resets after 24 hours.

 

Ability

Countermeasures [Free Action]

Circumstance: Trigger: The demilich's turn begins.

The demilich casts blink, fly, spell turning, or true seeing on itself. It usually chooses spell turning unless it already has that spell in effect.

 

Ability

Demilich Eye Gems

(arcane) A demilich has gemstone eyes that glow when the demilich is active. Each eye contains an 8th-level spell that targets one creature (usually one eye has maze and the other polar ray). The demilich can Activate an eye. This uses the number of spellcasting actions the spell requires, and also requires command and envision components. When the demilich casts a spell from a gemstone eye, that eye stops glowing for 1d4 rounds, during which time that eye's spell can't be used. Occasionally, one or both of the two demilich eye gems can be harvested from a destroyed demilich as magic items.

 

Ability

Devour Soul

Circumstance: A soul has been trapped in one of the demilich's blight quartz ge

The demilich consumes the soul. The soul is utterly destroyed, and the demilich regains HP equal to double the creature's level.

 

Ability

Mental Magic

A demilich can replace all material and somatic components for casting spells with verbal components, and can replace all Interact components for activating magic items with envision components.

 

Ability

Staff Gems

A demilich long ago absorbed the spells from a staff into gemstone nodules embedded in its skull, with larger nodules representing higher-level spells. It can cast any of the spells as though it were Activating the staff, and regains 1 charge per 4 hours spent in torpor, to a maximum of 10 charges. Teyam Ishtori has the spells from a staff of power.

 

Ability

Telekinetic Whirlwind

(arcane, aura, evocation) 20 feet; Telekinetic whirlwind activates when the demilich ends torpor. Loose debris in the area whip up into a whirling storm. This obscures vision, making any creature in the area concealed, and causes creatures in its area (except the demilich) to treat all creatures as concealed. Any creature other than the demilich that enters or begins its turn in the aura takes 2d12 bludgeoning damage.

 

Ability

Torpor

Typically, a demilich is inert when encountered and doesn't take actions until its contingency reaction has been triggered (see below).

 

Ability

Trap Soul

Frequency: once per day per gem

Effect: Ten blight quartz gemstones on the demilich's skull can trap the souls of the living. The Activated gem casts bind soul. This bind soul can target and affect a dying creature instead of a corpse. The dying creature can attempt a DC 43 Fortitude save; if it succeeds, it doesn't die and its soul is not trapped but it's enervated 2 (or is unaffected entirely on a critical success). When the soul of a creature gets trapped, the creature's body swiftly turns to dust. The gemstones work like the black sapphires used in bind soul, except that they can hold creatures of up to 17th level and have a value of 200 gp apiece. The demilich can Devour a Soul it has trapped.

 

Offense

Melee

Circumstance: combat round (melee)

jaws +36 [+31/+26] (reach 0 feet, finesse, magical), Damage 1d4+3 piercing plus 8d6 negative

 

Trait

Undead

Once living, these creatures were infused after death with negative energy and soul-corrupting evil magic. When reduced to 0 Hit Points, an undead creature is destroyed. Undead creatures are damaged by positive energy, are healed by negative energy, and don't benefit from healing effects.

 

Immunity

disease

paralyzed

poison

polymorph

unconscious

 

Item

demilich eye gem (2)

 

Language

Abyssal

Daemonic

Draconic

Elven

Infernal

Necril

 

Perception

darkvision

true seeing

 

Resistance

cold 10

electricity 10

fire 10

physical 10 (except bludgeoning)