Unapproachable East.pdf - The Forgotten Realms

their unlucky progeny, hulking brutes with all the malice and
strength of their monstrous mothers.
Bheur
Bheurs are hags unique to Rashemen, capable of bringing
winter’s chill to any place in the land. Hideous and wrinkled,
they love the taste of human flesh.
A bheur hag resembles a hideous old crone with blue-white
skin and white hair, dressed in a ragged shawl. Its hands are
flecked with dried blood, and it usually carries a gnarled gray
wooden staff. A bheur lives to bring misery and freezing death
to as many people as it can. Powerful and malevolent, bheurs
sometimes enlist the aid of orglashes to help them smite folk
with terrible cold. Some legends hold that there is only one
bheur, for no more than one has been seen at a time, but it is
likely these are merely solitary individuals. Every year the
hathrans battle a bheur as spring approaches, finally driving
the creature off and heralding the return of warmth, but
every year the fight is enacted again.
Bheurs speak Auran, Giant, and Rashemi.
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COMBAT
A bheur normally opens with cone of cold to evaluate opponents’
vulnerability. Those who appear wounded from
this attack are likely to be the targets of it again, while those
who appear immune to cold are subjected to ice storm or
melee attacks. Bheurs prefer to retreat from dangerous opponents
rather than fight to the death and often ambush enemies
who have driven them away before, using their great
maneuverability to lure enemies into inescapable deadfalls
and snowdrifts.
Graystaff Focus (Sp): A bheur’s wooden staff has no magical
properties of its own but acts as a focus that allows the
bheur to use the following spell-like abilities: at will—hold
person, solid fog; 3/day—cone of cold, ice storm, and wall of ice.
These abilities are as the spells cast by a 10th-level sorcerer
(save DC 11 + spell level).
Without her graystaff focus, the bheur cannot use these
spell-like abilities. Creating another graystaff takes the
bheur one year (as if crafting a magic item, although interrupting
the process does not cause the item to be ruined).
Bheur (Natural Form) Bheur (Enlarged Form)
Medium-Size Monstrous Humanoid Large Monstrous Humanoid
Hit Dice: 10d8+20 (65 hp) 10d8+40 (85 hp)
Initiative: +3 +2
Speed: 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (good) 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (average)
AC: 23 (+3 Dex, +10 natural), 24 (–1 size, +3 Dex, +12 natural),
touch 13, flat-footed 20 touch 12, flat-footed 21
Base Attack/Grapple: +10/+11 +10/+19
Attack: Slam +11 melee Slam +14 melee
Full Attack: Slam +11 melee Slam +14 melee
Damage: Slam 1d6+1 and 1d6 cold Slam 1d6+1 and 1d6 cold
Face/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft. 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Graystaff focus, maddening feast, Graystaff focus, maddening feast,
spell-like abilities spell-like abilities
Special Qualities: Acid and electricity vulnerability, Acid and electricity vulnerability,
cold immunity, darkvision 60 ft., fire cold immunity, darkvision 60 ft., fire
resistance 10, size change, SR 20 resistance 10, size change, SR 20
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +10, Will +6 Fort +11, Ref +9, Will +6
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 16, Con 14, Str 21, Dex 14, Con 18,
Int 12, Wis 13, Cha 12 Int 12, Wis 13, Cha 12
Skills: Concentration +12, Hide +8, Concentration +14, Hide +3,
Knowledge (nature) +7, Listen +8, Knowledge (nature) +7, Listen +8,
Move Silently +8, Spot +8, Move Silently +7, Spot +8,
Survival +6 (+8 aboveground) Survival +6 (+8 aboveground)
Feats: Alertness, Combat Casting, Alertness, Combat Casting,
Craft Staff, Iron Will Craft Staff, Iron Will
Climate/Terrain: Cold mountains and forest
Organization: Solitary or covey (1 bheur and 1–3 orglashes)
Challenge Rating: 9
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Always chaotic evil
Advancement: By character class