Unrisen
Pathfinder Remaster. Stats use the Pathfinder Remaster rules from Pathfinder Monster Core 2.
The Unrisen is a Level 11 creature, with Armor Class 28 and 220 hit points. An unrisen is a twisted undead entity that exists in a state of perpetual agony between life and death.
Stat Block
- Edition: Pathfinder Remaster
- Size: Medium
- Type: undead
- Level: 11
- Armor Class: 28
- Hit Points: 220
- Speed: 30 ft.
- STR: 7
- DEX: 4
- CON: 5
- INT: -2
- WIS: 6
- CHA: 3
- Fortitude Save: +22
- Reflex Save: +17
- Will Save: +21
- Perception: +21
- Senses: darkvision, lifesense 30 feet
- Skills: Athletics +24, Stealth +19
- Traits: undead, unholy
- Immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious
Abilities & Attacks
Hit Points: 220 (meant to live, void healing) Lifesense 30 feet. Lifesense allows a monster to sense the vital essence of living and undead creatures within the listed range. The sense can distinguish between the vitality energy animating living creatures and the void energy animating undead creatures, much as sight distinguishes colors. Meant to Live (occult). Whenever an unrisen would take damage from vitality energy, it instead heals half that number of Hit Points. Resurrection Vulnerability. A creature with a prepared or spontaneous spell that can restore the dead to life (such as Breath of Life or Raise Dead) can expend an appropriate spell slot as a 2-action activity to destroy an unrisen within 30 feet. The attempt fails if the unrisen succeeds at a Will save against the creature's spell DC. Rise Again (occult). If the unrisen is reduced to 0 Hit Points by means other than fire damage, disintegration, or its resurrection vulnerability, it returns to unlife at the start of its next turn. It has 100 Hit Points and is Prone in the space in which it was destroyed. The unrisen can't be returned by this ability again for 1 hour. Void Healing. A creature with void healing draws health from void energy rather than vitality energy. It is damaged by vitality damage and is not healed by vitality healing effects. It does not take void damage, and it is healed by void effects that heal undead. Agonized Howl (2 actions) (auditory, mental, occult). The unrisen howls in pain at its cursed existence. Creatures within a 30-foot emanation take 9d8 mental damage with a DC 30 basic Will save. The unrisen can't use Agonized Howl again for 1d4 rounds. Awful Approach (1 action). Frequency once per 10 minutes. Effect The unrisen reshapes its grotesque form to move swiftly. It Strides twice. Any living creature that can see the unrisen during this movement must succeed at a DC 28 Fortitude save or be Sickened 1 (or Sickened 2 on a critical failure); this is a mental and visual effect. Death Grip (1 action) (curse, occult). Requirements The unrisen has a living creature Grabbed or Restrained. Effect The unrisen attempts to destroy its victim's life force so it shares in the unrisen's fate. The creature must succeed at a DC 30 Fortitude save or become Doomed 1. While the curse lasts, the creature regains only half as many HP from effects with both the healing and vitality traits; if it dies, any attempt to raise it from the dead causes it to return as an unrisen. The curse ends automatically if the creature's doomed value is reduced to 0. Grab (1 action). Requirements The monster's last action was a successful Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or the monster has a creature Grabbed or Restrained. Effect If used after a Strike, the monster attempts to Grapple the creature using the body part it attacked with. This attempt neither applies nor counts toward the creature's multiple attack penalty. The monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn.
Common Questions
How much HP does an Unrisen have?
220 hit points.
What level is an Unrisen?
Level 11.
What is an Unrisen's Armor Class?
AC 28.
How fast can an Unrisen move?
Speed 30 ft.
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