Vanyver
Pathfinder Remaster. Stats use the Pathfinder Remaster rules from Pathfinder Monster Core 2.
The Vanyver is a Level 13 creature, with Armor Class 34 and 275 hit points. This massive undead creature of shadow hunts living souls by pulling them into a corrosive aura of entropy.
Stat Block
- Edition: Pathfinder Remaster
- Size: Huge
- Type: undead
- Level: 13
- Armor Class: 34
- Hit Points: 275
- Speed: 25 ft., fly 60 ft.
- STR: 8
- DEX: 4
- CON: 6
- INT: 4
- WIS: 5
- CHA: 5
- Fortitude Save: +29
- Reflex Save: +23
- Will Save: +22
- Perception: +26
- Senses: greater darkvision, lifesense 60 feet
- Skills: Acrobatics +23, Arcana +23, Athletics +27, Religion +24, Stealth +25, Void Lore +25
- Traits: shadow, undead, unholy
- Immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious, bleed
- Resistances: cold 10
- Weaknesses: holy 10, silver 10
Abilities & Attacks
Hit Points: 275 (void healing) Greater Darkvision. A creature with greater darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. A creature with greater darkvision can see through even forms of magical darkness. Telepathy 100 feet (aura, magical, mental). A monster with telepathy can communicate mentally with any creatures within the listed radius, as long as they share a language. This doesn't give any special access to their thoughts, and communicates no more information than normal speech would. Lifesense 60 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. Catching Bite (reaction). Trigger A creature within reach of the vanyver's jaws makes a melee Strike against the vanyver with a weapon. Effect The vanyver chooses to be hit. If the attack would've missed, it hits. The vanyver catches the weapon in their jaws and uses Drain Magic on it without fulfilling Drain Magic's requirements. Drain Magic (1 action). Requirements The vanyver's last action was a successful jaws Strike against a creature, object, or spell effect. Effect The vanyver casts an innate Dispel Magic on the same target; if the target was a creature, the vanyver can target a spell affecting the creature instead. If a spell effect or item is successfully counteracted, the vanyver gains temporary Hit Points equal to double the counteract rank of the effect that was counteracted. Entropy's Shadow (aura, divine, void). 40 feet. Vanyvers leak entropy and corruption from their very being. A living creature entering or starting its turn in the aura takes 3d6 void damage with a DC 30 basic Fortitude save. If it fails, it's also Enfeebled 1 for 1 minute and pulled 10 feet toward the vanyver. Snatch. The vanyver can Fly at half Speed while they have a creature Grabbed or Restrained in either or both of their talons, carrying that creature along with them. Sunlight Powerlessness. A vanyver caught in sunlight is Stunned 2 and Clumsy 2. 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. Constrict (1 action). 3d10+5 piercing DC 33 basic Fortitude save. The monster deals the listed amount of damage to any number of creatures Grabbed or Restrained by it. Each of those creatures can attempt a basic Fortitude save with the listed DC. 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 a Vanyver have?
275 hit points.
What level is a Vanyver?
Level 13.
What is a Vanyver's Armor Class?
AC 34.
How fast can a Vanyver move?
Speed 25 ft., fly 60 ft.
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