pathfinder-2-sqlite-MIRROR/data/monsters/ravener.yaml

ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 8
  con_mod: 9
  dex_mod: 5
  int_mod: 5
  str_mod: 9
  wis_mod: 6
ac: 47
ac_special: null
active_abilities:
- action_cost: Free Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The ravener tears the creature's soul from its body with their maw and gulps
    it down. The dying creature must attempt a DC 44 Fortitude save.
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Consume Soul
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Consume Soul** [Free Action]  (__death__, __divine__, __necromancy__)
    **Trigger** A living creature within 30 feet of the ravener dies; **Effect** The
    ravener tears the creature''s soul from its body with their maw and gulps it down.
    The dying creature must attempt a DC 44 Fortitude save.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - death
  - divine
  - necromancy
  trigger: A living creature within 30 feet of the ravener dies;
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: The creature is unaffected.
  description: The creature is unaffected.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Critical Success
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Critical Success** The creature is unaffected.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The ravener tears off a small chunk of the creature's soul. If the
    victim is restored to life, they are __drained 1__ in addition to any other side
    effects of returning to life. The ravener adds a number of Hit Points to their
    soul ward equal to half the creature's level.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Success
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Success** The ravener tears off a small chunk of the creature''s
    soul. If the victim is restored to life, they are __drained 1__ in addition to
    any other side effects of returning to life. The ravener adds a number of Hit
    Points to their soul ward equal to half the creature''s level.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: The ravener tears off a small chunk of the creature's soul. If the victim
    is restored to life, they are __drained 1__ in addition to any other side effects
    of returning to life. The ravener adds a number of Hit Points to their soul ward
    equal to half the creature's level.
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: As success, but the creature's soul is ravaged. The creature is drained
    3 and the ravener adds a number of Hit Points to their soul ward equal to the
    creature's level.
  effect: null
  failure: As success, but the creature's soul is ravaged. The creature is drained
    3 and the ravener adds a number of Hit Points to their soul ward equal to the
    creature's level.
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Failure
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Failure** As success, but the creature''s soul is ravaged. The
    creature is drained 3 and the ravener adds a number of Hit Points to their soul
    ward equal to the creature''s level.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: As failure, but the ravener devours the entire soul. The victim
    can't be restored to life as long as the ravener exists except via a 10th-level
    effect such as __miracle__ or __wish__, and the ravener adds a number of Hit Points
    to their soul ward equal to twice the creature's level.
  critical_success: null
  description: As failure, but the ravener devours the entire soul. The victim can't
    be restored to life as long as the ravener exists except via a 10th-level effect
    such as __miracle__ or __wish__, and the ravener adds a number of Hit Points to
    their soul ward equal to twice the creature's level.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Critical Failure
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Critical Failure** As failure, but the ravener devours the entire
    soul. The victim can''t be restored to life as long as the ravener exists except
    via a 10th-level effect such as __miracle__ or __wish__, and the ravener adds
    a number of Hit Points to their soul ward equal to twice the creature''s level.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The ravener attempts to take control of a magical __fire__ or a fire
    spell within 100 feet. If it succeeds at a __counteract__ check (counteract level
    10, counteract modifier +34), the original caster loses control of the spell or
    magical fire, control is transferred to the ravener, and this action counts as
    the ravener having Sustained the Spell with the action (if applicable). The ravener
    can choose to end the spell instead of taking control, if they choose.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Manipulate Flames
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Manipulate Flames** [One Action]  (__arcane__, __concentrate__,
    __transmutation__) The ravener attempts to take control of a magical __fire__
    or a fire spell within 100 feet. If it succeeds at a __counteract__ check (counteract
    level 10, counteract modifier +34), the original caster loses control of the spell
    or magical fire, control is transferred to the ravener, and this action counts
    as the ravener having Sustained the Spell with the action (if applicable). The
    ravener can choose to end the spell instead of taking control, if they choose.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - arcane
  - concentrate
  - transmutation
  trigger: null
- action_cost: Two Actions
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The ravener breathes a blast of flame that deals 20d6 fire damage plus
    4d6 __persistent negative damage__ (DC 44 basic Reflex save). A creature that
    fails its save is also __drained 1__ (or drained 2 on a critical failure). If
    a creature is drained by the ravener's Ravenous Breath Weapon, the ravener's soul
    ward gains 5 HP. The ravener can't use Breath Weapon again for 1d4 rounds.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Ravenous Breath Weapon
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Ravenous Breath Weapon** [Two Actions]  (__arcane__, __evocation__,
    __fire__) The ravener breathes a blast of flame that deals 20d6 fire damage plus
    4d6 __persistent negative damage__ (DC 44 basic Reflex save). A creature that
    fails its save is also __drained 1__ (or drained 2 on a critical failure). If
    a creature is drained by the ravener''s Ravenous Breath Weapon, the ravener''s
    soul ward gains 5 HP. The ravener can''t use Breath Weapon again for 1d4 rounds.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - arcane
  - evocation
  - fire
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The ravener treats an attack roll as a critical hit on a roll of 19
    or 20, as long as the attack roll was a success. Additionally, whenever the ravener
    makes a critical hit with one of their Strikes, the target must succeed on a Fortitude
    save or gain the __drained 1__ condition. If the target already has a drained
    value of greater than 0, their drained value instead increases by 1, to a maximum
    of drained 4. Whenever the ravener applies drain to a creature in this way, their
    soul ward gains 5 Hit Points.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Vicious Criticals
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Vicious Criticals** The ravener treats an attack roll as a critical
    hit on a roll of 19 or 20, as long as the attack roll was a success. Additionally,
    whenever the ravener makes a critical hit with one of their Strikes, the target
    must succeed on a Fortitude save or gain the __drained 1__ condition. If the target
    already has a drained value of greater than 0, their drained value instead increases
    by 1, to a maximum of drained 4. Whenever the ravener applies drain to a creature
    in this way, their soul ward gains 5 Hit Points.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
alignment: CE
automatic_abilities:
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: .
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Cowering Fear
  range: 90 feet
  raw_description: '**Cowering Fear** (__aura__, __emotion__, __fear__, __mental__)
    90 feet, DC 42.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: DC 42
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - aura
  - emotion
  - fear
  - mental
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: ', 4d6 fire damage (DC 41 basic Reflex save)'
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Dragon Heat
  range: 10 feet
  raw_description: '**Dragon Heat** (__arcane__, __aura__, __evocation__, __fire__)
    10 feet, 4d6 fire damage (DC 41 basic Reflex save)'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - arcane
  - aura
  - evocation
  - fire
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: 200 HP. An intangible field of necromantic energy protects a ravener
    from total destruction. A soul ward has 150 maximum Hit Points, or 200 if the
    ravener is level 21 or higher. Whenever a ravener would be reduced below 1 Hit
    Point, all damage in excess of what would reduce them to 1 Hit Point is instead
    dealt to their soul ward. If this damage reduces the soul ward to fewer than 0
    Hit Points, the ravener is destroyed. A soul ward's Hit Points can be restored
    only via specific ravener abilities such as Consume Soul, ravenous breath, or
    vicious criticals. A ravener who goes more than a week without successfully using
    Consume Soul to feed on a dying creature starves, and their soul ward loses 1d4
    Hit Points each day until they feed. If the ravener's soul ward loses all its
    Hit Points while the ravener still has more than 1 HP, they become a ravener husk.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Soul Ward
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Soul Ward** 200 HP. An intangible field of necromantic energy
    protects a ravener from total destruction. A soul ward has 150 maximum Hit Points,
    or 200 if the ravener is level 21 or higher. Whenever a ravener would be reduced
    below 1 Hit Point, all damage in excess of what would reduce them to 1 Hit Point
    is instead dealt to their soul ward. If this damage reduces the soul ward to fewer
    than 0 Hit Points, the ravener is destroyed. A soul ward''s Hit Points can be
    restored only via specific ravener abilities such as Consume Soul, ravenous breath,
    or vicious criticals. A ravener who goes more than a week without successfully
    using Consume Soul to feed on a dying creature starves, and their soul ward loses
    1d4 Hit Points each day until they feed. If the ravener''s soul ward loses all
    its Hit Points while the ravener still has more than 1 HP, they become a ravener
    husk.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: Reaction
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: Jaws only.
  effect: You lash out at a foe that leaves an opening. Make a melee Strike against
    the triggering creature. If your attack is a critical hit and the trigger was
    a manipulate action, you disrupt that action. This Strike doesn't count toward
    your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn't apply to
    this Strike.
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Attack of Opportunity
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Attack of Opportunity** [Reaction] **Trigger** A creature within
    your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or
    leaves a square during a move action it''s using. **Effect** You lash out at a
    foe that leaves an opening. Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature.
    If your attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, you
    disrupt that action. This Strike doesn''t count toward your multiple attack penalty,
    and your multiple attack penalty doesn''t apply to this Strike.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: A creature within your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action,
    makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it's using.
- action_cost: Free Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The ravener draws deeply into their soul ward, discorporating their body
    into soul energy in order to escape. They take 50 damage to their soul ward and
    their physical body vanishes, reappearing 1d4 hours later in a random location
    within 1 mile from the location where they used Discorporate.
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Discorporate
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Discorporate [Free Action]** (__divine__, __necromancy__) **Trigger**
    The ravener takes excess damage to their soul ward but still has at least 51 Hit
    Points in their soul ward; **Effect** The ravener draws deeply into their soul
    ward, discorporating their body into soul energy in order to escape. They take
    50 damage to their soul ward and their physical body vanishes, reappearing 1d4
    hours later in a random location within 1 mile from the location where they used
    Discorporate.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - divine
  - necromancy
  trigger: The ravener takes excess damage to their soul ward but still has at least
    51 Hit Points in their soul ward;
- action_cost: Reaction
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The ravener makes all the choices to determine the targets, destination,
    and other effects of the spell, as though they were the caster.
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Redirect Fire
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Redirect Fire [Reaction]** (__abjuration__, __arcane__) **Trigger**
    A creature within 100 feet casts a __fire__ spell, or a fire spell otherwise comes
    into effect from a source within 100 feet; **Effect** The ravener makes all the
    choices to determine the targets, destination, and other effects of the spell,
    as though they were the caster.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - abjuration
  - arcane
  trigger: A creature within 100 feet casts a fire spell, or a fire spell otherwise
    comes into effect from a source within 100 feet;
description: 'The ravener presented here was once an __ancient red dragon__.




  **__Recall Knowledge - Dragon__ (__Arcana__)**: DC 47


  **__Recall Knowledge - Undead__ (__Religion__)**: DC 47'
hp: 500
hp_misc: null
immunities:
- <a style="text-decoration:underline" href="Traits.aspx?ID=40">death</a> effects
- <a style="text-decoration:underline" href="Traits.aspx?ID=46">disease</a>
- fire
- <a style="text-decoration:underline" href="Conditions.aspx?ID=28">paralyzed</a>
- <a style="text-decoration:underline" href="Traits.aspx?ID=126">poison</a>
- <a style="text-decoration:underline" href="Traits.aspx?ID=145">sleep</a>
languages:
- Abyssal
- Common
- Draconic
- Dwarven
- Jotun
- Necril
- Orcish
level: 21
melee_attacks:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 4d10+17
    type: piercing
  name: jaws
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: 3d6 fire
  - formula: null
    type: 2d6 negative
  to_hit: 39
  traits:
  - fire
  - magical
  - reach 20 feet
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 4d8+17
    type: slashing
  name: claw
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: 2d6 negative
  to_hit: 39
  traits:
  - agile
  - magical
  - reach 15 feet
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 4d10+15
    type: slashing
  name: tail
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: 2d6 negative
  to_hit: 37
  traits:
  - magical
  - reach 25 feet
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 3d8+15
    type: slashing
  name: wing
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: 2d6 negative
  to_hit: 37
  traits:
  - agile
  - magical
  - reach 20 feet
name: Ravener
perception: 37
ranged_attacks: null
rarity: Rare
saves:
  fort: 38
  fort_misc: null
  misc: +1 status to all saves vs. magic
  ref: 34
  ref_misc: null
  will: 37
  will_misc: null
sense_abilities:
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: Smoke doesn't impair an ancient red ravener's vision; it ignores the
    __concealed__ condition from smoke.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Smoke Vision
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Smoke Vision** Smoke doesn''t impair an ancient red ravener''s
    vision; it ignores the __concealed__ condition from smoke.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
senses:
- darkvision
- scent (imprecise) 60 feet
- smoke vision
- soulsense 60 feet
size: Gargantuan
skills:
- bonus: 32
  misc: null
  name: Acrobatics
- bonus: 37
  misc: null
  name: Arcana
- bonus: 39
  misc: null
  name: Athletics
- bonus: 38
  misc: null
  name: Deception
- bonus: 38
  misc: null
  name: Diplomacy
- bonus: 40
  misc: null
  name: Intimidation
- bonus: 35
  misc: null
  name: Stealth
sources:
- abbr: Bestiary 2
  page_start: '224'
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 60
  misc: null
  type: Land
- amount: 180
  misc: null
  type: fly
spell_lists:
- attack_bonus: null
  cantrips:
  - level: 9
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: detect magic
    - misc: null
      name: read aura
  constants: null
  dc: 44
  focus_points: null
  misc: null
  spell_lists:
  - level: 8
    spells:
    - misc: at will
      name: wall of fire
  - level: 4
    spells:
    - misc: at will
      name: suggestion
  spells_source: Arcane Innate Spells
traits:
- Dragon
- Fire
- Undead
weaknesses:
- amount: 20
  misc: null
  type: cold
- amount: 20
  misc: null
  type: good