ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 5
  con_mod: 4
  dex_mod: 4
  int_mod: 2
  str_mod: 7
  wis_mod: 3
ac: 31
ac_special: null
automatic_abilities: null
description: 'Graveknights are undead warriors granted unlife by a cursed suit of
  armor. <h2 class="title">Creating Graveknights</h2> You can turn an existing, living
  creature into a graveknight by completing the following steps. It''s best to build
  a graveknight from scratch, but if you don''t have the time, simply apply the template.
  A creature should be at least level 5 before being converted to a graveknight. Increase
  the creature''s level by 1 and change its statistics as follows. <ul><li>Increase
  its attack rolls, AC, saving throws, Perception, and skills by 1, its HP by 5, and
  its Strike damage by 1.</li></ul> <h3 class="title">Graveknight Abilities</h3> A
  graveknight gains the undead and graveknight traits, and its alignment is usually
  adjusted to evil. It loses any abilities that come from it being a living creature
  and any traits that represent its life, such as human and humanoid. **Darkvision**
  **Negative Healing** **Rejuvenation** (divine, necromancy) When a graveknight is
  destroyed, its armor rebuilds its body over the course of 1d10 days—or more quickly
  if the armor is worn by a living host (see Graveknight Armor, below). If the body
  is destroyed before then, the process restarts. A graveknight can only be permanently
  destroyed by obliterating its armor (such as with disintegrate), transporting it
  to the Positive Energy Plane, or throwing it into the heart of a volcano. **Immunities**
  death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, precision, unconscious, plus one energy
  type (the same chosen for ruinous weapons below). **Sacrilegious Aura** (abjuration,
  aura, divine, evil) 30 feet. When a creature in the aura uses a positive spell or
  ability, the graveknight automatically attempts to counteract it, with the listed
  counteract modifier. **Devastating Blast** |2| (arcane, evocation) The graveknight
  unleashes a 30-foot cone of energy. Creatures in the area take 1d12 damage, plus
  an additional 1d12 damage for every two levels the graveknight has (basic Reflex
  save). The graveknight can use this ability once every 1d4 rounds. This energy damage
  is of the same type as that of its ruinous weapons (see below); Devastating Blast
  gains the associated energy trait. **Phantom Mount** |2| (arcane, conjuration, summon)
  The graveknight summons a supernatural mount as per phantom steed, heightened to
  a level equal to half the graveknight''s level. Unlike phantom steed, the steed''s
  AC and saving throw bonuses are all 4 lower than the graveknight''s, and the steed
  has one-third the graveknight''s Hit Points (rounded down). If the steed is destroyed,
  the graveknight must wait 1 hour before using this ability again. **Ruinous Weapons**
  At the time of its creation, a graveknight chooses one of the following energy types
  that was relevant to its life or death: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. Any weapon
  the graveknight wields gains the effects of the caustic, frost, shock, or flaming
  weapon rune, respectively, in addition to a +1 striking weapon rune. If the graveknight
  is 14th level or higher, its weapons instead gain the effects of the greater versions
  of both of these runes. **Weapon Master** The graveknight has access to the critical
  specialization effects of any weapons it wields. <h3 class="title">Alternate Graveknight
  Abilities</h3> Although the abilities listed above are standard for a graveknight,
  you can create a more unusual graveknight by substituting one of the aforementioned
  abilities (except for its rejuvenation ability) with one of the following. **Betrayed
  Revivification** The graveknight died after being deeply betrayed. Instead of being
  immune to a type of energy damage, it is immune to mental damage, its weapons deal
  1d6 additional mental damage, and its Devastating Blast deals mental damage with
  a Will saving throw instead of Reflex. **Create Grave Squire** The graveknight can
  gift a piece of its armor to a willing ally, which becomes its grave squire. The
  graveknight can communicate telepathically with its squire at any distance, see
  through the squire''s senses, and cast suggestion as a divine innate spell through
  the telepathic link at will; the squire treats its degree of success as one step
  worse. If the graveknight''s main armor is destroyed, the squire''s piece expands
  to cover the squire''s body over 1d10 days, after which point it becomes the graveknight''s
  new body. The graveknight can have only one squire at a time, and must recover the
  gifted piece of armor if it wishes to create a new squire. **Dark Deliverance**
  The graveknight has positive resistance equal to its level. <h2 class="title">Graveknight
  Armor</h2> Wearing graveknight armor is very risky, for the graveknight''s essence
  rapidly parasitizes the new wearer, accelerating the graveknight''s rejuvenation.
  This agonizing transformation inevitably kills the host, transforming their flesh
  into the graveknight''s new body. Removing the curse allows a character to remove
  the armor, but if it ever wears the armor again, the curse returns. If the wearer
  dies from another cause while wearing the armor, or if the graveknight''s rejuvenation
  completes before the wearer dies from the curse, the wearer immediately progresses
  to stage 3. **Graveknight''s Curse** (arcane, curse, necromancy) This curse affects
  anyone who wears a graveknight''s armor for at least 1 hour. **Saving Throw** Will
  save; **Onset** 1 hour; **Stage 1** doomed 1 and cannot remove the armor (1 day);
  **Stage 2** doomed 2, hampered 10, and cannot remove the armor (1 day); **Stage
  3** dies and transforms into the armor''s graveknight.'
divine_spells: null
hp: 175
immunities:
- death effects
- disease
- paralyzed
- poison
- precision
- unconscious
- plus one energy type (the same chosen for ruinous weapons below).
innate_spells: null
items: null
languages:
- Common
- Necril
level: 10
melee:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d12+10 plus 1d6 cold
    type: slashing
  name: frost greatsword
  to_hit: 24
  traits:
  - cold
  - magical
  - versatile P
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d6+10 plus 1d6 cold
    type: bludgeoning
  name: fist
  to_hit: 23
  traits:
  - agile
  - cold
name: Graveknight
perception: 19
proactive_abilities:
- action_cost: Two Actions
  description: 6d12 cold, DC 29
  name: Devastating Blast
  traits:
  - arcane
  - cold
  - evocation
- description: DC 33
  name: Graveknight's Curse
  traits: null
- description: HP 58; AC 27, Fort +17, Ref +15, Will +14.
  name: Phantom Mount
  traits:
  - arcane
  - conjuration
- description: ''
  name: Weapon Master
  traits: null
ranged:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d8+6 plus 1d6 cold
    type: piercing
  name: frost composite longbow
  to_hit: 21
  traits:
  - cold
  - deadly 1d10
  - magical
  - range increment 100 feet
  - reload 0
  - volley 30 feet
resistances: null
saves:
  fort: 21
  ref: 19
  will: 18
saves_special:
  fort: null
  ref: null
  will: null
senses:
- darkvision
skills:
  Athletics: 23
  Intimidation: 22
  Religion: 19
skills_special: null
speed:
- amount: 25
  type: Land
spell_attack_to_hit: null
spell_dc: null
traits:
- LE
- Large
- Undead
type: Creature