Caoineag
The caoineag is a pale green, translucent woman in a long gown that ends in mist, with her hands in her hair. She is heard more often than seen, wailing from the burn or the loch on the night before someone in the house dies. She does not cause the death and cannot prevent it. She grieves in advance, and a household that hears her starts settling its affairs.
- Physiology
- Undead
- Size
- Medium
- Speed
- 0 ft., fly 40 ft. (hover)
- Armor class
- 13 (nothing solid to strike)
- Hit points
- 60 (11d8 + 11)
- Proficiency
- +2
- STR 6 -2 save -2
- DEX 15 +2 save +2
- CON 12 +1 save +1
- INT 10 +0 save +0
- WIS 14 +2 save +4
- CHA 16 +3 save +5
- Skills
- Insight +4 , Stealth +4
- Passive Perception
- 12
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft.
- Languages
- understands Common
- Damage resistances
- acid, fire, lightning, thunder, bludgeoning, piercing, slashing
- Damage immunities
- cold, necrotic, poison
- Condition immunities
- charmed , exhausted , frightened , grappled , paralyzed , petrified , poisoned , prone , restrained
Traits
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Incorporeal
She can move through creatures and solid objects as difficult terrain, taking 5 force damage if she ends her turn inside an object.
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Foreknowledge
She knows which creature within 1 mile is closest to death, and that creature hears her wail wherever it is.
Actions
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Grief-Touch
+5 to hit · reach 5 ft.
2d6 + 3 psychic damage
A psychic touch from her hand.
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Keening
DC 13 Wisdom save
She wails. Every creature within 30 feet that can hear makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure it takes 3d6 psychic damage and has disadvantage on attack rolls until the end of its next turn. A creature at half its hit points or fewer that fails also falls Prone, weeping.