Bleakborn (CR 7)
Medium Undead
Alignment: Always neutral evil
Initiative: +3 (Dex); Senses: darkvision 60 ft., Listen +12, and Spot +12
Languages: Common and Moilian
AC: 27 (+3 Dex, +14 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 24
Hit Dice: 8d12 (52 hp)
Fort +2, Ref +7, Will +8
Speed: 30 ft.
Space: 5 ft./5 ft.
Base Attack +4; Grapple -
Attack: Slam +10 melee
Full Attack: Slam +10 melee
Damage: Slam 1d6+9 plus 2d6 cold
Special Attacks/Actions: Cold to the touch, create spawn, heat-draining aura
Abilities: Str 22, Dex 16, Con -, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 15
Special Qualities: Contingent healing 10, diet dependent, fire lover, undead traits, +2 turn resistance
Feats: Alertness; Combat Reflexes; Lightning Reflexes
Skills: Diplomacy +6, Hide +11, Intimidate +10, Listen +12, Search +10, Sense Motive +8, Spot +12, and Survival +2 (+4 following tracks)
Advancement: 6-10 HD (Medium)
Climate/Terrain: Any
Organization: Solitary
Treasure/Possessions: None
Source:
Libris Mortis
Cold to the Touch (Su): The touch of a bleakborn deals 2d6 points of cold damage. Each 3 points of cold damage dealt heals a bleakborn of 1 point of damage. If this amount of healing would cause a bleakhorn to exceed its full normal hit point total, it gains any excess as temporary hit points. These temporary hit points last for up to 1 hour. Anyone who hits a bleakborn in melee also takes 1d6 points of cold damage, unless wielding a reach weapon.
Contingent Healing: A bleakborn only heals when in range of a living creature that it can affect with its heat-draining aura. Even if brought to 0 hit points or less, a bleakborn eventually heals if a living creature at some future date wanders within 30 feet of the bleakborn's remains, automatically triggering its heat-draining aura. As long as affected creatures are within its heat-draining aura, a bleakborn's contingent healing remains active.
A bleakborn does not have immunity to cold. While a bleakborn doesn't take cold damage from its own abilities, it can take cold damage from another of its kind.
Create Spawn (Su): Any humanoid slain by a bleakborn becomes a normal zombie in 1d4 rounds. These spawn are under the command of the bleakborn that created them and remain enslaved until its destruction. They do not possess any of the abilities they had in life.
Sometimes a newly created spawn becomes a bleakborn instead of a mere zombie, though the wiles of the dark gods determine such instances (that is, the DM decides when this occurs).
Diet Dependent: Bleakborns are diet dependent (see the Undead Metabolism section in Chapter 1 of Libris Mortis) upon warmth, which they gain through their heat-draining aura, as described below.
Fire Lover (Su): A magical fire attack heals a bleakborn of 1 point of damage for each 3 points of damage the attack would otherwise deal. If this amount of healing would cause bleakborn to exceed its full normal hit point total, it gains any excess as temporary hit points. These temporary hit points last for up to 1 hour. For example, a bleakborn hit by a fireball that would normally deal 18 points of damage instead gains 6 hit points. A bleakborn makes no saving throws against fire effects.
Heat-Draining Aura (Su): All living creatures (except those immune to cold damage) that approach within 30 of a bleakborn are subject so its heat-draining aura. Victims must make a DC 16 Fortitude save. If they fail, they take 2d6 hit points of cold damage per round as their living heat is sucked away, but if they succeed, they lose only 1d6 hit points per round that they remain in the radius. Should a bleakborn kill a humanoid creature with its heat-draining aura, the victim rises again as a bleakborn spawn. The save DC is Charisma-based.
A bleakborn actively moves toward living creatures, attempting to keep them within range of its heat-draining aura. If possible, a bleakborn pummels a living creature with its ice-cold limbs, hoping to deprive its victim of all warmth and life.
When inactive, a bleakborn appears robe nothing but a humanoid corpse, slain either by bitterly cold conditions (or if in a warmer environment, as if by a magical cold attack so potent that the corpse still sparkles with ice crystals). However, whenever any living creature comes to within 30 feet of an inactive bleakborn, the warmth and life of the interloper revive the undead creature, giving it purpose and a icy semblance of life. Bleakborns are also referred to as Moil zombies in some lesser-known tomes about undead, in supposed reference to the cursed city in which they first arose. A bleakborn is not marked by direct violence; rather, it looks like a humanoid that has been flash-frozen, with discoloration and some ruptured flesh showing here and there.
A bleakborn stands a little over 6 feet tall and weighs between 150 and 230 pounds.