Fey Hybrid. The thornfoul is also a fey.
Fire Aversion. If the thornfoul takes fire damage, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the end of its next turn.
Keen Senses. The thornfoul has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
Painful Toxin. Any creature that can be poisoned has disadvantage on any saving throws made to maintain concentration resulting from piercing damage or poison damage dealt by the thornfoul.
Poison Sap. The thornfoul oozes with a toxic sap that fumes poison gas. Any creature that touches the thornfoul or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed saving throw, a creature takes 6 (1d12) poison damage and is poisoned until the end of its next turn.
Thorns. At the start of each of the thornfoul's turns, it deals 7 (2d6) piercing damage to any creature grappling it. A creature that touches the thornfoul also takes this damage unless it uses its action to do so carefully.
Multiattack. The thornfoul makes two slam attacks.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) piercing damage and 3 (1d6) poison damage.
Thorn Spray (Recharge 5–6). The thornfoul sprays a 30-foot cone of thorns that extinguishes fire in the area. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 17 (5d6) piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. In addition, ground in the area is covered in thorny spikes and becomes difficult terrain until cleared, with each 10-foot diameter portion requiring at least 1 minute to clear by hand. When a creature moves onto or upon the spikes, it takes 5 (2d4) piercing damage for every 5 feet it travels.
Description
A thornfoul is a malevolent fae plant that lives to cause pain and suffering to all living things that aren't plants or beasts. It resembles a ten-foot tall humanoid figure made out of gnarled branches and thorns, dripping with poisonous sap, with a sickly yellow light glowing like a face from inside its twisted head.
Born of Vengeance. When vast quantities of wild plants are destroyed by the acts of people, the enraged spirits of the land sometimes coalesce around discarded plant material to form a thornfoul. Each thornfoul is, on account of its origin, incurably filled with hatred and ire toward anything that it can't discern as a plant, seeking to avenge the fallen plant life in its own twisted way.
Thornfouls are not born from natural phenomenon, such as most wildfires or consumption by animals, but fires caused by people are likely to create one. They also do not worry for plants that were cultivated directly by people, as they care only for wild plants. Their hatred does not distinguish between giants, humanoids, fey, or other types of people, although they are uninterested in causing harm to constructs, elementals, and undead, regarding them as nonliving things.
Stinging Poison. The gnarled thorns that comprise a thornfoul are coated with toxin that causes intense pain. When torn open, they release ooze made from this toxin that quickly evaporates into noxious fumes.
Rabid Faerie Hounds. Some fey create thornfouls to be used against their enemies. The fey use plant magic to keep thornfouls in a dormant, seed-like state until they are needed. Once a thornfoul is released, it will attack anything in sight, so fey awaken them from afar with rituals, sending them to track down dangerous foes or releasing them upon witless intruders.
Fey Nature. A thornfoul doesn't require food, drink, or sleep.
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