Keen Hearing and Smell. The dog has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.
Teleport (Recharge 4–6). The dog magically teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 40 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. Before or after teleporting, the dog can make one bite attack.
Description
Moon Hounds or Mist Dogs are the large more docile cousins of blink dogs. They look to be massive and graceful, long limbed, hounds; built much like horses. They have pale silver fur and luminescent eyes but have the long, hooked ears and whip-like tails of their blink dog cousins.
Moon Hounds are said to be descendants of "Sehecú" the fey hound gifted to Desna by the god Erastil after the misplaced arrows of one of his followers struck one of Desna's great-elk killing the magnificent creature in a single blow.
In apology Erastil gave Desna his most loyal hound, "Sehecú," daughter of [insert Dog gods name here] a great white beast, long limbed with silver eyes, fearsome fangs and nimble paws. Sehecú was told to guard Desna's great elk from Erastil and his foolish hunters. Such a hound as this would forever obey; So each day Sehecú would follow Desna's herd as they roamed and every night, Sehecú would guard them as they slept.
Some nights, Chaernog was her only light and companion, but when Chaernog faded from the misty wood, Sehecú would wait alone, listening for things out in the darkness. Sehecú never failed in her duty, ever mindful, ever loyal to her mistress. After so many years of service Desna sought to give her faithful hound a boon, so one night, Desna came down to the misty wood and asked Sehecú
"Oh loyal one, you have given me your days, you have given me your nights, your watchful eyes and keen ears have guarded my precious beasts for many lifetimes of lesser hounds. Please, tell me, what is it you desire most?"
Sehecú with her silvery eyes looked out to Chaernog, her oldest friend and said
"I wish that I didn't have to be apart from him, my moon, my light."
and so Desna blessed her faithful hound and her children with the light of the moon, so no matter where they roamed they would always have the moon in their heart, and much like their favored moon, they can fade between the material world and the fey woods beyond, blinking in and out of the material world to follow their favorite moon and guard their ancient charge.
-- In the fey wild, as a strange twist of irony, these regal creatures are often used as mounts by the hunters of the autumn kingdom of fey (some of whom are the faithful of Erastil)
-- As a note, some modern Madenian scholars believe that the above story is a simple fancy and that moon hounds or are merely a rare, larger, breed of blink dogs with pale silvery fur that live on the material realm rather than feywild like their smaller cousins. Though their occasional appearance in proximity to giant elk is thought to be related to their strong herding instinct, perhaps due to interbreeding with large hounds on the material realm.
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