Elemental Weapons. Each of the Chosen Priest's six hands is capable of summoning or dispelling a different elemental weapon at will. In its right hands, it may conjure a great mace, wreathed in flame; a barbed arrow tipped in venom or acid; and a long-handled scythe of razor-edged ice. In its left hands, it calls a curved sword, crackling with lightning; a longbow from which to fire its deadly munitions; and a magical orb of vitriolic acid.
Innate Spellcasting. The Chosen Priest of Tiamat's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks). It can cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: acid arrow, vitriolic sphere
3/day: prismatic spray: When cast in this way, roll a d6 instead of a d8 to determine the colour of the ray, treating the roll of a 6 as Special.
Multiattack. The Priest of Tiamat makes three weapon attacks, each with a different weapon; or it may make one weapon attack and cast one at-will spell.
Mace of Flame. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage and 21 (6d6) fire damage.
Sword of Lightning. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) slashing damage and 16 (3d10) lightning damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or they cannot make a reaction until the end of your next turn.
Scythe of Frost. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (4d4 + 5) slashing damage and 15 (6d4) cold damage and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or they cannot take bonus actions until the start of your next turn.
Bow of Venom. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d8 + 1) piercing damage and 18 (4d8) poison damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of your next turn.
Description
The Chosen Priests of Tiamat are a secretive, ambitious and treacherous group of creatures, aesthetically somewhere between dragon and humanoid in appearance, and standing as tall as a hill giant. In addition to a pair of great, leathery wings and a long, serpentine body, the Chosen sport six arms, each of which is capable of conjuring a different elemental weapon at will. If the Chosen are the personification of Tiamat's will, then these weapons are the manifestation of her cruelty, wrath, and cunning.
While unconfirmed, it is theorised that there are only ever five Chosen Priests of Tiamat at any given time. Their innate drive for power and inability to trust one another make it rare for these monstrous creatures to convene in groups any larger than two, and no account has ever been given of more than three in one place. Even so, any one of the Chosen can signify an unparalleled danger for civilisation. Destruction, madness, enslavement and death inevitably follow the chosen, with lesser dragons, kobolds, and cults of dragon-worshipping sycophants gravitating to any region they establish themselves.
The origin of the Chosen is shrouded in mystery and rumour. The dominant theory is that the Chosen each began life as a chromatic dragon, and that they are - as their title may suggest - selected, either by Tiamat herself, or by passing down the role, transforming the next Chosen into their monstrous shape upon inheriting the title and power. Meanwhile, some believe that they are the product of a dark ritual, fusing the forms of a chromatic dragon with that of a sacrificial humanoid. Others speculate that they are born of Tiamat's will and hatched from chromatic dragon eggs, although the concept of a juvenile Chosen being raised by dragon parents is often ridiculed by these same philosophers. Whatever the case, the Chosen are revered by all but the oldest of wyrms, and believed to be the keepers of entire generations' worth of knowledge.
The reason for the existence of such vile creations is almost as inscrutable. While there can be no doubt that the Chosen worship Tiamat: gathering disciples, forming cults, and enslaving or sacrificing non-worshipers in the Dragon Queen's name; the question of their true goal remains unanswered. There are scholars who choose to believe that the Chosen have no grand machination, owing to their alleged inability to work together. Others yet fear that this rivalry reveals the true nature of the Chosen as creatures wholly fixated on garnering the attention and approval of their Queen in spite of each other. Still, the fear remains that this competition only belies the truth, and that the Chosen are in fact working collectively towards some grand design, and that their limited tolerance of one another is only a side effect of their draconic nature, or worse: a method of ensuring that only the strongest of them survive to fulfil Tiamat's will.
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