Avoral

Keen Eyes. An avoral has the keen eyes of a bird of prey, granting it advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on sight.

Beast Tongue. The avoral can communicate with animals as though it were constantly under the effects of the spell speak with animals.

Friend of Beasts. No natural animal can ever be compelled to attack a guardinal. If a spell is used to attempt to force the animal to attack the avoral, the spell immediately fails, the spell slot is wasted, and any targets of the spell become immediately hostile towards the creature that cast the spell. Druids using their wildshape class feature and creatures under the effect of the shapechange spell can still attack an avoral while in the form of a natural animal, but creatures under the effect of a polymorph spell will not. Even lycanthropes have trouble attacking guardinals, and must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw in order to do so, or be forced to choose a different target.

Lay on Hands. An avoral's lay on hands functions as the paladin's class feature, but can heal an amount of damage each day equal to its normal hit point maximum.

Innate Spellcasting. The avoral's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: aid, blur, command, detect magic, gust of wind, light, magic circle (self only)

3/day: dimension door, dispel magic, hold person, lightning bolt

Multiattack. The avoral makes two attacks with its claws or with its wings.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6 + 2) slashing damage.

Wings. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage.

Fear Aura (1/Day). Creatures within 20 feet of the avoral must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. Creatures who succeed on the save are immune to fear effects from any guardinal for the next 24 hours.