Immutable Form. The Ushabti of the Eternal legion is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
False Appearance While the The Ushabti of the Eternal legion is motionless it is indistinguishable from an ordinary statue.
Magic Weapons. The Ushabti of the Eternal legion's weapon attacks are magical.
Powered by Undeath. The Ushabti of the Eternal legion is considered to be Undead as well as a construct.
Cursed Funerary Wrappings. A creature that touches or deals slashing or piercing damage to an Ushabti of the Eternal legion while within 5 feet of the creature shreds its delicate linen wrappings, releasing a flurry of skittering scarabs. The attacking creature must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or these beetles flow onto it and deal 4 (1d8) poison damage to it at the start of each of its turns. A creature can remove beetles from itself or from another affected creature within reach by using an action. The beetles are also destroyed if the affected creature takes damage from an area effect.
Arrows of the Gods. Whenever The Ushabti of the Eternal legion hits a creature with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage and scores a critical hit or hits 5 above the target's AC, it can pierce the target and continue on in a straight trajectory, if it's weapon attack would hit that targets AC, the arrow hits and deals the same damage to that creature and continues if it's attack was a critical hit, or was 5 above the last targets AC. The arrow continues in it's trajectory till it lodges in a appropriate surface or target.
Multiattack. The Ushabti of the Eternal legion makes either two melee attacks or two ranged attacks or uses Volley of the Gods.
Ancient Runed Great Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 350/600 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) piercing and bludgeoning damage.
Volley of the Gods(Recharge 3-6). The Ushabti of the Eternal legion can use it's action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point it can see within it's weapon’s range.
Guardian Slam. Melee Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage.
Description
Carved into the likeness of the gods and goddess of ancient Nehekhara, the ushabti stand as guardian statues around the perimeters of the necropolises and within the passageways of the great pyramids of the Tomb Kings. These ushabti are imposing monuments to Nehekhara's former power, and all who pass through their shadows tremble under their unnerving and imposing shadow. In times of need, the temple priests awoke the ushabti with powerful incantations, and with the sound of cracking stone, the ushabti stepped down from their pedestals, silent and ready for war.
In ancient times, the living warriors of Nehekhara took great courage from the fact that the ushabti fought alongside them, for who could fail to be inspired by the physical representations of their gods marching into battle?
Vaunted Guardians. The rituals needed to animate these towering statues are far more difficult than those needed to awaken the legions of skeletons and mummies. As a result, ushabti are far more resilient than the undead warriors of the Tomb Kings' eternal army, and their warrior-spirits are bound with far more powerful magic. In the ancient language of Nehekhara, the name ushabti translates literally as 'chosen of the gods'. Indeed, the divinities do not consent to any mere mortal inhabiting statues made in their image. Only the most powerful souls, those of particularly brave warriors and heroic champions are judged worthy to animate an ushabti.
Warrior Constructs. Ushabti stride through battlefields like gods of war, infused with the temperament and strength of their form's pantheon deity. Their statuesque bodies can withstand enormous damage, and they are incredibly strong. With a single hand, an ushabti is capable of crushing an enemy's steel armor, and its contents, with contemptuous ease. Ushabti wield huge ritualistic weapons, from large-bladed Axes and Khopeshes that would take the combined strength of three mortal men to lift, to great bows that fire arrows the size of spears. These mighty weapons are as elaborately crafted and decorated as the ushabti who brandish them, their gilded surfaces engraved by a dozen sculptors with intricate patterns and hieroglyphs. In battle, ushabti wield their massive weapons effortlessly. Every sweeping arc of their blades cutting a bloody swathe through their foes and every arrow fired punching through their enemies in an explosion of blood and guts.
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