Amphibious. Bavlorna can breathe air and water.
Boon of Immortality. Bavlorna is immune to any effect that would age her, and she can’t die from old age.
Widdershins allergy. If a creature within 10 feet of Bavlorna uses at least 10 feet of movement to in place counterclock-wise, Bavlorna is overcome by a fit of sneezing and can't cast spells until the end of her next turn. In addition, any creature Bavlorna has swallowed is immediately expelled and falls prone in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of her.
Legendary resistance (3/day). If Bavlorna fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Multiattack. Bavlorna makes one Bite attack and one Withering Ray attack.
Melee Weapon Attack. +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (3d10+6) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16) if it is a Medium or smaller creature. Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained, and Bavlorna can’t use her Bite attack on another target.
Withering Ray. Ranged Spell Attack: +11 to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3) necrotic damage.
Create Lornlings (Recharge 5–6). Bavlorna creates one or two 1-foot-tall duplicates of herself, called lornlings (use the Quickling stat block in appendix C). Each lornling appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of Bavlorna, obeys her commands, and takes its turn immediately after hers. A lornling lasts for 1 hour, until it or Bavlorna dies, or until Bavlorna dismisses it as an action. Bavlorna can have no more than eight lornlings in existence at a time.] spells
Spellcasting. Bavlorna casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18)
- At will: detect magic, hex, geas, detect thoughts, awaken
- 2/day each: create food and water, polymorph, remove curse, giant insect (Wasp), blight
- 1/day: plane shift (self only), time stop
Swallow. Bavlorna swallows a Small or smaller creature she is grappling, ending the grapple on it. The swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside Bavlorna, and it takes 18 (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of its turns. If the swallowed creature is one of Bavlorna’s lornlings, Bavlorna gains all the lornling’s memories and gains half the damage done by acid to that lornling as health when the acid damage reduces it to 0 hit points. Bavlorna can have only one creature swallowed at a time. If Bavlorna dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Counterspell (3/day). Bavlorna cast a 5th level counter spell.
Bavlorna can take 2 Legendary action. She can do so before or after any creature's turn. She may only use one Legendary action per round.
Being present (cost 2 action). Bavlorna croaking fogs the minds of those around her. When an attack is made on her she imposes disadvantage on the attacker's first attack at her. If the attack misses she can make a multiattack on that creature with advantage immediately after as a reaction.
Withering Ray (cost 1 action). Ranged Spell Attack: +8 to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3) necrotic damage.
Description
Personality Trait. “I detest chores and would rather have other creatures do them for me.”
Ideal. “I don’t care about the past or the future. I live in the present. What I do now, this very moment, is all that matters.”
Bond. “I’m safe in my cottage. Why should I leave it when I can make others come to me?"
Flaw. “Watching someone run widdershins makes me sneeze uncontrollably.”
Bavlorna has a toad-like face with a mouth that magically widens and elongates, enabling her to swallow creatures whole. Her bulging eyes move independently, constantly scanning her surroundings. Stained and moldering patchwork garments hide much of the leathery, mummified flesh that stretches over Bavlorna’s compact frame and extraordinarily long, spindly limbs. She must submerge herself in a briny concoction for an hour each day, or her body will dry out until it locks up in a kind of living rictus, and she remains that way until submerged. As the hours pass between each immersion, her movements become more ponderous and her skin audibly cracks as she moves.
Bavlorna lives like a hermit. She is frazzled, impatient, paranoid, and vindictive, lashing out at anyone she thinks is trying to deprive her of the treasures she has tucked away in her cottage. She trusts no one, so she creates tiny duplicates of herself, called lornlings, to serve as her attendants. When she travels away from her lair, she does so on her bobbing lily pad (see appendix A), accompanied by lornlings, which use the quickling stat block in appendix C.
Notes for playing her: Bavlorna cast giant insects only once here Lornlings die. The insects that she cast it on are the five horse flys that fly in and out of her mouth. At the start of combat Bavlorna cast time stop and uses her actions to create lornlings.
Lair and Lair Actions
Lair Actions
On initiative count #2 in the 3rd round and further, the Bavlorna takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the Bavlorna can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:
- Bavlorna smashes a strange green gem that glows a strange purple from within into a pile of plates near her while screaming "smashing, and crashing; my plates now give you a thrashing!" This cast animate objects on 10 of the plates. They are considered to be tiny. Their stats are as follows HP: 20, AC: 18, Attack: +8 to hit, 1d4 + 4 damage, Str: 4, Dex: 18. (This counts as a free object interaction and this liar action only can be done once)
Regional Effects
If Bavlorna is hit then Hither floods for one hour.