Create Spawn. A humanoid slain by the bleakborn rises as a bleakborn after 1 minute.
Fire Absorption. Whenever the bleakborn is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt.
Heat-Draining Aura. At the start of each of the bleakborn's turns, each creature within 30 feet of it takes 7 (2d6) cold damage. The bleakborn regains 5 hit points for each creature damaged by this effect.
Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the bleakborn to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the bleakborn drops to 1 hit point instead.
Multiattack. The bleakborn makes two melee attacks.
Chilling Grasp. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d8 + 4) cold damage.
Description
"This frigid corpse is so cold that it is frosted with icy crystals. Sensing the warmth of life, it shambles eagerly toward its victims. Its eyes reflect the vacuum of the void, its touch chills to the bone, and its very presence seems to drain the heat from your pores."
When inactive, a bleakborn appears to be nothing but a humanoid corpse, slain either by bitterly cold conditions (or if in a warmer environment, as if by a magical cold attack so potent that the corpse still sparkles with ice crystals). However, whenever any living creature comes to within 30 feet of an inactive bleakborn, the warmth and life of the interloper revive the undead creature, giving it purpose and an icy semblance of life.
Bleakborns are also referred to as Moil zombies in some lesser-known tomes about undead, in supposed reference to the cursed city in which they first arose. A bleakborn is not marked by direct violence; rather, it looks like a humanoid that has been flash-frozen, with discoloration and some ruptured flesh showing here and there.
A bleakborn stands a little over 6 feet tall and weighs between 150 and 230 pounds.
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