False Appearance. While the undead treant remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal tree.
Siege Monster. The undead treant deals double damage to objects and structures.
Multiattack. The treant makes two slam attacks.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage. On a successful slam attack, the undead treant can choose to grapple the target (escape DC 16). The undead treant can then either take a second slam attack against the grappled target (by slamming the target against its trunk), or attempt to swallow the target whole.
Swallow whole. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, one target already grappled. Hit: 23 (3d10 + 6) piercing damage and target is swallowed by the undead treant. A swallowed target is stuck inside the trunk of the tree unless it is rescued. Each round the target stays inside the tree it takes 7 (2d6) acid damage.
Description
The undead treant looks like a massive, rotted tree with no leaves, and a large hole full of jagged splinters about half way up its trunk.
Very rarely a Dryad is forced to inhabit a treant, either by accident when using its tree stride ability, or as a particularly foul punishment by some powerful fey. Most of the time this results in an uncomfortable union between treant and dryad, until the treant dies, freeing the dryad, or the dryad dies while outside of the treant, freeing the treant. If, however, the dryad dies while merged with the treant, the treant also dies, and reanimates as an undead treant. In this state the maddened undead treant searches to find someone to take the place of the dead dryad. Often this means that large animals or humanoids the undead treant encounters get smashed to a pulp against its trunk, or eaten whole.
Though undead treants can move, they tend not to stray far from the spot they last inhabited when their dryad died. As a result, they are frequently found surrounded by the remains of those they have killed, as well as any equipment or treasures those victims might have been carrying.
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