Hive Mind. The Blighted Giant Vulture shares a hive mentality with other Blighted creatures, allowing them to coordinate attacks. If one Blighted creature is aware of a hostile creature, all others in the hive mind are also aware.
Blighted Scourge. Natural weapon attacks by the Blighted Giant Vulture can infect creatures with the Blighted Scourge. A creature hit by the vulture’s attack must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or contract the Blighted Scourge.
Deathly Dive. If the Blighted Giant Vulture dives at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a beak attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 14 (4d6) necrotic damage.
Multiattack. The Blighted Giant Vulture makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its talons.
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 4) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be infected with the Blighted Scourge.
Talons. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) slashing damage.
Necrotic Screech (Recharge 5-6). The Blighted Giant Vulture releases a piercing necrotic screech. Each creature within 30 feet that can hear the screech must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 27 (6d8) necrotic damage and be infected with the Blighted Scourge. Blighted creatures in the area gain 10 temporary hit points.
Description
A skeletal frame wrapped in patches of decayed feathers and leathery skin, the Blighted Giant Vulture looms over its territory with a malevolent presence. Its wings, tattered yet still powerful, radiate a dark energy that distorts the air around it. The creature’s elongated beak drips with a corrosive, blighted ichor, and each shriek it releases carries a resonance of doom. As it circles above, the land below withers under its gaze, signaling the slow spread of the corruption that fuels its unholy hunger.
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