Escalating Hate. The Carrion Visage's hatred constantly grows with each hit. All of the Carrion Visage's attacks deal an additional 1d6 necrotic damage. Each time it hits a creature on its turn, this necrotic damage increases by an additional 1d6. The bonus damage resets to 1d6 at the start of its next turn.
Face Sense. The Carrion Visage can sense the location of any living creature with a face within 60 feet of it. This sense works through thin barriers but is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, or a thin sheet of lead.
Soul-Warping Visage. When the Carrion Visage hits a creature with a melee attack, the target must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature's face is magically and violently torn off. The creature is blinded, unable to speak, and unable to breathe. This effect is permanent until the Carrion Visage dies.
Reclamation of Visage. When the Carrion Visage is destroyed, any faces it has stolen instantly return to their rightful owners, and any creature that had a face stolen is no longer blinded or unable to speak or breathe from this effect.
Multiattack. The Carrion Visage makes three attacks: two with its Claws and one with its Slam.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d10 + 7) slashing damage.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d8 + 7) bludgeoning damage.
Soul-Screaming Visage. The Carrion Visage lets out a cacophony of agonized screams from the faces covering its body. Each creature in a 30-foot cone must make a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 21 (6d6) psychic damage and is frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Corrupting Presence. As a bonus action, the Carrion Visage can single out a creature within 30 feet that it can see. The target must make a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 21 (6d6) psychic damage, and for the next minute, they have disadvantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.
Description
Lore of the Carrion Visage
The Carrion Visage is a testament to the fact that true evil is a matter of the soul, not just the flesh. It is not a demon, nor is it a simple undead, but rather a horrifying nexus where both forces meet, born of a mortal's depravity.
The story of the Carrion Visage begins with a deranged serial killer, a cannibal consumed by an unholy obsession. He was not merely a murderer; he was a collector. For decades, he would take the faces of his victims, peeling them off with surgical precision, preserving them, and adding them to a macabre collection. Driven by a gluttonous devotion to a dark, nameless entity, he believed this act of consumption would one day grant him immortality. On a night of a blood moon, in a ritual born of utter madness, he took his entire collection of faces and fused them to the corpses of his victims, offering the blasphemous amalgamation to the abyss.
His wish was granted, but not as he intended. A low-tier demon, a carrion-eater of the lower planes, was drawn to the overwhelming hate and despair in the ritual. It possessed the fused corpses, and in an instant, the creature was born: a lurching, multi-limbed monstrosity, its body a patchwork of decaying flesh and its surface covered in a writhing, screaming mosaic of faces. The killer's soul was the first to be absorbed, his consciousness lost in a thousand agonized whispers.
The Carrion Visage is now a singular being driven by the combined hatred of its victims and the insatiable demonic hunger of its possessor. It does not hunt for food, but to add to its ever-growing collection. It seeks out those with living, expressive faces, drawn to them by an instinctive, unholy magnetism. The faces are not just trophies; they are its power source, their anguish fueling its escalating necrotic hatred. This hatred is a physical force, a corrupting presence that it can project onto its victims, amplifying their inner fears and spiritual weaknesses.
When it attacks, its grotesque form embodies the sins it represents. The screams of the faces it has stolen are a psychic torment, a chorus of despair and a temptation for its victims to give in to their own fears. The most terrifying thing about the Carrion Visage is not its physical strength, but its singular, demonic purpose: to consume the identity of its victims, leaving them a faceless, mindless husk. It is a true abomination, a living monument to human depravity and demonic malice.
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