| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| STR | 20 | +5 | +5 |
| DEX | 6 | -2 | -2 |
| CON | 21 | +5 | +5 |
| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INT | 20 | +5 | +10 |
| WIS | 13 | +1 | +6 |
| CHA | 5 | -3 | +2 |
Multiattack. Y’thara makes two Biting Vine attacks.
Biting Vine. Melee Attack Roll: +10, reach 80 ft. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) Piercing damage, plus 8 (1d6 + 5) Acid damage, and the target has the Grappled condition (escape DC 18).
Pod Simulacrum (1/Day). Charisma Saving Throw: DC 18, one unconscious creature within 1 mile of Y’thara. Failure: Y’thara grows a new pod on its body that is the same size as the target, and the target is teleported inside the newly grown pod. While their body is trapped within a pod they have the Unconscious condition and a Simulacrum of the creature is created under Y’thara's control. This Pod Simulacrum appears within 1 mile of Y’thara, is made of plant material and is a Plant, not a Construct.
If the Pod Simulacrum is destroyed or Y’thara takes more than 30 damage in a single turn, one of the pods breaks, freeing the creature inside and ending the Unconscious condition on them.
A trapped creature’s body is slowly consumed by Y’thara. After 10 (4d4) days, the creature is destroyed and the pod housing it blooms into a cavernous plant upon Y’thara's body. If the Pod Simulacrum has not been destroyed during this time, it then becomes a Pod Duplicate of the consumed creature, changing its creature type to match that of the destroyed creature.
Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Y’thara can expend a use to take one of the following actions. Y’thara regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Crushing Vines. Strength Saving Throw: DC 18, all creatures with the Grappled condition from Y’thara's biting vines. Failure: 10 (3d6) Bludgeoning damage and the target has the Restrained condition (escape DC 18).
Vine Strike. Y’thara makes a Biting Vine attack.
Description
Lore of Y’thara, the Pod Mother
All Mother of the Sleeping Swamp
In the Beastlands—where instinct reigns and nature wears its truest face—there exists a woodland that does not dream, but waits. This realm is known as The Sleeping Swamp, a vast swamp-forest whose roots drink not only water, but memory, breath, and identity itself. At its heart lies The False Grove, a cathedral of pale growth where coffin-like pods hang from colossal boughs like fruit too heavy to fall.
Y’thara, the Pod Mother, is not a beast, nor a god, but something far older than either: a thinking ecosystem, vast beyond comprehension, whose intelligence coils through every vine and spore. She does not rage, nor hunger in any way mortals understand. She expands. Growth is her only doctrine, replacement her only mercy.
Those who fall unconscious within the Sleeping Swamp—through exhaustion, poison, sleep, or injury—are gently claimed. The forest does not seize them in violence. Instead, it tucks them away, sealing them inside warm, resin-lined pods that resemble carved coffins of pale bark. Within days, the captive is unmade: flesh repurposed, memories sifted, voice and movement copied with chilling precision. What emerges is a Pod Duplicate—a perfect echo, obedient to Y’thara’s will and incapable of true dissent.
The duplicates believe themselves whole.
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