Blackwood Blood-Witch

Appearance. A striking noblewoman with pale skin, dark cascading hair, and piercing dark eyes. She dresses in ornate, tattered black-and-crimson lace gowns and wears a jagged black iron crown set with bloodstone gems.

Personality. Cold, calculating, and fiercely territorial. She views the arrival of foreign vampires as a parasitic infestation on her family's historic ancestral lands.

Combat Behavior. She prefers to strike from the cover of shadows, using undead minions or vanguard troops as a meat shield. She targets the most active supernatural targets first, actively shutting down vampire powers while siphoning their blood to sustain her own lifeforce.

The Witch can invoke the dark blood magic wreathed inside her ancestral sanctum to cause one of the following environmental effects:

• Coagulating Fog. A thick, crimson mist fills a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point the Witch can see within 60 feet. The area is heavily obscured. Any Kindred character who starts their turn in the mist must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or have their veins temporarily freeze, reducing their movement speed by half until the start of their next turn.
• Siphon Nexus. Stone runes on the floor flare with blood-red light. Up to two creatures of the Witch's choice standing on the stone floor must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be pulled 15 feet closer to the central sacrificial altar.
• Shadows of the Dead. Whispering shadows rise from the stone walls. One dead humanoid corpse within the lair immediately rises as a Zombie under the Witch's command.