| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| STR | 13 | +1 | +1 |
| DEX | 14 | +2 | +2 |
| CON | 12 | +1 | +1 |
| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INT | 3 | −4 | −4 |
| WIS | 12 | +1 | +1 |
| CHA | 7 | −2 | −2 |
Evidence-Seeker. The Brass Hound has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks made to locate blood, spent ammunition, damaged equipment, magical residue, mechanical debris, or other physical evidence of combat.
Brass Jaws. Melee Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) Piercing damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.
Description
A Brass Hound is a low-order mechanical construct built from overlapping plates of blackened brass, articulated steel limbs, exposed gears, and thin conduits capable of detecting residual arcane energy. Its head resembles the elongated skull of a hunting dog, though no living eyes sit within its sockets. Instead, paired crimson lenses sweep constantly across its surroundings.
Brass Hounds are not true war constructs. They are battlefield sanitation machines designed to locate and destroy evidence after an engagement. Bloodied clothing, damaged weapons, discarded ammunition, arcane components, mechanical wreckage, and other traces of combat are identified, collected, crushed, or consumed within an internal furnace.
When confronted by living witnesses, however, their programming changes.
The construct lowers its body, its internal mechanisms accelerate, and its segmented brass jaws unfold into a weapon capable of dragging a creature violently from its feet.
A Brass Hound encountered near a battlefield is therefore evidence of something more troubling than the construct itself:
Someone expected there to be a battlefield worth cleaning.
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