A Drangeon Core's Lair

The lair of a Drangeon Core is at the heart of the Drangeon itself. The core is protected by a network of intestinal tunnels carved and woven by powerful necromancy. This pile of re-animated cardiac muscle and stomach tissue fights viciously to protect the phylactery stored within and supply it with ample souls. The chamber of the Drangeon Core is a circle room wrapped in wet pulsating flesh with a large pulpy organ at its center. Well digested corpses lie piled around its pumping mass which make for easy tools of necromancy to dispose of new prey.

Lair Actions

When fighting inside its lair, the Drangeon Core can use lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), a Drangeon Core can take one lair action to cause one of the following effects; the Drangeon Core can’t use the same lair action two rounds in a row:

• The Drangeon Core casts create undead on one of the corpses at its center. This summons 3 zombies or skeletons within 15 ft of the Drangeon Core and remain until destroyed. Undead summoned in this way roll initiative and act in the next available turn.
• The Drangeon Core targets up to three creatures  it can sense within 120 feet of it and steaming jets fume up from the ground. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or knocked prone.
• The Drangeon Core targets one creature it can sense within 120 feet of it and anchors it to the fleshy ground by retracting its membrane. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or be unable to leave its current space. It can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Regional Effects

The territory inside the Drangeon creates one or more of the following effects:

• The air is uncomfortably humid and the smell of corpses can linger on the party for months. Food reserves decline at rapid rate as the air itself putrefies rations. (Optional: Destroy 1d4 rations per party member per day within the Drangeon)
• Sleeping within the Drangeon is a dangerous game, as the floor itself tries to consume you. To successfully long or short rest, the party is advised to separate themselves from the fleshy ground by any means necessary.
• Creatures within the Drangeon don't stay dead. Carrion crawlers and other scavengers make their home in the Drangeon's belly, but the intense necromancy that dominates this creature will reanimate any corpse within 24 hours.

If the Drangeon Core dies, these effects (minus the smell) immediately end.