Dullahan
Description
Terrifying reapers of souls, dullahans are created by powerful fiends from the souls of particularly cruel generals, watch-captains, or other military commanders. Sent back from the pits of Hell to sow terror and harvest new souls, dullahans return to the towns or villages they lived in as mortals. While their favored victims are evil men and women (or their living descendants) whose souls are destined for Hell, the dullahans have no qualms about adding innocents to their lists of victims.
Legends tell of powerful dullahans who can summon not just a single fiendish mount, but an entire carriage pulled by six powerful ebony horses. Known as a “Coach of the Silent,” these powerful undead are CR 14 with 20 Hit Dice, the advanced creature simple template, and the ability to cast trap the soul on those who fail to resist their death's calling. These souls take seats in the coach, where they languish forever—or at least until the dullahan himself is slain.
Combat Stats
- Melee
- +1 keen longsword +14/+9 (1d8+6/17-20 plus 1d6 cold)
- SR
- 18
- Defensive Abilities
- channel resistance +4
- Aura
- frightful presence (30 ft., DC 19)
Ability Scores
Proficiencies
Weapons: Simple
Special Attacks
Chilling Blade — A dullahan is proficient with all simple and martial slashing weapons. When it wields a slashing weapon, the blade inflicts +1d6 cold damage and gains the keen weapon property.
Death's Calling — Once per day as a standard action, a dullahan may place death's calling on a target within 60 feet (DC 22 Fortitude negates). If the dullahan knows and speaks the target's name, the target takes a –2 penalty on the save. If the victim fails the save, he becomes staggered for 1d6 rounds. For the next 24 hours (or until the dullahan is slain), all critical hits against the victim automatically confirm. Finally, the victim automatically fails all Constitution checks to stabilize while dying. This is a mind-affecting curse effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Summon Mount — As a standard action, a dullahan can summon a war-trained heavy horse with the fiendish creature simple template. This horse remains until it is slain or the dullahan dismisses it. He can only have one such horse in his service at a time.
Feats
Special Abilities
Universal Monster Rules
Special Abilities
Feats, Traits & Items
Once per round when your mount is hit in combat, you may attempt a Ride check (as an immediate action) to negate the hit. The hit is negated if your Ride check result is greater than the opponent's attack roll.
When you are mounted and use the charge action, you may move and attack as if with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge). Your total movement for the round can't exceed double your mounted speed. You and your mount do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the opponent that you attack.
When you attempt to overrun an opponent while mounted, your target may not choose to avoid you. Your mount may make one hoof attack against any target you knock down, gaining the standard +4 bonus on attack rolls against prone targets.
You gain a +1 bonus on all attack rolls you make using the selected weapon.
Skills
Handle Animal +14, Intimidate +17, Perception +16, Ride +7, Spellcraft +15, Stealth +10
- Type
- Undead
- Alignment
- LE
- Size
- Medium
- Environment
- any
- Organization
- solitary
- Treasure
- double (+1 full plate, +1 longsword, other treasure)
- Senses
- blindsight 60 ft.; Perception +16
- Aura
- frightful presence (30 ft., DC 19)
- Languages
- Common, Sylvan
- Source
- Bestiary 2