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Arcturia
- STR
- 11 (+0)
- DEX
- 16 (+3)
- CON
- 16 (+3)
- INT
- 20 (+5)
- WIS
- 14 (+2)
- CHA
- 16 (+3)
If Arcturia fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10 days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Arcturia has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.
Arcturia is an 18th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 20, +12 to hit with spell attacks). Arcturia can cast alter self at will and has the following wizard spells prepared:
At will: alter self
Cantrips (at will): mage hand, prestidigitation, ray of frost
Level 1 (4 slots): detect magic, magic missile, shield, thunderwave
Level 2 (3 slots): detect thoughts, enlarge/reduce, Melf's acid arrow, mirror image
Level 3 (3 slots): counterspell, dispel magic, fireball, slow
Level 4 (3 slots): blight, polymorph
Level 5 (3 slots): animate objects, telekinesis
Level 6 (1 slots): disintegrate, flesh to stone
Level 7 (1 slots): reverse gravity, teleport
Level 8 (1 slots): feeblemind, maze
Level 9 (1 slots): true polymorph
Actions
Melee Spell Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (3d6) cold damage. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Legendary Actions
Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature's turn, this creature can expend a use to take one of the following actions; it regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Arcturia casts a cantrip.
Arcturia uses its Paralyzing Touch.
Arcturia fixes its gaze on one creature it can see within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened for 1 minute. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a target's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to the lich's gaze for the next 24 hours.
Each non-undead creature within 20 feet of Arcturia must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw against this magic, taking 21 (6d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the lich can take a lair action to cause one of the following magical effects; the lich can't use the same effect two rounds in a row:
- The lich rolls a d8 and regains a spell slot of that level or lower. If it has no spent spell slots of that level or lower, nothing happens.
- The lich targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. A crackling cord of negative energy tethers the lich to the target. Whenever the lich takes damage, the target must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the lich takes half the damage (rounded down), and the target takes the remaining damage. This tether lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round or until the lich or the target is no longer in the lich's lair.
- The lich calls forth the spirits of creatures that died in its lair. These apparitions materialize and attack one creature that the lich can see within 60 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw, taking 52 (15d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a success. The apparitions then disappear.
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Source: Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, p. 296 - Licenses and attribution