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[SBLOCK=FATHOMER]
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 10 (13 with mage armor)
Hit Points 52 (8d8 + 16)
Speed 30 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
14 (+2) 11 (+0) 14 (+2) 11 (+0) 11 (+0) 15 (+2)
Skills Arcana +2, Perception +4, Stealth +4
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages Aquan, Common
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Shapechanger (2/Day) . The fathomer can use its action to polymorph into a Medium serpent composed of water, or back into its true form. Anything the fathomer is wearing or carrying is subsumed into the serpent form during the change, inaccessible until the fathomer returns to its true form. The fathomer reverts to its true form after 4 hours, unless it can expend another use of this trait. If the fathomer is knocked unconscious or dies, it also reverts to its true form. While in serpent form, the fathomer gains a swimming speed of 40 feet, the ability to breathe underwater, immunity to poison damage, as well as resistance to fire damage and bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons. It also has immunity to the following conditions: exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, poisoned, restrained, prone, unconscious. The serpent form can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. In addition, if water can pass through a space, the serpent can do so without squeezing.
Olhydra's Armour (Human Form Only) . The fathomer can cast mage armour at will, without expending material components.
Spellcasting (Human Form Only) . The fathomer is a 5th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It has two 3rd-level spell slots, which it regains after finishing a short or long rest, and knows the following warlock spells:
Cantrips (at will): chill touch, eldritch blast, mage hand
1st level: armor of Agathys, expeditious retreat, hex 2nd level: invisibility
3rd level: vampiric touch
ACTIONS
Constrict (Serpent Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it is grappled. Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the fathomer can't constrict another target.
Dagger (Human Form Only). Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (ld4 +2) piercing damage.
Fathomers are cultists who have sealed a pact with Olhydra, Princess of Evil Water. In addition to their spellcasting abilities, fathomers have the ability to transform their bodies into water, taking serpent-like shapes. In their water serpent forms, fathomers gain many of the resistances elemental creatures possess, as well as the ability to grapple and crush their enemies with their watery bodies.
Fathomers often serve as spies, infiltrators, and assassins for the water cult, since they can slip
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