Graniteback

Graniteback was once a humble quarry worker named Aldric who spent decades extracting stone from the earth's deepest wounds, his body gradually absorbing the mineral essence of the granite he carved away until his flesh became a living conduit between stone and sinew. One fateful night, a catastrophic collapse buried him alive in the quarry, and as he lay suffocating beneath tons of rubble, something within him fractured and reformed—his skeleton crystallized into granite while his exposed flesh bloomed an unsettling pink, stretched and elongated across a frame that grew beyond all natural proportion. He clawed his way free over the course of a week, his screams echoing through the valley as his body completed its agonizing transformation into something neither fully human nor entirely mineral. Emerging from the earth as a towering, impossibly thin creature with skin like raw meat hanging from a stone exoskeleton, Graniteback discovered he could sense vibrations through the ground and move through solid rock as though it were water. The townspeople who once knew Aldric fled in terror, but he found strange solace in returning to the quarry where his transformation began, becoming a guardian of the deep places where earth and flesh had merged. Now he wanders the caverns and stone passages of the world, a tragic monument to the price of toiling endlessly beneath the world's surface.

Strength

20, modifier 5

Dexterity

14, modifier 2

Constitution

20, modifier 5

Intelligence

6, modifier -2

Wisdom

12, modifier 1

Charisma

8, modifier -1

Crushing Grasp

Melee Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 3d10 + 5 bludgeoning damage and the target is grappled.

Rockslide

Recharge 5-6: Create a 20 ft. radius area of difficult terrain. Creatures in the area must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or take 4d10 bludgeoning damage.

Stone Meld

Graniteback can move through solid rock as if it were difficult terrain, allowing him to reappear within 30 ft. of his original location.

Terrifying Roar

All creatures within 30 ft. must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. They can repeat the save at the end of each of their turns.

Earthbound Senses

Graniteback can sense vibrations through the ground, granting advantage on perception checks related to movement.

strength

9

constitution

9

wisdom

5

Bludgeoning

Piercing

Slashing