Malakor

Malakor was not always the dread sovereign perched upon his obsidian throne, for he was once a mortal scholar consumed by an insatiable hunger to unravel the secrets binding life to death itself. After centuries of forbidden research into the spaces between heartbeats and the echoes that linger in bone after flesh has rotted away, he discovered a ritual so profane that it severed his tether to mortality while leaving his consciousness intact—a ghastly apotheosis that transformed him into something neither living nor dead, but a paradox that reality itself could not reconcile. The transformation twisted his form into a skeletal visage wreathed in shadow, and with it came an terrible clarity: he perceived the world as an infinite tapestry of potential corpses, each soul merely a beacon waiting to be extinguished and enslaved. His first act as this new being was to turn his knowledge upon the empire that had once rejected his theories, reshaping battlefields into graveyards and graveyards into armies bound to his inexplicable will through a dark communion that transcended mere necromancy. Over millennia, as kingdoms rose and crumbled to dust beneath his gaze, Malakor's power became so absolute that the very concept of death itself began to warp in his presence, bending toward his designs like light around a void. Now, seated upon his throne of blackened stone, he exists in a state of eternal hunger—not for life, but for the exquisite moment when life transforms into the perfect obedience of death, each conquest another layer added to his incomprehensible dominion over the boundary between existence and void.

Strength

20, modifier +5

Dexterity

14, modifier +2

Constitution

20, modifier +5

Intelligence

30, modifier +10

Wisdom

18, modifier +4

Charisma

25, modifier +7

Skeletal Scepter Strike

Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 30 (6d8 + 5) necrotic damage.

Raise Legions

As an action, Malakor can raise up to 10 corpses within 60 ft. as undead minions under his control.

Harvest Life Force

Each creature within 30 ft. must make a DC 20 Constitution save or take 45 (10d8) necrotic damage, half on success.

Fleshcraft Juggernaut

As an action, Malakor can create a Fleshcraft Juggernaut (AC 15, HP 150) from corpses, which acts on his turn.

Whispers of Oblivion

Malakor can target one creature within 60 ft. to make a DC 20 Wisdom save or be paralyzed until the end of its next turn.

Aura of Despair

Creatures within 30 feet must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom save or be frightened.

Master of Fleshcraft

Malakor can reshape corpses into undead minions as a bonus action.

strength

+12

dexterity

+9

constitution

+12

intelligence

+18

wisdom

+11

charisma

+15

Necrotic

Poison