Marilith

Terrible to behold, a marilith has the lower body of a great serpent and the upper torso of a humanoid female with six arms.

Wielding a wicked blade in each of its six hands, a marilith is a devastating foe that few can match in battle. These demons possess keen minds and a finely honed sense of tactics, and they are able to lead and unite other demons in common cause. Mariliths are often encountered as captains at the head of a demonic horde, where they embrace any opportunity to rush headlong into battle.

Marilith

Large fiend (demon), chaotic evil

  • Armor Class 18 (natural armor)
  • Hit Points 189 (18d10 + 90)
  • Speed 40 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
18 (+4) 20 (+5) 20 (+5) 18 (+4) 16 (+3) 20 (+5)
  • Proficiency Bonus +5
  • Saving Throws Str +9,Con +10,Wis +8,Cha +10
  • Damage Vulnerabilities
  • Damage Resistances cold,fire,lightning; bludgeoning,piercing,and slashing from nonmagical attacks
  • Damage Immunities poison
  • Condition Immunities poisoned
  • Skills
  • Senses truesight 120 ft.,passive Perception 13
  • Languages Abyssal,telepathy 120 ft.
  • Challenge 16

Summon Demon (1/Day). The demon chooses what to summon and attempts a magical summoning. A marilith has a 50 percent chance of summoning 1d6 vrocks, 1d4 hezrous, 1d3 glabrezus, 1d2 nalfeshnees, or one marilith. A summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of its summoner, acts as an ally of its summoner, and can't summon other demons. It remains for 1 minute, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.

Magic Resistance. The marilith has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Magic Weapons. The marilith's weapon attacks are magical.

Reactive. The marilith can take one reaction on every turn in a combat.

Actions

Multiattack. The marilith makes seven attacks: six with its longswords and one with its tail.

Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage.

Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it is grappled (escape DC 19). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, the marilith can automatically hit the target with its tail, and the marilith can't make tail attacks against other targets.

Teleport. The marilith magically teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.

Parry. The marilith adds 5 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the marilith must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.