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Hoary Hunter
L
egends speak of events in history when great
tragedies befall nature, pepetuated by the greed
and avarice of a few schemers as industrious as
they are heartless. The actions of these
schemers provoke the spirits of nature,
marking them as the target of a hoary hunt.
   Once an offender is so marked, the icy fey
spirit of a hoary hunter will stalk it, slay it, and capture its
soul in one of its two icy blades. This accursed soul the hoary
hunter brings back to the icy depths of the feyrealm, where it
is imprisoned until such a time as the hoary hunters decide
to surrender it to a higher fate.
  
The Hunter's Moon
If your game world doesn’t have moons or if your
moons don’t have phases, consider using an
alternative marker for when the hoary hunt is
undertaken.
   A few good alternatives are the tides or the
seasons. The idea is that the hoary hunt is a
response from the natural world, so whatever you
decide to use make sure it is something that is
rooted in nature and not the world of academia
(such as a calendar).
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There are rules, however. For one, a hoary hunt can only
occur on cold, moonless nights. On any other night, or
during the day, the mark is safe from the hoary hunt.
  Because of this, there are those whom have retreated to
moonless worlds or worlds baking in an everlasting summer
just to avoid the icy lances of the hoary hunt. No amount of
time can release a mark from the hunt, however, and those
able to retreat across worlds have either spent the rest of
their lives in exile or slipped up once and got caught by the
hoary hunt under a cold and moonless sky, never to be heard
from again.
  For another, a hoary hunt isn’t over if a mark slays the
hoary hunter. If this happens, the hunter’s body rapidly melts
and its spirit is whisked away to the icy corners of the feywild.
Here, the hoary hunter is restored to life in order to continue
the hunt. Each time the original hoary hunter is slain, it
recruits another hoary hunter to help it take down the mark.
This effect repeats each time the original hoary hunter is
defeated and until the original hoary hunter recruits four
additional hunters, for a total of five hoary hunters. If the
mark survives all five nights of the hoary hunt, the original
hoary hunter will yield and end the hunt. The mark is cleared
and cannot be made a target of another hoary hunt for a
decade.
  The mark can of course enlist its own allies to help it
survive all five nights of the hunt. These creatures will not be
marked unless the hoary hunters succeed in killing the
origina mark. If this occurs, each of the original mark’s allies
are themselves marked, and each a subject of their own
unique hoary hunt.
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Culling the Hunt

As you are forced to contend with more hoary Contingent Revivification
hunters, both the stakes and the XP rewards are 9th-level conjuration
increased. Refer to the table below to determine
the encounter challenge for a given number of Casting Time: 1 action
hoary hunters: Range: Self
# of Hunters XP Challenge
Components: V, S, M (a shard of ice from a hoary hunter)
Duration: Instantaneous
1 hoary hunter 8,400 CR 12
2 hoary hunters 16,800 CR 19
You crush the shard of ice from a hoary hunter to bestow
upon yourself a powerful enchantment that wards you against
3 hoary hunters 25,200 CR 21 fatal blows. The first time you are reduced to 0 hit points
4 hoary hunters 33,600 CR 23 after casting this spell, you are teleported back to the spot
where you cast this spell and restored to your maximum hit
5 hoary hunters 42,000 CR 25 points.
  Once this effect occurs, a month must pass before you can
cast this spell again.

Hoary Hunter Innate Spellcasting. The hoary hunter’s spellcasting

Large fey, lawful neutral
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 202 (27d8 + 81)
Speed 60 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
18 (+4) 18 (+4) 17 (+3) 15 (+2) 16 (+3) 14 (+2)
Skills Insight +7, Perception +7
Saving Throws Dex +8, Wis +7
Damage Resistances radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, and
slashing that is nonmagical
Damage Immunities cold, poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, grappled,
paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 17
Languages Pottymouth
Challenge 12 to 25 (varies)
Frozen Steed. The icy horse upon which the hoary
hunter rides is a part of the fey avenger’s very essence.
If the hoary hunter is reduced to half its maximum hit
points or lower, the mount vanishes and leaves the
hoary hunter on foot. The hoary hunter’s speed is
reduced to 30 feet, its size its reduced to Medium, and
it can’t make attacks with its lance of frost until its
current hit points equal half its maximum hit points or
more, at which point the steed reappears.
Hoary Hunt. If the hoary hunter is reduced to 0 hit
points, its body vanishes, returning to the dark side of
the moon where it awaits the next opportunity to lead
the hunt against its chosen quarry.
Incorporeal Movement. The hoary hunter can move
through other creatures and objects as if they were
difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it
ends its turn inside an object.
ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell
attacks). The hoary hunter can innately cast the
following spells, requiring no material components:
 At will: fog cloud, locate creature, plane shift
 3/day: dispel magic
 1/day: contingent revivification
Magic Resistance. The hoary hunter has advantage on
saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Actions
Multiattack. The hoary hunter makes two attacks with
its Ice Blade. It can use its Soul Ice ability in the place
of one of its Ice Blade attacks.
Ice Blade. Melee Weapon Attack. +8 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 10 (1d10+4) slashing damage, plus 14
(4d6) cold damage. If both attacks hit the same target,
the target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving
throw or suffer the effects of a slow spell until the end
of their next turn.
Lance of Frost. Melee Weapon Attack. +8 to hit, reach
25 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d10+4) piercing damage,
plus 14 (4d6) cold damage. If this attack hits a
creature, the hoary hunter can attempt to break its
lance on the target as a bonus action. The target makes
a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a success, the
lance does not break. If the save fails, the creature falls
unconscious for 1 minute, the lance of frost shatters,
and the hoary hunter can no longer make lance attacks.
Soul Ice. The hoary hunter touches one dying or
unconscious creature, forcing that creature to make a
DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the
creature’s soul is captured by the hoary hunter’s ice
blade. The hoary hunter can capture two souls at a time
in this way before it must return to its home plane,
where it deposits captured souls in a magical prison
inside of a crystal of pure ice.

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