A while back I featured a
Wendigo as part of my A to Z. Well, my son has been running some games on his own with a group of his friends and he has been using Wendigoes as well. This monster is one of his original creations.
Section 15: "Wendigo Matron" Copyright 2016 Liam W. Brannan.
Wendigo Matron
Armor Class: 2 [17]
Hit Dice: 10d8+5* (50 hp)
No. of Attacks: 2 claws / 1 bite / breath weapon / spell use
Damage: 1d6 / 1d6 / 1d6+3 / 1d8+5 (cold)
Special: breath weapon, fear, low-light vision (240’), scent, immunity to cold
Movement: 90’/180' (fly)
No. Appearing: 1
Saves As: Witch 10
Morale: 9
Treasure: None
Alignment: Evil (Chaos)
XP: 3,000
A windigo matron is if anything, more evil than the common wendigo. This creature is te defacto leader of a any band of wendigo and she has powers above and beyond the already formidable powers of these foul creatures.
In addition to the physical attacks, breath weapons, and fear of a normal wendigo, the wendigo matron can also use the following spell-like powers 3 times per day:
Wind Walk
Fly
Invisibility
Shape change
A common tactic of a wendigo matron is to shape change into a normal human woman and lead victims to the lairs of the wendigo. She will often pose as a rescued victim, or as a someone seeking vengeance against the wendigo that killed her "family". There may be truth in both guises as the wendigo may in fact, have been her family.
The wendigo matron is also different in her origin. While humans can become wendigo when confronted with the prospect of starvation and freezing to death, a wendigo matron chooses to become what she now is.
It is believed that there is a dark ritual where prospective wendigo matron cuts out her own heart with a flint dagger. What is known that a wendigo matron can not be truly destroyed till she is reduced to 0 hp and her heart is burned. Otherwise, she will rise again when the next snowfall occurs.
Like the lich and his phylactery, the wendigo matron keeps her heart in a safe place.
