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    Monster Trove: Old Fears and Hungry Things

    Helhest

    Large - Impartial Impartial (Wanderer)
    HP
    132
    AC
    17
    DR
    2
    Attacks
    1
    Attack
    3d8+5
    Size
    Large
    Alignment
    Impartial Impartial (Wanderer)
    Intelligence
    Animal (1)
    Saves
    Quick 3 / Tough 5 / Mind 0

    The Helhest is a spectral three-legged horse heard on roads beside graveyards and churches. Its uneven gait announces sickness or death before the pale body appears. The creature may be the ghost of a horse buried alive beneath a foundation or an omen wearing that memory. It rarely hunts without cause, but anyone attempting to ride it is carried toward the nearest place of burial.

    Special Attack

    Graveward Gallop: the Helhest moves through creatures in a 30 ft line. Each makes a Quick save or takes 2d8 cold damage and becomes weary.

    Special Defense

    Count the Third Step: a creature that keeps the rhythm of its uneven gait gains +2 Quick against Graveward Gallop. It cannot cross a threshold where a living animal was buried with honor.