Infernal death knight

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Infernal death knight Level 104 Family Humanoid family creatures Body Type Biped Classification(s) Corporeal undead Area(s) Found Moonsedge BCS Yes HP 500 Speed

Attack Attributes Combat Maneuvers Spell Cleave

Defense Attributes Armor Half Plate ASG 19 Defensive Strength (DS) Melee ? Ranged ? Bolt ? Unarmed Defense Factor UDF ? Target Defense (TD) Bard Base 426 Cleric Base ? Empath Base ? Paladin Base ? Ranger Base ? Sorcerer Base 425 Wizard Base ? Minor Elemental ? Major Elemental ? Minor Spiritual ? Major Spiritual ? Minor Mental ?

Other Unique Abilities ?

Treasure Attributes Coins Yes Gems Yes Magic Items Yes Boxes Yes Skin None Other ?

Judging from her height, the death knight is a mummified remnant of a powerful warrior, though the flesh has mostly come free from her animated bones.  Now, her heavy armor is all that holds her skeletal form together.  Her neck ends in a jagged ruin, but over the shattered fragments of her spine hovers a bleached skull that is wreathed in azure flames.  Fires burn malevolently in the skull's empty sockets.

Appraisal:

The death knight is medium in size and about seven feet high in her current state.



Arrival
Headless, an infernal death knight marches in with martial precision.  An instant later, a yellowed skull soars through the air to hover above her bony neck.  Cerulean flames wreathe the skull and roar from its eye sockets, and the knight gives a satisfied nod.

Arrival 2
Her body pressed low to her mount, an infernal death knight charges into the area atop a smouldering skeletal dreadsteed.  Her flame-wreathed skull throws off sapphire cinders as she rides, drawing to a halt nearby with a savage tug of the reins.

Hunting Strategies
Death knights ride smouldering skeletal dreadsteed into combat.

Description
A skull soars in, wreathed in cerulean flames.  Moments later, the death knight's body marches in after it, and the skull hovers into place over the neckpiece of the knight's armor.

Judging from her height, the death knight is a mummified remnant of a powerful warrior, though the flesh has mostly come free from her animated bones.  Now, her heavy armor is all that holds her skeletal form together.  Her neck ends in a jagged ruin and her head is completely missing.

Other Information
They cast Spirit Strike.

They Mstrike in a series of four attacks with greatswords.

Ability
An infernal death knight centers himself, the burning embers of his eyes dimming momentarily as he shakes free from his dazed state.
An infernal death knight reaches up with a skeletal hand and lifts his skull from where it hovers over the bony ruin of his neck.  The spectral flames wreathing it flare white hot as he hurls the skull away.  Without warning, it conflagrates violently, the hungry fire roaring outward in a great arc!
[SMR result: 76 (Open d100: 90, Penalty: 14)]
You manage to dodge the raging inferno, and it passes harmlessly by!

Immolation:
An infernal death knight reaches up with a skeletal hand and lifts his skull from where it hovers over the bony ruin of his neck.  The spectral flames wreathing it flare white hot as he hurls the skull away.  Without warning, it conflagrates violently, the hungry fire roaring outward in a great arc!
[SMR result: 102 (Open d100: 54)]
Cerulean flames reach for you, their lapping tongues cruelly burning and searing your flesh!
   ... 4 points of damage!
   Minor burns to right arm.  That hurts a bit.

Terror flare variant or Low steel secondary effect

It can be broken with Berserk and Kroderine Soul
With effortless ease born of martial training, an infernal death knight swings a massive black ora sword adorned with a trio of blue-black diamonds at you!
  AS: +615 vs DS: +421 with AvD: +29 + d100 roll: +33 = +256
   ... and hits for 21 points of damage!
   Stomach shot lands with a hollow *thump*.
The guiding force leaves an infernal death knight.
Within the shadow, you briefly glimpse images of such mind-shattering horror that you are reduced to a quivering wreck!
An unseen force entangles you, restricting your movement!

Unknown:

Bard or Paladin chant
 
An infernal death knight centers herself, the burning embers of her eyes dimming momentarily as she shakes free from her dazed state.
An infernal death knight twists a skeletal hand, uttering a blasphemous chant.
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An infernal death knight centers herself, the burning embers of her eyes dimming momentarily as she shakes free from her dazed state.
An infernal death knight raises her raspy voice in hoarse battle chant, inspiring her allies!
An infernal death knight is inspired by the chant!
A cadaverous tatterdemalion ghast is inspired by the chant!
A horned basalt grotesque is inspired by the chant!




Near-level creatures






Level 102

*chitinous kiramon myrmidon
*flickering mist-wreathed banshee
*heavily armored battle mastodon
* immense gold-bristled hinterboar
*Ithzir champion
*pale scaled shaper
*triton magus
*triton warden



Level 103

* enormous rift crawler
* ethereal triton psionicist
* ethereal triton sentry
* smouldering skeletal dreadsteed
* stunted halfling bloodspeaker 
* tattooed gigas berserker



Level 104

* behemothic gorefrost golem
* brackish bilge mass
* darkly inked fetish master
* disfigured hive thrall
* infernal death knight
* niveous giant warg



Level 105

* greater water elemental
* grim gigas skald
* hapless charmed corsair
* horned basalt grotesque
* savage fork-tongued wendigo



Level 106

* brawny gigas shield-maiden
* corpulent kresh ravager
* gaudy phantasmic conjurer
* milky-eyed drowned mariner
* murky soul siphon