- Below the Light
- Known Creatures
- Hollow Kite
Hollow Kite
Layer 1 · Habitat: Open air
A huge flyer built like a kite, skin stretched over hollow bone with almost no body, hanging motionless high above the light shafts
Description
The apex flyer of the Pilgrimage: a huge predator built like a kite, with skin stretched taut over a frame of hollow bone and almost no body at all. It hangs motionless far above the light shafts, invisible against the glare, watching the ledges. When it sees prey in the open, it folds its wings and drops. Most delvers never see it until it is already falling on them.
Hollow Kite
Huge Monstrosity, Unaligned
AC 14 Initiative +4 (14)
HP 102 (12d12 + 24)
Speed 10 ft., Fly 80 ft.
| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 (+5) | 18 (+4) | 14 (+2) | 4 (−3) | 16 (+3) | 6 (−2) |
Skills Perception +6, Stealth +7
Senses Darkvision 120 ft., Passive Perception 16
Languages None
CR 6 (XP 2,300; PB +3)
Traits
Glare Camouflage. While the kite is in Bright Light and higher than a creature, that creature can't see it from more than 60 feet away.
Dive. If the kite flies at least 30 feet straight down toward a target and then hits it with a Talons attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 18 (4d8) Piercing damage.
Hollow Frame. When the kite takes 20 or more Bludgeoning damage from a single hit, its Fly Speed is halved until the end of its next turn.
Actions
Multiattack. The kite makes one Talons attack and one Bite attack.
Talons. Melee Attack Roll: +8, reach 5 ft. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) Piercing damage. If the target is Large or smaller, it has the Grappled condition (escape DC 16).
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +8, reach 10 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) Slashing damage.
Bonus Actions
Carry Off. The kite flies up to half its Fly Speed with the creature it is grappling, without provoking Opportunity Attacks. It can drop the creature at any point.