Archbishop Xanaphia Naïlo

Archbishop Xanaphia Naïlo CR: 16

Medium humanoid, lawful neutral

Armor Class: 16 (Breast Plate)

Hit Points: 195 (22D8+66)

Speed: 30 ft

STR

12 +1

DEX

14 +2

CON

16 +3

INT

15 +2

WIS

20 +5

CHA

17 +3

Saving Throws: Wisdom +10, Charisma +8

Skills: Insight +9, Medicine +13, Perception +10, Persuasion +7, Religion +10

Damage Resistances: Necrotic

Senses: Darkvision 60ft., Passive Perception 20

Languages: Common and Elvish

Challenge Rating: 16

Spellcasting. The archbishop is a 20th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 18, +10 to hit with spell attacks). The archbishop has the following cleric spells prepared:

• Cantrips (at will): guidance, light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy, toll the dead.
• 1st-level (4 slots): command, cure wounds, detect evil and good, detect magic.
• 2nd-level (3 slots): lesser restoration, gentle repose, spiritual weapon, zone of truth.
• 3rd-level (3 slots): dispel magic, revivify, sending, spirit guardians.
• 4th-level (3 slots): aura of life, banishment, death ward.
• 5th-level (3 slots): flame strike, greater restoration, raise dead.
• 6th-level (2 slots): harm, word of recall.
• 7th-level (2 slots): plane shift, resurrection.
• 8th-level (1 slot): antimagic field, holy aura.
• 9th-level (1 slot): power word: heal, true resurrection.

The Raven Queen's Devotee (5/Day). The Archbishop can cast gentle repose with this trait, requiring no material components. Wisdom is her spellcasting modifier for this spell.
The Raven Queen's Votary (1/Day). The Archbishop can cast speak with dead with this trait, requiring no material components. Wisdom is her spellcasting modifier for this spell.
The Raven Queen's Disciple (1/Day). The Archbishop can cast false life with this trait, requiring no material components. When it does, she gains an additional 25 temporary hit points. Constitution is her spellcasting modifier for this spell.

Fey Ancestry. The Archbishop has advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed condition.

Actions

Flail. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1D8+1 bludgeoning damage, plus 2D8 radiant damage.
Divine Intervention (1/7 Days). The archbishop calls on her deity to intervene on her behalf. The DM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any cleric spell or cleric domain spell would be appropriate.
Turn Undead (2/Day). The archbishop presents her holy symbol and speak a prayer censuring the undead. Each undead that can see or hear the archbishop within 30 feet of it must make a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from the archbishop as it can, and it can't willingly move to a space within 30 feet of it. The turned creature also can't take reactions. For its action, the turned creature can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there's nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action. When an undead of CR 4 or lower fails its saving throw, the creature is instantly destroyed.

BONUS ACTIONS
Blessing of the Raven Queen (5/Day). The Archbishop magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. It gains resistance to all damage until the start of its next turn when it teleports this way, during that time, it appears ghostly and translucent.
Divine Eminence. The archbishop expends a spell slot to cause her melee weapon attacks to magically deal an extra 3D6 radiant damage to a target on a hit. This benefit lasts until the end of the turn. If the archbishop expends a spell slot of 2nd level or higher (up to a maximum of 5th level), the extra damage increases by 1D6 for each level above 1st.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Xanaphia was born in Letherna, the domain of The Raven Queen in The Shadowfell. She was raised by her family and the community of shadar-kai who live there in service to The Matron. During her formative years, she helped to guide lost souls through The Bone Orchard towards the Fortress of Memories while she honed her clerical abilities. Eventully, after multiple centuries, The Matron selected her to become her Archbishop in Concordia, after The Aspect Wars and The Confluence nearly destroyed the country. She accepted this charge, leaving her family and community for this higher calling. Once she had established herself in Concordia, she built The Grand Sepulcher as a monument to those who had fallen during the decades of war the country had endured.
Xanaphia is known for her serious demeanor. She is unwavering in her service to The Raven Queen and is Concordia's premier authority on the concepts of death and fate. Those who meet her know her for rarely smileing or engageing in frivolity. However, the only time this wavers is where she tends to the flowerbeds in the temple, a duty she takes great delight in.

Alignment

Lawful Neutral

Current Location

The Grand Sepulcher

Species

Elf

Ethnicity

Shadar-Kai

Gender

Female (she/her)