Skinwalker Disc (Cursed Item)

Description: A skinwalker disc is a circular metal disc covered in arcane ruins. It’s about the size of a large coin or skipping stone. When jammed into the body of an dead creature, the skinwalker gains complete control over the body. Each skinwalker has its own personality and body preferences. The skinwalker is intelligent but does not gain any of the knowledge or special abilities of the deceased bodies it possesses. Skinwalkers are considered constructs and the bodies they possess cease to decay as if the Repose Dead spell were cast on them. A skinwalker can possess a body to a maximum of three months before it must find another. It cannot possess a living body but will slowly poison a living body if consumed or jammed into it. A victim who has consumed or been stabbed with a skinwalker disc suffers 1d4 Constitution damage each day until the disc is removed or the victim dies.

Skinwalker

Size Varies Construct, Neutral Evil

Armor Class 16 (natural armor)

Hitpoints (17d10+51) 136

Speed 30 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA

18(+4) 14(+2) 16(+3) 12(+1) 10(+0) 10(+0)

Damage Immunities: Poison, Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Non-magical attacks.

Condition Immunities: Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned.

Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 10

Languages: Common

Challenge 10 (5,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4

Traits

Magic Resistance: Skinwalkers have advantage on saving throws against spells or effects.

Magic Weapons: Skinwalkers weapon attacks are magical.

Possession: A skinwalker possesses any dead body it has been inserted into. It does not register pain and can act even if parts of the body it possesses are chopped off. It doesn’t even need its head although this does blind and deafen the creature. If the body is destroyed, the cursed disc can be removed from it. Only when the disc is destroyed can the skinwalker truly die.

Actions

Multiattack. Skinwalkers may make three slam attacks.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack. +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target 19 (3d8 +6) bludgeoning damage.

Destroying a Skinwalker

A skinwalker cannot be destroyed while it is possessing a dead body. As a disc, it is vulnerable. They are created through an arcane ritual and can be destroyed in the same way. However, the secret to the creation and destruction of the skinwalker disc can only be found in three evil books: The Mortis Arcanum, Maladictum Das Viros, and the Tome of Alzawreth the Wicked.