Huecuva

A heucuva (pronounced hyoo-KOO-va) is a powerful type of undead. They are the damned spirits of clerics, druids, monks or paladins who forsook their vows or committed heresies.
==Description==
Heucuva resemble skeletons in appearance. The main distinguishing feature was that heucuva often wear the tattered robes of their previous life as priests.
===Personality===
Huecuva are corrupted caricatures of their previous lives, spreading disease instead of healing and seeking to kill all those that lived. They possess only faint memories of their past lives.
==Combat==
Heucuva do not use weapons in combat, instead attacking with their powerful and sharp finger bones. They are strong enough to rip a chunk out of wood in one swipe. If struck, a target can be infected with a terrible disease called huecuva blight. This disease can be fatal unless a treat disease action or a remove disease spell is used to heal the victim. Due to their intense hatred for good-aligned clerics, heucuva typically ignore all other targets until the cleric is slain.
===Abilities===
Heucuva are immune to all spells that influence the mind and most effects that affect the living. They are also immune to poison. Up to three times daily, heucuva are capable of polymorphing themselves. They use this ability to avoid detection or to ambush a target. Heucuva are skilled in the casting of divine spells, especially those of the Death and Evil domains.
Like other undead, heucuva do not eat or drink. Heucuva do not retain the ability for speech, and instead are reduced to howling and lamented wailing.
==Locations==
Heucuva are usually encountered in locations with little to no light, such as underground or within crypts. Heucuva prefer warmer climates; they are extremely rare in colder locations. As damned priests, heucuva decorate their lairs to resemble the abbeys and temples they once were a part of, using the corpses of their victims as parishioners. Some heucuva collect treasure from their victims, placing them on a mock alter as offerings. Occasionally, some heucuva do not seek out and settle in lairs, instead roaming the countryside in the dark on a mock pilgrimage.
==Relationships==
Some heucuva act as servants of the deity Dahak.
Category:Bestiary Emeritus