Kenku Diety

7"2 feet tall, with a golden finch-like bird mask covering the front half of its face, painted with black avis markings. a feather headdress protrudes to all directions behind its head, with necklaces made of heavy golden spheres around its neck. feathers, beads jewellery hang from its body, with loose black robes secured by a thick leather belt, golden wristguard, and studded leather shoulder and chest armor . despite the grand appearance, it appears to be in a frenzied state, sweating and is covered in blood.'

**Armor Class** 16 **Hit Points** 32 **Speed** 50ft.

STATS
+0
+4
+1
+2
-1
+4

**Skills** Deception +8, Perception +2, Stealth +8

Passive perception: 12

**Languages** understands Auran and Common but speaks only through the use of its Mimicry trait

***Ambusher***. In the first round of a combat, the kenku has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it surprised.

***Mimicry***. The kenku can mimic any sounds it has heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a successful DC 16 Wisdom (Insight) check.

ACTIONS

***Shortsword***. *Melee Weapon Attack*: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. *Hit*: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.

***Shortbow***. *Ranged Weapon Attack*: +5 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. *Hit*: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.

BONUS ACTIONS

**Dodge.** Disadvantage to all attacks against it

**Nimble Escape.** The creature can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.

Spells and Cantrips:

MINOR ILLUSION You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again. If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature.

Disguise Self(1): You make yourself—including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person—look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can’t change your body type, so you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you. To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your apperance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.

Darkness(2): Magical darkness spreads from a point you choose within range to fill a 15-foot-radius sphere for the duration. The darkness spreads around corners. A creature with darkvision can’t see through this darkness, and nonmagical light can’t illuminate it.

Silence(2): For the duration, no sound can be created within or pass through a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range. Any creature or object entirely inside the sphere is immune to thunder damage, and creatures are deafened while entirely inside it.

### If allowed to bargain for its life

voice is pieced together with various sentences spoken by different people. explains that it was down on its luck and came across a religious congregation worshipping the symbol of the bird, praying for one of their elders to survive an illness. the kenku lurked in the area listening to conversations spoken with the elder and when they died surprised them one day by revealing itselft and mimicrying the elders sentences making the cultists believe it was some sort of diety who can communicate with their dead. they treated him like royalty giving him offerings of food, jewellery and other luxuries. the one downside is that they only allowed him to stay in the sacred caves in the mountains fearing for his safety and when he tried to escape they chased him back inside. a respected leader entered and tried to communicate with him but the kenku killed him and tried to escape again, again being chased back inside by cultists angrier than ever