The Morrigan, Goddess of Fate, War, and Sovereignty

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
30 (+10)	30 (+10)	30 (+10)	30 (+10)	30 (+10)	30 (+10)

Armor Class: 35 (natural armor)

Hit Points: 1,000 (60d20 + 600)

Speed: 120 ft., fly 120 ft.

Skills: Perception +30, Stealth +30

Senses: truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 40

Languages: all

Immunities: bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks, fire, poison, and psychic damage

Condition Immunities: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned

Legendary Resistance (5/day): If The Morrigan fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Divine Awareness: The Morrigan knows if she hears a lie.

Actions

• Multiattack: The Morrigan can use her Frightful Presence. She then makes three attacks: two with her spear and one with her sword.
• Spear: Melee Weapon Attack: +22 to hit, reach 30 ft., one target. Hit: 44 (6d10 + 10) piercing damage.
• Sword: Melee Weapon Attack: +22 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 44 (6d10 + 10) slashing damage.

Frightful Presence: Each creature of The Morrigan’s choice within 120 feet of her and aware of her must succeed on a DC 30 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to The Morrigan’s Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.

Spells: The Morrigan has access to spells from the following domains: War, Trickery, and Death.

Divine Magic Immunity: The Morrigan cannot be affected by spells of 9th level or lower.

Divine Weapons: The Morrigan wields a spear and a sword that are considered magical and can overcome any resistance.

Legendary Actions

The Morrigan can take three legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The Morrigan regains spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.

• The Morrigan makes one attack with her spear or sword.
• The Morrigan moves up to her speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
• The Morrigan casts a spell from her War, Trickery, or Death domains, using a spell slot of 7th level or lower.

Lair Actions

The Morrigan can take lair actions on initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), choosing from the options below. She can’t use the same option two rounds in a row:

• The Morrigan calls forth a storm of crows to fill the lair. All creatures within 120 feet must make a DC 30 Dexterity saving throw or take 55 (10d10) slashing damage as the birds claw at them.
• The Morrigan causes the ground to shake and crack open. All creatures within 60 feet must make a DC 30 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.
• The Morrigan creates a pool of blood that covers a 60-foot radius. Any creature that starts its turn within the pool must make a DC 30 Constitution saving throw or take 55 (10d10) necrotic damage.

D&D 5E Epic Monsters: Mórrígan

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The shapechanging goddess of war: Mórrígan!

The “Great Queen” or “Phantom Queen”, a goddess of war and fate, doom, fertility, death or victory in battle, and also the earth and sovereignty—Morrígan is protective of her territory and people. Her primary worshipers were thought to be fianna, “bands of youthful warrior-hunters, living on the borders of civilized society and indulging in lawless activities for a time before inheriting property and taking their places as members of settled, landed communities.”

Indeed, she’s said to have inspired warriors to be courageous, evoke fear in the hearts of their foes as they achieve victory, often appearing as a crow (the badb) that foreshadows the coming of death for a particular soul or flies overhead of a conflict to enhance or diminish a force’s confidence.

Morrígan is or may be a triple goddess of sorts (Badb, Macha and Nemain, or sometimes Anand, Badb, and Macha, or also Banba, Ériu, and Fódla). She first appears in the Ulster Cycle as part of Cú Chulainn’s myth (check out that post for some of the ways she messes with him), the Mythological Cycle, and Cath Maige Tuired (“The Battle of Magh Tuireadh”). Morrígan has sex with Dagda in the river Unius (or maybe she makes it; depends on your source) with the promise to summon Ireland’s magicians to help fight alongside the Tuatha Dé against the Fomorians and their king Indech.

When battle commences she arrives and chants a poem that drives the Fomorians to the sea, then follows it up with another that prophesies the end of the world. Later on she lures a woman names Odras through the cave Cruachan and into the Otherworld, transforming the woman into a pool of water feeding into the River Shannon.

In Count Tipperary there’s a fulachtaí site (dug burning pit) called the “cooking pit of the Mórrígan” (Fulacht na Mór Ríoghna) thought to have been used by her followers, and in general these areas hold some tenuous connection to her mythology via the important sequence in Cú Chulainn’s demise where she tricks him into eating dogmeat. There’s also a pair of hills in County Meath called Dá Chích na Morrígna (“two breasts of the Mórrígan”).

Morrígan​

Medium fey, chaotic neutral
Armor Class 18 (natural armor)
Hit Points 260 (40d8+80)
Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover)

STR​	DEX​	CON​	INT​	WIS​	CHA​
19 (+4)​	20 (+5)​	15 (+2)​	16 (+3)​	19 (+4)​	22 (+6)​

Saving Throws Con +9, Int +10, Wis +11
Skills Arcana +10, Deception +13, Insight +11, Nature +10, Perception +11, Stealth +12
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, poisoned
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 21
Languages English, Gaelic, Sylvan
Challenge 22 (41,000 XP)

Brute. A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when Morrígan hits with it (included in the attack).

Epic Concentration. Morrígan is able to concentrate on up to 2 spells at the same time. If she fails a concentration check while concentrating on more than one spell, she loses both spells. In addition, while she is using one or more concentration spells Morrígan gains one extra bonus action each turn that can only be used to manipulate those spells.

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Morrígan fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance. Morrígan has advantage on saving throws made against spells and other magical effects.

Shapechange. Morrígan can use a bonus action to magically polymorph into a creature that has a challenge rating no higher than her own, or back into her true form. She reverts to her true form if she dies. Any equipment Morrígan is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (her choice).

In a new form, Morrígan retains her alignment, hit points, Hit Dice, ability to speak, proficiencies, Legendary Resistance, Spellcasting, legendary actions, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as this action. Her statistics and capabilities are otherwise replaced by those of the new form, except any class features or legendary actions of that form.

Spellcasting. Morrígan is a 21st level spellcaster that uses Charisma as her spellcasting ability (spell save DC 21; +13 to hit with spell attacks). Morrígan has the following spells prepared:

• Cantrips: chill touch, fire bolt, message, prestidigitation, ray of frost, spare the dying
• 1st-level (4 slots): cure wounds, fog cloud, shield, thunderwave​
• 2nd-level (4 slots): blindness/deafness, hold person, invisibility, spiritual weapon​
• 3rd-level (3 slots): bestow curse, call lightning, fear, revivify​
• 4th-level (3 slots): blight, confusion, death ward, freedom of movement​
• 5th-level (3 slots): cone of cold, greater restoration, scrying​
• 6th-level (2 slots): circle of death, harm, heal​
• 7th-level (2 slots): arcane sword, finger of death​
• 8th-level (1 slots): power word stun​
• 9th-level (1 slots): weird​

ACTIONS
Multiattack. Morrígan attacks five times, or she casts a spell and attacks twice.

+1 Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8+5) magical slashing damage, or 16 (2d10+5) magical slashing damage if used with two hands..

+1 Longbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d8+6) magical piercing damage.

LEGENDARY ACTIONS
Morrígan can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. She regains spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.

• Cast Spell (Costs 1 to 3 Actions). Morrígan casts a spell. Each spell level costs 1 legendary action.
• Doomed Prophecy (Costs 2 Actions). Morrígan’s voice echoes in the minds of all creatures within 500 feet foretelling of doom to come. Until the start of her next turn, whenever a creature makes an attack roll or a saving throw, it must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from the attack roll or saving throw. In addition, if the result of the d20 roll is 16 or higher, a creature rolls a second d20 and uses the lower of the two rolls. Morrígan may choose to exclude any number of creatures from this effect.
• Prophecy of Victory (Costs 2 Actions). Morrígan’s voice echoes in the minds of all creatures within 500 feet speaking of a victory that is imminent. Until the start of her next turn, whenever a creature makes an attack roll or a saving throw, it rolls a d4 and adds the number rolled to the attack roll or saving throw. In addition, if the result of the d20 roll is 5 or lower, a creature rolls a second d20 and uses the higher of the two rolls. Morrígan may choose to exclude any number of creatures from this effect.

Morrigan (the Raven Queen)

A beautifully featured woman of regal countenance approaches on horseback. Her mere presence causes a mixture of panic and awed reverence, like the coming of a surging tempest.

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Long, glossy ribbons of hair as black as pitch frame a fair-skinned face of perfect proportions. Though youthful in limb and feature, her eyes have an air of antiquity, and shimmer silver and black with the reflection of experience and divine insight. She wears black armor made of the finest leather, a large gray shield and an unstrung bow at her back, and carries a bronze-headed spear in her left hand.

A sword hangs at her right hip, and in her right hand she holds the bridles to a magnificent warhorse of immense size and the deepest charcoal color. The horse prances and stamps, flaring its nostrils and tossing its mane, never holding still. Its fierce demeanor and restless anticipation seem to be a mirror to the soul of the otherwise calm woman. Somewhere in the distance, a crow caws…

The Morrígna
Medium outsider (Chaotic, Native)
HD	50d8+750 (1,000 hit points+20 temporary hit points)
Initiative	+11
Speed	60 feet
Armor Class	62 (+11 Dexterity, +20 natural, +12 armor, +7 shield, +2 insight), Touch: 23, Flat-footed: 51 (can’t be caught flat-footed
Base Attack/Grapple	+54/+74
Attack	Spear +82 melee (1d8+28/19-20×3), or bastard sword +80 melee (1d10+26/18-20), or composite longbow +65 ranged (1d8+27/x3; shocking and thundering), or shield bash +79 melee (1d8+25)
Full Attack	Spear +82/+78/+73/+68 melee (1d8+28/19-20×3), or bastard sword +80/+75/+70/+65/+80 melee (1d10+26/18-20), plus off hand shield bash +79/+74/+69/+64 melee (1d8+25), or composite longbow +65/+60/+55/+50/+65 ranged (1d8+27/x3; shocking and thundering)
Space/Reach	5 feet/5 feet
Special Attacks	epic spells, martial maneuvers, raven’s crown, song of the bean sí, spells
Special Qualities	Aspects of the morrígna, call the charger, heart of the triune, immortality, immunities, magic of the tuatha dé, peerless warrior, primal rage, queen of the wild, resistance acid 15, cold 15, and fire 15, soul of the changeling, SR 65, stalker of the mounds, storm crow, weaponsmaster
Saves	Fort +46 (+27 base), Ref +42 (+27 base), Will +38 (+27 base)
Abilities	Strength 50, Dexterity 32, Constitution 41, Intelligence 28, Wisdom 25, Charisma 31
Skills	Balance+36, Bluff +39, Climb +29, Concentrate +72, Craft (armorsmithing) +39, Craft (stonemasonry)+54, Craft (weaponsmithing) +49, Diplomacy +35, Handle Animal +55, Heal +16, Hide+40, Intimidate +70, Jump +64, Knowledge (Arcana) +66, Knowledge (history) +33,Knowledge (local) +30, Knowledge (nature) +44, Knowledge (nobility & royalty)+30, Listen +39, Move Silently +35, Performance +35, Ride (Dexterity)+51, Search +61, Sense Motive +29, Spellcraft +66, Spot +33, Survival +24, Swim +26
Feats	(B) Track, (B) Power Attack, Cleave, Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Improved Shield Bash, Lockdown, Quick Draw, Improved Trip, Defensive Sweep, Epic Spellcasting, Two-Weapon Fighting, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, Greater Two-Weapon Fighting, Two-Weapon Rend, Perfect Two-Weapon Fighting, Iron Heart Aura, Stormguard Warrior, Improved Disarm
Environment	Any
Organization	Solitary, pair, or all three sisters together
Challenge Rating	30
Treasure	See below, and standard (magical items only)
Alignment	Chaotic neutral
Advancement	by character class
Level Adjustment	–

The Morrígna is a trio of war spirits of the fey. The Morrígan, Macha, and Badhbh are sisters, triplet daughters of Ernmas, royalty of the Tuatha Dé Danann. They are of the first generation of Danu’s people, and have the majesty and might of true gods, though they do not consider themselves to be divinity.

The sisters are so alike in both appearance and personality that they have often been thought to be the same fey spirit. Only when all three sisters are together is it clear that the Morrígna is a group of three.

With great power over war and death, the Morrígna has been rightfully awarded a place of respect–even worship–among the haughty Tuatha Dé Danann and other fey.

The Morrígna is not solely confined to the spheres of warfare and combat, however.

Each sister has a specialty with which she is concerned; Anann is the Morrígan, the Great Queen, the Mistress of Prophecy, Sovereignty, and Phantasm, and she manipulates fate, rules nations, and sees the death of any creature that she looks upon; Badhbh is the Battle Crow, the bean-sidhe, and personifies the frenzied havoc and violence of battle; and Macha is the Rider, the Lady of the Fortress and the High Places, and a master of horses, wolves, and ravens.

Though they each have their particular realm of focus to which they have devoted their service, all three sisters share the same power over those forces. Macha is as much of a queen as Anann, and as much of a feral killer as Badhbh. They are three separate, but identical entities, and together, they stand as the single greatest reason for the success of the Tuatha Dé Danann. In fact, it was the craftiness of the Morrígna that kept the Tuatha Dé from being completely obliterated by their enemies in their latest defeat, some three thousand years ago now.

The Morrígna speaks any language, and can communicate telepathically with any intelligent creature up to a mile away. They can also communicate telepathically amongst themselves at any distance, on any plane.

In fact, communication would be the wrong term to use between them, since they are of the same mind; once one of the sisters is aware of something, they all are. They all share the same insights at the same time, no matter how far or how specific the situation.

Combat

The Morrígna is a terrifying foe. Terrible magic flies effortlessly from her fingertips even as she wields her sword, spear, and bow with a mastery that rivals that of the gods.

Because they are identical, the stats of the Morrígna presented here apply to Anann, Macha, and Badhbh equally.

The Morrígna wields powerful magical items of epic quality. Its spear is of cold iron and never reflects light even on the brightest of days. It is called black badhbh’s spear, and it is treated as a +8 keen, returning spear of distance that can be wielded one-handed without penalty. The Morrígna wears supple leather armor with adamantine studs called danu’s embrace, functioning as +10 magic-eating leather armor, that continually enchants her with Foresight, freedom of movement, and greater heroism, and does not hinder her in any way (no max Dexterity, armor check penalty, etc).

The Morrígna’s bastard sword, fury of the stars, is a mithril +6 keen bastard sword of speed that counts as any material and any alignment in order to overcome damage reduction, and casts heal upon its wielder every time it threatens a critical hit. The large wooden shield of the Morrígna is called castle on the mound, and is a +5 bashing shield of arrow deflection that does not hinder her in any way (no max Dexterity, armor check penalty, etc), and is enchanted as a weapon.

Lastly, her +7 shocking burst, thundering composite longbow of speed is made of elk horn and sinew, and is made for a creature with a 50 strength, creates the arrows as it puts her fingers to the bowstring, and is known as squall crow.

Aspects of the Morrígna: The Morrígna shares a powerful bond that allows the sisters to share in each others’ expertise. All three sisters enjoy the following abilities.

Aspect of Anann: A diviner, a master of destiny, and a queen of shadow, the Morrigan commands the ancient magic of the planes, spinning enchantments and curses as a spider spins a web, foretelling the future of individuals and nations alike. She is the Phantom Queen, and she bends the multiverse to her whims.

• Raven’s Crown (Su): With a standard act, the Morrígna can use mass charm monster and Hold monster as supernatural effects at will.
• Magic of the Tuatha Dé (Su): The Morrígna casts any sorcerer spell from the enchantment and illusion schools as if they were supernatural effects and at a +2 bonus to both caster level and DC. Further, the Morrígna can add spells from the druid spell list and the Darkness and Domination domains to her known sorcerer spells.
• Storm Crow (Ex): The Morrígna gains a +16 competence bonus to Intimidate checks, and gains the frightful presence special ability as detailed in the Monstrous Manual. This ability affects any sentient creature, even those immune to fear effects, unless they would otherwise be immune to epic fear effects.

Aspect of Macha: Strategy and martial skill are the hallmark of Macha, the defender of the hills and mounds, and the Morrígna is therefore without equal where combat, fortification, and riding are concerned.

• Call the Charger (Su): The Morrígna can summon and dismiss a great warhorse with a standard action. These soot-black steeds are treated as Cauchemar, Nightmares; they are chaotic neutral, and tied to the Plane of Shadow rather than Hades. Even if her mount is killed or banished back to its home plane, with a standard action, the Morrígna can call it back to her.
• Peerless Warrior (Ex): The Morrígna gains a +16 insight bonus to any Craft skill, Handle Animal, and Ride check.
• Weaponsmaster (Ex): The Morrígna can receive the benefits of two martial stances at the same time. Further, the first martial boost or counter used in a round does not count toward the limit of one immediate or swift action per round. Thus, the Morrígna could also cast a quickened spell on the same round as initiating a boost or counter, or could initiate both a boost and a counter in the same round, or two of each.

Aspect of Badhbh: Wild energy pulses in the veins of the Morrígna, owing to Badhbh’s ties to the natural world. The instincts of a predator and the otherworldly fury of the fey is her legacy.

• Queen of the Wild (Ex): The Morrígna can command and rebuke any animal or magical beast as a cleric whose level is equal to its hit dice, except that this is an extraordinary ability. Further, the Morrígna gains a +16 insight bonus to Knowledge (nature).
• Primal Rage (Ex): The Morrígna can rage once per encounter. The rage lasts for as long as wanted, gives a +8 bonus to Strength and Constitution, a +4 bonus to Will saves, and -2 penalty to Armor Class. The Morrígna does not become fatigued after a rage, and has no limitation as to what kinds of actions, spells, or items are usable during a rage.
• Song of the Bean Sí (Su): The Morrígna can utilize the wail of the banshee as a swift action once per round.
• Soul of the Changeling (Su): The Morrígna can wild shape at will into the forms of any animal, elemental, fey, or magical beast, of 50 hit dice or less, of any size. The forms of wild horses, wolves, and crows tend to be favorites, though the Morrígna has been known to take the shape of old hags, sylphs, and pillars of fire.
• Stalker of the Mounds (Ex): The Morrígna leaves no trail and cannot be tracked. It may choose to leave a trail if so desired. Further, the Morrígna can move through any kind of terrain at its normal movement speed without suffering damage or any other impairment, magical or otherwise; no terrain is treated as difficult terrain for the Morrígna to traverse.

Epic Spells: The Morrígna can develop and cast epic spells as an arcane caster of 50th level, capable of casting 5 epic spells every day. The Morrígna currently knows a large number of epic spells, as all three sisters have been creating and finding them in their multiple millennia of existence.

Martial Maneuvers: The Morrígna initiates martial maneuvers as a 50th level warblade. This means that the Morrígna has the maneuvers and stances known of a 20th level warblade, but initiates as a 50th level warblade. The Morrígna can learn Shadow Hand maneuvers along with the rest of the disciplines available to a warblade. The Morrígna recovers maneuvers every time a foe fails its Will save against its frightful presence (storm crow) ability.

The Morrígna’s martial maneuvers list has been known to change from time to time, and somehow seems to fit whatever situation the sisters are dancing wildly into.

Spells: The Morrígna casts spells as a sorceress of 50th level. It can choose spells from the sorcerer list, the druid list, and the Darkness and Domination domains to her spells known. The saving throw DC of any of her spells is 20 +spell level, unless they are of the enchantment and illusion schools, in which case they are DC 22 +spell level, and count as supernatural effects, not spells.

The Morrígna’s spell list has been known to change from time to time, and, like Morrígna’s martial maneuvers, somehow seems to be just what was needed in any given situation–almost as if Anann was reading the stars in order to determine the Morrígna’s needs.

Convocation of Sisters (Su): As a swift act, the one of the Morrígna can summon any or both of the other two sisters to an adjacent square or pair of squares, crossing planar boundaries when necessary. Any summoned sister acts on the same initiative as the first, and takes her turn immediately after arriving. There is never any conflict of interest in summonings; if one sister thought it important enough to bring one or both of the others, then all three of them thought it important enough. Because of this, it is possible for one of the sisters to in effect, summon herself to the side of one of her other sisters.

Heart of the Triune (Ex): The Morrígna shares the same life force, and one of deific power. Any beneficial effect (enchantments, healing, etc) that targets one of them affects all three of them, even across planar boundaries. In order for the Morrígna to be destroyed, all three must be killed on the same plane. If even one of them survives, the slain sister or sisters will return, fully regenerated, within 1d4 hours.

Immortality (Ex): Though not immortal in the strictest sense of the word, the Morrígna is ageless, and if left in peace, will never die of natural causes.

Immunities (Ex): The Morrígna is immune to any electricity, sonic, fear, disease, or poison effect, and all enchantment or illusion effects of a caster level lower than her own.

Mind of the Triple Goddess (Su): The Morrígna acts in perfect unison; all three of the sisters

Skills: The Morrígna gains a +8 racial bonus to Listen, Search, Sense Motive, and Spot checks.

Special: If the divine ranks in Deities and Demigods are in use, treat the Morrígna as a rank 5 demigoddess.

Treasure: black badhbh’s spear, castle on the mounds, danu’s embrace, fury of the stars, and squall crow; further, the Morrígna carries a shifting array of other magical items that changes with the current state of affairs.

Lore

The Morrígna is a well known spirit of the fey, and many mortals are even aware of the name, though what they knows is usually suspect. Characters with ranks in Knowledge (history), Knowledge (nature), Knowledge (local), or Knowledge (religion) can roll to see if they know of the Morrígna. The DCs are 5 higher for any Knowledge other than Knowledge (nature).

• DC 20 – The Morrígna is a fierce goddess of the fey, with power over warfare and death. The Morrígna has been known by many names at different times, such as Anann, Badhbh, and Macha.
• DC 35 – The Morrígna is actually a name of reference given to three sister goddesses, Anann, Badhbh, and Macha, who have been instrumental in saving the Tuatha Dé Danann–their race of fey creatures–from destruction throughout the millenia.
• DC 50 – The three sisters share a special bond; they work in perfect harmony, share the same thoughts and inspirations at the same time, and can communicate over long distances with hardly a thought.
• DC 65 – The magic that binds the Morrígna together also makes them incredibly hard to destroy. In order to kill one of the sisters, all three of them need to be destroyed on the same plane–if even one of them survives, the others will return.