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Bruxa
Adversary overview
Bruxae are experts at hiding in plain sight, blending in perfectly among mortals. She often finds a victim to become her lover and a constant supply of sustenance.
It is said that at night Bruxae haunt attractive young men and drink their blood. This silent and seductively beautiful creature closely resembles a fey. In fact, she is a vampire, and one of the deadliest kind. They approaches gracefully and are easy to overlook as a threat. These vampires move quietly in the dark to suddenly emerge near their victims. An eerie cry echoing through corridors indicates an approaching Bruxa – at once both beauty and the beast.
Bruxae are womanoids and take the form of beautiful women, leading some to mistake them for nymphs, but their long fangs and thirst for blood always betray them. The Bruxa is built on contradictions. She appears as a beautiful woman, but when she is hungry or attacking, she is terrifying. Her black pupils and blank face contrast sharply with her pale feminine silhouette. The Bruxa is a higher vampire and therefor drinks blood but do not depend on it to survive. She often finds a victim to become her lover and a constant supply of sustenance at the same time.
The bruxa finds the smell of garlic to be socially inconvenient at most, and she considers holy symbols to be interesting examples of handicraft. She endures the light of the sun well, but she prefers the darkness of the night. If threatened, they attack with their talons and rip the victim apart, pausing only to savor the blood of their dying foe. The greatest threat comes from the Bruxa’s voice. The creature can scream with the might of a banshee, wrecking the mind of the sternest man, making him easy prey for the vampiress. Blindness is as great a threat as this ghastly scream. The pitch-black gaze of Bruxae can deprive their enemies of sight, or even paralyse, in order for the fiend to play cat and mouse with its prey.
This alluring yet frightful fiend is the most manipulative of vampires, to the exception maybe of the elusive Nosferat. Bruxae are experts at hiding in plain sight, blending in perfectly among mortals and throwing off their trail easily vampire hunters. Few can tell what they really are when they are not on the hunt. They can charm equally undead and mortals, surrounding themselves with servants, bodyguards and lovers, with a preference for lower vampires and alps. The most powerful of them can enslave a creature through their bite, binding mystically their victim to their will. They are obediently served by an entire court of suitors and sycophants, tending to their every twisted needs.
Bruxae are as far as you can possibly be from the classical myth of the vampire inhabiting dark crypts and ancient ruins. If they do so, its by personal taste or because things turned sour and they are now in hiding. Instead they favor places with a lot of traffic and where mortals let their guard down, like brothels, merchant outposts, inns or theaters. Some Bruxae even make a business out of their needs, trading favors against blood. Still, Bruxae are aware that people will not take kindly to their feeding and they always prepare multiple escape plans.
Stat block
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Standard attack
Features
Passives
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Relentless (3)
This adversary can be spotlighted up to 3 times per GM turn. Spend Fear as usual to spotlight them.
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Vulnerability to Sunlight
While in sunlight the Bruxa is Vulnerable.
Actions
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Stalking Predatorfear 1
Once per scene the Bruxa can spend a Fear to become Invisible. The Invisibility ends once the Bruxa attacks a creature or ends the Invisibility willingly. If the Bruxa attacks a creature during Invisibility, the Bruxa has advantage on its roll.
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Shapeshifterstress 1
Mark a Stress: If the alp isn't in sunlight, she can polymorph into a Medium female humanoid or back into its true form. While in humanoid form, her statistics, are the same. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies.
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Gotcha!stress 1
Mark a Stress: The Bruxa tries to grapple a creature within Very Close range. The target must make a Strength Reaction Roll (13) to avoid being grappled.
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Bitefear 1
Spend a Fear: If the Bruxa has grappled a target, the Bruxa can do an attack role against that target with advantage. If the Bruxa succeeds, the Bruxa also gains the amount of HP that it did as damage.
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Kiss of Darknessfear 1
While in a humanoid form, spend a Fear to kiss a creature within Melee range. The target must make a Knowledge Reaction Roll (18). If the target fails the roll, it becomes charmed by the Bruxa. The charmed target is under the Bruxa's control and can't take reactions, and the Bruxa and the target can communicate telepathically with each other over any distance. Whenever the charmed target takes damage, the target can repeat the Reaction Roll On a success, the effect ends. No more than once every 24 hours, the target can also repeat the Reaction Roll when it is at least 1 mile away from the Bruxa.
Reactions
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Momentum
When this adversary makes a successful attack against a PC, you gain a Fear.
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Vampiric Walkstress 1
After the Bruxa has been successfully attacked, the Bruxa can mark a Stress to vanish before everyone's eyes and reappear within any location that is within Close Range and that the Bruxa can see.
Motives & tactics
Experiences
- Detect Thoughts +4
- Very Fast +2
- Femme Fatale +2
Bruxa
Tier 3 solo
Bruxae are experts at hiding in plain sight, blending in perfectly among mortals. She often finds a victim to become her lover and a constant supply of sustenance.
Motives & Tactics: Wanton Villain, Fair and Deadly, Queen of the Night, Wolves among Sheep
Difficulty: 18 | Thresholds: 22 / 35 | HP: 10 | Stress: 6
ATK: +6 | Claws: Melee | 3d10+8 Physical
Experience: Detect Thoughts +4, Very Fast +2, Femme Fatale +2
HP:
Stress:
Features
Relentless (3) – Passive: This adversary can be spotlighted up to 3 times per GM turn. Spend Fear as usual to spotlight them.
Momentum – Reaction: When this adversary makes a successful attack against a PC, you gain a Fear.
Vampiric Walk – Reaction: After the Bruxa has been successfully attacked, the Bruxa can mark a Stress to vanish before everyone's eyes and reappear within any location that is within Close Range and that the Bruxa can see.
Stalking Predator – Action: Once per scene the Bruxa can spend a Fear to become Invisible. The Invisibility ends once the Bruxa attacks a creature or ends the Invisibility willingly. If the Bruxa attacks a creature during Invisibility, the Bruxa has advantage on its roll.
Shapeshifter – Action: Mark a Stress: If the alp isn't in sunlight, she can polymorph into a Medium female humanoid or back into its true form. While in humanoid form, her statistics, are the same. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies.
Gotcha! – Action: Mark a Stress: The Bruxa tries to grapple a creature within Very Close range. The target must make a Strength Reaction Roll (13) to avoid being grappled.
Bite – Action: Spend a Fear: If the Bruxa has grappled a target, the Bruxa can do an attack role against that target with advantage. If the Bruxa succeeds, the Bruxa also gains the amount of HP that it did as damage.
Kiss of Darkness – Action: While in a humanoid form, spend a Fear to kiss a creature within Melee range. The target must make a Knowledge Reaction Roll (18). If the target fails the roll, it becomes charmed by the Bruxa. The charmed target is under the Bruxa's control and can't take reactions, and the Bruxa and the target can communicate telepathically with each other over any distance. Whenever the charmed target takes damage, the target can repeat the Reaction Roll On a success, the effect ends. No more than once every 24 hours, the target can also repeat the Reaction Roll when it is at least 1 mile away from the Bruxa.
Vulnerability to Sunlight – Passive: While in sunlight the Bruxa is Vulnerable.
Bruxa
It is said that at night Bruxae haunt attractive young men and drink their blood. This silent and seductively beautiful creature closely resembles a fey. In fact, she is a vampire, and one of the deadliest kind. They approaches gracefully and are easy to overlook as a threat. These vampires move quietly in the dark to suddenly emerge near their victims. An eerie cry echoing through corridors indicates an approaching Bruxa – at once both beauty and the beast.
Bruxae are womanoids and take the form of beautiful women, leading some to mistake them for nymphs, but their long fangs and thirst for blood always betray them. The Bruxa is built on contradictions. She appears as a beautiful woman, but when she is hungry or attacking, she is terrifying. Her black pupils and blank face contrast sharply with her pale feminine silhouette. The Bruxa is a higher vampire and therefor drinks blood but do not depend on it to survive. She often finds a victim to become her lover and a constant supply of sustenance at the same time.
The bruxa finds the smell of garlic to be socially inconvenient at most, and she considers holy symbols to be interesting examples of handicraft. She endures the light of the sun well, but she prefers the darkness of the night. If threatened, they attack with their talons and rip the victim apart, pausing only to savor the blood of their dying foe. The greatest threat comes from the Bruxa’s voice. The creature can scream with the might of a banshee, wrecking the mind of the sternest man, making him easy prey for the vampiress. Blindness is as great a threat as this ghastly scream. The pitch-black gaze of Bruxae can deprive their enemies of sight, or even paralyse, in order for the fiend to play cat and mouse with its prey.
This alluring yet frightful fiend is the most manipulative of vampires, to the exception maybe of the elusive Nosferat. Bruxae are experts at hiding in plain sight, blending in perfectly among mortals and throwing off their trail easily vampire hunters. Few can tell what they really are when they are not on the hunt. They can charm equally undead and mortals, surrounding themselves with servants, bodyguards and lovers, with a preference for lower vampires and alps. The most powerful of them can enslave a creature through their bite, binding mystically their victim to their will. They are obediently served by an entire court of suitors and sycophants, tending to their every twisted needs.
Bruxae are as far as you can possibly be from the classical myth of the vampire inhabiting dark crypts and ancient ruins. If they do so, its by personal taste or because things turned sour and they are now in hiding. Instead they favor places with a lot of traffic and where mortals let their guard down, like brothels, merchant outposts, inns or theaters. Some Bruxae even make a business out of their needs, trading favors against blood. Still, Bruxae are aware that people will not take kindly to their feeding and they always prepare multiple escape plans.
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