Xorn

Monster Manual (2025) p. 338

Size
Medium
Type
elemental
Alignment
neutral
AC
19
Initiative
0
Hit Points
84 (8d8+48)
Speed
walk 20 ft., burrow 20 ft.
Skills
Stealth +6, Perception +6
Immunities
poison
Condition Immunities
paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
Senses
darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft.
Passive Perception
16
Languages
Primordial (Terran)
Challenge
5
Environment
planar (elemental plane of earth), underdark
STR
17
+3
DEX
10
+0
CON
22
+6
INT
11
+0
WIS
10
+0
CHA
11
+0

Traits

Proficiency Bonus

+3

Treasure

Any: The monster's treasure hoard can include monetary treasure and any kinds of magic items.

Earth Glide

The xorn can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, the xorn doesn't disturb the material it moves through.

Treasure Sense

The xorn can pinpoint the location of precious metals and stones within 60 feet of itself.

Actions

Multiattack

The xorn makes one Bite attack and three Claw attacks.

Bite

Melee Attack Roll: +6, reach 5 ft. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3) Piercing damage.

Claw

Melee Attack Roll: +6, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) Slashing damage.

Charge (Bonus Action)

The xorn moves up to its Speed or Burrow Speed straight toward an enemy it can sense.

Other data

description

On the Elemental Plane of Earth, xorn roam in search of meals they consider delicacies: gems, crystals, and veins of precious metals. For xorn, the Elemental Plane of Earth presents an endless buffet. Those that find their way to the Material Plane discover that most worlds are culinary wastelands. These xorn scour subterranean depths, consuming whatever sparse gems and ores they find. This might bring them into conflict with miners or others who hide their treasures underground. Xorn have three eyes, three arms, and three legs arranged around their trilaterally symmetrical frames. At the top of their bodies is a toothy maw that's equally capable of crushing minerals and dangerous creatures. Xorn move through the earth magically, leaving no tunnel or sign of their passage. Rapt gourmands, xorn focus on their next meals. They care little for living creatures and avoid harming them when possible. They know others also covet the earth's treasures, and they're not above bargaining for their meals. Xorn might share their knowledge of the Underdark in exchange for snacks of gems, coins, or magical metals. If starving or angered, xorn might try to forcibly take their meals. Roll on or choose a result from the Xorn Delicacies table to inspire a xorn's favorite fare.

Xorn Delicacies:

1d8The Xorn Craves...
1Adamantine or mithral.
2Coins minted by a long-dead empire.
3Fossils or petrified wood.
4A gem that's part of a magic item.
5The keystone of a great arch or bridge.
6Parts of a galeb duhr or stone golem.
7A piece of a meteor or moon.
8The stone crowning a mountain peak.