Stalhound (creature)

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Stalhound
Medium undead (stal), unaligned Armor Class 12 Heart Points 26 (4d8 + 8) Speed 40 ft.
STR 14 (+2)	DEX 14 (+2)	CON 14 (+2)	INT 2 (-4)	WIS 6 (-2)	CHA 6 (-2)
Skills Perception +0
Damage Vulnerabilities thunder
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 10 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)			Proficiency Bonus +2
Pack Tactics. The stalhound has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the stalhound's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated. Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the stalhound has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.
Actions Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) piercing damage. Dig. The stalhound gains a burrow speed of 5 feet until the start of its next turn.

“	“These skeletal dogs dig up from beneath the ground [...] at night. They are often alone when Link encounters them, but some occasionally appear in packs.”
	— Encyclopedia

A stalhound is the animated skeleton of a wolf or other large canine, with glowing orbs in place of its eyes that are capable of seeing in darkness. These monsters are known to arise from the dirt at night, haunting prairies or wide open fields, with even more vicious intent than they bore while alive. They usually hunt in packs of at least two, but rarely more than a dozen. Stalhounds usually only attack living creatures, and thus are occasionally kept or trained by stalfos or other sentient undead.
     Oblivious Carnivores. Like many stal-creatures, stalhounds do not seem to realize they are not alive. They hunt down caravans, travelers, and other prey in an unsatiable hunger even though their skeletal forms have no need to eat. Unlike many undead, they are not inherently evil, as much like living wolves they lack the mental facilities for alignment.
     Undead Nature. The stalhound does not require air, food, water, or sleep.
     Environment: Caves, Desert, Grassland, Urban

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Related pages

• Stal, the race of creatures to which a stalhound belongs
• Wolf, the statistics for a living version of this creature
• Stalhorse, another animated skeleton of a quadruped beast
• Stalfos, an animated humanoid skeleton, occasionally known to command stalhounds

The material on this page is based primarily on content found in Twilight Princess, which is copyright Nintendo Co., Ltd.