Drukhari Hekatrix-Type

Saves: Agility +8

Proficiencies: Acrobatics +8, Intimidation +6, Insight +5

Senses: Sees clearly in dim light and darkness within 60 feet

Tempo Mistress. Once per round, when an adjacent enemy attacks or moves, the hekatrix may first move 5 feet or make one Agonizer Lash attack. Every exchange happens at her chosen beat.

Blooded Reputation. Wych allies within 30 feet gain +1 to hit targets the hekatrix has wounded this scene.

Agonizer Lash. Melee Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 2d8 + 4 energy damage, and the target makes a Willpower Save DC 13 or is Pinned and Exposed until the end of its next turn.

Duelist's Invitation. The hekatrix challenges one creature she can see. If it attacks anyone but her before her next turn, she immediately makes one Agonizer Lash attack against it with Advantage.

Set the Rhythm. Wych allies within 30 feet immediately reposition up to half their Movement without provoking Reactive Fire. The whole pack moves on her beat.

Punish the Overreach. When a melee attack misses the hekatrix, she makes one Agonizer Lash attack against the attacker. Once per round.

Morale: Withdraws with theatrical contempt when the exchange turns — living to duel again is the professional standard of the arena.

Tactics: Let her pick the duel and run it as tempo theft: she acts inside the party's actions, punishes commitment, and feeds her pack the wounded. She avoids massed guns and open ground on principle; beat her by refusing the duel — focus fire, Suppression, and no pride.

Loot / Evidence / Hooks: Arena-champion trophies and a stimm-injector rig; her cult will pay in blood or favors to learn how she died.

A Drukhari Hekatrix-Type is a superior wych duelist who controls close-combat tempo the way a conductor controls an orchestra — every exchange happens at her chosen beat. The cult follows her because watching her work is why they joined.

Use this enemy as the wych cult's leader and the duel the party's melee specialist was not ready for.

Threat Profile: Moderate durability, elite melee tempo control, reaction denial, pain-weapon debuffs, commands wych packs, still fragile under massed ranged fire.

Tempo Mistress. Once per round, when an adjacent enemy attacks or moves, she may move 5 feet or make one attack first.

Blooded Reputation. Wych allies within 30 feet gain +1 to hit targets the hekatrix has wounded this scene.

Agonizer Lash. Melee attack of weaponized pain; failed Willpower Save leaves the target Pinned and Exposed.

Duelist's Invitation. Challenges one target; if it attacks anyone but her before her next turn, she makes an immediate attack against it with Advantage.

Set the Rhythm. Wych allies immediately reposition half Movement without provoking Reactive Fire; the whole pack moves on her beat.

Morale: Withdraws with theatrical contempt when the exchange turns — living to duel again is the professional standard of the arena.

Tactics: Let her pick the duel and run it as tempo theft: she acts inside the party's actions, punishes commitment, and feeds her pack the wounded. She avoids massed guns and open ground on principle. Beat her by refusing the duel — focus fire, Suppression, and no pride.

Full Stat Block Priority: High