Slaanesh Herald-Type

Saves: Willpower +8, Agility +9

Proficiencies: Persuasion +9, Performance +9

Daemonic Nature. Does not make Morale checks and is immune to fear and Suppression. At 0 Vitality it is banished with a bow and a promise.

Court of the Dark Prince. Lesser Slaanesh daemons within 60 feet gain +1 to hit and +10 feet of movement while acting under the herald's direction.

Terrible Poise. The first attack against the herald each round suffers Disadvantage, as it is simply not where the strike believed.

Ravaging Claw. The herald makes two attacks. Melee Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2d8 + 5 slashing damage, and the target makes a Willpower Save DC 15 or is Frightened until the end of its next turn by sensation it cannot file.

Command the Revel. The herald commands: two lesser Slaanesh daemon units within 60 feet immediately move up to their speed or make one attack each, in choreography.

The Beckoning. One enemy within 30 feet makes a Willpower Save DC 15 or spends its next move approaching the herald, transfixed and unable to make Reactive attacks until the end of its next turn.

Graceful Contempt. When an attack misses the herald, it may move 10 feet without provoking Reactive attacks or Reactive Fire.

Morale: Does not make Morale checks, only exquisite pride (daemonic nature). It withdraws from any fight that turns graceless or dull, and it grades the party on their performance as it goes.

Tactics: It conducts rather than brawls — daemonettes herd, fiends smother reactions, seekers cut the exits, and the herald collects whoever The Beckoning catches. It duels only characters it finds interesting, and being interesting is a hazard. Kill its poise with mass fire and mud; elegance is its armor and its weakness.

Loot / Evidence / Hooks: It leaves a scorecard: each party member's performance, graded in a perfect hand, with a note on what would have impressed it — bait for the vain and a warning for the wise.

A Slaanesh Herald-Type is a daemon leader using speed, pain, and awe as a command doctrine — a courtier of the Dark Prince whose battlefield is a stage and whose troops are an entourage. It wins fights by making the party want to watch.

Use this enemy to give Slaaneshi daemons coordination and cruelty with intent, or as the herald announcing a greater daemon's approach one arc early.

High speed and initiative, elite melee, charm and fascination domination, empowers lesser Slaanesh daemons, morale erosion, immune to morale itself, banished rather than killed.

Daemonic Nature. Does not check morale, immune to fear and Suppression; banished at 0 Vitality with a bow and a promise.

Court of the Dark Prince. Lesser Slaanesh daemons within 60 feet gain +1 to hit and move faster under its direction.

Terrible Poise. The first attack against it each round suffers Disadvantage as it is simply not where the strike believed.

Ravaging Claw. Elegant melee attack; those struck save or are Shaken by sensation they cannot file.

Command the Revel. Commands: two lesser Slaanesh units immediately move or attack, in choreography.

The Beckoning. One enemy within 30 feet saves or spends its next move approaching the herald, transfixed.

Morale: No morale, exquisite pride: it withdraws from any fight that turns graceless or dull, and it grades the party on their performance as it goes.

Tactics: It conducts rather than brawls — daemonettes herd, fiends smother reactions, seekers cut the exits, and the herald collects whoever The Beckoning catches. It duels only characters it finds interesting, and being interesting is a hazard. Kill its poise with mass fire and mud; elegance is its armor and its weakness.

Full Stat Block Priority: High