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Cathedral Level 3 · area boss LXXXIV

Serathiel Voss, the Bone Orchid

The Ledger Always Reopens

An apostate assassin who traded a temple's discipline for a blade and a spellbook, and now hunts whichever spellcaster in the crypt has the most power left to steal — the Ledger she keeps on them never really closes.

CR 33Human · Rogue 5 / Wizard 10 / Assassin 18resref cl3b_serathspawn table 173 · always, 12% · count 1

Stat Block

Race / Class
Human · Rogue 5 / Wizard 10 / Assassin 18
Challenge Rating
33
Hit Points
188 (expected ~188)
Natural Armor
3
Str
10
+0
Dex
24
+7
Con
14
+2
Int
22
+6
Wis
10
+0
Cha
12
+1
Feats — Dodge, Mobility, Weapon Finesse, Alertness, Combat Casting, Skill Focus (Hide), Toughness, Epic Spellcasting, Epic Spell: Mummy Dust
Skills — Hide 25, Move Silently 25, Spellcraft 15, Concentration 12
SpellsWizard L1 Magic Missile, True Strike · L2 Invisibility, Ghoul Touch · L3 Vampiric Touch · L4 Enervation, Contagion — Epic Mummy Dust

The Fight

Every round

Silent Verdict

She rescans for the strongest caster present, marks them, and strikes - every hit on the Marked target (only) permanently banks a Death's Ledger stack.

The instant Death's Ledger reaches 5

Widow's Kiss

A big sneak-flavored detonation on the Marked target scaled by the full stack - then the Ledger resets to zero rather than being spent once and done, so a long fight can see it close and reopen more than once.

Once, at 25% hp or lower

Mummy Dust

Her granted Epic Spell, reflavored - two Grave-Bloom Wretches rise from the cathedral floor at her side.

Why These Numbers

Cathedral Level 3's real ceiling is Death, the Pale Rider at CR32 (Malchor Greywane's CR30 and the loot-protected bele_adgolem's CR28 both sit under him); Serathiel is pitched a notch above at CR33, its third boss. She's the bestiary's first Assassin - real minor spellcasting with no dedicated spells.2da column, drawn from Wiz_Sorc filtered to illusion/death flavor, same technique as every other non-domain-column caster. Widow's Kiss is the first repeatable capstone in this bestiary - every prior mark-and-bank mechanic pays out once and stops; hers can trigger multiple times in one long fight.

How It's Wired

pattern
new build — cloned from rwrogue (already ran real j_ai_* AI)
blueprint
cl3b_serath.utc
scripts
cl3b_sv_inc.nss, cl3b_sv_spawn.nss, cl3b_sv_round.nss, cl3b_sv_death.nss
area wiring
cathedrallevel3.git · sparky_variables, enc05 → 173

Recovered artifact

Serathiel's Bone Orchid

A pale bone blossom from Serathiel Voss's death ledger, its petals reopening after every verdict. cl3b_ser_art