Shiven's Den · area boss

Dame Iseult Vayre, the Warded Flame

the Warded Flame

A named threat of Shiven's Den, encountered rarely and never in numbers - real Dungeons & Dragons statistics, no auto-computed shortcuts.

CR 23 Undead · Fighter 4 / Wizard 9 / Abjurant_Champion 10 resref sd2_iseult

Stat block

STR
18
+4
DEX
14
+2
CON
16
+3
INT
18
+4
WIS
10
+0
CHA
10
+0
Hit points
225
Natural AC
5
Skills
Concentration 15 · Spellcraft 15
Feats
WeapProfMar, Toughness, CmbtCast, IronWill, Dodge, Mobility, feat_epic_spellcasting, FEAT_EPIC_SPELL_MAGE_ARMOUR

Prepared spells

LevelKnown / Prepared
1Magic Missile
2ScorchingRay
3Haste
4Stoneskin
5Cone of Cold
9Epic Mage Armor

Combat sequence

Layered on top of the module's own combat AI, which still picks targets and positioning. The fight below moves through real hit-point-gated phases; every save DC and attack bonus computes from the stat block above at runtime.

I

Warded Blade

Every round

A disciplined strike from a knight who trained as much in the abjurer's circle as the yard.

II

Ward Charge

Always active, banking with every real hit she takes

Nothing she absorbs is wasted - every point of damage taken banks into a charge that, once it crosses a real threshold, discharges as a payback nova scaled to exactly how much she's weathered. It can fire more than once a fight if the party keeps landing blows.

III

Epic Mage Armor

Once, below 25% hp

Her granted Epic Spell spends whatever's left in the charge on a ward that never comes down again.

Why these numbers

CR 23 is set against Shiven's Den's own real ambient ceiling, not auto-computed from level alone - a genuine Fighter 4 / Wizard 9 / Abjurant_Champion 10 build at 23 total levels.

Hit points (225) follow this project's own average-hit-dice convention, and every save/attack bonus derives from the ability scores above at runtime - nothing here is hardcoded past the phase gates themselves.

How it's wired

Boss-flagged (bypasses the drop-rate roll, two loot-generation passes) and gated to a single spawn - only one Dame Iseult Vayre is ever up in Shiven's Den at a time.

Recovered artifact

Vayre's Warded Ember

Dame Iseult Vayre's sealed ember. A plot artifact that keeps an abjurant ward warm. sd2_ise_art