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The South Wildlands · area boss LXXXI

Grimjaw Voss, the Mage-Render

Favored Foe: Everyone Who Casts

A trapper who decided the wildlands' spellcasters were the real predators and started treating them that way — his Favored Foe doesn't pick one target to mark, it stands ready against every caster on the field at once.

CR 29Half-Orc · Barbarian 19 / Foe Hunter 10resref sw3_grimjawspawn table 170 · always, 12% · count 1

Stat Block

Race / Class
Half-Orc · Barbarian 19 / Foe Hunter 10
Challenge Rating
29
Hit Points
365 (expected ~367)
Natural Armor
4
Str
28
+9
Dex
14
+2
Con
22
+6
Int
8
-1
Wis
14
+2
Cha
8
-1
Feats — Cleave, Great Cleave, Power Attack, Toughness, Track, Weapon Focus (Greatsword), Blind-Fight, Iron Will
Skills — Intimidate 20, Search 10, Spot 12
Spells — — none. Pure martial hunter, no spellcasting of his own.

The Fight

Every round

Favored Foe: Spellcasters

Unlike every prior hunter in this bestiary, he doesn't pick one Quarry - any enemy he's currently fighting who carries spellcaster levels takes a flat bonus-damage strike, checked fresh every swing.

Every 3rd round

Rending Fury

A heavy cleave that, against a caster, also tears one active ward loose (a real dispel) along with the damage.

Once, at 33% hp or lower

Silence the Song

A permanent standing anti-caster zone drops around him and reapplies every round from then on - the bestiary's first aura built to suppress spellcasting itself rather than deal damage or drain a stat - plus a permanent rage buff.

Why These Numbers

The South Wildlands already hosts Conquest (CR27) and Gravemaw (CR25) as its established bosses; Grimjaw is pitched one step above the real ceiling at CR29, and this is the area's last open spawn slot - its ceiling is now fully built out. He's deliberately the batch's pure-martial counterweight to the casters around him: no epic spell, Foe Hunter carries no spellcasting to hang one on, same honest call as Dame Thorne's Superb Dispelling and Kaine Duskrend's Null Zone before him.

How It's Wired

pattern
new build — cloned from zep_orcbloodg (already ran real j_ai_* AI)
blueprint
sw3_grimjaw.utc
scripts
sw3_gv_inc.nss, sw3_gv_spawn.nss, sw3_gv_round.nss, sw3_gv_death.nss
area wiring
thesouthwildland.git · sparky_variables, enc10 → 170

Recovered artifact

Grimjaw's Rendered Rune

A shattered ward-rune torn free by Grimjaw Voss, still warm with a mage-render's fury. sw3_gri_art