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Marleaih Rose, the Last Toast

Local rumor calls her 'the Last Toast,' a euphemism used by people who would rather not say the name of the woman who once invited a beloved innkeeper to share one private drink, then left him pale and barely alive. Marleaih was born a monster, not cursed into one. In adulthood she learned to reshape her appearance and made the human guise her most dependable hunting tool. She keeps no lasting identity long enough for suspicion to settle.

Monsters
Medium fiend · CR 5 · Unique

Marleaih Rose, the Last Toast

A born vampiric fiend who learned to pass as human, Marleaih Rose uses intimate conversation and supernatural charm to make victims lower their guard before feeding.
AC15
HP93/93
CR5
Init
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
ConditionsNone

Combat

AC 15 · HP 93 · CR 5

Marleaih Rose, the Last Toast

Medium fiend (shapechanger), neutral evil
Armor Class15 (natural armor)
Hit Points93 (11d8 + 44)
Speed
30 ft.,
Fly 40 ft. in true form
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
Saving ThrowsDexterityWisdomCharisma
SkillsDeceptionInsightPerceptionPersuasionStealth
Damage Resistances
Cold,
Fire,
Lightning,
Poison,
Bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Weaknesses
Direct sunlight suppresses Predator's Renewal.,
Radiant damage suppresses Predator's Renewal until the start of her next turn.
Her charm cannot affect creatures that cannot hear her.
She cannot use Vampiric Kiss on a resisting, unrestrained target unless it is willing, charmed, grappled, or incapacitated.
Senses
Darkvision 60 ft.,
Passive Perception 13
Languages
Common,
Infernal
Challenge5
Proficiency Bonus+3
Initiative+3
Born Mask. Marleaih can assume a humanoid appearance using Borrowed Face. Her preferred guise is human, and she remains in it unless she has reason to reveal her true form.
Predator's Renewal. If Marleaih starts her turn with at least 1 hit point and has not taken radiant damage since the end of her previous turn, she regains 5 hit points. This trait does not function while she is in direct sunlight.
Unliving Breath. Marleaih does not need to breathe.

Actions

Multiattack. Marleaih makes two attacks, using her Rose-Tipped Claw twice or her Bite once and her Rose-Tipped Claw once.
Rose-Tipped Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 () slashing damage.
Vampiric Kiss. Melee Weapon Attack: to hit, reach 5 ft., one willing, charmed, or grappled creature, or a creature that is incapacitated. Hit: 13 () piercing damage plus 7 () necrotic damage. Marleaih regains hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt. A humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this attack dies. This attack is not a weapon attack for the purpose of features that trigger on being hit by a weapon.
Velvet Confidence (Recharge 5-6). One humanoid Marleaih can see within 30 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw if it can hear her. On a failure, the target is charmed by her for 1 minute. While charmed this way, the target regards her as a trusted, desirable confidante, and Marleaih can communicate telepathically with it while they are within 1 mile of each other. The target repeats the save whenever it takes damage and at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. The effect also ends if Marleaih or her companions harm the target. A creature that succeeds is immune to her Velvet Confidence for 24 hours. This is a custom supernatural charm, not a spell.
Borrowed Face. Marleaih magically changes her appearance to that of a Small or Medium humanoid, or back to her true form. Her statistics are the same in either form. Her clothing and equipment do not change. She can maintain this change indefinitely, and it does not reveal her true nature to magic that detects a creature's type.

Reactions

Slip Behind the Confidence. When a creature Marleaih can see targets her with an attack, she adds 2 to her AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss. If the attack misses, she can move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks from that creature.
Role
Deceptive infiltrator and charm-focused skirmisher
Built for
5th level party of four characters

Gear

  • Borrowed finery (Clothing, Immaculate but not magical)A finely made gown, coat, or travel outfit suited to the identity she is currently using.
  • Rose perfume (Personal item, Worth 10 gp)A small perfume vial whose scent is rose and warm spice.

Notes for the game master

Marleaih is a custom fiend, not a canonical succubus or vampire. Her charm and shapechanging are custom traits.
Her attacks and saves use the standard 5E proficiency bonus for a Challenge 5 creature.
Her resistances and regeneration are intentionally narrower than those of many canonical fiends to keep her within the requested threat level.

Tactics

  1. Opening

    She approaches as a plausible traveler, patron, or guest and uses private conversation to identify the party's suspicions and weak social ties. If combat begins, she targets an isolated character with Velvet Confidence.

  2. Mid-fight

    She uses claws against alert foes and saves her bite for a charmed, restrained, or otherwise vulnerable target. She shifts forms to unsettle witnesses, not to gain a mechanical advantage.

  3. End of the fight

    If a victim is isolated or incapacitated, she uses Vampiric Kiss to recover health. If that opportunity is gone, she attacks whoever is most injured and seeks a route to escape.

  4. Retreat

    When reduced to 25 hit points or fewer, she tries to bargain, flee through a prepared exit, or leave a charmed bystander in the party's path. She fights to the death only if trapped or certain she can feed.

How it fights

She prefers to charm one character before combat and draw that victim away from allies.
She uses her claws against alert opponents and reserves her bite for a compromised target.
She changes forms to create confusion and escape, not to claim that her human guise is harmless.
She avoids prolonged fair fights and exploits doors, balconies, crowds, and bystanders.

Who it attacks first

An isolated character susceptible to charm
A wounded or incapacitated target she can feed upon
A character threatening her escape or exposing her identity

Works well with

A polished host, informant, or accomplice can keep victims socially isolated while Marleaih hunts.
A crowded event gives her cover to move between guests, but also gives the party witnesses who can corroborate her changing appearances.

How to beat it

Her charm requires a creature to hear her, so silence, deafness, or effective barriers can prevent Velvet Confidence.
A successful Wisdom save grants 24-hour immunity to Velvet Confidence.
Her bite requires a willing, charmed, grappled, or incapacitated target, so coordinated allies can deny her preferred feeding opportunity.
Radiant damage prevents her from regaining hit points until the start of her next turn, interrupting the healing benefit of her bite.
Watchful allies can use the Help action to grant a suspicious character advantage on an Insight check to see through her conversational approach.

Ways to avoid a fight

She can serve as a persuasive source of rumors, a temporary ally, or a patron whose help comes with an unsettlingly personal price.
A character can expose her through patient investigation, comparing accounts of her appearances under different names.
She may negotiate a release, secret, or favor in exchange for sparing a victim, but her promises should be carefully worded.

Ecology

In her preferred human guise, Marleaih Rose is an arrestingly composed young woman with soft rose-gold hair, immaculate clothes, and a smile that feels meant for one person alone. She speaks in a low, warm tone and makes casual remarks sound like confidences. Her true form is a slender, vampiric fiend with backward-curving horns, long lacquer-black nails, folded crimson membranes, and a mouth made for a careful, intimate bite.

Behavior

Marleaih rarely raises her voice. She asks questions as though she already knows the answer, remembers small personal details, and gives each listener the impression that the conversation is private. She never admits what she is, even when confronted, and prefers to let others invent comforting explanations for her oddities.

How it lives

Marleaih needs no ordinary food, but craves the vitality of humanoids. She can go weeks without feeding, though hunger makes her less patient and her borrowed face harder to maintain. She has no conventional lair and favors a succession of rented rooms, private salons, and trusted hosts.

Lair

Marleaih uses comfortable, temporary rooms rather than a fixed lair. Her current refuge usually has a private entrance, a mirror she can use to practice expressions, and at least one guest who believes she is a friend.

Habitat
Urban salons, roadside inns, private dining rooms, theaters, and wealthy households where a newcomer can be welcomed without scrutiny.

Signs that it is near

A faint scent of roses and warm spice in rooms where no flowers have been kept.
A guest's recollection of a private conversation that no one else remembers witnessing.
Small punctures hidden beneath a victim's collar or jewelry.
A mirror briefly showing a horned silhouette when Marleaih stands nearby.

Tags

fiend,
shapechanger,
vampiric,
social predator,
custom monster

Lore

Local rumor calls her 'the Last Toast,' a euphemism used by people who would rather not say the name of the woman who once invited a beloved innkeeper to share one private drink, then left him pale and barely alive. Marleaih was born a monster, not cursed into one. In adulthood she learned to reshape her appearance and made the human guise her most dependable hunting tool. She keeps no lasting identity long enough for suspicion to settle.

What drives it

She seeks the pleasures of attention, control, and feeding, while carefully preserving the freedom to reinvent herself whenever witnesses begin comparing stories.

After the fight

If slain, Marleaih's borrowed face slips away, revealing a lean, horned predator with rose-colored veins. Her victims may awaken from the charm confused and ashamed, while those she drained remain pale and cold. A surviving charmed victim may still remember the intimacy of her voice more clearly than her face.

“In adulthood she learned to reshape her appearance and made the human guise her most dependable hunting tool.”
From its lore

Variants

The Last Toast is the local euphemism for Marleaih, taken from the innkeeper she lured away for one final drink.
A gentler version of Marleaih may seek willing donors and use her charm only to hide her nature, making her a tense potential ally rather than a straightforward predator.

Hooks

Plot hooks

Several people who shared a private drink with the same elegant stranger have fallen gravely ill, and the latest victim is a relative of a party member.
A witness insists that Marleaih was present in two distant towns on the same night, each time under a different name.
A powerful host hires the party to investigate a guest who has become the center of a string of missing-person cases.
One of her former victims recognizes her voice in a crowded room but cannot remember her face.

How to use it

Introduce her as a helpful informant or charming guest well before any fight, giving the party time to notice how every conversation with her seems unusually personal.
Use a social scene to establish her threat. A charmed ally who insists Marleaih is harmless is more effective than an immediate attack.
For a fair combat encounter, make her charm visible as a supernatural influence and place allies where they can protect or interrupt an isolated victim.
At Challenge 5, she is a dangerous solo foe for a party of four 5th-level characters, especially if they have already spent resources.

Treasure

A rose-perfumed purse containing 40 gp and a few coins from several different cities.
A collection of borrowed calling cards, each bearing a different name.
A small, unsent letter from a former victim describing a conversation they still cannot forget.

Connections

Ancestry

Fiend

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