Goristros are powerful demons from the Abyss, who served the Betrayer Gods during the Founding and the Age of Arcanum.[2] They resemble huge minotaurs and usually are adorned in jewelry.
Appearance[]
Percival found a sketch of a goristro in a book dealing with pre-Divergence history. The sketch is of "a looming creature of hulking fur and muscle, with fists like battering rams, a turned up, pug-like nose with a toothy jaw, and giant horns, adorned with brass rings, that curve forward."[3]
Abilities[]
The following abilities are drawn from the Monster Manual, 5th Edition,[4] but some abilities were demonstrated onstream.
- Skill proficiency: Perception
- Saving throw proficiencies: STR, DEX, CON, WIS
- Damage Resistances: Cold, fire, lightning, bludgeoning/piercing/slashing from nonmagical weapons
- Damage Immunity: Poison
- Condition Immunity: Poisoned
- Charge: The goristro can move 15 feet straight toward a target and then make a gore attack. On a failed Strength saving throw, the target can be pushed away and knocked prone.
- Labyrinthine Recall: The goristro can perfectly recall any path it has traveled.
- Magic Resistance: The goristro has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
- Siege Monster: The goristro deals double damage to objects and structures.
- Actions
- Multiattack: The goristro can make three attacks: two with its fists and one with its hoof.
- Fist: It can make an attack with its fist.
- Hoof: The goristro can attack with its hoof. If the target is a creature, it can be knocked prone.
- Gore: It can hit one target with its gore attack.
History[]
Fan art of Yenk fighting Vorugal, by Thomas Brin.[art 2]
Keeper Yennen, from what little he knew of fiendish lore, said that goristros were "dangerous front-line behemoths when the fiends attacked these lands, back in the pre-Divergence era. They were twenty-plus feet tall and living battering rams that tore through stone like it was paper. [...] An unstoppable fist in the service of the Dark Princes."[5]
Around the early fifth century PD, the goristro Yenk consumed Joran the Sea-Speaker and the Spire of Conflux he wielded.[6][7]
In 811 PD, Vox Machina summoned Yenk from the Endless Maze of the Abyss to fight Vorugal and to obtain the Spire of Conflux.
During the fight against the Forgotten Empyrean in the Plane of Pandemonium, Keyleth Shapechanges into a Goristro in "The Search For Grog" (Sx42) one-shot.[8]
References[]
- ↑ See "Vorugal" (1x71) from 2:25:20 through See also at 2:45:39..
- ↑ See "Trust" (1x70) from 1:21:49 through 1:24:12.
- ↑ See "Trust" (1x70) from 1:23:44 through 1:24:04.
- ↑ See D&D: Monster Manual (2014), 5th ed., p. 59.
- ↑ See "Trust" (1x70) from 1:28:08 through 1:28:57.
- ↑ See "Duskmeadow" (1x57) at 3:06:25.
- ↑ See "A Name Is Earned" (1x49) from 4:46:03 through 4:46:22.
- ↑ See "The Search For Grog" (Sx42) at 3:48:02.
Art:
- ↑ Depiction of a goristro, by Conceptopolis from Monster Manual, 5th ed., p. 59. This page contains unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
- ↑ Fan art of Yenk fighting Vorugal, by Thomas Brin (source). Used with permission.