These jars are usually carved from limestone or made of pottery, etched or painted with religious hieroglyphs. The … Spellcasting: The mummy lord is a 10th-level spellcaster Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks). Even though monsters use different rules, when it comes to the Spellcasting trait, monsters do follow the guidelines of full casters. A Mummy Lord’s Lair A mummy lord watches over an ancient temple or tomb that is protected by lesser undead and rigged with traps.
Rejuvenation: A destroyed mummy lord gains a new body in 24 hours if its heart is intact, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. Hidden in this temple is the sarcophagus where a mummy lord keeps its greatest treasures.
The new body appears within 5 feet of the mummy lord's heart. This is a totally different league of monster from your rank-and-file mummy —and the power difference between a mummy and a mummy lord is much wider than that between an orc and an orc war chief, a hobgoblin and a hobgoblin warlord, or a gnoll and a gnoll Fang of Yeenoghu. The mummy lord should be an 11th or 12th level caster. As part of the ritual that creates a mummy lord, the creature's heart and viscera are removed from the corpse and placed in canopic jars. It has up to 6th level spells and legendary reactions.
Mummy lords are bosses on par with adult dragons and tougher than giants. Consider that, in a turn, the Mummy Lord can cast a spell, then use x3 rotting fist attacks (using Legendary Actions) against the Fighter in melee range it for 3x35 damage plus three saves against Mummy Rot. A mummy lord encountered in its lair has a challenge rating of 16 (15,000 … The mummy lord is a 10th-level spellcaster. Heart of the Mummy Lord.
Traits Magic Resistance: The mummy lord has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.