Compendium of Forgotten Secrets - Awakening
Wealth Mimic (Karensee) CR: 1
Tiny monstrosity, neutral
Armor Class: 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 24 ( 4d4+16 )
Speed:
15 ft
Skills: Stealth +8
Damage Resistances: bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities: poison, acid
Condition Immunities: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
Senses: darkvision 120ft., passive Perception 10
Languages: Understands those known by its master but can't speak or write.
Challenge Rating: 1
Aggressive Adhesion. Whenever the karensee touches a creature, it can choose to adhere to them as a reaction. If it does, it sticks to the target. A creature can make a DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check to scrape the karensee off of them. While a karensee is adhered to a creature, it has advantage on attack rolls against that target.
Magic Resistance. This creature has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Masterful Mimicry. When the karensee touches another unit of wealth, it can use a reaction to become an identical copy of that wealth. It can attack and perform actions regardless of form or appearance, but on a turn that it has taken no actions it is immune to damage and cannot be detected by any means short of truesight.
Pocket Jump. The wealth mimic can teleport up to 15 feet as a bonus action.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 ( 1d6+3 ) piercing damage plus Hit: 3 ( 1d4 ) acid damage.
A deadly thing that lurks in the pockets of countless saints
and villains alike, money is a tool that brings both salvation
and misery. Not all funds can be trusted, however. The
Currency Conspiracy has been gradually replacing the original
currencies of the world with karensee, colloquially known as
wealth mimics. They can take an endless number of forms,
but they are restricted, unlike their larger kin. These mimics
can only choose to turn into objects that appear to be of
value. A gold coin, a bill, a gemstone, a necklace of pearls: all
of these things are potential wealth mimics. Most of them are
asleep, trapped in a singular form. They feign damage or other
ill effects while they are sleeping, behaving exactly like natural
materials. However, when they are awakened by eldritch
magic, they come to life and attack those who sought to own
them. Members of the Currency conspiracy often call and
awaken wealth mimics using a ritualistic rite, but any warlock
of sufficient power and knowledge can summon one.
The first steps are relatively easy. The summoner must
ignite the brazier and stand adjacent to it, speaking the correct
incantations. Once the fire has burned down to embers, the
summoner must insert a single object of value that a wealth
mimic could imitate, such as a coin or bank note.
Next, the warlock must offer blood. When a few drops are
applied to the object within the brazier, the flames will flare to
life once more, consuming the object and then disappearing.
The ashes will begin to form together into a shape identical to
that of the object, and a new wealth mimic will be born. It will
speak a single word, giving itself a name. So long as that name
is known by its master, it will obey perfectly, changing shape
and killing on command.
Wealth mimics enjoy being fed other currency. Some
scholars whisper that this is intended to give them power,
but others suspect that they are simply innately cannibalistic.
Those in the Conspiracy are believed to have created the
wealth mimics with a built-in safety measure, in case
something goes wrong with the final plan. In that instance,
they would consume one another in a frenzy after being
deprived of other flesh, rendering them harmless to those
they could not reach.
