Pale Howler

A powerful, ghostly-coated wolf bred in the frozen wastes to hunt silently and kill quickly. Bred by snowborn tribes and feared by mountain raiders, it is as much shadow as flesh.

Special Traits

Snow Camouflage

While in snowy or icy terrain, the Pale Howler has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide and cannot be tracked by non-magical means unless it chooses to leave a trail.

Bleeding Bite

When the Pale Howler hits a creature with a Bite, the target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or begin bleeding.

• A bleeding creature takes 1d6 necrotic damage at the start of its turns for up to 1 minute or until it receives healing or a successful DC 10 Medicine check.
• A creature already bleeding cannot be affected again by this trait until healed.

Hunter’s Scent

The Pale Howler can track any creature it has smelled within the past 24 hours with Advantage on Survival checks, even across planar boundaries (but not through teleportation or magic concealment).

• Once per day, it may cast Locate Creature (smell-based only).

Ghost Tread (1/Short Rest)

As a bonus action, the Pale Howler may become semi-ethereal for 1 round:

• It can move through nonmagical difficult terrain without penalty
• Becomes lightly obscured
• Gains advantage on Stealth checks and resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing

Instinctive Coordination (Mount Bond Level 2+)

While mounted by a bonded rider, the Howler may:

• Take the Hide action as a bonus action if the rider uses the Attack or Ready action
• Use its reaction to intercept one melee attack targeting the rider (impose disadvantage)

Actions

Bite

Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target
Hit: 2d10 + 4 piercing damage. Target must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or begin bleeding (see above).

Howl of the Wastes (1/day)

The Pale Howler lets out a chilling howl audible up to 300 ft.
All enemies within 60 ft who can hear it must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened until the end of their next turn.

• Creatures that succeed are immune to this howl for 24 hours.

Mount Bond Traits (Tier 1–2)