Queen Mab, Lady of the Winter Court

Medium Fey, Chaotic Neutral 

AC 20
HP 225 (30d8+90)
Speed 30 ft., Fly 60 ft.   

STR 20 (5) 
DEX 16 (3) 
CON 16 (3)
INT 22 (6) 
WIS 17 (3)
CHA 30 (10)

Saving Throws: Constitution +10, Intelligence +13 , Wisdom +10, Charisma +17
Skills: Athletics +12, Arcana +13, Deception +24, History +13, Insight +10, Nature +13, Perception +10, Performance +17, Persuasion +17, 
Damage Resistances: Bludgeoning, Slashing, and Piercing
Damage Immunities: Cold, Psychic
Condition Immunities: Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned 
Senses: Truesight 60ft. Darkvision 120ft. Passive Perception 22
Languages: Understands all languages.
CR: 24

TRAITS

Legendary Resistance (3/Day) - If Queen Mab fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance - Queen Mab has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Brumal Queen - Fey creatures targeted by Queen Mab’s spells or abilities make their saving throws at Disadvantage. 

Otherworldly Presence - Each creature who can see Queen Mab  must succeed on a DC 25 Wisdom saving throw or become Charmed. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If Queen Mab attempts to harm a creature Charmed by this effect, the effect immediately ends. 

If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect is otherwise ended, the creature is immune to their ability for the next 24 hours. 

ACTIONS

Multiattack - Queen Mab makes two Icicle Stiletto attacks. She can replace one Icicle Stiletto attack with 3 Hailstone Salvo attacks. 

Icicle Stiletto - Melee Attack Roll: +17 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 15 (2d4+10) piercing damage and 16 (3d10) Cold damage. On a hit, the target must make a DC 25 Constitution saving throw. Failure: The creature becomes Paralyzed and may repeat their Saving Throw at the end of their turn, taking an additional 10 (2d10) Cold damage each time they fail. Success: The target’s speed is reduced by 10-feet and they cannot take Reactions until the end of their next turn. 

Creatures resistant to Cold damage have Advantage on their Saving Throws.  

Hailstone Salvo - Ranged Attack Roll: +17 to hit, range 120 ft. Hit: 10 (2d10) Cold damage. A creature hit by this attack has its speed reduced by 10-feet until the end of its next turn. If the target’s speed is ever reduced below 0 by this attack, it gains 1 point of Exhaustion. A creature cannot gain more than 1 point of Exhaustion in this way per round. 

Queen of Air and Darkness (Recharge 5-6) - Queen Mab picks a point within 120 ft. For 1 minute, magical darkness and howling frigid winds radiate out from the area in a 30 ft. Radius Sphere. Only a creature with Truesight can see through this darkness. Nonmagical light, as well as light created by spells can’t illuminate the area. 

Creatures caught in the initial blast must make a DC25 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Creatures who begin their turn in the area, must make a DC25 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, creatures take 4d8 Slashing damage and 4d8 Cold damage and have their speed reduced by 10. On a success, the creature takes half as much damage and does not have their speed reduced. 

Hibernal Hauberk (Recharge 6) - Queen Mab targets up to 10 creatures. Heavy, jagged, ice covers their bodies like a suit of armor for 1 hour. Creatures affected by this ability gain the following benefits.

• Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage. 

• Immunity to Cold damage and the effects of cold weather / environments. 

• Ignore difficult terrain related to ice and snow and have your movement doubled on those types of surfaces. 

As a Bonus Action, you may target a creature affected by this ability to cause the suit of ice encasing it to explode outward, ending the effect on the creature and dealing 4d8 Piercing and 4d8 Cold damage to all creatures within 15 ft of the target. 

Spellcasting - Queen Mab casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 25) 

At will: Absorb Elements, Armor of Agathys (level 3 version), Charm Person, Command, Create or Destroy Water, Detect Magic, Faerie Fire, Hex (level 5 version), Zephyr Strike, Detect Thoughts, Blindness / Deafness (level 3 version), Crown of Madness, Darkness, Enthrall, Gust of Wind, Hold Person, Rime’s Binding Ice, Warding Wind, Bestow Curse, Clairvoyance, Dispel Magic, Enemies Abound, Fear, Hypnotic Pattern, Magic Circle, Major Image, Non-Detection, Revivify, Slow, Sending, Summon Fey, Wind Wall

3/day each: Aura of Purity, Banishment, Compulsion, Confusion, Control Water, Dimension Door, Elemental Bane, Fire Shield, Freedom of Movement, Greater Invisibility, Ice Storm (level 6 version), Hallucinatory Terrain, Phantasmal Killer, Polymorph, Shadow of Moil, Watery Sphere, Awaken, Circle of Power, Cone of Cold (level 6 version), Control Winds, Dominate Person, Geas, Greater Restoration, Hold Monster, Steel Wind Strike, Synaptic Static, Contingency, Guards and Wards, Investiture of Ice, Mass Suggestion, Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere, Scatter, Wall of Ice

1/day each: Divine Word, Etherealness, Forcecage, Mirage Arcane, Plane Shift, Power Word Pain, Project Image, Resurrection, Teleport, Whirlwind, Antimagic Field, Control Weather, Dominate Monster, Feeblemind, Maddening Darkness, Power Word Stun, Foresight, Imprisonment, Power Word Heal, Power Word Kill, Time Stop 

BONUS ACTIONS

Fey Step - Queen Mab teleports, along with any equipment she is wearing or carrying, up to 30ft. In an unoccupied space she can see.This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks. 

Hibernal Blast - Queen Mab targets a creature affected by her Hibernal Hauberk ability to cause the suit of ice encasing the creature to explode outward, ending the effect on the creature and dealing 4d8 Piercing and 4d8 Cold damage to all creatures within 15 ft of the target. 

REACTIONS

Frosty Escape (Recharge 4-6) - In response to taking damage, Queen Mab explodes in a swirling icy gale and teleports, along with any equipment she is wearing or carrying, up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space she can see. All enemies within 15ft of the space she left have Disadvantage on Ability Checks, Attack Rolls, and Saving Throws until the end of their next turn.

LEGENDARY ACTIONS

Queen Mab can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Queen Mab regains spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.

Icicle Stiletto - Queen Mab attacks with her Icicle Stiletto.

Hailstone Salvo - Queen Mab attacks with her Hailstone Salvo

Fey Step -  Queen Mab uses her Fey Step.

Queen of Air and Darkness (Costs 2 Actions) - Queen Mab uses her Queen of Air and Darkness.

Spellcasting (Costs 2 Actions) - Queen Mab uses her Spellcasting.
 
Notes - Mab is the High Queen of the Winter Court, Wife of the Archfey lords Ded of Moroz of Winter, and High King Cernunnos of the Autumn Court; Each marriage a physical representation of the ancient accords that were laid before the Seasonal Courts rose to power to protect the lineages of ancient clans, and the Unseelie alliance.

The Cold Queen is the blueprint for every fairy tale villainess you’ve ever read about, from the murderous witches of the frozen north to the evil queens in their imposing castles, each tale has been perfectly crafted by Mab and her associates as a clever and subtle spell that is designed to give anyone assumptions about the fey of the Winter Court that can be used to manipulate the mortals who fall into their cold grasps.

The Queen of Winter is said to be a terrifying force when moved to enter the battlefield, wielding both her Icicle Stiletto and frozen magic like a force of nature.