Celestial, Guardian
- Armor Class
- 3 [16] (m)
- Hit Dice
- 9
- Attacks
- Claw (1d6+1)
- Special
- magic weapons to hit, teleportation, diving charge, 10th-level Cleric spellcasting, immune to sleep/hold/charm/illusions, banished at 0 hp unless on home plane, see description
- Move
- 12 Fly 24 (6)
- HDE/XP
- 10/1,400
Description
Celestials are a powerful and ancient group of lesser divine beings with otherworldly or extra-dimensional origins. They are tasked with maintaining balance and order between the mortal and celestial worlds.
If reduced to 0 Hit Points in the mortal world, a celestial is not destroyed but disappears in a blinding white light, banished back to its home dimension or plane. Once banished, it cannot return to the mortal world for an entire year. To truly destroy one it must be reduced to 0 Hit Points while in its home dimension.
Guardians, are the protectors of the faithful. Celestial guardians look like lions with large white wings and a human face; they are always male. Some of them prefer to braid their beard to keep it separated from their mane. A guardian speaks Common and can communicate with a limited form of telepathy, imparting up to 3 words per round to a distance of 300 feet.
A guardian casts spells as a 10th-level Cleric. If forced to engage in physical combat, it makes one powerful claw attack for 1d6+1 points of damage. If able to swoop down on an enemy, this attack receives a +2 bonus to-hit and the damage increases to 1d6+2. A guardian can also use Dimensional Portal once per turn, Dispel Chaos (Law) (Chaos only) once per hour, and teleport without error once per day.
A guardian takes no damage from non-magical weapons and only a single point of damage from magical weapons with a bonus smaller than +2. They are immune to Sleep, hold, and charm spells as well as illusions.
See Also
Other creatures grouped under Celestial: Celestial, Arbiter, Celestial, Ascended, Celestial, Charger, Celestial, Descendant, Celestial, Egregor, Celestial, Messenger, Celestial, Oracle, Celestial, Solar, Celestial, Warden, Celestial, Watcher.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.