Chibusa-Enoki 乳房榎

Huge plant (spirit), neutral (vengeful)

Armor Class 17 (natural bark)

Hit Points 135 (10d12 + 60)

Speed 0 ft. (its spirit’s effects reach far beyond its unmoving trunk)

STR 21 (+5) · DEX 4 (−3) · CON 22 (+6) · INT 14 (+2) · WIS 18 (+4) · CHA 18 (+4)

Saving Throws Wis +7, Cha +7

Skills Insight +7, Perception +7, Persuasion +7

Damage Resistances psychic; lightning, radiant

Damage Immunities bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from any source; acid, cold, fire, necrotic, poison

Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned

Senses blindsight 120 ft. (rooted), passive Perception 17

Languages understands Common, Sylvan, and Celestial but can’t speak; telepathy 120 ft.

Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)

Traits

Bound to the Hackberry. Chibusa-Enoki occupies the space of its living tree and can’t be moved. If the tree is destroyed (it has 100 hit points and the same immunities), the spirit is dispersed; if the spirit is pacified (see Restful Release, below), the tree becomes an ordinary hackberry.

Maternal Milk (Healing or Harm). As a bonus action, Chibusa-Enoki can choose a creature it can see within 60 feet. If the creature is not hostile to the spirit, it regains 13 (3d8) hit points and ends one disease or poisoned condition affecting it. If the creature is hostile, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 13 (3d8) poison damage and be poisoned until the end of its next turn.

Revenge Made Flesh. A creature that damages the tree or the spirit must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be Cursed with Mother’s Vengeance. While cursed, a creature takes 7 (2d6) psychic damage at the start of each of its turns, has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than Chibusa-Enoki, and sees terrifying hallucinations of the murdered mother. The curse lasts until removed by remove curse, greater restoration, or comparable magic, or until the creature spends 10 minutes begging forgiveness beneath the tree and succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check.

Restful Release. If a creature casts a spell that ends a curse (such as remove curse or greater restoration) on Chibusa-Enoki and then succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check made with disadvantage (the check represents sincere compassion), the spirit gains disadvantage on saving throws until the end of its next turn. If this is done three times within 24 hours, Chibusa-Enoki is pacified and chooses to depart peacefully, ending the encounter.

Actions

Multiattack. Chibusa-Enoki makes two Spectral Whip attacks.

Spectral Whip. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, reach 20 ft. or range 60 ft., one creature. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) psychic damage.

Night-Cry (Recharge 5–6). The spirit releases the infant’s wail in a 60-foot radius. Hostile creatures that can hear it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 27 (6d8) psychic damage, be frightened for 1 minute, and immediately suffer one level of exhaustion. A frightened creature can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Reactions

Protective Roots. When a non-hostile creature the spirit can see within 30 feet takes damage, Chibusa-Enoki can reduce that damage by 10 (2d6 + 3).

Legendary Actions

Chibusa-Enoki can take 2 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. The spirit regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

Milk of Mercy. The spirit uses Maternal Milk on a non-hostile creature.

Hallucination. Chibusa-Enoki forces one cursed creature it can see within 60 feet to make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, taking 9 (2d8) psychic damage on a failed save (no damage on a success).

Enfolding Branches (Costs 2 Actions). One hostile creature Chibusa-Enoki can see within 30 feet must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be restrained by spectral branches for 1 minute. The restrained creature can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Lore

A tree spirit with human breasts that nurses wayfarers with its milk after dark.

The name Chibusa-enoki is made of two roots: chibusa, “breast,” and enoki, the Japanese hackberry, a tree in the elm family. The hackberry itself is revered as sacred, yet its trunk bears swellings that look uncannily like a woman’s breasts. Chibusa-enoki is classed as a vengeful spirit bound to a single, living tree.

According to the best-known tale, the setting is old Higo Province. A young samurai was summoned to serve his daimyo. After a tearful farewell he left behind a wife and their newborn son. The woman waited alone, trusting in her husband’s swift return. But next door lived a neighbor who had long envied her beauty and good fortune. Driven by jealousy, the neighbor slipped into the house one night, murdered the mother, and buried the body at the roots of a great enoki on the village edge.

From Yokai Bestiary 5E, Book Two, p. 16 · Fern Flower Press