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Volume III · Monster ManualBuild 25

Shattered Sentinel

Creatures of the Crooked Mile

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Shattered Sentinel
Implemented development through Build 25Reviewed 28 October 2026

Broken Dawn guardian · Physical

Broken does not mean harmless. The familiar guardian’s damaged form can still make a hero lose their footing.

Reference statistics

Basic difficulty · ordinary profile before temporary states and encounter adjustments

HP
13
Armor class
11
Attack
+3
Damage
d4+1
Initiative
9
Strikes
1

Weaknesses Holy, Earth

Resistances Void

Polymorph immunity No authored immunity

Traits and special behavior

A damaging hit on a surviving target has a 25% chance to inflict Off Balance 1. Uses standard tier scaling; the intact Dawn Sentinel remains a separate creature.

See the condition reference for the shared effects, and enemy tuning for difficulty-wide chance adjustments.

Statistics by difficulty

DifficultyHPACAttackDamageStrikes
Basic1311+3d4+11
Advanced2916+7d4+51
Expert4322+10d4+91
Master5924+12d4+111
Master+7826+13d4+151

Includes explicit tier overrides and the final maximum-HP multiplier. Damage is the ordinary die and bonus, before final outgoing multipliers. Rage, growth, buffs, encounter adjustments and special action damage are not baked into this table.

Current appearances

AdventureLocationEncounter roster
The Forsaken WoodsThe Dawn StonesShattered Sentinel × 2

Detailed reference

These panels retain the exact authored configuration, including unscaled base values. For tier overrides, −1 Attack or damage bonus and zero HP or strikes mean “inherit”; tier indices run from 0 (Basic) to 4 (Master+). Field values and message templates are shown as reference data, not additional rules.

Creature configuration
Stable identifier
shatteredSentinel
Name
Shattered Sentinel
Plate Name
Shard
Role
Broken Dawn guardian
HP
13
Armor class
11
Attack
3
Damage die
4
Damage bonus
1
Initiative
9
Artwork registry index
43
Visual Scale
0.8
Preserve Aspect
Yes
Weaknesses
  1. Holy
  2. Earth
Resistances
  1. Void
Attack Sound
combat.stoneFist
Attack Text
{actor} swings a cracked stone fist at {target}.
On Hit Debuff
Kind
offBalance
Chance
25
Amount
1
Encounter configurations (1)

Whole encounter rewards and modifiers are shown here; they are not rewards for defeating this creature alone. Legacy fields remain visible for configuration audits.

  1. Stable identifier
    cc-02-shattered-dawn
    Enemies
    1. shatteredSentinel
    2. shatteredSentinel
    Opening
    <b>Sun-carved stones</b> twitch beneath torn blue cloth. <b>Veyr</b> smashed these guardians. <b>Disturbing the rubble</b> will wake what he left behind.
    Gold
    14
    Xp
    14
Artwork and presentation
Resource
JournalArt/Adventures/ForsakenWoods/Creatures/ShatteredSentinel
Registrations
  1. Resource
    JournalArt/Adventures/ForsakenWoods/Creatures/ShatteredSentinel
    Height Units
    1
    Body Height
    0.9440104166666666
    Ground Y
    0.02213541666666663
    Center X
    0.5029296875

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