

On a failure, the creature is petrified until freed by the greater restoration spell or other magic. It must repeat the saving throw as the end of its next turn. On a failed save, the creature magically begins to turn to stone and is restrained. If a creature starts its turn within 30 feet of the giant basilisk and the two of them can see each other, the giant basilisk can force the creature to make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw if the basilisk isn’t incapacitated. The giant basilisk has advantage on Wisdom ( Perception) checks that rely on smell. It can make the save again after each of its turns. If the giant basilisk hears the crowing of a rooster it must make a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw, or flee the area. Senses darkvision 90 ft., passive Perception 10 A rooster's cry is deadly to a basilisk.Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weaponsĬondition Immunities charmed, paralyzed, poisoned Weaknesses: Relatively unintelligent, but nevertheless sentient. However as a serpent, it can understand Parseltongue. Intelligence: Sentient, likely does not possess human level intelligence. Stamina: High (The Serpent of Slytherin could survive for a thousand years with almost no sustenance and continue to function relatively uninhibited after her eyes had just been torn out). Striking Strength: Unknown, at least Wall Class Lifting Strength: At least Class 10 (Can effortlessly support its own weight and propel its body with significant speed and agility). Speed: Athletic Human (Kept up with second-year Harry Potter), much higher attack speed (Its primary form of attack is to simply make eye contact with the victim, with death or petrification being instantaneous) Ignores durability with Death Stare, Petrification and venom
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There is only one cure to it, which is the tears of a phoenix), Magic Resistance (Its skin is armored like that of a dragon, which deflects spells cast upon it), Invulnerability Negation (Its venom can destroy Horcruxes, which can otherwise only be destroyed by the Fiendfyre curse)Īttack Potency: Unknown, at least Wall level (Listed by the Ministry of Magic to be superior to trolls). Petrification works even on ghosts), Poison Manipulation (Secretes highly corrosive venom, which is strong enough to destroy horcruxes.

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Type 1 over 60 feet long), Heightened senses of smell and hearing, possibly Underwater Breathing (Type 2 appears capable of surviving whilst submerged for prolonged periods of time, using the sewer pipes as a means of transportation around Hogwarts and swimming long distances underwater), Longevity (Can live for over a thousand years), Death Manipulation, Petrification, and Non-Physical Interaction (Anyone that makes direct eye contact will die instantly and indirect contact will immediately petrify them. The basilisk at Hogwarts (better known as the Monster of Slytherin) is thousands of years old (It lived in the 11th century when Salazar Slytherin left Hogwarts) Gender: Male and female both are available, but the one at Hogwarts is female.Īge: Varies. Name: Basilisk (the one at Hogwarts has also been called the Serpent of Slytherin) Herpo the Foul was the first to breed a Basilisk he accomplished this by hatching a chicken egg beneath a toad which resulted in the creature known as a Basilisk. The Basilisk, also known as the King of Serpents, is a giant serpent. Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it." Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. This snake, which may reach gigantic size, and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad. Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents.
