Creatures

The Bone Bowyer

the etiolated fey who carves bows from stolen children

HP 25, Morale −, Tanned flesh −d4 The Whispering Death. May attack twice each round for d6 damage. Defence is DR14. Special: Delights in hiding and picking off its prey. Roll DR12 to detect the Bowyer to prevent it from getting two free shots.

Children oft go missing. Parents would tear the scalps from their skulls if they knew that their child was stolen and harvested by The Bone Bowyer — a horrid, stealthy fey lurking in Sarkash's tangled depths. This tall, etiolated demon fashions bows from the bones of the children that it hunts; it stitches together supple flesh and fashions blood-dyed cloaks; it slays the elderly, the infirm and the innocent. It is altogether alien and indifferent to suffering.

Unsavory services: The Bowyer might be compelled to fashion a bow for a wicked character who completes a task on its behalf — kidnap a child from a nearby village; murder one's kin in a particularly cruel manner; desecrate a shrine or church; sow discord; spread disease; burn a heretic.

The Bowyer's Bow: Pallid bow carved out of small bones merged together with dark magicks. Its string a length of twined hair. Will always hit. But not necessarily the desired target. Deals d6 damage and should it miss, the arrow will fly towards another (random) creature in the area. If it misses that, another random creature is targeted, and so on until one creature is hit. The bow cannot target nor harm the Bone Bowyer.

Connections

Sarkash, Tergol (a parallel child-thief), Bowyer's Bow

Gaps / Expansion Notes

Whether there is one Bowyer or many is undefined. Whether the Bowyer ever speaks, or what bargain-clause it adds to its commissions, is open. The relationship between the Bowyer and Tergol is implicit (two child-stealers in overlapping territory) but unwritten.