Earthbound (Mud Shaman)

NPC type / hunting mishap MBC Eat-Prey-Kill, p.2 (Hunting Mishaps table, entry 8)

the one whose beasts you accidentally killed

Stub source — single-line reference only.

A class of swamp- and bog-dwelling shaman, named once on the EPK hunting-mishap table: "The beast is tamed and belongs to an earthbound mud shaman." No stat block, no portrait, no further description in canon.

Lore: "Earthbound" suggests one who cannot or will not leave the dirt — a shaman half-buried in their own swamp, communing with mud at the cost of mobility. Their beasts are tamed, marked invisibly. To kill one is to bring the shaman's grief, and whatever wet old Powers they keep, to the campfire.

Connections

Eat-Prey-Kill, Wästland

Gaps / Expansion Notes

Effectively a stub. Stat block, location, Powers, and how an Earthbound recognizes a kill are all unwritten — wide-open expansion. A reasonable extrapolation: a low-HP, high-Presence NPC who travels not on legs but by sinking into mud and re-emerging where the next puddle is, attended by 1d4 of whatever local beast they have tamed (Antideer, Tusked Bison, a Three-thirds-pheasant).