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The Blackbird, also called the Black Stone Violin, is a full-size playable violin made of black diabase after drawings by Antonio Stradivari (Stradivarius), but with technical modifications to allow it to be played.

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Harrow Reader

A harrow deck is a set of 54 cards with symbolic illustrations that serves as a sacred divining tool. Feared by the superstitious and avoided by those who know better than to tempt fate, many harrow readers live and work in traveling communities, often moving from town to town as opportunities arise.

Recall Knowledge - Humanoid (Society): DC 13
Unspecific Lore: DC 11
Specific Lore: DC 8

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Harrow ReaderCreature -1

Medium Human Humanoid
Source NPC Core pg. 96
Perception +7
Languages Common
Skills Diplomacy +10, Fortune-Telling Lore +11, Occultism +5, Performance +5 ((+11 when fortune-telling)), Society +5
Str +1, Dex +2, Con +1, Int +2, Wis +3, Cha +3
Cold Reading Specialist For encounters involving fortune-telling, the harrow reader is a 3rd-level challenge.
Items harrow deck, sickle

AC 14; Fort +3, Ref +6, Will +10
HP 8

Speed 25 feet
Melee [one-action] sickle +6 [+2/-2] (agile, finesse, trip), Damage 1d4+1 slashingMelee [one-action] fist +6 [+2/-2] (agile, finesse, nonlethal, unarmed), Damage 1d4+1 bludgeoningFated Doom Though harrow readers try to avoid combat, no throw of the cards can avoid fate, so a harrow reader learns how best to survive. In the harrow reader's first encounter each day, they gain a +1 status bonus to their initiative roll, attack rolls, and AC.Read the Harrow (exploration, occult, prediction) The harrow reader can conduct a reading over the course of 10 minutes to duplicate the effects of the augury spell. The harrow reader can conduct up to five readings per day, but the flat check DC increases by 2. This is cumulative, to a maximum of DC 14 for the fifth.

Forms Of Fortune-Telling

Anthomancy: flowers
Astrology: the Cosmic Caravan
Astromancy: movement and brightness of stars
Chiromancy: reading the palm's heart, life, and head lines
Demonomancy: asking demons
Harrowing: harrow card readings
Haruspicy: entrails
Ichthyomancy: the next fish caught
Mazomancy: a nursing babe
Oneiromancy: dreams
Pendulum Reading: answering yes or no questions with a pendulum
Pyromancy: throwing substances into fire
Tasseomancy: tea leaves
Tyromancy: coagulation of cheese

All Monsters in "Mystic"

Name	Level
Adept	-1
Coven Aspirant	2
Cult Leader	7
Cultist	1
Curse Monger	14
Demonologist	7
Enchanting Ritualist	18
Enigmatic Conspiracist	4
False Priest	4
God Caller	10
Harrow Reader	-1
Mirror Seer	9
Necromancer	5
Spirit Binder	11

Mystic

Source NPC Core pg. 96
Hidden secrets and occult powers have an irresistible lure for many. Since the majority of these NPCs are spellcasters, consider using alternative spell lists to adjust their themes.

Crossover Ancestry NPCs

Several of the NPCs elsewhere in NPC Core can fit well in this group: Bone mother (level 6), gourd leshy witch (level 6), tripkee fiend keeper (level 7)

Guests Beware

Most intelligent creatures follow basic customs of hospitality, such as not attacking a guest who has dined under their roof. Even the most sinister fey creature is loath to break such customs, though eating meals with the fey is often fraught with its own dangers. Others have fewer scruples and might employ poisons, curses, or potions as seasoning for unwitting dinner guests.

Mystic Protection

Most mystics aren't particularly skilled in combat and might hire or ensorcel bodyguards, such as the bodyguard (level 1), archer sentry (level 2), musketeer (level 3), tournament combatant (level 5), knight (level 7), or hero hunter (level 13).

Mystic Rituals

The following are rituals sometimes cast by mystic groups. Those from Monster Core are available only to appropriate celestials and fiends within the organizations.

angelic messenger (1st rank)
binding circle (6th rank)
call spirit (5th rank)
collective memories (9th rank)
commune (6th rank)
demonic pact (1st rank)
diabolic pact (1st rank)
planar servitor (5th rank)

Sinister Rituals

Most rituals have a simple gp cost and associated skill checks. But what if a desperate NPC is willing to offer something more macabre, such as lives, souls, or worse? Such a nefarious ritual uses a normal ritual as a baseline, but the DCs and proficiency requirements might be reduced or waived entirely, as might any gp cost.

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