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Sorrow Stitcher

Sorrow stitchers, as their name suggests, are beings of intense sadness. Ages ago, their forebears transgressed against one of the great powers of the First World, and as a result, their entire people were exiled to the Universe, barred from returning in perpetuity. So severe is the denial of the joy and mirth of the First World that sorrow stitchers have lost the ability to experience any feeling beyond fear and sorrow.

Most sorrow stitchers spend their time seeking out things that might bring happiness, even though nothing can ever restore that emotion to them. They're especially drawn to areas of concentrated joy—parks, fairgrounds, parades and the like. Their proximity to mortal population centers can be troublesome, as their frustration over being unable to experience happiness often leads them to lash out at the very displays of joy that entice them.

Sorrow stitchers are pale, sallow folk. They shroud themselves in colorful patchwork cloaks, fruitlessly hoping the garish colors will bring them some measure of joy. Each sorrow stitcher also carries a magical needle that can briefly capture threads of fate. They use these needles to sew a mortal's happiness onto their own heart, hoping to steal it for themselves. Lacking the true power to weave fate, however, these threads quickly fray, leaving the sorrow stitcher more forlorn than ever.

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Sorrow StitcherCreature 8

Uncommon Medium Fey 
Source Feybound pg. 152
Recall Knowledge DC 26 (includes +2 from Uncommon) • Fey (Nature)
Perception +19; low-light vision
Languages Aklo, Common, Fey
Skills Acrobatics +16, Deception +18, Nature +12, Society +14, Stealth +16, Thievery +16
Str +2, Dex +4, Con +4, Int +3, Wis +2, Cha +6
First World Exile A sorrow stitcher can’t enter the First World. An effect that would transport them to that plane fails to affect them. They can’t enter any planar gate or similar effect that would take them to the First World, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Items shadow scissors (as +1 striking shortsword)
AC 27; Fort +16, Ref +19, Will +13
HP 130; Immunities positive emotion effects; Weaknesses cold iron 5
Speed 25 feet
Melee [one-action] shadow scissors +20 [+16/+12] (agile, finesse, magical, versatile P), Damage 2d6+6 slashingMelee [one-action] shadow needle +20 [+16/+12] (agile, curse, finesse, magical), Effect 1 piercing plus hollow heart curseInnate Occult Spells DC 26; 5th wave of despair (×2); 4th translocate, vision of death (×2); 3rd fear (at will)
Hollow Heart Curse (curse, emotion, mental, primal) Saving Throw DC 26 Fortitude; Effect The victim becomes immune to emotion effects, except those that cause fear or sorrow and this curse. In addition, the victim is off-guard to sorrow stitchers and takes a –2 status penalty to attack rolls if they can see a sorrow stitcher.Sneak Attack The sorrow stitcher’s Strikes deal 2d6 extra precision damage to off-guard creatures.Sorrowful Gaze [two-actions] (concentrate, emotion, mental, primal, visual) The shadow stitcher focuses their sorrow and anguish into their gaze, forcing another to feel what they feel, if even for a moment. A creature the shadow stitcher can see must attempt a DC 26 Will save.
Critical SuccessThe target is unaffected.
SuccessThe target is dazzled for 1 round as tears well up in their eyes.
FailureThe target is blinded for 1 minute as their eyes fill with tears. At the end of each of its turns, they can attempt a DC 26 Will save to end the condition early.
Critical FailureThe target is blinded and stupefied 2 for 1 minute while lost in sorrow.
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Sidebar - Related Creatures First World Expatriates

The transgression that exiled the ancestors of the sorrow stitchers has been lost to time, but even now, each is born with a sense of loss, denial, and jealousy toward all who can know joy. Scholars have long pondered how gnomes, similarly cut off from the First World, have avoided the same fate; some claim the Bleaching is in fact a similar manifestation, causing endless ennui rather than sorrow. Others speculate that, as gnomes fled on their own terms instead of being exiled, their severance from the plane isn’t as severe.
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