The Witch Maiden
A 2 Hour Convention Created Content for Tier 2 Released on March 29, 2018
You’ve found yourselves trapped inside the tomb and temple of a Witch Maiden, one of the fabled First Sacrifices to the Witch King of ages ago. A powerful Lich in her own right, you hope that you wander through her tomb while she still slumbers, or else your journey this far deep into the evil darkness will come to a swift and abrupt end.
Available on Dungeon Masters Guild.
Items
- Staff of the Woodlands Rare
- 2 x Potion of Greater Healing Uncommon
- 2 x Potion of Poison Uncommon
Story Awards
The Crown of Souls
Note that magical effects itemized below only occur in ccc-gary-xx modules. Outside of ccc-gary-xx modules it qualifies only as found treasure worth what is listed below.
A purring voice whispers in your ear: “Mmmmmm…I live still…” You recognize this voice as the Witch Maiden. This must be her phylactery!
You try and take off the crown, but it’s stuck on your head. As you try, you hear her laughter in the back of your mind.
While you’re wearing this crown, you can summon a Shadow once per long rest. The Shadow will follow your commands and act on your behalf for 10 minutes before it returns to the afterlife from whence it came. While it remains, you can communicate with it telepathically up to a range of 200’.
While you’re wearing this crown, you can cast the cantrip Message at will. Unfortunately, the target of your message will hear the voice of the Witch Maiden delivering your information.
While you’re wearing this crown, your Maximum Hit Points will fall by 1HP each day, immediately after waking from a long rest. If you are dropped to 0HP due to this effect, you have died. You cannot be returned to the living unless the crown is removed from your body.
The crown can only be removed by removing your head, or by a remove curse spell.
The crown has a particularly evil cast to it, and you’ll only be able to sell it a vendor with a successful contested Deception check. If you can sell it, it is worth 2500gp.
The crown can only be destroyed by dropping it into molten lava.