Knitting Witch
Working title - fey spirit based on Coraline Beldam
Makes deals, stitches them to your soul, then tries to make you break them
One lurks within Caelester, posing as a notary specializing in magically binding contracts
This cover allows them to find volunteers to enter into their contracts - volunteers who often break their contract, using the relatively simple magics needed to free oneself of a traditional geas
By the time contract-breakers discover their folly, it is too late for them to decry the Witch for what they truly are - those lucky enough to survive the penalty would have to out themselves as a contract-breaker (suffering serious loss of reputation, not to mention often-severe legal consequences), and many do not even get the chance to do that.
Effects of breaking an oath stitched onto one's soul typically take the form of being forsaken by fortune, but this can vary remarkably - for some, every business dealing thereafter sours; for others, it is a string of personal injuries that robs them of fingers, eyes, and more, and for still others it is their personal life that suffers, secrets revealed and circumstances misunderstood that strip away their social ties, one after another. Some are driven to kill those they blame for their misfortunes, but their ill luck rarely results in bodily harm of bystanders, though of course, less direct forms of harm spread through the oathbreaker's social circles.
Makes deals, stitches them to your soul, then tries to make you break them
One lurks within Caelester, posing as a notary specializing in magically binding contracts
This cover allows them to find volunteers to enter into their contracts - volunteers who often break their contract, using the relatively simple magics needed to free oneself of a traditional geas
By the time contract-breakers discover their folly, it is too late for them to decry the Witch for what they truly are - those lucky enough to survive the penalty would have to out themselves as a contract-breaker (suffering serious loss of reputation, not to mention often-severe legal consequences), and many do not even get the chance to do that.
Effects of breaking an oath stitched onto one's soul typically take the form of being forsaken by fortune, but this can vary remarkably - for some, every business dealing thereafter sours; for others, it is a string of personal injuries that robs them of fingers, eyes, and more, and for still others it is their personal life that suffers, secrets revealed and circumstances misunderstood that strip away their social ties, one after another. Some are driven to kill those they blame for their misfortunes, but their ill luck rarely results in bodily harm of bystanders, though of course, less direct forms of harm spread through the oathbreaker's social circles.
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