Crop-Walker

The Crop-Walker is a cursed blight upon the beautiful farmlands of Grande Leon, a malevolent force that haunts the golden fields and torments the hardworking people who till them. These twisted beings were never meant to move — once simple scarecrows standing vigil over crops, they have been corrupted into shambling fiends. Their emergence is tied to the presence of the Ash Crow, a native carrion bird infamous throughout Diamante for carrying a natural, arcane plague.
  When an Ash Crow perches upon a scarecrow and lingers too long, its plague seeps into the straw and wood like poison through soil.
  This vile magic reanimates the figure, imbuing it with cruel mockery of life. Thus, a Crop-Walker is born — stalking the fields under moonlight, tearing through crops, and sometimes vanishing entire harvests in a single cursed night. Where once they guarded life, now they spread decay. And with each season, their numbers grow.