![[PeggyDeadbellsPathfinder.webp]] # Peggy Deadbells _Night Hag Nightmare Harvester | [[Sewn Sisters]] | [[Tomb of the Nine Gods]]_ ## Summary The most physically imposing of the [[Sewn Sisters]], specializing in harvesting children's nightmares and transforming mortals into [[Soulmonger]]s. She personally transformed young [[Petra]] during childhood experiments in a nightmare nursery, giving her the ability to hear the dead. %% ## Now Manages [[Soulmonger Machine]] operations in the [[Tomb of the Nine Gods]]. Since the heroes destroyed the [[Nightmare Loom]], she has shifted from mass nightmare harvesting to targeted dream manipulation. Greeted [[Petra]] with disturbing joy when she returned to the nightmare realm, calling it a "gift." ## Appearance Massive hag with ashen skin and matted gray hair, thumping on a polished peg leg of human bone. A necklace of chattering children's teeth hangs at her thick neck; when she laughs, sickly yellow gas billows from her nose and ears. ## Personality Shifts unpredictably between motherly affection and sadistic violence, often in the same sentence. Takes delight in corrupting innocence and finds dark humor in suffering. ## Quote _"The little ones have such sweet dreams to spoil—like ripe berries, ready to pop between your teeth. Would you like to hear them scream?"_ ## Connections **[[Petra]]** — transformed her into the first humanoid [[Soulmonger]]; would recognize her immediately. **[[Aerisi Kalinoth]]** — created her as a [[Soulmonger]]. **[[Ravenna]]** — created her as a [[Soulmonger]]. **[[Acererak]]** — serves his Soulmonger network as a Sewn Sister. ## Background **The Harvest:** Specializes in children's fears, which she considers "more pure." Carries a gnome-skin pouch with five black marbles containing captured fears. Her peg leg is fashioned from the femur of her first child victim. **Other Soulmongers:** Created [[Aerisi Kalinoth]] and [[Ravenna]], finding their existing traumas suitable for exploitation. ## Stats *Medium Fey, Neutral Evil — the coven's brute. Base: [[Night Hag, Elder]].* **AC** 17 (natural armor) | **HP** 230 (23d8 + 115) | **Speed** 30 ft. **CR** 14 (11,500 XP) | **Proficiency Bonus** +5 | STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | 21 (+5) | 13 (+1) | 20 (+5) | 14 (+2) | 16 (+3) | 20 (+5) | **Saving Throws** Con +10, Wis +8, Cha +10 **Skills** Deception +10, Intimidation +10, Perception +8 **Damage Resistances** Cold, Fire; Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing (from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered) **Condition Immunities** Charmed, Frightened **Senses** Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 18 **Languages** Abyssal, Common, Infernal, Primordial ### Traits **Magic Resistance.** Advantage on saves against spells and other magical effects. **Sewn Sisters Coven.** While at least two Sewn Sisters are alive within 30 feet of each other, each Sister can cast these *coven spells* (Cha, save DC 18), sharing one daily use of each across the coven: *bestow curse*, *counterspell*, *dream*, *eyebite*, *hold monster*, *lightning bolt*, *phantasmal killer*, *polymorph*, *scrying*. While the coven is intact each Sister has Legendary Resistance (1/Day); when one Sister drops to 0 HP, the others regain 20 hit points. The coven shares one **soul bag** (carried by [[Widow Groat]]) — destroying it ends the coven's shared casting and this healing. **Necklace of Chattering Teeth (Fear Aura).** At the start of its turn, each creature within 15 feet that can hear the teeth makes a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or has the Frightened condition of Peggy until the start of its next turn. **Reap the Fearful.** Peggy's attacks score a Critical Hit on a 19–20 against any creature that is Frightened, Unconscious, or dreaming, and deal an extra 9 (2d8) psychic damage to such targets. ### Actions **Multiattack.** Peggy makes two attacks, using Bone Peg or Claws in any combination. **Bone Peg.** *Melee Attack Roll:* +10, reach 5 ft. *Hit:* 16 (2d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and the target makes a DC 18 Strength save or has the Prone condition. **Claws.** *Melee Attack Roll:* +10, reach 5 ft. *Hit:* 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage. On a hit against a sleeping or Unconscious creature, it also loses 5 (1d10) hit point maximum until it finishes a Long Rest. **Toxic Laughter (Recharge 5–6).** Sickly yellow gas billows as she cackles. *Constitution Saving Throw:* DC 18, each creature in a 30-foot cone. *Failure:* 18 (4d8) poison damage, the target has the Poisoned condition for 1 minute, and it is Hallucinating until the end of its next turn — while Hallucinating it can't tell allies from enemies and, on its next turn, must use its Attack action (if any) against the nearest creature, chosen at random. *Success:* Half damage only. Repeats the save at the end of each of its turns to end the Poisoned condition. **Change Shape / Etherealness.** As [[Night Hag, Elder]] (heartstone required for Etherealness). ### Legendary Actions Peggy can take 2 legendary actions, choosing from below. Only one at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn; regained at the start of her turn. **Peg Slam.** Peggy makes one Bone Peg attack. **Whisper Nightmares (Costs 2 Actions).** One creature within 30 feet makes a DC 18 Wisdom save, taking 11 (2d8 + 2) psychic damage and gaining the Frightened condition of Peggy until the end of its next turn on a failure. ### Notes **Design target (CR 14):** benchmarks AC 18 / HP 225 / DC 18 / attack +11. She's the muscle — HP above table, AC below, damage front-loaded through the fear aura + Reap the Fearful combo (Toxic Laughter or a coven *eyebite* sets up crits). Play her as the sister who closes distance and terrifies; she does not care about her own safety and will wade in to keep PCs Frightened for the others to exploit. **Weakness (three-clue):** immunity to fear (paladin aura, *heroes' feast*, elf/gnome traits) neuters her whole engine; without Frightened targets her damage falls to a plain brute. %%