Mama Mulusepa – Night Persona • Daggerheart Homebrew • Heart Of Daggers

Adversary overview

This form of the ancient Faint Divinity resembles a green-skinned, sensuous dryad with human or elven features riding on a wave of thick spiky vines.

Mama Mulusepa was once a powerful Faint Divinity in the Fanewick region of the Witherwild campaign frame. She had many other names, the most common being “She Who Fulfills Guilty Pleasures and Abhorrent Desires.” Since the invasion of Haven she has reawakened and sightings have become increasingly common.

She has three forms, or “personas”: Day, Night and Hunger. During the week-long daytime, she appears as a docile old human grandmother who is eager to indulge your desires of food, drink, laziness and possessions. At night, she appears as a seductive forest dryad who aggressively insists on satiating inebriation, lust and sadism. The hunger persona appears as a giant slug, snail or salamander, sometimes with the head of an old woman, and it merely wishes to consume. It typically appeared at dusk, though it was known to appear at any time of day on rare occasions.

Mama Mulusepa’s Night Persona is considered the most treacherous of all her forms. Those who catch sight of her, and survive to tell the tale, describe a sense of dread and temptation that envelopes her like dark shadows. Those who are seduced by her are never seen again. If she is threatened, she will toy with her adversaries before she deals the final death blow.

{Mama Mulusepa in all of her forms will appear in “The Crypt of Contempt,” my upcoming adventure for the Witherwild campaign frame.}

Stat block

Tier

3

Type

Solo

Difficulty

18

HP

13

Stress

5

Attack mod

+4

Damage thresholds

Minor

Mark 1 HP

20

Major

Mark 2 HP

40

Severe

Mark 3 HP

Standard attack

Whip

Range: Close

Damage: 3d8+4

Attack Mod: +4

Damage Type: Physical

Features

Passives

Relentless (3)

Mama Mulusepa can be spotlighted up to three times per GM turn. Spend Fear as usual to spotlight her.
Defiled Divinity

Whenever Mama Mulusepa makes a successful attack, all PCs that can see her lose a Hope and you gain a Fear.
Defeated But Not Dead

A Faint Divinity can be defeated, but not truly destroyed. When Mama Mulusepa in this form marks her last Hit Point, her flesh dissolves into thousands of razor vines that spread into the surrounding vegetation. If even one vine survives, she will rise again after the next dawn.

Actions

Sapping Kiss
stress 1

Mark a Stress and have Mama Mulusepa make a standard attack as she attempts to wrap her arms around the target and kiss them. If she hits, they take 3d6 magic damage and Mama Mulusepa heals 1d3 Hit Points.
Whip of Thorns
fear 1

Spend a Fear to make an attack against all targets within Close range. Targets that Mama Mulusepa succeeds against take physical damage equal to 3d4 + the target’s Minor threshold.
Alluring Pheromones
fear 1

Spend a Fear to exude a powerful scent that affects all targets within Close range. Targets must succeed on an Instinct Reaction Roll or become Entranced until they mark 2 Stress. While Entranced, a target is Vulnerable.

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