Warp-Scribe

Proficiencies: Lore +5, Awareness +2

Hazardous Notation. The scribe's open pages are a trap. A creature that studies them closely makes a Willpower Save DC 12 or is Frightened until the end of its next turn and risks Corruption exposure.

Keeper of the Working. While the scribe spends its turn writing, any ritual clock in the scene advances one extra step at the end of the round.

Inked Sigil. The scribe scrawls a sign in the air or on a surface. One enemy within 60 feet that can see it makes a Willpower Save DC 12 or suffers Disadvantage on its next action.

Ritual Dagger. Melee Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d4 slashing damage. The blade is ceremonial and the scribe is entirely willing.

Seal the Page. Once per scene, the scribe completes a passage and something small and wrong happens on the battlefield of the GM's choosing: a door locks itself, a lumen dies, a weapon jams.

Morale: Flees clutching its manuscripts; it will die protecting the book before it defends its body.

Tactics: Post it at the ritual's edge, writing, and make the party notice the clock moves faster while it does. It is trivially killable and knows it — its protection is being fourth on a list of three priorities.

Loot / Evidence / Hooks: The recovered manuscript is genuinely valuable and genuinely hazardous; it should be a problem for sessions afterward.

The Warp-Scribe records impossible symbols in books that read back — a specialist of hazardous notation whose work advances rituals, curses, and prophecies in ink. Its writings are more dangerous than its knife.

Use this enemy as ritual support and as a source of loot the party genuinely should not read.

Low durability, negligible direct combat, ritual acceleration, inscription-based battlefield effects, hazardous-knowledge objective.

Hazardous Notation. Its open pages are a trap: enemies who look closely save against Willpower or are shaken and risk Corruption exposure.

Keeper of the Working. While the scribe writes, any ritual clock in the scene advances one extra step per round.

Inked Sigil. Scrawls a sign in the air or on a surface; one enemy who sees it saves or suffers Disadvantage on its next action.

Ritual Dagger. Weak melee attack, mostly ceremonial, entirely willing.

Seal the Page. Completes a passage; something small and wrong happens somewhere on the battlefield.

Morale: Flees clutching its manuscripts; will die protecting the book before it defends its body.

Tactics: Post it at the ritual's edge, writing, and make the party notice the clock moves faster while it does. It is trivially killable and knows it — its protection is being fourth on a list of three priorities. The recovered book should be a problem for sessions afterward.

Full Stat Block Priority: Low