Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Sorrowsworn
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Creatures of the Shadowfell and planes of entropy, these tormented monstrousities are manifested, raw, terrible emotion, driven to seek out and destroy the living.
Appearing for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons within the pages of Mordenkainen's Tomb of Foes.
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Those Adventurers always ask "where's the Sorrowsworn?", but never "How's the Sorrowsworn?".
Vultiidsah The Memelord I’ll do you one better. Why’s the Sorrowsworn?
At least our host is answering, "What's the Sorrowsworn?"
😱
Be a hero: hug a sorrowsworn
Lonely :
Me : wtf Lonely
Lonely : Please Confirm Friend Request
In the campaign I'm running. Two of my players, who's ship sank, are going to meet their former captain in the ShadowFell. Now due to this video, the captain is going to try and convince my players to help her escape. Transforming into a Sorrowsworn while begging for help, and moving to anger when finding out there is nothing they can do.
On the idea of Sorrowsworn being turned, I can only imagine a Cleric screaming *"CLEAN YOUR ROOM YOU DAMNED DELINQUENT!"*
“Damn it Keven! Now we are all going to die.” 😂 lol
“Snapping piranha turkeys”, one more band name to add to ‘screaming demon plushies’ and and the like :)
Screaming torture plushies was what he said, and way more metal.
He also said Soul Scream on one of the live streams.
Null Void The best names for a band would be "Attila and the Huns" or "PitBulls on Crack"............that is all!
Yub-Tub and the Owlbears.
NGL, I'd listen to Screaming Demon Plushies.
I play a Life cleric and our party just fought a Hungry Sorrowsworn. Absolutely horrendous experience. Took me ages to twig that my healing was empowering it.
I loved the shoutout to Sorrowsworn Demons, but anything that can embrace you to death has got to be terrifying.
Alternatively, they could be able to "talk", but it doesn't necessarily makes any sense. Their words could have been of importance in their previous live, and they just mindlessly repeat words and phrases from before they turned into a sorrowsworn.
That way, you could even confront the Players with a past enemy, or maybe even worse, a former ally. Some circumstance in their death kept them from passing on and doomed them to instead become this horrible creature.
Maybe that curse, uttered by the evil caster they defeated so long ago with their dying breath, saying that the PCs, and those around them, would suffer and know sorrow unlike they could ever imagine, should have been taken more seriously. Or if they took it serious in the beginning, its effect is different than what thought.
If one of the PCs died after that curse, you could even bring them back as a sorrowsworn, only identified by the meaningless words it repeats.
Or the curse is even more powerful, terrible and insidious than they thought, keeping those that die in the vacinity of the PCs trapped in an endless cycle of suffering, where the poor souls are forced to keep returning as sorrowsworn over and over, until the curse is broken.
Maybe that caster was an early form of the BBEG, that later returns as a Lich or something of that sort, and that curse gives the PCs the motivation to find the BBEG and take them down for good this time.
Or could it be, that this caster accidentally cursed themself along with the PCs, being now trapped in a similar cycle, due to invoking this ancient and powerful curse they found during their studies and didn't fully understand, and now they seek out the PCs, forging an alliance of necessity between them, in hope of finding a way to reverse the curse.
The Hungry is when the DM wants you dead.
Interesting fact, sharks dont "smell" blood, they actually use there "sixth" sense to measure the change in the electrical current in the water caused by the blood.
Uh....I think my journey through Fey content took a wrong turn somewhere....
Loved this one!
As much as I love the Sorrowsworn, they are a bit to high cr for my liking. As a huge Dead Space fan, the Sorrowsworn are much like the Necromorphs. So i gave each Sorrowsworn the Troll Variant: Loathsome Limbs, and Undead Fortitude that zombies have. Then lower the damage output, hp and ac so i can throw a bunch of them against the party at the same time. >:) oh, they hated that set of sessions.
The shadowfell always reminds me of the swamp of sorrow from the neverending story - bleak dark.. saps away all your positive emotions till you just lay down and die. Like that horse. I dont remember much of it - it is more of a childhood memory fragment. but it seems fitting.
I tell my players and dm friends "the shadowfell IS Silent Hill".
I made an urban jungle in the shadowfell, and the lonely were scattered among balconies, rope bridges, and windows. It was a super dangerous place, with the lonely trying to drag players towards them and sometimes off the edge of a cliff. Gravity is a great equalizer even when your players are overconfident or are getting too comfortable with combat.
Now that I am watching this video again, I am wondering: Why is the Calm Emotions spell not being used as a weapon against them? It would easily help calm the players and makes it easier to fight, but would it actively harm them?
I think it is a matter of the fact living entities are complex and ever changing. Where as the sorrowsworn are fairly simple and pretty unchanging. I would rule it can be used as a temporary stunning effect that gets less effective each time it is used on the same sorrowsworn in a single day. Thus you would want to finish the target quickly so as to not have to face something that could end up immune to your only trump card. But that could be dangerous depending on the size and composition of the group of sorrowsworn.
Query:eat happens when ur at ur worst and someone "tells" you, "calm down", or, "be calm" ...etc. For me, It would have the opposite effect, an awesome idea for a stunning effect
"Like their powering eating a bowl of gummy worm and gello..." that's the best line ever for described your dieing buddy that you just healed.
Man it's like Silent Hill
So aliens called they want their xenomorphs back
The more lore I find on this channel the more ideas i have for my campaign is coming up
And there not even the helpful kind of ideas for the players
So what you are saying is that these things are perfect for killing off "that guy"?
Exactly!
Imagine the party is following a sobbing voice through the shadowfell, and reach the person only to see it look at them in utter despair, then gruesomely transform before their eyes into a Sorrowsworn.
Shadowfell Short Campaign (inspired by Silent Hill), A cart that is traveling between large city to small town, and as the travel goes on, the party talk to each other and learn things about each other. (but everyone has 1 dark trauma that's kept secret.) and as Travel nears its end, The cart is overtaken by a thick fog. Throughout the short campaign, The party learn about the foggy town, those that are trapped there, then figure out how to face the character's dark event, to be able to escape the town. And to create the Iconic Pyramid head, use the stats of the Bodac. I think this Short story would be best used with a party of level 4-5 PCs. Just to create real fear. Just my thoughts, though I might change once I really think it through.
My favorites. I love that you covered these.
Thank you very much for my daily dosage of nightmare fuel
I really enjoy seeing so much Magic the Gathering art in these videos, really brings the episode to life as well as remind me just how dark the lore of MTG is.
DM Ideas: Rings Of Sustance act like BEACONS for The Hungry, as they are hopeful that it would state them for even a second. If they get a hold of one from a player they will eat it & be sated for 1D6 Rounds, on a 6 it might even go away.
You might consider giving The Angry a ranged attack that it manifests as an endless stream of knives it pulls out from it's own back, it's been betrayed in life & is now willing to take that anger out on everyone.
I can also picture another variant called The Greedy who will attack based on the member of the party with the most loot, I'd give it extra long grasping hands.
Wow this channel has grown, congratulations!.
Thank you kindly James :)
These work really well as deadspace necromorphs if you are thinking of running a horror campaign.
Yes!
My last D&D campaign, I had a character (of which I forgot the name), who's dexterity was super high, meaning he could really kick ass, but his charisma was abysmal, meaning he was super fucking socially awkward. His catch phrase was "Im so fucking cool". Yeah, it wasn't a particularly serious campaign.
Sorrowsworn are some of my all time favorite DnD monsters and this video does a great job at capturing why. They're primal and terrifying and make for great dynamic encounters. Not to mention ripe for homebrew versions based on any negative emotion you could come up with. I've even considered homebrewing good-aligned counterparts based on positive emotions but I have no idea how to fit them into a campaign or world ecology, or even where they'd be found (definitely not the shadowfell thats for sure).
Oh man, stuff like "The Happy" and "The Loving" sounds like they could be terrifyingly disturbing sorrowsworn variants!
Why not have them be sorrowsworn? They could be what manifests when enough targets of a sorrowsworn attack dies. Twisted versions of positive emotions, manic and possessive. Maybe even tries to help but such a beacon in the dark draws everything around for miles. Thus seeing one is usually a bad sign as not only does it mean there have been significant number of kills close by, but a pack is likely lurking nearby.
*kevin has become motivated* :3 couldn't resist on a side note angry reminds me of an khorne berserker, by the fact that its eternally angry. this amuses me
"IF your party sees a 12 foot tall, scythe wielding monster, Beware!" So we cant make it a pet? Thanks AJ!
The slow close up at 2:00 was classic
The thing about goodberry is that it's a big grape that keeps you alive, but it won't fill you. A party living off of goodberries for an extended period of time would be a living beacon for the Hungry.
Also before this video the shadowfell was kinda this "ugh, I'm just gonna die" place with no fauna or flora to speak of other than the generic undead forces. This just made it the easiest place to stage a horror campaign.
But good bereies satisfy you.
Welp. Was working on the backstory of my Shadar Kai Paladin. Needed some kind of awful Shadowfell creature to have killed her as she made a last stand to let her research team escape. (Were going under the assumption that the Raven Queen resurrected her as one of Her knights, after taking interest in my characters actions). And holy hell, much thanks to the Tome of Foes for bringing these guys to 5e, and you for elaborating on them for some idea fodder and good, dark fleshing out of their nature.
Now my Raven Knight has both an interesting enemy creature from her past, AND something to inform her fears of being alone, and fears of showing too much negative emotion. Not to mention my DM now has some fun possibilities to throw at us, should we venture back to my Knights old stomping grounds, the Shadowfell. X3. (I absolutely showed him this video when we discussed this aspect of her bg).
I just asked for this. I wanted to thank you. I'm poor as shit, but you can bet your dice that I'll be signing up as your next patrion supporter when I get my next check.
Edit after watching: Seriously, that was really nice of you. Thank you.
My pleasure, thanks for your critiques and comments, I appreciate them.
Hi AJ,decent video but I'm guessing this is a monster from 3.5 ed or 5th possibly as ive never heard of it before! I'm waiting for your next video to come out! 😁 Hope your holiday went well! Cheers.
Ok, I can't be the only one who wants a Wretched as a pet in a campaign.
Will it try to bite my heart out? Probably, but I think it's a risk worth taking.
I do to . I wish there was a way to rehabilitate monsters like this in game that wasn't contrived.
Everything in the game is contrived :)
@@AJPickett well shit
You could probably have one as a familiar. It might not be the most useful one, but they can be charmed/frightened, they have 5 int and there's no rule against them being persuaded/intimidated/deceived... But there is a spell that summons a sorrowsworn in Tasha's Cauldron, and that one is considered an 'ally' that doesn't betray you unless another spell makes it.
Excellent content Sir! Thanks for this, keep up the good works. Im certain your knighthood is forthcoming. Lore for the people!!
It’s the silent hill monsters of DND !:)
Eh... beat me to it. So, I'll upvote instead of comment... except for this comment... wait... eh...
I had what I think is a cool idea is that these things populate the Mournlands in my world of Eberron along with the warforge and the living spells
Another way to do a cursed ring of sustenance is have it do exactly what its suppose to but have it do it far too well. The ring makes them fat and out of shape.
That's a pretty neat idea. Takes "too much of a good thing" to just the level it needs to.
Dayum! That is a fantastic idea. Thanks ChakatBombshell
Love this idea. If I use it, once my players discover it’s cursed, I’m going to either call it a Ring of Gluttony or a Ring of Engorgment.
I have probably spent way too long to try and figure out what the nature of the Shadowfell and things in it should be, especially in contrast to the Feywild, which also includes the dark Gloaming court. The starting base seems to be one is a wonderous dream, while the other is a depressing nightmare. I think that I commented a while back some idea I had for between the Summer and Gloaming Court, where perhaps Summer considers happiness as beautiful while the Gloaming would consider sadness as such. The Fey being explosions of feeling, the Feywild being somewhat influenced perception that is coloured by emotions. Yet I had to get that thought while thinking sadness would exist outside of the Shadowfell, and I do think it works along with the idea that people can enjoy sad things, be creative, so the Shadowfell is beyond that, with emotions that are total hopelessness, no creativity.
What influences the Shadowfell have from the Material plane would be hopelessness from being lonely, to a constant hunger, to being lost, to being wretched filth, and just being angry at the world, emotions with no beauty to them, and even deaden creativity. Thus I imagine the Sorrowsworn perhaps born from land touch by particularly strong concentration of such emotions, or perhaps people that have the emotion so concentrated in them, that the Shadowfell morphs them into monsters. The only way to survive the Shadowfell long term would be to learn to lock of feelings as to not attract the monsters, but not to become too unbalanced as to turn into one yourself.
Had me thinking along the lines of inhabitants like the Shadar-kai having elven trinkets with memories that they may not have given to the Raven Queen, to look over in personal time as reprieve for having to be emotionless most of the time, as to not attract the Sorrowsworn, or become one themselves. Some of the people that could thrive there, might even be people dislike such positive and loud things, like people that hate Christmas just because, I even think that a Meazel would make a perfect Grinch. Going off of that, I have been coming up with a sort of homebrew idea of seasonal holidays that somewhat act as competitions of the fey courts.
A Christmas like holiday in the winter solstice where Santa of the Summer Court tries to get children to behave with presents, against Krampus on the Gloaming Court threatening punishment. A Halloween in Autumn where one aims for good hearted fun of feeling relieved after frights of costumes and sweets, while the other aims to remind of fear and horrors can hide. An Easter like Spring where one wants to spread joy of birth and youth, while the other wants mourning of sacrifice. And a summer solstice holiday that I was thinking with big bonfires, dancing, feasts and the like, where Summer court is after letting loose, while Gloaming is after the hard work and satisfaction. Just thoughts I had of festivals I think have roots in the sorts of thing some fey are based on, playing on the seasonal thing that the likes of Eladrin play into that I imagine the solstice could be like a bridge with supposed to be ties to nature. And the idea that you could pick Santa as a patron.
i think a passive perception of 16 can fuck up stealth real bad: when the whole party has to try and sneak by. sure, the rogue gets past without even really needing to roll, but what about the paladin?
What Paladin... Oh THERE THEY ARE! *hack slash rend bash*
Dex based medium armor paladins laugh at stealth checks.
@@williethenerfherder2193 still want to try a tabaxi like that one day. probably with criminal background for a thieving paladin. maybe robinhood like with a strict moral code... maybe not (:
Bloody hell, Kevin!
Having just picked up MTF, to help my players have a better time. This was an exciting video. These guys sound like fun, and I shall do my best to use them soon. Thanks for another one AJ, keep em coming!
when you were talking about the lonely physically hurting themselves to harpoon someone it made me think about what it's like to put yourself out there and try to meet people, the effort, the fear of rejection, getting past your own issues ect. For a thing like this? yes, I'm sure it would be physically painful to "put itself out there".
Underrated comment.
I like to imagine these creature making up a large portion of the population on the layer of hell Clive Barker's Cenobites hail from.
Horde of Sorrowsworn vs horde of Gibberlings; who'd win that fight, I wonder...
Back to the shadowfell, great video as always AJ!
Honestly the hungry just seems like a dm FU.
Agreed
The Shadowfell seems like the Shadowlands from White Wolf's game Wraith: The Oblivion, as the Shadowlands are a dark reflection of the living world, with the exception that things that had a lot of emotion tied to them in the land of the living may still exist in the Shadowlands. Imagine traveling across the Shadowfell & seeing a great temple that had been destroyed a decade ago by a cataclysm in the real world in ghostly form. In that setting every ghost both Wraiths & the Specters, who are souls that have been overtaken by their dark side, feed on emotions that remind them of their human life, effectively regaining hit points & spell slots (in D&D terms) when they are near emotional situations that remind them of what they were passionate about in life. Both Wraiths & Specters have a flip side, every Wraith has a growing dark side called it's shadow that can eventually grow turning them into a malevolent destructive, (sometimes merely self destructive,) Specter. This can be a temporary state known as Catharsis, is basically the spirit's own dark half possesing it. Specters can if exposed to enough brighter emotions experience a Catharsis event bringing back their light side temporarily. It might be interesting to bring the emotional feeding aspect to D&D, where things going on in the living world can affect how the spirits manifest. Events that involve the particular spirit and things that were dear to them have an even greater potency with this emotional feeding. In the Shadowfell party behavior could easily fuel this as well.
Most of the Sorrowsworn seem like a great way to get across the Specters of the Nephwrack caste in that Wraith. The Nephwrack are Specters so as such they are formerly human souls who's dark sides have taken over, but now they have lost so much of what they once were to Oblivion already that they no longer resemble humans. I can see taking Dark Passions from that game & using them as the core concepts to inspire more Sorrowsworn, for example a Narcissus could be one who was motivated by vanity or pride & thus lashes out at characters with High charisma, with a sweet of powers that are fueled by their Charisma bonus like a NIGHTMARE Ghost Bard with an inhumanly beautiful face like ghostly porcelain doll. A Der-Neid (German for Envy,) could be a Sorrowsworn who always wanted things they could never have & thus have a penchant to grab high value items away from the party, this could be done pre-combat if you make it a high powered Ghost Rouge with overly long arms & sticky fingers. It could also have the habit of snatching magic or master-craft items right out of the players hands.
Even these are not the end of Specters in Wraith as they have not reached the near god like power of the bloated amalgamations of souls with simmilar Dark Passions called the Onceborn. There is usually a core Onceborn who has essentially dominated & eaten enough similarly darkened souls as part of their crusade against creation & the universe that has wronged them. The Hunger seems like they could combine into a Onceborn where there was a mass starvation event, perhaps even one that was an intentional act of genocide. With a Onceborn version of The Angry it could be those who died in a great battle & have a face for each human soul that was absorbed into the rage filled conglomeration. Fortunately in the setting of Wraith Specters live in the deeper layers of the Underworld further from the surface layer of the Shadowlands unless there was a major atrocity in the living world in which case the labyrinth to Oblivion can come closer to the surface. You could easily translate Onceborn into the Shadowfell as a concept for D&D.
White Wolf used to be almost a branch office of D&D, that and games workshop.
Until the dark times....
The idea of spirits or powerful lingering emotions coming together to form a yet stronger entity is a pretty popular trope in myth and fiction. Just the kind of concept to both terrify and delight the players.
Has there been a Sorrowsworn Demon video yet? Haven't seen one but I might have missed it!
Love this so far!
I would say that I want to give a lonely a hug, but it would probably impale me if I tried.
Idk my DM wants to run a high lvl campaign I asked about being a Drow vampire with lvls in the dread class... He told me take a Drow Nobel for 2lvls and vampire for 2 lvls and 20 lvls of dread, I picked the nightmare varient... She can definatly hug a lonely, it's going to be trying to run away the whole time, but no worries she is faster so they will get that hug.. Buahaha
You should run a poll as to the favorite setting, mines Chult it's basically Aztecs with magic.
Dark Sun is the best setting just because of the corrupting nature of magic
Sigil is the best setting. You could literally end up anywhere.
I second Sigil.
My favorite video besides those of the far realm. So different from so many other monsters.
So...Warlock followers of Cthulhu are basically the meta counter to all of these with darkness and devil's sight as their "bread and butter." Though there is a lot of DM meta potential it all feels dirty in a place that basically kills you for being there lol.
The bit about how to screw over metagamers with the Hungry was great. If you spent 5% of every video on these discussions I'd never tire of it.
Scary monsters indeed.
If necromancers use the still incorporeal forms of sorrowsworn to reanimate dead, dose that mean that there are undead in the shadowfell because that sometimes happens naturally? also, dose that mean that the shadowfell is more closely connected to the ethereal plane than the prime material or feywild (and if so, dose the astral plane have a similar relationship to the Feywild)?
Good questions, I think yes, the Shadowfell has a closer connection to the Border Ethereal plane and the Negative Energy plane, the Feywild is a transitive plane in its own right, but is closely connected to the World Ash, Yggdrasil, and the Astral, yes. Undead do spontaneously occur more frequently in the Shadowfell than they do in most spheres of the Prime Material plane.
Some of the artwork and concepts remind me of the Necromorphs from the Dead Space franchise....
The thumbnail reminds of Xenomorphs in the Alien franchise
I can see that...
If this were DnD could one manifest from my need to watch the intirerity of your upload playlist but never having enough time to complete it?
Now I am picturing a humanoid torso attached at the lower spine to another humanoid torso, both with four arms, and they constantly try to go in different directions, so, each round they may dash back or forth randomly and desperately claw at any creature in their path, unleashing a psychic assault in the form of a torrent of questions telepathically blasted into the victim's brain. Meanwhile the torso travelling in the opposite direction lets loose a frustrated scream that has a damaging area effect.
AJ Pickett I wonder what would happen if one met a nothic, as to say cursed obcessive focuses knowledge verses wanton divided craven curiosity? *pictures veca catharicly playing a lyre for some strange reason*
AJ Pickett I just imagine the questions are things like “Can you fire a hand crossbow and make a melee attack in the same turn?”, “I can’t understand you. What’s with the accent?”, “Does Polearm Master apply to spears?”, “Can you tell me about the entire history of Faerün and when you’re done do Greyhawk afterwords?”, “What’s you’re favorite type of giant?”, “How do you kill The Lady of Pain?”, “What’s AxePoison?”, “Can I lie my way out of a deal with a devil if I have a high enough charisma?” and, the dreaded, “Will you take a look at this stuff I wrote and tell me what you think?”, 5000 times per second in your head, with the loudness of an AC/DC concert.
@@Im-Not-a-Dog *puts on Willem Defoe voice* "Ah, I see you are something of a UA-cam expert yourself"
I have an idea for a world. Its called "outworld". It is a dimension that consists of completely flat land covered in massive spires of raw metals, rocks, crystals, and other bizarre materials. The ground in between these spires is covered in bizarre flora (the vast majority of which are very capable of killing). In terms of lore, it is a world that stores creations that various gods of different worlds have deemed "accidental" or "unfit", or prisoners of said gods. Part dumping ground, part prison. Due to this, the ecosystem of this world is very violent and chaotic, some would say its down-right hellish. Not only that, but the actual rules and functions of outworld are very inconsistent, with each space of the world seemingly changing radically. One step, you might find the space around you has crushing gravity and extremely dangerous gas, and the next, you might find next to no gravity and literally no gas. Any impossible, outlandish, and unimaginable adaptation you could hallucinate, there is at least one creature in outworld that has it.
HOLY SHIT IT'S DR BRIGHT
@@brendanshaw7401 What can I say, im a man of *BRIGHT* ideas.
@@purplehaze2358 Dr are these an
Scp
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God i hope i see Matt Mercer and crit role bust these things out. After two beholders ( ive seen so far) they need something truely challenging these things reek of fuck nope, and have given me inspiration for the back story of my shadow dragonborn and shadow dragon partner on their quest to become a lich and dracolich, "they and their dragon cult clan were attacked by a horde of these things as children lost most to all of the clan and now fear death."
was there a relationship with these things and the raven queen? Something about her turning her followers into something like powerful sorrowsworn after earning it?
Not that I recall.
@@AJPickett huh. Guess that was just my imagination then...but that's what homebrew is for!
You aren’t imagining it. I looked up this video after reading the 4e Shadowfell book and Gloomwrought. 2nd paragraph on the first mentioning of Shadar-Kai, page 8.
“she promised to protect their spirits after death and to reshape the best of them into powerful new forms; these creatures became known as sorrowsworn”
I just got into dnd recently, and frankly the concept of beating these things seems impossible when we all almost died to a group of Kuo-Toa
Nice one Kevin, now we're all going to die!
I adore your videos. Dig your enthusiasm on this one. :)
Good got something for my spooktober session.
Really thought they were gonna be DnD version of Aliens from the thumbnail.
me too
If they get stronger for being attacked, surely they would have Reckless Attack? I mean, if I got stronger every time I got attacked, I would attack recklessly.
good video AJ
With monsters and hit point allocation what I usually do is start out at half normal or what the average would be if there's only two or three adventurers I increase by 25% up to the full 100 for every two adventurers added to the party
These sound like the Nephrack Specters from Wraith The Oblivion. In Wraith,, one of the World Of Darkness games, originally published by White Wolf, all Ghosts both Wraith's & Specters were creatures that were driven & fed by emotion, the big difference between a Specter & a Wraith is that Specters have been consumed by their Dark Sides, & emotions.
Specters in that setting have a Caste System based on how close one is to Oblivion, with the closer one is the more respected one is within the caste system. Nephracks are Specters who have lost all the Fetters that tie them to the world of the living, every person or physical object once tied to their life that they cared for is now gone, as such that much of what made them human is gone. The only caste greater than the Nephracks are the mammoth Malpheans who are divided into two ranks, the more active Onceborn who have an original personality but have also absorbed other similarly minded Specters to become a bloated pastiche of souls. Far greater & more horrible are the sleeping Neverborn, these were never human souls & were "birthed" from the void of Oblivion itself as a violent reaction to the offense of creation, and if reawakened will set about trying to destroy all of creation.
One of the most interesting mechanics of that game is a Wraith's Dark Side, called their Shadow, would be in the hands of either another player or a subordinate DM called the Shadow Guide, when the Shadow gained enough energy by absorbing enough of the emotions that fuel the Dark Side of their personality it could pull a Multiple Personalities move & take over the spiritual "body" of the character. While FAR rarer the bright side of a Specter called the "Psyche" is capable of taking over if it is fed enough bright emotions, but away from the lands of the living that's practically unheard of in the misery layers of the Tempest & Labyrinth where the Nephracks must dwell. Without Fetters tying them to the living world it's almost impossible for them to approach the lands of the living, mind you that's an ALMOST. A destructive enough event that costs enough lives, with a huge amount of sorrow & suffering, can bring the lower layers of the underworld closer to the lands of the living.
UA-cam unsubscribed me from tale foundry, so now im super paranoid that they will do the same for other channels that I am subscribed to.
UA-cam shenanigans! *shakes fist at the sky*
Are your fellow players not to your liking? Heres cthuhlu in power armor! *Take initiative*
Dr. Bright should not be DM, GM or any form of storyteller or rule maker for any tabletop or online role-playing game. Let me remind all staff that the foundation does have and has had several objects that can manipulate reality that are under the guise of harmless RPGs and RPG objects that Bright may have had access to previously.
what happens if you give a Hungry sorrowsworn a goodberry?
It enslaves you to provide it an endless supply of goodberries...until you cant make anymore today and it eats you.
@@TheDarkdoomful you know that a goodberry fills you up for an entire day, right? wouldn't it be simple to teach it how to cast the spell itself? give a man a fish...
@@benthomason3307 Yeah. But enough nourishment for one day is probably not enough to make a literal personification of hunger stop wanting to eat. If anything the fact that goodberry heals combined with it's Life Hunger trait sets pretty good precedent that The Hungry might actually get hungrier if it eats a goodberry. Like a three square meal given to man who hasn't eaten in a century.
Or, there are real life medical conditions where the vagus nerve gets damaged and is no longer capable of telling the brain the stomach has food in it, making a person hungry no matter how much they eat.
Also a 6 Int, 11 Wis, and 6 Cha don't really lend itself well to learning to cast spells.
Of course, as always, these are my opinions and you're free to ignore them and come up with you're own story as to what would happen.
@@TheDarkdoomful well then maybe we should ask crawford or mearls on twitter
@@TheDarkdoomful in 3.5 maybe since druids, but in 2e that no sincr priest are 3/4 full caster
They can cast up to 7'th level spells.
Or true dwemors which is a 10'th level one. But feels like a 8'th one.
So, has anyone tried befriending a sorrowsworn?
i was wondering if you could enslave or domesticate them. They seem smart and addicted enough for behavior modification training. I'm not quite sure if they get any short term satisfaction or if they in an hopeless perpetual state of hunger/desire no matter what they get.
@@unusefulidiot They have slightly higher than animal intelligence, but, they are driven by a singular emotional state which makes training them extremely hard.
I’m sure people have tried...and it ended badly every damn time.
@@Im-Not-a-Dog Not all "people" in D&D are humans. Can they befriended/enslaved by an lich, a devil or an evil dragon? Du they feel an emotional relief if a captor give them a sliver of what they want so they can be trained?
unuseful idiot It would be like attempting to train the Zika Virus to lay down and roll over, a complete waste of time regardless of what species the person trying to train it is because it has no interest in being trained in the first place. They are only driven by a singular emotion or feeling.
Imagine, you’re trying to befriend one of the Angry, you do something you think it would like, the Angry does like it and wants to show you its appreciation, so it responds the only way it knows how; with rage! It then proceeds to murder you to death as a means of thanking you, because it innate and only reaction to EVERYTHING is rage.
It's always Kevin.
Been getting a lot of milage out of the slow zoom in lately.
Too much?
@@AJPickett Nah it's fine. Allows us to take in the art more
Fun addition to my next game
Thx
Would transforming into a creature with higher or lower psychological hit points help a party fight off one of these creatures? I'm new to DnD and have been watching a lot of your videos for insite!
There's only HP. There's not psychological HP and regular HP so your question doesn't make a lot of sense but I'm assuming what your referring to is the "psychic" damage so allow me to explain what that means. In DND there is only one type of HP and it's just that, your HP. Once that reaches 0 your unconscious and making rolls to survive. However, while there is only one type of health there are many different types of damage. Psychic damage is one of those types, as is fire, bludgeoning, slashing, etc.
@@legithopecrew And would certain polymorphs with higher stats into intelligence or wisedom help mitigate damage done by Psychic damage?
@@taurvanath no. Unless it says the creature has immunity/resistance to certain damage types it takes that damage as normal.
Example, constructs don't have a brain so they are immune to psychic damage.
@@taurvanath High mental attributes help add a bonus to save against effects where a saving throw can help avoid or reduce damage.
@@AJPickett huh. So they're more like buffers for your rolls? Those attributes I mean. Thanks, Aj! Oh, and before I go, might I ask what may be the best way to reach you? I know you're busy with making videos, but I'd really like to pick your brain a bit more. If not that's also okay!
What if the antagonist of a campaign was a lovecraftian entity (maybe mostly manifesting itself as a bearded king made of shadows) that uses sorrowsworn and other aberrations as minions and mutated worlocks, and feeds of the torture of souls of anything it and it's minions successfully "reap", sounds like a perfect villain for the shadowfell
why doesn't the lonely just befriend the other sorrowsworn around it?
Because that would be easy. Cant have that in now can we?
They don't have the rationale to try that. All they feel is lonely. I actually feel bad for them lol
what video did you mention the sorrowsworn demon in?
Any ideas on how to use these outwith the shadowfell?
These could be entities who have somehow lost their soul, or creatures that result from magical mishaps.
@@AJPickett ok that could fit into my lore well
@@blowdagator9181 Let me know how it works out and let your players know I say "Hi".
I'm currently running a lich lair adventure. There's nothing preventing a lich from taking extra people it's captured, placing them in a second lair in the shadowfell to turn them into these things, and then maybe bring them to its main lair, as a roaming band, constantly looking for any fools who dare enter.
@@AJPickett It worked out great. They party go to a location called...
The Village Of Shadow, which is ruled by the twisted Ghronkhaz, Prophet Of Baphomet, who lives in a dark area where those who die get thier soul trapped on the mortal plain but thier body decays in an odd way leading to Sorrowsworn creation
the pic at 1:39 is JUST flesh coloured no-face from that anime flick
Can liches/necromancers control sorrow sworn?
A lich might have less trouble controlling them than a living necromancer would.
I would think that it would be like controlling Rabid animals. possible but hard
Jacob Noelle True but your average animal trainer isn’t a 20th level wizard.
The benefit of being a Lich is just less risky, since Liches do not have the emotions or life force to feed on. (keep them away from your phylactery unless they can't break it).
Interestingly all Sorrowsworn can be charmed, persuaded, intimidated, deceived, frightened, and basically anything else. The angry are the most difficult targets for it.
Recently in Tasha's Cauldron, they call the spell 'summon Shadowspawn' and the creature is called a 'Shadow Spirit', but it's a Medium Monstrosity (All 5e Sorrowsworn are), it has an emotion based type you pick, and the artwork shows The Angry crawling out of a summoner's shadow (which is why I'm calling it a Sorrowsworn, because it seems like that was the intention). It's immune to fear, probably from knowing it can't die on the material plane, or being so punch drunk on the material plane their own fear is forgotten (For a moment). It's also an ally to you AND your companions, follows all verbal commands, dodges/avoids danger otherwise, and it disappears if you lose concentration/spell ends. Which makes the Sorrowsworn an extremely safe summon, if you ignore the Charm weakness.
And it's a 3rd level spell that can be cast at higher levels. Liches and Necromancers controlling Sorrowsworn is incredibly likely.
Heck, a 'well intentioned' lich might open a portal to let thousands into the material plane, he doesn't understand the emotional differences between them and mortals anymore, they're just fleshy emotional inferiors to him, and to stop their incessant whining he just lets them go. Nevermind that he just caused an apocalypse, he's busy doing lich things don't you know.
Damn it Kevin! This is why you are always the bait.
Where does one find the star blocks for these? Listening to this, I've gotten a great idea to corrupt my PC's homebase 👀
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes p.231
Mordenkainen preseaemts p.222
Wow these sound like a huge inspiration for the hallows in Bleach. Wonder if that mangaka played D&D
Good berries satisfy hunger, but does it actually fill you?
MossyGolem Depends in how small you are...
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What is the mirror to these in the feywild?
I don't think there is one at the moment.
But, seeing as sorrowsworn are born from negativity and melancholy, we can guess that the Fey opposites are creatures of excitement and positivity... but that just sounds like most fey in general.
Well, its the people who become lost in the fairytales of the Feywild and become a part of them, they turn into iconic figures that filter back to the mortal world as part of the folk tales.
Arguably all fey. All of them. And/or the feywild itself.
Nyarlothep approves of the shadowfel!
hey at 20:27 what is that art? it's pretty good looking.
It's from a Magic: The Gathering card, can't remember the name or artist though. Hope it helps!
@@zacharybattista9732 kinda, it narrows it down a bit lol.
@@zacharybattista9732 name is cruel revival by miles johnston, I could have screenshot and put it through google image, i am dumb but thanks anyway lol
the art at 26:40 is amazing, is it from something?
Its from a MTG card in the Innistrahd serise called : Maw of the Mire . gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=246952
Controversial opinion but Kevin did nothing wrong and does not deserve this