Wicker Weaver

The Crooked Moon

Wicker Weaver

Ability Scores: nil

Feat: Charm Twister

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Nature

Tool Proficiency: Weaver's Tools

Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Quarterstaff, Weaver's Tools, Book (druid lore), Basket (with dry reeds ready to weave), Iron Pot, Traveler's Clothes, 19 GP; or (B) 50 GP

You know the ancient rites kept alive by secretive druids and hedge practitioners in the shadowed groves of the primordial forests. Remedies and hexes woven into wicker charms stave off misfortune and ward away evil. The could just as likely invite gloom and the ire of the old spirits.

This background gives a language as one of your three at character origin; Sylvan

Building a Wicker Weaver

Compassionate characters driven by a deep connection to the land and a passion to protect it become Wicker Weavers. Druids of other circles might trade knowledge with the Circle of the Old. Healers and guardians alike may seek out the old ways for remedies and protective charms to ward off evil. Not all who come to the wicker crafter do so with noble intent - some, broken by spite and twisted by their pain - wield the power of the wicker into malicious revenge, lashing out with the curses bound in twig and bone, the wrath of the forest upon those who wronged them.

Suggested Story Threads

The Wicker Weaver Story Threads table suggests events and people who can be the start of story threads for your character that weave through the campaign.

Wicker Weaver Story Threads
1D6 Thread
1One of the charms you created ensured a baby was born healthy, and their family sends you small but heartfelt gifts.
2Your mentor who taught you the craft has become increasingly withdrawn and uncharacteristically agitated.
3An order of druids, the Circle of the Old, taught you their ways. You aren't certain why.
4Someone offered you a shocking sum of coin to twist a wicker charm for them. You're tempted but unsettled by their unwarranted generosity.
5You traded a wicker charm for a child's toy that bound misfortune to its   You must keep it until you can sell it, it's stolen or you lose it.
6You wove a hex into a wicker charm to punish a criminal, and they nurse that grudge still.

Wicker Weaver Trinkets

When you make your character, you can roll once on the Wicker Weaver Trinkets table, instead of on the normal starting trinkets table.

Wicker Weaver Trinkets
1D6
1A crescent woven from wicker and laced with silver wire.
2A glass bauble that was the first payment you received for your hedge wisdom.
3A Tiny figure made of acorn caps from the oldest oak in the woods.
4A rough-forged knife with an etched blade.
5A snake skull in a wicker cage.
6A battered stuffed animal missing one eye.