Oakhaven Gourdsoul – The Patch Lanternist

Oakhaven Gourdsoul – The Patch Lanternist

Plant (Construct, Undead)

Clutching an iron filigree lantern in a clawed wooden grasp, this spindly plant construct stalks through misty briar clearings with uncanny stillness. A carved jack-o’-lantern head unhinges into a cavernous, fanged wooden maw, contrasting with gnarled bark sinews and root-like limbs rooted firmly amidst creeping pumpkin vines. Keepers staging autumn harvest horrors, haunted orchard investigations, or eerie twilight crossings will find this Artifact delivers macabre folklore dread and captivating visual tension to the grid.

Tabletop Lore

Rooted within neglected patch soils where ancient rural curses linger, Gourdsouls serve as silent guardians for harvest covens and twilight briar groves. Rather than hollow garden carvings, these animated effigies are woven from old briar roots, petrified bark, and bound farmstead spirits that whisper behind jagged wooden teeth. Wandering along the tree lines with their glowing cage lanterns, they lead lost travelers deeper into the tangled underbrush, leaving behind nothing but crushed leaves and overturned soil.

Highlight

An evocative autumn folklore horror sculpt featuring a carved toothy pumpkin skull, an ornate dangling carriage lantern, fibrous bark musculature, and scenic vine ground details.

Encounter Insight

Deploy the Gourdsoul as an eerie cemetery or orchard sentry, a lantern-bearing guide with deceptive intentions, or an unsettling minion accompanying a powerful harvest witch. In tactical combat, Keepers can take advantage of its lantern to manage light levels and fog cover, using its tall silhouette to draw frontline attention while luring adventurers into concealed root snares or pumpkin patch hazards.

Features

• Carved Gourd Visage: Sculpted with a multi-layered skull-like pumpkin head displaying a gaping mouth lined with jagged wooden spikes and hollow ocular ridges.
• Hanging Filigree Lantern: Grips a detailed Gothic cage lantern by an arched top loop, complete with crisscrossed window tracery and corner flourishes.
• Gnarled Bark Anatomy: Modeled with sinewy, twisted root muscle cords, spiked shoulder nodes, and elongated bark-textured arms ending in sharp clawed fingers.
• Root-Clawed Stride: Braced on splayed, root-like clawed feet that intertwine naturally with low ground foliage.
• Harvest Patch Plinth: Anchored to a round scenic base detailed with fallen cornstalk debris, blooming woodland flowers, and ripe miniature pumpkins.

Designed For

• Autumn Horror & Orchard Encounters: Populates blighted farms, haunted pumpkin patches, misty village perimeters, and witch-ruled forests.
• Folklore Constructs & Minions: Operates naturally as a scarecrow variant, wood golem, twig blight warden, or bound harvest construct.
• OSL Lantern Painting: An exceptional canvas for painting glowing candle flame or eerie green light spilling from the lantern onto wood grain and dried foliage.

Size Category

Occupies a 1×1 square (25mm base, Medium Plant)