Vespera, the Curio Seamstress – The Bone-Shear Hag

Vespera, the Curio Seamstress – The Bone-Shear Hag

Female Fey (Warlock, Wizard)

Flashing a wicked, gap-toothed grin as she hoists an enormous pair of ornate bone shears, this wandering crone hawks bizarre wares from the lining of her billowing mantle. One foot perches casually atop a severed giant hand while her cloak opens wide to reveal dangling potion phials, desiccated curios, and a living preserved head strapped into the folds. Keepers seeking an eccentric swamp merchant, a calculating coven matriarch, or an unsettling hedge-witch encounter will find this Artifact brings sinister folklore charisma and rich visual storytelling across the grid.

Tabletop Lore

Known across the shifting fenlands as Momma Snips, this calculating peddler deals not in ordinary trade, but in severing the metaphysical threads that bind fate, memories, and mortal lifespans. Accompanied by the rhythmic clacking of her massive shears, she traverses lonely crossroads offering forbidden concoctions, severed talismans, and dark remedies to desperate travelers. Her price is never coin; those who barter with the Seamstress willingly forfeit a measure of their fortune, their past, or their flesh, adding fresh inventory to the macabre lining of her cloak.

Highlight

A characterful dark folklore sculpt featuring oversized ornate tailoring shears, a heavy skull-lined fur mantle, an open cloak interior laden with curios and a severed head, all balanced atop an enormous severed hand.

Encounter Insight

Deploy Vespera as an enigmatic black-market merchant lurking at a secluded crossroads, an eccentric quest patron demanding macabre components, or a cunning coven leader orchestrating foul village bargains. In social or combat encounters, Keepers can use her eccentric posture to command attention during tense negotiations, threatening meddling parties with bone-snapping melee cleaves while utilizing her bottled concoctions to curse frontline fighters or shroud her escape in thick mist.

Features

• Oversized Bone Shears: Grips a pair of towering tailor scissors detailed with scrollwork handles, articulated pivot hardware, and long tapering blades resting point-down.
• Curio Peddler Cloak: Holds open an expansive mantle interior lined with strapped potion flasks, dried hanging talismans, jars, and a severed bearded head.
• Trophy Fur Mantle: Outfitted with an expansive fur shoulder cowl embedded with multiple miniature human skulls resting beneath a peaked headscarf.
• Severed Hand Footrest: Posed dynamically with one foot elevated upon an oversized severed humanoid hand crawling across the terrain.
• Scenic Loam Plinth: Anchored to a round display base featuring fine gravel textures, scattered woodland fungi, and a half-buried human skull.

Designed For

• Crossroads & Swamp Encounters: Populates foul bogs, eerie woodland clearings, black-market alleys, and secluded hag covens.
• Sinister Merchants & Coven Matriarchs: Operates naturally as an eccentric witch merchant, green hag variant, night hag patron, or bizarre underworld contact.
• Narrative Detail & Character Painting: An exceptional canvas for painting weathered leathers, aged bone scissors, glass potion vials, and expressive facial wrinkles.

Size Category

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