The risen woman countenance looks as if she was once broken like a mirror and put back together by inexpert hands. Her body doesn't quite fit together correctly and the gaps between are filled with coagulated ectoplasm and shards of black glass. In fact, many slivers of the glass pepper her entire body, the largest of which pierces the apparition where her heart should be. Shattered Sorscha wears a heavily embroidered dress just as tattered as she. The brocade of its cream skirt and bust is fashioned from fingerbones. The sleeves and fluttering train of the attire swirls with otherworldly shadows in which the hungry eyes of specters lurk. Her feet are nothing more than bloody stumps in black, glass slippers.
Broken Souls. There once was a spoiled noble child who spent her days admiring herself in a mirror. Princess Sorscha blossomed into a vain, but beautiful woman who wielded her appearance and station with the subtly of an assassin's dagger and the brutality of a barbarian's axe. She was the envy of the kingdom and every suitor of any worth sought her hand. However, the blue blood found them all too 'hideous' to ever have by her side, for even the slightest blemish might take away from her looks. While she was lusted after, however, the princess was anything but beloved. Anyone who entered her orbit wanted her for her body or power because her heart was as black as night.
After being rejected several times, a duke's son sought supernatural help to finally win Sorscha's favor. He struck a deal with a night hag to obtain a magical item the narcissistic woman would not resist; a mirror that would keep Sorscha forever young. The scion's half of the bargain was simple and tickled his sadistic spirt. Once the princess was bound to the mirror he was to shatter it. The hag said that it would "Break Sorcha's spirit". The duke's son didn't realize how literal the dark fey was.
So it came to pass that the conceited woman accepted the gift and suitor with delight despite his vile nature. Then the fool broke the mirror on their very wedding night. Sorcha didn't even time to scream as she was violently rent into hundreds of pieces. At the same time the mirror's glass turned black. The duke's son was arrested for her murder but never made it to trial. They heard screaming in his cell one night and found quite a bit of blood but no body.
Legend says if you speak Shattered Sorcha's name three times while looking in a mirror and shatter it her ghost will come and carry you away from your mortal troubles. Again, most never realize how literal the apparition's promise is.
Shattered Sorscha
Medium undead, Lawful evil
Str 11 Dex 20 Con 20 Int 14 Wis 14 Cha 18
Skills Intimidation +10, Perception +8, Survival +8
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison
Condition Immunities exhaustion, frightened, poisoned
Senses darkvision 120ft, passive Perception 18
Languages Common, Elvish
Challenge
18 (20000 XP)
Incorporeal Movement.
Shattered Sorscha can move through other creatures and Objects as if they were Difficult Terrain. She takes 5 (1d10) force damage if she ends her turn inside an object.
Frightful Presence.
Each creature of Shattered Sorscha choice that is within 30 ft. of Shattered Sorscha and aware of it must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or become Frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the Effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the Effect ends for it, the creature is immune to Shattered Sorscha's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.
If a creature fails the save by 5 or more it takes 22 (4d10) psychic damage and be Paralyzed for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the Effect on itself on a success.
Black Mirror Stride.
Once on her turn, Shattered Sorscha can use 10 ft. of her Movement to step magically into one mirror within her reach and emerge from a second mirror within 60 ft. of the first mirror, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 ft. of the second mirror.
Once on her turn, Shattered Sorscha can use her action to step magically into one mirror within her reach and emerge out of the Black Mirror in the Shadowfell, or through the Black Mirror and out of one of the Black Mirror's shard into the Material Plane.
Magic Resistance.
Shattered Sorscha has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Turn Resistance.
Shattered Sorscha has advantage on Saving Throws against any Effect that turns Undead.
Actions
Multiattack
Shattered Sorscha makes two shade blade attacks.
Shard Blade.
Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d4+5 ) slashing damage plus 9 (2d8) necrotic damage. Shattered Sorscha regains hit points equal to the amount of necrotic damage dealt. If a creature is reduced to 0 hit points by the shard blade they are reduced to a withered husk with mirrored eyeballs and die.
Shard Blast.
Ranged Spell Attack: +10 to hit, range 120 ft., one creature. Hit: 26 (4d10+4) slashing damage.
The Grasping Dead (Recharge 6).
Bloody, zombified arms skewered with mirror shards fill a 20-foot square that Shattered Sorscha can see within 90 ft for the next minute. For the duration, these arms turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.
When a creature enters the affected for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the creature must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or take (10) 3d6 slashing damage and be restrained by the undead hands until the effect ends. A creature that starts its turn in the area and is already restrained by the hands takes (10) 3d6 slashing damage.
A creature restrained by the hands can use its action to make a Strength or Dexterity check (its choice) against an 18 DC. On success, it frees itself. If a creature is restrained by the grasping dead at the end of the effect it is pulled to a random location in the Shadowfell.
Legendary Actions
Shard (1 point).
Shattered Sorscha makes a shard blade or shard blast attack.
Shadow Duplicate (2 points).
Shattered Sorscha summons two mirror images of herself in her space that last until the end of her next turn. Attacks against Shattered Sorscha have disadvantage and her melee weapon attacks have advantage. Creatures are unaffected by his effect if it can't see, if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions are false, as with Truesight.
Twisted Mirror (2 points).
Shattered Sorscha summons a disfigured, evil duplicate of a creature she can see within 60 ft that appears in an unoccupied square within 5ft of the duplicated creature. The duplicate makes takes an Attack action against the original creature using the original creature's current attacks with any effects currently affecting the creature and then dissolves back into nothingness.
However, if the duplicate reduces the original creature's hit points to 0 it remains and is friendly to Shattered Sorscha. The duplicate has the statistics, abilities, and equipment of the original creature and acts on the original creature's initiative count. If the original creature regains any hit points the duplicate instantly dissolves into nothingness. If the original creature dies the duplicate becomes a permanent creature that is friendly to the Shattered Sorscha.
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