An entity for J.N. Sinombre's Occultist with inspiration from RowanAMon.

By hooook

THE RED QUEEN

When the world was younger, the sun brighter, and man less prosperous, the Red Queen was born. She was the primal struggle to survive, to fight and kill threats to the clan. She was your fearsome mother, who brought you into this life for you to struggle and grow stronger. As humankind advanced technologically and socially through the ages, they distanced themselves from the hot scarlet in their veins. The Queen almost died a dozen times, starving and abandoned by her children. But she did survive. Man could never completely divorce himself from his base instincts.

The Red Queen waits in the dark recesses of humanity’s unconscious, ready to welcome her children back into her bleeding embrace.

Ritual: Scribe your circle in blood. It doesn’t matter what kind.

Sacrifice: A fresh kill, slain by your hand, or a symbol of one of your major life accomplishments.

Signs: A red tint to your vision. Blood leaking from places it shouldn’t be. A soft, rhythmic thumping sound, almost like a heartbeat.

Wants: Blood spilled in savage combat. New life brought into this world. To indulge in love and lust. Perseverance and strength through suffering. Achievements of great artistry and violence.

Hates: Cowardice. An undue retreat from combat. Giving mercy to those who don’t deserve it, especially the weak. Lies and shallow relationships.

Boons: Your teeth and nails deal damage as daggers. A primitive +1 magic melee weapon that breaks on a roll of maximum damage. The lust of a specific NPC. +2 to rolls related to an artistic field of your choice. You never suffer from environmental effects or exhaustion.

Woes: Your natural healing process stops and you can’t recover HP by resting. One of your loved ones now despises you. Wild animals violently hate you. You have disadvantage against poisons, infection, disease, and mutations. Enemies gain +1 to-hit against you in melee combat.

Summon: THE PRINCESS (6 HD horned and bleeding ape-thing, has 3 templates of your local Fighter class, everyone near it, including enemies, gains +1 to-hit)