Haunted One

## Stats

**Skill Proficiencies:** Two from among *Arcana, Investigation, Religion,* and *Survival*

**Languages:** One *exotic*

**Equipment:** monster hunter's pack, common clothes, gothic trinket

## Feature

### Heart of Darkness

Bystanders will often take pity on you, offering to help you in any way they can. Some may even defend you in a fight.

## Gothic Trinkets

2. A lock that opens when blood is dripped in its keyhole
3. Clothes stolen from a scarecrow
4. A spinning top carved with four faces: happy, sad, wrathful, and dead
5. The necklace of a sibling who died on the day you were born
6. A wig from someone executed by beheading
7. The unopened letter to you from your dying father
8. A pocket watch that runs backward for an hour every midnight
9. A winter coat stolen from a dying soldier
10. A bottle of invisible ink that can only be read at sunset
11. A wineskin that refills when interred with a dead person for a night
12. A set of silverware used by a king for his last meal
13. A spyglass that always shows the world suffering a terrible storm
14. A cameo with the profile’s face scratched away
15. A lantern with a black candle that never runs out and that burns with green flame
16. A teacup from a child’s tea set, stained with blood
17. A little black book that records your dreams, and yours alone, when you sleep
18. A necklace formed of the interlinked holy symbols of a dozen deities
19. A hangman’s noose that feels heavier than it should
20. A birdcage into which small birds fly but once inside never eat or leave
21. A lepidopterist’s box filled dead moths with skull-like patterns on their wings
22. A jar of pickled ghouls’ tongues
23. The wooden hand of a notorious pirate
24. A urn with the ashes of a dead relative
25. A hand mirror backed with a bronze depiction of a medusa
26. Pallid leather gloves crafted with ivory fingernails
27. Dice made from the knuckles of a notorious charlatan
28. A ring of keys for forgotten locks
29. Nails from the coffin of a murderer
30. A key to the family crypt
31. An bouquet of funerary flowers that always looks and smells fresh
32. A switch used to discipline you as a child
33. A music box that plays by itself whenever someone holding it dances
34. A walking cane with an iron ferule that strikes sparks on stone
35. A flag from a ship lost at sea
36. Porcelain doll’s head that always seems to be looking at you
37. A wolf’s head wrought in silver that is also a whistle
38. A small mirror that shows a much older version of the viewer
39. Small, worn book of children’s nursery rhymes
40. A mummified raven claw
41. A broken pendent of a silver dragon that’s always cold to the touch
42. A small locked box that quietly hums a lovely melody at night but you always forget it in the morning
43. An inkwell that makes one a little nauseous when staring at it
44. An old little doll made from a dark, dense wood and missing a hand and a foot
45. A black executioner’s hood
46. A pouch made of flesh, with a sinew drawstring
47. A tiny spool of black thread that never runs out
48. A tiny clockwork figurine of a dancer that’s missing a gear and doesn’t work
49. A black wooden pipe that creates puffs of smoke that look like skulls
50. A vial of perfume, the scent of which only certain creatures can detect