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Man-Eating Sheep

“FurFright Sheep Hand” © Alex Cockburn, accessed at their deviantArt page here

[Castle Xyntillan intentionally does not explain all of its backstory and mysteries, but the worship of Baphomet is a running theme throughout. I figured that was a good time to dust off a Baphomet-associated template from Wrath of the Righteous: the man-eating animal. Killer sheep do appear in the module, as do “wolves in sheep’s clothing” which deal more damage and have more HD… so why not just make them ewes and rams?]

Man-Eating Ewe CR ½ CE Magical Beast

Man-Eating Ram CR 2 CE Magical Beast This wooly quadruped has curving horns and a leathery look to its face. Its teeth are overly large and sharp, and it has a hungry expression

Man-eating sheep are created by the cult of Baphomet using demon-steeped ichor and sinister rituals. They are popular among the cult for the useful products they generate—a man-eating sheep produces as good a wool and milk as the regular kind—as well as for the amusement generated when a seemingly docile animal turns violent and murderous. Man-eating lambs may find their way into local livestock markets in order to induce fear and chaos, but usually through multiple proxies, so the original source of the murderous beasts is hard to trace. Cults of various demonic entities may use them for sacrificial rituals if humanoid victims are not available.

Man-eating sheep are sexually dimorphic; rams are much larger than ewes. Both sexes have horns, however, and they are somewhat of an intimidating sight. They are just intelligent enough to be evil—man-eating sheep of both sexes enjoy drawing out their attacks in order to induce fear and pain.

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So you seek the Red Queen’s crown? The Poppy Warlord, Sovereign of The Autumn hills, Blade of Crops and Conquering, my liege. It’s gone, of course, has been for centuries, that crown was never meant to rest upon a stone head, another came and took it a long long time ago, and she or whomever she gave it to carries our spirit with her now. I can point you in the right direction, but my queen would reprimand me if I did not first establish the balance of your own prospective head. If it is clear, we can be friends, but if it is not… well… I have been guarding this grave for as long as I have lived, my grandparents trained by the Red Hand herself, and my parents, and now me. If you’re here, if you seek the crown of the greatest blade in history, surely you understand what that means. We must water these flowers, as she did, once they filled these hills, watered only by the blood of evil. Evil is mostly gone from these lands now, so the flowers recede. But here, at a place where evil is drawn, my family has managed to keep a field flourishing. So which is it stranger? Are you here to carry out the will of my queen? Or are you here to water her garden?

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some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of the sentence.

it doesn’t have to be a “punch line” as in the end of a joke. It could be the part that punches you in the gut. The most exciting, juicy, shocking info goes at the end of the sentence. Two different examples that show the difference it makes:

doing it wrong:

She saw her brother’s dead body when she caught the smell of something rotting, thought it was coming from the fridge, and followed it into the kitchen.

doing it right:

Catching the smell of something rotten wafting from the kitchen—probably from the fridge, she thought—she followed the smell into the kitchen, and saw her brother’s dead body.

Periods are where you stop to process the sentence. Put the dead body at the start of the sentence and by the time you reach the end of the sentence, you’ve piled a whole kitchen and a weird fridge smell on top of it, and THEN you have to process the body, and it’s buried so much it barely has an impact. Put the dead body at the end, and it’s like an emotional exclamation point. Everything’s normal and then BAM, her brother’s dead.

This rule doesn’t just apply to sentences: structuring lists or paragraphs like this, by putting the important info at the end, increases their punch too. It’s why in tropes like Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking or Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, the odd item out comes at the end of the list.

Subverting this rule can also be used to manipulate reader’s emotional reactions or tell them how shocking they SHOULD find a piece of information in the context of a story. For example, a more conventional sentence that follows this rule:

She opened the pantry door, looking for a jar of grape jelly, but the view of the shelves was blocked by a ghost.

Oh! There’s a ghost! That’s shocking! Probably the character in our sentence doesn’t even care about the jelly anymore because the spirit of a dead person has suddenly appeared inside her pantry, and that’s obviously a much higher priority. But, subvert the rule:

She opened the pantry door, found a ghost blocking her view of the shelves, and couldn’t see past it to where the grape jelly was supposed to be.

Because the ghost is in the middle of the sentence, it’s presented like it’s a mere shelf-blocking pest, and thus less important than the REAL goal of this sentence: the grape jelly. The ghost is diminished, and now you get the impression that the character is probably not too surprised by ghosts in her pantry. Maybe it lives there. Maybe she sees a dozen ghosts a day. In any case, it’s not a big deal. Even though both sentences convey the exact same information, they set up the reader to regard the presence of ghosts very differently in this story.

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