Ceffylwraig (Horse Wife)
solitary, large, cautious, organized, magical, spirit
HP 20, Armor 0
Kicking hoofs: [w]2d8+3 (hand, close, forceful)
• Manifest as a majestic, beautiful horse
• Slip free of any restraint
• Guide the herd like it was a single living entity
• Curse someone with wild, unbridled emotions
Instinct: to be fiercely independent
A herd of wild horses has a life, nay, a spirit all its own, a spirit as free and fickle as the wind. Take care, you who would poach wild horses for your own purpose, lest you find your heart turned against you!
Something interesting: A ceffylwraig sees herself more as queen than wife: proud and haughty, disdainful of the weak and the slow, the herd her subjects more than her children
Something useful: a ceffylwraig is scornful and suspicious of praise or fancy words, but can be appeased by thoughtful gifts, offered with appropriate respect from proud women of noble bearing
○ What sort of gift do the ceffylwraig most value?
○ What sort of gift will do in a pinch?
#stonetop
How do you pronounce it?
Well, if stick to Welsh pronunciation, I think it’s something like KAY-ful-oo-RIEG (like “ride” but ending in a g).
Personally, I’d mispronounce is “KEF-el-rag” (or maybe “-wrag”).
Very carefully, so as not to offend it.
This is excellent.
Of course, it makes me think of “Chestnut Mare” by the Byrds, one of the strangest songs they ever wrote. A song that seems sweet at first glance, and then you listen to the lyrics and you go “ummm, wut?”
I’m going to catch that horse if I can
And when I do I’ll give her my brand
And we’ll be friends for life
She’ll be just like a wife
I’m going to catch that horse if I can
youtube.com – The Byrds – Chestnut Mare
I really dig the “something interesting” and “something useful” as it really cues the GM on how to respond to Spout Lore
Aaron Griffin yeah, another innovation I’m stealing from Johnstone Metzger’s monster manuals (though I think maybe I’ve seen Joe Banner do this too?)
I got that one from Joe.
Johnstone Metzger please do a planar monster manual next. J. Walton would love you if you used “planarch” too