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Sheed

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Sheed

Quick Reference

TypeFey Race
CourtWild Court
RelevanceBean’s new form

Overview

To glimpse a Sheed was to witness the Wild Court’s answer to mortality’s fragile beauty—beings forged in the crucible between death and elemental fury, emerging as something that defied the careful taxonomies of Summer and Winter alike. They stood at the threshold of impossible transformation: fey creatures destroyed by elemental catastrophe, only to rise renewed from that destruction with power that made even the seasonal courts pause.

Where pixies fluttered and sprites danced, Sheeds strode with the majesty of small gods. Their forms had grown, stretched by primal forces into shapes that echoed the voluptuous beauty of elvenkind compressed into forms standing two feet tall or more. Great wings—phoenix fire or crystal frost, depending on their elemental baptism—sprouted from shoulder blades, with smaller hummingbird-like appendages humming beneath. When not in flight, these wings folded into elaborate tattoos that seemed to writhe and shift with the Sheed’s mood, a permanent reminder of the catastrophe that had birthed them.

Known Information

Physical Characteristics

  • Much larger than typical fey (2-2.5 feet tall)
  • Phoenix wings (primary) with smaller hummingbird-like wings beneath
  • Unearthly beauty with natural Charisma 29
  • Wings retract into intricate back tattoos when not in use

Abilities

  • Elemental control (fire, ice, wind depending on aspect)
  • Telepathy — Share memories and visions
  • Clothing materialization — Create garments from debris
  • Alluring presence — +4 to Charisma-based checks
  • City Spirit — More powerful within their bound city

Wild Court Hierarchy

Sheeds can rise to become leaders of the Wild Court. When a King and Queen are chosen, they become the Lord and Lady of the Wild Hunt.

Mysteries

  • How are Sheeds created naturally?
  • What is the relationship between Sheeds and city spirits?
  • Can Bean’s duality merge back into one being?

Campaign Relevance

Bean was reborn as a Sheed after dying in Solarin’s fire trap and being infused with primal fire elemental energy. Her transformation into a Sheed heralds the potential coming of the Wild Hunt.

Party’s Discoveries

Session 10: The Gathering

Elric witnessed Bean’s rebirth as a Sheed. Key learnings:

  • Sheed = Wild Court fey (not Summer Court)
  • Natural Charisma 29
  • Phoenix wings
  • Patrick recognized the implications immediately
  • Bean declared: “I am not an Earth Mother. I am a Sheed, one of the Wild Court.”

DM Notes

  • Bean is now a Sheed
  • Sheeds herald the Wild Hunt
  • Extremely rare transformation
  • City spirit connection (Waterdeep/Skullport duality)

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