Witch Clans

The Witchmen or Witch Clans, suspicious of outsiders, tend to marry within their own clan – the Dungers do this most extensively.

With the exception of the Faustys, strength of blood in the witch clans determines whether a person manifests the family power.

The Witch Clans live mostly in The Barrier Range, but the Birls and the Maddlows have scattered while the Penderghasts live in The Duchy of Thring. The Serendips live in distant Jahur.

• Birls (*animate wood; *scattered throughout Thring)
• Cransoms (*hallucinatory terrain; *adults killed, children kidnapped)
• Dungers (*stinking cloud; *enslaved the Hallovers, tribal war with the Osseries)
• Faustys (summon monster)
• Hallovers (*feather fall; *enslaved by the Dungers)
• Haverlies (*floating disc; *trapped in a valley)
• Maddlows (geas; geased to travel to the far corners of the Shrouded Lands)
• Mirdenlows (*willow shape; *?)
• Osseries (*burning hands; *tribal war with Dungers)
• Penderghasts (*disintegrate; *mostly wiped out)
• Serendips (*change emotions; *extant but of uncertain status as a Clan)
• Wrannows (rope trick; extinct)
• Yarbeens (unknown spell; isolated in valley)

Hooks

• What do the Witch Clans call themselves?
• What is the source of their magical bloodlines?
• What other clans are there?
• Why do all of the Witchmen have copper hair? Is it just the case of a gene pool that’s too small or is there some connection with 27.09?
• The Faustys and the Wrannows have a connection to other dimensions. Do the witch clans have a connection to the planes?

Random Witch Clan Table

The *colour ward *spell was inspired by D&D with Pornstars

To create a new witch clan, roll once on each of these tables.

Quirk (1d12)

1. Can only cast the reverse of the assigned spell
2. Almost extinct
3. Have the spell of another clan
4. Stole the spell from something or someone else
5. Invented the spell
6. Are from outside the Barrier Ranges
7. Itinerant
8. Populous
9. Have a taboo against using the spell
10. Can only cast the spell on their selves and their possessions
11. Can only use the spells on others
12. Presence allows others to cast the spell but cannot cast it themselves

    Spell (1d20)

13. Feeblemind
14. Knock
15. Hold person
16. Waterbreathing
17. Web
18. Word of recall
19. Heat metal
20. Locate object
21. Time stop
22. Hostile polymorph
23. Wall of stone
24. Faerie fire
25. Sticks to snakes
26. Fake memory
27. Uncertainty: each time a creature looks at the target object, it has a 50% change of existing or of not existing for that creature
28. Psychic limb
29. Breath giant bubbles: can float inside them, trap people inside them, obscure self
30. Animate shadows
31. Sticky skin: Can turn ones own skin and the skin of those one is in contact with highly adhesive.
32. Colour ward: The target is immune to anything of a particular colour and anyone wearing that colour.

    Relationship with another witch clan (1d12)

33. Intermarriage
34. Slavery
35. Neighbours
36. Debtor and financier
37. Terror
38. War
39. Trade
40. Mutual cooperation
41. Ignorance
42. Colonisation
43. Alliance
44. Ancient rift

    Name (1d20)

45. The Bunkums
46. The Milligrubs
47. The Rawmaish
48. The Pappekaks
49. The Barmpots
50. The Moiders
51. The Davenports
52. The Druthers
53. The Kittywumpuses
54. The Mazads
55. The Stupnagles
56. The Megrims
57. The Fantods
58. The Blatherskites
59. The Pluguglys
60. The Sennights
61. The Ghastflabbers
62. The Whumpids
63. The Charnies
64. The Dadiwhirls