The Harrowshade

The Harrowshade is no simple ghost or demon—it is a living curse, an ancient embodiment of humanity’s collective sins. It was born when a village slaughtered its own children to appease a false god, only to realize the god was a fraud. Their guilt and the final, anguished cries of the dying children created something so vile that even the land rejected it. From the burial ground of the innocents, the Harrowshade crawled forth, a monstrous parasite that thrives on the regret and fear of its victims. Over centuries, the Harrowshade has become more than just a legend. It appears wherever guilt festers: in the ruins of genocides, among families hiding terrible secrets, or in the minds of the damned. It is said that merely speaking of it can invite it into your thoughts, where it begins to feed long before it arrives.