Stitch Born

No one quite knows how or why stitch borns are created. Scholars say they're created by being exposed to unnatural levels of necromantic or far realm energies that burrows its way into the person. However, folktales tell of harrowing events where children who barely escaped from a hag, troll, or necromancer who develop these twisted abilities, while some of these tales say that the children didn’t escape at all, falling victim to these creatures only to wake up unharmed with these dark abilities.

As a whole stitch born are sorcerers are those who possess the unsettling magic of flesh manipulation. Drawing power from the macabre, they seamlessly weave arcane energies with the sinew and bone of living creatures. Masters of body-altering spells, these sorcerers navigate the fine line between creation and horror, often leaving ethereal stitches and otherworldly marks in their wake. They harness the unsettling forces that bind life and death together, both architects and conduits of the uncanny, sculpting reality with their own unique and disturbing flair.

Stitch Magic

1st-level Stitch Born feature

You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Stitch Spells table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of sorcerer spells you know.

Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be a necromancy or a transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.

Stitch Spells

Sorcerer Level	Spells
1st	cause fear, hex
3rd	alter self, gentle repose
5th	speak with dead, summon undead
7th	black tentacles, fabricate
9th	contagion, reincarnate

In addition, consult the Signs of a Stitch table and choose or randomly determine a way you reveal your unnatural nature while you are casting any of your sorcerer spells.

Signs of a Stitch

d6	Signs
1	Faint ethereal stitches appear across your skin.
2	Your shadow briefly takes on the form of a monstrous amalgamation of creatures.
3	A faint scent of embalming herbs wafts around you.
4	Wisps of necrotic energy dance around you, resembling unraveling threads.
5	Your spellcasting focus momentarily transforms into a miniature, animated sewing needle.
6	The skin of those affected by your magic and your own unnaturally crawls.

Healing Stitch

1st-level Stitch Born feature

You can mend things with out any kind of needle or thread. You learn the Mending spell, which doesn’t count against the number of sorcerer cantrips you know. When you cast the spell, you can target an object or creature. If you target a creature, you warp its flesh to heal its wounds which heals 1d6 + your Charisma modifier.

You can heal creatures in this way a number of times equal to 1 + your Sorcerer level, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Stitched Servant

6th-level Stitch Born feature

Your warping and weaving of flesh as allowed you create a companion, a stitched servant. It’s friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Stitched Servant stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the creature’s appearance but your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the servant shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the servant can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

If the servant dies and is within 30 feet of you, you may use your bonus action to restore all of its hit points. Once you use this bonus action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 5 sorcery points to use it again.

At the end of a long rest, you can create a new stitched servant if you have flesh components with you. If you already have a servant from this feature, the first one immediately becomes inert. The servant also becomes inert if you die.

 

Fleshcraft Mutations

14th-level Stitch Born feature

Your mastery over the manipulation of flesh has reached new heights, allowing you to reshape yourself or an ally with precision. As a bonus action, you can touch yourself or a willing creature and imbue them with one of the following Mutations, transforming them into a more powerful, agile, or resilient form for 1 minute. You can use this ability once per long rest, or you can expend 5 sorcery points to use it again.

When you use this feature, choose one of the following Mutations to apply to the target:

• Mighty Mutation: The target’s strength is bolstered, and their physical form becomes sturdier and more intimidating. The creature gains a +2 bonus to attack rolls and deals an additional 2d8 necrotic damage on melee attacks. Additionally, they have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.

• Swift Mutation: The target’s limbs elongate, and their reflexes are heightened to superhuman levels. The creature’s speed increases by 20 feet, and they can make an additional attack when they take the Attack action (even if they aren’t normally able to make multiple attacks). Additionally, they gain advantage on Dexterity checks and Dexterity saving throws.

• Resilient Mutation: The target’s body transforms to an unnatural resilience. They gain a +2 bonus to their AC and resistance to two damage types of your choice. Additionally, they gain advantage on Constitution saving throws.

Once activated, the transformation lasts for 1 minute, and the target reverts to their normal form when the effect ends.

Twisted Servitude

18th-level Stitch Born feature

You warp the flesh of an opponent within 30 feet beyond recognition. As an action, you twist the flesh of a creature that is not a construct in unnatural ways and it must make a Charisma saving throw. On a successful save, the creature gains a level of exhaustion. On a failed save, the creature is transformed for 10 minutes or until you lose your concentration (as if you were casting a concentration spell) causing it to become a second stitched servant. While maintaining this effect, you may use your bonus action to issue commands to both servants, giving the same instructions to both of them. After the effect ends, the creature reverts back to its original form while most likely scarred for life.

Once you use this action, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 7 sorcery points to use it again.