Roguish Archetype: Fey Catcher

A Brand New Rogue Archetype For 5th Edition

“If there’s a creature on this plane to be avoided, it’s the fey. Even the so-called good ones play impossible games with mortal minds and take twisted pleasure in the chaos and confusion they cause. Believe me, after I chase what’s in your woods out and make sure it can’t lure your children away in the night, you’ll understand why my fee is so steep.”

- Zynus-Marthios, Fey Catcher

There are countless wild places scattered across the face of the continent. Ancient woodlands and groves where the trees reach so high toward the sky that they leave the world below them in a state of perpetual gloom and where thickets of briars and brambles grow so thickly between their trunks that the rabbits must hold their breath to scramble through them. It’s in the shadows of these great forests that the Fey Catchers do their work. 

Fey Catchers are specialized rogues who have dedicated themselves to driving fey away from the mortal realms. Some are guardians looking to safeguard their own frontier villages and people from the unseely beings that would do them harm, while others work as bounty hunters who have found a lucrative niche serving the superstitious or unsavory. In either case, in order to effectively hunt their prey, Fey Catchers must subject themselves to a rare and esoteric ritual that changes the course of their lives forever.