Jeoseung Saja
Jeoseung Saja — The Encounter
The black-hatted messenger who comes for every name · a boss your table can run with almost no prep. SRD 5.1-compatible.
Who Is Jeoseung Saja
When a life reaches its appointed end, three of these messengers are dispatched from the courts of the underworld to fetch the soul by name. They wear the wide black hat and dark robe of a clerk on official business, for theirs is not malice but procedure: a name is written, a name is collected, a name is delivered to be weighed. The lantern they carry lights the road the dead must walk and gutters out only when the soul is safely escorted across. They are punctual, incorruptible, and deaf to pleading, though clever mortals have been known to delay them with rice, courtesy, or a clerical error in the register. To strike one is to brawl with death's bureaucracy itself; to refuse to go with it is merely to make it return, patient and unhurried, on another night with your name still at the top of its page.
Run Jeoseung Saja in Sixty Seconds
- What it is a Korean death-messenger - undead, not a fiend - sent to collect one named soul. Calm, lawful, relentless; this is death as paperwork, not a rampage.
- Open with Ledger of the Named on turn one: pick the party's healer or squishiest target as the marked soul. That creature now can't be healed by allies and the messenger has advantage on it.
- Kill-priority the players should focus the messenger fast - but it ignores turning and shrugs off its first death (Office of the Reaper), so warn them it gets back up once.
- When bloodied lean on Beckon the Departed and Incorporeal Passage - phase through walls and bodies to stay glued to the marked soul, tolling the lantern whenever two or more cluster.
- Three ways to run it (1) a patient solo collector that won't be reasoned with, (2) a trio - stat the buddies as the Hat-Bearer companion, or (3) the grim escort serving a larger underworld boss.
Jeoseung Saja
Medium undead, lawful neutral
CR 6 · 2,300 XP · GUIDELINELedger of the Named. The messenger carries a register that has already written down the name of one creature it has been sent to claim. As a bonus action it can read the name, choosing one creature it can see within 60 ft.; that creature is the marked soul until the marked soul drops to 0 hit points or the messenger marks another. The messenger has advantage on attack rolls against its marked soul, and the marked soul cannot regain hit points from any source other than its own actions.
Incorporeal Passage. The messenger can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Office of the Reaper. The messenger cannot be turned, and it makes death saving throws as though it were a living creature it is bound to escort: the first time it would drop to 0 hit points, it instead drops to 1 hit point and may read the name as part of the same reaction.
Actions
Multiattack. The messenger makes two attacks with its soul-binding chains, or one with its chains and uses Toll the Lantern.
Soul-Binding Chain. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 3) necrotic damage, and if the target is the marked soul it is grappled (escape DC 14).
Toll the Lantern (Recharge 5-6). The messenger raises its soul-lantern and tolls a final summons in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by this damage and whose name is in the ledger does not stabilize on its own.
Bonus Actions & Reactions
Beckon the Departed. Reaction (when a creature within 10 ft. drops to 0 hit points): the messenger gains 10 temporary hit points and may move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
A tall figure in a black gat and embroidered hanbok glides just above the ground, soul-lantern in one hand and an open ledger of names in the other, ghostly chains trailing from its sleeves like smoke.
Jeoseung Saja, Bound
Companion · acts on your initiative
Bound · GUIDELINELantern-Keeper (signature). While within 30 ft. of the Jeoseung Saja, an ally who can see its lantern has advantage on saving throws against being frightened, and an ally reduced to 0 hit points can be stabilized by the Jeoseung Saja as a bonus action.
Actions
Spirit Chain. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) necrotic damage.
Reactions
Mark the Name. When an ally hits a creature the Jeoseung Saja can see, the Jeoseung Saja may write that creature's name; the next attack against it before the end of the next turn has advantage.
A lesser messenger sent to assist the collection, lantern held high so no soul slips into the dark unescorted.
Guideline numbers — formula-tuned and read from the miniature's design, not yet table-proven. Tell us how it ran in the comments.
How It Fights — by Tier
Same creature, scaled threat. The traits never change; only the numbers move.
Open by reading a name to mark the party's healer or weakest defender, then drag it away with a chain. If the group clusters, time Toll the Lantern for the cone. Kill-priority is the marked soul - it cannot be healed by others. Pair it with a heavier underworld boss; the Jeoseung Saja is the collector piece, not the centerpiece.
Mark the party's healer first, chain-grapple it, and toll the lantern when two or more foes stand in the cone. Hover and phase through walls to stay on the marked soul; Beckon the Departed when a creature falls nearby to refresh itself and reposition. It plays best beside a bigger threat - let the boss bloody them while the messenger collects the dying.
Mark the strongest single-target threat to deny it healing, then alternate chain attacks and recharged Tolls to grind the group down. Use Office of the Reaper to survive the first death and immediately re-mark. Still an add-on at this tier - pair it with a legendary underworld lord so its relentless soul-collection has a flagship to support.
Put Jeoseung Saja on the table
Download the presupported STL and run the fight tonight — the model, and the encounter that comes with it.
Get the STL on MyMiniFactory →Clay Cyanide Companion Rules v1
How a bound creature acts
- A companion acts on its owner's initiative, immediately after the owner.
- It uses the Companion block above — roughly ×0.6 HP and damage, no recharge abilities, and at most one reaction trait.
- It moves freely; it takes its Action only while its owner is conscious.
- At 0 HP a companion is broken, not dead — restored on a long rest unless your table rules otherwise.
Original Clay Cyanide material © Clay Cyanide LLC — explicitly not the non-SRD official sidekick rules.
Questions, Asked at the Table
What CR is Jeoseung Saja?
Its home statline is CR 6 (2,300 XP) for a level 5-10 party. Tier-down and tier-up blocks are provided for CR 2 (level 1-4) and roughly CR 11 (level 11-15) play - the traits stay identical and only the numbers move.
Can Jeoseung Saja be a companion or ally?
Yes. Use the Hat-Bearer, Bound companion block - a lesser messenger whose lantern stabilizes the dying and shields allies from fear, while marking enemies for the party to focus. It fits a death-touched cleric, an underworld envoy, or a character who struck a bargain to escort souls.
Is Jeoseung Saja a single boss or part of a group?
The mini comes as three figures and the creature is an add-on rather than a solo centerpiece. Field it beside a larger underworld threat, or run all three as a messenger trio (one statted block plus two Hat-Bearer companions) closing in to collect the named soul.
Tell Us How It Ran
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
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Technical Specifications
32mm, 75mm
STL, Pre-supported STL
Standard or ABS-like resin, 0.05mm layer height
Yes — ready to print, optimized supports included
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