Ad Astra

All of the stuff in this thread is information for OOC clarifications and is not known IC unless appropriate.

Name: Hildmor d'Kridis.

Race: Augmented Human / Equivalent of a Tanthul Shade.

Special characteristics:

1)Clones: Artificial bodies Hildmor uses to avoid a violent end. Their amount, weaknesses and production technology is unknown. If his current body is destroyed, the soul recalls towards another one unless it's trapped. It's not apparent for the first glance if Hildmor's using an artificial or a real body. If Hildmor has to switch bodies, the new one is consirered very tired for 1 day. This ability can be countered by a Soul Bind spell or other soul-taking powers, see below.

2)Soul taint: 50% of Hildmor's soul consists of Shadow Energy which is normally spread  inside his current body, providing following abilties and traits. Only his passive abilities function in brightly lit places:

Shadow Zen. He can leave his body for a short moment and 'manifest' as a inititally formless Shadow for around 20 minutes. He gains all traits of an incorporeal spirit in that state and may only use spells to affect the material world unless he uses a spell which would allow him to manifest fully on the current plane. In his Shadow form he may only use spells which do not have a material component and only those he had previously memorized. If he doesn't return to his body within 20 minutes, said clone dies and the 'spirit' begins its journey to another one, which takes a few hours. Same happens if that spirit form is defeated in battle but then it has some delay. This also allowes him to protect himself from Soul Bind but only to some extent, it may be cast on the spirit quite reliably but provokes a Saving Throw and works only if the caster remains within range. Ofcourse, if stranded or mortally wounded, he may attempt to escape this way. If for some reason he doesn't do it while Soul Bind or any spell like that is cast, saving throw is still allowed due to the augmentation. In that case the spell may be available as per the PnP rule, 1 round after death per 1 Caster Level. In short, while his Shadow Form may seem superior to his mortal body in a way but it's a very temporal and limited solution.

Lesser Shadow Zen. Hildmor may manifest his nature in smaller ways. For example, he can move and turn any shadow in the room, even if it's new positioning would seem entirely unnatural. That would slowly revert back to normal when his concentration is lost but while he's at it, he may hide better or amplify his abilities by creating thick darkness.  ((Hide in Plain Sight))

Unaging. Normally, the shadow essence in his soul is busy blocking the aging proccesses of his body. In short, he doesn't grow older than he is, nothing fancy.

Regenaration: Hildmor slowly regenerates his health(Mechanical:Items). That will not work if he's dead, ofcourse.

Darkvision: Well, friggin' darkvision.

3)Shadow Adept: Hildmor can cast any Shadow-Magic specific spells which DM allows him to cast(Examples would include Shadow Walk, Shadow Stash, Creeping Shadow from 2ed, etc). All his magic draws its power from the Plane of Shadow anyway, even if it's not apparent for an untrained eye due to concealment(another Shadow Mage/person very familiar with Shadow Magic may roll an opposed Spellcraft Roll to see what they can find out about his magic). Ofcourse, his magic is weakened if he has to use it in very bright places where few actual shadows are present and he's somewhat empowered in darkness.

4)The Wands. 1) A solidified piece of Shadow Energy Hildmor uses to amplify himself and fake some abilities he normally has no hold of. (Mechanically a few renamed wands). 2)A mastercraft bone wand with several cores, used for same purposes. (Mechanically a few more renamed wands).

Reputation Traits: Now this is entirely up to DM of the campaign, this is just guidelines. These may apply to other known Cartel members as well in some cases.

Criminal encounter: 40% chance of them to be neuntral or never have heard of Cartel, 30% hostile/rival, 30% friendly/afraid/ally.

Merchant encounter: Same as above.

Law enforcement: 50% unheard of, 30% hostile, 20% bought or allie. This mostly depends on alignments.

Fiends: As per normal, except Grenpoli Baatezu, which would mostly be friendly or atleast diplomatic.

There are more defined enemy or friendly factions/groups but those will give be given away to the DM which currently rance the campaign. The above are just temporal guidelines.

Name: Ashalle "Raven" Swain

Race: Immortal Human

Age: physically around 22, chronologically over 127

Special Powers:

1)Blessings of Hextor: As a champion of Hextor, Ashalle Swain was granted many a divine boon:

• - Physical and mental immortality; (RP)
• - Exceptional mental fortitude, to the point of being fearless; (High will saves, fear immunity)
• - Exceptional resilience, to the point of being unhindered by any sort of pain; (High Fortitude saves, 500+ HP)
• - A lesser form of Devil's Sight: the ability to see perfectly in magical and non-magical darkness up to 300' (Darkvision)
• - And the ability to magically manipulate her voice to inspire even greater dread. (50+ ranks in intimidate)

2)Champion of Tyranny: A warrior who fights with such fervor for the forces of tyranny eventually earns a fraction of the fiends' respect. She may consult with fiends of Lawful alignment and is viewed by such as someone taking the right steps with their mortal lives. (Divine Champion, Blackguard levels)

3)Dread Commander: In the most bitter of situations, fear itself can be the most powerful foe, for it when it appears, primal instincts can take over a rational mind quickly. It can either cripple an army or drive it to do things unimaginable under normal circumstances. Ashalle Swain knows that too well. Whenever she issues a rallying cry or gives a speech before battle, she rolls an intimidate check to bolster the urgency or importance of her commands. If an ally willingly aknowledges such, they may not be intimidated by any other source which doesn't match or exceed the commander's initial roll and gain a bonus to saves vs. fear. (Aura of Courage, RP)

4)Dark Arts: As many a blackguard, Ashalle is skilled in the darker side of alchemy and medicine, able to concoct the vilest of poisons without suffering any ill effects. She may also cast a limited number of profane spells, as per the blackguard class.

5)Tyranny's Voice: As a lesser form of magic, she may manipulate her voice to bolster her intimidation checks, either by making it sound super-natural, boomingly loud or silent as the last whisper before death. (High Intimidate scores)

6)Fury of the Scourge: As a high ranking champion of a war deity, Ashalle may call upon Hextor's might to either enhance her attack's with zealous might (Divine Might) or her shield's sturdiness in the face of heretics and chaos-spawn (Divine Shield). In the direst of circumstances, she may also chant an unholy prayer to become a living manifestation of Hextor's fury, her attacks becoming so precise and devastating that one might think the six-armed war deity has possessed her.  (Divine Wrath)

7)Hopemourne, the Blade of Eternal Nightmares: In the possession of Ashalle Swain is the ancient runeblade known as Hopemourne, with an elder manifestation of dread and paranoia trapped within it. The blade is made out of masterwork cold-iron, enchanted to exceptional prowess and marked by a dozen binding runes. Being of Baatorian make, it is naturally stronger and more potent against chaotic or good foes. The sentient spirit witihin is loosely caged, for it grants the blade a powerful touch of negative energy and siphons life force to it's wielder aswell as tearing bits and pieces off the souls of all it touches. However, the most unnerving part of that spirit is it's sentience and ability to seamlessly ignore magical protections and wards as it whispers unnerving truths and lies into the mind of those who dare look at this blade for too long. It claims to hunger for it's freedom, but who or what would dare release a creature claimed to have been imprisoned by a deity?

Tomekk wrote:

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1)Blessings of Hextor: As a champion of Hextor, Ashalle Swain was granted many a divine boon:

• - Physical and mental immortality; (RP)
• - Exceptional mental fortitude, to the point of being fearless; (High will saves, fear immunity)
• - Exceptional resilience, to the point of being unhindered by any sort of pain; (High Fortitude saves, 500+ HP)
• - A lesser form of Devil's Sight: the ability to see perfectly in magical and non-magical darkness up to 300' (Darkvision)
• - And the ability to magically manipulate her voice to inspire even greater dread. (50+ ranks in intimidate)

 

-- Edited by Tomekk on Wednesday 28th of November 2012 01:49:32 PM

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Uh....could you clarify the immortality part? I assume this means "doesn't age/ go bat**** insane with time" rather than "only kryptonite may ever fell her" ? :P 

So about Kala :

- Elder Soul : Kala's sould was there before humans existed and participated in the early wars of order and chaos, since this happened eons ago Kala does not remember well as her memory is kept by her soul, she might have reminescenses of it sometimes for good or ill.

- Immortal Soul : If Kala body is deadly injured or destroyed, her soul will not go to any plane, she will change body if she can or wish so. Her original body can be restored and ressurected for a few hours for her to come back if not it might be the original owner of the body who may come back. If not she must choose the nearest body available within a day, humans are the most suited and it won't work with outsiders or any beign with powerfull souls. The possesed person Soul is expelled out of the body and is considered as dead with no means of ressurection until Kala holds it. Her Soul cannot be destroyed unless she decides so (see below) and is very hard to bind, yet it can be trapped. If she dosen't find any suitable body she'll be put on stasis wich usualy lasts a good hundred years if not more.

- Corruptible Soul : If Kala's soul is out of her body, she's very vulnerable to the far realm influences. She also must behave in the way of her element : air. Which means keeping some emotional distance, able to walk free, having new things to do and discover often etc... If she's too much influenced by the far realm and does not cope with her element, she'll become corrupted wich means she'll loose her air affinity and instead and become something else, wich may lead her to decide to end her existence at some point or become something very unpleasant.

- Air affinity : Kala posses a real empathy with the air element at the point that it reflects on her personality but as well giving her a few abilites she developed along with her monk abilites. She can fade to be "like the air" : hide in plain sight. She does have a few innate powers (wands/items that are renamed : becoming etheral once per day, able to cast storm avatar once per day, see invisible, invisibility, displacment). She does have a hard time to everything that is related to the element of earth like staying underground for to long or visiting the earthplane.

- Darkvision : She's able to see in darkness like in daylight.

- Truenamer : Kala has started to learn the truename language, if she has the correct and very precisce informations she can perform some rituals in that aeras but it can be risky. Most of her abilites are limited to herself as she's able to transform herself usualy taking an air elemental shape and using her air affinity powers.

- Beleiver of the source : Kala is a beleiver of the source, she does have the mechanical advantages of her faction of beign well tolerant and openminded, because they do beleive everything has potential.

- God in beign : Kala is able to cast a few ranger spells from her own faith in herself (as long she beleive in herself of course). She does know a variety of rangers spells as well.

- Monk : As a monk her body is immune to diseases and poisons, she can aslo move very quickly and use her sixth sense in combat.

- Fiend hunter : Ranger favoured ennemie, Kala does know quite a lot about fiends she fought many times in her existence, she understand and speak both thier languages.

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Artifacts :

- The Book : Kala does hold a book that whispers things from the far realm, the informations are very crypitc and unprecise as well as risky for mental sanity.

- The staff of command : Kala does posses a staff of command, it makes her able to influence or mentaly dominate weak minds (With the classic spells).

Tag/Alias: Mir

Name: Mir Fnar ioh Noumea'do Arolui'kalai yo Mir'habati lo Atar'ro Oruro'oa ioh Sefil'hokta Dene'maj Chao'rotto Lui'ki mor Ninj'kari ioh Sunn'eriki Hjyng'kari Krtsm'owa Hjirn'aro Bahurist io Jirnoh zoi Cerim'ts

Race: Sava'ii; she looks similar to Tieflings, but that is just superficial.

Age: unknown; aeons and then some. Visually 18-20.

Special Powers/Quirks/Gimmicks:

• Weirdness Magnet; her mere presence can cause more-than-unusual and unpredictable and unforeseeable events to occur, many of the kind that could never happen to anyone else. To quote someone, “if any other person had come at me with such a load of crap, I would have probably sent the boor barmy to the Gatehouse, but when Mir Fnar was involved... the unbelievable could become plain normal – just as easily as the normal could become a serious mess.”

• Species (Sava'ii); a race of beings that came into existence before the gods were conceived, back when there was nothing but chaos and elemental forces. As a species they are as old or older than the multiverse itself. They are rare, very, very rare – during their travels, a member of the species might see another once every dozen or so millennia. Virtually this makes Mir a completely unique entity for as far as she is aware of there is no other of her kind within boundaries of Phlogiston and its Primes.

• Species Veil; whatever form she takes (but not counting forms made with mundane magic) is her True Form from there on, indistinguishable with or without True Seeing. (Racial Trait)

• Immortal; not invincible, yet eternal. (Racial Trait)

• Fast Healing; (OC item-based, IC Racial Trait)

• No Breath & No Metabolism; she can breath, eat and drink, at least mimick such, but she does not need to. Her species is vacuum/space-born, not ground based. The species "feeds" on the most readily present form of energy of all - cosmic rays, a process vaguely similar in effect to plant photosynthesis. (Racial Trait)

• Multiple Forms; shifts form/race at will. Her forms include things like a horned devil, a balor, succubus, water and fire elementals, shadow/shade, and a number of more mundane forms (from a weasel to an unicorn). (OC item-based, IC Racial Trait)

• Eidetic Memory. Ditto.

• High Priestess of Mystra; a station she acquired long before Myth Drannor's fall while in the said city. Unique relationship in the sense that Mir does not worship nor has worshiped any gods or beings whatsoever. She learns spells like wizards do, but casts them with the ease of a sorceress (any and all at whim without memorizing anything). She does not need material components for her spells. She is among the almost non-existent clique of entities who anymore know how to create Mythals.

((Guess that gives the basics...))

Since we decided that we'll have no closes ties with Sigil for various many reasons. I think its good if you figure out yourself what you wish for your char and not wait for the Sigil's DMs answer.

Also as DM I'd like to know more about the Sava'i if you can provide any more lore about them, without spoiling your entire char that'll be for the best I think.

anikaiful wrote:

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The how: in short, it's purely due what she is and how she handles magic and how she sees the existence in general. The information details are in Mir's SCoD bio as so far as I've been made aware of her past by the DMs. Her past is a WIP as she recalls more and more details as time passes - majority of her past was decidedly forgotten for some time (and partially given into hands of DMs to decide upon).

-- Edited by anikaiful on Monday 21st of January 2013 10:52:38 AM

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 And back after getting a new and functional computer...

Bit of wording misconception from my part, thus replacing the words "high priestess" with "chosen/chosen of"; and in theme of the situation, a quote from elsewhere:

"Also known as Zedriniset, one becomes the chosen a vessel for the powers and wrath of the goddess. For a short time Lolth made Liriel Baenre a Chosen and helped her in the battle of Ruathym and against the priestess Shakti Hunzrin. Being chaotic and cruel, the goddess did this against the will of Liriel."

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Liriel_Baenre

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Chosen

One doesn't even need to like the deity to be chosen...

since i spotted this topic, i'll add jall

name: Jall Iguro Golgherro ((clan's name is not showed IG, just the first and tribe's names))

race: strongheart halfling (though by rp it may be slightly different, maybe similar to ghostwise, or maybe not)

age: apparently 30

Abilities: great stealther and arcane archer, trained in wilderness and assassination tactics and capacities

wand and potion maker, practiced alchemist, pickpocketing

slight arcane and divine (from her tribe's phanteon) spellcasting abilities, can trick magic items easily. has a permanent cat, bear, and  young bear with her (familiar, companion, cohort). 

a slight acquired resilience to harm after a certain pain ritual she'd rather not speak of. 

ability to fade from view using both camouflage and novice knowledge of shadow melding. once she could see in the dark, but currently seems to have lost such power, maybe after a crysis.

Tattoes: her body is widely covered in renewed tattoes, which are most likely magical, besides carrying her tribe's symbols. A sure effect is to improve her stealth skills, but the others are yet unknown ((still to be decided, so this may be discussed))

Tribe obscure knowledge: she believes her big and old tribe holds several secret practices developed along the centuries, some generic, some specific to each of the twelve clans the tribe is composed of. Are not common knowledge, and some might have been fall in disuse. Since her importance in the tribe improved due to the services she did in sigil for the tribe (knowledge, resources, potential allies), she may gain easier access and study to them over time ((and anyway, are still to be decided, though i have some ideas )). She may have already learned one or two of those practices during the last period of time, but if so, it is still kept in secret.

JMarquis wrote:

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Name: Alan Lane

Race: Celestial Heritage (Genealogy: Son of Ramiel, Half-Celestial Cleric of Ilmater. Grandson of Yerachmel, Astral deva)

Unique characteristics:

Chosen of Pelor: 

Immunities: A Chosen of Pelor is immune to fire damage as well as drowning effects in lava. The Chosen is immune to aging and disease and he also have no need to sleep (although he must rest normally in order to be able to prepare spells).

. . . 

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 Is Alan's immunity something that he already has mechanically wise? I know a lot of people put down things that are reflected in mechanics, which is good (and generally means it automatically ok), but it then gets confusing which is which when such isn't noted.

Discopanda wrote:

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Fur: Has fur. Grants hypothetical resistance to cold, and +3 to Cuddle checks. Sometimes sheds. Rarely accepts responsibility for leaving hair around the ship.

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 That, right there, is entirely overpowered and Gnolls must do something about it immediately. No character should ever be given the power of shedding!

:P

MimiFearthegn wrote:

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Discopanda wrote:

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Fur: Has fur. Grants hypothetical resistance to cold, and +3 to Cuddle checks. Sometimes sheds. Rarely accepts responsibility for leaving hair around the ship.

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 That, right there, is entirely overpowered and Gnolls must do something about it immediately. No character should ever be given the power of shedding!

 

:P

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 Why would you nerf cuddles :(