Geas/quest also has a 10 minute casting time. If we're going to do that, we could switch back to the symbol of fear, which might be useful in one of her lairs. Though I guess the geas/quest could make for an interesting interaction with a PC. Greater heroism is ok too, but I'm not sure if any of these really feel thematically appropriate.
Yes, I was motivated more by the roleplaying criteria for the
geas/quest suggestion.
How about
programmed illusion or
mislead to switch the approach to "trickery"?
Alternatively, we could pick something from her cleric spell list (including the Domain options). We should consider having at least a few of those.
Hmm… of the Domain options I like
animate objects and
mislead the best.
Speaking of "thematically appropriate" I would think a few spells from the Chaos Domain should appear.
How about we swap
chaos hammer for
crushing despair and put
word of chaos in the 7th-level spells?
Although honestly, both of those spells would make far more sense as being additions to Pearl's SLA list, together with some standard "Ruler Outsider" powers.
e.g. the generic Demon Lord from Dragon #359 has SLAs of At will—
astral projection,
blasphemy, (or
word of chaos for obyriths),
desecrate,
detect good,
detect law,
greater dispel magic,
greater teleport,
plane shift,
shapechange,
telekinesis,
unhallow,
unholy aura (or
cloak of chaos for obyriths),
unholy blight (or
chaos hammer for obyriths).
A fair few of those seem appropriate additions to Pearl's SLAs.
Incidentally, Tiamat has a few of these in earlier editions (e.g.
plane shift, teleport without error, travel to astral/ethereal planes) but for some reason they went AWOL in the 3E Manual of the Planes.
Which seems a bit screwy.
I think I like greater teleport best of those possibilities (even over ethereal jaunt).
I'd be fine with that (which would make it
greater teleport, insanity, spell turning) or if we adopt my "Chaos Domain" suggestion it could be
insanity, spell turning, word of chaos).