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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5405714" data-attributes="member: 51930">When the Sanctuary spell goes up, the creature frowns; the three mouths are huge compared to the size of its body, and the disgust is plainly evident upon its face.   Though the sword goes down into the table in front of it, it simply turns away and walks back to the spot where it started from. What rudeness is this, to show the emissary of your glorious destructions?  The devourer of souls wishes only to show his gratitude for you serice, and accept your gift, yet you seek to bar that will with petty light "magick"?   [sblock=Thadeius & Malacarus/knowledge checks]  You can both confidently tell that you have no idea what this creature is.  Nothing, and I mean *nothing* you have read or seen or speculated on fits this description.  It could be some form of evil outsider, possibly lawful (due ot the "service" talk), possibly chaotic (due to the "destroy everything" talk).  Rovagug springs to mind, but its servants are never "elocutious with this proficiency".  Maybe a servant of demon princes or archdukes of hell...?  Then again, the level of manufacture apparent in the metal makes you think it may be a highly sophisticated construct(?)...with fleshy mouths and saliva?  Perhaps, still, some form of undead, its lips and fangs reminiscent of a vampire, its status of being a disembodied head remeniscent of a vargoulle... At best: you've heard vague stories aobut the ancient Osirions and their incredibly vast empire which seemed to form almost over night; the Osirions, who built black-metal pyramids of adamantine, magical tombs that drew power from creatures reputed to be more powerful than the deities of Golarion; that wander beyond the edges of the light of the stars far away.  This was before those ancients fell to the ravages of time.  Yet rumour among mages is that the Osirions merely drew such insignificant power from these beings (if they were real) that it went unnoticed; for if those creatures had ever taken notice they would crush Golarion, and even the deities themselves. The head's covering is made of adamantine plates that, while pitted and well mis-used, it still holds the look of powerfully-crafted magical armor, and likely it is physically *very* difficult to damage.   [sblock=malacarus]  You don't know what this is, but you have a very good idea where it's from: some kind of "great old one" from that blasted dark tome, what that guy who conquered your kingdom was on about!  You didn't see any of the creatures he claimed to serve, but you have a good idea that this is one of them. This is bad.  This is really, really bad.  Even if you do kill it, that isn't the issue.  The issue, maybe, is: what if *they* noticed you?[/sblock] [/sblock]</blockquote>

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