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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 2971348" data-attributes="member: 20323">Thanks Raven! That's very generous of you (and the volunteered Boz)!Currently I'm trying to stat up a peri, basing her off of a nymph with the swanmay template and a few home-made special abilities. Here's what I know:* Were once malevolent but has mass conversion to good...What caused such a dramatic change in their society's conception of virtue?* Peris ruled the earth thousands of years before coming of humanity...What did they do during that time?* All the stories involve female peris marrying human men...Are the stories inaccurate/biased? Are there lots of pissed male peris? Why are female peris so dissatisfied with lovers of their own species?* They serve a monarch named Gyan...All of them? In principle or practice?* They’re spirit guides who represent the emotional soul of men. They free a man from his desires so that he may strive toward enlightenment...How do they free a man from desire? By sex? Love? Abandonment? Wish fulfillment? Does every body have a peri as spirit guide? Only men? Only those in need?* When you lose an object you make a knot and say, “I have barred the way to the daughter of the king of the peries.”...Do knots act as a ward against peries? Is the daughter of the peri king a notorious thief? * They have a weakness for fragrances, which the deevs use to lure them into captivity. Is this a sign of vanity? An old trait from their evil days? An association with air or the celestial?Here's one of the abilities I'm working out for peris:Poetic Glamour:One who looks upon a peri’s native form is unable to describe it in any way save through poetry. To accurately convey any details about the peri to another they must succeed on a Perform (poetry) check. The DC is equal to 10 + the peri’s HD/level.The results depend on the degree of success or failure:Fails by 5+:    Your poetry is an insult not only to the peri, but possibly the person listening to you as well. They might think you are deriding their own appearance, or perhaps insinuating rumors about their wife’s fidelity, or insulting their daughter’s beauty. You convey some piece of misinformation about the peri, or no information at all.Fails by less than 5:    You cannot do the peri’s beauty justice. You get tongue-tied, your poetry is nonsense, you resort to metaphor and exaggeration that no one could understand. Alternately, no one takes you seriously. You cannot convey information about the peri to others.Succeeds by less than 5:    Your poetry manages to hold a candle to the peri’s flame. You may relate basic facts that you know or believe about the peri. Should you speak ill of the peri, no one seems to remember what you say, or else won’t take action on it. However, if you speak well of the peri, what you say is always exaggerated. Anyone listening is intrigued, though the superstitious remain so.Succeeds by 5+:    You weave a poem of such beauty that the lamp of bliss is lit in the heart of your listeners. You can relate any facts about the peri you wish, though only in portraying the peri in a positive light. Even if you intend to speak ill of the peri, everyone around you (even those normally suspicious of such beings) interprets what you’re saying in the most positive way.Thanks, I'll check Rose's book out, though I admit the title sounds like it's the standard European fey she discusses.</blockquote>

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