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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 1839987" data-attributes="member: 1129">Sure.In the first Slayers series, Linna is the only one who can cast a Giga Slave. Now this calls upon the Lord of Nightmares who is in effect, the mother of all creation. She discovers that she shouldn't be using this because the spell could in essence, destroy the universe as it could unleash the Lord of Nightmares who in creation, is also chaos. Which made me think of your campaign.Now in the next series, Slayers Next, they're looking for a book called the Claire Bible. I probably misspelled that so my bad. Anyway, they meet a priest, Xellos, whose also looking for the book. Along the way, the 'monster' race keeps poking it's head in. In long tiems past, the Monster War happened where the Monsters battled to control the universe. Now monster here is just a generic term that coudl easily be replaced by demon lord or demon king. Xellos is so powerful that the gold dragons of this setting fear him.Anyway, it turns out that they want Linna to cast the Giga Slave again and lose control over it. During the process, Xellos is horribly wounded by one of the Slayers foes whose trying to kill Linna. See, it's important that they keep her alive in order to cast the Giga Slave. Anyway, while Xellos is out, they eventually make Linna cast the spell and it does go array, but doesn't undo the world, rather it makes her the avatar of the Lord of Nightmares and she's in essence, not happy about being worken up and kills the monster lord who summoned her. Sappy ending as Gallry saves her from being taken away by the Lord of Nightmares.Now this NPC you have here, he could fill a few functions. At one level, due to his shapechanging nature, he could be a great worshipper of something like Slaneesh. That's the chaos god of lust and deprevity. On the other hand, this is a changing being, so it could also be a form of Teezachanetch, the Changer, the lord of magic. With it's levels of sorcerer, that might be a better match. (My spelling on that one is also way off.) Anyway, in Warhammer, there are four themes, war (Khrone), lust (Slanseesh), change/magic (Tezachanech), and plague (Nurgle). Almost like the seven sins. (For which the Dragon magazine article with domains for the seven sins might be helpful.)If Ryss starts cults, he might not have any control, or even any idea of what happens when he leaves. So if he comes into one sphere and introduces the idea of chaos here, perhaps during the changes brought about, one of the humans, one who has suffered somehow as a result of this change, decides that if the universe is full of chaos, that he will be the one to lead that glorious era to chaos and that all others are just pretenders. Heck, this individual might not even be aware of Ryss and just be leading his own faction of chaos. Now how does that help the players? Well, if any of the players have mysterious background, they could've originally come from that plane that this NPC comes from and have some knowledge of him. "Man, you've changed." Something to trigger an emotional response where the individual might not be all chaos or all chaotic.Or heck, have chaos turn it's back on him. It's not like he's serving an actual god or anything.If you use the sword from the Book of Eldritch Might III that cuts holes into planes, you've given him a quick way to move around.I'm thinking a priest with domains of something like chaos and war would be appropriate if you're trying to showcase the different aspects of chaos, as Ryss already has the whole changer of ways things going for him.</blockquote>

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