Necropolitan
Legend
There once was an assassin who specialized in murdering other assassins.
He died, went to Hell, and the many enemies he'd made in life who'd ended up in Hell were so mad they staged a mass uprising solely to beat up his newly-damned soul.
When the fight was over his soul was gone.
Now you might be thinking "Did he somehow escape? Was his soul destroyed? Did he go to Double-Hell? What exactly would Double-Hell be like, would it just have twice as much fire or something?"
The answer is none of the above! His soul somehow got shunted outside reality and became a Vestige.
And if you played a Binder in a 3.5 D&D campaign you could have a fraction of his power as long as you were willing to put up with the chance doing so might cause a slight change in your appearance and behavior.
And that's just one of the dozens of Vestiges you could choose from as a Binder!
There were the remains of dead gods, mortals who failed in their attempts to attain godhood, slain primordial monsters, a noble who got really really really scared (like SO scared, he ran out of there like nobody ever had), the victim of an incredibly mean prank (they cut his arms and legs off), someone who managed to steal his own soul from the god of thieves through a divine loophole (which the god appreciated so much he turned him into a Vestige as a reward), an ancient greedy Dwarven queen who inspired me to create Blackbeard as a Dwarf NPC (his name is Flamebeard and his ship is Queen Aym's Revenge), and many more!
He died, went to Hell, and the many enemies he'd made in life who'd ended up in Hell were so mad they staged a mass uprising solely to beat up his newly-damned soul.
When the fight was over his soul was gone.
Now you might be thinking "Did he somehow escape? Was his soul destroyed? Did he go to Double-Hell? What exactly would Double-Hell be like, would it just have twice as much fire or something?"
The answer is none of the above! His soul somehow got shunted outside reality and became a Vestige.
And if you played a Binder in a 3.5 D&D campaign you could have a fraction of his power as long as you were willing to put up with the chance doing so might cause a slight change in your appearance and behavior.
And that's just one of the dozens of Vestiges you could choose from as a Binder!
There were the remains of dead gods, mortals who failed in their attempts to attain godhood, slain primordial monsters, a noble who got really really really scared (like SO scared, he ran out of there like nobody ever had), the victim of an incredibly mean prank (they cut his arms and legs off), someone who managed to steal his own soul from the god of thieves through a divine loophole (which the god appreciated so much he turned him into a Vestige as a reward), an ancient greedy Dwarven queen who inspired me to create Blackbeard as a Dwarf NPC (his name is Flamebeard and his ship is Queen Aym's Revenge), and many more!
