Re: Re: Re: Re: True Seeing
It just seemed to fit. In that campaign, the major baddies were ruled by a lich-demigod. His main lieutenants were archliches with truly warped personalities. One was a crazed half-orc witch (a campaign-specific varient of the druid, not the DMG version) with a knack for biological engineering. She invented the hydra (and lots of other freakish creatures) in our setting. Because she was so bat-sh*t loonie, she wasn't much good at handling the social and bureaucratic obligations of ruling her lands. Those duties were handled by her right hand woman... er... lich: Faj (aka. the Dark Wind of Kharnis).
Faj was once, long ago, a very powerful orc shamaness who became a minion of Xurgiz (our batty Dr. Moreau archlich). Unlike Xurgiz, Faj was perfectly sane... possessing a brilliant (even by non-orcish standards) mind and commanding presence. Six thousand years of being the power behind the throne of a nation made her insanely wealthy, so Faj indulged in an orcish tradition.... body art.
Since she had no flesh to scar or tattoo, she opted to decorate her bones with precious metal filligree and gems. These gave me a chance to literally attach magic items to her body, like the gem of seeing.
Oh, she was a 26th level druid with the lich template applied. Her epic feats included Beast Wildshape and Gargantuan wildshape, so she favoured the form of an enormous vulture (i.e. a roc, with a cosmetic makeover)... she she was undead, I ruled that her wildshapes would be undead, so this was a huge, roc-sized vulture with gigantic maggots crawling through its flesh and eye-sockets. The party met her once when she was displeased with their opponent. To futher her political scheming, she let them live, but the entire party (9th level) just about had a heart attack when she wildshaped (after unleashing several creeping doom spells all around them).
Eh.... sorry for straying off topic. Just remembering an NPC I was particularly proud of.
kreynolds said:
Awesome approach! Wish I had been there for that one.
It just seemed to fit. In that campaign, the major baddies were ruled by a lich-demigod. His main lieutenants were archliches with truly warped personalities. One was a crazed half-orc witch (a campaign-specific varient of the druid, not the DMG version) with a knack for biological engineering. She invented the hydra (and lots of other freakish creatures) in our setting. Because she was so bat-sh*t loonie, she wasn't much good at handling the social and bureaucratic obligations of ruling her lands. Those duties were handled by her right hand woman... er... lich: Faj (aka. the Dark Wind of Kharnis).
Faj was once, long ago, a very powerful orc shamaness who became a minion of Xurgiz (our batty Dr. Moreau archlich). Unlike Xurgiz, Faj was perfectly sane... possessing a brilliant (even by non-orcish standards) mind and commanding presence. Six thousand years of being the power behind the throne of a nation made her insanely wealthy, so Faj indulged in an orcish tradition.... body art.
Since she had no flesh to scar or tattoo, she opted to decorate her bones with precious metal filligree and gems. These gave me a chance to literally attach magic items to her body, like the gem of seeing.
Oh, she was a 26th level druid with the lich template applied. Her epic feats included Beast Wildshape and Gargantuan wildshape, so she favoured the form of an enormous vulture (i.e. a roc, with a cosmetic makeover)... she she was undead, I ruled that her wildshapes would be undead, so this was a huge, roc-sized vulture with gigantic maggots crawling through its flesh and eye-sockets. The party met her once when she was displeased with their opponent. To futher her political scheming, she let them live, but the entire party (9th level) just about had a heart attack when she wildshaped (after unleashing several creeping doom spells all around them).
Eh.... sorry for straying off topic. Just remembering an NPC I was particularly proud of.
