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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9687544" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3300/The-Penumbral-Pentagon?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Penumbral Pentagon</a>3.0Chiruli, Unhallowed Forsaken Priest Cleric 15, Very Pleasant Sincere Sociable Man, Madman: Chiruli is a relic of the time before the gods’ triumph. He grew up during the era of the so-called 100 Republics that preceded the founding of Vesh and served Madriel as a particularly talented priest and healer. In those days, the war against the Slarecians still raged, and his other responsibilities included ministering to wounded troops alongside hundreds of other good clerics. That was when he first learned of the shadow worshippers, by eavesdropping on the interrogations of a few prisoners. Their supremely confident resolve impressed him, even as they died terribly. Later, the equally bold tactics of their brethren still at large impressed him again. He began to wonder if they possessed some fundamental insight that others should have as well and began a long, quiet search through the mysteries of divine magic.A pair of human servants of the shadow worshipping Slarecians burst into his home one evening, fleeing a Veshian patrol. They intended to kill him and hide, but he had the presence of mind to repeat the few phrases of the shadow litany he'd learned, and they stopped in surprise and confusion. They let him live long enough to hear him out, debated his sincerity, and finally decided to accept him as one chosen to join the cause. From then on, Chiruli went about his priestly duties by day and slipped away to be instructed by the shadow-folk each night.Soon his loyalty to and understanding of the shadow cause were both complete, and his master required him to prove his worth. Through careful deceit, he convinced one of his superiors in Madriel’s temple to call an emergency meeting of all clerics and healers who could possibly attend. Chiruli’s clerical powers no longer functioned and had not for some time, as his alignment had shifted too far from Madriel’s for him to remain her priest. Chiruli was undaunted, however. He simply locked the assembled priests of Madriel in the temple and triggered the magical device given him by the shadow worshippers. The temple was filled with poisoned shadows, and every priest in the room died, leaving Madriel’s army sorely lacking in healers the very night before an important battle.A crime so heinous - against healers no less - committed by one who was still, in name at least, a priest of Madriel, was enough to twist Chiruli, body and soul, into another sort of being altogether. At the very moment the first trapped priest exhaled his last breath, Chiruli was transformed into an undead Forsaken Priest.Unholy Child: ?Unholy Child, Translucent Form of a Child, Ghost, Ghostly Child: ?Undead: ?Fundamentally Supernatural Being: ?Formless Ghost: ?Undead Ooze: ?Shadow Lord: Pits in the floor each hold a slave tortured to death in the interests of testing an assistant’s theory about the origins of shadow lords. The assistant speculated that certain kinds of pain and anger unleashed the power necessary to transform a normal sentient being’s shadow into a shadow lord. The experiment proved to be partially successful. The four pits closest to the wall each contain a corpse that vomits out a shadow lord when disturbed.Dar'Gartal, Vampire: ?</blockquote>

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