About PharocharistiBackground:
Pharocharisti worked his way up through the infernal hierarchy thanks to hard work. Chained to other petitioners, he screamed the loudest. As an imp, he suckered in the most bright-eyed souls of young arcanists willing to sell off bits of their souls just to ace a sorcery exam. His tenure as a barbazu was short-lived, as he quickly secured a wealth of dirty secrets sufficient to simultaneously depose that hamatula that had always annoyed him while also impressing the cornugon who reigned over the hellish county. Deciding the ambitious fiend would be better put to use as an assistant than as a foot soldier, the cornugon promoted him on the spot. Newly garbed in the flesh befitting a contract devil, Pharocharisti embraced the libraries of the Hells. Decades spent wading through cumbersome codices about tax loopholes might have seemed like a personal hell for some, but they were to Pharo like a whetstone to a fine blade. His self-imposed studies provided the training needed not only to be a successful devil but to be an paragon of hammering out infernal contractual agreements. He immediately set out for Pharasma's Boneyard to start arguing cases. After winning a few easy arguments regarding souls who made halfhearted conversions on their deathbeds, Pharo had his big chance: A paladin whose bid to save the life of a loved one led him to sign over his own soul! Rubbing his hands together while trying to maintain his composure, the devil noticed that the opposing council was none other than Camaherthri, a notable solar renowned for driving a hard bargain. Perhaps this should have convinced Pharocharisti to back down, but it only made him bolder; imagine the power and glory he would reap if he could swindle a soul from Camaherthri! Yesiree, he'd be sporting a gelugon's carapace by Asmodeus' next birthday bash! Thinking back, Pharo has some difficulty remembering the exact details of the trial. In fact, there's little he can recall beyond his discovery that he had cornered Camaherthri into giving up his own angelic soul in exchange for letting the paladin walk free. Forget gelugon - he would be named the newest pit fiend for this! Sealing the solar's essence into a gem and swallowing it for safe-keeping, Pharo headed back to the Nine Hells to relax by lounging around and maybe catapulting a few petitioners into the nice lake of fire around the bend. Imagine his surprise when he just couldn't bring himself to commit such an innocent act of wanton violence. As a sense of holy dread grew within his core, he quickly pulled up the final documentation from the trial and realized that he didn't get to do what he wished with the solar's essence; the two of them were bound together! Oh, word got around pretty quickly, and Pharo quickly found himself the butt of many jokes in the infernal pubs. He packed up his bags and headed for the Material Plane, hoping that with a little research he might find some way to transfer Camaherthri's spirit into a more readily recyclable and manageable form. Since then, Pharo has done just about everything to try and undo the damage of having a solar bonded to his soul. He's posed as a sly rug merchant, provided Pyrrhic administrative advice to kingdoms on the fritz, and even underwritten some underhanded insurance contracts, but he hasn't been able to do anything truly evil. At present he continues to offer his services and that of Paralegal, his intelligent bow (although he has the sneaking suspicion that Camaherthri influenced its production somehow), to the highest bidder of either coin or information. So long as it serves a greater purpose, he does not object to a little pro bono work.
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I shall write this as I get a bit more inspiration. Character Sheet:
Role: Pharocharisti is a legal shark with a multitude of connections across the planes. When possible, he favors negotiation to violence. If negotiations break down, he teams up with Paralegal, an intelligent bow, to rain punishment upon his enemies. Male Advanced, Celestial-Blessed (Solar) Contract Devil
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Languages: Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Infernal, Sylvan, Undercommon Note about items: The abbreviation CtC means Cost to Craft using either Craft Magical Arms and Armor or Craft Wondrous Item
Efficient Quiver (200 arrows, 50 silvered arrows, 50 cold iron arrows, 20 adamantine arrows, CtC: 900)
Carrying Capacity: 266 / 533 / 800
Calculations for DM:
Statistics start at average values for a contract devil. Str: 17 base + 4 celestial-blessed = 21 Dex: 20 base + 2 celestial-blessed = 6 item = 28 Con: 21 base + 2 celestial-blessed = 23 Int: 24 base + 2 celestial-blessed = 26 Wis: 24 base + 4 celestial-blessed = 28 Cha: 22 base + 4 celestial-blessed + 6 item = 32 |
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