Hi all!
In my tabletop campaign (I'm the GM), a player who's playing a witch with improved familiar and a lyrakien azata as familiar would like to further improve his familiar's power, and I allowed him to take the leadership feat and merge cohort and familiar... the witch is high enough level to get a bralani cohort as he takes the feat, and since the lyrakien and the bralani are both azatas, I thought about a ritual to "improve" the lyrakien into a greater being while still keeping the familiar link.
Rules-wise it's pretty easy: he'd get a bralani with all familiar goodies, merging familiar and cohort is house-rules territory anyway but this is not the point of the discussion :)
What I would like to know is... Are there any informations out there about how outsiders (preferably celestials) grow into greater beings? I'm looking to do a nice story about the celestial ritual, so the more informations about it you can provide the better :)
The only information I get from outsider growth is from the pit fiend's ability to shape lemures... not such a great fit for celestials though...
The setting is Eberron, so Azatas' home plane is Thelanis, the party already successfully dealt with the Faerie Court, so they might earn a favor more easily.
Thank you!
They consume the souls of mortals in reverence to the the Four... Oops, wrong outsiders.
has the lyrakin performed any manner of good deeds? make a celestial quest out of it. let the witch find out who their patron is. what patron did they choose? sorry for being choppy. its two in the morning and im on my phone.
Thanks for the reply! :)
I guess a few more informations are in order.
The lyrakien prevented her master to fall and do evil deeds, like the proverbial angel-conscience. She also arranged the marriage between her master and his loved one, not in a civilized church like the espouse's father wanted (he doesn't particularly like her master and he utterly hates feys), but within the faerie court in Xen'drik led by the nymph queen Ellida. That made for a very romantic and exotic marriage which both her master and his wife enjoyed. In planning the marriage, she used her charms to diplomatically convince a giant not to harass the nymph queen Ellida.
Other than that, she is following her master and his companions in a campaign to save Eberron from a new planar invasion from Dal Quor, which is about to happen soon if the heroes can't stop the planar alignment somehow.
The witch's patron is Healing, he's also a hagspawn (the ARG changeling), secret son of Sora Teraza (one of the three rulers of the monster nation of Droaam) who foresaw of this Dal Quor invasion and let his son be raised in a human village. Sora Teraza calls his son Guardian of Dreams and taught him what he needed in dreams. The witch has the Dreamweaver archetype as well.
In addition, I gave him diminished spellcasting (-1 spell slot per spell level) in exchange of dreamtouched feats (one such feat per odd level) from Secrets of Sarlona to enhance his dream abilities.
The witch is the party healer (with hexes and mythic cure critical wounds), offensive caster (he likes the slumber hex, lightning bolt and chain lightning) and dream protector (when he sleeps he can guard his allies dreams to avoid quori nightmares).
Being raised in the Eldeen Reaches, he met his familiar when he lost himself in the wild as a child and stumbled into a Thelanis manifest zone. They became friends and Sora Teraza later taught him a ritual to bind her to him. Neither the witch nor the lyrakien knew who the mysterious figure in his dreams was at the time, but the little azata agreed and since then the witch was able to learn spells drawn from the faerie world, themed with healing, chaos, lightning and dreams (the latter theme being ingrained with his hagspawn nature).
The witch is CG but his hag blood sometimes pushes him to crave less-than-good acts. His familiar is his ward against such practices and she has been quite successful so far in keeping him good natured.
Krinn wrote:
What I would like to know is... Are there any informations out there about how outsiders (preferably celestials) grow into greater beings? I'm looking to do a nice story about the celestial ritual, so the more informations about it you can provide the better :)
The only information I get from outsider growth is from the pit fiend's ability to shape lemures... not such a great fit for celestials though...
The setting is Eberron, so Azatas' home plane is Thelanis, the party already successfully dealt with the Faerie Court, so they might earn a favor more easily.
Thank you! No there isn't. Bestiary and monster manuals are about presenting monsters for you to fight, not ecologies and life cycles. So it's up to your DM to answer that question for you.
Uhm, yeah, I realized that LazarX, but I am the GM and I'm looking for advice here on how to handle this "upgrade" :)
Firstly: Eberron!!! wooooo!!! God I miss owning that book.
Bare with me, it's been years since I ran Eberron but I would say maybe the time spent together has also influenced the Lyrakien. Use the Bralani stats, but have it be a unique creature. Possibly a humanoid/lyrakien hybrid. You may even give the player the opportunity to go on a dream quest with reach out to his father and learn some ritual to improve the power his familiar wields (all under the guise of becoming more powerful himself, of course). Or, if nothing else, attack the familiar with wild magic and claim the interaction between manifest zones and wild magic had a unique effect on the familiar.
In LazarX' defense, your original question was probing for information (implied to be already published). However, considering you did post in an advice forum, I understand.
Use this to get creative. Don't let the familiar become a cookie cutter monster. You've been quite creative with the player. Keep it up.
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