Hi.
I have a level 16 villain who has been redeemed by my players party through the combination of several methods (verbal duels, atonement spell, death and cyclic reincarnation spell, and redemption rules).
The character was a female kyton-tiefling with raksasha bloodline by variant multiclassing. She was the sister of one of my players (a kyton-tiefleing sorcerer with raksahsa bloodline).
Her main class was malefactor, a third party class specialized in debuff with spirits. In my game, her spirits was a kind of hellish force.
She was one of the five main villains of my campaign. Each villain focused in a god-theme ability: generation, immortality, omnipresence, transcendence and judgement. She was the judgement lord.
Her main goal was to unify heavens and hells in one unic plane.
But, finally, her brother and the party achieved to redeem her. She is now with young template (thanks to cyclic reincarnation spell), and all the hell forces beyond her have been removed). She and her brother have been adoted by a 3.5 master of masks NPC.
I want to retrain the charactar in a new class, because malefactor class doesn't fit well with the new redeemed charactar. But I don't know what classes I have to pick. It depends on the concept:
Will she be a curses specialist? Hexcrafter magus. A curses defender? silve baladier bard... A hell themed paladin? Magical child?
I don't want intricated builds, only inspiration and archetypes and feats suggestion.
The Silver Balladeer is based on the fantasy character John The Balladeer, who was featured in a number of stories by Manly Wade Wellman in the 1950s and '60s. The stories are slightly dated, but they are still quite good and worth reading. Think Johnny Cash beating eldritch horrors into submission with a silver-stringed guitar.
http://paizo.com/products/btpy85jz?Who-Fears-the-Devil-The-Complete-Silver- John
But anyway! The Balladeer makes sense in a world where curses are common and mind-affecting evil creatures are a regular threat. If that's not the case in your world, then maybe not.
Doug M.
Thanks for the info. It sounds interesting, but I will look for more concepts based of judgement, destiny, curses and doom. In 3/4 BAB classes if it is possible.