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Well, I haven't finished out gear or the tiny details, but yeah. He has some movement skills and Fleet Warrior to move up to his admittedly large speed before making a full attack. I assume that sanctuary would not apply if I was dominated and you tried to recharm me, because you aren't my ally anymore.
Bigrig107 here, finally stepping in with my last-minute submission. Need to spend the rest of my gold on things and select all of my skills, but that can be done after the selection phase. Basic premise is a heavily mobile melee focused disruptor combatant. Has Sweeping Strike and Lunge to deal some nice area attacks , as well as some AOE spells available both from Mortal Herald (with MP expended) and the Divine Source Fire and War domain lists. AC is high, and saves are relatively decent. Immune to electricity and acid, has Abyssal bloodrage to increase his size and strength in battle. Like I said, still working on the finer details and tuning, but hopefully the general idea gets across well.
Background summary: Legion archon left to die after a failed invasion of Abaddon, given a chance to redeem himself in Her eyes (the Horseman of War). Disillusioned with Heaven, falls and accepts power and support of Szuriel (his source of mythic power and his Daemon cohort from Leadership). Deals with planar threats quite often, and can move between planes easily (3/day Plane Shift mythic path ability)
Wishing I had submitted earlier, so I could’ve gotten some interesting relations/viewpoints from the rest of you on Azrielan. Ah well, such is life. Good luck everyone!
Azrielan’s relations: Saint Uliaza: surprisingly, even though the Saint is the exact opposite of everything she stands for, Azrielan doesn’t actually want to kill her outright. There’s some delicious irony in the relationship between their two dramatically different ‘falls from grace’ that make Azrielan distinctly curious about Our Lady of Liberty’s inner workings.
Alithea: This one is more simple. Azrielan likes blowing stuff up. Nexian superweapons blow stuff up. Has probably met her on several occasions, whether for simple visits or requests for explosive technology. Briafel: The “Guillotine” got her attention briefly, but then it became all about honorable one on one fights and rituals and blah blah blah. Would tolerate for his noticeable combat talent and lack of fear of bloodshed, but wouldn’t enjoy. Rirsa Loldan: hated her from the second she gave her title, Angelic Font. Wasn’t disappointed in her hatred by her teachings of community and working together and not killing whatever you wanted to. Would probably be okay working with, as she isn’t actually an Angel, but wouldn’t ever call her by her title. Teras: The most likeqble so far, as Azrielan likes a fighter. Monsters are beautiful to some, which means they, too, must eventually meet their end. Can respect a common bond of fighting and bloodshed. Priella: Dislikes the chaotic nature of this one, but her view of Lawful is twisted by her own set of specific rules anyway, so it barely means anything.
Rthignynt: Doesn’t really know what to make of the fungus...thing. Doesn’t really want to kill it first, definitely wants to see what will happen to it. Maika: Has absolutely met her on her various travels throughout the planes. Doesn’t mind her. Kage Kurai: likes the assassin part. Finds the scholar part boring, unless the topic at hand is interesting to her. Which has happened. Amnon: Couldn’t stand that arrogant prick Aroden when he was still around, Hayes Iomadae even more. Being required to work with Amnon would most likely test her extreme limits of patience and self control. Could be an interesting learning experience for the normally stable undead. Caladrel: Loves fire. No, really. Loves it. That’s enough for her to like Caladrel, easily. All of that other stuff is pretty inconsequential to her, but the fire is important. Calxakti: insanity is her new normal, so she certainly understands. Aroden’s ‘death’ impacted all of the angels originally serving under him, and Azrielan despises him for it. Sympathizes with Calxakti; out of all of the creatures among the Planes, this is one of the few she still feels any connection to. Veldrin: Likes evil, likes undead. Seems like a pretty clean fit. Preferred partners: Would really prefer to work with Saint Uliaza actually. The dynamic differences between the two would really be fun to explore.
Amnon is a hard one to handle, as the servant of Iomadae would inspire hatred only rivaled by Iomadae herself. The rest are neutral.
Oh wait the second Divine Source gives two subdomains. One second, fixing that. Edit: alright, she now has the Destruction (Hatred), Evil (Corruption), and Law domains.
Of note, Azrielan has selected the Destruction (Hatred) subdomain with her second Divine Source ability. Wanted to go Catastrophe for the better spells, but Hatred is such a core part of her personality that I figured Hatred would be a much better fit anyway.
Here's the beginning draft for Azrielan, the Flame of Devastation. Still have to get skills together and write down what all of her abilities do, but at least I have the names down, with a general idea of what I want her to do. Do note it comes with a slight caveat: yes, she is 100% evil.
At least, those rules work for most of the deities' things. The Material plane and those not under any protection of a deity are fair game in her mind. My Demigod:
1. What is your character? Where are they from? Azrielan was a Legion Archon serving under the commanders of heavens' armies. And there she fought for millenia, never questioning her place among the ranks. She grew in power beyond other Legion Archons by taking on levels of Paladin, in the service of Iomadae.
On one particularly ill-prepared incursion into the Abyss, Azrielan's flight of angels got caught alone away from the rest of Heaven's forces. There, they were slaughtered by the multitude of demons they had come to fight for some pointless reason or another. And there Azrielan was left to die, face down in a pit of fire and acid and decay. But she was not done with her life just yet, for there was more to be done. The dark necromantic forces inside of that pit she fell in reanimated her as a Graveknight, her armor fusing to her angelic body in a cruel mockery of what she once was. 2. What is your character's portfolio? Azrielan has been driven mad by her conversion to undeath, her hatred for those who left her corpse behind unending and eternal. She focuses on the destruction of what she perceives as good and beautiful in the world, yet not blindly. She knows there are those who would fight her over these things that she wants to destroy, and she doesn't want to fight everyone. So instead she allows her rage and anger to be directed at certain specific things that catch her eyes, or are recommended by other powerful outsiders. Fire was one of the most influential elements of her angelic life, as she used it in combat against the enemies of the host. Now, her fire is a mockery of what it once was. Yet she reveres it still, demanding sacrifices from her worshippers in great bonfires of valuable objects on specific holidays. 3. What does your character look like? As with all Graveknights, Azrielan appears to be a skeletal figure fused inside of her nigh indestructible mithril armor. Yet, unlike most of her kind, she was once an angel, and she still bears the grace and dignity she once did, as well as a wide pair of skeletal wings covered in metal plates that extrude from her shoulder blades. 4. How did your character become a demigod? The latent mythic power invested in that pool of Abyssal filth mixed with the angelic blood and holy power of the former paladin, and created a monster fueled only by hatred and destruction. 5. Where does your character live? Azrielan doesn't exactly have a permanent residence in the typical terms, instead choosing to have several 'nests' on different planes available for a quick escape or rest. My cult: 1. Where in the verse is your cult centered? Besides the spattering of undead she keeps laying around at her multiple hideouts, her main cult is located on the Material Plane. She has made many an excursion to the Material Plane, each time leaving a wake of destruction and mayhem, and recruiting new followers with her ability to drive fear and conviction into the hearts of mortals.
2. What sorts of people worship me? Only the depraved or those driven mad by rage ever call on Azrielan. Her name is whispered on the winds of many planes when it comes to anger, whether in curses or invoking her actual rage. Beyond the actually insane, several barbarian cults once linked to the Cult of Rovagug have since transferred their loyalty to Azrielan's very real, very noticeable appearance. The rituals don't change, but the religious intensity and fervor does. 3. My Herald Azrielan has no need for a Herald, she will simply show up where she is needed.
Hello, all!
The holidays kinda caught me off-guard, and my campaigns were sort of pushed into the background.
However, with me having a chance to settle myself down at school, I'm more than willing to jump back into this game.
"You made the right choice, for both of your sakes." The armored aasimar steps back from the bar and picks up her mace from where she left it leaning up against the bar. "Do have a good night, now. Don't go causing any trouble." With that, Az walks out of the bar and into the night air, not wanting to draw attention to any of the members of her group that don't want to be seen openly with her.
"Well, by my count, buddy, there are more than twelve people, us not included."
"Now, perhaps you may stay open. But that man" she says, forcefully moving one hand to point at the bard, "has to go. And we both know that."
"Hahah, 'handle' them?" Azrielan laughs deeply, slapping her mace down into her hand. "I have a feeling we can handle them just fine."
"I concur with Douloureux, we should attempt to discern how many people have been invited to this public gathering. If there is a large crowd, it could turn into a mob rather quickly."
Having already served under Queen Abrogail, Azrielan swiftly follows the tiefling up to the unique stone, and slips off her gauntlet before placing her hand on the surface of the stone.
With a stern, emotionless face, Az swears the oath, each sound being formed harshly.
"It is finished."
Azrielan walks into the bar, weapons still in hand, and strides forward to be the first to speak to the Sheriff. "We are here to deliver the message that your services are no longer needed, and that you are being relieved of duty." She then leans closer to gently whisper to the sheriff.
"Why don't you just calm down, and lead us to the sheriff. I'm sure none my companions here would want any violence..." Az says, her mace ceasing its swinging motions, and instead hovering next to her side, ready to be used.
"Has the time for peaceful coercion passed, my friends?" Azrielan asks, swinging her mace in a gentle arc in front of her, somehow still making that small motion seem threatening.
"Well. Let's go find us some nails, shall we?" Azrielan retorts, ready to leave as well.
"You offer more leniency than is necessary, Ambrose. I'm afraid if your intention is to talk her down from her position and become buddies with someone who failed to execute their basic duties, I will be of no use to you."
"As much as it pains me to do so, I agree." Azrielan says, having overheard Mercer's statement as she entered the room. "I would love nothing more than to see her executed for her crimes, but I fear her death would, as Mercer said, only create more problems for us."
I kinda just want to kill this angel-loving kiss-up.
I'm done talking.
Azrielan takes this opportunity to step up and join the conversation, her knowledge of Cheliax's history becoming useful. "And what of the god Aroden, whose prophesied return to Cheliax was meant to inspire the age of greatness, the age of Humanity?" she calls out, responding to Allamar bringing up Aroden.
"No! None of them. None save our Lord Asmodeus stepped forward out of the darkness to save us. He has made us this great nation we are today. Nothing-nothing!-would be here if not for him." "Aroden did nothing for us, and I will not have his...'child' protecting me, or the great nation I live in."
Azrielan doesn't hide or attempt to obfuscate her presence, instead allowing her clean but marred armor and helmet to speak for herself as she stands among the crowd next to Tycho, presumably with plenty of room from the surrounding members of the crowd giving them space.
Azrielan puts the sash on as told, and heads to her room to put her armor on before leaving.
After getting...'dressed', Az picks up her shield and mace, and joins the rest of the group.
"Payment freely offered is not to be turned down. We must use every resource available to us, especially in this dark time for my order. We need to stop this "Reclamation" before it leads to things we don't want to see." Seeing the value in learning who her new companions were, she picked up the harness her mace was attached to, and slung it around her shoulders again, just in case. She left the clawed shield. "I had hoped to bathe, but that can wait. I'm sure they're already out there waiting, so let's not keep them." She doesn't set out immediately, instead waiting for the priest to head out, knowing he was better suited to beginning the partnership on good footing.
Azrielan's helmeted visage nods.
Attempting not to smash into the stairwell as she heads downstairs, she raises a gauntlet at the first slave she finds, expecting her armament to be explanation enough for who she is.
After that is done, she retrieves her payment from her chest, and then heads to the first open room she finds.
Az quickly restrains the traitors, and then does stand watch over them, mace held theatingly at the ready. She nods towards Tycho when he addresses her and then "compliments" her, but doesn't say anything to acknowledge him. "Haste cannot be tolerated if it leads to something being missed. We will take as much time as needed, and recover as much information as possible."
Azrielan hears Tycho's words, and silently (hopefully) moves towards the group in the workshop.
Ah! You're right! I play in so many higher-powered games, I'm used to having max hit points. Will get that fixed!
Yeah, pretty sure that's who we're waiting on. @Azr's action retcon: she goes wherever the guy mentioned he had stuff. I'm not sure where he was talking about, but she goes there. Also, I finally got my stats under my bar done.
Seeing the ambush take place, and realizing that the rest of her group probably has the outside situation under control, Azrielan remains invisible and ducks back through the door leading back inside.
"I apologize for my response, for I did not understand your intent."
Turning to speak to Tycho, she pulls her clawed helmet over her head before disappearing from sight.
"I assume that by "girls", one of them is me?" the towering figure covered head to toe in impressive spiked armor whispered pointedly. "Well, let's get on with it. What's the plan?"
Just a shameless self-promotion of the Hellknights, but the first chapter of Hellknight, a Pathfinder Tale, is available here. It goes into the mind of a Hellknight, and provided a few tweaks to Azrielan's character and mannerisms.
"I am not versed in the art of stealth, nor do I see the need for it. But I shall try my best. Let's not tarry any longer than we must."
Alright, I'm here! To be clear, Tycho and I agreed that since we both (completely separated) decided that our characters are orphans raised in an Asmodean orphanage, that we knew each other beforehand.
If anyone else would have been in/around an Asmodean orphanage, or Citadel Dinyar/the Church of Asmodeus, feel free to contact me/Tycho for some backstory linkage. Edit: also, the silly good guys don't even have a paladin! How do they expect to fight us (the Lawful Right party) without a paladin?
The tall woman Tycho refers to does not share the outward look of contempt, if only because every inch of her is clad in the easily recognizable Hellknight plate, and her spiked helmets' faceplate is down.
"Ypu know as well as I that I would love nothing more than to exact proper justice upon this criminal. And yet, House Thrune, in it's wisdom, has given us a mission that we must complete."[:/b] Her extravagant unholy symbol remains in the open, as she has nowhere to hide it. And even if she could, no one would ever mistake her for anything other than what she was: a knight of Hell itself. [b]"I will try my best. You are aware that I am well-suited to the art of...information extraction. If or when she dies, it will not be until we have the information we require."
A quiet whisper follows these words, barely audible to all but the keenest ear.
Tweaked Azrielan's backstory a bit, giving her the Chelish Noble campaign trait and making her parents nobility and having her serve a short time under the Infernal Majestrix herself, with the Queen earning her loyalty. Shouldn't change too much about the way I play the character, besides the fact that she can perform the role necessary to interact with any Chelish Nobility.
Ah, fair enough. I guess I was just entranced by the original 20 I had when I rolled for my stats earlier. I guess that's actually the best solution for the problem. Edit: yeah, finished up making the changes. Azrielan is ready to go!
Would there be a possibility of usingBackground Skills? I want to pick up a few "background" skills for Azrielan (namely, Perform (oratory) and Knowledge (nobility), but with a paladin's skills and no need for Intelligence, it's rough.
Azrielan would most likely be good friends with your Evangelist! Also, working on updating her stats for third level.
Is the 28 point buy a typo, or did you mean 1-for-1, or what? It's fine if you meant 20 point but, normally, but just need to know.
Because she isn't Chaotic. Like, at all. And she does care about the law, just a bit too much. If you're not okay with a LE Paladin (which I think is what Antipaldins should have always been), then I guess I could work something else out.
Hello! This alias was for a Cheliax-inspired explore Arcadia game.
Now, the GM over there was so lenient as to allow a paladin to be LE, simply changing every instance of "evil" to "chaos". I hope that's okay!
Faction: Enforcer, rather obviously.
Edit: thinking about it, I might pick up a level or two in Oracle, and could go Signifer if we have enough melee and the casting would be more appreciated.
Hey, what's going on here, guys?
Will be really disappointed if this one doesn't work out, I had a vision for our little colony's future!
Mace and shield already out, Azrielan charges towards the closest....thing...and swings at it.
"Can someone tell me what these things are?!"
Ahhh, so the old man's a caster. Makes sense. Just the way he said it made me question whether or not I got anything from good ole Azzy.
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