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Lani Fairchild
Female Changeling (Annis-Hag.) Anti-Paladin (Asmodeus - Variant Channeling: Tiranny) 1
HP: 11 (1d10 +1)
Initiative +1, Senses: Perception +2(Keen Senses)
STR: 17(3) DEX: 12(1) CON: 8(-1) INT: 10(0) WIS: 12(1) CHA: 18(4)
BAB:+1 CMB:+4 CMD: 12
Speed: 30

AC:13 (+1 Dex +2 Natural Armor) Touch: 11, Flat footed: 12
Fort:+2 Reflex:+2 Will:+3

Melee 2x Claws +4 (1d4 +4 /x2)

5 Per level.
Bluff 8, Diplomacy 9, Intimidate 8, Knowledge (religion) 5, Sense Motive 5.

Mother’s Gift:You inherit a special boon from your hag parent. Prerequisite: Changeling. Benefit: You choose the manifestation when you choose the feat, and once selected it cannot be changed. Surprisingly Tough (Ex): Your natural armor bonus increases by +1.

Natural Armor: Cangelings gain +1 natural armor.
Detect Good
Aura of Evil
Smite Good/1Day:As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite. If this target is good, the paladin adds her Cha bonus (if any) to her attack rolls and adds her paladin level to all damage rolls made against the target of her smite. If the target of smite good is an outsider with the good subtype, a good-aligned dragon, or a good creature with levelsof cleric or paladin, the bonus to damage on the first successful attack increases to 2 points of damage per level the paladin possesses. Regardless of the target, smite evil attacks automatically bypass any DR the creature might possess.
In addition, while smite good is in effect, the paladin gains a deflection bonus equal to her Charisma modifier (if any) to her AC against attacks made by the target of the smite. If the paladin targets a creature that is not good, the smite is wasted with no effect.

Honeyed Tongue:You gain a +1 trait bonus on Diplomacy checks, and Diplomacy becomes a class skill for you.
Heresy:+1 To all saving throws against divine spells.

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Lani enjoys power, in any form it takes, but she is especially endeared toward, physical power, and fear. She delights in the sufering of these weaker. And has a superiority complex, although she puts herself as nearly unworthy of service to her lord. Also Lani likes the few people she consider companions or followers. But she considers them as valuable as an dear object.

Lani is a thin but voluptuous woman, of pale skin, and long black hair, she used to wear braided, but which now hangs free as she is imprisioned. She has mismatched eyes, one a deep green and the other a brilliant yellow.

Lani was found as a baby by Sir Balin who hunted her mother hidden coven, when he found the toddler he felt mercy was needed in this case and spared the child and provided a home for her. But while Sir Balin felt right to grant mercy, others didn't see it so, and Lane grew facing prejudice, for though changelings can easily pass as humans in the street they cannot hide their mismatched eyes from acquaintances.

Lani was a restless child, she didn’t make many friends both because of the other children attitude and that of herself. For every time Lani felt offended she would pick a fight. And winning or not, she became feared. Her adoptive parents worry directed Lani towards a priest of Mitra they knew. This priest a man called Aron introduced Lani to the concept of god and religion. But while Lani was drawn to the certainty of purpose in such a god, she felt no link with its teachings, of goodness.

For Lani’s blood called to her, she liked being feared, she liked to see the other children crying faces once they lost. And she could not accept that she should act with kindness and respect for these without any power. Yet Lani went to church many times, during childhood though she knew it not, she was seeking a purpose. Yes the violence and fear were delightful, but they weren’t enough.

And ironically it was at church she found her purpose, for once when she was there, Lani found that the priest was away, and curious about the rest of the church Lani began to explore, and perchance, or as she would say it: “Milord’s servants guided me…” to a room full of books scheduled to be burned, and among them Lani found the “Asmodean Monograph”, and some other commentaries. Curious Lani began to scroll through them, and as she did she became fascinated. Here was order, purpose, but without these useless precepts of equality and mercy.

Lani stole the books, not all of them of course, only two the Monograph, and a commentary by an asmodean cleric, born in Talingarde. From that day onwards Lani studied both books, once she had read them both she carved with her adoptive fathers tools an pentagon, the holy symbol of her newfound deity.

After finding the Monograph Lani changed, though her parents knew not the reason, she stopped seeking fights, and she began to act politely, they foolish though this was some form of repentance, but it was nothing of the sort, Lani was still feared among these of her age, but now she had learned a bit of subtlety. She needed not beat the other children to get what she wanted, she could simply intimidate them. And as Lani now had a purpose, she gave up on frightening and torturing for enjoyment. She planned, studied, and prayed.

Asmodeus of course had nothing like an official church in Talingarde so Lani decided to use as a holy ground the cemetery where the commentary writer had been buried years before. There she made an oath to herself and her god: “Oh great lord! Lord of the nine, this worthless servant as she may be, vows to deliver to you a Talingarde of worshippers and servants. Should I fail then I hope and desire that my punishment be the greatest of all.”

Lani of course didn’t think doing it was going to be easy, and she knew she needed more skills than she had. Thus she asked of all persons the help of Sir Balin, she asked to her merciful patron for a knight who take her as an squire. She pleaded she felt it was her duty and fate to repent for her sinful heritage. “Please sir, you once granted mercy to a tainted child, I beseech you grant me the power to prove you right.”

Sir Balin, thought about that request for some time before granting it, he contacted a friend a hedge but very honorable knight named Gant, now Lani during puberty felt restless, like many other at her age and she welcomed the chance to travel even if still inside the kingdom. Gant was a hard and solitary man, he would avoid conversation unless it pertained to training. A very hard training, still Lani was determined, and she had strength, and was fast, though her body was a bit fragile.

Even if one is determined to be unapproachable two people living on the road cannot avoid forming a bond, and learning something about each other, Gant learned Lani was a brave serious girl who enjoyed fighting. While Lani learned Gant had been married once, but that his family had been killed by thieves one night he was seeking a evil sorcerer.

Now upon learning this Lani decided upon her first true task for her lord she would corrupt Gant and bring the knight to the service of Asmodeus and herself. Thus from that moment onwards Lani began a game of seduction around the middle-aged knight. She had deduced rightly that in a perverse self-punishment Gant had avoided both the company of women, and other pleasures. So when they came upon towns she would be sure to get drinks for both of them. She would make sure to send subtle suggestions with her body. To show some more skin than what was “appropriate”.

Though it turned to be much harder than Lani had first considered, one day she finally managed to break Gant’s will. And once they had once laid together, it was easy to make so it happened more times. And every night as they lay together in the same bedroll or bed of an inn, Lani would whisper in Gant’s ear. That the kingdom should be responsible for his lost family, and not him. That it was the weakness of the king that had brought the death of his wife and son. So she began, for half an year she did so, till she felt it was appropriate to begin to corrupt his belief for Mitra.

It would take 2 more years before he was converted to a worshiper of Asmodeus, and in truth a follower of Lani. Unfortunately Lani became overconfident with her success, difficult as it had been she thought she could perhaps even convert more knights of Talingarde. She thought to convert the friends of Sir Balin, till only Sir Balin would be left. But that was too much for Lani. She converted another of Sir Balin acquaintances, but in the end she and her new followers were discovered by Sir Balin.

Digusted Sir Balin declared as she was taken for trial: “I have never regretted something more than not killing you then! You spread your lies to a friend I had to kill with my own hands!” For when they were captured Sir Gant vainly tried to defend Lani so she would escape.

Thus Lani was sent to Brandescar at a young age of twenty three, for the crime of heresy. But as she was tried and taken, only two things went through her head. Her failure, and a desire for vengeance. If she ever gets out she will kill the person who destroyed her holy symbol.