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How would Nialia treat a captured Pharasman cleric?

My party is at Thistletop and their npc Pharasma Cleric companion was captured by Nualia. Since Pharasma and Lamashtu are enemies, I wanted to ask if the cleric might be sacrificed to further Nualia's transformation, or used in the ritual to free Malfeshnekor (since it's a non-ritual, 1e game) ?

The npc cleric is also a rougarou, so the goblins probably wouldn't be fans of him, either!

Any suggestions?

Pharasma and Lamashtu aren't particularly enemies at all. Their roles don't really conflict, overlap, or compete. Of the core deities, only Urgathoa is counted as a legit enemy for Pharasma (the Gods and Magic book is the latest and most recent supplement that lists deity allies and enemies).

How she treats that prisoner is left to you to determine, but the prisoner being a rougarou or a cleric of Pharasma wouldn't necessarily alter Nualia's take. If that NPC was a citizen of Sandpoint she recognized, though, that'd be a different story!

Really?

But If Pharasma is concerned with (among other things) child Birth, wouldn't that be at odds with Lamashtu who is known to curse pregnant women by swapping their unborn child with a demon?

I get why Pharasma and Urgathoa would be enemies, the whole undead, escaping one fate, consuming the flesh of babies, thing.

Think of the children.

CHRISTOPHER BLOMGREN wrote:

What is Nualia's ritual to release Malfeshnekor?

Back in 2015 (link to thread below), you said Nualia was trying to bind Malfeshnekor to her using only magic available to a 5th level cleric. Would you please provide specifics and elaborate?

"If the ritual goes as she hopes, Malfeshnekor basically ends up being bound to Nualia. He's free, but she's in control of him. She'll likely use him as an assassin and bodyguard and threat to keep her other minions in line and will go on from there to build her power, eventually becoming one of the more powerful clerics in the region."

Link: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2t67q?Is-Nualia-dumb

Thanks, James!

It's story-based NPC magic meant to justify the plot, not be something that plays out in game, since the plot doesn't intend for her to ever be successful.

If this were today, working with a game (2nd edition) that includes rituals as part of the core game, then the ritual in question would be inveigle.

I see.

My party is at Thistletop and their npc Pharasma Cleric companion was captured by Nualia. Since Pharasma and Lamashtu are enemies, I wanted to ask if the cleric might be sacrificed to further Nualia's transformation, or used in the ritual to free Malfeshnekor (since it's a non-ritual, 1e game) ?

The npc cleric is also a rougarou, so the goblins probably wouldn't be fans of him, either!

Any suggestions?

What is Nualia's ritual to release Malfeshnekor?

Back in 2015 (link to thread below), you said Nualia was trying to bind Malfeshnekor to her using only magic available to a 5th level cleric. Would you please provide specifics and elaborate?

"If the ritual goes as she hopes, Malfeshnekor basically ends up being bound to Nualia. He's free, but she's in control of him. She'll likely use him as an assassin and bodyguard and threat to keep her other minions in line and will go on from there to build her power, eventually becoming one of the more powerful clerics in the region."

Link: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2t67q?Is-Nualia-dumb

Thanks, James!