Sarpedon Akhanti's page

Hi. My master is planning to start an evil campaign after we end the actual campaign. He's doing a lot of work, he's seeking to set some thematically relevant classes. For now he came with a bunch of classes/archetypes that fit in the Asmodeus servants concept. He's still looking, and he found he cannot find a druid archetype that would fit in the Asmodeus cult (we'll all have Asmodeus as divinity). So, I ask for some good advice: which archetypes thematically fit for an Asmodeus worshipper druid? Can you point something, even 3rd party? It would be really helpful.

It's not an Archetype, but here's a character who is thematically suited to be both a Druid and an Asmodean. (Stats in this profile.)

And a rival group, too small to truly be a Faction of their own, whose goals and tenets are antithetical to the teachings of the Green Faith, the Chelaxian Helltamers, druids and rangers in service to Asmodeus himself, represented by...
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Sarpedon Akhanti is one of a relatively small group of Asmodeus-worshipping druids and rangers who call themselves the Helltamers. They have begun developing a fantastic ‘Garden of Infernal Delights’ outside of Ergoran, surrounded by a series of magical wards that are one part of the protection of the surrounding community and another part to maintain the infernal environment that the thrashing vines and sinister-aspected wildlife native to Hell itself find comfortable. The Helltamers believe that the darkening of the roses in Ergoran, upon the death of Aroden, was a sign that Hell was coming to Golarion. Asmodeus grows ascendant, and Cheliax is only the foothold upon this world, which he will soon dominate entirely. With the god of the Hells, the creatures of the Pit will rise, and the natural order of Golarion will be forced to adapt, or perish.

The Helltamers wish to prepare Golarion against that day, so that the devastation is not too great, when the powerful ecology of Hell arrives to supplant and master the world, along with their dark master. With the assistance of certain sympathetic clergy of Asmodeus, an infernal blooded tiefling sorcerer who regards herself as a living example of the coming consanguinity of Hell and Golarion, and a few low-ranking conjuration specialist wizards, they conjure fiendish beasts, such as hell hounds and nightmares to mate with the most brutish and powerful Chelish war-trained hounds and horses, to produce fiendish animals that are native to Golarion, with a foot in both worlds.

Sarpedon is one of the second generation druids of the organization, and is among those considered to be among the future of the order, having passed his initiation as a Tender to rise to the rank of Assistant Caretaker. He spends his time attempting to secure spellcasting services from those capable of calling up planar allies or planar binding fiendish creatures to help with the breeding programs, and peddling the fiend-touched warhorses and attack dogs that are their primary source of income, at this point.

The Helltamers are always looking for sources of planar calling magics beyond their capabilities, and will often pay good coin for someone able to cast planar ally or planar binding, or with a scroll of same for sale. Additionally, they seek out samples of flora and fauna from all over Golarion, the deadlier or more spectacular or sinister, the better, and, while it is controversial among the order, they sometimes pit their own hell-blooded hybrid spawn against mundane Golarion native creatures, under carefully controlled circumstances, to ‘prove’ the effectiveness of their methods (as they always stack such matches in favor of their own creations, to justify the necessity of ‘strengthening the stock of Golarion for the arrival of Hell’).

Boons Sarpedon can provide access to Hellhide leather, studded leather or hide armor, at 10 to 20% off of its normally inflated prices, and is the person to consult if one wishes to bind into service a fiendish familiar, using the Improved Familiar feat.

Indeed, he can help one select a particularly well-aspected fiendish animal, with a +1 to either Str, Dex or Con, although this will cost an additional 100 gp over the usual summoning costs.

He can, of course, produce fiendish hounds or horses, which have the stats of mundane riding dogs or warhorses, with the fiendish simple template. Such creatures remain animals, but gain the extraplanar subtype, and are of both sinister infernal aspect and singularly vicious nature (with the horses in particular having jagged teeth and preferring the taste of meat on a regular basis, with a special fondness for the flesh of mundane horses). He will not sell such steeds, even to those who have done the Helltamers a great service, for less than five times the usual price, and can regularly demand twice that at auction for a well-appointed specimen. Note that these animals are trained to only respond to commands in Infernal, and a purchaser who does not speak Infernal may have to brush up on the relevant commands...

Stats for the special material, Hellhide, and for the Chelaxian Helltamer feat, available in the profile.