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So, I'm making an aberrent bloodline sorcerer / monk for a campaign and I need a little help. For the character backstory I want him to have had an encounter with some horrible entity a la Lovecraft and emerged with a hazy memory and some changes to his physiology and personality. Aaand also some neat magic item, so that he can be corrupted further.
Any idea what creature and what item I am looking for here?
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You're probably looking for a shoggoth. No idea about the item, though, but if you want Lovecraftian, it should probably be a book of some kind.
So, I'm making an aberrent bloodline sorcerer / monk for a campaign and I need a little help. For the character backstory I want him to have had an encounter with some horrible entity a la Lovecraft and emerged with a hazy memory and some changes to his physiology and personality. Aaand also some neat magic item, so that he can be corrupted further.
Any idea what creature and what item I am looking for here?
You could have escaped from aboleths; they're ancient, aberrant, fishy, psionic, and they secrete a slime that makes air-breathing creatures breath water so they can enslave them. They have racial memories, including the memories of creatures they've consumed, so they themselves could be a source of strange knowledge. If you take them out of water, they dry out but don't die, only go into hibernation; I could see a mad wizard trying to draw the memories out of an aboleth.