I have an oracle in my group. His story goes like this: he used to be a wizard who tried to unlock healing magic using arcane means rather than divine, (bards and witches can do this fter all). On, lets call it a whim, Nethys cursed him one night declaring that he would not have personal control over divine spells until he learned to respect it. So he stripped him of his arcane magic spell casting ability(all his wizard spells fizzle now) and gave him a wasting disease. Now he can heal everyone but himself. No magic he tries can cure the disease.
His goal is to return to arcane magic using thasalonian rune magic or the words of power system, thinking they pre-date Nethys' assention to godhood they wouldnt be under his sphear of influence. And/or cure his disease somehow.
I plan on giving him a ritual to find in runeforge that allows him to cure his disease but it sacrifices his eyes, he will decline because he uses scroll magic a lot.
As an oracle of life he gets cured of all disease at lvl 20 but i want this to be significant in the plot somehow rather than just something he gets for leveling. And he'd rather be free from wasting than get arcane magic back, he's better now with divine spells than he ever was with wizard spells.
Any idea's?
I forgot to point out, we're on our way past the storval stairs right this moment. So we will be fighting mokmurian soon.
I'll also add that i have him rotting away. The color of his hair fades away the higher level he gets, he coughs up blood particularly when casting lots of magic. Each milestone in his ocracle's curse makes it get worse. Currently he is immune to disease because frankley, no living virus or bacteria could sustain itself on his wasting flesh. I can easily halt the progression of his symptoms but leave him with the scarred face from enduring it. That wouldmake it so he could keep the -4 cha for character purposes.
It sounds like you have everything thought out, what's your question exactly?
What can I do to tie in the oracle finding a cure for his wasting with the plot of ROTRL? What should the "cure" be?
Just from your brief description it sounds like the character's Sin is pride....
Have Veraxeris not be completely dead, just disabled from his deterioration so the clone is still "active".
Now that is an exceptionally clever idea. I'm not familair with the shattered star (would like to run it as a player) but from what I've looked up that could be a very interesting way to make it work.
as for his Sin... suffice to say that he known to, on occasion, get drunk and sing "Veovis Andorhal: he's the greatest man of them all!"
(Veovis is of course, his own name.)