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Hello all,

I am running a new-ish campaign set in Thornkeep and my players decided to tackle the undead infestation in the graveyard. I decided to expand on the story and add a modified Ghul as a recent inhabitor. I say modified because I want to change the flavor of the Ghul to go from Djin to Fey to assist with the fitting into the Echo Woods.

I decided that he was originally a Forlarren who was trying to start an uprising in the fey community within the Echo Woods a few centuries back, and was cursed and entombed as punishment. Fast forward to now, a group of Orcs had found the ruins of the fey community and began scavenging and excavating, accidentially freeing the Ghul from his imprisonement. Fortunately for the Orcs, the wards in the tomb were still strong enough to keep the Ghul weak, so he wasn't able to wholesale slaughter them, so he fled, and took up residence in Thornkeep.

As of right now he's been feasting on the dead in the town, which there is no shortage as one of the NPC's in town has been forced to bring him the dead to eat. He's biding his time to find the perfect "meal" of living creature, and more importantly, he wants to recover an artifact that is still in the ruins of the fey village, and doesn't want to raise the hackles of the town.

Once the PC's encounter him in the tombs, he'll be clearly too powerful for them to defeat (APL is 2 right now, and the only cleric they have took the merciful healer archetype. They are weak against undead) and he will sieze the opportunity to send them to get his artifact or he WILL begin terrorizing the town.

What I need is help in designing the artifact. I looked through the artifacts in the Ultimate Equipment and none of them jumped out at me immediately. I think the Ghul was a follower of Asmodeus (falling back onto his fiendish blood, after being shunned for so many years by the fey), and began converting some of the other fey. I figure either an artifact that can summon/control minor demons/devils or some other ties to that would be most appropriate.

Ideally I want something that COULD be useful-ish to the PC's, but comes with an inherant cost/threat to keeping it. It's also important that it's not necessarily tied directly to the Ghul directly because I want to let the Orc's get their hands on it if the PC's balk at recovering it for the creature (which they should of course) and hesitate too long.

I also want the Ghul to be able to recover his mortal form as a Forlarren (with sorceror levels) and then convert him to a longer term villian.

Any suggestions on how to craft a suitable artifact would be greatly appreciated!

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