Hi everyone!
I'm wondering if I could get some advice/help with designing a magical staff for one of my players. The theme is Nethys, specifically his domains of protection and destruction. If you're one of my players, please turn back, spoilers ahead.
A little background: my PCs (level 12, tier 3 mythic) will be traveling to Osirion in the next little while and enter an ancient tomb-city where they'll find an old temple of Nethys. Within is a ghost of the high priestess who, in punishment for earthly transgressions, has been 'split' into two seperate halves of herself; one focusing on the destruction domain, the other on the protection domain. Her magic staff was split into two as well (literally, as if chopped in half), and each ghost wields a ghostly version of it.
My party consists of a follower of Nethys (NG Human Wizard 5/Fighter 1/Eldritch Knight 6/Archmage 3), and this is his channce to shine. Essentially, Nethys has punished the ghost priestess by splitting her like he is split himself. She is to remain in the temple waring with herself until another worshipper arrives and settles the dispute between the 'better' of the two spheres.
Enter the PC, who's given the oppourtinity for two choices...aid protection or aid destruction. Choosing one side over the other has reprocussions; the one the PC aids helps them against the other, and then gives them a boon depending on their sphere. The boon primarly being the corporeal version of their staff, one focused on either protection or destruction.
However, there's a third option. If the PC can convince both ghosts the merit of both aspects and they are indeed one and the same (feed off one another), then both ghosts return to rest and their staves are joined with a more potent item, one focused on protection and destruction.
Saying this, I need some help on exactly what versions these 3 items should take. Ideally I'd like to use craft staff for this, though a combat-oriented quarter staff would also work.
A little more detail; the PC already has a legendary item, so I can't go this route. I'm also okay with the staff having divine spells even though the character is arcane, but any help on the staves would be appreciated.
Ideally, I'd like the lesser staves (only one half) to be CL 8, while the combined one is CL 17. The lesser versions are not mythic, while the greater one can be (but it is not required).
Thanks in advance for any help!