Good afternoon and happy-almost-new-year! :D
I have a strangle dilemma for you all. I am running a Wrath of the Righteous campaign and there is a custom NPC that I am working on but I can't decide the best way to put her together.
Currently, the party has a ghost oracle NPC as their healer, but we just added a new player who is taking up the role of cleric. I would normally just let the ghost slip by the wayside, but one of the other players has developed a romantic relationship with her, as romantic as one can get with a ghost.
Meanwhile, there is a captured angel-like being that the party is going to be rescuing shortly as a personal mission of one of the PCs. My idea is that her soul has been so ravaged through demonic torture that the only way the party will be able to save her is if the ghost sacrifices her own soul to basically patch up the angel. The result will be a combination of both of them. Both their memories, the soul a combination of each of theirs.
The trick is that the party is minus an arcane spellcaster so I would like to be able to give them some arcane support through this "new" NPC. Unfortunately, all of the good outsiders with spellcasting abilities are based on clerics. I think I have to go fey or dragon for sorcerer spell casting, right?
Any ideas? I can get creative, since she will be... unique. The ghost oracle is actually a drow ghost oracle of Sarenrae (long story), and the angel-like being is an open book right now, so... I kind of want the new NPC to be something unique. Unfortunately, I don't want unique to equal severely overpowered. I'd rather she be not much more powerful than the PCs. I could use negative levels to do that if there was an angel that worked, but as I said, all the angels have divine spellcasting.
So... ideas? A fallen angel build might work just as a flavor combination of drow and angel. Or... I dunno.