So, I've been apart of a campaign for 3+ years now. Doing great. last year I retired a lv 10 paladin and have since returned to the game as a lv 13 Eoxian lich.
This is not unusual for our DM to allow things like this.
Anyway, I've been doing all kinds of research since I've brought this character, Synthesis, to the table. A lot of fun.
Now that the holiday break is coming to an end, id like to solidify his perspective. I think I have time frame he's been around, nearly 14k years...as that was the best I could come up with as the lore on the destruction of the twins is a bit...sunken in legend lore.
I'm under the impression that the bone-lords and similar ilk look at everything with a distant 'nose to the air' mentality or a vague detached know-it-all...ness. with so little on their sparse culture and paranoid habits... It's proving a great challenge to play an eoxian, something Id like to further enhance. I want to do them justice!
So, thought on how Long undead Eoxians look at the rest of the worlds?
Maybe he's a biohobbyist.
That is, maybe he thinks of Golarion and all its thrumming life as curious artifacts to be collected or studied--with a certain proprietary attitude. Imagine a lepidopterist.
"That appears to be an orc male. I've never seen one with that particular green mottling before. A fine addition to my collection."
*gasses orc to death and has his servants put the body in a glass case*
I would also consider carefully WHY he does anything anymore. He has been around for longer than many lower order outsiders, hell, even longer than recently ascended deities. he has seen worlds come and go, civilizations crumble to dust and rise only to crumble and rise again. Matched wits with other immortal geniuses and probably tested his mind against the most unfathomable natural and magical conundrums. So if anything is going to make him get out of his crypt/laboratory and adventure on a distant rock, I think it'd have to be something of amazing significance. Perhaps something that living mortals would view as unattainable and even unreal. Mind you, he need not be ALL about this topic, and would actually be unlikely to even bring up this topic to anyone/thing unless it appeared that entity would be of absolute necessity to its goal, and even then never tell it more than it needs to know. One of the best ways to portray a character like this is not by how it speaks or what it says (although this should not be discounted as powerful either) but by how it moves. When a player asks you a question that your lich should feel is self explanatory, tell them "I turn the pinpoint lights of my eyes upon you like two dying stars from the gulf of the void, answering everything a nothing before releasing you from the gaze of eternity and returning to your reality". In sort, thing "How would my DM portray the BBEG?" and run with it.
The why is around the more amusing.
As I've come to think of it, There is a place called the fleshhalls on Eox. It's a Fall-out quality mega vault. Once it was discovered by the bonelords, they found it of great amusment.
Anyway, after so long, Synthesis began creating 'heroes' and pitting them against other, invested bonelords. Win or lose he enjoyed the clash. Every hero was new...for a time.
But as each generation became more and more imbred, th eneed for new genetic variation would be implemented.
So, so far, Syn's goal is to be apart of a hero's story...either through observation of making it happen. IE with the rest of th eplayers.
It's been humorous so far.
I'm imagining this in the voice of Tony Jay.
Yeah...that's happening now.