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Before i begin, this has spoilers for my game. i know one of my players browse this forum, so if you see this, i beg you not to read it. Im gonna be using vague pronouns to prevent any spoilers of who what when how for your. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
Im running a high powered game and my players are about to run into the thicket of the story, pieces that i've been laying about are about to click together. things i've carefully worded would make them rethink about what i've said and their back storys are about to get fully integrated into the game. So Far, they have been adventuring in Geb, the land of the dead. As of now, the Party consists of a Grave Knight Warlord, A Vampire Mystic Magus Multiclass, a iron lich Wizard, and a Psychic Vampire mesmerist. as of now, the party is level 7-8 and have been gaining levels at a steady pace. Hopefuly by the time they reach the final boss i've been planning on they would be level 20 mythic rank 4
The main theme of the game is not good vs evil, as most games tend to go. Mine is more about the moraly gray Chaotic vs law and doing the right things for the wrong reasons, but doing wrong things for the right reasons. The "God" I wish to make isn't really a "God" but more of a being of god like powers who tries to fufill forgotten memories, forgotten wishes, and the guardian of childrens hopes and dreams, but is doing such in a way that is harmful to those shes trying to help. Alot got twisted when she died, which began to fracture her self imposed ideals and goals. She began to experiment with an artifact(Which is actually A Iron Lich's Soul Cage) and Became obsessed with it, using the soul cage to gather childrens souls, and put them into different bodys to gain new experiences, walk a mile in another person's Shoe's(And yada yada). she learned that a soul she takes, the body continued to move like nothing happened. and the new body the soul was injected into, gain personality, and memories of that of the old creature, essentially taking control of the new body. Eventually, those that share personality types or similar goals allowed their souls to combine, making a new soul that is superior than both parts by themselves. She learned that she could split a soul, and attaching it to another soul in a paracitic way allowing an effective way to have the creature to be protected and hiden. Plus allowing them to Detached and if injected back into any host will allow them to continue on living(albet some minor Physical issues)
She took what she learned and split her Soul 34 different times,injecting herself into her close friends, family, children she cared about, and everyone she loved to help them and be close to them at all times, but in doing so she made herself very weak. She wasent able to defend herself in the end when her Unlife was taken by that of an old friend who took care of the children she was experimenting with, and her ex-Husband who divorced her and was watching her go insane. They both took the children, 3 of which where children of both the husband and wife, Labotomized them from forming thoughts like that of "her" and later was forced to kill them, to allow pharasma to seperate the soul pieces and hopefully fix her. Or So they thaught.(This is happening in geb. The children she was using for expiriments about the souls where bred to be livestock, by a Clan of Flesh, and was raised in fear and uneducated to prevent them from escaping)
They missed one, which grew up to become a Shadow Lord(Shadow Template i made) that can controll peoples actions through the shadows and can take over someone's shadow, turning it into a... shadow... The Shadow lord is a little bit crazy(as one would be if they are getting memories of another person and gaining some personality conflics) but is ultimatly trying to help revive the woman who sweet talked him about all the good shes trying to help with. But in order to do so, he needs to gather either a large number of insignificant souls or a few extraordinary souls to help with the necromantic process making a patchwork version of herself. Now with a goal of collecting enough soul pieces of herself to become strong enough to "help" geb in the protection of the
children and all living, which the undead feed upon...by collecting the souls.
Souls she gathers into her soul cage and any soul she expends would be becoming a part of her in her eyes.
Theres more to her, but i feel like thats enough to get the just of what shes about.
What would her Profile be. what domains would you give her? Any ability ideas because im making her from scratch, mostly homebrew. im planning on her final battle be mutliple stages, mostly in the maelstrom, where she would split herslef, and the half that comes from her has half hp and caster level(Which continues down to caster level 1, and 1 hp) but is still able to cast high level spells(Wail of the banshee caster level 1 anyone?), suck people up into her basterdized cage, causing a seperate fight in there to get out, and having some old allys she may have collected to fight against the party, but their souls split and injected into other beings, creating almagemites.