A couple come to mind off the top of my head:
Nethys—knowledge and/or magic for the sake of knowledge and/or magic, morality be damned.
Iomedae—the pursuit of physical perfection requires a thorough understanding of anatomy and physiology
Brigh—approximates a god of science
Some knowledge of the character beyond class alone could help open up more possibilities. Hate slavery? Milani. From Cheliax? Asmodeus. That sort of thing. Gods are a little bit like alignment in that you can justify almost anything, especially when not restricted by class features as a cleric or paladin etc. would be.
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You could be anything from a worshiper of a healing-based deity (I cut bodies up to understand how to heal better) to one of Lamashtu (yes, I'm a sadistic demon-lover. You got a problem with that?) even before the possibility of having more to your character than a class.
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Zon-Kuthon
Depends on what route you wanna go with the Vivisectionist. Based on your own ideas I assume this character leans towards the more traditional, evil side; I think Nethys would be a good choice for that, as born_of_fire said he's a very progress-at-all-costs kind of guy that doesn't really care about the moral ramifications of his research.
Vildeis: Vivisect yourself in a holy cause
Doloras: Coolly carry out your dispassionate experiments in a pre-anesthetic world
Shax: cut cut cut, stab stab stab, die die die. Repeat.
Sifkesh: Favoured weapon war razor and she looks pretty vivisected to me
and particularly Kaikyton: Areas of concern? Experimentation, physical merger and stiches. Nuff said
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Zon-Kuthon
That was my first choice as well, although the Demon Lord Shax also seems like a good choice, ditto the Empyreal Vildeis. All are well-suited to a strength-through-pain, cut-away-the-weakness, transformation-by-the-knife sort of theme, which fits a vivisectionist pretty well thematically.
I think the Vivisectionist goes perfectly well with a doctor type of Alchemist (arguably more so than bombs), not just with the "evil science-butcher" type. Also, by the technical definition, any surgery can be considered a vivisection. If that's the case, who would a surgeon or a combat medic worship?
It really just depends on the direction you're going with the character's personality.
Keying off of born_of_fire's comment about Iomedae earlier, why not a particularly cerebral and/or misguided devotee of Irori, obsessed with physical perfection and trying to unlock it through wisdom and intellect concurrently?
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Keying off of born_of_fire's comment about Iomedae earlier, why not a particularly cerebral and/or misguided devotee of Irori, obsessed with physical perfection and trying to unlock it through wisdom and intellect concurrently?
I just realized I meant Irori rather than Iomedae. I got them mixed up and am surprised no one called me out on that.
Sinister Irorans is criminally unexplored territory. The man ain't LG for a reason!
The Demon Lord Andirifkhu could make sense thematically....
Keying off of born_of_fire's comment about Iomedae earlier, why not a particularly cerebral and/or misguided devotee of Irori, obsessed with physical perfection and trying to unlock it through wisdom and intellect concurrently?I just realized I meant Irori rather than Iomedae. I got them mixed up and am surprised no one called me out on that.
I saw that, but was thinking you meant some sort of thing inspired by the Spanish Inquisition. I mean, after all, nobody would expect that . . . .
Keying off of born_of_fire's comment about Iomedae earlier, why not a particularly cerebral and/or misguided devotee of Irori, obsessed with physical perfection and trying to unlock it through wisdom and intellect concurrently?I just realized I meant Irori rather than Iomedae. I got them mixed up and am surprised no one called me out on that.I saw that, but was thinking you meant some sort of thing inspired by the Spanish Inquisition. I mean, after all, nobody would expect that . . . .
*slow clap*
I suppose it didn’t help that I concluded my post by saying you can make almost anything work but I did mean Irori at the time.