The Three Wise Necromancers

 

Genderless, gentle, soft spoken and caring, the three wise necromancers are looking for the incarnation of an important religious figure and they come seeking the figure's blessing. The twist is that this religious figure can only be revealed after being raised from the dead and brought into unlife. Their gifts are compensations for bringing someone into unlife. People, who are not the prophet they seek, come back from the death with a vision or a few words that will guide the Necromancers toward the mysterious prophet's time of death. Sometimes they visit people who are getting close to their death, when they do they may want something in exchange of their gift, they never ask, but you always know - you just hope that you won't feel it when they bring you back. The people from the hills say that you don't have to take their gift and they'll never force you, but they only come when they have exactly what you need or exactly what you want. People from the marsh say that one brings good advice, one brings fresh fruit and the last brings tea.

Folk tales from the river towns say that if you put the kettle on, they will sit with you and share tales about undead people they know or that you once knew. How to use them in games?

• Use them to foreshadow incoming danger and to built dread or tension.
• Use them to bring news of deceased characters or NPCs
• Use them to bring a deceased character to unlife and to give them a personal quest to seek the undead prophet.
• Use them to setup a local religion and prophecy.
• Use them to make dying interesting by revealing clues each time a character die.

Written with comments from Marielle, Fred, Mystic Dan and Fighting Man.

Marvels & Malisons work in progress

Some illustrations I am working on for Marvels & Malisons.

Lavender Proto-Magister with sensorial jewelry

Proto-Magisters

HD: 2 by level of spell casting

AC: as slime

Save as wizard

Alignment: lavender-neutral

Att & dmg: 1, 1d6 of corroding damage. 

Spell casting:
proto-magister can cast mage spells. Each spell is a globe of protoplasm slime with 1HD by spell level. Casting spells cost the magister 1HP by spell level. Protoplasm spells lose 1hp by appropriate time unit after the spell duration end. Instant spell proptoplasm lose 1d4 hp by rounds. Magisters can heal protoplasm spells by transfering HP while touching them. Protoplasm spells have a AC as a non-armored being and can be attacked. Casting the same spell on a protoplasm heal for 1d6 HP by spell level.

Spell absorbing:
When a magister pass a saving throw and resist a spell effect it heal by 1hp by level of the spell.

Sensorial jewelry:
Grant normal sense to the magister, without them they can only orient themselves through sensing vibrations and always act last in initiative order.

Moon Fish Mage

Moon Fish Mage learn their spells from their moon fish familiar.

There spheres of influences are water and moonlight.

They can learn other spells from other sources but it take them the double of the time to learn them.

They have good relationship with mermaids and moon related creatures.