open/close all folders
Sodo, Darklord of Paridon
Sodo, Darklord of Paridon
A formerly low-ranked dread doppelganger who resented that his clan's status meant he would always be sentenced to low-level and labor-intensive positions, instead of being allowed to ascend on his own merits. Acquiring a magical hat of disguise, he was able to impersonate the elders who ruled the doppelganger clans, starting a clan war that ended with the old order dead and him as the new Grandmaster.- Blessed with Suck: Who wouldn't kill for a touch that can heal all wounds and even raise the dead? A sadist addicted to pain, that's who.
- Blood Magic: Sodo keeps himself immortal by killing six people once every 13 years with a magical dagger, and using their blood in a dark ritual.
- Chaotic Evil: In-Universe — it's the official Character Alignment given in his profile writeups.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Rose to power by engineering the death of his superiors, like so many other Darklords.
- Even more so, he's treacherous even by dread doppleganger standards — betrayal of one's brethren is about the only crime they find truly abhorrent.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Loves it, but can't enjoy it anymore. Torture devices? He transforms too fast to use them effectively. His bare hands? That's where the "healing touch" part comes in.
- Curse: He's picked up no fewer than three curses. His original curse as darklord makes it impossible for him to control his shapeshifting. Overuse of the Fang of Nosferatu for its Blood Magic fuelled immortality ritual has made him a sadist who heals anyone he harms or personally kills. And in the Zherisia Survey splatbook, he is explained as suffering from a curse of heightened paranoia, which only exacerbates his initial curse.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: Inverted. He can take any form he likes, but is unable to hold them for more than a minute, less when agitated (read: All the time, as the Dark Powers have given him a curse of paranoia).
- Sadist: He's addicted to the emotions of pain and suffering he inflicts on others, to the point that being deprived of such feelings is physically painful for him.
- Telepathy: Sodo has the empathic powers all dopplegangers do.
The Hive Queen, Darklord of Timor
The Hive Queen, Darklord of Timor
The ruler of the sewer domain beneath Paridon, she was once a spoiled princess who decided to scare her mother to death with the illusion of transforming into a half-human/half-marikith monster. Things didn't go as she expected.- Beware My Stinger Tail: And it gets more toxic with every egg she lays.
- Chaotic Evil: In-Universe — it's the official Character Alignment given in her profile writeups.
- Expy: Of the Alien Queen. Marikiths are effectively Xenomorphs with a dash of Predator.
- Forced Transformation: The wizard she seduced into creating the above-mentioned illusion decided to take things a bit further when he saw her with her real lover; rather than use illusion to disguise her as a marikith, he turned her into a real one. Her sting can also turn people into marikiths.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Her mother had been blowing all of Timor's money in order to make it a permanent testimony to her greatness.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Human/Marikith. By transformation and not breeding.
- Matricide: Her new form scared her mother to death, as planned.
- Mook Maker: Regularly lays marikith eggs.
- Offing the Offspring: Fears that a queen marikith might kill her as she killed her mother, so she kills them as soon as they hatch.
- Spider People: Her half-marikith body looks something vaguely like a gargantuan hybrid of ant queen and drider; a beautiful woman's upper torso giving way to a monstrous invertebrate body dominated by an immensely swollen egg-laden abdomen.
- Xenomorph Xerox: Although she's a magical creature instead of an alien.
