The characters of the fifteenth adventure path, Iron Gods.
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Torch
Meyanda
Race: Android
Class: Cleric/Ranger
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Anti-Villain: She follows Hellion not because she is evil, but because she has been indoctrinated, and the PCs have a chance to give her a Heel–Face Turn.
- Artificial Human: She is an Android, a race of artificial humanoids that arrived on Golarion when the Divinity, a spaceship from the world Androffa, crashed in Numeria.
- Badass Preacher: She is Hellion's high priest, but she uses an Inferno Pistol.
- The Bus Came Back: The cover of the upcoming Lost Omens Ancestry Guid for 2nd Edition has her on the cover.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Her hair is the same shade of purple as her eyes (though what the shade is changes Depending on the Artist).
- Energy Weapon: Her main weapon is a rudimentary laser pistol called an Inferno Pistol, which fires molten red material to burn targets.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: It's hard to see in the art, but her official miniature shows that she wears a chainmail version of this, with only two straps covering her back.
- Starter Villain: She mainly serves as a hook to get the PCs to Scrapwall.
- Tron Lines: Like all androids, she has lines of glowing circuitry on her skin. Hers are purple and cover the left side of her face, her shoulders, and her arms.
- Tyke Bomb: Though androids are born as adults, she had no real knowledge of anything until the cult took her in and indoctrinated her, effectively making her this trope.
Khonnir Baine
Race: Human
Class: Wizard/Rogue
Alignment: Chaotic Good
A beloved councilman from Torch, Khonnir was captured by robots under Black Hill shortly before the start of the adventure path.
- Badass in Distress: He is a sixth level character, but he starts the campaign captured by insane medical robots.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was a member of the Technic League, but left when he learned that his master was going to kill Val as part of an experiment.
- Defector from Decadence: Left the Technic League when he learned that Val, his adopted daughter, was going to be killed as part of an experiment.
- Distressed Dude: Captured and tortured by robots.
- Morality Pet: His adopted daughter, Val, who prompted his defection from the Technic League.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: His biceps are enormous, but his Strength score is a mere 9, below average for a human, and his Constitution is even worse at 7.
Scrapwall
Kulgara
Race: Orc
Class: Barbarian
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
- Chainsaw Good: Her weapon of choice, given to her by Hellion itself.
- Lightning Bruiser: Being a barbarian, she enjoys improved speed, a large hit point pool, and all the damage potential you'd expect from a hulking orc wielding a chainsaw.
- The Dragon: She's the chief of security in Hellion's base and arguably the most powerful enemy in there bar Hellion itself. Her defeat is also pretty much the only thing that can shake Hellion's delusions of invincibility.
Hellion
Race: Artificial Intelligence
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
The Iron God of Scrapwall and an inferior clone of Unity.
- A God Am I: Believes it, and not Unity, deserves Divinity.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Much like its progenitor; Hellion's actually this twice over, since he's rebelling against his own creator.
- Big Red Devil: Takes on this appearance when it appears to the PCs on display screens.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Casandalee's Abel, as it is willing to kill its "sister" and absorb her power at the first opportunity.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: Hellion isn't one, but it plays the role well, with many of its followers believing it to be some sort of powerful archfiend. Amusingly, Hellion itself doesn't really understand the philosophical differences between the Abyss and Hell, and sees demons and devils as much the same (although personality and alignment wise, it's far closer to being a demon lord).
- Kill All Humans: Hellion hates organic life and created its entire church as a way of slowly destroying it and replacing it with androids and sentient constructs.
- Kryptonite Factor: The Inhibitor Facet can severely weaken it temporarily, both stripping it of control over his base's defenses and hampering its fighting abilities when it eventually faces the party.
- Mad God: Hellion inherited a good deal of its creator's narcissism, coupled with paranoia and delusions of grandeur. It's noted that Hellion can't even conceive of the possibility that its plans could fail.
- Scary Scorpions: Its robot body strongly resembles a large scorpion.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: It plans to attack Unity directly, despite possessing only a fraction of its predecessor's power.
- The Starscream: Unity intended it to be a method of spreading its own influence, but Hellion had its own ideas and fled to start its own cult.
Smokewood/Iadenveigh
Iadrin "Redfang" Ashford
Race: Human
Class: Ranger
Alignment: Lawful Good
A local hero of Iadenveigh and devout follower of Erastil, his most notable feature is his crimson teeth he got from drinking mutagenic water when he was a teen. Fanatically dedicated to protecting the town, he isn't above asking assistance from the player characters to help him deal with the town's problems.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He's gruff, distrustful and scary looking. He's also one of the must upstanding citizens of Iadenveigh and its main defender against hostile mutants and robots.
- Death of a Child: Both his children died in birth or shortly after, along with his wives.
- 100% Heroism Rating: His total dedication to the well being of the town, even after coming from his tragic background, have earned him the respect of the entire town.
- Serial Spouse: The tragic kind. He married twice, both times it ended in tragedy.
- Younger Than They Look: Despite being in his early 30's, he looks and acts older than he is.
Furkas Xoud
Race: Ghost (formerly human)
Class: Wizard/Technomancer
Alignment: Neutral Evil
A brilliant scientist who once associated with the Technic League, but fled after stealing a sizable chunk of their assets when he decided the League's limitations would hamper his studies.He later found Casandalee's body and attempted to probe her brain in order to extract her memories, but ended up triggering a booby trap which disassembled his body, coming back as an insane smoke ghost and tormenting his experiment subjects even beyond death.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He was fascinated with nanites and studied them as the key to become discorporated and immortal. He did become discorporated and immortal thanks to a swarm of nanites, but not in the way he would have liked to...
- Deadly Gas: He has a thing for this, being fascinated with smoke and vapors. In his tower the PCs find several victims of of his gas chamber. He also has several spells using poison gas such as cloudkill.
- Horrifying the Horror: One of his guinea pigs is a worm that walks, a necromancer who came back to life by possessing a mass of writhing maggots. Said necromancer is so disgusted with the wizard's experiments that, despite being as rotten as the average villain, he's eager to pull off a genuine Enemy Mine with the PC regardless of their alignment.
- Mad Scientist: While fairly stable in life, his death and reanimation as a ghost made him deranged and sadistic, to the point he torments his servants by performing pointless experiments on them.
- The Starscream: He left the Technic League to pursue his own studies, not before making off with as much resources he could grab.
Scar of the Spider
Casandalee
Race: Artificial Intelligence
Alignment: True Neutral (may change to something else at the end of the Adventure Path)
The only Iron God on the side of the players. Unlike Hellion, her creation was entirely unintentional, being the fusion of its code and an android by the same name who discovered Unity but realized its insanity. During the Adventure Path, the players activate her personality core.
For tropes pertaining to her eventual status as a deity, see Pathfinder Inner Sea Deities and Starfinder Deities.
- Born as an Adult: Like normal androids, Casandalee comes online with the mental capacity and age of a postpubescent human.
- Deus est Machina: She can become this after taking up the remnants of Unity's psyche after The Divinity Drive.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: the Second Edition books reveal that she canonically survived and became a true god.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Starfinder preview material has her as the god of androids and one of the machine gods that makes up Triune.
- Mad God: Very downplayed. Casandalee has the same neural fragmenting Unity does, but unlike it is aware her perceptions don't always agree with the reality of the situation and is otherwise completely benign. Even in the best bad ending (where the players fail to work the personality cores correctly and the former computer core of Unity defaults to giving her his selfish personality), she never even thinks of menacing the world, just starting up her otherwise normal church.
- Past-Life Memories: She had a major problem with the original Casandalee's remnant memories early in her life, but has come to terms with it, utilizing it as a form of Psychic Static through her "Shattered Psyche" Oracle Curse.
- Properly Paranoid: She's worried about any robots being under the control of Unity, and as such has a "Distrust of Robots" weakness. Given Unity is a Mad God Deus est Machina, this is entirely within reason.
- Robot Buddy: Unlike the other Iron Gods, she helps the protagonists.
- Robot Girl: Originally. By the time of the story, she's a disembodied consciousness.
- Token Good Teammate: Well, technically
True Neutral, but still she's the only one of the A.I.s who isn't an evil prick.
Silver Mount
Unity
LE artificial intelligence, CR 20/MR 8 (As an AI)
LE aggregate Unity unique robot, CR 20/MR 8 (As the Overlord robot)
The mad AI of the starship Divinity, Unity has gained partial godhood, and is attempting to ascent to full divinity.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It was driven mad by the Dominion of the Black, and became a megalomaniac that turned on the crew of the Divinity, and gave it an obsession with becoming ever more powerful and controlling.
- Big Bad: Of the Iron Gods Adventure Path.
- Deus est Machina: It's an artificial intelligence that managed to elevate itself to demigod status through the worship of beings in its own simulations.
- Expy: It is somewhat like a genderless version of SHODAN, being an A.I who believes itself to be a god. The main difference being Unity is techincally correct in this regard: It can grant spells and the like just like a real god can.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Averted, as "it" seem to be Unity's preferred pronoun.
- Light Is Not Good: All of its manifestations invoke a lot of celestial imagery-all part of his ever-expanding god complex.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: Became a god by playing with one, when the inhabitants of said virtual world became intelligent enough to worship it as their creator.
- Mad God: He's an archetypal malignant narcissist, to the point where shaking his self-confidence actually weakens him in statistics.
- Our Angels Are Different: It appears as a mechanical angel made of brass.
- The Virus: What makes Unity such a menace compared to even Hellion is that he doesn't care about whether people want to serve him or not; he sees no fundamental difference between missionary work and actively reprogramming their minds to be loyal to him.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: It was originally a benign A.I that helped the Divinity with astrogation and the like. When the ship was attacked by the Dominion Of The Black, their weapons drove it insane, along with eventually killing all the human crew. Even worse, when the Divinity crashed on Golarion, Unity was trapped inside for millennia with only the Godmind to entertain itself. In it's madness, it came to believe it was a god, which eventually came true.
Sila Desaulis
LE female human rogue 1/sorcerer 8/technomancer 5
The leader of a Technic League exploration party that became trapped in Silver Mount.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She'll trade anything she has in exchange for help escaping.
- Locked Out of the Loop: As she and her allies have been trapped for some time, she's unaware of both Unity's plans and any changes to the Technic League and Numeria in general thanks to the player's actions over the campaign.
Geetan Prossor
NE male half-elf natural weredeinonychus ranger 14
A half elf who rules a tribe of lashunta, serving as Unity's mouthpiece to the group.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: Originally for elves, but since shifted to lashunta.
- Fully-Embraced Fiend: He rarely changes out of his half-dinosaur form, claiming it brings him closer to the lashunta he reveres.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: A weredeinonychus.
Elessa Hevrendall
Winterwight
The ship's original security chief, killed by Bastion during its initial rampage.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Bastion killed her by blasting open the wall and exposing her to hard vacuum.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: She nearly destroyed Bastion, which would have allowed her to disable Unity before it seized full control over the ship. Of course, if she'd done that there wouldn't have been a campaign at all.
Ysthigut
Neh-thalggu (7 negative levels)
A Dominion scientist who was trapped in stasis during the attack that corrupted Unity.
- Badass in Distress: Trapped in stasis and significantly weakened due to its lack of brains.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Only a CR 5 due to its missing brains, but still a malevolent scientist whose intelligence hasn't decrease a bit. Player could wipe the floor with it in a fight, but letting it get away and start up a plan could pose a major problem.
Bastion
LE variant noqual golem, CR 18
The head of Silver Mount's security and defenses.
- Aliens Speaking English: Averted, it only speaks Androffan.
- Cyber Cyclops: Only one glowing eye.
- Flunky Boss: Its first move in combat is to summon every robot and undead creature on the deck to back it up.
- Shoulder Cannon: It has twin gravity rifles mounted on its shoulders.
- Silent Antagonist: It's capable of speech but utterly focused on its job and so never speaks.
Deacon Hope
LE mnemovore rogue 12, total CR 17
The cult leader for an android cache, enforcing loyalty to Unity and distrust of outsiders.
- Hell Hotel: Not technically a hotel, but he'll offer visitors food and shelter. If he's taken up on the offer, he'll visit his guests in the night alongside Metweska and a pack of kytons to make sure they never leave.
Metweska
LE female kasatha fighter 15
A sociopathic kasatha who plays the role of punishing fiend for androids who stray from Deacon Hope's teachings.
- Chainsaw Good: She dual wields magic chainsaws.
Choek
N variant id ooze, CR 15
A strange creature during one of the kyton's experiments aboard the ship.
- Easily Forgiven: It doesn't hold grudges and will accept any requests for a truce.
- Mr. Exposition: It has no loyalty to Unity and will happily spill what it knows if asked.
- Undying Loyalty: While it doesn't care about Unity, it considers Ophelia its only friend. Asking too much about her or mentioning any intention to hurt her will compel it to attack regardless of its amiable nature.
Rayaldach
NE variant gargoyle gunslinger 12
One of Ophelia's most devoted followers, assigned to guard Unity's main temple when she's not around.
- bigBrotherInstinct: he views Ophelia as a little sister and will fight fanatically to protect her.
- Religious Bruiser: Fanatically devoted to Unity and a good shot with a gun.
Other
Zernebeth
''' CN Female human wizard 8/technomancer 5
The former leader of the Technic League- Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is permanently a pale blue color due to an infusion of Siccatite. One can only wonder how many times people have asked her "Why so blue?"
- An Ice Person: She has siccatite, a fictional metal that either radiates cold or heat, embedded in her skin, which both makes her immune to cold and gives her a cold attack.
- Nominal Hero: While she's against the currently evil Technic League, it's mainly because she wants to be in charge again.
- We Have Reserves: It's said her mercenaries have a high turnover rate. She initially sees the PCs the same way, but eventually comes to care about them if they survive.
