Markish Aghayarea
Level 15Attacks
Abilities
A spellcaster who targets a devourer with a mental spell, Banishment, Seize Soul, Divine Decree, Divine Wrath, Possession, Spirit Blast, or Spirit Song can attempt a counteract check to free a soul the devourer has trapped with Devour Soul. If this counteract attempt succeeds, the trapped soul is released (though the creature remains dead), and the devourer can't use any soul charges from that creature.
Devourers are otherwise immune to these spells.
40 feet. Water in the aura that is also in the same body of water as the marid is difficult terrain for Swimming creatures. Creatures with the water trait are immune.
Markish touches a creature within reach, dealing 12d6 void damage (DC 36 fortitude save). If a creature is slain by this ability, the creature's soul becomes trapped within Markish. While its soul is trapped, a creature can't be resurrected except by powerful magic such as a Wish spell. Destroying Markish or successfully counteracting Devour Soul (see Spell Deflection) releases the soul. Markish can hold only one soul at a time. A soul has 5 soul charges per level of the originating creature (se
When Markish damages a living creature with his claw Strike, he gains 15 temporary Hit Points and the creature must succeed at a DC 36 fortitude save or become Drained 1. Further damage Markish deals increases the condition value by 1 on a failed save, to a maximum of drained 4.
Effect: Drain Life
Frequency 3 times per year
Effect Markish casts Wish as an arcane spell to grant a wish to a mortal or undead creature (excluding himself), but he does his best to warp the effects of the wish to cause suffering or interprets the wish's wording in a way to torment the one who asks for it.
Markish releases a jet of shadowy water in a 60-foot area, dealing 9d6 bludgeoning 6d6 void (DC 36 reflex save). A creature who critically fails its save is also pushed 10 feet (20 feet on a critical failure) and is Enfeebled 1 (Enfeebled 2 on a critical failure). Markish can't use Rush of Shadows for .
To cast occult innate spells, Markish must expend a number of soul charges equal to the spell's rank. He can heighten any occult spell to a maximum of 8th level by expending more charges as he Casts the Spell. Markish starts this combat with a trapped soul that has 16 soul charges.
When fiends and powerful evil spellcasters are lost beyond the farthest reaches of the multiverse, they sometimes return as horrific undead called devourers that consume the souls of the living to fuel their arcane machinations. Their bodies are ruined and rebuilt, hollow and twisted, even as their minds undergo a spiritual transformation. They gain the ability to bind other souls to their own and drain their essence for magical power, yet can never be sated in their pursuit of it. Seething masses of distorted ghostly shapes surge within their hollow rib cages-manifestations of the devourers' most recently consumed souls.