Odvolos
Level 5Attacks
Abilities
An odvolos ignores Concealment or penalties to Perception from ash, fire, and smoke.
Trigger A creature the odvolos can see or hear within 15 feet Casts a Spell from a scroll or Activates a grimoire
Effect The odvolos Steps toward the creature and makes a longspear Strike. If the attack is a critical hit, the triggering action is disrupted.
15 feet. The odvolos is surrounded by an aura of burning paper and scorched parchment, which provides Concealment as if it was smoke. A creature within the aura takes a –2 circumstance penalty to Perception checks, and a creature that ends its turn in the aura must succeed at a DC 22 reflex save or any items with written information held or carried by the creature takes 1d4 persistent fire damage. Magical items and religious texts are immune to this effect.
The odvolos attempts to a creature within 30 feet. If the odvolos succeeds, the creature also gains fire weakness 5 while frightened.
Effect: Pyre's Mercy
Piercing weapons wielded by an odvolos gain the magical trait and deal an additional 1d4 fire damage on a successful Strike and 1d8 persistent fire damage on a critical hit.
As empires posture amid decline and demagogues preside over republics, censorship devils scatter the burning ash of ignorance as a comforting veil over the complications of history and causality. These devils are feverishly devoted to Hell and find anything that could be interpreted against Hell's doctrines to be anathema and deserving of immediate destruction. Inconvenient accounts of the past, truths that draw the faithful away from the ways of Asmodeus, words that bring hope to those who might otherwise fall into a devil's temptations—these are fuel for the odvolos's hateful torches, burning bright on the cinders of ink and vellum.