Precentor
Level 16Attacks
Abilities
A precentor automatically knows whether a creature it sees has any of the Doomed, Dying, and Wounded conditions, as well as the value of those conditions.
30 feet. When a creature ends its turn in the aura, it must succeed at a DC 38 will save or become Doomed 1.
The precentor adds a creature that is affected by its Tormenting Touch and is within 100 feet to its choir of screams. A precentor can have any number of creatures in its choir, although a creature no longer affected by Tormenting Touch leaves the choir immediately. Creatures in a precentor's choir of screams are Fascinated by each other and the precentor, and they can't use hostile actions toward each other or the precentor. When the precentor casts an innate divine spell, it can cause the effe
The precentor stares at a creature it can see within 30 feet. The target must immediately attempt a DC 38 will save against the precentor's unnerving gaze.
In addition, if the creature was already Doomed, on a failed save, it sees the skin of its own body peel back, making it Confused for as long as it remains Doomed. After attempting this save, the creature is then temporarily immune until the start of the precentor's next turn.
The precentor touches a creature within 10 feet, causing it to constantly scream in agony. The target must attempt a DC 38 will save.
While the target is stupefied by this effect, its continual screams cause it to automatically fail Stealth checks.
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is Stupefied 1.
Failure The target is Stupefied 3.
Critical Failure The target is Stupefied 4.
The target can attempt a new Will save at the start of each of its turns, red
Velstracs are horrific, shadow-dwelling fiends who seek ultimate sensation through self-mutilation. They transcend their stoic detachment only when inflicting pain and terror upon their victims, practicing new forms of debasement and torture before then turning their knives on themselves. Although velstracs consider themselves beyond such limitations as morality or mortal taboos, their victims know them as emotionless tormentors who inflict debased, sadistic suffering. They claim to seek perfection in thought, form, and action, although they don't recognize any refinement that doesn't require the painful excision of the flesh or spirit.
Velstracs manifest from the souls of masochistic or sadistic mortals that are diverted into the Shadow Plane and then forged into forms that suit their vile predilections, ranging from the low-ranking augurs to the aesthetics-obsessed interlocutors.
Some mortals refer to velstracs as "kytons," a misattribution that the velstracs tolerate with cold amusement. The term "kyton" denotes a master or virtuoso among their kind, and these fiends enjoy being labeled masters of their horrid paths to perfection through agony.
Velstrac storytellers and historians are known as precentors. Trailed by horrific choirs, precentors perform in the courts of the velstrac demagogues.