<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=283008.msg14042829#msg14042829">Quote from: PaleEnchantress on 02-04-2018, 22:56:25</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I find it interesting that despite how powerful echidnas special birthing version of planar binding is, for role play reasons, she can't use it for one of its most classic usages. Creating body for powerful animated Undead. Outsiders because they're high power / hit dice usually make great Undead and you can just bind them into a trap then animate them. You can do it for other party members even someone that has no optimization on planar binding whatsoever can get a marilith or pit fiend at our level.  However echidna is not really going to be keen on that idea.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I don't think it will be an issue. It's already going to take me a while to get all of the bodies we have currently raised up and I have a feeling with the sorts of enemies we'll fight I'll have a steady supply of potent corpses.<br/><br/>Anyway, on another note. I thought about it for a while and dug into a few books and came up with an item I think is useful and flavorful. If it's approved I'll just have to make a minor edit to my history to switch to it instead of the sword.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">The Well of Souls</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em>This set of bracers is made of the pale violet obdurium metal. They are smooth save for the inset gems flush with the metal. On the left bracer the gemstone is a pure white radiant pearl and on the left a pitch black onyx; Each gem is carved with intricate magical runes too small to fully make out by the naked eye.<br/><br/>The Well of Souls is formed by the former phylactery of the Lich Struckhec bisected into two parts. He still, somehow, survives despite being devoured in part by Anasil through the fel magics that the powerful caster had lain on his body over centuries. The Lich Lord is now further cemented between the realms of life and death with Anasil and her bracers serving as both his phylactery and prison. The dark necromancer now somewhat begrudgingly leads his aid to Anasil, not wanting to fully give up on his grasp of life, and seeks now to gain the use of a body at the very least. He does, at least slightly acknowledge, that his current phylactery is at least more durable than the last even if he hasn't figured out how to manifest a real form outside of it.<br/><br/>Struckhec has no exterior senses of his own currently but instead is able to borrow Anasil's sight and senses to selectively see and feel what she does at the current.</em><br/><br/>The <em>Well of Souls</em> is an intelligent set of bracers that acts as a runestaff with an Int 32, Wis 30, Cha 30 with speech and telepathy. Struckhec has numerous languages and skills although he does not share his knowledge yet, keeping it secret and safe as he can although as time passes more and more of his strength seems to cycle between the wielder and himself. Ever paranoid the hyper-awareness and planning the Lich is capable of lets him tap into Anasil's own senses to keep her aware enough to evade danger when she needs to, granting her the use of Evasion.<br/><br/>As a runestaff the spells it grants access to are currently Snake's Swiftness, Mass Snake's Swiftness, Haste, Mass Resist Energy, Mass Mage Armor, Mass Curse of Impending Blades, Necrotic Awareness, Necrotic Cyst, Necrotic Scrying, Necrotic Bloat, Necrotic Domination, Necrotic Burst, and Necrotic Eruption.<br/><br/>In addition to this, the damned lich lord extends his own knowledge forward, aiding in the wielder with the ability to create the effect of the Black Lore of Moil (see below), although instead of runebones Struckhec has his own price in exchange for his lending of aid, all in the service of eventually getting even a temporary body outside of the phylactery to touch the world once again. In addition, so long as the item is worn it allows the user to cast as though they possessed the Mother Cyst feat.<br/><br/>The Black Lore of Moil functions as per the feat but it does not allow the creation or use of runebones as normal. Instead, Anasil must spend an hour working in an alchemy laboratory refining her own soul energy to reproduce the effect. Each hour of work lets Anasil convert up to ten hit dice of soul energy into Moil Energy at a one soul to four moil dice ratio she can expend when using the Black Lore of Moil feat. When the energy is expended, the soul power is sucked into the phylactery where only Struckhec has access to. The Lich Lord will often encourage the creation and use of this power as much as possible although he will not say if the energy he absorbs is what is being used to keep him from death or if it is being saved for some other foul purpose.<br/><br/>Struckhec has a dual purpose for his ambitions: One is to keep Anasil safe if only because she is now effectively his phylactery and two is he wants to get a body of his own.<br/><br/>Costs 99800 (32 Int - 4400, 30 Wis - 4000, 30 Cha - 4000, Evasion - 25000, Speech - 3000, Telepathy - 5000, Mother Cyst - 10000, Black Lore of Moil - 10000, Runestaff Spells - 34400)<br/><br/>Notes - I altered the Black Lore of Moil to expend the souls for flavor purposes. Going by the Arms and Equipment Guide I created the item by paying for the listed price per bonus for the stats, the evasion listing and communications listing, and runestaff. The feats were modeled after the costs in the book for granting Combat Reflexes, Mobility, Sunder, Expertise, etc.<br/></div></div>