Female doppelgänger warlock (star pact)
Level 3, [Neutral] Good
“Bisminnujum sa-aʿqabukum!”
Str 10, Con 13, Dex 13, Int 12, Wis 8, Cha 20
AC 12, Ft 12, Rf 13, Wl 18
HP 35 (bloodied at 17); Surges 7/day, 8 HP
| Languages: | Common |
| Powers: | Dire Radiance, Eldritch Blast, Glow of Ulban1, Dread Star, Ethereal Stride, Eldritch Rain |
| Feats: | Astral Fire, Starfire Womb1 |
| Trained Skills: | Arcana, History, Insight, Religion |
There was, before the oldest of days and ages and times, a young woman of aethereal beauty; whose soul she had pledged to the stars, and whose hands she had pledged to justice, and whose heart she had pledged to her love.
But all things pass, in time and time enough; and time enough there was before the War, when titans clashed with gods of elder days and rived apart from Chaos Aether's Sea, her kin and kingdom's dust to long be lost: nothing now compares to the wilds of Yhtill, diamond lyres played on the shores of Hali, Demhe's cloud-borne cities' unmeasured depths, nor shining Carcosa.
Arnabah knows this, though it makes no sense. The sages (those with only their own light in their eyes) have all told her that to study the stars for too long, to pledge yourself to them in return for power, is a sure path to madness. She has seen it herself — brushed against people wielding a deeply alien, terrifyingly familiar power. And yet, as well as she remembers her current life, so too does she remember her former one as this long-ago warrior of the stars.
Guided by her memories, Arnabah wields her pact shuriken and her power as once she did in time before time, to right wrongs and to triumph against evil... and perhaps, she hopes, one day, to set the stars right.
Apologies for any mangled Arabic; I spent four hours researching that phrase, and I'm still not sure whether nujum needs a genitive marker, or if al-Sakinah makes any sense here. And I don't think "Arnabah" can even be made right.
I don't apologize for the impromptu poetry, though.
1Defined and described in Dragon 368.
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