Countless books tell of Tar-Baphon and his ongoing legacy; entire ancient libraries, saturated with rumors and intrigue, would not be enough to house the documentation of his influence. The record goes thusly: he was once an exceptionally spoiled and gifted student who fell to the temptation of the writings of the last Runelord of Gluttony, Zutha. Tar-Baphon dug a portal to the Negative Energy Plane on the Isle of Terror, ignited a long-lived rivalry with the god Aroden, descended to lichdom, took Ustalav beneath his might, then was imprisoned in Gallowspire and subsequently escaped.
Larger still is his unwritten legacy. His morbid cult of acolytes, the Whispering Way, maintain a 10,000-year-long oral history exchanged only in hushed murmurs. They speak of his leadership with great reverence and eagerly await his plans for the future. These days, the Whispering Tyrant appears not only as a vigilant, violent warlord but as a boogeyman in the minds of even the most innocent; villagers often claim to see him in a farmyard after dark or lurking in a graveyard just at the edge of a mourner’s vision. He has escaped from his prison at Gallowspire, where he was once locked in by the Great Seal—the name of his prison only flared his ambitious fervor and arrogance when he destroyed it with his magical superweapon, the Radiant Fire. Imprisonment on his own throne did not temper his hubris or his ego—it only gave him more time to plot his escape and his plans beyond. Now that he’s made his way out, he has only the cruelest of intentions; he plans to leverage his stolen power, his vast legions of enslaved minions, and the Whispering Way to achieve his long-awaited goals.
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• Tar-Baphon má neobyčejně vysokou resistenci na positive damage díky jeho helmě—artefaktu Horns of Naraga. Ta mu rovněž propůjčuje schopnost Greater Darkvision.
• Dotek liche způsobuje paralýzu (Curse trait - lze odstranit pomocí Remove curse nebo Remove paralysis - toto umí léčit pomocí Mercy Pyrael)
• Tar-Baphon disponuje magickou kamennou krychlí, pomocí které se dokáže ihned teleportovat na předem zapamatovaná místa
• Tar-Baphon ovládá slova smrti (Power Word Kill, Massacre)
• Tar-Baphon vládne kouzly Cataclysm a Enervation
• Tar-Baphon vládne kouzly Polar Ray a Eclipse Burst
• jakožto necromancer má k dispozici Focus spelly Call of the Grave a Life Siphon
• jeho Simulacra použila tyto kouzla: Overwhelming Presence, Weird, Scintilating Pattern, PW Kill + PW Blind, Etheric Shards, Haste, True Strike a cantrip Shield
• v knize kouzel Simulacra byly zvýrazněny navíc ještě tato kouzla: Horrid Wilting, Polar Ray, Force Cage, Slow (6th), Cloudkill, Spell Immunity, Vampiric Touch, False Life, Mirror Image, Touch of Idiocy, Ray of Enfeeblement a tyto cantripy: Chill Touch, Detect Magic, Mage Hand, Message
• Aura of Absolute Terror (aura, emotion, fear, incapacitation, mental) 60 feet Aura. Any creature that first enters the area must attempt a Will save. Crit Success The creature is frightened 2; Success The creature is stunned 1, frightened 2; Failure The creature is stunned 3, frightened 2; Crit Failure The creature is stunned 4, frightened 4
• Perfect Necromancer The Whispering Tyrant can have any number of undead minions under his control and can command them all by using a single action. He may cast Animate Dead at will to create skeletons or zombies or use his mythic power to animate feared Gallowdead or Nightwalkers instead.
• Legendary Soul Cage Tyrant's phylactery is an artifact requiring very specific methods to destroy.
• Radiant Shard Activation ◆◆◆ (abjuration, arcane, necromancy, negative, positive) Detonates the Radiant Fire at the start of The Whispering Tyrant’s next turn.
