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Broken Soul

CR 9.00 Outsider CE Large

Once a beautiful celestial with the torso of a winged woman and a snakelike body below, this creature is a mess of blood and scars.

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Description

A broken soul is torment and pain made manifest. Tortured to the extremes of both physical and mental endurance, and then taken beyond those barriers, a broken soul gains extraordinary reserves of fortitude and resilience as well as the ability to inflict a measure of its own terrible suffering on others.

Each broken soul has a unique appearance, the torture it has endured plainly visible on its body. Its skin is a mass of scar tissue, marred with bruises that do not fade and scored with countless scars. In some cases, a broken soul's flesh has been flayed away, revealing the musculature and bone underneath. Weeping sores and open cuts cover a broken soul's body, wounds that never fully heal. Its limbs are often twisted, the result of broken bones that were never set properly, and it might be missing fingers, toes, ears, or other appendages. A broken soul's existence is one of unending suffering, and the constant pain often drives the creature irrevocably mad. In their insanity, these unfortunates hate all other creatures and seek to inflict their wounds and their agony on all they encounter.

The creation of a broken soul can happen in a number of ways. Some broken souls arise spontaneously, the result of horrific treatment at the hands of cruel abusers. With no way to escape their torment, these creatures embrace the pain and anguish and transcend them, making them a part of their very being. In so doing, they become something both more and less than they were. Other broken souls are purposefully created out of helpless prisoners by sadistic torturers through a harrowing gauntlet of mental and physical torments. By breaking a creature's mind and body, these torturers hope to create guardians or servants whose loyalty is ensured by the constant pain they must endure. Even more harrowing, some broken souls take it upon themselves to create more of their kind, fashioning gruesome works of living, mutilated art in an effort to share their suffering. These "artists" often turn on their own torturers first, perfecting their skills on those who created them before turning their attention to any other unfortunate creatures they can find.

"Broken soul" is an acquired template that can be added to any living creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher (referred to hereafter as the base creature). A broken soul uses all the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

Ability Scores

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CHA

Combat Stats

HP: 101 (7d10+63)
AC: 24, touch 12, flat-footed 21 (+3 Dex, +12 natural, –1 size)
Speed: 20 ft., fly 60 ft. (average)
Init: +3
Melee: +1 longsword +12/+7 (2d6+8/19–20), tail slap +6 (2d6+2 plus grab) ortorturous touch +11 touch (2d6 plus 1d6 Dex damage and convulsions), tail slap +6 (2d6+2 plus grab)
Space: 10 ft.
Reach: 10 ft.
BAB: +7
CMB: +13 (+17 grapple)
CMD: 26 (can't be tripped)
Fort: +12
Ref: +10
Will: +6
DR: 5/-
Racial Modifiers: +8 Intimidate, +4 Survival

Proficiencies

Weapons: Martial, Simple

Special Attacks

agonized wail (DC 18)

baleful gaze (DC 18)

bardic performance (21 rounds/day)

constrict (2d6+5)

Feats

Combat Casting, Diehard, Endurance, Great Fortitude, Hover, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Toughness

Special Abilities

Combat Casting from Feat

You get a +4 bonus on concentration checks made to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability when casting on the defensive or while grappled.

Diehard from Feat

When your hit point total is below 0, but you are not dead, you automatically stabilize. You do not need to make a Constitution check each round to avoid losing additional hit points. You may choose to act as if you were disabled, rather than dying. You must make this decision as soon as you are reduced to negative hit points (even if it isn't your turn). If you do not choose to act as if you were disabled, you immediately fall unconscious.When using this feat, you are staggered. You can take a move action without further injuring yourself, but if you perform any standard action (or any other action deemed as strenuous, including some swift actions, such as casting a quickened spell) you take 1 point of damage after completing the act. If your negative hit points are equal to or greater than your Constitution score, you immediately die.

Endurance from Feat

You gain a +4 bonus on the following checks and saves: Swim checks made to resist nonlethal damage from exhaustion; Constitution checks made to continue running; Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from a forced march; Constitution checks made to hold your breath; Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from starvation or thirst; Fortitude saves made to avoid nonlethal damage from hot or cold environments; and Fortitude saves made to resist damage from suffocation.You may sleep in light or medium armor without becoming fatigued.

Great Fortitude from Feat

You get a +2 bonus on all Fortitude saving throws.

Iron Will from Feat

You get a +2 bonus on all Will saving throws.

Lightning Reflexes from Feat

You get a +2 bonus on all Reflex saving throws.

Toughness from Feat

You gain +3 hit points. For every Hit Die you possess beyond 3, you gain an additional +1 hit point. If you have more than 3 Hit Dice, you gain +1 hit points whenever you gain a Hit Die (such as when you gain a level).

Skills

Bluff +15, Fly +11, Intimidate +13, Knowledge (nature) +9, Perception +9, Perform (string) +17, Sense Motive +9, Stealth +9, Survival +10

Spells

spell-like abilities:

3/day—Darkness, 3/day—Hallucinatory Terrain, 3/day—Knock, 3/day—Light, 1/day—Charm Person, 1/day—Speak With Animals, 1/day—Speak With Plants

bard spells known:

3rd (2/day)—Crushing Despair, 3rd (2/day)—Terrible Remorse, 2nd (4/day)—Blindness/Deafness, 2nd (4/day)—Piercing Shriek, 2nd (4/day)—Rage, 2nd (4/day)—Suggestion, 1st (6/day)—Cause Fear, 1st (6/day)—Charm Person, 1st (6/day)—Ear-Piercing Scream, 1st (6/day)—Confusion, Lesser, At will—Dancing Lights, At will—Daze, At will—Detect Magic, At will—Ghost Sound, At will—Read Magic, At will—Resistance

Details

Type: Outsider
Alignment: CE
Size: Large
Environment: any
Organization: solitary
Treasure: standard (+1 longsword, masterwork harp, other treasure)
Senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +9
Languages: Celestial, Draconic, Infernal; truespeech
Source: Bestiary 4

Sources Used in This Record

30 House/Core

Uses feat: Combat Casting (Feat)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Uses feat: Diehard (Feat)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Uses feat: Endurance (Feat)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Uses feat: Great Fortitude (Feat)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Uses feat: Iron Will (Feat)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Uses feat: Lightning Reflexes (Feat)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Uses feat: Toughness (Feat)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Darkness (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Hallucinatory Terrain (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Knock (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Light (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Charm Person (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Speak With Animals (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Speak With Plants (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Crushing Despair (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Terrible Remorse (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Blindness/Deafness (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Piercing Shriek (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Rage (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Suggestion (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Cause Fear (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Charm Person (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Ear-Piercing Scream (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Confusion, Lesser (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Dancing Lights (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Daze (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Detect Magic (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Ghost Sound (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Read Magic (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.
Knows spell: Resistance (Spell)

House/Core — covered by the site's Section 15.

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