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Kain

humanimmortaldeity-classintelligentuniqueglass

Stats HD 10 (40) BR 800 Size 6' Weight 160# Max. Load 60# Run 25'Fly 250'
Group Solo (cannot be fought)
Desc. A foreign-looking pale-skinned blonde resembling no human race on Aia, dressed in finest silk.
Wants You cannot offer him anything.
Intellect A reasonably smart human with unlimited wisdom & a crippling resignation.
Morality Morality is for peers in power. Only five beings in Aia are his equals.
  • Hourai Immortal (Kain): You are a true immortal.
    • Your body replaces limbs, implants, Mutations, Wounds, new HD or Racial Features, and other abnormalities to perfectly restore itself to ordinary functionality within 24 hours of any damage or change being inflicted.
    • If killed, in 1d6 Rounds you immolate into ash and reconstitute instantly in a burst of light and cold flame at a place of your choosing that you have previously visited. Kain has visited every single location in Aia's tiny universe.
    • You are always conscious, even in death, and as a Free Action may choose to die and begin resurrecting.
    • Your soul is not in your body; it is beyond the cycle of life and death. No effect targeting a soul works on you.
    • You are still subject to all natural needs and vulnerabilities and have no special resistances to Damage, but you regenerate fast enough that only an absence of air will kill you.
    • This Feature can never be copied, borrowed, stolen, given, removed, inherited, overruled, or otherwise transferred by any means whatsoever.

Kain is screwed up. Human psychology is not made to last tens of trillions of years. He can only remember a small portion of his own history, but it is a kaleidoscope of every pattern imaginable compressed into a nearly perfect predictive engine. He can see everything coming. He has heard and done everything.

Knowing the shape and nature of yourself — your own emotions — does nothing to let you level their impact upon your psyche. They are your psyche. Kain is deeply aware of every way in which he fails and is unable to stop or correct it.

The handful of human immortals have a habit of fluctuating over centuries-long cycles between mindsets and behaviors. Kain is the only one who regularly tries to build recognizably human empires. The others are normally reclusive and hard to find.

Treasure: See the True Immortal's treasure tables.

When Eaten

Bitter pork. Degenerates gradually into ash over 24 hours.

The Hourai Immortal Feature cannot be obtained by any means. Kain reconstitutes, remembers who ate you, and has opinions about it.

Kain Is Not a Monster to Defeat

Kain's role is to be persuaded to stay on his mountain, or to return to his throne. The entire point of his bestiary entry is to make his motivations procedurally unpredictable across campaigns; roll his tables at campaign start & keep the results secret. The factions all have theories, but the GM knows the truth.

Kain does not have meaningful stats or a spell list. If you think you need them, you are using him wrong. He automatically kills anyone who inconveniences him in a deliberate effort to kill him or harm his priorities. He otherwise tries to avoid violence.

If he is led into fighting another true immortal & you are in doubt about whether the argument can be resolved, then the Disc shatters into hundreds of islands, the Moon becomes an asteroid field, a second Moon is created in the process, and a new Age begins. Restart the campaign.

Rumored Reasons He Abdicated
The Autumn Massacre
What He Wants This Century
What Might Reach Him