Shardborn Angel

Location:

• Nayora, Square in front of Palace of Concordance. Killed on June 20th

Description

Tommen is... Different. His skin expands, contorts, as though something were inside and trying to get out. His now disproportionate hands find his neck once more, and like a snake shedding its old skin, what was once Tommen falls to the ground below as though it had never been a person. Something else stands in his place on the noose.

A large creature, approximately eight feet tall, is covered in strange pale skin, with small greenish blemishes as though it had been beaten repeatedly- or as though there were something just beneath its skin. Its head is a strange mockery of a human's, faceless and covered in teeth that resemble a crack moreso than a mouth. Covered in rippling muscles and sporting gigantic claws, it easily rips the noose away to crash down onto the gallows. With a roar, it unfurls a pair of wings- no. Fleshy mockeries of a whale's fins, bumpy and so thin you can see the bones through it as sunlight shines on it.

Type:

• Either Celestial, Aberration, or a mix of both
• AC 17
• HP > 120
• Large Size
• Wing-fins might be vestigial, but also allow it to fly and/or swim
• No eyes, but not impeded. Some form of blindsight / mind perception
• Strong Strength and Wisdom saves (+6), low Intelligence (+1) and Dexterity (+2)

Abilities:

• Flicker Step: The Angel teleports a short distance, leaving behind a clearly illusory copy of itself.
• Pyschic Rush: On his first turn, the Angel inflicts extra psychic damage (+2d8)
• Unnamed Claw Effect: On hit, after first turn.
• Malachite Burst: Once Bloodied, the Angel draws upon the Malachite within itself and crushes it in its mouth to inflict a plethora of psychic-based effects on the enemies withing 30 feet of it
  • Effects: 6d6 pyschic damage, blidness (1m), deafness (1m), Bane to next EoT.

Resistances/Immunities:

• Psychic damage and possibly Necrotic. Resistant to non-magical damage.
• Pliable to Enchantments and certain non-sight based illusions.

From Riga's Study and pissing contest with Liviina Akra

[Study 25] "Just looking at it, Riga is disturbed at the creature. Her mind keeps jumping between what it could be. Some of it screams aberration, but she feels an eerie divinity from it, like a Celestial. Not all Celestials are pretty angels, after all- some are rather fucked up by mortal standards, and could easily be confused for an aberration with nice perfume and a tabard. If it's any aberration that can be proud to call itself that, it's certainly resistant to psychic damage at the least. Trick's arrows prove that it also resists non-magical damage."

[Arcana 37]
Looking over the corpse, Riga kneels down to better examine it. Its skin looks like human skin, except it's extremely pale, as though it were very white and then left away from the sun for a long time, as well as having some green splatters to it like it's bruised.

Additionally, she spots a few areas where it almost seems to writhe, raising quarters of quarters of an inch. When the skin raises, that spot gains a deeper green coloration.

• Is there something crawling under its skin?

Looking at its wounds, it looks like the thing is stuffed with malachite. In fact, it doesn't look like there's anything under its skin but malachite. Riga's best guess, with how Tommen's skin was shed like clothes, is that either this had already replaced Tommen from within and had only 'stopped' its growth temporarily, or it was implanted as some sort of 'seed' that grew rapidly on a certain trigger.

The fact he was interrogated by Disciples and nobody noticed it means it was either undetectable, cloaked somehow, or the interrogators were in on it.

From "The Autopsy"

• Name: Whispered to Riga when blasted by the Unknown Fate.
• Morphology: An hybrid of a human and common symbology associated with Seradez. While anthropomorphic, the Angel presents flipper-like wings (possibly vestigial), no eyes, and a whale-like tail. However, it maintains inconsistent human features, like its mandible.
• Aura: After the removal of the Fate of the Unseen, it's clear the Angel has twin auras: Aberration at skin level and a couple inches below, Celestial underneath. With the Fate on, it seemed the two auras were cannibalizing each other.
  • #alex : Was a sort of corrosion taking place?
• Mortal Skin: Just a layer of epidermis with no particular properties, hollowed out quickly. So thin, the Malachite below should have been visible,. The fact that it wasn't suggests the process happened very quickly.
• Insides
  • Blood: some form of liquid malachite, or blood banded with liquefied crystal. This pseudo-blood is resistant to magical cleansing and is transported through a network of concentric vein-like structures, which might double as its nervous network.
    • Identify does not register it as a magical item. Instead, Riga learns that the blood seems to be heavily condensed with magic. It reminds Riga of Filocite, but instead of being almost like a physical manifestation of the Weave, it feels like a compressed and liquefied form of the signature of Chronurgy, Divination and Transmutation Riga has gotten from looking at the Fates. Riga can postulate that this is what was responsible for maintaining the Angel's mobility and life, along with the Fates. It may also have been empowering them in some way.
  • Tissues: the Angel's insides are formed largely of malachite, which serves to shield and isolate the location of the Fates within. It's still possible to track them down following the malachite's growth patterns, but it's still an onerous operation.
  • Cranium: Skull cap is particularly hard, required extra effort to open. Empty, but insides covered in nerve-like vein network (see #blood). With Tommen, some of it was still active.
    • It reminded Riga of how constructs (especially Warforged) and undead are powered up by the Weave.
• Fates:
  • Fate of the Cultivated
  • Fate of the Unseen
  • Fate of the Chrysalis
    • It contains the Angel's soul.
• Status: Tentatively alive, [Arcana 35] Riga spotted some neural-like activity within its cranium.

From: Disciples' Research

• Tommen never actually existed, as a person born in Brindale. His past is a complex fabricated memory, and the body was a shell produced by a Grave Lotus.