6. IMMUKNIGHT
(toxic avenger) (errant)
Sin: Sorrow
Some variety of environmental catastrophe has taken place, be it a poison plume, chaotic waste spill, too-deep digging, or magicks more malevolent and purposefully vengeful. The affected area is somehow cordoned off – those caught inside are just going to have to deal with it. In marches the immuknight.
Antimicrobial - Whatever IT is, it's spreading. One by one the cordoned population succumbs. The immunknight, though, has resistance. Not total – and in fact the very nature of such resistance may be that's he already partially infected. However, not only is he resistant, he can also convey this resistance to others. The laying on hands of an immuknight acts an antibody instead of healing HP.
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7. GWRAGEDD ANNIE
(watery tart) (expatriate)
Sin: Thirst
After a while a water spirit gets sick of the repetition. She provides a magic armament to a promising warlord, he uses it well for a while, then falls prey to the same forces that he opposed at the start and for which she armed him. Much like an addled CEO firing the graphics team, she figures she can just as easily do it herself.
Anteausine Invulnerabiltiy - As long as the Annie has one foot in running water, she is invulnerable to damage, full stop.
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8. VERMIN WARDEN
(rat catcher) (ghosthunter)
Sin: Toxicity
Full on Warhammer. There are wererats skittering around the guts of civilization like Flash Taco. They can't help having a sneaky look but are very chatty and persuasive. They cover the small with abundant quantities perfume and cash. The paladin as Rorschach.
“The rat-catcher’s dress is usually a velveteen jacket, strong corduroy trowsers, and laced boots. Round his shoulder he wears an oil-skin belt, on which are painted the figures of huge rats, with fierce-looking eyes and formidable whiskers. His hat is usually glazed and sometimes painted after the manner of his belt. Occasionally—and in the country far more than in town—he carries in his hand an iron cage in which are ferrets, while two or three crop-eared rough terriers dog his footsteps. Sometimes a tamed rat runs about his shoulders and arms, or nestles in his bosom or in the large pockets of his coat. When a rat-catcher is thus accompanied, there is generally a strong aromatic odour about him, far from agreeable; this is owing to his clothes being rubbed with oil of thyme and oil of aniseed, mixed together. This composition is said to be so attractive to the sense of the rats (when used by a man who understands its due apportionment and proper application) that the vermin have left their holes and crawled to the master of the powerful spell.” – Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
You well know where this is going:
Small Vicious Dog - You have no idea HOW small and HOW vicious these things can be. They are little more than rats themselves, but anointed by the deity against lycanthropes.
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9. SCARECROW
(syn doctor) (inquisitor)
Sin: Inflexible
Here is an answer to how to be Lawful Good in a Lawful Evil society. There's the Incredibles answer:
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10. ENDYMIONIAN
(sheepherder hobo) (medician)
Sin: Hoarder
We all know that the timely ringing of the church bell will dispel the worst ghosts and pursuant extra-planars. The endymionian brings the churchbell to you.
It doesn't have to be bells. It could be lighting little fires everywhere (a candleknight) or being trailed by a flock of pigeons (a dovecoat). The operative principal is the guy is a walking cathedral out amongst the flock.
Low Camp(anologist) - According to the theoreticians, the ringing of bells (or lighting of fires) (or scattering of stale bread for birds) is composed of three ingredients: incongruity, theatricality, and humors:
Incongruitous - This guy is playing a different game than everyone else. Energized by the Eschaton. He does "moves" instead of actions.
Theatrical - Party cannot surprise anyone due to the ringing/fires/birds/etc. (-1) on wandering monster rolls or similar.
Humorous - Although earthly critters are attracted to the commotion, unnatural are repelled. The bells discourage infiltration by creatures melancholic (undead - turned as cleric of the same level), sanguine (devils), choleric (demons), phlegmatic (slaad-punks).
(There exist disciplines of high campanology as well, but they are more academic than practical, a box inside a box - devotees of a particular saint dressed in his vestments and tending to his statue. Low camp is for out in the world amid the people).
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