To be done:

• Descriptions of all his custom or researched spells.
• Impervious Vial, Talakara's Basin of Calling and Seeing.
• Description of Drusilla.

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Tebryn is 5'3" tall and weighs 115 lb. He has shoulder length white hair and red eyes, but no facial hair. He's in good shape: fit and trim, and quick in reaction. Very robust and healthy. Not especially attractive, although he does command your attention. He has a quick mind and his eyes are watchful and observant.

Personality: Haughty, cruel, deceitful, manipulative.

He's always had the attitude that those that cast magic are superior to those that don't, and those that cast arcane magic are superior to those that depend on gods to give them spells. Hence, he can be haughty and arrogant towards such "lesser" beings, if he feels that there is no use to be gained from them. But he is throughly practiced and adept at hiding his feelings and opinions in order to manipulate others who do have something he needs.

There are any number of his companions whom he has used for his own purposes completely unknowingly. For example, Malarky considers him his closest friend, and Tebryn has, indeed, done him big favors - but Tebryn has gotten a lot more out of the friendship than Malarky. And the last "favor" he did for Malarky's was very much at the expense of Eris.

He is quite paranoid about those of his companions whom he perceives as more powerful than he. Tigerblade, in particular, worries him. Tebryn has done a lot of plotting and planning about what to do if Tigerblade suddenly turns on him: a not wholly unreasonable fear, since Tigerblade has quaffed several philters of madness over his career and attacked his own companions. As a result of this, Tebryn has been surreptitiously spreading the rumor, through Malarky, for many years that Tigerblade actually has a split personality: the good Mr. Tiger, and the evil Mr. Blade. Tigerblade's reputation has not been seriously harmed.

Tebryn also has adopted the attitude of superiority of drow towards all lesser races. I say "adopted" because he's actually a "nouveau drow" - he was born 41 years ago as a Human, named Nick, but became a drow as a side-effect of a wish spell, slightly more than 13 years ago. Much to Veracity's amusement, he adopted not only a drow given name, but also a drow surname, although there is no real connection between him and that of the house whose name he took. Nor is there any actual genetic connection between he and Veracity, although they call each other "brother" and "sister": they were step-siblings.

He is very skillful with magic, but picked up thief skills in order to be more stealthy. He is considering becoming an assassin: he truly enjoys killing, and with his combination of classes, he thinks he'd be very good as a professional. He's also considering becoming an ur-priest - an evil prestige class of those who, like he, despise divine spellcasters but envy their divine spells, and have learned how to hijack divine energy being send by the gods to their priests, and use it to cast their own divine spells.

Tebryn Filifar CR 20
Male drow Domain Wizard (Evocation) 5/Rogue 3/Arcane Trickster 10/Archmage 1
NE Medium-size humanoid (elf)
Init +7; Senses darkvision 120'; Perception +25
Languages Common, Elvish, Dwarven, Drow, Undercommon, Ancient Elvish
Height 5 ft. 3 in., weight 115 lb., age 141.
XP: (ECL 21) 210,000 + 11,046 = 221,046 + 9,954 = 231,000 (ECL 22)

Drow traits: +2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution, +2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma (included in listed statistics); Spell like abilities 1/day—dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire as a sorceress of her character level; darkvision up to 120 feet; Entitled to a Search check when within 5 feet of a secret or concealed door as though actively looking for it; Light Blindness (Ex): Abrupt exposure to bright light blinds drow for 1 round. While operating in bright light, suffer -1 circumstance penalty to attacks, checks, and saves. (removed by Daylight Adaptation Feat); Spell resistance of 11 + character level; Immune to magic sleep spells and effects; +2 racial bonus on Will saves against spells and spell-like abilities; additional +2 racial bonus on saves against Enchantment spells and effects; +2 racial bonus on Listen, Spot, and Search checks (already figured into the statistics given above); Preferred class: Wizard (male) or Cleric (female); Level adjustment +2.

Evasion (Ex): If exposed to any effect that normally allows a character to attempt a Reflex saving throw for half damage, Tebryn takes no damage with a successful saving throw.

Familiar Benefits: As long as his familiar Drusilla is within reach, Tebryn has the benefits of the Alertness feat (already figured into the statistics above), and the following additional benefits.

Empathic Link (Su): Tebryn can communicate telepathically with Drusilla at a distance of up to 1 mile. He has the same connection to a person, item or a place that Drusilla does, for the purpose of scrying or teleportation.

Share Spells: Tebryn may have any spell he casts on himself also affect Drusilla if the latter is within 5 feet at the time. He may also cast a spell with a target of "You" on his familiar.

Touch: Drusilla can deliver touch spells for Tebryn.

High Arcana: Tebryn has special abilities as befits an Archmage.

Mastery of Shaping: Tebryn can alter area and effect spells that use one of the following shapes: burst, cone, cylinder, emanation, or spread. The alteration consists of creating spaces within the spell's area or effect that are not subject to the spell. The minimum dimension for these spaces is a 5-foot cube. Furthermore, any shapeable spells have a minimum dimension of 5 feet instead of 10 feet. Tebryn permanently gave up one 6th-level spell slot to gain this ability.

Imp Familiar: Tebryn has an imp familiar known as Drusilla Barbtail.

Impromptu Sneak Attack: Twice a day, Tebryn can declare one melee or ranged attack he makes to be a sneak attack (the target can be no more than 30 feet distant if the impromptu sneak attack is a ranged attack). The target of an impromptu sneak attack loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, but only against that attack. The power can be used against any target, but creatures that are not subject to critical hits take no extra damage (though they still lose any Dexterity bonus to AC against the attack).

Ranged Legerdemain: Three times per day, Tebryn can perform one of the following class skills at a range of 30 feet: Disable Device, Open Lock, or Sleight of Hand. Working at a distance increases the normal skill check DC by 5, and Tebryn cannot take 10 on this check. Any object to be manipulated must weigh 5 pounds or less.

Sneak Attack: If Tebryn's opponent is ever denied his Dexterity bonus to AC, or if Tebryn flanks him, he does an extra 7d6 damage on each attack.

Spell-like Abilities: 1/day—dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire at caster level 19; save DC 11 + spell level.

Trap Sense (Ex): Tebryn receives a +1 dodge bonus to AC against attacks by traps and a +1 bonus on Reflex saves to avoid traps.

Trapfinding: Tebryn can use the Search skill to find traps with Search DCs higher than 20, and the Disable Device skill to disarm magical traps.

Summoned Creatures: Tebryn has used his staff of the magi to summon several kinds of creatures. When he summons a series of creatures of the same type, the same ones always appear as the last time he summoned that type of creature.

Leonals: Yellowmane (114 HP), Loudroar (119 HP), Longclaw (125 HP), Fiercebite (106 HP).

Celestial Rocs: Windwing (225 HP), Swifttalon (205 HP)

Drusilla Barbtail: Female imp familiar;

Skills and Feats:.

Improved Evasion (Ex): If Drusilla is subjected to an attack that normally allows a Reflex saving throw for half damage, he takes no damage on a successful saving throw and half damage even if the saving throw fails.

Manual of Quickness of Action +5 (137,500)

As a result of reading this, Tebryn has a +5 inherent bonus to Dexterity, accounted for in the stats above. Since it has been used, the book is no longer magical.

Talakara's Basin of Calling and Seeing> (150,000)

An 8' diameter basin, when filled with 1000 gallons of water, allows greater scrying at will and allows telepathy once the subject has been successfully scryed. Command word "tiny" shrinks it to the size of a salad bowl.

Talakara's Chains of Absorption (-)

Similar to dimensional shackles in that these masterwork manacles & chains prevent the captive from using spells, psionics, or spell-like or supernatural powers, including plane shifting and shape-changing, to escape from captivity.

Additionally, these chains act as a rod of absorption, absorbing both magical and psionic energy, preventing ANY use of such powers by the captive and preventing any use of such powers by others to open the chains.

The captive can be of any size from Small to Large. Breaking out of the manacles requires a Strength check vs. DC 30 (ruining the manacles in the process), or a successful Escape Artist check vs. DC 30 will allow the captive to wiggle free.

Tome of Clear Thought +5 (137,500)

As a result of reading this, Tebryn has a +5 inherent bonus to Intelligence, accounted for in the stats above. Since it has been used, the book is no longer magical.

Staff of the Magi (Minor Artifact) (300,000)

A long wooden staff shod in iron and inscribed with sigils and runes. Currently contains 50 charges.

The following powers do not use charges:

• detect magic
• enlarge person (Fortitude DC 15 negates)
• hold portal
• light
• mage armor
• mage hand

The following powers drain one charge per usage:

• dispel magic
• fireball (10d6 damage, Reflex DC 17 half)
• ice storm
• invisibility
• knock
• lightning bolt (10d6 damage, Reflex DC 17 half)
• passwall
• pyrotechnics (Will or Fortitude DC 16 negates)
• wall of fire
• web

The following powers drain two charges per usage:

• monster summoning IX
• plane shift (Will DC 21 negates)
• telekinesis (400 lb. maximum weight, Will DC 19 negates)

Grants spell resistance of 23. If this is willingly lowered, the staff absorbs arcane spell energy directed at its wielder as a rod of absorption does, but absorbed energy is converted into charges. If the staff ever absorbs spell energy to exceed 50 charges, it explodes as if a retributive strike had been performed.

Can be broken for a retributive strike. Must be purposeful and declared by the wielder. All charges in the staff are released in a 30-foot spread. All within 10 feet take 8 times the number of charges hit points of damage. Those between 11 and 20 feet take 6 times the number of charges. Those between 21 and 30 feet take 4 times the number of charges. A DC 17 Reflex save reduces damage by half.

The character breaking the staff has a 50% chance of travelling to another plane, but if she does not, she is destroyed.

The caster makes a ranged touch attack against a foe, launching a bolt of cold darkness from his left hand. The bolt deals 1d8 points of damage per two caster levels (maximum 5d8). Half the damage is cold, and the other has no specific type. When struck, the foe must also succeed at a Fortitude save or be stunned for 1 round, overwhelmed by the evil charge of the darkbolt.