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stasis in the forgotten city of Neruzavin. Now that its own body is corrupted

by Xhamen-Dor, its mind is trapped in the frail frame of an old slave woman.

SQ expansive signal, limited capability, mind-swapped SPECIAL ABILITIES

Expansive Signal Kaklatath’s senses are increased in regard

to creatures tainted by Xhamen-Dor. It can sense those who have been exposed to knowledge of the Great Old One as long as they are on the same plane. It can communicate telepathically with these creatures at any range as long as they are still on the same plane (or on a plane conterminous with the Astral Plane while it is using

astral projection).

Limited Capability Kaklatath’s body has been corrupted

by Xhamen-Dor and has limited use of its abilities. When using its astral projection spell-like ability, Kaklatath can’t materialize a new body on another plane, but it can communicate within the boundaries of a plane that is coterminous with the Astral Plane. In addition, as long as its true body remains under the influence of Xhamen-Dor, the yithian can’t use its amnesia and mind swap special abilities. (See

Pathfinder Adventure Path #113: What Grows Within for

details on this otherworldly influence.)

Mind-Swapped Kaklatath has swapped minds with the

old Keleshite woman Elari. As a result, Kaklatath retains its mental ability scores, base attack bonus, base save bonuses, alignment, and mental abilities, as well as those feats its new body can use (marked with an asterisk [*]). Elari’s body retains her physical ability scores, hit points, natural abilities, and Toughness feat.

This old woman looks frail. She is malnourished, and her joints ache from age and a lifetime of forced labor. However, what inhabits this broken body is not her own mind. A yithian ambassador named Kaklatath, whose body was held in stasis after it and others of its kind fought back a group of flying polyps in the lost city of Neruzavin, now inhabits this Keleshite woman’s body and is unable to return to its own body.

Tens of thousands of years ago, Kaklatath helped repel the flying polyps, and it has spent the intervening

millennia exploring parts of Golarion through the eyes and bodies of thousands of people. Although it hasn’t physically left Neruzavin since arriving on Golarion, Kaklatath has a good idea of where the forgotten city is located from its many mind-swapped wanderings over the years. Over time, Kaklatath began to spend more time in an individual body than it did when it first started exploring this world, preferring to build up experience before subjecting another being to its mind swap ability. In the last couple of years, it came to settle in the body of Elari, an old Keleshite slave woman. However, when the yithian sensed that Xhamen-Dor was stirring in the crater lake in Neruzavin, it tried to return to its own body—only to find itself blocked. The yithian’s body, while still in stasis in Neruzavin, had become infected with the essence of Xhamen-Dor and was transformed into a vile undead creature called a seeded. (More information about this infestation is found in the following adventure, “What Grows Within”).

Even though Kaklatath can use its spell-like abilities in this body, it has refrained from doing so while imprisoned as a slave after being badly beaten during a previous attempt to escape. Kaklatath is afraid that if its frail, temporary body is killed, it will die, and Elari’s mind will be trapped in Neruzavin.

CAMPAIGN ROLE

Kaklatath plays a role not only in this adventure, but also in the following adventure. If PCs rescue Kaklatath from Biting Lash’s slave fortress, the yithian can help the PCs find the forgotten city of Neruzavin. In the following adventure, the yithian can accompany the PCs to Neruzavin and impart some of its knowledge of the history of the place.

For thousands of years, Kaklatath left its body behind in Neruzavin in stasis to see that the flying polyps sealed beneath the city never escape, but it is also concerned with the blot of the Great Old One slumbering in the lake nearby. It can feel Xhamen-Dor’s growth and can sense creatures that have been touched by the Great Old One slowly increasing in power.

Since Xhamen-Dor’s growth is linked to the number of people in the world who know of the Great Old One, once Lowls kicked off his research in earnest, hidden lore about Xhamen-Dor started to surface and the Great Old One began to stir. This alerted Kaklatath, who became concerned for the future of Golarion and the lost city of Neruzavin. Fearing that the flying polyps would escape their prison and Xhamen-Dor would fully awaken, Kaklatath saw through time to determine how the fight against the Great Old One would play out, and noticed that the PCs were involved. It used its ability to sense creatures that bear the tainted influence of Xhamen-Dor to locate the PCs, but at that point, they

were in an amnesiac fugue state after being sacrificed to the Mad Poet by Count Lowls in exchange for the insight in to Neruzavin’s location, so the yithian wasn’t able to make contact. Only when the PCs had their memories reinstated could the alien creature call out to them for assistance.

Throughout the adventure, Kaklatath tries to draw the PCs to it so that they can rescue its current form and then learn the way to Neruzavin; however, its mental communications are alien and cryptic.

Once the PCs free the yithian, it can share some of its vast knowledge with them, though the creature is reluctant. As its body is now seeded by the taint of Xhamen-Dor, it feels a nauseating pain every time it thinks too long on matters related to Xhamen-Dor and fears that the Great Old One’s influence grows with every thought. Frightened that it might be fully corrupted, the yithian is careful with the amount of knowledge it imparts.

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Foreword PART

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: On the Trail of Lowls PART

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: Madness in the Library PART 3: The Slave Markets of Okeno NPC Gallery Okeno, The Yellow City

Ecology of the Yithian Pathfinder

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Journal Bestiary

In document PLAN CASTILLA-LA MANCHA AVANZA (página 26-29)