Alias Vessel (Template)

ALIAS VESSEL (TEMPLATE)
Finder Wyvernspur, since ascended to godhood, had the original conception for
what is now known as an Alias vessel. The Master Harper sought to create a
humanoid vessel to contain knowledge, specifically perfect and unalterable
knowledge of his compositions. Finder’s plan went awry, resulting in the death of
one assistant and the maiming of another. For his crimes, Finder was banished by
the Harpers to the Citadel of White Exile, an extraplanar prison, and nearly all
knowledge of his compositions erased. Even his name was proscribed, so he
became known as “the Nameless Bard.”
After many years, Cassana of Westgate, an evil sorceress, rescued the Nameless
Bard and promised to aid him in creating another vessel. With the assistance of
Cassana, the lich Zrie Prakis, the Fire Knives, the cult of Moander, and a demon
named Phalse, the second attempt to create an Alias vessel, who was intended to
act as a magical servant, spy, and assassin, appeared to succeed. Named “Alias”
by the Nameless Bard, she came to life but remained true to the pure soul and
spirit that had been twinned and placed within her. In time, Alias rebelled against
her creators and eventually “defeated” all the conspirators. Even Finder’s wishes
were subverted when Alias began to modify his music.
Alias was but the first Alias vessel, for Phalse create at least a dozen near
duplicates, all of which are believed to now wander Faerûn. It is possible that
Phalse shared the secret of their construction with other demons or the like,
although the death of Cassana, the “mother” of Alias, most likely precludes any
more identical duplicates of Alias. However, no proof of such knowledge sharing
has been uncovered. Five of these have been identified, including: Cat
Wyvernspur of Ordulin, wife of the noble hero Giogi Wyvernspur (see below); the
deceased thief Jade; Zhara, a cleric of Tymora and widow of the Turmish hero
Akabar Bel Akash; a sage in Candlekeep; a warrior in eastern lands; and a lady of
power in Waterdeep. Each of the Alias vessel replicas contains a sliver of
Dragonbait’s soul, and thus each is always of good alignment.
CREATING AN ALIAS VESSEL

“Alias vessel” is an inherited template that can be added to any female
Chondathan human (referred to hereafter as the “base
character”).
An Alias vessel uses all the base character’s statistics and special abilities except
as noted here.
All Alias vessels appear to be clones of Cassana, a beautiful, athletic and tall
Chondathan women (5 ft. 10 in. and 140 lb.) with reddish-blonde hair, high cheek
bones, and striking green eyes. All known Alias vessels have appeared with at
least five class levels, although that is not a requirement.
Special Qualities: An Alias vessel retains all the special qualities of the base
character and also gains the following special qualities.
Bardic Knowledge (Ex): The character, like certain constructs, has been
preprogrammed with a great deal of stray knowledge. Consequently, the
character has the bardic knowledge ability of the bard class with a +5 racial
bonus to the check. This ability does not automatically improve as the character
gains levels. However, this ability does stack with a bard’s bardic knowledge and
similar abilities such as a Harper agent’s Harper knowledge or a loremaster’s lore
abilities.
Misdirection (Sp): The character has a constant misdirection affect on herself,
which also affects all those within a 30-ft. radius of her, as if the affect were a
9th-level Heightened spell cast by an 18th-level sorcerer with a 20 Charisma (DC
24). A successful dispel magic or similar effect can temporarily suppress the
misdirection as if it were a magic item, but cannot end the effect. The character
cannot lower the spell affect or control how the information is misdirected; the
Dungeon Master should determine the exact nature of the misdirection effect.
Regional Diversity (Ex): The character begins with four human character
regions – Cormyr, the Dalelands, the Dragon Coast, and Sembia – instead of one
of the player’s choice (see pages 6-46 of the Player’s Guide to Faerûn). The
character may choose their regional feat and bonus equipment from any of those
four regions.
Abilities: An Alias vessels’ ability scores all begin at a base 17; she does not roll,
use a point buy, or use a point array to assign her ability scores.
Skills: An Alias vessel is born with inborn knowledge, pre-programmed by her
creators. The character may use all Knowledge skills untrained.
The character has a +5 racial bonus to all her Perform skill checks. The
character’s automatic languages are Chondathan and Common. The character
may choose any languages as her bonus languages, regardless of homeland
Character Regions or class.
Feats: Thanks to the power of Dragonbait’s soul, an Alias vessel gains Strong
Soul (see page 44 of the Player’s Guide to Faerûn) as a bonus feat; Strong Soul
does not count as a regional feat for the character. As noted above, the character
meets the regional requirement for all the regional feats in her four homeland
Character Regions (see pages 6-46 of the Player’s Guide to Faerûn), but may still
have only one regional feat (aside from Strong Soul).
Environment: Any land, usually same as the base character.
Organization: Solitary.
Challenge Rating: +1.
Treasure: Standard.
Alignment: Always good.
Advancement: By character class.
Level Adjustment: Same as the base character +3.

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