Their ultimate goal is to raise an army and to gain a domain where they can rule, a base from where they can finally conquer the whole known world. He sees everybody who is more powerful as a potential obstacle, and anybody who is weaker as a potential minion. The Conqueror is on an eternal quest for power. If they are powerful enough, they can afford a line of minions before them, but there is no question they will be where everybody can see them to follow their command.Ĭharacter Themes Conqueror They have suffered this fate themselves often enough to know the error of this way. Other classes: Overlords have a deep respect for authority backed by power, and expect the same in others.While their habit of seeing anyone else as either a threat, a tool or a minion may be unsettling, they are way to smart to reject anyone just by appearance. And in areas where the majority of the population is human, of course most overlords will also be human.
In fact, races that already share a trace of demonic blood, such as tieflings, are the most common.They are the dangerous masterminds that are able to turn unplanned raids into an invasion. They are the rejected orphans raised by witches, the kids abducted by demon cults, the bored sons of ancient and corrupt patrician families and the evil twin brothers of the prince. Redeemed overlords tend to go for the opposite and worship lawful good gods like Heironeous.īackground: It might be the curse of their blood, but overlords never seem to come from ordinary mundane backgrounds. Religion: Overlords follow the gods that humanity chose to forget, ancient, alien powers that demand rituals no sane mind would want to endure. They can inscribe signets in their weapons, shields and armor to enhance them with magic might.Īlignment: Overlords must be either Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil. But contrary to them, they do not blast the enemy, they face him steel against steel. They draw their magic might from the same sources as the warlock. Sometimes, they will understand they went to far, and seek atonement.The classic overlord is the anti-hero, both in the sense of tragic protagonist and villain.Ĭharacteristics: Overlords are melee powerhouses. That the power they seek will serve a purpose. They seek power and they conquer.Sometimes, they grasp that their is a higher goal behind it all. They may embrace this fate, they may deny it, they may renounce it, they may fight it in their hybris.The ancient might that is in their veins makes them fearsome warriors, destined to lead an army on one of the many sides in the eternal struggles that turn the wheel of time.Īdventures: Overlords do not "adventure". In them, they carry the seed of this ancient power of chaos and evil. The overlords are the chosen ones, destined to bring a new dawn to such an age and complete the eternal cycle.
A time when evil gods walked the earth to smite those who opposed them. A time when questing lords of darkness harnessed the power of the abyss to fuel their might, and wrote the ancient tomes that are lost in crypts, volcanoes and the depths of the ocean. There was a time, when fiends begat mortal children. 1.5.4.4.1 Epic Overlord Bonus Feat List.1.3 Invocations and their signet abilities.
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