(TFT) New monster --> Tahquitz

["rsmith" <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

	Tahquitz	(c) 2002 Richard Smith

	Tahquitz is a Potent Exigent.  (Potent
Exigents are more powerful than a greater demon 
and in the same range of power as Djinn Lords 
and Guardian Spirits.)  As such he has a KA 
rather than a soul or spirit.

	Tahquitz is a shapeshifter, and can take
any form so long as his IQ does not increase and
his ST + DX do not increase.  He most often is
found in a long Dragon like form.  His sex is 
what ever he wants it to be, but usually he 
takes male forms.

Dragon Like form.
ST  340	(use 19 hex dragon counter).
DX   18
IQ   35
MA   16 flying, 10 on land

Armor -12 

Bite  10 dice

Fire breath: 8 dice to all in its area.  The
area it affects is a equilateral triangle 
4 hexes on a side with an area of 10 hexes.

Tail strike	 6 dice

	He has a self-powering spell shield on 
him naturally, thus he can only be affected by
Environmental Magics, Name Magics and other forms
of Existential Magic.

Inversion Elemental Accord - STONE IN FIRE.
	
	He has the following Potentials added to 
his Name: He regenerates 3 points of damage per
turn (no weakness but it fails at -50 adjST).  
He takes no damage from fire, and regains 1 point
of fST per turn in intense flame.  (With his 
elemental accord he may frolic in lava with out
harm.)  He knows all languages.  He may shape
futures (see below).

	Has a rod (3.2 meters long masses 95kg)
which can make beings do what he wishes.  A
6vsIQ saving throw is required to throw off 
its power (once you make a roll you are 
immune to the rod forever).  If you fail you
are allowed to make a new attempt once per day.
	
	He has 5 wishes with him self.  He has
a ring with 2 wishes in it (he will use the 
ring wishes first if he gets in trouble as they
are more easily taken).  He has a ring with
an existential wish.

	He has a magic sphere.  If he touches it
it will give him a +2 charm for 3 years.  Once
used the magic sphere will take 144 years to
recharge.



	Tahquitz has a love of literature and 
poetry.  They are the only things that humans
have created of any worth (in his opinion).  
However the multi-layered philosophical 
essays / historical webs of the dragons 
most excite his interest.  He has been known
to spend decades unraveling one for his own
enjoyment.

	By human standards he is cruel.  He 
thinks of humans as stupid, self important
cattle and will eat human leaders, lovely
virgins and other respected of valued people
just to anger people.  As a Potent Exigent he
is outside the 'lines of authority' that 
various spirits fall into in holy (or unholy)
hierarchies.  Thus gods have no great love
for him.  Many human religions paint him as
evil.  (He is willing to do evil things just
to stir such people up.)

	Except when tweaking people in passing
he interacts but rarely with humans.  Normally
he spends long periods of time (typically 5 to
25 years) shaping futures.

	
	When Tahquitz shapes a future he goes 
into a near trance in an isolated spot where
he is unlikely to be disturbed.  There he 
gradually comes into accord with the 'sweep
of history'.  Many, many things remain forever
in indeterminatable flux, but some events 
(the motions of planets for example) have 
great temporal inertia and can be predicted 
with surety.  These "predications" take into
account the backwards flow of information 
into the past.

	After shaping a future for 25 years or
so, Tahquitz will come out, eat a few people, 
and do events to make the future event he is 
focusing on more probable.  After doing this
for several iterations the future event comes
to pass.  He enjoys what he wrot and then may
start some new shaping.

	Tahquitz cares nothing for wealth but
might accumulate a several million silvers 
worth of treasure and magic because people
behave in very predictable ways around such
wealth and if people are involved in the 
future he is shaping such predictability is
useful to him.

	In the past humans have worshipped
Tahquitz as a god.  (This is laughable,
Tahquitz is MANY, MANY times weaker than a 
god than the weakest human is to him.)  
However it does not take much to fool 
unsophisticated people and having a 
religion under his control may help some
future he is shaping.

	Tahquitz is unaging but not immortal.
By human standards he is cowardly, but he
expect that in any combat he will roll 
three 18's and the enemies will roll three 
triples.  (If you live long enough this sort
of bad luck is sure to happen sooner or 
later.)

	Should he breed with some other form
his offspring will look like his mother but
would have strange powers.  Some human 
prophets are thought to be from such a union.


	Usually Tahquitz can be found walled
up in some hugely hot room in a volcano.


	He is suggested to GM's as a god 
figure of some barbarian society.  Such a
pathetically weak, 'scaled down' god could
actually be frightened by PC's which may
be what the GM is looking for.

	Richard Smith
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