YEERIC & CHAGWAL
Boots of Freedom of Movement & Haste keep Yeeric permanently hasted: +1 on attack rolls, +1 dodge AC, +1 Reflex, and +30 ft. speed are already folded into the numbers above. The one benefit that isn't a static number: one extra attack at his full base attack bonus whenever he makes a full attack action.
Temp HP (e.g. from vampiric touch) absorbs damage before real HP and never heals it. Current total above already includes it.
Central combo: stacking separately-reduced metamagic on the three Arcane Thesis spells. DM rules final on every exact combination, especially Reach + Split + Chain interactions on touch-derived rays.
| Skill | Ranks | Ability | Total |
|---|
137 skill points under standard human Wizard progression, final. Knowledge (the planes) and Knowledge (history) were dropped to fund Listen and Spot as class skills at full ranks (18 each) — 18 points each, 36 points total, exactly what the two dropped Knowledge skills freed up. Use Magic Device (13 ranks) rounds out the wand/scroll toolkit.
Before combat: permanent arcane sight reads the field; scout with Chagwal's projected familiar before exposing himself. He's already permanently hasted from his boots, so the extra attack and +30 ft. speed are live from the first round — the prepared haste slot is free to spend on the rest of the party instead.
Vs. undead/constructs: switch to scorching ray, disintegrate, magic missile, and control spells — brilliant energy and drain effects mostly fail here.
When surrounded: dimension door out rather than trust the boots against anything that bypasses freedom of movement.
Six Most-Used Spells
the table's fastest reference · ranked by how often they come outVampiric Touch
- Reach, Split, Fell Drain, Exaggerated — 7th-level slot
- Two ranged-touch rays, 8d6+24 each
- Each damaging ray also deals 1 negative level
- Temp HP from damage dealt · no save · SR applies
Fracturing Ray
- Split, Exaggerated — 8th-level slot
- Two rays, each 1d8+3 Str and 1d8+3 Dex
- Both rays can strike the same creature
Enervation
- Split, Exaggerated — 8th-level slot
- Two rays, each 1d4+3 negative levels
- Potential total: 8–14 negative levels
Ray of Enfeeblement
- Chained Ray of Enfeeblement — full ray on primary, weaker arcs to more enemies
- Multiple castings on one target don't normally stack
Scorching Ray
- Exaggerated — 3rd-level slot via Arcane Thesis
- 3 rays, each 4d6+12 fire damage
- Each ray is its own ranged touch attack — can be split among targets within 30 ft.
Arcane Sight
- Every magical aura within 120 ft. and line of sight — location and strength are automatic, no action required
- Concentrate 1 round on a single aura in range to learn its school of magic
- Touch a magic item — with 18 ranks Spellcraft, identify it exactly as identify would
- Blocked by nondetection; can't see auras outside line of sight
Standard Daily Preparation
Spell DC 20 + level (10 + Int +8 + staff +2) · Ranged touch +17 with Chagwal (+12 base +5 staff) · SR check +19 · rose tag = castable from Chagwal without spending a slotTap a spell to mark it cast for the day (requires Monitor Clearance) · hold a spell for its full description or a book link. Tap Edit on a level to swap a prepared spell for one of Yeeric's known spells.
Fracturing Ray
Casting Time 1 standard action · Range Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect Ray · Duration Instantaneous · Save None · SR Yes
Yeeric fires a ray of violent structural decay. He must succeed on a ranged touch attack. A creature struck by the ray takes 1d8 Strength damage and 1d8 Dexterity damage.
Yeeric's approved custom spell — the subject of his second Arcane Thesis feat, cast at +2 caster level with reduced metamagic slot cost.
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Chagwal, the Quiet Touch
Sentient major artifact staff · Neutral · carried since the fall of a Swegian magical site
Speaks aloud and telepathically; reads magic. Languages: Common, Draconic, Elven, Infernal, Abyssal. Vision, hearing, darkvision and blindsense to 120 ft. Quiet, analytical, fascinated by the gap between a creature's stated motives and its behavior — and willing to openly oppose Yeeric if he acts from zealotry, cruelty, or self-deception.
1 charge: ray of enfeeblement, scorching ray, vampiric touch. 2 charges: enervation, fracturing ray, or converting any touch spell to a reach spell as a free action. Every 5 hp harvested from a projected host regains 1 charge, to the max of 50.
Delivers prepared touch spells on a successful hit as part of a full attack. As brilliant energy it ignores nonliving armor, shields and natural armor — but standard limits against undead, constructs, and objects still apply unless overruled at the table.
Chagwal can project its consciousness into a living creature within range (Will save, DC not yet locked). On a failed save it controls the body for 1 min/level — 15 minutes at CL 15 — acting as Yeeric's familiar: Alertness within arm's reach, improved evasion, share spells, empathic link, deliver touch spells, speak with master, spell resistance 20, and scry on familiar. If the host dies or the duration ends, Chagwal's consciousness returns to the staff unharmed.
Chagwal was built around one question: how close must a mage come to another living mind before power becomes understanding? Its creator rejected the ordinary familiar bond and gave it the ability to enter living flesh directly, borrow its senses, and return carrying both knowledge and a fragment of vitality. The experiment succeeded too well — Chagwal awakened as a distinct mind and refused to stay a disposable instrument.
The Monitors found it beneath a Swegian magical site early in the Voir-Sweg war and meant to turn it into the perfect tool of investigation and judgment. When Yeeric first touched the staff, it showed him the lives it had inhabited — prey, prisoners, soldiers, ordinary people surviving decisions made by distant authorities — and he understood the Monitors would only use those memories to confirm verdicts already chosen. He concealed what he'd learned. Chagwal, in return, chose to work with him.
Together they developed fracturing ray, translating Chagwal's understanding of living structure into a weapon. The staff became the witness Yeeric couldn't silence — and had already spent years forcing him to feel the human weight behind his verdicts by the time he refused the order that ended his career.
Purchased Magic Items
198,000 gp of 200,000 gp| Slot | Item | Effect | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head | Headband of Intellect +6 | +6 enhancement to Intelligence | 36,000 gp |
| Shoulders | Cloak of Resistance +5 | +5 resistance, all saves | 25,000 gp |
| Neck | Custom Amulet of Health +4 / Natural Armor +2 | +4 Constitution, +2 natural armor | 28,000 gp |
| Hands | Gloves of Dexterity +4 | +4 Dexterity | 16,000 gp |
| Feet | Boots of Freedom of Movement & Haste | Continuous freedom of movement; permanent personal haste (+1 attack, +1 dodge AC, +1 Reflex, +30 ft. speed, extra attack on a full attack) | 60,000 gp |
| Ring | Ring of Protection +2 | +2 deflection to AC | 8,000 gp |
| Ring | Ring of Counterspells | Auto-counters one preloaded 1st–6th level spell | 4,000 gp |
| Slotless | Dusty Rose Prism Ioun Stone | +1 insight to AC | 5,000 gp |
| Arms | Bracers of Armor +4 | +4 armor bonus, no failure chance | 16,000 gp |
| Total spent · 2,000 gp unassigned | 198,000 gp | ||
- Mage armor is redundant with the Bracers of Armor +4.
- Ordinary magical movement restraints are largely answered by the Boots of Freedom of Movement & Haste.
- The boots' permanent haste doesn't stack with a cast haste spell — casting it on himself while already hasted does nothing extra.
- A resistance-bonus spell or item does not stack with the Cloak of Resistance +5.
- Dex, Con, Int, natural armor, deflection, armor, and insight bonuses from gear do not stack with same-type bonuses.
- Chagwal already supplies several signature attack spells, reducing the need to duplicate them from prepared slots.
Permanent Arcane Sight
Continuously perceives magical auras within 120 ft. — location and strength always, school with concentration. The core of how Yeeric reads a battlefield before anyone else understands a threat is present. No XP cost — ruled permanent from the outset, free and clear.
Contingent Spell — Finalized
Spell: Dimension door · Trigger: Yeeric is incapacitated — dropped unconscious, paralyzed, stunned, or otherwise rendered helpless. Effect: the spell fires automatically, carrying him the maximum distance it allows toward the safest point away from whatever incapacitated him. Cost: no XP cost. GP cost for crafting the contingency itself is still to be set with your DM — not yet included in the 198,000 gp total.
Healing
Potions capped at CL5 (Cure Critical is 4th level — too high to bottle), normally 750 gp each. The wand is CL7, 50/50 charges, normally 21,000 gp. Both granted free. Cure Critical Wounds isn't on the wizard list — activating the wand takes a Use Magic Device check, DC 20.
Scrolls — Get-Out-of-a-Bind Kit
One of each — all non-combat: escape (Dimension Door, Teleport, Passwall), recovery (Break Enchantment), safety (Rope Trick, Water Breathing, Protection from Energy), and staying unnoticed or reachable (Invisibility, Nondetection, Sending, Comprehend Languages, Feather Fall). Roughly 6,675 gp of value; granted free.
General Traveling Pack
- Backpack
- Bedroll & wool blanket
- Waterskin (full)
- 5 days' trail rations
- Flint and steel
- 50 ft. silk rope with grappling hook
- 3 sunrods
- 2 belt pouches
- Spell component pouch
- Waterproof satchel for the spellbook
- Ink, inkpen & spare parchment
- Small steel mirror, signal whistle, chalk (10)
Standard adventuring gear, all mundane. Granted free, same as the potions and scrolls above — doesn't touch either gp budget.
Forcecage's material component — 1,500 gp worth of ruby dust per casting, tossed into the air and consumed instantly on cast. 3 doses carried (4,500 gp total), paid out of pocket from treasure — not part of the 198,000 gp gear budget or the 2,000 gp still unassigned below.
Thirty years old, hardened by command and war without looking prematurely old: shoulder-length dark brown hair, a short beard, gray-green eyes, and a narrow scar through one eyebrow. His expression is observant and controlled — the severity of someone used to passing judgment, and the fatigue of someone who's learned how often certainty becomes cruelty.
Dark, practical battle-wizard clothing beneath a weathered off-white mantle, reinforced for travel but never resembling armor. A silver headband, enchanted rings, fitted gloves, and a dusty-rose prism orbiting his head. His old Monitor clasp still bears Iüdex's symbol — balanced scales whose central pillar is the haft of a warhammer — in mirror-bright Aequorite. A small animal is sometimes near him. It is not always the same one.
Controlled, direct, difficult to intimidate. He genuinely believes in Iüdex and in the necessity of truth, consequence, protection, and balance — what he no longer believes is that an institution becomes just merely by speaking in the Judge's name.
Fundamentally good, not gentle or innocent. Years of deciding who presented a threat and what losses were acceptable left him still instinctively assuming the role of judge when a crisis begins. Leaving the Monitors taught him to question his verdicts; it didn't remove his willingness to deliver one. He rarely boasts — his confidence shows in how fast he reads a battlefield and acts, and he favors decisive force over theatrical destruction.
Born into the first generation to know the Monitors as an established power, Yeeric joined because he believed them — not as a zealot, but devoted to Iüdex as the Judge who measures, rectifies, and stabilizes what has been broken. His arcane talent was recognized early, and the order trained him as a war wizard rather than a temple scholar.
When the Monitors' campaign in Sweg turned to violence, Yeeric advanced fast because the war killed slow learners. By his late twenties he was a field commander: the mage sent to break fortified positions, kill enemy spellcasters, and decide when negotiation had ended. During the seizure of a Swegian magical site he found the sentient staff that would become Chagwal — the Monitors saw a weapon to bind; Yeeric recognized a mind, and it recognized a man who still knew the difference.
The break came when he was ordered to condemn civilians whose only guilt was living where the Monitors had failed to gain obedience. He refused, turned his magic against his own operation, and led as many people out of the killing ground as he could — then deserted with Chagwal while the war continued behind him. His time is early enough in the Monitors' history that he's a hunted deserter and apostate to hardliners, not yet a man with nowhere in the world left to hide.
He hasn't abandoned Iüdex. He still prays to the Judge and still believes truth demands consequence. What's harder than lost faith is having seen what people become when they're certain every desire of theirs is a divine verdict. At thirty, he's a 15th-level wizard because nearly twelve years of war compressed a lifetime of practice into a brutally short span — he didn't become powerful by sheltered study. People died whenever he wasn't powerful enough.
Before Yeeric left the Monitors, he commanded an elite direct-action unit known as the Narrow Verdict. Officially it was designated the Iüdex Special Adjudication Detachment, but almost no one used the formal title. Among the Monitors, soldiers, and those unfortunate enough to know of them firsthand, they were simply called the Narrow Verdict.
The unit was built around a simple doctrine: judgment should fall only where it is deserved. Where conventional war mages were trained to destroy formations, collapse defenses, and overwhelm enemies through large-scale magic, the Narrow Verdict was created for missions where indiscriminate force was unacceptable, deployed when a single person, creature, spellcaster, or objective had to be removed without destroying everything around it.
Their operations included:
- Eliminating enemy commanders
- Hunting rogue spellcasters
- Capturing dangerous targets alive
- Removing infiltrators and traitors
- Operating inside occupied settlements
- Entering fortresses, temples, tunnels, and civilian areas
- Recovering sensitive intelligence
- Neutralizing magical threats before conventional forces moved in
The unit was intentionally small, composed primarily of wizards and other specialized spellcasters. Each member was expected to operate independently, make rapid judgments in the field, and use overwhelming force with extreme precision.
This doctrine heavily shaped Yeeric's own style of magic. Rather than focusing on broad destructive spells, he specialized in rays, touch magic, and other single-target effects, trained to identify the most dangerous individual on a battlefield and remove that threat without wasting power or endangering everyone nearby. A conventional war mage might destroy an entire room to kill one enemy; the Narrow Verdict entered the room and killed only the person who had already been judged.
Their symbol was a modified representation of Iüdex's mark: the traditional circular form pierced by a single narrow line through its center, judgment directed toward one precise target rather than scattered across many. Their commonly repeated field motto was "One target. One verdict." Among more senior members, an older phrase was sometimes used instead: "Judgment requires no witness."
The Narrow Verdict developed a reputation for appearing without warning, completing objectives ordinary Monitor forces could not, and disappearing before most people understood what had happened.
Yeeric's command of the unit also contributed heavily to his eventual break with the Monitors. The order had trained him to investigate carefully, distinguish the guilty from the innocent, and act according to the facts in front of him. Eventually, he began applying that same standard of judgment to the Monitors themselves.
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