Illigom

Illigom

No. Enc.: 1* (+1d4 companions)

Alignment: Chaotic

Movement: 90'

Armor Class: 6

Hit Dice: 6

Attacks: 2 (pick two: Staff, Bite, Spells or Prophecy)

Damage: 2d4+2/1d4+poison/by spell-type/special: See below

Save: F7

Morale: 10

Crafty, sly and older than worlds, the Illigom wander meaningfully across myriad planes. Some say they look for truth or work for justice. Others accuse them of fomenting rebellions and disrupting the status quo. Trouble seems to follow them wherever they go. Heroes and patriots arise at their challenge, mobs take on terrible purposes, and armies have been known to disband or fall to looting their own supply trains after crossing the path of an Illigom.

Sowers of discontent, rabble-rousers and agitators--the Illigom never leave things the way they found them, even if things were just fine. They incite mobs, spark uprisings, and set revolutions into motion with a few well-chosen words, a discrete healing of a potential leader, the not so discrete assassination of a suitable martyr--they are meddlesome and wicked and extremely disruptive.

Great heroes have been prophesied by the Illigom--heroes that they then went out and raised-up from amongst the populace. Heroes have returned from the past, even the dead, rejuvenated or resurrected and filled with a terrifying zeal and fanaticism that only one who has literally given their all for a cause can muster. Legends have a tendency to sprout in the wake of the Illigom like apple trees or plague outbreaks.

Spells

Illigoms know the following spells (and very likely a few others as well):

Level One: Cure Light Wounds, Protection, Purify Food & Drink, Remove/Cause Fear, Resist Cold.

Level Two: Bless/Curse, Hold Person, Resist Fire, Silence 15' Radius, Speak With Animals.

Level Three: Cure/Cause Disease, Locate/Hide Object, Remove/Bestow Curse, Striking.

Level Four: Create Food and Water (wine), Cure Serious Wounds, Neutralize/Enhance Poison.

Level Five: Commune, Cure Critical Wounds, Quest, Raise Dead, True Seeing.

Level Six: Find the Path, Heal, Stone Tell.

Level Seven: Regenerate, Restoration, Resurrection.

Illigom cast their spells as a 15th level cleric, but have no holy symbols, and can not cast these spells for their own benefit even if on the verge of dying. They can only use these spells to the benefit of another being.

In addition, Illigoms also have access to 1d4 of the following spells each day (received at random):

1. Charm Person
2. Ventriloquism
3. ESP
4. Invisibility
5. Mirror Image
6. Phantasmal Force
7. Clairvoyance
8. Haste
9. Arcane Eye
10. Charm Monster
11. Confusion
12. Dimension Door
13. Massmorph
14. Animate Dead
15. Feeblemind
16. Magic Jar
17. Geas
18. Reincarnation
19. Simulacrum
20. Statue

These spells can be used however they will, but they cannot teach them to anyone else, nor can they transcribe them onto a scroll or embed them in any other item.

It is rumored that the Illigom also have a few secret spells that they have developed over time, but this is probably only a rumor.

Prophecy

Illigom can enter into a trance-state and utter words of prophecy that may or may not make any sense, creating a brief 1d4 turn Feeblemind effect on anyone who actually listens to the cryptic mutterings. Whether or not the prophecy comes to pass or is fulfilled remains to be seen, as very few Illigom have ever remained in one place long enough to see whatever chain of events they set into motion actually play themselves out.

Invariably, within every crowd addressed by a prophecying Illigom, there are typically 1d4 stalwart true believers and impressionable types who will adopt the prophecy as though it were the most important thing they've ever heard or experienced. They will then seek to live by these words, to implement anything hinted at in the spontaneous screed, and to fulfill the sacred prophecy to the best of their abilities...often with bizarre, unexpected, unpredictable consequences...

Companions

*Illigom are accompanied by 1d4 random companions that the Illigom is in the process of training to become an agent provocateur, a great hero, or something along those lines. See the Random Illigom Companion Table for details/ideas.