Having had no Faith in life, in death no God has come to claim your soul. In your hour of desperation, you have accepted a bargain, from a mysterious being, to become a Lastoa'giza. Your body is lost, but your soul has been returned to the Material Plane and now inhabits a Phylactery which is implanted in some sort of Construct.
Your Construct: Lastoa'giza are medium-sized, humanoid-shaped, inert Constructs powered by radiant energy. The Construct has an AC of 10, 10 HP and a passive perception of 13. At the core of your Lastoa'giza is your phylactery which can hold multiple undead souls. Your Construct is designed to transforms into the form of one of its souls, allowing the soul to experience Second Life. (A DC 25 Arcana Check is needed to detect exactly what they are)
The Souls: Each soul of the Lastoa'giza, like you, is a fully developed individual; complete with race, class, abilities, feats, history and equipment. Each soul in a Lastoa'giza must learn its purpose through experience. Once in the phylactery, souls retain separate consciousness, and each have their own perspective on all the Lastoa'giza perceives. Though only one soul at a time can be active, all of the souls in a phylactery share the raw perceptions of the active soul. The Souls also share some of their dreams.
Second Life:Triggered by radiant energy, after a long rest, the Lastoa'giza randomly selects one of the souls, in turn, in its phylactery, as the active soul. The Lastoa'giza then transforms itself into the active soul's body, including all items that body last wore or carried, until a long rest is taken or the soul dies. At the beginning of a long rest, the active soul returns to the phylactery, and the Lastoa'giza assumes its inert construct shape, absorbing all items last worn or carried. Lastoa'giza can only take long rests between the hours of dusk, and dawn. True death - Upon reaching 0 hp, and failing its death saving throws, the active soul is truly dead and can not return to the phylactery, and the Lastoa'giza assumes its inert construct shape. The following day, the Lastoa'giza will randomly select one of the remaining souls in its phylactery to be the active soul. This cycle will continue, until the phylactery is empty, the Construct is damaged beyond functioning, or the phylactery is destroyed.
The Dreams: The souls of Lastoa'giza are chosen because they are faithless. During a long rest, they are tormented by dreams of death and and the horors of after-death (both their own and other Lastoa'giza near them) until they find faith. The Lastoa'giza also may recieve instruction in their dreams from entities to which they own a debt, for being allowed to be Lastoa'giza. Failure to resolve or escape these dreams leads to the eventual destruction of the souls in the Lastoa'giza
Limited Healing: While in their natural form they are Constructs, and can only be healed or repaired by a Wish spells, or by their creator. While shapechanged, they count as Undead for both detection and healing.
Resurrection: If the gods allow it, only a True Resurrection spell can raise a soul in the phylactery.
Resistance: The Lastoa'giza has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead. Also has resistance to necrotic damage
Having had no Faith in life, in death no God has come to claim your soul. In your hour of desperation, you have accepted a bargain, from a mysterious being, to become a Lastoa'giza. Your body is lost, but your soul has been returned to the Material Plane and now inhabits a Phylactery which is implanted in some sort of Construct.
Your Construct: Lastoa'giza are medium-sized, humanoid-shaped, inert Constructs powered by radiant energy. The Construct has an AC of 10, 10 HP and a passive perception of 13. At the core of your Lastoa'giza is your phylactery which can hold multiple undead souls. Your Construct is designed to transforms into the form of one of its souls, allowing the soul to experience Second Life. (A DC 25 Arcana Check is needed to detect exactly what they are)
The Souls: Each soul of the Lastoa'giza, like you, is a fully developed individual; complete with race, class, abilities, feats, history and equipment. Each soul in a Lastoa'giza must learn its purpose through experience. Once in the phylactery, souls retain separate consciousness, and each have their own perspective on all the Lastoa'giza perceives. Though only one soul at a time can be active, all of the souls in a phylactery share the raw perceptions of the active soul. The Souls also share some of their dreams.
Second Life: Triggered by radiant energy, after a long rest, the Lastoa'giza randomly selects one of the souls, in turn, in its phylactery, as the active soul. The Lastoa'giza then transforms itself into the active soul's body, including all items that body last wore or carried, until a long rest is taken or the soul dies. At the beginning of a long rest, the active soul returns to the phylactery, and the Lastoa'giza assumes its inert construct shape, absorbing all items last worn or carried. Lastoa'giza can only take long rests between the hours of dusk, and dawn. True death - Upon reaching 0 hp, and failing its death saving throws, the active soul is truly dead and can not return to the phylactery, and the Lastoa'giza assumes its inert construct shape. The following day, the Lastoa'giza will randomly select one of the remaining souls in its phylactery to be the active soul. This cycle will continue, until the phylactery is empty, the Construct is damaged beyond functioning, or the phylactery is destroyed.
The Dreams: The souls of Lastoa'giza are chosen because they are faithless. During a long rest, they are tormented by dreams of death and and the horors of after-death (both their own and other Lastoa'giza near them) until they find faith. The Lastoa'giza also may recieve instruction in their dreams from entities to which they own a debt, for being allowed to be Lastoa'giza. Failure to resolve or escape these dreams leads to the eventual destruction of the souls in the Lastoa'giza
Limited Healing: While in their natural form they are Constructs, and can only be healed or repaired by a Wish spells, or by their creator. While shapechanged, they count as Undead for both detection and healing.
Resurrection: If the gods allow it, only a True Resurrection spell can raise a soul in the phylactery.
Resistance: The Lastoa'giza has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead. Also has resistance to necrotic damage