Aligner (better)

The Aligner is a dog/cat like shadow creature that can only be seen if a perception check is made at random. The check must be higher than a DC 24 Perception check or it cannot be found. Even if the check succeeded it only has a 50% chance of being there so if it succeeds, flip a coin. If they get a 30 then it’s a 100% chance. It has an unstable body that can change at random times. It is found in the shadows of beings watching them carefully and studying them at any moment possible. It determines their alignment and gives their alignment to new born creatures who need it, like a human with lawful neutral. The Aligner never fights unless provoked into fighting and can leave at any point if it believes it cannot win the battle. The Aligner also has a way of knowing your every move because of how long they’ve been studying you. It also knows exactly what you mean when you say something. They come from a place so empty that it doesn’t have color. No black, no white, no anything. If you are there then some believe that you would be wiped from existence. This place is called The All Surrender. They can bring people that they think are true neutral with them to The All Surrender but only once a year. Only one has ever been brought that we know of and they still haven’t returned. They have the ability to swap planes at any point in time. An Aligner is born when the world needs it. If you kill the Aligner then another will be born. After killing an Aligner you are now unaligned and are basically now just a zombie. The only way to get a new alignment is to take someone else’s which is done by taking their soul.

      Taking Someone’s Soul 101.

1. What is a spirit? You need to know what a spirit is to know what a soul is. A spirit is a bodiless creature’s life force. In the “Speak with Dead” spell it mentions that an animating spirit is the part of your life force that makes your body move to your soul’s wishes and has some semblance of awareness.
2. What is a soul? A soul is a spirit, or more likely, a part of one. This is because a spirit can go without a soul, but a soul needs a spirit. A soul spirit, as I like to call them. A soul contains a person’s memories, personality, and alignment. All creatures have souls except for beasts, constructs, elementals, oozes, plants, unaligned creatures, and most undead.
3. Where are souls? Taken from a source ”“When a creature dies, its soul departs its body, leaves the Material Plane, travels through the Astral Plane, and goes to abide on the plane where the creature’s deity resides. If the creature didn’t worship a deity, its soul departs to the plane corresponding to its alignment.” (DMG p.24)”
4. How do you get a soul? First you need to find out who’s soul you want and if you can get it. As mentioned before, a soul either goes to their deity or the plane of their alignment. Take Jimmy for example: Jimmy has a lawful good alignment and worships Bahamut. You would find his soul with Bahamut. If he didn’t worship Bahamut then where would you find it? Heaven of course! The plane of lawful good. Now you just need to get there… Anyways! When you get there, you can’t just take people’s soul, they will not like it. You must have the soul spirit’s permission. A soul spirit can leave the character and go back to it’s plane whenever it wants. A soul spirit can also take over it’s host and control them. There is nothing you can do to stop them. When the soul spirit agrees to going into the body, then the soul spirit must put all of itself into the body and the brain. If some is left behind then that is not good. The process takes at least three hours and must be completed in one go. If the process is stopped then the soul spirit is split and cannot form back together fully (see part five for what happens during this). If the process is completed correctly then the memories of the soul and the memories of the character will both be in the body. Essentially creating an entirely new person. They will act the exact same, except for now being proficient in the soul spirit’s most proficient skill.
5. A split soul. A split soul is basically a split personality which takes half of the control of the body. Yes, that means half the limbs, the choice of which limbs it can control is the DM’s choice. The other limbs now fall limp and do not move. All attributes are halved and all proficiencies go away. To get a full soul, you must now get another split soul. You have to split another soul except now, the soul duplicates, which means that the soul can stay a soul and put half of itself into the body. Now that their are two split souls in the body, the body must rest for the next day or two so the souls can mix. This process cannot be interrupted because the body essentially acts lifeless and cannot move or be woken up. After the rest, the body now has three split personalities and no memories. You must now treat them like they have amnesia. Their memories will come back, but they won’t know who’s memories it is. This leads to some severe cases of depression, depersonalization, and derealization. However, with help from the party, the character can become their old self. When in different situations, they may switch into a different person without knowing. This can make it either better or worse. If they are in a fight, then if one of the split souls is a good fighter, they may swap into them. After the fight, the personality may stay for a little. While the switch during the fight is good because now they know more about how to fight, they really don’t. Since they are a split soul, they do not have their full memories, all they know is that they were once a fighter (no bonuses or proficiencies because of the switch, just purely the personality will change). Sadly, there is no way to fix the split personality unless you make a wish.

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Lair Actions

On initiative count # (losing initiative ties), the [monster name] takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the [monster name] can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:

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Regional Effects

The region containing a legendary [monster name]’s lair is [enter the effect description], which creates one or more of the following effects:

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If the [monster name] dies, these effects fade over the course of #d# days.