"It will be I who presides over the end of days, not my sister."
Ahiravan was a rakshasa.
History[]
Ahiravan was the son of the rakshasa Khreeshan and the brother of Ravana. His history is largely unknown, but he was one of the Lords of Dust and at some point he killed the Corhyrian hero Rashid and then used illusion magic to assume Rashid's identity - keeping the adventurer's head (disguised as a rakshasa head) as a trophy. It is likely that Rashid tried to kill Ahiravan in order to take the third adamantine key, which the rakshasa held. During his impersonation of Rashid, Ahiravan offered Maharion an adamantine key in exchange for inclusion in the expedition to Charn. One of Ahiravan's most trusted advisers was Sobek, and the crocodile lord created a monstrous chimaeric hippopotamus to serve as Ahiravan's mount.
Description[]
A more experienced and dangerous Ahiravan
Ahiravan seemed to be more patient and careful than his sister, putting much more thought into his decisions and being more willing in general to negotiate with his enemies (so long as it helped him accomplish his ends). He wore a red cloak with golden jewellery and spoke in a deep, booming voice. His true form was beautiful, sleek and elegant. He claimed that he was sympathetic, and that his victims all died painlessly. He believed that life is suffering, and he considered it a great honour that he had been chosen to oversee the end of the the world, a kindness to the mortals whose lives he would be mercifully ending. He was contemptuous of those opposed him, considering heroism to be a worthless gesture intended only to win validation and to stroke one's ego. As an experienced sorcerer, he controlled extremely powerful magic, and eventually developed an affinity for necromancy.
In the Campaign[]
Ahiravan, in his undead form
Vantis and Lannus exposed Ahiravan's impersonation of Rashid at Ramandu's Rock and the rakshasa was imprisoned. He was sent to the city of Daln to be displayed at the Imperial Zoo, and later released by the gnoll Srana. After that he apparently travelled to Isaravissith on the island of Shavarath, while commanding the rakshasa Idrajit to kill or capture the goatfolk of Badeb and Atazar. Vantis, Lannus and Rexxar later learned that Ahiravan planned to summon the Beast in a terrible ritual where a mortal kills the last specimen of a bloodline with the dagger Khratash on the Altar of the Apocalypse. When Vantis, Lannus and Rexxar encountered the waste preacher Lasarno in Daln, he revealed their location to Ahiravan who confronted them in the skies above the city, demanding to know the location of the Khratash (apparently unaware that the dagger was held by Sreshtu). Ahiravan's undead vulture was destroyed by Rexxar in the fight and his body was destroyed, but his winged chimaeric mount escaped and there was soon suspicion that he had used necromancy to preserve himself as a lich. Lannus, Rexxar and Vantis used divination magic to determine the location of Ahiravan's phylactery (the skull of his father Khreeshan), and though it was guarded by Akshar at a remote mountain camp they used teleportation and an antimagic field to quickly travel to the location, destroy the skull and escape.
Unlocked Statistics Blocks[]
CR20 Ahiravan the Lich - Medium evil outworlder undead18
HP117 Initiative+7 AC32(T18,FF29) Speed30(6) Abilities 20,16,-,14,17,30(26) Saves+15+18+20
Claw+22/+17/+12/+7(d8+5+lich touch) and claw +22/+17/+12/+7(d8+2+lich touch)
SQ - Improved claw transfer, darkvision, detect thoughts DC22, Shapeshift, DR15/holy piercing or holy bludgeoning, SR29, improved dispelling+2, Fear aura (DC29, affects creatures under 5 HD only), Turn Resistance+4, Lich touch (d8+5 will DC29 for half and permanent paralysis DC29 fortitude, claws are treated as magic for damage reduction and can transfer spells) or ranged touch attack +22 (spells)
Immunities - cold, electricity, polymorph, critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability drain, mind effects, disease, stuns, poison, sleep, paralysis
Skills - Speech+31 Concentration+26 Arcana+23 Spellcraft+23 Outworld+23 Wastes+23 Sense motive+24 Reckoning+24 History+23 Ride+24
Feats - Claw and ray focus, iron will, scribe scroll, craft wondrous item, evocation focus, combat casting, necromancy focus, mounted combat, sorcerer's quickening, ambidexterity
L1 - x8 Magic misile, chill touch, shocking grasp, ray of enfeeblement, swift expeditious retreat
L2 - x8 Glitterdust, scorching ray, Ghoul touch, hideous laughter
L3 - x8 Fireball DC24, fly, vampiric touch, slow
L4 - x8 Bestow curse, celerity, confusion, crushing despair
L5 - x7 Reciprocal gyre, arc of lightning DC26, dismissal, teleport
L6 - x7 Contingency, flesh to stone DC26, probe thoughts, quickened glitterdust DC26
L7 - x7 Quickened fireball DC28, plane shift, mass hold person DC27, Stun ray DC27
L8 - x6 Horrid wilting DC29, plague, chain dispel+18
L9 - x3 Meteor swarm DC30
EQUIPMENT Ring of Protection+5, robe of the evil archmagi, Khreeshan's Skull, Contingency bone, Scroll of Discern Location, Scroll of Greater Scrying, Golden Crown of Command (+4 charisma, amplify/deepen voice at will, mass suggestion 1/day)
Ahiravan's skeletal dire vulture, which was destroyed by Rexxar in the skies above Daln
CR15 Ahiravan's Advanced Ravenous Skeletal Dire Vulture - Large Undead Animal 6, Ghostwalker10
HP140 Initiative+5 Speed-20(4),F80(16,average) AC25(T14,FF20)
Bite+26/+21/+16 (2d6+10) Abilities24,20,-,4,14,6 Saves+10+13+16
ASQ Stench (creatures within 20 feet must DC20 fortitude or be sickened d6 rounds),
Painful reckoning+10 (attack, damage, AC increase against recurring foes),
Half damage from slashing or piercing, fast healing 3, improved grab+25(2d6+16 per grapple check)
Greater dispel magic 1/day (caster level 16), flyby attack, hunger(DC15 Will or must feed after a kill)
Darkvision, scent, anonymity reliance, track, endurance, feign death (10 minutes, 1/day),
Ominous shadow (reduces the treasure by half, increases CR of all encounters by three,
and prevents the earning of experience while circling over the heads of player characters)
Etherealness(3/day, 10 rounds), Shadow walk (mile/minute for up to 10 hours, 3/day, heals 30 hp)
Immunities - cold, disease, paralysis, poison, sleep, stunning, subdual damage, ability damage, fatigue
PSQ resolute aura+5, superior iron will, natural perceiver+4, natural survivor+4, alertness, toughness