3.5e Vestiges

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Binder Vestiges

Name	Level	Binding DC	Description
"Smith", the Spymaster	1st	16	A spymaster so good at concealing his identity he forgot himself.
Aion of the Everstorm	8th	30	A scientist who sought to change the past by traveling through the Temporal Energy Plane, only to go too far and slip out of time and space altogether.
Anomy, the Unborn Despair	1st	16	An echo of a nightmare remained, unable to exist but unwilling to let go. It formed into the ghost of a fiend-to-be, not even possessing a body but carried within the hearts of all those who have rejected hope utterly.
Ashla, the Illuminated Force	3rd	20	A powerful supernatural martial artist from ancient times, he embraced power through peace and tranquility. He grants his binder the ability to use telekinetic power, detect danger to themselves and allies, charm creatures to their cause, deflect projectiles, and wield a magic blade.
Bariak the Burned	4th	21	A barbarian who was burned returns to assist binders.
Bathroom Troll, the Filth-Licker	1st	15	This vestige grants you dominion over disgusting things.
Baz-Tien the Eternal Sleeper	4th	21	The monk Baz-Tien sought enlightenment through dreams, but encountered a rather infectious, insidious dream from beyond the pale and never awoke again.
Belarpithorpe, the Deceived	3	0	An illusionist who found that a world of phantasms was preferable to painful truths.
Bergram, the Swine Prince	2nd	18	The mauled corpse of a pig, made into a powerful spirit.
Biblos, the Missing Page	1st	15	Biblos was an ancient wizard who managed to entrap himself within his own library. The library was lost, but his book, and he, persists somewhere with the knowledge of a now-dead universe. Biblos grants you the ability to read any text, memorize any event, make any knowledge check, divine the future and past, and harm with a word.
Biokaryota, the Blooming Growth	5th	28	A being who grew too much too fast until it outgrew its universe.
Bogan, the Tumultuous Force	3rd	20	A dangerous supernatural martial artist from ancient times, he embraced power through intense emotion and fury. He grants his binder the ability to use telekinetic power, shoot lightning, cloak their intentions, deflect projectiles, and wield a magic blade.
Calethet, the Burning Calm	3	15	A devil who fused with his burning armor. He knows that misfortune is just a part of the world.
Cenobites of the Rail	3rd	20	Adherents of the Infernal Train and passengers on the realm to oblivion, the Cenobites of the Rail spread their dark gospel of the peace of the void.
Consumption the Everwyrm	8th	30	Known as Phizbirro in his mortal life, the demon possessing him, Consumption, was reborn, but lost in time and space.
Crying Owl the Wroth	5th	23	Crying Owl is the vestige of a brutal and vengeful killer who, even in death, persists to haunt the world as a vestige. She is the spirit of murder, revenge, parricide, and pent-up rage. She grants the ability to use Death Attack as an assassin, the ability to deal bleeding wounds, and a supernatural ability to always be right behind her victims every step.
Curse Eater Quelaan	4th	21	The demigoddess Quelaan had taken pity on the mortals who suffered around her, and drew their suffering into herself. It freed her kin, but condemned her to a slow death. Yet the grateful populace would not forget and her memory persisted after she left the mortal coil.
Dadorabaal the Unmoving	6th	25	Legends tell of a brave paladin who protected his castle and kingdom from the forces of darkness. This paladin endured a brutal assault for 40 days and 40 nights until at last the tidal wave of evil was routed, but at the loss of the paladin.
Dark Cloud of the Void	8th	31	The ancient evil that is the Dark Cloud of the Void can be channeled through the fool who once bound her.
Deludere, the Ghost Fox	1st	15	Deludere is the lost spirit of a kitsune who delved too deep into illusions, and became unreal himself.
Drop of Deep Violet	1st	15	A rare case of an non-sentient vestige, this object nevertheless retains a spark of its former power when it was once a tool to channel the elder evil Y'chak. This jewel is sought for by many, but is said to bring curses.
Eiros, Entity of Strife	7th	25	Some binders only want to see the world burn. So does Eiros.
Eleonor, the Archelf	5th	20	Eleonor the Archelf grants powerful elvish abilities to anyone who bind her.
Esko the Drowning One	4th	21	The lost spirit of a drowned female who brings her drowning touch of terror to all that gaze upon her.
Exodus of NOPE	5th	22	In a single night, an entire nation raptured themselves out of existence after witnessing something so dreadful, their sheer disgust made them leave existence completely.
Faith, Psychopomp of Claverdown	5th	26	Faith was an optimistic cleric from the corrupt urban sprawl of Claverdown; however, when she was afflicted by a curse, she was forced into exile, where she found death, life, and vestigedom.
Father Krampus, the Shadow of Nikolaus	7th	30	A vestige related to the lost festivity of Mid Winter, when people came together to share presents.
Fourfold Experts of the Infinite	5th	21	Four expert hirelings had been tasked by a mad artificer to perform a strange ritual. Within an instant he commited suicide and the hirelings discovered infinite pain. Though the fate of the artificer and their hirelings is not clearly known, with some saying that at that moment the artificer was "crushed by rocks and died anyway", the hirelings had somehow exceeded the bounds of their universe and its mathematical limitations becoming a vestige.
Hao Tian Chen, Clear Sky Heavenly Demon	8th	35	A legendary blacksmith who stands in Heaven, his fierce demeanour makes Gods reverent and his mighthy strength disperses the very clouds.
He of Jealousy	5th	27	He of Jealousy, god on high, decided that he would not be forgotten by history by becoming a god of conquest and unchanging dogma. But it is a fools quest, and entropy and change consumes us all.
Idar, the Doom Scholar	8th	30	The lost soul of a tragic hero who disappeared in the crisis that shook Cimmeria.
Jack of the Lantern, the Drunk Liar	4th	21	A vestige that guides you through use of trickery and a scary turnip
KaZor, the Reverse Force	6th	28	A maddened time traveler who accidentally erased himself from the space-time continuum.
Kaiton, Ethereal Trickster	4th	21	Tales speak of an arrogant trickster fox who, for making a fool of a God, was utterly destroyed, yet his unresting spirit still torments the God's realm.
King of Card Games Akhenaten	1st	18	A legendary pharaoh of ancient times who bound monsters into cards, he found himself entrapped in the process of sealing the most vicious of fiends, yet his image can be summon and bound by one who knows the right means.
La Llorona, the Drowned Maid	6th	26	The haunting specter of a betrayed lover and a caring mother.
Left Hand of Darkness	7th	30	An ancient conqueror born from the darkness of the abyss, he betrayed his brethren for the sake of humanity and sealed away his brother. However the seals began to weaken, and so he set out on a quest to ensure their safety but was never seen again.
Legion of 5000	6th	25	The 5000 was a supposedly group of 5000 demons among the uncountable armies which took on Philomactous the swordsman in his final battle. The power he released rips him from reality, and he took the 5000 with him into his journey into the void of non-existence.
Manny Green, the Twisted Tycoon	5th	35	A wicked and corrupt CEO of a pharmaceutical company who sought to obtain a monopoly on supernatural healing by assassinating clerics and paladins, especially the owner of the Healer's Necklace, which he sought to have for himself; his murderous behavior eventually earned him an asploded head, but his greed, hatred, and sheer determination to take what he desired by any means necessary caused a piece of him to cling to the world of the living even as his soul was shipped directly to Hell.
Mareyye Cuu	8th	40	Mareyyye Cuu was once a mortal who seemed to embody perfection
Master of the Living Light	6th	25	The Master of the Living Light was either the title of a great wizard, his creation, or some eldritch and unknown entity this wizard worshiped. The wizard was known to have weaved great miracles and even produced life, yet his fate is a mystery. Only his obscure creations remain.
Melusine, the Oroboros of Time	6th	25	Banished from history by her own hand, Melusine persists as a vestige in a constant struggle to change the future.
Mezmorrias	1st	15	A luminous leader glowing in the darkness. A breath of fog.
Mezmorrias, Greater Pact	3rd	15	A stronger pact with The Luminant Breath.
Nachash, the Crawling Serpent	4th	21	Once a lizard, it was cursed by a deity to crawl upon its belly for its crime of corrupting the plans of the divine. Now Nachash lurks, manipulating and twisting the whims of deities the world over.
Nihilith the Endless End	8th	35	A paradox of a god which exists and yet does not, it blurs the border between vestige and deity, confusing binders and clerics alike as the ultimate herodoxy.
Nikolaas, The Laughing Saint	7th	30	Legends tell of a man so generous and kind, he wished to give his gifts to all the world. Such would be impossible, though, as the world is a big place. But it's said that his will was so strong that when he died, he continued to persist in the minds and hearts of people everywhere, and every so often he returns to grant joy to the world. You gain the ability to teleport at will, store a great deal in your bag, fit through tiny spaces, resist damage, detect alignments, speak to any creature, sneak around, and punish the naughty with coal.
Optica, Lord of Eyes	1st	13	A being who had an unhealthy obsession with eyesight in life, it grants you improved eyesight as a vestige.
Ossesous Cleanly Drox	3	14	Clean the world of filth
Pan Tzu, Scholar of Iniquity	2nd	0	Once an ordinary salaryman plagued by perverted thoughts, it is rumored that he remained a virgin until the age of 30 and was rewarded with ultimate wizardly power.
Pants, the Guardian of God's Junk	1st	15	It must be true, before you is the legendary pants of the gods. Wear it with style.
Philomactous the Forbidden Disciple	5th	23	A battle scholar who sought to learn all disciplines, he succeeded in a sense. But some disciplines were not meant to be handled by the limitations of mere human frames...
Phizbirro the Blasphemous	2nd	17	There once was an infamous case of a man possessed by demons. He sowed chaos and discord amongst his fellow man, and in the attempt to exorcise him, he and those nearby were thrown out from reality to an unknown fate.
Phos, The First and Last Light	1st	15	A single flash of light in the darkness, lost in a timeless plane, the strange nature of its existence in a non-existent world gave it a strange purpose of its own.
Pinhound the Creeping Dark	1st	15	An urban legend that went out of control, Pinhound was a stalker and killer who was lost in his hunt, and now wanders a place out of time and space.
Poros the Watchful Eye	5th	23	The burning gaze of Poros sees all, knows all, and filters some of its knowledge to your mortal mind.
Raps, Guardian of the Diamond Crown	4th	21	The loyal guardian of the queen of diamonds, this fiendish ice knight's loyalty transcended past death in the form of a shade of its former being.
Right Hand of Darkness	7th	35	An ancient conqueror born from the darkness of the abyss, he was betrayed by his brethren and sealed away. However his malice continues to seep into the world and he intends to finish what he had started.
Roué the Deathwheel	3rd	20	Said to be the undying memories of a god of torture and death, its vestige now seeks to bring suffering and death from beyond reality itself.
Royce, Frozen Crusader	7th	22	Royce was a knightess who sought the power to end the eternal winter that afflicted her land; instead, she was lost to the blizzard and never found her way back.
Saintclair of the Manifold Curses	1st	A person so cursed by vestiges and personal misfortune, she became that which she most hated.
Sandman, the Guardian of Somnium	5th	25	Gain the mastery of dreams and sleep with the help of this vestige
Saul, Guardian of Binders	2nd	15	The lover of Tasmin Cutterbuck, who sacrificed himself to protect her from witch slayers. He has lingered on as a vestige so he could remain with her even after his death.
Sawnik	5th	22	A mystic animal which moves fast
Shift the Inevitable Justice	5th	23	Shift the Inevitable Justice, also know as Shift the Indictor, is or was an inevitable of great renown, and stories tell that one day he will arrive to defeat chaos itself.
Sibyl, the Unblinking Abyss	3rd	20	They say when one looks into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you. For one unfortunate oracle, she found herself unable to look away no matter how far she fled, right until she fled out of the world itself.
Sol-Eiji the Lunatic Sun	6th	25	The insane sun god Lord Eiji has taken many forms, but in the distant past he once was a being monstrous. This image was shed and forgotten, but the deific spark never left, becoming something terrible.
Sombrero, the Day of the Dead	1st	15	A vestige born from festivities for the dead.
Terios the Controller of Chaos	5th	23	Born to conquer the chaotic planes from the greatest scientific minds Mechanus had to offer, Terios took on the power of chaos... and lost. Or, did he?
Tezra the Sterilizing Starlight	1st	15	One of the great scholars of another world and sworn enemy of Biokaryota, this scientist attempted to slay the pinnacle of life but in the end only sowed her own death.
The Black Beast of Chaos	5th	23	The beast of an apocalypse foretold, its reign was denied yet it shall one day have its revenge.
The Bonedrinker	4th	21	A cannibalistic fey who went on a murderous spree before dying an ironic death, the legend of his slaughter bore a dreadful visage in the shape of the stories told.
The Cloven Soul	8th	30	The punished spirit of an evil king, the cloven soul grants you the power to split into two while leaving your body behind.
The Entombed Soulmaster	2nd	18	Long ago a king and his kingdom were subject to a dreadful curse, perhaps one of their own making. To survive he transformed himself and his people into the bodies of machines but found the cost of freedom from the curse perhaps too high to bear.
The Esoteric Stranger	2nd	20	A strange vestige, said to have been a dimensional traveler whose voyage led him or her astray in nonexistence.
The Rake, Crawling Nightmare	3rd	23	You summon the dreadful protagonist of a legend
The Salty One	1st	15	The Salty One, its original name long forgotten, was once a mortal who became so butt blasted, so rectally wrecked, so rear ravaged, that the sheer force of their impotent rage caused them to collapse on themselves and spilled their spaghetti right out of the universe.
The Scarlet Rogue	5th	25	The Scarlet Rogue was a popular cabaret character centuries ago, whether a real person originally or not. Now a vestige, she grants great power to whoever is worthy.
The Shadow	3rd	20	What if the shadow found out?
The Underkings	8th	30	Once three wise kings, the Underkings sought to repair an injustice done to their people and instead fell into the thrall of eldritch power.
The Unknown Man	4th	21	He lives in the walls, the dark chocolatier, bearing a great mirror and visage of fear. From where he came, nobody can tell. But he will turn your joy to a vision of hell.
The Vision	5th	18	A ancient being that grants the binder the ability to see very very well.
The Wanderer in the Dark	6th	25	In the depths of space, a gokiburi research station went missing. However, they say you can still hear the phantom transmissions of its occupants who were lost in the void of space.
Vaarnat, Speaker of Waste	7th	35	A vestige with the full power of the dark speech at its command.
Vay-Foo the Animaid	3	20	All maids are idealized in some way. Vay-Foo is just more idealized. She is best maid.
Victor Brauner, Painter of Ruin	8th	36	Victor Brauner was once an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, until a massive war claimed the lives of his daughters. Cursing the destructiveness of humanity, Brauner simultaneously became a vampire and embraced the power of the Art Flow, then used that power, along with the restless dead from another war, to summon the legendary Castlevania. Brauner then used it as his base of operations for a grandiose scheme to claim revenge against humanity, until he was put down by a pair of plucky heroes.
Whitechapel, the Blinded Truth	2nd	20	Those who poke around forbidden tomes and ancient evils usually end up dead or worse, and the wise leave such things well alone. One man was to be another of the unfortunate former group when equally unspoken forces spirited him away, but they left something behind...
Wrapsodi Skuttla, Malicious Potion-Maker	6th	27	The wife of Manny Green, whose very soul was crushed into powder in an attempt to avenge him that went horribly wrong. Of course, being crushed into powder does not equal being thoroughly obliterated, and so the fragments of Wrapsodi's soul still linger on, awaiting their chance to recombine and return to wreak havoc. In life, Wrapsodi was a malicious trickster who loved making others miserable for her own amusement; as a vestige, she grants incredible speed, alchemical talent, and a penchant for causing mayhem to binders crazy enough to make pacts with her.
Ymmadraugge	1st	15	"At first, we believed it a dragon made of obsidian. We made a mistake."
Yseam the Maintainer	8th	25	Hidden in the depths of space and time, an unfeeling analytical mind waits and watches. When its influence is felt upon the world, everything will be reset as it should be.
Yskayar, the Unmade Monk	2nd	20	A monk who was tricked into obliterating themselves from history, they have returned out of sheer rage and disgust and now seek to unmake everyone else. Yskayar grants the ability to fight as a monk, dispel effects, counterspell, nerf the abilities the others, and punish others on its death.
Ysmir, Scholar of the Forbidden	8th	28	Ysmir was an immortal scholar obsessed with the secret of life itself and later the secrets of The Source. His plot to bypass the final frontier led him to a fate worse than death, his knowledge passed on and became a vestige.