Category:Grisgol
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A grisgol is a powerful magical construct composed of various used up and destroyed magic items, especially scrolls with various blasphemous incantations put upon them. (Reading these scrolls after the grisgol's death can cause a mad obsession with deciphering the scrolls' natures.) A grisgol's animating force is the spirit of a lich trapped in its phylactery. Thus, in a sense, grisgols is a lich prison crafted by another spellcaster.[1]
Grisgols have a number of special abilities, some of which emulate their lich predecessors. A grisgol has spell-like abilities chosen by its creator, but they are divine spells or arcane spells depending upon whether the lich was a divine spellcaster or arcane spellcaster. In addition, the touch of a grisgol can cause paralysis, just like a lich. Unlike a lich, a grisgol gives off a choking mold every time it is struck in combat, which passes on the disease known as slimy doom.[1]
Grisgols also have some characteristics of golems. Grisgols are mindless and immune to all magic that allows spell resistance.[1]
Descriptive Text
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Standing next to the dread Phantom's Bane was a creature which we took at first to be a mummy, as it appeared to be a human frame wrapped in what appeared to be long rolls of cloth.
"I have no more time to entertain you," the lich said in its inhuman whisper. "I leave you with my good friend the Red Hand. At one time he and I were enemies, but I won him over at last, and he has served me well. I hope our own relationship follows the same course, Master Van Richten. Adieu."
What that the image of the lich flickered and disappeared--its presence had been merely illusionary! As it did so the "mummy" strode forward, and I could see it was actually a creation of metal rods, crystals, and wood, bound in papyri on which I seemed to see blasphemous arcana of great power written...
-Working notes for Van Richten's Guide to the Lich[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Monster Manual III p. 76-77
- ↑ Descriptive text from John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (contributed by Nathan Okerlund), from posts on the Fraternity of Shadows message board.
