Thump
2012-10-06, 11:01 PM
So. I have an issue with my character. He's felt like he's been betrayed by his own god, which is in the spoiler below for an explanation. He's stuck between three things; madness, full-conversion, and falling (or rising, in this case.)
He's been an antipaladin of Asmodeus for what humans would consider a short time, about twenty or thirty years. For a bit of background, the demons had finally realized that simply assaulting the gates of Hell would not work, and that they needed something different. They began creating tieflings, one of which is my character, a half-demon tiefling. He escaped, after they found him "inferior", and he fled, eventually ending up in Hell. He was taken in by an interested greater devil, and raised as an antipaladin. On his mission to be promoted to what we could consider a Lieutenant, or a slightly-greater devil in their eyes, he was not told key information; he could not actually kill anything in the Paladinic temple.
This led to him being captured and placed in an extraplanar prison, along with the other party members, who were there for their own reasons.
Being Lawful Evil, he wasn't supposed to trust anyone there, and he had no real friends. However, he started losing his grip on that over the five years he was imprisoned. We broke out of the prison, and we landed in another world.
(Here's where it gets interesting.)
We decide to get ourselves on our feet and we begin to do bounty hunter work for the Strix. We landed conveniently near their capital, where humans were hunted as food. (None of us were human.) We went to the bounty office, and we found a bandit camp who had been causing trouble. Naturally, we took it.
We took the camp easily, but before that, our Strix rogue (one of the PCs) was struck by a major artifact, basically a super-Strix-dread arrow, where it cursed the entire family of the Strix struck to die in 6 months. We found out that it was none other than my character's god, Asmodeus, who in this setting, was also the PATRON GOD OF THE STRIX, who created the arrow and imbued it with the power to kill his own people.
The problem?
Well, the Strix originated from one egg. This meant that the entire bloody race would die in 6 months. Now, my character isn't sure, but he's fairly certain that this is some sort of deific crime.
No sooner after this was found out, there was multiple swarms of Hellwasps after him, trying to kill him.
Now, since there's this little problem that Asmodeus knows that my character is losing faith (He became Neutral Evil after these events), I'm likely to fall soon. The DM has brought up that if this happens, he can change his class levels (5 levels of antipaladin) to something more fitting. Now, I'm not certain what would happen.
Option A: He goes bat**** crazy. He loses his sanity (He has a loose grasp on it to begin with), and changes to something else. I'm not sure what fits, but he basically loses his marshal and antipaladin levels and changes them with something else.
His current stat array is 22 STR, 10 DEX, 14 CON, 10 INT, 8 WIS, 24 CHA with 5 levels of antipaladin and 1 level of marshal.
Option 2: He converts to a paladin, realizing he has hope in saving his friend and his race while exterminating the bastards who betrayed the deific laws.
Option 3: He falls. I'm not sure what will happen then, but he loses his (anti)paladinhood, and something happens that I'm not sure of.
For a short personality description, he's trusting and friendly, but utterly merciless and cruel to those who bring his wrath upon them. (He slit the throat of one of the party members who failed to CDG him in his sleep for a minor threat). He's got an ego so freaking large, and an evil aura so strong that the DM ruled it to actually be overwhelming. However, he's losing the merciless and cruel edge, as he starts being more trusting and friendly to his partymates.
What classes should I consider, and what should I do here, Playground? I'm not sure where to go with him, and I've spent most of my weekend thinking about this, and I'm stuck. Any help would be appreciated.
He's been an antipaladin of Asmodeus for what humans would consider a short time, about twenty or thirty years. For a bit of background, the demons had finally realized that simply assaulting the gates of Hell would not work, and that they needed something different. They began creating tieflings, one of which is my character, a half-demon tiefling. He escaped, after they found him "inferior", and he fled, eventually ending up in Hell. He was taken in by an interested greater devil, and raised as an antipaladin. On his mission to be promoted to what we could consider a Lieutenant, or a slightly-greater devil in their eyes, he was not told key information; he could not actually kill anything in the Paladinic temple.
This led to him being captured and placed in an extraplanar prison, along with the other party members, who were there for their own reasons.
Being Lawful Evil, he wasn't supposed to trust anyone there, and he had no real friends. However, he started losing his grip on that over the five years he was imprisoned. We broke out of the prison, and we landed in another world.
(Here's where it gets interesting.)
We decide to get ourselves on our feet and we begin to do bounty hunter work for the Strix. We landed conveniently near their capital, where humans were hunted as food. (None of us were human.) We went to the bounty office, and we found a bandit camp who had been causing trouble. Naturally, we took it.
We took the camp easily, but before that, our Strix rogue (one of the PCs) was struck by a major artifact, basically a super-Strix-dread arrow, where it cursed the entire family of the Strix struck to die in 6 months. We found out that it was none other than my character's god, Asmodeus, who in this setting, was also the PATRON GOD OF THE STRIX, who created the arrow and imbued it with the power to kill his own people.
The problem?
Well, the Strix originated from one egg. This meant that the entire bloody race would die in 6 months. Now, my character isn't sure, but he's fairly certain that this is some sort of deific crime.
No sooner after this was found out, there was multiple swarms of Hellwasps after him, trying to kill him.
Now, since there's this little problem that Asmodeus knows that my character is losing faith (He became Neutral Evil after these events), I'm likely to fall soon. The DM has brought up that if this happens, he can change his class levels (5 levels of antipaladin) to something more fitting. Now, I'm not certain what would happen.
Option A: He goes bat**** crazy. He loses his sanity (He has a loose grasp on it to begin with), and changes to something else. I'm not sure what fits, but he basically loses his marshal and antipaladin levels and changes them with something else.
His current stat array is 22 STR, 10 DEX, 14 CON, 10 INT, 8 WIS, 24 CHA with 5 levels of antipaladin and 1 level of marshal.
Option 2: He converts to a paladin, realizing he has hope in saving his friend and his race while exterminating the bastards who betrayed the deific laws.
Option 3: He falls. I'm not sure what will happen then, but he loses his (anti)paladinhood, and something happens that I'm not sure of.
For a short personality description, he's trusting and friendly, but utterly merciless and cruel to those who bring his wrath upon them. (He slit the throat of one of the party members who failed to CDG him in his sleep for a minor threat). He's got an ego so freaking large, and an evil aura so strong that the DM ruled it to actually be overwhelming. However, he's losing the merciless and cruel edge, as he starts being more trusting and friendly to his partymates.
What classes should I consider, and what should I do here, Playground? I'm not sure where to go with him, and I've spent most of my weekend thinking about this, and I'm stuck. Any help would be appreciated.