Eberron's Daelkyr Lords

[Revweiler]

Now that I finally have some free time, I'm DMing an Eberron game for some friends. I'm personally a fan of the Daelkyr, so their Inquisitive characters are eventually going to be pitted up against one when he tries to stage an invasion of the Material Plane.

One thing I really like about the Daelkyr is the sense of aesthetics, with the different Lords preferring their creations to look different. In our Savage Tide game, I changed up the AP a bit and had them fight a watered down version of one, "The Lord of Teeth".

My question is twofold, really:
1. What are some tooth based Aberrations, Magical Beasts, etc.? So far I've got Gibbering Mouthers, Tooth Beasts, Fang Golems, and I've hinted at him being the progenitor of other creatures like Fang Dragons and Vampires. Other than those, I'm sort of at a loss.

2. Anyone else had any good ideas for a Daelkyr Lord's sense of "style"?

[GreenSerpent]

I have a Daelkyr Half-Blood character who was born because of proximity to a Daelkyr called The Suffering.

His particular "quirk" was to capture people, fleshwarp them into abominations but leave their minds intact and their bodies in constant agony so they went insane. He'd then use a combination of brainwashing and Voidmind techniques to force them to worship him as a god. Very nasty as they aren't being compelled to do whatever he tells them - they do it because if they die in the execution of their duties they're freed from the agony.

There was also The Lord of Crystals (quirk was attempting to transmute people's minds into forms comprised of dragonshards... a lot of half-living-half-crystal monstrosities), The Weaponer of Khyber (focused on fusing weapons in place of limbs on humanoids, also likes making intelligent golems that can be Dominated in a quest to build the perfect fighting machine), The Eclipse (likes making shadow creatures as infiltrators and defenses, especially Umbral Bayans, and a particularly malevolent one overall), and finally The Lord of Radiance (an oddity - a Chaotic Good Sanctified Daelkyr who decided to devote their fleshwarping abilities for good instead of evil, specialises in making people more like celestials).

[Revweiler]

Ooooh, hadn't thought about them like that before. Really liking the dragonshard angle in particular- hadn't even crossed my mind to incorporate.

[Man on Fire]

I may not help too much on crunch, btu there are twoo fluffly bits that jumped into my mind when you said "Lord of the Teeth"
1) This Gentleman (http://digboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/corinthian.jpg).
2) one of stories in Orphan's Tales. I'll detail it in spoiler:

There were once a marriage of rich land owner and his beautiful wife. One day land owner got struck by uncontrolable hunger that would not vanish, no matter how much would he eat. He would force his servants to give him all food from the harvests and their animals an his wife send to her family to give them various kinds of animals, hoping something will finally atisfy his hunger. So he ate elephants, tigers, sharks and all he could get his hands on. He would eat them up to the tiniest bone. The only thing that was left after his meal were teeth which he couldn't digest. so he had put them into the corner of dinning room. But despite mountain of teeth slowly raising in the corner, the hunger didn't want to go away. Finally his wife offered him to eat her hands, which had stopepd the hunger. the man made new hands, from wicker and for some time it looked like everything is back to normal. But then hunger returned. Soon after the wife has given her husband more and more of her body to eat, and he had replaced them with wicker. But each time hunger was going away for shorter pieroids of time. Finally it came to it the man had ate last part of his wife. He cried and replaced it with wicker. Then he took her teeth and he climbed the mountain of teeth of all kinds of animals, and he threw them into it.
And i nthat moment the teeth came to life and became a horrible monster build only from teeth, who had eaten his creator and then his entire land, everything sans wicker woman, which he felt was like sister to him.

it had happened that this monster had come to a rich and beautiful city. Which he then ate, entire district, one by one. And what he ate had become a shadow, a ghost of sorts. Eaten city has become a travelling ghost, populated by horribly transformed citizens, who kidnap the children to serve them.


I don't know how somethign like this would look like in stats, but it would be cool opponent anyway.

[Revweiler]

1. Ew. Teeth for eyes will never cease to creep me out. Which makes it perfect for this.

2. I... may just have to use that somewhere down the line. Just a giant golem made of all sorts of teeth. Or maybe a swarm of undead...

[Big Fau]

The Tooth Beast, from ToM.

There's also Father Lymic (Elder Evils), he may not fit the tooth theme but his adaptation section specifically mentions he is a daelkyr if you use him in Eberron.

[Gildedragon]

Style: Look at dalhver nar, he's pretty toothsome
Refluff teeth of dalhver nar (dalhver nar) to be mind control-y daelkyr gizmos.
Boost DN's abilities some and you can have a decent daelkyr

[Man on Fire]

1. Ew. Teeth for eyes will never cease to creep me out. Which makes it perfect for this.

He also has interesting gimmick in the comic (correct me people if I got this wrong) that he can take dead person's eyes and put them into his eye-teeths, which allows him to experience dead person's entire life (or were it just last few days?). It might be useful.

[Revweiler]

All of this is exceedingly helpful, guys. Thanks a bunch! Admittedly, when I had him appear in Savage Tide (I expanded on the little blurb about Tlaloc's Tear sundering the border between planes and such and used that to explain the sudden Daelkyr invasion, but the Lord of Teeth was rather unlucky and got stranded near the Tear and spent centuries trying to deactivate it), I delved into the Tome of Magic long enough to snag Tooth Beast stats, but I didn't linger too long to read anything about DN or his teeth items, so I'm definitely gonna take another look at that.

And I still need to read through my copy of Elder Evils- I've never had a reason to put one in a game before. But with that info on Father Lymic, that's gonna change soon.