Planar NPC: Curator Of The Crossroads

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Curator Of The Crossroads

A man-shaped construct, wearing official-looking, if slightly tattered robes.

CR 15/MR 7; XP 51,200
N Medium Construct (mythic)
Init +14; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, lifesight 60 ft., planar sight, true seeing; Perception +30

Defense
AC 30, touch 18, flat-footed 27 (+5 deflection, +3 Dex, +12 natural)
hp 226 (21d10+111); fast healing 20
Fort +15, Ref +15, Will +15
Defensive Abilities fortification, protection protocols; DR 20/—; Immune construct traits; Resist acid 20, cold 20, electricity 20, fire 20, sonic 20; SR 30

Offense
Speed 30 ft.
Ranged 2 disintegrating beams +24 touch (10d6, 19–20/×2)
Special Attacks disintegrating beams, mythic power (7/day, 1d8), prison plane
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 20th, concentration +23)
Constant—tongues, true seeing
At Will—greater dispel magic, greater teleport (self and 50 lbs of gear, only within the boundaries of The Crossroads)

Statistics
Str 16, Dex 16, Con —, Int 17, Wis 17, Cha 17
Base Atk +21; CMB +24; CMD 42
Feats Combat Casting, Critical Focus, Extra Mythic Power, Improved Critical (disintegrating beam), Improved Initiative^M, Skill Focus (Knowledge [arcana]), Skill Focus (Knowledge [planes]), Skill Focus (Knowledge [religion]), Skill Focus (Perception)^M, Skill Focus (Sense Motive)^M
Skills Knowledge (arcana) +30, Knowledge (planes) +30, Knowledge (religion) +30, Perception +30, Sense Motive +30
Language Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Infernal, Protean; tongues
SQ planar sight

Disintegrating Beams (Ex) The Curator can project beams of destructive energy from its eyes, firing single beam as a standard action, or two beams as a full round action, without provoking attacks of opportunity. Each beam is a ranged touch attack with range of 60 feet and no range increment that deals 10d6 points of damage. Any creature or object reduced to 0 or less hit points is disintegrated, leaving only a handful of dust that is quickly dispersed by the Crossroad's winds. The Curator's disintegrating beams suppress all forms of regeneration that can be suppressed by a specific type of damage. The Curator can spend one use of its mythic power when firing disintegrating beams to turn them into 60 feet lines, affecting everything they pass through, except the Crossroad's permanent constructions. Disintegrating beams count as disintegration spell for purpose of interacting with other effects.

Planar Sight (Su) The Curator can immediately recognize what alignment, elemental, and racial subtypes Outsiders possess, as soon, as it can see them. It can also recognize home plane of each creature it sees. While it might not be able to tell much about more obscure planes, it can still identify other creatures from the same world.

Pocket Prison (Su) The Curator can spend one use of mythic power to banish touched bound or helpless creature to a pocket demiplane anchored to the Crossroads. The demiplane will always be capable of supporting the creature banished, though not necessarily comfortable, and filled with a permanent dimensional lock. It exact composition will reflect on the nature of the trapped subject, the cause for the banishment, or its circumstances. Each pocket prison contains a way that will allow its prisoner to escape, though it might take form of a lesson, demand for sacrifice, or taking steps to change own nature. The victim might also be released by the Curator, or by finding the linchpin anchoring the demiplane to the Crossroads. The pocket prison lasts as long as the subject remains trapped within, though there are rumors of pocket prisons lasting after they were abandoned.

Protection Protocols (Ex) The Curator has permanent +5 deflection bonus to AC and +5 resistance bonus to all saving throws. When an effect allows a saving throw for half damage or partial effects, the Curator suffers no effects whatsoever on success.


The Curator is an overseer and a keeper of the Crossroads—a eclectic settlement that grew at a transplanar nexus where multiple Lower Planes entangle. The Curator is mostly focused on maintaining the existence of the Crossroads and protecting it from falling under direct control of any of the fiendish lords and deities. Those who get to meet the Curator are often surprised by shows of dry wit, unexpected for a construct, and certain predisposition for accepting gifts and bribes for favors or exemptions—though never ones that would threaten the Crossroads.

What is even more surprising to some, the Curator can be occasionally seen doing simple menial jobs, dusting, cleaning. Always in different parts of the Crossroads than ghenso laborers maintaining and repairing the buildings.