Fantasy NPC: Visseyen The Helpful

You can now support Shaper Of Worlds on Patreon.

Visseyen The Helpful

A slightly hunched old man, bald, but with a fancy, colorful moustache and beard, and equally colorful, eye-catching clothing.

CR 4; 1,200 XP

CE Medium Outsider (chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar)

Init +6; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +15

Defense
AC 17, touch 14, flat-footed 13 (+2 Dex, +2 insight, +3 natural)
hp 39 (6d10+6); fast healing 3
Fort +3, Ref +9, Will +7

Defensive Abilities foresight, undetectable alignment; DR 10/cold iron or good; Immune electricity, poison; Resist acid 10, cold 10, fire 10

Offense
Speed 30 ft.

Melee 2 claws +8 (1d6+2) or quarterstaff +8/+3 (1d6+3)

Special Attacks menacing double, sneak attack 1d6

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 6th, concentration +9)

Constant—foresight, undetectable alignment

At Will—identify, prestidigitation, true strike

Statistics
Str 14, Dex 14, Con 12, Int 15, Wis 15, Cha 17
Base Atk +6; CMB +8; CMD 22
Feats Dirty Fighting, Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative

Skills Bluff +16, Heal +11, Knowledge (arcana) +11, Knowledge (religion) +11, Perception +15, Profession (soothsayer) +11, Sense Motive +15, Spellcraft +11; Racial Modifiers +4 Bluff, +4 Perception, +4 Sense Motive
Language Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Infernal; telepathy 100 ft.

SQ change shape (an elderly Medium humanoid with hair dyed in multiple colors, alter self), false divination, juicy gossip

False Divination (Su) Visseyen can naturally spoof casting divination spells and rituals by going replicating the words, the motions, and requisite magical auras.

Juicy Gossip (Su) Visseyen telepathically overhears local gossip, allowing them to make Knowledge (local) untrained, gaining +2 bonus to the checks for each day spend in a settled areas (be it an actual settlement, an extended household, or a castle, as long as it is inhabited by socially active sapient beings), to a maximum +14 bonus after one week. The bonus resets to zero after a week away from the settlement.

Menacing Double (Su) As a swift action, Visseyen can create a semi-real illusion of themselves occupying a square within 60 feet that threatens adjacent squares. Visseyen can deliver attacks of opportunity through their double, and flank enemies by themselves. As a standard action, they can vanish in a puff of smoke, teleporting themselves to replace their double.

Visseyen The Helpful is an unbound demon that travels the Material Plane posing as a variety of itinerant diviners, soothsayers, prophets, and seers. Always appearing as an elderly person, they offer advice, auguries, and prophecies, usually false, designed to promote mortals to perform petty acts of evil and chaos under the guise of deflecting bad luck and attention of evil spirits on others—though when the right opportunities occur, Visseyen gladly talks their client into committing serious sins and crimes.

Visseyen is sort of patient for a demon, sometimes manipulating their victims for an extended periods of time—either as a local soothsayer, or placing themselves in employment of people that interest him, though rarely having actual long-term plans, instead reacting to circumstances and grasping at opportunities as they appear.

In their true form, Visseyen appears to be a wrinkled, sexless humanoid with clawed hands, and colorful hair, though the colors vary wildly between forms and appearances.