Fantasy NPC: King Hoarfrost, Tyrant Of The Hoarbound Vale

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King Hoarfrost, Tyrant Of The Hoarbound Vale

The king is tall and disproportionately wide, with cold blue skin and long sparkly white hair. Like his children, he wears opalescent robes, though his reveal a suit of complex armor beneath.

CR 8; 1,600 XP

LE Large Fey

Init +6; Senses low-light vision; Perception +23

Defense
AC 21, touch 14, flat-footed 19 (+7 armor, +3 deflection, +2 Dex, –1 size)
hp 99 (18d6+36); regeneration 30 (special)
Fort +10, Ref +13, Will +13

Defensive Abilities divine pretender, winterborn; DR 10/cold iron and magic; Immune cold, death, disease, poison; Resist acid 20, electricity 20, fire 20, sonic 20

Offense
Speed 30 ft. (20 ft. in armor)

Melee scepter of frost +15/+10 (2d6+7 plus 1d6 cold)

Ranged icicle spear +11 (2d6+7 plus 1d6 cold)

Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.

Special Attacks unleash the wrath of mountains

Statistics
Str 22, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 15, Wis 15, Cha 15

Base Atk +9; CMB +10; CMD 38
Feats Blind-Fight, Combat Reflexes, Defensive Combat Training, Diehard, Endurance, Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Skill Focus (Intimidation)

Skills Intimidation +26, Knowledge (nature) +23, Knowledge (nobility) +20, Knowledge (religion) +20, Perception +23, Ride +16*, Survival +20, Swim +23*; * –4 armor check penalty included

Language Aklo, Aquan, Auran, Common, Ignan, Infernal, Sylvan

Divine Pretender (Ex and Su) King Hoarfrost taps the forced reverence he squeezes out of the denizens of the Hoarbound Vale into a degree of immortality. As long as the festivities in his honor continue and a year and a day thereafter, he is immune to death effects and his regeneration can only be suppressed with damage inflicted by a person bearing both of blessing of winter prince and blessing of winter princess.

Unleash The Wrath Of Mountains (Su) When standing on a mountain side or a mountain top, king Hoarfrost can spend at least 10 minutes invoking powers of ice, snow, and mountains and cause an avalanche, snowstorm, or a blizzard to strike anywhere within his line of sight. If he takes at least 1 hour the effects can extend to cause intense snowfall over whole Hoarbound Vale or trigger multiple avalanches.

Winterborn (Ex) King Hoarfrost ignores detrimental effects of winter weather, such as cold temperature, slippery ice, snowdrifts, and freezing wind. He can swim in almost freezing water without ill effects. If he desires so, water freezes under her feet allowing her to effectively walk on newly formed ice. He can eat and drink but can actually live without sustenance for at least a season.

Notable Gear scepter of frost (Large +1 frost heavy mace, that he can call into his hand as a swift action), icicle javelin (Large +1 frost javelin, that he can call into his hand as a swift action), royal armor (Large +1 steel lamellar armor, that he can call onto himself as a swift action)

King Hoarfrost is a cruel and selfish fey lord that came one day to the land now known as Hoarbound Vale and subjugated the denizens with threats of catastrophic blizzards and avalanches, and hordes of minor fey and spirits of mountains and ice. Now, the vale remains trapped in endless winter and its people are forced to maintain an endless cycle of winter festivals in the honor of their wanna-be deity.

King Hoarfrost cares little for his subjects seeing them as a mere cogs in a machinery of his divine ascent—mortals are petty beings with no purpose beyond being tools and pets for the fey lords and deities to his egocentric mind. He doesn't treat lesser fey or spirits that much better, though he does accepts that they have at least their own desires and plans that he might let them indulge... As long as they serve him. He won't ever admit it even before himself, but he is scared snowless of mightier fey, dragons, and outsiders, especially those with power over cold and winter season. If ever faced with one, he will try to maintain a façade of cordial kinship while desperately trying to get them leave his domain.

As for his children, prince Shinwhite Snowflake and princess Icicle Blues, he seems to show them a otherwise unseen degree of leniency and affectation as long as they play the role in his story that he intended for them to have—mostly secondary witnesses to his greatness, with an occasional bout of harmless rebellion. He doesn't really love them, though—he only loves the reflection of his own greatness that he sees in his personal creation, and if they ever truly threaten his existence or his reign, he will be willing to destroy them and make new children.