Fantasy NPC: Gleihtraggleiht, The Demon-In-Law

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Gleihtraggleiht, The Demon-In-Law

A slightly luminescent and vaguely dragon-shaped cloud moves through the air.

CR 5; 1,600 XP

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

Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +10

Defense
AC 18, touch 18, flat-footed 14 (+4 deflection, +4 Dex)
hp 45 (6d10+12)
Fort +4, Ref +9, Will +8

Defensive Abilities incorporeal, twisted words; Immune electricity, poison; Resist acid 10, cold 10, fire 10

Offense
Speed fly 30 ft. (perfect)

Melee 4 incorporeal claws +10 (2d4)

Space 5 ft.; Reach 10 ft.

Special Attacks wait in shadows (DC 16)

Statistics
Str —, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 17, Wis 13, Cha 19

Base Atk +6; CMB +10; CMD 24
Feats Combat Reflexes, Iron Will, Skill Focus (Profession [barrister])

Skills Bluff +13, Fly +21, Diplomacy +13, Intimidate +13, Knowledge (nobility) +15, Knowledge (planes) +15, Perception +10, Profession (barrister) +16, Sense Motive +10, Stealth +4 

Language Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Infernal; limited telepathy

SQ academic training

Academic Training (Ex) Gleihtraggleiht adds half his HD to all Knowledge checks and all intellectual-focused Profession checks (such as barrister, librarian, or scribe). He can make any such checks untrained.

Twisted Words (Su) Gleihtraggleiht has supreme command of his own understanding of words and how to twist them. He gains +4 bonus to saving throws against language-based effects and to opposed Charisma checks when charmed or compelled. He can lie undetectably despite magical effects of 6th or lower level that should discern or prevent lies.

Wait In Shadows (Su) As a standard action, Gleihtraggleiht can merge with shadow of a mortal being that conjured him, or with shadow of any other mortal that it can touch, and, at the time of merging, is involved in some meaningful way in a legal process, civil or criminal (including but not limited to lawyers or all sorts, judge, bailiff, witness, accuser or accused, sides in civil proceedings, etc.). This is a variant form of possession and can be affected as such. While in this state, Gleihtraggleiht shares his twisted words ability with the owner of the shadow he inhabits and can communicate telepathically with his host. He can allow the host to use any of his skill bonuses instead of the host's own values. Gleihtraggleiht can emerge from a shadow he is merged with as a part of his move. If two shadows overlap he can slip between them without need for leaving the first one as a full-round action.

Gleihtraggleiht was a mortal barrister, long ago. While he was good at his job, he never was truly great, always in shadow of better lawyers, particularly the one unsurpassed Lamarquand Till... Who managed to remain his superior even despite his death.

Never a particularly scrupulous individual, nor allowing the morals or ethics stand in the way of his advancement or profits, Gleihtraggleiht decided to pursue a darker threads of his family's past, revealing an admixture of fiendish blood within his very own veins. Intrigued, he dug deeper into the blasphemous secrets. He pursued the mystic practices involved, perverting law and justice by having multiple innocent people executed for crimes they did not committed, culminating in a grand rite... That consumed his body and twisted what was left of his soul into a spirit of corruption. Not exactly what Gleihtraggleiht hoped for initially, but he adapted to his new existence, hoping to face against his old nemeses and destroy them in courts, both figuratively and literally.