Ghostly Hauntings: Vilutar Tornia

LE female human ghost (in life, wizard 17)

Detecting Vilutar’s Presence: Vilutar searches for adventurers to help her, and is not tied to any one location. She favours lurking in laboratories, libraries and the studies of powerful mages. She mutters to herself incessantly, and adventurers likely first hear her before she comes into view. Depending on her apparent age when the characters encounter her she could be shuffling, walking or skipping. She is not initially hostile, but defends herself vigorously and fearlessly—after all, she knows she cannot die.

Wisps of glimmering multi-coloured mist swirl around the translucent figure of a woman. The woman’s visage changes—growing subtly older before your very eyes—as she approaches.

Vilutar hunts incessantly for an end to her cursed existence. A powerful wizard in life, Vilutar was on the cusp of discovering the secret to lichdom when old age claimed her. With her dying breath she cursed time itself, and time heard her. Now, trapped in a perpetual daily cycle of youth, middle-age and (temporary) death Vilutar is desperate to escape her predicament. She needs help, though, and woe betide any adventurer daring to refuse her demands for assistance.

Personality: Vilutar is arrogant and believes she can defeat time itself. Supremely powerful as a wizard she commands respect and obedience from all those she encounters. If she does not get what she desires, she flies into a terrible rage. For all that, though, Vilutar is a woman of her word. She offers great wealth and power to anyone who will retrieve certain objects she requires to “lift her curse immemorial.”

Mannerisms: Vilutar refers to herself in the third person—which can be tremendously irritating. Her voice changes as she grows older, and she enjoys over-doing the effects of the ageing process upon her body. She wails, she screams and she moves increasingly slowly and haltingly as time exacts its daily revenge upon her.

Rest in Peace: Vilutar has discovered she can escape her curse by completing the process which will transform her into a lich. Unbeknownst to her, the formula she is researching will interact with her curse and actually transform her into a ghost-lich—a new form of powerful undead which will enjoy the benefits of both forms.

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The material in this article appears in 20 Things #61: Ghostly Hauntings by Simon Butler and Rikh Hart.

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