Let's get back to this! A month off has made me a little rusty in my monster-making skills. Today's monster comes to me from a few sources. I spent my summer rereading a lot of my old psych textbooks and I decided to take a break and pick a bit of fluff about a guardian angel. I had no intention of doing anything with it, just a little a bit of enjoyable fluff.
Also, I am going to be spending a lot of time with some Norse myths and I wanted a creature today that I had not already done or seen a hundred times. The answer came to me in the form of the Hamingja.
Medium Outsider (Angel)
Frequency: Very Rare
Number Appearing: 1 (1)
Alignment: Lawful [Chaotic Good]
Movement: 120' (40') [12"]
Flying 180' (60') [18"]
Armor Class: 5 [14]
Hit Dice: 10d8+40**** (85 hp)
Attacks: 1 weapon (sword +1)
Damage: 1d8+3
Special: Astral projection, etherealness, fly, invisibility, luck, magic resistance 40%
Save: Fighter 10
Morale: 12 (NA)
Treasure Hoard Class: None
XP: 3,700 (OSE) 3,800 (LL)
Str: 16 (+2) Dex: 16 (+2) Con: 20 (+4) Int: 13 (+1) Wis: 14 (+2) Cha: 20 (+4)
Hamingja are akin to guardian angels. They appear as do valkyries, strong beautiful warrior women. But where the valkyries guardian the souls of the dead, the Hamingja are guardians of the living.
Each Hamingja exists to protect one family. They provide protection against supernatural and mundane attacks that target the family. They have an innate sense of which attacks are in need of their protection and which ones are not. So do not defend every attack, only ones that will ensure their charge does not die until their time as decreed by the Norns.
Unless they are needed the Hamingja will remain invisible. They will remain hidden in this way until they are needed. They typically act by increasing the ambient luck of their charges. Typically this translates to general +1 or +5% to any rolls their charges rolls. If their charge is attacked and the Norns have decreed this is when they will die the Hamingja will stay invisible until their charge is dead. They will then fly their soul to their appropriate place in the afterlife. They will then return to serve another member of the same family. If the Norns have not so decreed, then they will defend their charge with their swords.
The name Hamingja name means "happiness" or "joy" and their overall goal is to make the lives of their charges happier.
1 comment:
Very nice, Tim!
Allan.
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