Gwenolyn's Ghost, The Haunting Lover
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This nameless spirit committed suicide in life after her lover scorned her advances,
clinging to the world until nothing of her
true love remained.
Summoning Rules[T]
The following describes the requirements and rituals for binding Gwenolyn's Ghost.
Spirit Level: 1st
Constellation: Skull
Alignment: Neutral Good (NG)
Binding DC: 15
Totems: You gain a totem bonus on the spirit’s binding check if you meet some or all of these conditions. (+2 insight bonus for at least one, +4 for all)
- The effigy used in the Haunting Lover’s ceremony resembles someone who you love that denies your advances.
- The effigy used in the Haunting Lover’s ceremony is personalized, worth 10 gp or more, and engraved with the name of your true love (if any), the name of a local allied person’s true love, or the full name of the true love of Gwenolyn’s Ghost, the latter two requiring 2 ranks in Knowledge (local) or Knowledge (history), respectively.
- You read aloud with great passion and skill the tale of Gwenolyn’s Ghost during the spirit’s manifestation, requiring 2 ranks in Perform (Oratory).
Ceremony: You prepare an effigy of love and place it within the Haunting Lover’s seal.
Manifestation: The effigy begins to levitate and roams about the seal. A charming woman’s voice follows the effigy, which hobbles up and down with her tone.
Granted Abilities
Gwenolyn's Ghost grants the following abilities.
Major Granted Abilities
Beating the DC by 10 or more grants access to the Capstone Empowerment
Spectral Caress: You summon Gwenolyn’s Ghost to assault one target within 30 feet with desire as a standard action, causing it to become dazed for 1 round. A successful Will save prevents this condition. This ability is a mind-affecting emotion and phantasm effect. After using this ability, it becomes expended for 5 rounds.
Capstone Empowerment: Increase the duration of the dazed effect caused by spectral caress to 1d4+1 rounds.
Minor Granted Abilities
Ghost Hand: You create a spectral hand that can manipulate physical objects, functioning as mage hand. The hand can move through solid objects as though it were incorporeal, but any corporeal objects that the ghost hand interacts with while passing through a solid object remain corporeal.
Lover’s Charms: While you are bound to Gwenolyn’s Ghost, you gain an insight bonus on Bluff and Diplomacy checks equal to half your binder level. When making Diplomacy checks against a creature that could be romantically inclined towards you, this bonus equals your binder level instead.
Overwhelming Loss: You inflict your foes with a sense of overwhelming loss, causing one target within 30 feet to become shaken. A successful Will save negates this effect. You can use this ability to create a stronger fear effect, but this ability’s save DC suffers a –5 penalty when attempting to make a target frightened or a –10 penalty when attempting to make a target panicked. This ability is a mind-affecting fear effect.
Speak with the Departed: You are able to speak with the spirits of the dead, functioning as speak with dead. You can only speak with spirits whose alignment are within one step of your alignment with this ability. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier.
Signs and Influence
The spirit affects you in the following ways:
Physical Sign: Your skin becomes pale as if you were completely drained of blood. When you activate one of the Haunting Lover’s granted abilities, you become completely translucent.
Personality: You are constantly beset by daydreams of your true love. If you have not met your true love, there is a 50% chance that Gwenolyn’s Ghost shows you the silhouette of your true love; otherwise, she shows you her true love instead. Whenever you speak, you must relate the conversation back to your true love in some manner.
Favored Ally: Undead (incorporeal)
Favored Enemy: Humanoid (divine spellcasters)
Vestigial Bond (Companion)
You gain a pony as an animal companion. You possess a druid level equal to your binder level when determining your pony’s abilities. This granted ability replaces overwhelming loss.