#zon-kuthon

Today I want to show you a couple of concepts for the gods of Golarion, because I'm in the mood for some stylization practice.

1/? Zon-Kuthon

Sometimes I want to practice stylization. Or anatomy. Sometimes I even do it.

Oh, who is this?

Him

Him

So I tried to draw Zon-Kuthon and Dou-Bral (from the bits of description we have). I think he was Shelyn's handsome brother.

What I got:

DAMN IT YES!

Zon-Kuthon has finally taken up art therapy.

It's the final cleric build today! The rest of the month will be posts focused on helping you build your own cleric. Today, we examine the cleric of Zon-Kuthon, the Midnight Lord. Focused on pain, this cleric embraces both sadism and masochism. Build below:

After being assaulted by a banshee in the camp they laid a few kilometers away the night before, who almost killed three out of the five of them with her wail (which left Sial and Laori weakened, as if they were literally returned from the dead), they headed to the barbican and dispatched some orcs that were guarding it. Their boss destroyed Liada's glaive and one of Twix's kukris, but Laori could mend them, so they were good to go after an hour or so.

At the gates of Scarwall, they were received by a small unit of skeletons and a nightmare-riding skeleton. That battle was long and exhausting, but not too tough: we use some resources, but damage was not too big, so they kept pushing. But in the first hall of the castle, they were received by corpses of tens of humanoids, from a battle fought long ago, but strangely, still intact. No corpse was rotten. Liada started approaching to investigate, when the corpses rose as a single horrific mass, similar to an ooze, but gruesome and disturbing.

It was a corpse orgy, but none of the party could identify it, we just noticed that it wasn't undead. The beast was tough and strong, so we took a lot of damage, while we did just a little. Liada was pretty disturbed by the creature, since she did not land many hits at first, while Xhan Xho could not pass through the layers of fat, meat and skin that cushion the blows of his warhammer. Twix was the most weakened by the previous encounter, while Laori and Sial were weakened by the previous night, so they did not join the fight immediately. Twix tried to land strikes, but the beast was not to be flanked, so she could not use her sneak attack, so she tried to fall back, drink her mutagen and extracts, and then rejoin the fight.

Liada asked Laori and Sial to do something about the beast, since it was overwhelming them, so they joined the fight while she finally landed a few good blows on it, only to be focused and hit pretty hard. When the beast realized how damaged it was, it shrieked and almost killed Twix while invisible (though the characters did not know that until a couple of minutes after the fight, when the invisibility extract lost its effect), and weakened Liada by a lot. Xhan Xho was hitting it as hard as he could, but was mostly absorbing damage, since he did not have weapons appropriate for this beast.

But after a couple more hits by Liada, it landed a terrible slam on her (read, critical) and killed her. At that point, the beast was really weak, so the next hit was the end of it, but Liada was already dead. Liada, who wanted to bring beauty to the world, only to find that people used to reject what she offered them, and that the world was full of ugliness and more evil than what she could fight. She saw her friends died, and saw former party members die and come back only by sheer luck, while she herself died once and was brought back by a miracle.

Laori was who brought her back this time. She invoked the powers conferred to her by her god and gave her the breath of life in the last possible moment. So Liada will live to fight another day. She will live to try to keep going and complete her mission and restore peace to Korvosa with her friends. But this time, it will be thanks to Zon-Kuthon. The dark god Zon-Kuthon, the enemy and brother of Shelyn, who not only gave Laori the power to bring her back, he made sure that Liada knew it was his doing, it was him who wanted to keep her alive. Because alive she can still feel the pain of her actions and the futility of them, and consider the irony that while she embraces art, all new art that she creates will be tainted by his dark hand.