All Creatures
Abilities | Monsters | NPCs
All | Families | Templates
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z


Vigilia

Axis's construct guardians are built in great numbers by axiomites and regularly patrol the streets of that rigidly structured metropolis. Beyond the city, a vigilia can be summoned by mortals to guard a specific location or enforce a leader's edicts.

Although generally humanoid in form, their bodies are a loose mesh of brass strips around a crystalline core like the arbiters they're based on. Each vigilia's core is formed around a different fragment of legal text from Axis's vast libraries. This bylaw or subsection, although not necessarily important to others, forms the mystical and emotional driving force behind these sentinels.

Left to their own devices, vigilias typically enforce local laws to the best of their understanding, falling back on the labyrinthine ordinances of Axis to fill in any gaps. Although vigilias are uncomfortable making judgment calls, they're capable of doing so. That said, this discomfort frequently causes them to seek refuge in areas with the most complex and complete laws

Recall Knowledge - Monitor (Religion): DC 28
Unspecific Lore: DC 26
Specific Lore: DC 23

Elite | Normal | Weak
Proficiency without Level

Changes from being Elite are marked in red below.
NOTE: The +2 damage bonus to non-strike offensive abilities (+4 if the ability is limited, such as spells) is NOT factored in.

Elite VigiliaCreature 12

Medium Aeon Monitor 
Source Monster Core 2 pg. 11
Perception +26; darkvision, see the unseen
Languages Common, Diabolic, Empyrean, Utopian
Skills Athletics +22, Legal Lore +19
Str +7, Dex +3, Con +5, Int +2, Wis +5, Cha -1
AC 32; Fort +25, Ref +20, Will +22
HP 210; Immunities disease, emotion, fear; Resistances electricity 10
Speed 30 feet
Melee [one-action] fist +26 [+21/+16] (magical, nonlethal), Damage 2d10+2+10 bludgeoning plus 1d10 electricityDivine Innate Spells DC 32 (+4 dmg); Constant (2nd) see the unseen
Electrical Purge [two-actions] (divine, electricity, nonlethal) The vigilia releases lightning from their body in a 30-foot emanation dealing 4d10 electricity damage (DC 32 basic Reflex save) to all creatures that aren't aeons or constructs. The vigilia is then slowed 1 for 1 round.Lightning Chain [one-action] (divine, electricity, nonlethal) The vigilia wraps momentary chains of electrical energy around a creature within 60 feet, dealing 2d10 electricity damage (DC 32 basic Reflex save). A creature that fails its save is also pulled 10 feet toward the vigilia (20 feet on a critical failure).Take Prisoner [one-action] The vigilia Interacts to pick up a Medium or smaller unconscious creature within its reach, then Strides.

All Monsters in "Aeon"

NameLevel
Akhana12
Arbiter1
Axiomite8
Bythos16
Kolyarut12
Marut15
Pleroma20
Theletos7
Venator13
Vigilia11
Zelekhut9

Aeon

Source Monster Core pg. 8 1.1
Aeons have always been the caretakers of reality and defenders of the natural order of balance. Each type of aeon takes on some form of duality in its manifestation and works either to shape the multiverse within the aspects of this duality in some way, or to correct imbalances to the perfect order of existence. Aeons' machinations can raise a nation, raze it, or restore it from ruin. Their reasons are their own, and they rarely share their motivations with others—through their strange envisioning mode of communication, they simply create the results they insist are necessary to maintain the balance of the multiverse.

As a result of recent shifts in reality, aeons have begun to reassert a presence in the perfect planar city of Axis. To aeons, this is merely the latest in a recurring cycle, albeit one that mortals have not yet borne witness to. Aeons have a name for this cyclic return, in which they welcome their industrious axiomite brethren back to their fold: the Convergence. At the onset of the Convergence, a council of pleroma aeons appeared in the Eternal City of Axis, where they revealed that axiomites were wayward aeons, split off long ago to pursue the act of creation. With the latest cycle of change, it was time for axiomites—and their mortal creations and kin—to rejoin the aeon cause. While most axiomites fell in line, realizing perhaps on a fundamental level of reality that what the aeons said was the truth, some refused to heed the call and waited for the wrath of the aeons. That wrath has yet to come. The dual-natured aeons have responded to those who have declined in confusing ways. With some they treat and even bargain, while a handful of others they have destroyed, and a few have been exterminated by the axiomites. But most of these quiet insurgents they leave alone, allowing these axiomites to continue to create in peace. How—or if—this Convergence will end is as little understood as aeons themselves.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Aeon Divinities

Whether the aeons serve an actual divinity, a philosophical concept, or merely a “supreme oneness” is a topic hotly debated by planar scholars. The aeons themselves are silent, referring to this being or concept as the Monad, a “condition of all.” Regardless of what the Monad actually is, there certainly exists another category of powerful aeons—the Arbiters, each a unique demigod with its own powers and goals.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Axiomite Constructs

Axiomites build a dizzying array of constructs, each dedicated to a single role in the planar city of Axis, from carrying packages to ferreting out spies. Only a few models are frequently sent outside of the city, although the great legions of specialized soldiers being constructed make observers worry that won’t last.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Other Aeons

Aeons are among the least understood of the Great Beyond's immortal creatures, and they have a wide range of powers and abilities. Far more aeons exist than those presented here, including guardians of time like the four-armed bythos and the weirdly symmetrical theletos, which moderates the duality between freedom and fate.

Sidebar - Treasure and Rewards Tools of Creation

Although records are obviously sparse, aeons were deeply involved in the creation of the Universe. A handful of intact tools from this monumental undertaking remain in the possession of planar powers, but even the broken fragments of these tools are treasured by mortals as aeon stones.