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Venator

Unlike most aeons, venators spend much of their time in the mortal Universe. Axiomites build these figures of brass and gears to hunt their enemies. Although capable combatants on their own, venators frequently act as trackers for other aeons, leading a group of vigilias to secure a criminal or guiding a bythos to its targets.

Each venator is forged with its targets already assigned, a scrap of axiomite formula integrated in the gears that whir beneath their armor. The targets are narrowly defined by the formula and are usually a single named target, a family, or a small group that directly participated in an event.

A venator's targets rarely threaten the balance of reality overtly; instead, they're often privy to certain secrets or new magical theories. As a result, even the venator rarely knows why it has been assigned a given target. Recently forged venators are incredibly thorough in their work, methodically destroying the body of their target and any nearby objects (like notes, books, or even graffiti) that might contain secrets.

Successful venators are left without targets and are abandoned to their own devices. They're generally eager to find a new purpose, even if it's a temporary one from a mortal summoning. Many eventually extend their original missions, choosing new targets similar to their previous ones or, in some cases, continuing to chase the souls of their original targets.

Recall Knowledge - Monitor (Religion): DC 31
Unspecific Lore: DC 29
Specific Lore: DC 26

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 VenatorCreature 14

Medium Aeon Monitor 
Source Monster Core 2 pg. 11
Perception +26; darkvision, locate target
Languages Common, Diabolic, Empyrean, Utopian
Skills Acrobatics +27, Arcana +25, Athletics +25, Stealth +29, Survival +26
Str +6, Dex +8, Con +4, Int +4, Wis +5, Cha -2
Locate Target (detection, divine) A venator is assigned an individual target or small group of targets when they are created. The venator can sense the direction of their nearest target while on the same plane as it. If there are none, they can sense the plane where most of their targets can be found.
Items +1 striking crossbow (20 bolts)
AC 35; Fort +23, Ref +27, Will +26
HP 250; Immunities disease, emotion, fear; Resistances electricity 15
Speed 30 feet
Melee [one-action] fist +26 [+22/+18] (agile, magical, versatile S), Damage 3d10+2+12 bludgeoningRanged [one-action] crossbow +29 [+24/+19] (magical, range increment 120 feet, reload 1), Damage 2d8+2+12 piercing plus 1d10 electricity and discharging boltDivine Innate Spells DC 35 (+4 dmg); 7th interplanar teleport (to plane indicated by locate target only); 5th translocate; 2nd invisibility (at will), revealing light (at will)
Discharging Bolt When the venator damages a creature with their crossbow, the bolt embeds in the target, dealing 2d6 persistent electricity damage. The creature can remove the bolt and end the persistent damage with an Interact action but takes 1d6 electricity damage as part of removing the bolt.Mark Target [one-action] (divine) The venator releases a ball of light at a target within 60 feet, lighting it up with a magical aura that's constantly visible to the venator. The target can avoid becoming marked with a successful DC 32 Reflex save. While marked, the target finds it difficult to deal with the venator and their allies. The target takes a –1 status penalty to all attacks against the venator and other aeons, as well as to saving throws against effects from the venator and other aeons. The venator can Sustain this effect to designate up to 5 other creatures as trusted allies, causing the target to take the same penalties against these allies. The venator can Dismiss the mark. Otherwise, it fades away naturally after 1 day.Overloaded Arc [two-actions] (divine, electricity) The venator releases lightning from their body in a 120-foot line, dealing 4d10 electricity damage (DC 35 basic Reflex save). The lightning also arcs, damaging any creature embedded with a venator's bolt within 120 feet even if it isn't in the line. The venator is then slowed 1 for 1 round.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Censored Secrets

Venators kill Norgorber's enemies and clean up his spilled secrets with surprisingly frequency. It seems he's either convinced these aeons of his own importance or directly subverted the axiomites' process from somewhere in his realm beneath the city of Axis.

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.