Spartolos
Spartoi, also known as "sown men", resemble skeletal undead spear-wielders who wear tarnished bronze armor. Spartoi coordinate tactically in combat and cooperate with others of their kind, and better resist harmful divine energy when clustered en masse.1
According to ancient legend, the malebranche Alichino tasked the legendary hero Strada with the conquest of an invincible city. Strada sought the help of an oracle of Gorum and was given the thousand fangs of the dragon Kathalphas. When Strada sowed the teeth into the ground outside the city as instructed, all the heroes the dragon had devoured sprang up into battle. Having frustrated the devil, Strada ruled the city for 90 years with the skeletal army as guard. Magical spartoi seeds that temporarily summon spartoi have been created since in memory of this legend.1
Appearance
A spartolos is an armored skeleton whose eye sockets glow with infernal light. They average about 6 feet in height and 70 pounds in weight when fully equipped. They prefer to rest in disjointed piles of remains rather than intact skeletons.2
Habitat and ecology
Spartoi are created as unquestioning warriors without personal needs or desires. The necromantic magic animating them has a fundamentally evil nature, but spartoi raised from the corpses of particularly goodly or otherwise forceful individuals might otherwise retain the alignment they had in life.1
Spartoi do not occur naturally, but are instead created. Although a powerful spellcaster capable of creating mummies can create a spartolos, most spartoi are created with spartoi seeds.1
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 . “Bestiary” in The Infernal Syndrome, 88–89. Paizo Inc., 2010
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in The Infernal Syndrome, 88. Paizo Inc., 2010
External Links
- Spartoi (real-life mythical entity) on Wikipedia