The God-King Gutherax

Once a mortal architect obsessed with creating monuments of flawless geometry, Gutherax witnessed his beloved partner—the only being he allowed close enough to touch his work—perish in a construction collapse caused by an infinitesimal flaw in his design, a miscalculation that haunted him beyond death itself. Refusing to accept imperfection as an inherent law of existence, he surrendered his humanity to lichdom and spent countless ages carving hidden passages through reality itself, each keystroke of his necrotic magic another attempt to access the Void, that mythical realm of absolute silence and unblemished nothingness where chaos could never take root. His pursuit became a gospel of erasure; he hollowed out entire civilizations, silenced screaming cities, and methodically pruned the world's complexity like a gardener removing weeds from a perfect lawn, convinced that only through total stillness could he escape the pain of impermanence. Yet his reign of imposed order crumbled in the most chaotic place he could never fully comprehend—a tiefling's heart, wild and unpredictable, driven by emotion rather than logic, which shattered his carefully constructed metaphysics. In his final moments, destroyed not in his sterile halls of silence but in a place of noise and feeling and beautiful disorder, Gutherax finally understood that the flaw he sought to eliminate was existence itself. The tiefling who escaped him carried forward what he never could: the knowledge that imperfection is not a curse to be undone, but the very essence of what makes life worth preserving.

Strength

16, modifier +3

Dexterity

14, modifier +2

Constitution

20, modifier +5

Intelligence

20, modifier +5

Wisdom

18, modifier +4

Charisma

22, modifier +6

Void's Grasp

Gutherax reaches out with a skeletal hand, dealing 4d10 necrotic damage and reducing the target's speed by half until the end of their next turn.

Silence of the Void

As an action, Gutherax creates a 30-foot radius sphere of silence. Creatures inside must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or be unable to cast spells or make sounds for 1 minute.

Architect of Despair

Gutherax targets one creature within 60 feet, forcing it to make a DC 20 Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, the target takes 6d10 psychic damage and is frightened for 1 minute.

Hollowing Strike

Gutherax makes a melee spell attack against a target within 5 feet, dealing 3d12 necrotic damage on a hit. If the target is reduced to 0 hit points, it is turned into a shadow under Gutherax's control.

Eternal Silence

Once per day, Gutherax can cast 'Time Stop' as a 9th-level spell, allowing him to take three turns in a row.

Necrotic Resilience

Gutherax has resistance to necrotic damage and is immune to poison.

strength

+10

dexterity

+9

intelligence

+12

wisdom

+11

constitution

+12

charisma

+13

Necrotic

Poison