Thespiris

Urban

Arcane Performance

 can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The 

 regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

A thespriris is the spirit of a bard or similar performer who has remained bound to the Material Plane because of their unfinished business. Driven by unreached potential and broken dreams, thespirites haunt sites of performance, interfacing with and possessing the living in a hollow attempt to recreate what they most enjoyed in life. 

The specific motivations of each thespiris vary, but all of them share a common desire to continue to carry out the performances they did in life. Many take possessive control of the living, and can turn multiple victims at once into mindless puppets that act, sing, dance, in their macabre shows. Some powerful thespirites have possessed enough victims to have many sit as audience members for the shows that they put on. These audience members endlessly laugh, cry, and clap their hands at the whim of the thespirites and their looping performances; their bodies held in a suspended animation as a result of the spirit’s magic that prevents their aging. 

Ghostly echoes of  music or subtle spectral appearances of performance linger in areas where a thesipiris has been present. These echoes and illusions are faint, noticed only by those who are unusually perceptive and observant. Open flames, such as candles and hearths, take on a faint blue hue in the thesperis’ wake. 

A thespiris cannot possess those who conceal their faces behind wooden masks. Charms fashioned from broken bones will provide resistance against the thespiris’ attacks. 

A thespiris will lair at a site that was significant to them in life. Depending on the nature of their performance, they may haunt old, abandoned theatre halls that have seen better days, or they may hide in plain sight within a lively tavern, covertly possessing patrons and performers, leaving the living none the wiser. 

A thespiris is likely to be aided in battle by those it controls through its possession. At the start of combat, it attempts to use its Performative Possession ability against as many targets as possible. and then uses Arcane Performance against any creatures it failed to possess, prioritizing those with lower hit points. On its next turn, it casts 

against the target with the lowest Wisdom save. After that, it uses its Arcane Performance attack against targets with lower hit points. If it can hit at least two creatures at once, it uses its legendary action on Dragon Entr’acte, otherwise it defaults to Beguiler Entr’acte. 

If the correct corresponding rituals are carried out, the essence of a famish geist can be captured in gems that confer benefits to the user. Some produce gems that allow the user to assume another person’s identity for a limited period of time. A PC can spend one minute channeling the spiritual energy of the 

 Intelligence (Arcana) check, or Intelligence (Religion) check. On a successful check, the PC compresses the energy into a gem and the GM chooses one piece of loot, or has the PC roll a d4 to determine what they get. On a failed check, the PC gets a flawed diamond. A PC can choose to have another make their skill check if they so choose.

Thespiris

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