Category:Jahi

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Comprised of desires unmet, a jahi is a Tiny, incorporeal undead creature that appears as a partially translucent serpent with three heads. A jahi uses its Dominate Person spell-like abilities to form a cult around a manipulated, humanoid thrall called a "Chosen One" (not to be confused with the Chosen One type of undead). The jahi feeds inflicts Ability Damage on the Charisma of the Chosen One's disciples, and this is how the creature feeds. In a pinch, the jahi can inflict ability damage in combat via touch as well.^[1]

A jahi's Chosen One has suffered from the jahi's Charisma Ability Drain to the point that it has fallen to zero and become subject to a sort of possession as the jahi shares its Charisma upon its Chosen One. Should the jahi abandon its Chosen One, the Chosen One will fall unconscious until at least one point of Charisma is restored.^[2]

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I had been directed to the decrepit tower where the ancient wizard was said to live.

In the gloomy interior his figure couldn't be seen clearly. The gravelly voice was steady and calm:

"Jahi? Yes, I know much about those spirits. They did me a great wrong.

Even then, so long ago, I was a magus of not inconsiderable power, gained with much toil and danger. My spells won me great riches and happiness. But when, after spending a long time deep underground, learning strange knowledge from sun-fearing beings, I returned home, I found it changed into part a whorehouse and part a temple. My poor wife - so young and so beautiful! - was leading a life of debauchery, surrounded by a promiscuous cabal.

She told me many cruel and false words, but I espied a ghostly three-headed snake coiled on her breast and I knew the source of my misfortune! Jahi tried to break my will, but I proved the stronger. I paralysed its slaves and defeated the snake, although it resisted my magic and flied through the air to escape my dagger.

My wife lied senseless on the ground, but my power could constrain even the gods, and I saved her.

After putting my house to rights and incinerating the shameful paramours of my wife, I left again, since the great works of magic I had began could only with great loss be left alone.

What a terrible surprise awaited my on my second return! My wife had escaped. Servants told me she climbed many times at night a certain bare, mist-enshrouded hill, and returned at last with another smoky snake on her neck.

Then I knew that I must delve into deeper lore to defeat for ever the power of the jahi. After a long search, I found abook in the library of Il Aluk. It came through the mists from a foreign land, and was written in language which no living man can read. I deciphered it nevertheless, and found within it much about the great druj Jahi the Whore, the undead three-headed dragon Azi Dahaka, and their poisonous brood of snakes. I found also an incantation to banish them forever.

Alas, my quest was in vain! Only a living man could speak that spell, and no living man can study in the library of Necropolis."

He opened the door. The last rays of the setting sun broken through the clouds and illuminated his skeletal fingers, withered face and sunken and lustreless eyes.

-From the notes of Gennifer Weathermay-Foxgrove.^[3]

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