Editing Vestige

Vestiges are weird super-ghost things from the later fluff of [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3.5 edition. Specifically, these are the metaphysical entities that the [[Binder]] class calls up and allows to timeshare their body in exchange for various magical powers.

=List of Tome of Magic Vestiges=
This was the big array of vestiges that appeared in the initial Tome of Magic.

==Acererak the Devourer==
The Demi-[[Lich]] who created the [[Tomb of Horrors]].

==Agares, Truth Betrayed==
A former Earth Elemental general who was betrayed by his own emperor and lieutenants under false pretexts.

==Amon, The Void Before The Altar==
The corrupted essence of a once-goodly god.

==Andras, The Gray Knight==
An Elf who served for centuries as first a [[paladin]] and then a [[blackguard]] before giving up on both sides in disgust.

==Andromalius, The Repentant Rogue==
A chosen of the god of thieves, [[Olidammara]], who repented on his deathbed, hoping to play the ultimate trick and steal his own soul away from his god. It worked too well; his god approved, once he realised the joke, but he couldn't take Andromalius back without wrecking the joke. So he made him a vestige instead.

==Aym, Queen Avarice==
A corrupt dwarven queen who destroyed her own kingdom through her insatiable greed.

==Balam, The Bitter Angel==
The despondent spirit of a slain angel who was set an impossible task - purportedly ending the practice of humanoid sacrifice - that failed and claimed her life.

==Buer, Grandmother Huntress==
A mysterious huntress' spirit.

==Chupoclops, Harbinger of Forever==
A monstrous spider-creature destined to destroy the multiverse, slain by an alliance of four villains and three heroes, living and ghost alike, who sacrificed their lives to destroy her.

==Dhalver-Nar, The Tortured One==
A human who is believed to have pioneered the art of binding, most known for his obsession with teeth. Seriously, he manifests as a human man with gums instead of skin and teeth everywhere, even for fucking '''eyes'''. That's just not right!

==Dantalion, The Star Emperor==
A gestalt consciousness born from the ancestral spirits of a now-lost royal line.

==Eligor, Dragon Slayer==
A dragon slayer of such proficiency that [[Tiamat]] demanded his soul be given to her after his death, threatening to set her dragons on the mortal races and forcing the gods to surrender him. She then raised him as a dragon-revering [[blackguard]] and used him as her own mightiest champion; after he got killed again, nobody wanted to touch his soul and so he became a vestige.

==Eurynome, Mother of the Material==
A titan who created the physical world by separating the sky and sea before being slain by the gods for daring to steal into the world as yet unformed, with her body becoming the land and her blood giving rise to all animals.

==Focalor, Prince of Tears==
An outsider, either a demon or an angel, who actual died of sheer grief.

==Geryon, The Deposed Lord==
An arch-devil who perished after losing everything to the whims of [[Asmodeus]].

==Haagenti, Mother of Minotaurs==
A former hill giant sorceress who tricked Thrym, god of frost giants, into screwing her by using magic to appear beautiful. When Thrym sought her ought, and beheld both her true ugly form and the monstrous twin sons she had born him, he turned them into the first [[minotaur]]s and spread the creedo of distrusting all beauty to the frost giants. In her shame, Haagenti was unable to rest in any of the planes after her death.

==Halphax, The Angel in the Angle==
A gnomish master engineer who created an inescapable prison-city at the behest of hobgoblin conquerors to try and save his wife's life, ultimately costing the lives of thousands of his fellows.

==Haures, the Dreaming Duke==
A rakshasa who become so obsessed with dreams and illusions he lost all ability to distinguish reality and unreality apart, fading entirely from existence.

==Ipos, Prince of Fools==
The mystic scholar who codified the modern forms of binding.

==Karsus, Hubris in the Blood==
A human spellcaster who attempted to steal the power of the god of arcane magic, only to be consumed from within by the uncontrollable powers he had stolen.

==Leraje, The Green Herald==
A former herald of the god of elves, before her hubris led her to challenge her own god to a test of archery skills, in which she unthinkingly sacrificed her own life to prove her superiority to him.

==Malphas, The Turnfeather==
An elven prince who betrayed his people, murdering his own family to try and steal the throne, only to die of heartbreak when the woman he had been doing it for revealed herself as a drow who had deceived him.

==Marchosias, King of Killers==
An expert assassin who specialised in killing other professional killers. When he died and went to the Nine Hells, hundreds of other thugs, slaughterers, executioners, and assassins banded together in a great diabolic prison riot, in which they captured Marchosias and tore his soul to pieces.

==Naberius, The Grinning Hound==
A mysterious canine-like vestige.

==Orthos, Sovereign of the Howling Dark==
An entity generally believed to be the first vestige.

==Otiax, The Key to the Gate==
A mysterious entity connected to the Far Realm.

==Paimon, The Dancer==
An expert dancer, duelist and seducer who was captured by a jealous rival and had his limbs cut off and swordblades grafted to the stumps.

==Ronove, The Iron Maiden==
A pioneer of the martial arts, Ronove had herself sealed inside an iron coffin to prove her skills, but spent so long that eventually her students forgot she even existed.

==Savnok, The Instigator==
A former servant of [[Hextor]] and [[Heironeus]] who stole their mother's divine armor, initially for them, but after doing so he couldn't bear to give it up. Hextor murdered Savnok by stealing his mother's bow and arrows and bleeding him to death with dozens of shots, after which the brothers hid Savnok's soul where no god could find it and returned the armor, bow and arrows to their rightful place, covering up the crime.

==Shax, Sea Sister==
The former goddess-queen of the storm giants.

==Tenebrous, The Shadow That Was==
The shadowy undead form that [[Orcus]] adopted after being slain, which somehow survived despite Orcus' resurrection.

==Zagan, Duke of Disappointment==
A [[yuan-ti]] who was murdered whilst on the very precipice of ascending to divinity.

=List of Outer Source Vestiges=
Though Tome of Magic in general got little support after its lackluster release, the binder got the most of it. From online web-enhancements to Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine, a bundle of new vestiges slipped into the world before the announcement of 4th edition.

==Kas the Bloody Handed==
The spirit of the treacherous former servant of [[Vecna]], the one who maimed the God of Secrets. Appears in Dragon Magazine #341.

==Primus, The One And The Prime==
The ghost of the model of Primus that was slain by [[Orcus]]-as-Tenebrous during the storyline of The Great [[Modron]] March. Appears in Dragon Magazine #341.

==Ansitif the Befouler==
An ancient demon prince with an urge to defeat the gods and all their servants. Appears in Dragon Magazine #357.

==Astaroth-Diabolus==
The vestige of a demon prince with a real hatred for devils, having infiltrated their ranks as Diabolus and risen to the rank of Treasurer of Hell before he was outed, slain and had his name stolen by Gargauth. Appears in Dragon Magazine #357.

==Cabiri the Watching Master==
A many-eyed obyrith seer who has been imprisoned in the Wells of Darkness. Appears in Dragon Magazine #357.

==Ahazu the Seizer==
The demon prince who once controlled the Wells of Darkness before he was entrapped in his own prison. Appears in Dungeon Magazine #148.

==Astaroth the Unjustly Fallen==
A fallen angel who claims to have been cast down from [[Celestia]] for giving civilisation to mortals. Appears in the second Cityscape web enhancement, which can be found here: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20070307a

==Desharus the Sprawling Soul==
The pseudo-fey spirit of the very first city, Desha. Appears in the second Cityscape web enhancement, which can be found here: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20070307a

==Arete the First Elan==
The psion who created the Elan race. Appears in one of The Mind's Eye webarticles from WotC's old website, which can be found here: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20070119a

==The Triad==
Three psionic gods from a now-lost civilisation. Appears in one of The Mind's Eye webarticles from WotC's old website, which can be found here: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20070119a

==Abysm The Schismed==
A psionic mythal. Appears in one of The Mind's Eye webarticles from WotC's old website, which can be found here: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20070119a

==Zceryll The Star Spawn==
A powerful alienist who was dragged into the [[Far Realm]] and now seeks to return to the mortal world. The only new vestige added in a Class Chronicles article on adding Binders to your [[Forgotten Realms]] games, alongside some other vestiges that could replace Tome of Magic Vestiges. The article can be checked out here: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/frcc/20070718

==Arshaladon, Pyre of the Unborn==
A red dragon of such balls-out nastiness that he bound a [[balor]] into his body to replace his heart when he got it skewered - when that wasn't enough to keep him alive, he sought out the Bastion of Unborn Souls and began munching on the preborn souls of all life across the multiverse. When he got killed for this, he lingered as a vestige. Can be found in the splatbook Dragon Magic.

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