Description
(from Planescape Campaign Setting Monstrous Supplement - 1994):
Trial, judgement and sentencing of all creatures in the modron realm is the province of the nine tertians. They supervise the quartons and hear all crimes brought against the rigid orthodoxy of the realm. For the bulk of the modron population, the tertians are alien and unfamiliar, the ultimate impartial judges. If presented with a case against a duodrone, the base modron can only imagine (if it can imagine at all) the tertian to be some incomprehensible manifestation of the supreme logic — a “super-tridrone” so to speak.
Most judgments deal with modron rogues, i.e., any modron who strays from the proper order. In addition, the tertians pass on the orders of the secundi, to whom they all report.
Tertians look fairly human, except for their 12-foot height, the horns jutting from the sides of their bald heads, and their long prehensile tails that end in a macelike ball. Anyone struck by this ball must successfully save vs. paralysis with a -4 penalty to the roll or fall paralyzed until the tertian releases them. In addition, tertians may cast spells as 17th-level priests and 20th-level wizards. As with other hierarchs, they cannot use psionics, b e also immune to them.
Alternate Versions
Size
Hero Forge: 4'10" (XXL)
Lore: Large
Suggested: Large
Other Monikers
Class 3 Hierarch
Abilities
- Combat ready: advantage on initiative
- Spellcasting
- 2 slam attacks and 1 tail attack
- Immune to charm, frightened. phsycic
- Resistant to Lightning, bludgeoning, piercing, slashing damage from nonmagical weapons
- Magic Resistance
- Axiomatic mind can't be compelled to act contrary to its nature or instructions
- Body disintegrates upon death
- Truesight
- Flight
Appearance
Tertians look fairly human, except for their 12-foot height, the horns jutting from the sides of their bald heads, and their long prehensile tails that end in a macelike ball.
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Sources
- Planescape Campaign Setting Monstrous Supplement (1994)