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Knowledge (the planes) or Heal DC17: A brutal and totalitarian race, xills are native to the Ethereal Plane. Most encounters with them in the Material Plane involve xills using an innate ability to planeswalk in, then attacking and laying fatally parasitic eggs inside unwilling hosts.

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Knowledge (the planes) DC20:

Aeryx the Redeemed is risen daemon who dwells in Dothion, the pastoral layer of Bytopia. Extremely powerful, he still bears the glowing scar of this self-sacrificial beheading (the act that allowed him to atone for his sins and be reborn as a celestial). His twisting, elegant daemonic horns are patterned beautifully now, and the glowing third eye upon his forehead is the source of his angelic aura.

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Knowledge (the planes) DC15:

The Patterned Web, one of the two realms of Wee Jas, is located in Tintibulus, the third layer of Acheron. The Patterned Web is shaped like an octagon and laid out like a spiderweb. Those visitors who do not propitiate Wee Jas with appropriate gifts are trapped within the web for a full year, or until the goddess decides they have paid off their debts to Her. This realm is devoted more to Wee Jas’s domains of law, love, and magic.

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Knowledge (the planes) DC15:

Life force isn't made of anything at all--it's more like a conceptual infrastructure that moves energy around, and uses this flow to allow the soul to control the body.

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Craft (armorsmithing) or (weaponsmithing), or Knowledge (the planes) DC20:

Vikram is a special material, a variety of celestial steel made from holy iron mined in Nidavellir (the lowest layer of Ysgard) and smelted by celestial dwarves. The finished metal has DR 10/evil (an exception to the rule about DR being only for creatures; it stacks with hardness, also note that adamantine doesn’t bypass DR). It is useful for making more durable weapons and armor, especially when fighting enemies known to favor sundering tactics. Items made with vikram cost 30gp more per pound of metal in their makeup.

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Bardic Knowledge, or Knowledge (history) or (the planes) DC30:

The Blackblade of Orz is an ancient artifact, a sword said to be forged of compressed darkness. A +3 Vorpal bastard sword, it automatically snuffs any light source it touches (dispelling magical ones below CL20), and can slash open portals between the Material Plane and the Plane of Shadow.

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Knowledge (arcana), (nature), or (the planes) DC15:

Negative and positive energy can be found mingled throughout the Material plane in roughly equal amounts. Negative energy causes decay, wear, breakdown, and death; positive energy causes organization, healing, growth, and life. The lifeforce of a creature is a sort of unseen mechanism that harvests positive energy (or negative, if it's an undead creature) from the environment, though it doesn't generally work unless it's anchored to the body and controlled by a soul (or something similar but less potent, for nonsapient lifeforms). In order to stay alive, grow, and heal, living creatures generally maintain an imbalanced energy state with more positive than negative energy inside their bodies.

When a creature dies, its lifeforce breaks down and its soul departs (or is destroyed, drained away, etc, depending on its nature and cause of death). Either way, without lifeforce the body basically becomes an object. Unimpeded by the lifeforce, entropy gradually shifts the body into equilbrium with its environment by redistributing some positive energy out of it and more negative energy into it; this influx of negative energy is why dead bodies decay more rapidly. That same outflow of positive energy has to go somewhere, so most of it gets concentrated into its immediate environment. This is why dead bodies tend to fertilize trees and plants: they are basically drinking up the excess positive energy leaking out of the corpse as it strives to reach energy equilibrium.

The reason why corpses often spread disease is also related to this cycle: evil particles (which are the cause of diseases) tend to be attracted to concentrations of negative energy (because evil likes destruction). So when bodies decay and negative energy grows more concentrated in them, any evil particles in the area tend to be drawn to them, where diseases then manifest from the higher concentrations of evil.

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Knowledge (the planes) DC15:

Baatezu have an extremely specific ranking system, since there are trillions of them and they’re so organized by nature. For example, a cornugon named Brahansch is a third rank, seventh tier lieutenant-colonel of the 5789th battalion, Scaledrown wing, 302nd arc, 125th timbre, under the supreme command of the Archduke of Cania Mephistopheles.

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