Manual of the Planes

always find themselves in the surf of an ocean surroundingMount Celestia. Very few portals from otherplanes lead anywhere on Celestia other than to theSilver Sea.A sequence of portals connects Celestia’s seven layers.Each portal to a higher layer sits at the highest physicalpoint of the next lower layer. Moving through the layersis one and the same as ascending Mount Celestia.But what makes ascending Mount Celestia morethan just a matter of climbing is that each layer hasmany paths leading to the next layer. Only those whohave found some truth regarding law and goodness canfind the path. Thus, attaining the pinnacle involves aseries of trials during which the supplicant is slowlywashed of ideals that do not conform to the plane.However, there are rumored to be nonspiritual shortcutsfor the traveler who knows where to look or whomto talk to.CELESTIA INHABITANTSCelestia is home to many creatures of good, such as aasimars,devas, planetars, and solars. In addition, severalgroups of good-aligned natives of the Material Plane haveset up residence on the lowest slope, along the beach ofthe Silver Sea.Celestia’s primary residents, the archons, are to Celestiawhat the devils are to the Nine Hells: natives of the planeand purveyors of its ideals. Archons come in many types;most common are lantern archons, hound archons, andtrumpet archons (see the Monster Manual).CHAPTER 7:THE OUTERPLANESpqqqqrsBAHAMUT, THE PLATINUM DRAGONDBahamut: CR 25; Colossal dragon; HD 53d12+742; hp 1,086;Init +4; Spd 60 ft., fly 300 ft. (poor), swim 60 ft.; AC 54 (touch2, flat-footed 54); Atk +66/+61/+61/+61 melee (4d8+21/19–20,bite; 4d6+10, 2 claws; 2d8+10, 2 wings; 4d6+10, tail slap);Face/Reach 1 ft. by 50 ft./20 ft.; SA Breath weapons, frightfulpresence, spells, spell-like abilities; SQ Scent, damage reduction25/+4, immunities, see invisibility, keen senses, water breathing;SR 30; AL LG; SV Fort +43, Ref +29, Will +42; Str 53, Dex 10,Con 39, Int 35, Wis 36, Cha 35.Skills and Feats: Alchemy +40, Animal Empathy +40, Bluff +65,Concentration +72, Diplomacy +65, Disguise +34, Escape Artist+56, Gather Information +65, Heal +41, Intimidate +65, IntuitDirection +41, Knowledge (arcana) +34, Knowledge (dragonkind)+37, Knowledge (history) +34, Knowledge (nature) +34,Knowledge (the planes) +34, Knowledge (religion) +34, Listen+71, Scry +68, Search +65, Sense Motive +69, Spellcraft +68,Spot +71, Wilderness Lore +41; Alertness, Blind-Fight, CombatCasting, Expertise, Fly-By Attack, Hover, Improved Critical (bite),Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, QuickenSpell-Like Ability (sunburst), Snatch, Wingover.Breath Weapons (Su): Bahamut has three different breathweapons:Cold: A cone of cold 80 feet long deals 36d10 points ofdamage. A Reflex save (DC 50) reduces the damage by half.Gaseous Form: A swirling mist fills a cone 80 feet long.Creatures within the cone are stunned and turned intogaseous form for 32 rounds. A Fortitude save (DC 50) negatesthe effect.Disintegration: A beam of blue light fills an area 5 feet high, 5feet wide, and 160 feet long. Creatures are obliterated if they faila Fortitude save (DC 50). The beam blows a 5-foot-by-5-foot-by-160-foot hole in objects if they fail their saving throws and deals18d10 points of damage if they make their saving throws.Once Bahamut uses a breath weapon, he must wait 1d4rounds before he can breathe again, no matter which breathweapon he has used.Frightful Presence (Ex): Bahamut can unsettle foes with hismere presence. The power takes effect automatically wheneverBahamut attacks, charges, or flies overhead. Creatures within apqqqqrsradius of 480 feet are subject to the effect if they have 52 orfewer Hit Dice.An affected creature can resist the effects by making a Willsave (DC 48). A successful saving throw makes a creatureimmune to Bahamut’s frightful presence for one day. Creatureswith 4 Hit Dice or fewer become panicked for 4d6 rounds ifthey fail their saving throws. Creatures with 5 or more Hit Dicebecome shaken for 4d6 rounds if they fail their saving throws.Good dragons (and Tiamat, the Chromatic Dragon) ignore theeffects of Bahamut’s frightful presence.Spells: Bahamut is a 20th-level sorcerer and a 20th-levelcleric with access to the Good and Air domains. (Bahamut alsogains the granted powers associated with those domains.) Inhis natural form, Bahamut can cast his spells with but a word.Spell-like Abilities: Bahamut can use the following spell-likeabilities each three times a day as a 20th-level caster: controlwater, control weather, control winds, create food and water,detect thoughts, feather fall, fog cloud, foresight, quest, speak withanimals, and sunburst. He can use also use shapechange at willas a 20th-level sorcerer. The save DC for these spell-like abilitiesis 14 + spell level.Immunities (Ex): Bahamut is immune to acid, cold, electricity,fire poison, sleep, and paralysis effects. Bahamut ignores theeffects of spells and spell-like abilities of 5th level or less, just as ifthe spellcaster had failed to overcome Bahamut’s spell resistance.See Invisibility (Ex): Bahamut has the extraordinary ability tosee invisible creatures. This works like the see invisibility spellwith a range of 1,600 feet. This power is always active.Keen Senses (Ex): Bahamut sees four times as well as ahuman in low light conditions and twice as well in normal light.He also has darkvision to a range of 1,600 feet.Water Breathing (Ex): This ability allows Bahamut to breatheunderwater indefinitely. He can freely use his breath weapons,spells, and other abilities while submerged.Possessions: Amulet of proof against detection and location,bracers of armor +8, cloak of displacement, cubic gate, cube offorce, gem of brightness, glove of storing, portable hole, ring ofprotection +5, ring of resistance +5, rod of alertness, rod of cancellation,and staff of power. The bonuses these items grant are notreflected in the numbers given above.133