Immortals

1. To advance the influence of his or her Sphere
2. To gain personal power, and
3. To achieve personal goals.

What immortals aren't
Immortals are not monsters. Dm's please don't sick your high level characters on to evil immortals. The reason I say this is because I tried this before. Once a PC has slayed an immortal the game no longer becomes fun for the players for the reason is that there is nothing more to fear. If the characters have nothing to fear they will soon get bored of their powers and skills and think what for. The characters will also have no more respect for the immortals and they won't feel any awe and majesty when one appears. At this point it is time to retire your characters and start new ones.

Five Spheres
There are five spheres in the universe and they are Matter, Energy, Time, Thought, and Entropy. Do not get the term sphere and plane mixed up. You see a sphere is simply an ingredient. All planes are made up of all five ingredients known as spheres. Lets explain a little about each sphere;

1. Matter=Is related to the element of earth. It's purpose is to withstand destruction. Stands for sturdiness and stability. Matter is the beginning or should I say the building block of all things.
2. Energy=Related to the element of fire. Purpose of this sphere is to create more energy and activity. Energy is constantly transforming things by consuming Matter, speeding up time, and exciting thought to release more energy. Energy is creative, channeling magical energies to bring new things into being.
3. Time=Is related to the element of water. Purpose of time is to promote change in all things while remaining unchanging itself and to maintain the flow of time. Time is every where recycling the lessons of the past to remind the present. Time is a creative, shaping force causing change through aging and rebirth.
4. Thought=Is related to the element of air. It's purpose is to understand all of existence and to make the other spheres it's tools. It is the very essence of the self consciousness. It is philosophy, realization, and understanding. Thought seeks to understand everything in order to manipulate the other powers of the multiverse.
5. Entropy=Not related to any element. Entropy is the weakening of the multiverse. Seeks to bring all things to a stop, causing oblivion. This spheres purpose is the ultimate destruction of the multiverse. All other spheres oppose Entropy but cannot destroy for to do so would unbalance reality and bring about their own destruction as well. Entropy can not exist without the other spheres.

Spheres and alignments
Three of the five elements favor an alignment. The other two don't. This doesn't mean that you have to be a certain alignment to join that sphere it just means that most of the people in that sphere are going to be of that alignment. For example Entropy favors the chaotic side but you will in some cases see a lawful or even a neutral immortal in that sphere as well. But in most of the Sphere will be of the favored.

• Matter tends toward the lawful alignment.
• Energy tends toward the chaotic alignment.
• Time tends towards the neutral alignment.
• Thought does not favor a single alignment, but evenly disposed to all alignments.
• Entropy does not favor any alignment either, but only beings of evil tendencies willingly serve Entropy.

Here is the encounter chart for 3 of 6 of the immortal ranks.

• Aura attack: In manifestation form the immortal is surrounded by a mystic radiance: a shinning light that clearly shows they are not human. He can use this aura as an attack. When this happens all victims within a 60' radiance must make a saving throw vs. spells or be awed. The immortal can then decide weather or not the victim feels terror(treat as fear spell of 3 times duration), paralysis(lasting three turns), or charm(treat as a charm spell with twice the normal duration).
• Magic Use: In manifestation form the immortal can use any clerical, druidic, or magical spell any number of times per day. If a mortal was to try to dispel an immortals spell, treat the spell as if cast by by a spell-caster whose level is twice the immortals HD. So an initiate immortal with 15 has their spell counted as a 30th level spell-caster. The damage done by an immortals spell is determined by his HD. For example a hierarch with a HD of 45 will throw a 45 die lighting bolt spell.
• Anti magic: Immortal also have anti magic shell of 5' radius around the immortal. The anti magic shell is any where from 50% to 90% depending on the immortals level, this is against other immortals and artifacts. No spell can pass through the anti magic shell other than the immortals own.
• Communication: The immortal can speak with any living or nonliving beings that are related to his own sphere. They have a magical ability to speak with and understand this beings.
• Regenerates: The manifestation form regenerates 1d4 hp per day if he is active or 1d8 if he is inactive by means of rest.
• Special Defense: While in manifestation form the immortal can only be hit by a +5 weapon or by an artifact. Immortals always receive the least possible damage from these attacks. For instance, a broadsword +5 usually hits for 1d8 +5 but when used against an immortal it only inflicts 6(1+5) points of damage.
• Poison: Immortals are immune to all poisons created by mortals such as a bite from a deadly constrictor.
• Magic defense: Immortals are immune to all types of magic from mortals such as breath weapon from a mortal dragon.
• Travel Powers: In manifestation form the immortal has the power to walk and run faster than most mortals, at 150'(50'); to fly at 360'(120'); and to use all movement spells (such as teleport) at will.