Temple Termagant
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Proposed Unique: Aten
Drawing from the "weaker than base monster type but shows up earlier" school of unique design (IE Boris, Prince Ribbit), Aten is a unique Orb of Fire. His stats would be the same as an ordinary Orb of Fire except that he would lack malmutate, and would have correspondingly lower HD. His description could be something along the lines of
"An avatar of the Sun Disc whose worship was declared heretical, Aten seeks to restore his rightful place in the pantheon"
followed by a quote from the Great Hymn to Aten,
"He saith: Thy rising [is] beautiful in the horizon of heaven, O Aten, ordainer of life. Thou dost shoot up in the horizon of the East, thou fillest every land with thy beneficence. Thou art beautiful and great and sparkling, and exalted above every land.. Thy arrows envelop everywhere all the lands which thou hast made."
His tile would be fairly simple, Aten is usually depicted as a circle with rays terminating in hands
My main concerns are that the design might be
a: too boring
b: actually much less threatening than a lot of other enemies in Tomb
Both of which could be addressed by giving him some other ability. Perhaps a monster version of firestorm, or immolation that he casts on a pack of weak summons before swarming you with them.
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