Cuprilach

Cuprilachs were among some of the most dangerous of the rilmani sub-species.

"Sometimes the Balance’s best served by removing the most significant weights from the scales. That’s my job, berk. I find the cutter who's causing the biggest tilt in the Balance, and I put 'im on the dead-book. Remember me the next time you start offing those tanar'ri or baatezu high-ups - keep upsetting things, and all you'll be doing is climbing higher on my list. You'll never even know when I take you off the Balance."

- Raidamos, a cuprilach agent

Description
Cuprilachs bore a resemblance to humans, but had the slight and wiry graceful frames typical of elves and half-elves. Their skin was of a coppery metallic color and they had featureless, ruby-red eyes.

Personality
These rilmani had a very hot-tempered, arrogant air. They were also quite rebellious and violent. Despite this nature, they never refused a target and served aurumachs to the best of their ability.

Cuprilachs believed that the only way maintaining the Balance that the rilmani held so dear was to eliminate powerful creatures with extreme alignments. They felt that there were no tricks or ruses too underhanded for them to pull off in the name of their mission.

Abilities
They possessed an innate spellcasting ability, allowing them to cast charm person, delude, detect invisibility, enervation, ESP, fog cloud, forget, improved invisibility, poison, and wraithform. They were also able to conjure a fan-shaped spray of acid, long and  wide, once per day.

In addition, cuprilachs could cast the standard rilmani arsenal of spells: darkness, dismissal, continual light, hold monster, and teleport without error. They always had the spell know alignment active. They could only be harmed by weapons with a +2 or greater enchantment.

Like all rilmani, cuprilachs could freely travel to the Astral plane or any of the Outer Planes, but their access to the Prime Material plane was restricted. They were only capable of traveling there if a creature of law or chaos of equal power was already present.

Combat
Cuprilachs preferred to face their opponents with a stealthy approach. They were often known to fight with short swords and throwing stars. Even when unarmed they were dangerous combatants, as cuprilachs were generally skilled martial artists.

Society
In the hierarchy of rilmani society the cuprilachs were above abiorachs and ferrumachs, but below argenachs. They acted as assassins, secret soldiers, and spys in rilmani society. They were considered by many to be among some of the best assassins across the planes.

When not working they engaged in rigorous training, driving themselves at a brutal pace, or would tear up the Spire in wild celebrations.

Homelands
Cuprilachs were primarily found in the Outlands, in the regions that were closest to the Spire. They could be encountered anywhere within the Astral and Outer Planes, but were rarely seen on the Prime Material plane.

In the World Tree cosmology, they could be found in the House of Knowledge.