Ak'chazar

Ak'chazar were rakshasas with the heads of white tigers.

Description
Ak'chzars were and weighed, appearing as visibly gaunt humanoids with the heads of white tigers and a ghost-white coat of light fur. Their nails were as sharp as a cat's claws and like all rakshasas their hands were backwards.

Personality
Ak'chzars were pragmatic manipulators, valued and respected by their common kin for their fearsome intellects and clever ways, if only begrudgingly. They were as silver-tongued as their ordinary counterparts and more skilled in matters of diplomacy and invoking fear, but weren't as skilled in the art of disguise.

Abilities
Ak'chzars lacked the typical beguiling abilities of their common counterparts, being less skilled although just as capable with their shapeshifting. They compensated for their lack of such skills with their more powerful spellcasting, and while they needed to use spell components to cast, their specialization in enchantment and necromancy allowing them to control the dead as easily as the living.

In addition to their sorcerous powers they had natural spell-like abilities that aided them in raising and commanding the dead, as well as capturing souls. Their ability to turn and command undead was on par with the greatest of clerics and they could flood the nearby area with an aura of negative energy, inflicting painful wounds and striking fear in those caught by it.

Society
They typically kept a low profile, establishing a lair in a graveyard or old battlefield and directing their minions to carry out their plots.

History
A pair of ak'chazar rakshasas were thought to have operated in Unthalass during that city's occupation by Mulhorand. Ak'chazar also had operatives working in Cimbar, Luthcheq, and Soorenar in Chessenta.