Rennbuu

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Rennbuu was the slaad lord of colors, an artistic entity with the power to change patterns and hues. Colorful in mind and body, the flamboyant creative had a motley of tricks at his disposal.

"I really hate that color on you — try this."

- Rennbuu

Description
Rennbuu appeared to be a gaunt, slaad with skin that glowed and swirled in a variety of radiant colors. In stark contrast to the ever-changing complexion of his scales, he also had a long mane of white, frazzled hair.

Personality
Out of all the slaad lords, Rennbuu's capriciousness was perhaps the most malicious, although not in a truly evil sense. He loved changing the colors of people and objects and the mayhem that resulted, often doing so in the way he thought would bring the most "harm". For example, he would turn drow white, plaiden dwarves, or make gnomes purple, although despite the sadistic aspect of this behavior, he did so out of pure mischievousness. He took perverse pleasure when his changes affected the lives of others, whether negatively or positively.

If given his way, Rennbuu would personally recolor the entire multiverse. Like many artists he was sometimes gripped by frenetic streaks of creativity in which he focused all time and energy into completing a specific goal. While pretentious and extravagant, Rennbuu appreciated a good sense of style and occasionally spared people and places that showed taste from his artistic powers. He was also an intelligent being with a great deal of knowledge regarding many forms of art throughout the planes, the Material Plane included, and could spend hours conversing with artistic experts of all kinds.

Combat
"There, you look much better in (blood) red."

- Rennbuu

Though he wouldn't hesitate to use his powerful claws and fangs in melee, Rennbuu preferred using the magic at his disposal, whether they be items or powers. He gleefully mocked and taunted his opponents, ridiculing them throughout the battle.

Abilities
A great variety of spell-like abilities were at Rennbuu's disposal, including advanced illusion, color spray, darkness, 15' radius, know alignment, light, plane shift, rainbow pattern, telepathy, and wind walk at will. Thrice each day he could use flame strike and a symbol spell of his choice, and twice per day could use prismatic spray and prismatic wall.

The Lord of Colors' most storied ability was his power to change the color of anything by touch alone. The new colors could be whatever combination of shades, tints, and patterns, including solids, stripes, and spots, that Rennbuu so chose. These transmutations could last anywhere from seconds to years to eternity and could only be prematurely undone by a wish spell. In addition, Rennbuu himself was immune to illusions, as well as phantasms.

While he would be little more than a potent nuisance on other planes, the Lord of Colors wielded a power within Limbo that made him a dangerous force to be reckoned with. By changing the color of a slaad, he could actually change them into a different kind of slaad; a green slaad turned gray would become an actual gray slaad and vice versa. He could also summon either 5-6 blue or 6-8 red slaadi (with a 50% chance of getting either) to aid him with near-certainty.

Realm
Rennbuu made his home in the plane of Limbo, where his sizeable gallery was full of artwork he had created. The place was staffed by blue and red slaadi, who served out of both fear and hope of being changed into a more powerful form.

Relationships
Rennbuu was largely considered by other slaadi to be a nuisance due to his power to change colors, thereby effectively allowing him to promote or demote them at his whim. Green, gray, and death slaadi all avoided him out of fear of being turned into a less-powerful form. The slaad lord Ygorl was also known to despise him. Blue and red slaadi, however, revered and obeyed him for it.

Rennbuu was known to have a strange friendship with Ben-Hadar, the Good Archomental Prince of water. This was based around Ben-Hadar appreciating how Rennbuu, who often visited his domain, would transform the giant reefs of coral within it into bizarre artistic pieces of varied colors.

History
Rennbuu, the Lord of Colors, was a younger slaad lord than Ssendam, Ygorl, and Chourst.

Most of the tales involving Rennbuu involved his penchant for changing colors. In one tale, he turned five gold dragon hatchlings red, black, green, blue, and white. Other tales were similar, such as a death slaad that was turned pink.