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Contemplative of Ashok

Source Pathfinder #173: Doorway to the Red Star pg. 80
The ancestors of the Contemplatives of Ashok were humanoids of vast intellect who unlocked occult powers. They deliberately evolved their mental faculties at the expense of their physical forms, and their atrophied bodies dangle beneath giant brains.

Members

Contemplative (Creature 2), Contemplative Meditant (Creature 15), Contemplative Mentor (Creature 18)

Sidebar - Locations Ashok

Ashok refers both to an ancient impact crater on Akiton and the state of enlightenment the contemplatives seek to achieve. The exact relation between the crater and this philosophy is unclear, but evidence suggests that the crater's location could possibly be the contemplatives' long-lost ancestral homeland.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Disciples of Time

Contemplative meditants and mentors alike are obsessed with the complexities of time, but not in a way that seeks to abuse the knowledge to change the past. Instead, these contemplatives believe that pure thought can be achieved by ascending beyond the physical dimensions into beings composed of time itself. The existence of physical entities from the Dimension of Time, such as hounds of Tindalos and siktemporas, constitutes a vexing paradox to these philosophies. Contemplatives find such creatures to be unpleasant at best and truly abhorrent at worst.