Tetragrammaton – The four letter name of God, “he who is who he is”

The Anti-Grammaton, aka the killer of God. This is kind of a very loose re-do on sickening radiance, but it’s different enough to be its own stance. Anti-Grammaton is an assassin / warrior type, lacking range, speed, and some durability, but infinitely precise and highly powerful.

Marut

Marut was always a decent thing to put up against GITM, auto-hitting force attacks are one of the few things a ghost in the machine had to worry about in terms of taking signifigant damage. However, 2, 60 damage hits isn’t going to win on its own. Still, it gives a GITM something to think about, either having to move away or nova / control something with 432 hp.

Step one is getting your hands on a Marut. There’s a few different ways of doing this, the top one is dragon-aging and getting something that’s CR25+, then true-polying it into a Marut, the other is invading mechanus and getting a live marrut and fighting it. We could also try to create our own Marut corpse with fabricate or the likes.

Needless to say, getting a Marut is achievable.

Besides 2 auto-hit attacks, we also get 3 uses of plane shift, magical resistance, and blazing edict.

Dybbuk?

Yes, This uses another Dybbuk and true polying it into a beast and undoing it or using nystuls on the corpse of the Marut. Marut-Dybbuk actually somewhat forms a miniature GITM. It’s another construct with decent immunities and resistances, along with 432hp, which is over 100hp more than a mighty servant of leuk-o. A non-Dybbuk’d anti-grammaton is 716 hp

This isn’t as necessary as it is with GITM, as you won’t be rendered non-sentient should something happen to you and you can still planar travel, but marut also has immutable form, so once something is a marut, it can never change back. We also get at-will dimdoor and other typing advantages for using the dybbuk method, as well as easier access to more forms, and the extra HP might just be better, so, feel free to play as an undead antigrammaton or not.

“Slave, will you not endure your own brother?”

Upgrade; The Lasagna Thunder-Fist

using transmuted spell, we can cast a prismatic wall that deals thunder damage. combining this with the ability to shape prismatic wall into whatever we desire using fabricate, we can make thunder-knuckles for our Marut body, placing them onto gauntlets so we don’t have to touch the wall itself.

Alternatively, scribes wizard can make a prismatic wall into the force type, as well as the bludgeoning type. for GITM counters, thunder and force work equally well, for most everything else, bludgeoning has utility as well, but between force and thunder nothing is immune to both.

The best way, is of course, knowing these exist, and then casting fabricate on the raw material [light] to make one yourself without having to have either class feature. Thus, antipasta is born

This adds 50d6 to the attack’s damage if we say that only one instance of the wall applies per attack. it could be a lot more as per the layering in the prismatic lasagna article, but we’ll be using one instance of wall contact per attack.

This gives us an attack that deals 60 + ~175 (save for half making it around 120 vs gitm) per hit that can not miss. Two hits from this is enough to take a GITM from its 310 HP to zero, which is the maruts default number of attacks.

The Wizard Anti-Grammaton

This is likely how people think to achieve Anti-Grammaton. There’s actually a few different subclasses that add things to Anti-Grammaton that could be useful. Chronurge adds additional control, Conjuration adds all of the conjuration tech, namely ice troll heart regen, Bladesinger gives AC and movement on bladesong as well as additional defense.

Chronurge is one of the better ones for the strength of convergent future, able to keep the marut defended longer. Regen is good too, but so is extra AC.

I don’t have a ton to add here, being a wizard in an anti-grammaton is just that; you’re a wizard with an ultra-powerful infinitely-accurate melee who’s decently tanky. But, sad to say, The Anti-grammaton isn’t primarily a wizard build.

The Fighter Anti-Grammaton; True Anti-Grammaton

“Stay, wretched man! suffer not thyself to be carried away!”

Echo knight 20 baby

At 20th level, an echo knight can deliver 4 attacks without dipping into any of their resource pool. with 180 per attack, this is 720 damage. This takes GITM from full to zero, takes the ghost that pops out, and crushes it. It also goes through 6 death ward or similar stacks per hit, thanks to the properties of lasagna-tech. It also can’t miss.

If the GITM’s ghost can appear inside the GITM, you can still break down the entire machine in one normal round of attacks and force it to de-activate.

Echo gives us unleash incarnation, giving us another attack if we need it, and more range, and more ability to get out of being hard CC’d with their teleporting echo. The echo can also ‘manifest in unoccupied spaces you can see” so if you can see into the GITM and get close enough, you might also be able to move the echo into it and strike the pilots or the hiding ghost.

using action surge and 2 unleash incarnations give us 10 attacks, which, after the first 4, will negate 36 death wards, lives, revives, ect. each attack also applies debuffs, if that weren’t enough. it’s also 500d6+600 damage [and dex saves to mitigate].

As a dybbuk possessing the Marut, we also have at-will dimdoor, making our chase potential decent. We also don’t have the weakness of needing pilots, but also only get the one turn per round, but that seems to be all you need.

Combine Chaos and Order

how is a fighter going to put its soul in a marut and make Rickmans Hammer? Well the boring answer is by having a wizard in the party help them. The cool answer is by offending every God at once and combining the fey with an inevitable.

The fighter can use either a feat, a background, or simply purchase a means to get a familiar. This, using lesser fey contracts, gets us fabricate, which gets us prismatic lasagna and antipasta, guides, an invitation to they fey courts, and money. We use the guides and some cash to net ourselves a trip to the feywild.

In the court, we make greater contracts. We need; a ring of 3 wishes and a luckblade. using our familiar to give us spell tattoos, we can use divination to learn a marut’s true name. Wish can be used to replicate other 9th level spells, at possible risk to your own wish ability (or not, depending on the reading), so we have our familiars familiar use a ring to bring us a marut. we use a 4th level tattoo for summoning a dybbuh, wishbind it, wish jar it, luckblade jar into forever double jar, get a tattoo of nystuls, nystuls marut body to beast, revive it, kill it again, possess it, and we’ve achieved a stand capable of no-diffing a “”typical”” GITM.

I’m not 100% sold on the wish reading myself, So a quick aside; we can produce a marut corpse using true poly on a large object, or we can use planar travel to find one ourselves. This isn’t reliant on wish replicating a 9th level spell.

ask for safety from the GITM from the fey queen so it doesn’t know you’re coming, plane shift using marut, procure a conch of teleportation, teleport to the GITM, pray you win init, kill it.

Conclusion

Anti-Grammaton is cool. I’ll likely write a GITM counter-counter article soon and try to draw out how this fight could actually go.