Dark Sun Campaign Guide Pathfinder 2e

/* Fonts */
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Eczar:800|Roboto+Condensed|Tauri|Teko:500|Changa+One|Gelasio|DM+Serif+Text:400i&display=swap'); /* Loads fonts from Google Web Fonts. Add additional @import if you license web fonts from elsewhere (such as from Monotype) */

/* Proper Printing */
@media print { .phb { height: 279.4mm; width: 215.9mm; } }

/* Background */
/* Sets two backgrounds. First image is the image margin column on each page, the second is the Pathfinder signature parchment. You can change the image margin depending on the content of your book, but I suggest that you use the Imgur image I am using and just change the picture in the upper frame. I had to redesign the whole image margin and just using one from a Paizo PDF will not fit the whole length. On odd pages the parchment is horizontal flipped to emphasize odd and even pages. */
.phb{ background-image: url('www.gmbinder.com/images/2B04yOU.png'), url('https://www.gmbinder.com/images/Nrkf77U.jpg'); background-size: 97px, 822px; background-repeat:no-repeat; }
.phb:nth-child(odd){ background-image: url('https://www.gmbinder.com/images/8hcD3pd.png'), url('https://www.gmbinder.com/images/Nrkf77U.jpg'); background-size: 97px, 820px; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:right, center; }

/* Cover */
.cover-title { font-family: 'Eczar', sans-serif !important; color:#4E0707; border-color:#EFCD98; border 10px; text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #EFCD98, -1px 1px 0 #EFCD98, 1px -1px 0 #EFCD98, -1px -1px 0 #EFCD98, 0px 1px 0 #EFCD98, 0px -1px 0 #EFCD98, -1px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 1px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 2px 2px 0 #EFCD98, -2px 2px 0 #EFCD98, 2px -2px 0 #EFCD98, -2px -2px 0 #EFCD98, 0px 2px 0 #EFCD98, 0px -2px 0 #EFCD98, -2px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 2px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 1px 2px 0 #EFCD98, -1px 2px 0 #EFCD98, 1px -2px 0 #EFCD98, -1px -2px 0 #EFCD98, 2px 1px 0 #EFCD98, -2px 1px 0 #EFCD98, 2px -1px 0 #EFCD98,-2px -1px 0 #EFCD98; font-size:7em; text-align: center; width:820px;}
.phb#p1 {background-image: url('https://www.gmbinder.com/images/Nrkf77U.jpg'); background-size: 822px;} /* Fix for image-less covers */

/* Page Numbers */ 
.phb:after { background-image:url('https://www.gmbinder.com/images/O3hOuX8.png?1') !important; background-size: 100px; background-repeat:no-repeat; z-index:-1; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: -25px; } /* Styles the box used by page number */
.phb:nth-child(odd):after { transform: rotate(180deg); margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 25px; }
.pageNumber.auto { font-family: 'Tauri', sans-serif; color:#58180D; font-size:2em; border-color:#EFCD98; border 10px; text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #EFCD98, -1px 1px 0 #EFCD98, 1px -1px 0 #EFCD98, -1px -1px 0 #EFCD98, 0px 1px 0 #EFCD98, 0px -1px 0 #EFCD98, -1px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 1px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 2px 2px 0 #EFCD98, -2px 2px 0 #EFCD98, 2px -2px 0 #EFCD98, -2px -2px 0 #EFCD98, 0px 2px 0 #EFCD98, 0px -2px 0 #EFCD98, -2px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 2px 0px 0 #EFCD98, 1px 2px 0 #EFCD98, -1px 2px 0 #EFCD98, 1px -2px 0 #EFCD98, -1px -2px 0 #EFCD98, 2px 1px 0 #EFCD98, -2px 1px 0 #EFCD98, 2px -1px 0 #EFCD98,-2px -1px 0 #EFCD98;} /* Styles the automatically generated page number */
.phb#p1 {counter-reset: phb-page-numbers 0;} /* Allows you to start the page count from a value different than 1st page. Change 0 to the value you want to add to the page number on the 1st page */
.phb#p1 .pageNumber.auto { display:none } /* Hides the page number on the cover page. Remove "none" if you don't use a cover page */
.phb#p1:after { display:none } /* Hides the box used by the page number on the cover page. Remove "none" if you don't use a cover page */

/* Headers */
.phb h1, .phb h2 {font-family: 'Eczar', sans-serif;} /* No Taroca, unless you license it yourself */
.phb h1 {text-align: center;font-size: 5em; margin-bottom:30px;}
.phb h2 {color:#02256E;font-size: 2em;}
.phb h3, .phb h4 {font-family: 'Tauri', sans-serif; text-transform:uppercase;}
.phb h3 {font-family: 'Teko', sans-serif; font-size: 1.75em; border-bottom:0px}
.phb h4 {color:#000000;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; margin-bottom:0px; font-size: 1em; text-transform:uppercase; }
.phb h5 {color:#A76652;;font-family: 'Teko', sans-serif; margin-bottom:-1px; text-transform:uppercase; font-size: 1.25em;}
.phb h6 {background-color:#002664; color:#EDE3C8;border-bottom:1px solid #002664;margin-bottom:5px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:3px;font-size: 1.25em;font-family: 'Tauri', sans-serif; text-transform:uppercase; border-radius: 12px 12px 0px 0px;}

/* Content */
.phb, .phb p, .phb p+p, .phb ul, .phb ol {font-family:'Gelasio', sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-character; line-height:1.4;}
.phb hr+section blockquote{background : white;}
.flavor {font-family: 'DM Serif Text', serif !important; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-character; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom:8px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; }
.subtitle { font-size: 1.4em; color: #5E0000 !important; background-color:transparent !important; margin-top:-30px; margin-bottom:px !important; margin-right:10px !important; margin-left:10px !important; background-image: url('* https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1 '); background-position:bottom; background-repeat:no-repeat; padding-bottom:35px; background-size:800px; }

/* Tables */
.phb table { background-color: #F5EFE0; margin-bottom:0px; }
.phb table th { background-color: #5E0000; color:white; padding-top:4px; }
.phb table tbody tr:nth-child(odd) { background-color: #EDE3C8 }
.phb table tbody, .phb table th { font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif;  }
.tablefooter { background-color:#E6D8B0 !important; }

/* Actions */
.label {font-family: 'Tauri', sans-seri; float: right; text-align: right; inline-block; font-size: .3cm; color:#000000; margin-bottom:-5px; text-transform:uppercase; border: 0px;}
.levels {font-family: 'Teko', sans-serif; float: right; text-align:right; margin-bottom:-10px; text-transform:uppercase; border: 0px;}
.tocn {font-family: 'Eczar', sans-serif; float: right; text-align:right; margin-bottom:-10px; border: 0px;}

/* Keywords */
.taglist {height:20px; font-size: 1em;}
.tag {font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif; font-size: .75em; border-color:#DAC68A; border: 1px solid #DAC68A; border-left: 2px solid #DAC68A; border-right: 2px solid #DAC68A; border-radius:2px; background-color:#58180D; color:white; text-align:center; margin-top:4px; margin-right:2px; min-width:25px; float:left; margin-bottom:-5px; padding-left:3px; padding-right:3px; text-transform:uppercase; }

/*Keyword for Rarities */
.uncommon {background-color:#98513D !important;}
.rare {background-color:#002664 !important;}
.unique {background-color:#54166E !important;}

/* Keyword for Creatures */
.align {background-color:#576293 !important;}
.size {background-color:#3B7B59 !important;}
.sizes:before { content: "Size "; font-weight: bold; }
.hitpoints:before { content: "Hit Points "; font-weight: bold; }
.cskill:before { content: "Skill "; font-weight: bold; }
.senses:before { content: "Senses "; font-weight: bold; }
.support:before { content: "Support Benefit "; font-weight: bold; }
.advanced:before { content: "Advanced Maneuver "; font-weight: bold; }

/* Compact Rules */
.rule, .rule p, .rule p+p {font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif; line-height:1.4; }
.rule p, .rule p+p { text-indent:1.5em; line-height:1.4; font-size:100%; }
p .oneaction  { margin-top:-0px; margin-bottom:-0px; width:14px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
p .twoaction { margin-top:-0px; margin-bottom:-0px; height:22px; width:24px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
p .threeaction { margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-0px; height:28px; width:32px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
h5 .oneaction, h4 .oneaction  { margin-top:-10px; margin-bottom:-6px; width:16px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
h5 .twoaction, h4 .twoaction { margin-top:-10px; margin-bottom:-6px; height:26px; width:28px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
h5 .threeaction, h4 .threeaction { margin-top:-10px; margin-bottom:-6px; height:34px; width:38px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
.rule .oneaction  { width:14px; margin-top:-6px; margin-bottom:-6px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
.rule .twoaction { height:22px; width:24px; margin-top:-6px; margin-bottom:-6px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px;}
.rule .threeaction { height:28px; width:32px; margin-top:-7px; margin-bottom:-6px; margin-right:-1px; margin-left:-1px; }
.result {font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif; padding-left: 1.5em;text-indent:-1.5em;}
.ability {font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif; padding-left: 1.5em;text-indent:-1.5em;}
.abilityname { font-weight: bold; }
.r4:before { content: "Critical Success "; font-weight: bold; }
.r3:before { content: "Success "; font-weight: bold; }
.r2:before { content: "Failure "; font-weight: bold; }
.r1:before { content: "Critical Failure "; font-weight: bold; }

/* Boxed Containers */
.box {border-bottom:1px solid #000000; hyphens: manual; hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word; } /* Normal boxes just put a separator line at the bottom */
.reqbox {border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left: 1.5em;text-indent:-1.5em; hyphens: manual; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; } /* Boxes for requirements and prerequisites require the Pathfinder signature identation */ 
.abilbox {padding-left: 1.5em;text-indent:-1.5em;  hyphens: manual; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; } /* Boxes for requirements and prerequisites require the Pathfinder signature identation */ 
.tab {text-indent:1.5em;  }

/* Labels for Feats and Actions */
.prereq:before { content: "Prerequisites "; font-weight: bold; }
.trigger:before { content: "Trigger "; font-weight: bold; }
.freq:before { content: "Frequency "; font-weight: bold; }
.req:before { content: "Requirements "; font-weight: bold; }
.access:before { content: "Access "; font-weight: bold; }
.name { font-style:italic; }
.name:before { content: "Name "; font-weight: bold; font-style:normal; }
.name:after { content: "; "; }
.hands:before { content: "Hands "; font-weight: bold; }
.hands:after { content: "; "; }

/*Labels for Spells */
.traditions:before { content: "Traditions "; font-weight: bold; }
.cast:before { content: "Cast "; font-weight: bold; }
.cost:before { content: "Cost "; font-weight: bold; }
.secondary:before { content: "Secondary Casters "; font-weight: bold; }
.primarycheck:before { content: "Primary Check"; font-weight: bold; }
.secondarychecks:before { content: "Secondary Checks "; font-weight: bold; }
.range { float:left; margin-right:20px;  }
.range:before { content: "Range "; font-weight: bold; }
.targets:before { content: "Targets "; font-weight: bold; }
.area:before { content: "Area "; font-weight: bold; }
.savingthrow:before { content: "Defense "; font-weight: bold; }
.trigger:before { content: "Trigger "; font-weight: bold; }
.duration:before { content: "Duration "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened:before { content: "Heightened "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightenedp1:before { content: "Heightened (+1) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightenedp2:before { content: "Heightened (+2) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightenedp3:before { content: "Heightened (+3) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightenedp4:before { content: "Heightened (+4) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened1:before { content: "Heightened (1st) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened2:before { content: "Heightened (2nd) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened3:before { content: "Heightened (3rd) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened4:before { content: "Heightened (4th) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened5:before { content: "Heightened (5th) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened6:before { content: "Heightened (6th) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened7:before { content: "Heightened (7th) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened8:before { content: "Heightened (8th) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened9:before { content: "Heightened (9th) "; font-weight: bold; }
.heightened10:before { content: "Heightened (10th) "; font-weight: bold; }

/*Labels for Spells */
.perception:before { content: "Perception "; font-weight: bold; }
.languages:before { content: "Languages "; font-weight: bold; }
.skills:before { content: "Skills "; font-weight: bold; }
.str { float:left; margin-right:20px;  }
.str:before { content: "Str "; font-weight: bold; }
.str:after { content: "; "; }
.dex { float:left; margin-right:20px;  }
.dex:before { content: "Dex "; font-weight: bold; }
.dex:after { content: "; "; }
.con { float:left; margin-right:20px;  }
.con:before { content: "Con "; font-weight: bold; }
.con:after { content: "; "; }
.int { float:left; margin-right:20px;  }
.int:before { content: "Int "; font-weight: bold; }
.int:after { content: "; "; }
.wis { float:left; margin-right:20px;  }
.wis:before { content: "Wis "; font-weight: bold; }
.wis:after { content: "; "; }
.cha:before { content: "Cha "; font-weight: bold; }
.ac { float:left; margin-right:19px;  }
.ac:before { content: "AC "; font-weight: bold; }
.ac:after { content: "; "; }
.fort { float:left; margin-right:19px;  }
.fort:before { content: "Fort "; font-weight: bold; }
.fort:after { content: "; "; }
.ref { float:left; margin-right:19px;  }
.ref:before { content: "Ref "; font-weight: bold; }
.ref:after { content: "; "; }
.will:before { content: "Will "; font-weight: bold; }
.hp:before { content: "HP "; font-weight: bold; }
.hp:after { content: "; "; }
.bt:before { content: "BT "; font-weight: bold; }
.bt:after { content: "; "; }
.hardness:before { content: "Hardness "; font-weight: bold; }
.hardness:after { content: "; "; }
.immunities:before { content: "Immunities "; font-weight: bold; }
.immunities:after { content: "; "; }
.weaknesses:before { content: "Weaknesses "; font-weight: bold; }
.weaknesses:after { content: "; "; }
.resistances:before { content: "Resistances "; font-weight: bold; }
.speed { clear:left; }
.speed:before { content: "Speed "; font-weight: bold; }
.melee:before { content: "Melee "; font-weight: bold; }
.melee:after { content: ", "; }
.ranged:before { content: "Ranged "; font-weight: bold; }
.ranged:after { content: ", "; }
.damage { word-break: break-all; }
.damage:before { content: "Damage "; font-weight: bold; }
.innatespells { font-weight: bold; }
.innatespells:after { content: " Innate Spells ";  font-weight: bold; }
.preparedspells { font-weight: bold; }
.preparedspells:after { content: " Prepared Spells ";  font-weight: bold; }
.dc:before { content: "DC ";  }
.dc:after { content: ", ";  }
.spellattack:before { content: "attack ";  }
.spellattack:after { content: "; ";  }
.sp1, .sp2, .sp3, .sp4, .sp5, .sp6, .sp7, .sp8, .sp9, .sp10, .can1, .can2, .can3, .can4, .can5, .can6, .can7, .can8, .can9, .can10 { font-style: italic; }
.sp1:before { content: " 1st "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp2:before { content: " 2nd "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp3:before { content: " 3rd "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp4:before { content: " 4th "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp5:before { content: " 5th "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp6:before { content: " 6th "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp7:before { content: " 7th "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp8:before { content: " 8th "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp9:before { content: " 9th "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.sp10:before { content: " 10th "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can1:before { content: " Cantrips (1st) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can2:before { content: " Cantrips (2nd) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can3:before { content: " Cantrips (3rd) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can4:before { content: " Cantrips (4th) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can5:before { content: " Cantrips (5th) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can6:before { content: " Cantrips (6th) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can7:before { content: " Cantrips (7th) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can8:before { content: " Cantrips (8th) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can9:before { content: " Cantrips (9th) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
.can10:before { content: " Cantrips (10th) "; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }

/* Labels for Hazards */
.stealth:before { content: "Stealth "; font-weight: bold; }
.description:before { content: "Description "; font-weight: bold; }
.disable:before { content: "Disable "; font-weight: bold; }
.routine:before { content: "Routine "; font-weight: bold; }
.reset:before { content: "Reset "; font-weight: bold; }

/* Labels for Items */
.price:before { content: "Price "; font-weight: bold; }
.usage:before { content: "Usage "; font-weight: bold; }
.usage:after { content: "; ";  }
.bulk:before { content: "Bulk "; font-weight: bold; }
.type { font-style:italic; }
.type:before { content: "Type "; font-weight: bold; font-style:normal; }
.level:before { content: "Level "; font-weight: bold; }
.activate:before { content: "Activate "; font-weight: bold; }
.activate:after { content: "; ";  }
.effect:before { content: "Effect "; font-weight: bold; }
.onset:before { content: "Onset "; font-weight: bold; }
.maxduration:before { content: "Maximum Duration "; font-weight: bold; }
.stage1:before { content: "Stage 1 "; font-weight: bold; }
.stage2:before { content: "Stage 2 "; font-weight: bold; }
.stage3:before { content: "Stage 3 "; font-weight: bold; }
.stage4:before { content: "Stage 4 "; font-weight: bold; }
.stage5:before { content: "Stage 5 "; font-weight: bold; }
.stage6:before { content: "Stage 6 "; font-weight: bold; }
.craftrequirements:before { content: "Craft Requirements "; font-weight: bold; }
.quantity:before { content: "Quantity "; font-weight: bold; }
.quantity:after { content: "; "; }
.ammunition:before { content: "Ammunition "; font-weight: bold; }
.special:before { content: "Special "; font-weight: bold; }
.sageadvice:before { content: "Developer Feedback "; font-weight: bold; }
.damage:before { content: "Damage "; font-weight: bold; }
.thrown:before { content: "thrown "; font-weight: bold; }
.criticalspecialization:before { content: "Critical Specialization "; font-weight: bold; }

/* Labels for Cities */
.category:before { content: "Category "; font-weight: bold; }
.powers:before { content: "Powers "; font-weight: bold; }
.inhab:before { content: "Native Inhabitants "; font-weight: bold; }
.faction:before { content: "Factions "; font-weight: bold; }

/* Labels for Planes */
.govern:before { content: "Government "; font-weight: bold; }
.pop:before { content: "Population "; font-weight: bold; }
.emblem:before { content: "Emblems "; font-weight: bold; }
.economy:before { content: "Economy "; font-weight: bold; }
.ruler:before { content: "Ruler "; font-weight: bold; }

/* Labels for Devotee Benefits */
.divine:before { content: "Divine Attribute "; font-weight: bold; }
.font:before { content: "Divine Font "; font-weight: bold; }
.dskill:before { content: "Divine Skill "; font-weight: bold; }
.sanctification:before { content: "Divine Sanctification "; font-weight: bold; }
.weapon:before { content: "Favored Weapon "; font-weight: bold; }
.domains:before { content: "Domains "; font-weight: bold; }
.spells:before { content: "Cleric Spells "; font-weight: bold; }

/* Sidebar */
.smallsidebar { background-image: url("https://pf2.easytool.es/sheets/boxBorder2.png"); background-size: 350px; background-repeat:no-repeat; margin-left:-1em; margin-right:-3em; padding-left:2.6em; padding-right:3em; padding-top:2.5em; display:inline-block; padding-bottom:40px; }
.smallsidebar h5 { text-align:center; padding-bottom:10px; text-transform:uppercase; }
.smallsidebar p, .smallsidebar p+p { background-color: #DBD1BC; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif; margin-left:-10px; padding-left:13px; margin-right:-8px; padding-right:12px; width:309px; margin-top:-11px; }

/* Dual Sidebar */
.dualsidebar { background-image: url("https://www.gmbinder.com/images/M2t21DV.png"), url("https://www.gmbinder.com/images/sVseLe2.png"); background-position: -10% 100%, top left; background-size: 705px,705px; background-repeat:no-repeat; margin-left:0.7em; padding-left:1.75em; padding-right:3.5em; padding-top:3.2em; padding-bottom:40px; margin-right:-35px;}
.phb:nth-child(odd) .dualsidebar { margin-left:-25px !important; margin-right:0px; padding-left:3.5em; padding-right:2em; } /* This code moves tables 35px right on odd pages, avoiding the table overlapping the page's image margin */
.dualsidebar h5 { text-align:center; background-color: #C4B8A0; margin-left:px; margin-right:px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top:5px; margin-bottom:-2px; }
.dualsidebar p, .dualsidebar p+p { background-color: #C4B8A0; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif; margin-left:-17px; padding-left:13px; margin-right:-15px; padding-right:12px; }

/* Red Sidebar */
.redsidebar { border-image-slice:35 41 37 41 fill;border-image-width:60px 60px 60px 60px;border-image-outset:0px 0px 0px 0px;border-image-repeat:stretch stretch;border-image-source:url("https://www.gmbinder.com/images/Gl8LTE9.png"); border-top:32px solid; border-bottom: 32 solid; margin-left:-3em; margin-right:-3em; padding-left:2.6em; padding-right:3em; padding-top:1.5em; padding-bottom:40px;}
.redsidebar h2 { font-family: 'Eczar', sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#CFBF80; background-color: #5E0000; margin-left:-px; margin-right:-8px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top:-5px; margin-bottom:-2px; font-size:1.5em; }
.redsidebar h3 { font-family: 'Eczar', sans-serif; text-align:center; color:WHITE; background-color: #5E0000; margin-left:-px; margin-right:-8px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top:-5px; margin-bottom:-2px; font-size:2em; }
.redsidebar h3 span { text-align:left; }
.redsidebar img { height: 450px; margin-top:-30px; align:right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
.redsidebar h5 { text-align:left; color:white; background-color: #5E0000; margin-left:-px; margin-right:-8px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:-2px; }
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**Designer:** Shawn Bowman     <br><br>
**Play Testers:** Berry Mears, Dustin Mitchell, Jean Mitchell, Preston Pounds, Robert Kirchner, and Steven Schroeder<br><br>
**Cover Art:** Wayne Reynolds<br><br>
**Interior Art:** <br><br>
**Version:** 2.0 <br><br>
**Special Credit:** Anarchopaladin for all his inspiration and work on converting Dark Sun to Pathfinder 2E.

### Optional Rules

Dark Sun characters have always been more powerful than other campaign's characters. Dark Sun uses few alternate rules to represent this impact.

**Automatic Bonus Progression** This variant removes all items bonuses to rolls and DCs provided by magic items and replaces it with a new kind of bonus -- potency-- to reflect a character's innate ability instead.

**Free Archetype** Every character receives a free multiclass archetype at level 2. I recommend the Psychic dedication for all characters to represent the natural psychic ability of all athasians

**Gradual Attribute Boosts** Characters gain attribute boosts more gradually as they level up.

### Copyrighted Content

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**Cover:** *"Pathfinder Roleplaying Game"* by David Alvarez is licensed under **CC BY-NC 4.0**.

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### One-Action Activity

### Two-Action Activity

### Three-Action Activity

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# TABLE OF CONTENTS <img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'>

## 1 Introduction <div class="tocn">4</div>
Athas is a very different world from most fantasy settings. This section covers the things players need to know when adventuring in Dark Sun.

## 2 World of Athas <div class="tocn">7</div>
This section details the important locations in Dark Sun along with the various planes that interact with Athas.  Finally, the section lists the important faiths that characters may worship.

## 3 Ancestries<div class="tocn">27</div>
Choose the people your character belongs to—whether they’re dwarves, elves, halflings, or humans.

## 4 Backgrounds<div class="tocn">123</div>
Choose a background that fleshes out what your character did before becoming an adventurer. Details on languages also appear in this chapter.

## 5 Classes <div class="tocn">139</div>
Bold fighters, devout clerics, scholarly wizards, and inventive alchemists are just a few of the 16 character classes you can select from.

This chapter also details animal companions, familiars, and multiclass archetypes that expand your character’s abilities.

## 6 Feats <div class="tocn">279</div>
Expand your capabilities by selecting general feats that improve your statistics or give you new actions. This chapter includes skill feats, which are tied directly to your skills.

## 7 Equipment <div class="tocn">283</div>

Gear up for adventure with this vast arsenal of armor, weapons, and gear.

## 8 Spells <div class="tocn">299</div>

Learn to kindle magic in the palm of your hand. This section includes the rules for spellcasting, 
hundreds of spell descriptions, focus spells used by certain classes, and rituals.

## 9 Treasure <div class="tocn">309</div>

Information on the various magic items are included in this section.

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<h1 id="intro">Introduction</h3>

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
For thousands of years, the Tablelands have remained untouched: its politics frozen in a delicate stalemate,
its life in a balance even more delicate. It is true that the Sorcerer-Kings amused themselves with their petty
wars, rattling sabers to punctuate the passing of ages. It is true that, occasionally, another city would be
swallowed by the wastes.
 But there were no surprises. The Sorcerer-Kings steered everything from their omnipotent perches, content in their superiority, but ever thirsting for challenge. All that has changed. The Tablelands have been thrown into
turmoil, the likes of which have not been seen since times forgotten. The Sorcerer-Kings have been thrown
into confusion, grasping for the tedium they so recently lamented.  And yet I fear the worst is yet to come. 
Change is in the air, and change has never come gently to Athas.<br>
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Athas’s savage, primal landscape is the result of long centuries of ecological and magical abuses. The world is dying. It breathes its last gasps as water turns to silt, grasslands become sandy wastes, and jungles decay into stony barrens. Still, life finds ways to endure even in these hellish conditions. In fact, it thrives. Children growing up beneath the crimson sun don’t aspire to become heroes. True heroes who champion causes or try to make the world a better place are as rare as steel on Athas. Living to see the next dawn is more important than defending a set of beliefs, so survival ultimately motivates all living creatures—not virtue or righteousness.

Today, Athas rushes toward its future. If the course of destruction is to be diverted, if Athas is to be restored, then heroes must grab the reins of destiny and give new hope and promise to the world. It will not be easy. In fact, it will be extremely difficult. But it is possible. The denizens of the Tablelands have suffered under oppression for thousands of
years, and now, a boiling point has been reached. Perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but someday, change will come.

## Ten Things to Know

Every player needs to know and remember these facts about the world of Athas.

### 1. Dark Sun is Different from<br> Traditional pathfinder<br>
Many monsters, classes, spells, or magic items from the core rulebooks simply are not available in Athas.

Many races are not available because Athas has a very different background than most fantasy settings.

### 2. Tone and Attitude.

Athas puts the survival of the fittest concept to its fullest.

Those who cannot adapt to endure the tyrannical Sorcerer‐Kings, the unrelenting sun, or the many dangers of the wastes will certainly perish.

Illiteracy and slavery are commonplace, while magic is feared and hated. The term “hero” has a very different meaning on Athas.

### 3. A Burnt World.

Thousands of years of reckless spellcasting and epic wars have turned Athas into a barren world, on the verge of an ecological collapse. From the first moments of dawn until the last twinkling of dusk, the crimson sun shimmers in the olive–tinged sky like a fiery puddle of blood, creating temperatures up to 150° F (65° C) by late afternoon. Water is scarce, so most Athasians need to come up with alternative solutions for dealing with the heat or perish.

### 4. A World Without Metal.

Metals are very rare on Athas. Its scarcity has forced Athasians to rely on barter and different materials, such as ceramic, to use as currency. It also hampers industrial and economic development as well; mills and workshops rarely have quality tools to produce everyday products.

Even though most Athasians have developed ways of creating weapons and armor made of nonmetallic components, the advantage of having metal equipment in battle is huge.

### 5. The Will and The Way.

From the lowliest slave to the most powerful Sorcerer‐King, psionics pervade all levels of Athasian society. Virtually every individual has some mental ability, and every city‐state has some sort of psionic academy available. Athasians use the term Will to refer to someone’s innate ability for psionics and the Way for the study of psionics.

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### 6. A World Without Gods.

Athas is a world without true deities. Powerful Sorcerer‐Kings often masquerade as gods but, though their powers are great and their worshippers many, they are not true gods. Arcane magic requires life force, either from plants or animals, to be used. All divine power comes from the Elemental Planes and primarily power from the Spirits of the Land that inhabit geographic features.

### 7. Planar Insulation.

Barriers exist between Athas and other planes. In the case of other planes of existence, the Gray impedes planar travel, except to the Elemental Planes. Consequently, travel via spell jamming is impossible, and planar travel is much more difficult.  The same holds true for those trying to contact or reach Athas. The barrier formed by the Gray impedes travel in both directions.

### 8. The Struggle For Survival.

The basic necessities of life are scarce on Athas. This means that every society must devote itself to attaining food and safeguarding its water supply, while protecting themselves from raiding tribes, monsters, and other city‐states. This essentially means that most Athasian must devote a large deal of their lives just to survive.

### 9. The Seven City‐states.

The Tyr Region is the center of the world of Athas, at least as far as the people of the seven city‐states are concerned. It’s here, along the shores of the Silt Sea and in the shadows of the Ringing Mountains that civilization clings to a few scattered areas of fertile land and fresh water.

The majority of the population lives in the city‐states of Tyr, Urik, Raam, Draj, Nibenay, Gulg, and Balic. The remainder live in remote villages built around oases and wells or wander about in nomadic tribes searching for what they need to survive.

### 10. New Races and Classes

In addition to the common player character races found in the *Core Rulebook*, players can choose to play aarakocra, dray, half‐giant, mul, and thri‐kreen in Dark Sun. Aarakocra are bird people that fly above the wastes.  Dray are a dragon like race created by the Sorcerer-King Dregoth.  Half‐giants are creatures with great strength, but dull wits.

A mul is a hybrid race that combines the natural dwarven resilience and stubbornness with the adaptability from humans. Thri‐kreen are insectoid creatures that roam the Athasian wastes in search for prey. The following races do not exist on Athas and therefore are not playable races: gnome, goblin, and other races listed in any other sourcebooks.

There is one new class to pick, psychic warrior. However, with that there is a few classes from the Pathfinder that are not playable classes: bard, gunslinger, inventor, sorcerer, thaumaturge, and witch. In most cases a class is exactly as described in the Pathfinder unless otherwise noted in their brief descriptions. Due to the nature of magic (both arcane and divine) on this world the landscape for typical wizards, and clerics have changed dramatically.

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# The World of Athas

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The world of Athas is an interconnected network of City-States, Merchant Houses, and villages. Ancient grudges and fresh wounds simmer after the death of Sorcerer-King Kalak. Tensions are high, and the need for heroes is desperate.<br>
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The world of Dark Sun is focused on the Tyr region of Athas. Seven City-States dominate and control most of the Tyr region: Balic, Draj, Gulg, Nibenay, Raam, Tyr, and Urik. Recently the ancient city of Kemalok has been found and has brought new hope to the Tyr region.  Most PCs will start in the Tyr region, one of the major humanoid population centers of Athas.

## Tyr Region

The Tyr region has been divided amongst the powerful City-States across the region.  These City-States are generally ruled by a Sorcerer King or Queen. Almost all races can be found in a City-State but halflings and Thri-Kreen are generally not native to the cities.  Smaller villages and outposts dot the Tyr region and may be independent or under the control of a merchant house or City-State.

#### Tyr<div class="label">City-State</div>

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<div class="rule govern">Council of Advisors</div>
<div class="rule pop">15,000 (70% human, 10% dwarf, 6% mul, 3% elf, 1% half-elf, 9% half-giant, 1% thri-kreen, a few halflings) another 15,000 exist in the fields and noble estates surrounding Tyr. Natives called “Tyrians”. </div>
<div class="rule emblem">Formerly Kalak's profile, currently a star on purple background</div>
<div class="rule economy">Iron, silk </div>
<div class="rule faction">Freemen, Guildsmen, Nobles, Templars </div>
<div class="rule ruler">King Tithian</div>
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<div class="rule">
As far as most Athasians are concerned, Tyr has always existed. Certainly, it has endured through the entire Desert Age, and even with the fall of its sorcerer-king, it seems likely to endure for centuries to come. And throughout all the long years of its existence, it was a city-state enslaved. That has all changed. In the courts of the other city-states, rumors of King Kalak’s overthrow are only whispered, but in Tyr, the repercussions howl through the streets. Many scheme to succeed Kalak, and the 
templars and other power groups vying for control struggle to keep the city-state from disintegrating into anarchy at the hands of people eager to enjoy their freedom. Nobles and merchants clamor for influence, and commoners and freed slaves openly celebrate, challenging civic authority and social boundaries at every turn. Tyr hunkers within high walls in the middle of the fertile Tyr Valley, which lies in the foothills of the Ringing Mountains. From miles away, a traveler can make out the massive spires of the Golden Tower rising over the city state’s walls.</div>

### City-State Lore
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Most PCs will be natives of one of the City-States of Athas. This nationality will likely be an important part of their character.  Some characters will gain a City-State Lore based on their background.</div><br><br><br>

### City-State Dialect
<div style='margin-top:1px'>The Common language in Athas has various dialects. Each City-State has its own dialect and travelers will often use the trade tongue when speaking in other City-States.  When picking languages, consider the languages local to your home region.</div><br><br>

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Not far from the tower, a brick step-pyramid soars above the walls: the Ziggurat of Kalak, multicolored and resplendent under the desert sun. The city walls are parched sandstone, smoothed by time and centuries of continual repair. Beyond Tyr loom the ramparts of the Ringing Mountains, whose topmost peaks glint with a dusting of snow during the months of Sun Descending.</div>

#### Urik<div class="label">City-State</div>

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<div class="rule govern">Sorcerer King</div>
<div class="rule pop">32,000 (75% human, 3% dwarf, 6% mul, 2% elf, 1% half-elf, 10% half-giant, 3% thri-kreen, and 1% halfling). Natives called “Urikites” or the slightly derogatory “Uri”.</div>
<div class="rule emblem">Hamanu’s face; Hamanu in battle dress; Hamanu surrounded by red fire; and so on.</div>
<div class="rule economy">Obsidian, water, slaves, silk, pottery </div>
<div class="rule ruler">King Hamanu</div>
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Located in the hilly region northeast of Tyr, between the Dragon’s Bowl and the Smoking Crown Mountains, the square, clean lines of the city-state of Urik can be found. Urik sits in a fertile belt maintained by careful irrigation from deep wells. Grain fields and fruit-bearing orchards surround the city-state in neat rows. Urik gleams, its stone walls steeped in yellow pigment made from the 
sulfurous waters of the nearby Lake of Golden  Dreams. Statues of bold, bipedal lions march to war across its walls. Lion heads carved from stone serve as merlons atop the dizzying walls, where sentries stand guard, bows never far from their hands. As much an imposing fortress as it is a city-state, Urik is protected by intimidating walls and fearless defenders. </div>

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Four gates offer access to the city. The Slave Gate sees heavy traffic, including caravans bound to and from the obsidian mines in the Smoking Crown. Nobles and templars enter and exit through High Gate, and most other visitors pass in and out through the Obsidian Gate and the King’s Gate. Half-giant guards, archers, and war templars staff the towers at each gate and rigorously question all who enter. Most of Urik is a place of straight roads and clean lines. Bricks pave the streets. In most districts, 
houses and buildings are uniform, nearly identical except for writing that designates the function or owner. A visitor unaccustomed to Urik’s style can easily become lost. In addition, one finds Hamanu’s likeness everywhere. The yellow and white glazed walls feature brilliant murals that capture the Mighty King’s many exploits. The sorcerer king has spared no expense in ensuring that the people do not forget who rules.

The hills surrounding Urik are mostly barren, but extensive irrigation transforms the land into arable soil. Grain fields, orchards, and vineyards create surprising greenery beneath the looming brown hills. Four roads emerge from the city-state and cross this verdant tract. The wide, winding Obsidian Way climbs toward the Smoking Crown and Urik’s obsidian mines. The High Road leads 
west toward Makla, Urik’s most important client village. The Trade Way travels south to the Silver Spring Oasis, and the Road of Kings travels east to Raam.

If you visit Urik, be very careful to obey all of Hamanu’s laws and keep some gold hidden securely away just in case you must bribe a templar for your freedom. Few fates are worse than being sold into slavery to work in the quarry pits. The sharp edges of the glassy stone will slice your fingers, hands, and arms to a point of uselessness within days.</div>

#### Balic<div class="label">City-State</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Sorcerer King</div>
<div class="rule pop">27,500 (80% human, 8% dwarf, 3% mul, 4% elf, 4% half-giant, 1% thri-kreen, a few half-elves and halflings); 5% patricians, 55% freemen, 40% slaves). Natives are called “Balikites”. </div>
<div class="rule emblem">Sun, sheaves of grain (in peace); sword, shield (in war).</div>
<div class="rule economy">Grain, salt, olives, kank nectar, livestock, leather, silver.</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Dictator Andropinis</div>
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<div class="rule">
A wealthy mercantile city-state on the shores of the Estuary of the Forked Tongue, Balic is under the control of Dictator Andropinis, a sorcerer-king who claims to have been elected to his throne over seven hundred years ago. Despite the dictator’s grip, Balic is perhaps the most affluent city-state in the Tyr Region and is home to powerful merchant houses that bring great wealth 
to Balicans fortunate enough to share in the prosperity. The business of Balic is business, and for the most part, Andropinis does not interfere in routine affairs of nobles or merchant emporiums.

The city is renowned for its democratic traditions. Balic’s nobles are seated in a Chamber of Patricians that creates and maintains the code of laws, and its templars must stand for election to 10-year terms. The various professional guilds (and Balic’s chapter of the Veiled Alliance, for that matter) conduct their business by taking votes and electing officers; even the dictator is, in theory, elected. Much of this democracy, however, is little more than an illusion.

The office of dictator is held for life, and Andropinis has endured in his position now for centuries. Public debate and discourse is allowed, but only up to a point. Any direct criticism of the dictator or his templars is dealt with harshly, and the patricians learned long ago to pass only those laws that meet with 
the dictator’s approval.

Balic enjoys a cultural heritage and a civic mythology dating back thousands of years, which finds expression in a public appreciation for poetry and drama. The mythology still lives in the form of powerful arcane vestiges; Andropinis and his templars are masters of manipulation. The cultural heritage is evident in the dozens of theaters throughout the city-state, which run the gamut from crowded, ramshackle stage-houses in the poorer quarters to magnificent amphitheaters in the noble districts. In Balic, 
talented playwrights and orators can win acclaim equal to that held by the greatest gladiators as long as they steer clear of subject matter that the dictator’s templars might find offensive.</div>

#### Raam<div class="label">City-State</div>

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<div class="rule govern">Sorcerer Queen</div>
<div class="rule pop">40,000 (40% human, 20% dwarf, 10% mul, 15% elf, 5% half-elf, 5% half-giant, 4% thri-kreen, 1% halfling: 5% priests, 10% templars and soldiers, 20% merchants, artisans, and landowners, 60% servants and laborers, 5% untouchable). Natives are called “Raamites” or “Raamish”.</div>
<div class="rule emblem">Abalach-Re’s face; Badna, a four-armed man in a long loincloth.</div>
<div class="rule economy">Silver, gems, flint; jute, a fibrous plant; silk, carpets, textiles, art</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Grand Vizier Abalach-Re</div>
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<div class="rule">
Ancient and magnificent, Raam has fallen far from its formerly wondrous heights. Centuries of plundering the countryside for its resources, rampant corruption in its government, and the rule of a hedonistic and disinterested sorcerer-queen have brought the city-state to the brink of disintegration. The alabaster quarries and gemstone mines stand exhausted; reckless agricultural practices have led to disastrous food shortages. In the streets, violent factions sworn to one warlord or another battle for control as the once vibrant and influential city slips into ruin. Mobs riot daily against their ineffectual ruler, the sorcerer-queen 
Abalach-Re, and her templars dare not set foot in some of the city’s districts.

The present difficulties might have been averted by a strong hand, but Abalach-Re had less interest in ruling than in feeding her insatiable appetite for pleasure. Generations ago, she abandoned her royal title and declared herself to be the representative of an all-powerful deity known as Badna.

Calling herself the Grand Vizier, a title normally held by Raam’s greatest mystics, she razed 
the city’s existing shrines and temples, replacing them with new shrines dedicated to Badna. The deity’s image – that of a grinning, four-armed male dressed in a long loincloth – appears all over the city-state. Abalach-Re continues to assure the citizens that Badna watches her closely and will strike her dead if she falters in her duties, but few believe her anymore.

More than 40,000 people live in Raam, making it the most populous of the city-states. Another 40,000 or so dwell in the warlord-dominated estates surrounding the city. Humans constitute less than half the population. </div>

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<div class="rule">
Elves and dwarves are the most numerous minorities, and muls, half-giants, and half-elves make up most of the rest.

Raam draws water from a deep reservoir below the city, which provides enough to sustain the populace and irrigate the fields beyond.

Although the renowned mines have been picked clean and the current troubles have all but paralyzed trade, Raam retains enough commodities to lure merchants. The city exports silver, gemstones, flint, silk, rugs, art, and textiles, among other goods.

The mansabdars form the heart of the largest army in the Tyr Region, leading thousands of wretched slave soldiers. In addition, Abalach-Re hoards weapons, armor, and equipment in an enormous armory beneath her palace.</div><br>

#### Nibenay<div class="label">City-State</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Sorcerer King</div>
<div class="rule pop">24,000 (60% human, 10% dwarf, 4% mul, 10% elf, 4% half-elf, 12% half-giant, a few thri-kreen and halflings). Natives are called “Nibenese”.</div>
<div class="rule emblem"> Many monsters, both real and imaginary; highly conventionalized representations of nobles, and the 
sorcerer-king; all integrated in a complex folklore.</div>
<div class="rule economy">Copper, rice, fruit, vanilla, spices, betel nut, timber, hardwood weapons, linen, and dyes</div>
<div class="rule ruler">The Shadow King</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Nibenay is a city of stark contrasts, a volatile place of fleeting fortunes in the shadow of an ancient culture. The merchant houses of this decadent city never close their largest and most opulent emporiums, and any object or experience may be purchased for the right price. Once a city of seemingly limitless possibilities for the free citizen class, opportunities Nibenay are now dwindling.

The city has a distant and stoic past. Its remote noble class, to whom blood is cheaper than water and nothing more precious than the fertile land of their fields, preserves the city's most ancient traditions. In Nibenay, the lucky are rewarded and the rest are swallowed whole.

All around the city is evidence of the ancient culture that Nibenay was built upon. Modern Nibenese construction surrounds and intermingles with ancient ruins and edifices. Some of these old sites are abandoned, but others remain occupied by the city's masses.

Of all the rulers of Athas, the sorcerer-king Nibenay (who gave his name to his city) is perhaps the least involved in the day-to-day management of his empire. He has, over the centuries, established an amazingly competent bureaucracy that allows him to focus his attention on the study of dark magic instead of the mundane matters of government. Nibenay's reclusiveness has earned him 
the title of Shadow King from his people. He spends virtually all of his time in his walled sub-city, called the Naggaramakam, which lies at the center of Nibenay. From here, his templar-wives manage the day-to-day affairs of the kingdom.

Nibenay believes in the delegation of responsibility and management through precisely designed systems. This belief results in a powerful, impersonal bureaucracy that runs smoothly and destroys those caught beneath its wheels.</div><br><br>

#### Gulg<div class="label">City-State</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Sorcerer Queen</div>
<div class="rule pop">8,500 (80% human, 5% dwarf, 3% mul, 7% elf, 3% half-elf, 2% thri-kreen, a few halflings and half-giant slaves; 5% templars, 15% nobility, 20% noble kin, 60% slave). Natives are called “Gulgs”.</div>
<div class="rule emblem"> The hegbo, a large lizard regarded as a loyal guardian of its young; also, many abstract symbols.</div>
<div class="rule economy"> Hunting, livestock; fruit, vanilla, cloves, spices, nuts; copra; textiles, feathers; some furs and hardwoods.</div>
<div class="rule ruler">The Oba Lalali-Puy</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Gulg is a city that has, through the effort of its ruler, been remarkably resistant to change. The queen has created a stable if not stagnant society that, while delicately balanced, has continued to suppress the vehicles of change – including free mercantile activity. The city is a pleasant enough place to live for natives, but of all the cities in the Tyr region, Gulg is the least hospitable to strangers.

Gulgs live by relatively simple means in a culture that stresses respect for the wisdom of elders, veneration of the hunt, and individual conformity. The people of Gulg are taught to respect the forest of their queen and to live within the strict confines of the rituals and customs that dictate their behavior. This respect, however, is more a testimony to the power of superstition and an oppressive culture than lightened impulse to act as custodians of the planet.

Outsiders often romanticize Gulg as having the only ruler who enjoys the popular support of her people. While this is true in some regard, the oba enjoys that support for three simple reasons. First, they believe she is a goddess embodying the life of the forest whose appeasement benefits the life of the community. Second, they rightly believe that she is all that stands between them and 
slavery in the city-state of their ancient enemy, Nibenay. Last, the stifling culture of the city is so ingrained in the public consciousness that the people would be hard pressed to even imagine a different life. The people of Gulg do indeed love and fear their oba.

A visitor to Gulg may become discouraged at the confusing customs and suspiciousness of the natives. There are, however, many small and fascinating pockets within the city that will reward the curiosity of the persistent seeker, not least of which is the city-state's ruler. Gulgs believe their queen is an immortal of supreme power. Lalali-Puy (pronounced la-la-lee-pie, meaning forest 
goddess) is called oba by her people. She is a stunningly beautiful woman with luxurious black hair, and she has not appeared to age a day in all the centuries of her rule.

Her influence can be felt in all aspects of Gulg life. The leafy crown of her palace, built amid the branches of an enormous agafari tree, can be seen from virtually any point in the city Common greetings invoke the protection of the forest woman with luxurious black hair. Her decrees prescribe and regulate all aspects of the behavior of her subjects. The entire forest and everything in it belongs to her. The city of Gulg survives only by her will.</div><br>

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#### Draj<div class="label">City-State</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Sorcerer King</div>
<div class="rule pop"> 17,000 (60% human, 15% dwarf, 5% mul, 15% elf, 3% half-elf, 2% half-giant, a few thri-kreen and 
halflings; 40% freemen, 60% slave, fractional percentages of nobles and Moon Priests). Natives are called “Draji” 
or “the Draj.</div>
<div class="rule emblem">  Feathered serpent, smoking mirror, jaguar, and other ferocious creatures</div>
<div class="rule economy"> Wheat, rice, other grains, hemp; turkeys, rabbits, textiles, straw mats, and pottery.</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Father of Life, Tectuktitlay</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Draj is a backwater city-state held firmly in the grasp of a mad sorcerer-king. Draj has never known peace, for warfare and conflict are among its highest ideals. Warriors hold power, and their status is something all aspire to attain. When not waging war against Raam or defending their home from reprisals or conquest, Draji raiders prowl the surrounding wastes, plundering villages for fresh slaves to replace those expended in labor or sacrifice.

Draj owes its sinister nature to its sorcerer-king. Tectuktitlay, the Father of Life, is a pervasive presence in the city-state. His visage adorns walls and buildings, his symbol ripples on banners, and his templars (known as moon priests) are everywhere, enforcing his laws and instructing the people in his perfect divinity. No one would suggest it, but in fact, the sorcerer-king’s features have little majesty. Tectuktitlay has narrow eyes, a wide nose, heavy jowls, and round, pouty lips. Other regal images include the feathered serpent found on banners carried by soldiers in war. The jasuan, or ambush drake, also has a place of prominence in Draj.

Tectuktitlay’s influence is so insidious that most Draji dare not question his divinity, doubt the deeds attributed to him, or disobey the commands given by his moon priests. All citizens know that dissent invites this ire, and his anger can be quelled only by blood sacrifice.

The boggy mudflats surrounding Draj release little usable water, but deep wells in the Gift tap into the water table below.

Draj is an agricultural center, with abundant grain and hemp fields that can feed the city-state many times over. Textiles such as cotton, linen, and silk are major exports. The city’s distance from Tyr means that some commodities, specifically metal goods, are hard to acquire.

The city-state has an enormous military. Some five hundred jasuan knights make up the core of the defense and receive support from another three thousand lesser warriors. The moon priests can press slaves into service if they see the need to do so.</div><br>

## The Tablelands

#### Altaruk<div class="label">City 12</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Governor</div>
<div class="rule pop">2,000  </div>
<div class="rule economy"> trading outpost for three merchant houses</div>
<div class="rule faction">Merchant Houses Wavir, Rees, and Tomblador </div>
<div class="rule ruler">Governor Sartaj</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Balican merchant dynasties of Wavir, Rees, and Tomblador sponsor this fortified town of about two thousand souls astride the trade route that connects Balic with Tyr. Desperate raiders wait in ambush in the stony barrens and rocky badlands that surround the village, but Altaruk's well-paid mercenaries drive off any bandits they find lurking within half a day's travel of the town's gates.

This protection is not free to travelers. All who want to enter Altaruk must pay a toll of 1 gp per visitor (including each beast of burden). But for those inside the 15-foot-high walls, Altaruk offers stables, room and board, trade opportunities between merchant houses, and gossip from all corners of the Tablelands. Only the largest and fiercest raiding tribes would consider attacking Altaruk, but rumor has it that giants of the Estuary of the Forked Tongue are gathering to strike at the town. It's happened before.</div><br>

#### Grak's Pool<div class="label">Village 4</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Mercenary Leader</div>
<div class="rule pop">500  </div>
<div class="rule economy"> ex-raider village</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Warlord Grak</div>
</div>

Midway between Altaruk and Ledopolus stands a mud-brick fortress built over a natural spring. Because surface water is rare anywhere on Athas, Grak’s Pool is a welcome stop for travelers. Grak, a half-elf warrior of some renown, commands a band of mercenaries based here. He allows visitors to set up camp around the outskirts of his fortress, but his water is not free. He charges travelers 5 
cp per drink and 20 cp per bath.

Below the fortress and the spring, a foundation of older ruins extends beneath the stony barrens of the surrounding landscape. Grak and his mercenaries have explored only a portion of these tangled, echoing tunnels. Spine-chilling roars sometimes echo up from the deep passages below Grak’s Pool. Their awful resonance has been sufficient to keep the mercenaries from venturing too far beneath 
the fortress.</div>

#### Hidden Village<div class="label">Village 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Governor</div>
<div class="rule pop">500  </div>
<div class="rule economy"> ex-raider village</div>
<div class="rule ruler">General Bartras</div>
</div>

The tribe of ex-slaves known as the Free established the Hidden Village in a remote crater in the foothills between Tyr and Urik. Since the village was originally founded, the tribe has advanced from a band of raiders to a well-to-do small trading house. The village remains hidden to protect it from nearby Urik, but tribe members confidently travel to Tyr on a regular basis and have become a client village of the Free City.

Though “Hidden Village” remains the name of the community, there has been a push to call the village “Freedom.” This isn’t a high priority on Governor Drog’s or Trade Master Bartras’s list of things to do, however. Opening trade routes to the west is, and the Free have begun negotiating with the pterran villages of the Hinterlands on behalf of Tyr. House Vordon wants to establish an exclusive trade agreement with the pterrans, however, and may cause trouble for the ex-slaves.</div>

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#### Kemalok<div class="label">City 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Monarchy</div>
<div class="rule pop">5,000 (90% dwarf, 5% mul, 5% other) </div>
<div class="rule emblem"> </div>
<div class="rule economy"> obsidian, stone, grain</div>
<div class="rule faction">Elemental Temples, Geniekin </div>
<div class="rule ruler">King Escanor</div>
</div>

Once the dwarven settlement of Kled. The Dwarves along with a group of adventurers were able to rediscover the ancient dwarven citadel of Kemalok. Escanor and a group of adventurers from House Ardinay were able to drive out an elemental cult set on destroying the Tyr region. During their adventurers Escanor was able to find the legendary Axe of the Dwarvish Lords and was proclaimed King of the dwarves on Athas.

Dwarves from all over the Tyr region have been moving to the city.  Kemalok has a plentiful supply of water and the fields in a nearby valley produce abundant grain.  Near the old village of Kled it is surrounded by fields of cactus that provide the dwarves fruit and sustenance for their herds of kip.

Along with an obsidian mine the dwarves have also been mining the surrounding area providing granite and other stone to the city-states.</div>

#### Kra-Hnur<div class="label">Client Village 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Raiding Tribe</div>
<div class="rule pop">500  </div>
<div class="rule economy"> goats. erdlu </div>
<div class="rule ruler">The Great Kra</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Home to an aggressive tribe of half-giant raiders, the hold of Kra-Hnur lies in a hanging valley about halfway between Tyr and Walis. Crude stone fortifications barricade the path leading up from the valley to the stronghold. The half-giants keep large flocks of goats and erdlus in the high pastures behind their walls, along with several hundred thralls of other races – captives taken in 
raids on the lowlands.

The leader of the tribe, a huge, one-eyed half giant war chief known as the Great Kra, is far cleverer than his brutish appearance would suggest. The Great Kra spent his youth serving in the royal guard of King Kalak of Tyr, and when he returned home, he seized control of his tribe. He despises humans, elves, and other “weaklings,” and he personally leads his warriors on raids. The Kra-Hnurdha tribe primarily strikes at caravans on the Trade Road and isolated villages and outposts in the Tablelands. However, 
with the recent chaos in Tyr, the Great Kra has turned his eye on the client villages clustering within the city’s verdant belt.</div><br>

#### Walis<div class="label">Client Village 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Oversight by merchant house</div>
<div class="rule pop">200  </div>
<div class="rule economy"> gold </div>
<div class="rule ruler">House Tomblador</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The small village of Walis, hidden in a canyon in the foothills of the Ringing Mountains, controls one of the only active gold mines in all of Athas. It sits atop a high spire of rock that can only be reached via a cargo bucket operated by the villagers. House Tomblador of Balic runs the village and the gold mine, and its mercenaries protect the Gold Road that leads to Altaruk. A company of six defilers live in the village and protect it from attack.</div>

## The Ivory Triangle

#### Cromlin<div class="label">Trading Village 10</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Oversight by merchant house</div>
<div class="rule pop">200  </div>
<div class="rule economy"> trade </div>
<div class="rule ruler">Master Trader Hurdll Crost</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Originally a trading post created by House Shorn, the village of Cromlin has prospered despite the decline in its founder's fortunes. The silt sailors of Cromlin have charted hidden paths through the treacherous dust of the Bay of Maray, giving them easy access to the villages on the bay's northern shores. Light cargoes bound for Raam or Draj (or heading southward to Nibenay) can go by silt skimmer, shaving weeks of time from the normal journey.

As one of House Shom's last profitable outposts, the authorities here tend to turn a blind eye to the shady practices of anyone who remains to do business with them. Elf merchants from the Sky Singer tribe, nomads, and other traders such as those from Tenpug's Band all bring their wares to Cromlin. Stealing from Shom's emporiums brings harsh punishment, as does raiding a caravan heading to or from the village, but it's fair game to rob unaffiliated travelers or attack caravans that pass through the Black Spine Mountains. These lax laws make Cromlin a haven for smugglers, slavers, pirates, and elves – rogues and scoundrels of all sorts call the place home.</div>

#### Fort Fyra<div class="label">Trading Fortress 7</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Oversight by merchant house</div>
<div class="rule pop">300  </div>
<div class="rule economy"> salt </div>
<div class="rule ruler">Master Trader Fyra</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Fort Fyra is the sole trading fortress of House Fyra. This small outpost is little more than a trading post at which those interested in trading for salt can meet with the merchants of the house. Most of the house staff and workers are employed in the slow. dangerous work of mining salt, so few house members are available to assemble traditional trade caravans. As a result, House 
Fyra is almost totally dependent on other houses’ caravans willingness to trade with them.

House Fyra is also a symbol of the hypocrisy of the city-states. When Salt View first began to grow into a stable village. the oba Lalali-Puy and the Shadow King barred any house which traded in their cities from trading with this center of raiding activity. It serves no merchant’s interest to trade with raiders.

However, as Salt View began to show some promise as a legitimate trade partner, House Wavir of Balic ignored the ban. The houses based in Gulg and Nibenay obeyed the edict until Fort Fyra was established. The merchant houses who trade with Salt View through Fort Fyra maintain the polite fiction that the two are entirely separate entities. While House Wavir has been most forward thinking in their efforts to lead the ex-slaves away from their dependency of raiding, 
some other houses will trade with Fyra to the extent that it serves their own interests, and to the extent that it will protect their caravans from attack by the ex-slaves. The rulers of Nibenay and Gulg have authorized trade with Fort Fyra at the discretion of their Templars.</div>

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#### Fort Harbeth<div class="label">Trading Fortress 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Oversight by merchant house</div>
<div class="rule pop">50  </div>
<div class="rule economy">dwarven goods, erdlu, spice </div>
<div class="rule ruler">Master Trader Waltian Inika</div>
</div>

Fort Harbeth is the major fort of House Inika in the Ivory Triangle region. The fortress is in the southwestern foothills of the Mekillot Mountains, at the intersection of the caravan routes between Gulg, Salt View, and North Ledopolus. It stands at the top of a large hill in the stony barrens, its rear and sides protected not only by the fortress wall but also by the sheer sides of the hill which act as natural palisades. A winding road brings caravans up the hillside to the main gate. In keeping with the traditions of this house, its defenses are quietly understated, but the nomads and raiders of the Triangle have learned better than to attack this powerful fort.</div>

#### Fort Inix<div class="label">Merchant Fortress 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Oversight by merchant house</div>
<div class="rule pop">275  </div>
<div class="rule economy">inix </div>
<div class="rule ruler">Master Trader Pevuran Bollos</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
House Shom’s largest fortress east of Nibenay is Fort Inix. Once a major caravan stop, it has been all but useless for decades. It is, however, one of the oldest active merchant fortresses in the Tyr region and controls a strategic oasis in the northern part of the Ivory Triangle region.

Fort Inix can be found at an oasis 30 miles east of Nibenay, just south of the Blackspine Mountains. It lies in a transition zone where the salt flats of the Great Ivory Plain change to the sandy wastes that dominate this region of the Tablelands. The fort itself sits upon a man-made hill.

The Fort Inix oasis is most fertile in the season of sun ascending and early high sun. At this time, the immediate region is filled with flowers, small brush, and other light vegetation. By the end of the high sun season, however, the land has all but dried completely, with only a few deep wells producing water.</div>

#### Losthome<div class="label">Village 4</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">slave village</div>
<div class="rule pop">50  </div>
<div class="rule economy">hunter-gatherers</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Chief Zivlil</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The halfling slave village of Losthome is a relatively recent addition to the Crescent Forest. The oba’s halfling slave project is less than five years old, and the majority of the inhabitants of Losthome are escapees from this program. Despite its relative youth, it has become a sizable community, with over 50 halflings living in the central portion of the Crescent Forest. While many of the halflings wish to return to their home in the jungles beyond the Ringing Mountains, thus far none have made the terrible journey across the Tablelands. Slowly the Crescent Forest, and Losthome, is becoming their true home.</div><br>

#### Outpost 19<div class="label">Village 7</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Oversight by merchant house</div>
<div class="rule pop">19  </div>
<div class="rule economy">trading</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Master Trader Ragstol Wavir</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Outpost 19 is a small trading outpost in a stony canyon at the northeastern end of the Mekillot Mountains. Established by House Wavir primarily for caravans traveling between Nibenay and North Ledopolus, Outpost 19 now also conducts a significant amount of business with Fort Fyra.</div><br>

#### Salt View<div class="label">Village 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Slave Tribe</div>
<div class="rule pop">500  </div>
<div class="rule economy">performance, raiding</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Chief Xaynon</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The village of Salt View, nestled in the Mekillot Mountains, is a chaotic sprawl of tents and buildings located within a large cavern on the mountain’s eastern face. Ex- slaves of all races fill the community. The tribe originally practiced raiding as its primary occupation, but today it’s known for a lavish form of storytelling called theater. Salt View’s traveling theater troupes are welcome across the Tyr Region, though they present themselves as free merchants from the independent House Fyra (a cover for Salt View activities). The troupes perform for caravans, at oasis villages, and even in the city-states of Tyr, Nibenay, and Balic.</div><br>

## Estuary of the Forked Tongue

#### Ledopolus<div class="label">Town 10</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">dwarven merchants</div>
<div class="rule pop">3000  </div>
<div class="rule economy">trading outpost</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Master Builder Bruthambar</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The twin towns of North Ledopolus (population 1,000) and South Ledopolus (population 2,000) sit on the shores opposite the island of Ledo. Many dwarves live in these towns, and they are engaged in a great project – the construction of bridges to span the northern fork of the estuary and replace the silt skimmer ferry. The dwarf Bruthambar, chief of the Rockcutter clan, is the head 
builder and master of the towns. He is a pugnacious ex-mercenary whose bluff good cheer is wearing thin after years of setbacks and obstacles.

The giants that inhabit Ledo, a key stepping-stone for any bridge across the estuary, have already torn down two previous bridging attempts. The giants believe that the bridge is a scheme to gain access to their island's valuable flint deposits. Attempts to bribe them into allowing the construction have proved fruitless. Competing merchant houses make the situation even more difficult. The Wavir and Inika trade posts in Ledopolus favor the bridge, but the head of the Tomblador outpost secretly fans the giants' fears.</div><br>

## Road of Kings

#### Ket<div class="label">Client Village 8</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Draji Templars</div>
<div class="rule pop">200  </div>
<div class="rule economy">trading outpost</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Master Templar Harask</div>
</div>

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<div class="rule">
Seventy miles northeast of Bitter Well sits the large village of Ket, known to dune traders as the last outpost of civilization in this corner of the Tyr Region. The half legendary cities of Kurn and Eldaarich are many days' travel to the north, and trade with those distant realms is infrequent. Ket lies in a large mudflat covered in tall grasses, trees, and brush. A silt basin surrounds the flat, and a mile-long wooden causeway spans the dust, linking Ket to the Road of Kings. Ket is a client village of Draj, 
and Draji warriors stationed here protect the settlement from attacks by giants.</div><br>

#### Makla<div class="label">Client Village 8</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Urikite military</div>
<div class="rule pop">1700  </div>
<div class="rule economy">obsidian</div>
<div class="rule ruler">Captain Raqqaq</div>
</div>

Makla is a Urikite town of 700 freemen (and another 500-1000 slaves) which sits in the foothills of the Smoking Crown mountains and near the Lake of Golden Dreams.

From Makla, seven obsidian-mine camps sit within a day’s travel (and three more within another day), and as such Makla provides a staging ground for resupplying the mining camps with food, water, tools, and slaves and as a central distribution point for obsidian that comes out of the Smoking Crown mountains.

Generally, merchant caravans will arrive in Makla with supplies, sell them to citizens or various mining concerns, and then load up with obsidian to ferry back to Urik (about 4-5 days’ journey away).

The Urikite military has a large presence in Makla, with a garrison of ~100 soldiers who provide security for the town (both patrolling its streets and protecting it from bandits or rival city-states), though at any given time half of them are on patrol somewhere between Makla and the various mining camps. 20 halflings attached to the garrison serve as scouts and slave-trackers. The garrison is commanded by Captain Raqqaq, a cold and effective thri-kreen.</div><br>

## Hinterlands

#### Pterran Vale<div class="label">Village 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Pterran Triumvirate</div>
<div class="rule pop">4000  </div>
<div class="rule economy">farming and hunting</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Pterran Vale is by far the largest settlement, with 4,000 permanent residents. The pterrans live in lodges built over hollowed out pits. The lodges are made using bones and hides taken from the larger creatures wandering the Hinterlands, including mekillots and Inixs. The pterrans farm, hunt, and raise herds. They are also fine crafters, making some of the best bone weapons and tools in the known world.</div><br>

#### Lost Scale<div class="label">Village 7</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Pterran Triumvirate</div>
<div class="rule pop">2000  </div>
<div class="rule economy">farming and hunting</div>

</div>

Lost Scale consists of only 2,000 villagers. Originally, the community was established after the pterrans had a split along religious lines. Some continued toward the Tablelands and became the primitive pterrans that still reside there today. Others settled the village of Lost Scale. The disagreements that led to the split have long since been settled, and today the two villages form the basis of civilization for the pterrans of the Hinterlands.

The people of Lost Scale are recognized for their legion of pterrax riders. The best warriors of the village must travel far to the southeast to reach rocky badlands where the flying creatures reside. There, they search the canyons for pterrax eggs. Each warrior is responsible for securing one egg, and for raising and training the baby pterrax that eventually emerges.</div>

## Forest Ridge

#### Ogo<div class="label">Village 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule govern">Halfling Tribe</div>
<div class="rule pop">4000  </div>
<div class="rule economy">King Urga Zoltapl</div>
</div>

The town of Ogo is home to a prosperous tribe of about four thousand halflings. At its heart stands a massive, ruined step-pyramid that has stood for as long as the town lore keepers have recorded. A shrine at the base of the structure houses the Spirit Oracle, female halfling druid of unknown abilities who spends much of her time in deep communion with primal powers. Such is her reputation that even individuals from beyond the Forest Ridge seek out her far-seeing advice. 
</div>

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# Planes of Dark Sun

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
Athas is a world alone in its planar cosmology, unattached to the rest of the multiverse. Athas sits at the center surrounded by the Black, Gray, and the Elemental and Paraelemental planes, all of which influence the material plane differently. Each plane is a piece that composes the world of Athas, though some connections are more noticeable than others.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

The planes of Athas are complex and exist as the total embodiment of a concept in all its forms. The planes interact with Athas and manifest their concepts and effects on the material plane. This can come in the form of being coterminous or remote - in which the planes effect becomes more or less dramatic across the world, or in the form of Manifest Zones which directly affect a small region of the world.

## Planar Traits

Each plane, dimension, and demiplane has its own properties and attributes. Planar traits can be broken down into five categories: scope, gravity, time, morphic, and planar essence. Combined, those traits describe the laws and makeup of the plane. These appear in the plane’s traits entry, though any trait that matches the Material Plane (described in the Normal entry in each section below) is omitted.

### Enhanced and Impeded Magic

Some planes enhance certain magic and impede opposing effects. A plane that enhances a particular type of magic grants anyone Casting a Spell with that trait a +1-circumstance bonus to their spell DC or spell attack roll with that spell. Impeded magic means a character who Casts a Spell or Activates an Item with the specified trait must succeed at a DC 6 flat check or lose the spell or activation.

### Scope Trait
Most planes are immeasurable, so immense they are impossible to quantify. Which immeasurable planes, if any, 
are infinite is a subject of debate among philosophers and scholars alike. Since so many planes are immeasurable, 
those planes omit a scope trait. Otherwise, the plane likely has either the finite or unbounded trait.

**Finite:** Finite planes consist of a limited amount of space (Material Plane).

**Immeasurable:**  Immeasurable planes are immeasurably large, perhaps infinite.

### Gravity Traits
Many planes have unusual gravity.

**Normal:** Bodies of great mass are the centers of gravity, and objects fall toward those centers with a measured amount of force relative to the size of the body.

**Microgravity:** There is little to no gravity on this plane. Creatures float in space unless they can push off a surface or use some force to propel themselves throughout the plane.

**Subjective Gravity:**  All bodies of mass can be centers of gravity with the same force, but only if a non-mindless 
creature wills it. Unattended items, objects, and mindless creatures treat the plane as having microgravity. Creatures 
on a plane with subjective gravity can move normally along a solid surface by imagining “down” near their 
feet. Designating this downward direction is a free action that has the concentration trait. If suspended in midair, 
a creature can replicate flight by choosing a “down” direction and falling in that direction, moving up to their 
Speed or fly Speed. This pseudo-flight uses the Fly action.

### Time Traits
Time flows differently on many planes.

**Normal:** Time passes the same way it does on the Material Plane. One hour on a plane with normal time equals 1 hour 
on the Material Plane.

**Timeless:** Time still passes, but the effects of time are diminished. Creatures on these planes don’t feel hunger, 
thirst, or the effects of aging or natural healing. The effects of poison, diseases, and other kinds of healing may also be diminished on certain timeless planes. Spell energy and other effects still dissipate, so the durations of spells and other effects function as normal. The danger of this trait is that when a creature leaves a timeless plane and enters a plane with another time trait, the effects of hunger, thirst, aging, and other effects slowed or arrested by the timeless trait occur retroactively in the instant of transition, possibly causing the creature to immediately starve or die of old age.

### Planar Essence Traits

Planar essence traits describe a plane’s fundamental nature. For example, many of the Inner Sphere’s planes are infused with an element or energy, each of which affects magic on those planes, and the Shadow Plane is awash with shadow.

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Outer Planes are fundamentally made up of quintessence, a philosophically aligned material with infinite potential for shape and state that conforms to powerful and prevailing beliefs.

**Air:** Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they may include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Air magic is enhanced, and earth magic is impeded. Earth 
creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, which tend to at least make them uncomfortable, as there is little solid ground for them to gain their bearings.

**Earth:**  These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the 
plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Earth magic is enhanced, and air magic is 
impeded. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.

**Fire:** Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are 
extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Fire magic is enhanced, and cold and water magic are impeded. Water creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, and any natural resistance they have against fire doesn’t function against this environmental fire damage.

**Magma:** Planes with this trait are composed of endless fields of magma that never cool. Magma planes are extremely hostile to non-magma creatures.

Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take major environmental fire damage at the end of each round or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Fire magic is enhanced, and cold and water magic are impeded. Water creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, and any natural resistance they have against fire doesn’t function against this environmental fire damage.

**Rain:** Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces but with a constant Heavy Downpour of rain. Rain planes have breathable atmospheres, though they often have Severe Thunderstorms that sweep through the plane. Air and water magic is enhanced, and earth and fire magic is impeded. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, which tend to at least make them uncomfortable, as there is little solid ground for them to gain their bearings.

**Silt:** These planes are an endless sea of silt. Wind will often kick up the silt and make visibility non-existent and breathing difficult. The silt does not support any weight and any that are not adapted to silt sink to the bottom. Within the silt there is no visibility and breathing is impossible. During the frequent windstorms that pick up the silt all creatures are concealed in the storm.

Extraplanar creatures take minor void environmental damage at the end of every 10 minutes. This damage has the death trait, and if a living creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this void damage and killed, it crumbles into dust. Void magic is enhanced, and vitality magic is impeded.

**Sun:** These planes consist of open spaces with a huge crimson sun. No wind disturbs this plane.

Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage every minute (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas. Light magic is enhanced, and shadow magic are impeded. Any darkness magic is dispelled. Water creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a sun plane, and any natural resistance they have against fire doesn’t function against this environmental fire damage.

**Water:**  These planes are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. Water magic is enhanced, and fire magic is impeded. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.

**Cold:** Planes with this trait are supernaturally cold.

Extraplanar creatures take minor environmental cold damage every minute. Cold magic is enhanced, and fire magic is impeded. Fire creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a cold plane, and any natural resistance they have against cold doesn’t function against this environmental cold damage.

**Void:**  Planes with this trait are vast, empty reaches that suck the life from the living. They tend to be lonely, haunted planes, drained of color, and filled with winds carrying the moans of those who died within them. At the end of each round, a living creature takes at least minor void environmental damage. In the strongest areas of 
a void plane, they could take moderate or even major void damage at the end of each round. This damage 
has the death trait, and if a living creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this void damage and killed, it crumbles into ash and can become a wraith. Void magic is enhanced, and vitality magic is impeded.

**Shadow:** Planes with this trait are umbral with murky light. On a shadow plane, the radius of all light from light 
sources and the areas of light spells are halved. Darkness and shadow magic are enhanced, and light magic is impeded.

## Planar Stat Blocks

Each of the planes listed in the following pages includes a short stat block of key information. The plane’s type—whether it is a plane, dimension, or demiplane—appears in the stat block’s heading, followed by the traits that define that plane. The following entries also provide important information about each plane.

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**Category:** This indicates whether the plane is an Inner Plane, Outer Plane, Transitive Plane, or dimension.

**Powers:** A list of all of the powers that call this realm their home.

**Native Inhabitants:** A sample of typical inhabitants of the plane. Also listed are the plane’s petitioners, the souls of dead mortals who have been judged and sent on to whichever plane reflects the life they led.

### Inner Sphere Planes

The planes of the Inner Sphere form the heart of dark sun. They are the home of mortal life, the focus of elemental attention, the source of mortal souls, and the origin point of the great cycle of quintessence that fuels the motions and stability of reality itself.

Arranged in a nested shell, the planes of the Inner Sphere include, from outer to inner: the Elemental Chaos: Air, Earth, Fire, Magma, Rain, Silt, Sun, and Water, which surround the universe of the Material Plane (Athas).

#### Material Plane<div class="label">Plane</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">Sorcerer Kings and Queens</div>
<div class="rule inhab">aarakocra, dray, dwarves, elves, halflings, humans, thri-kreen and other ancestries</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Material Plane is the plane upon which the Dark Sun setting takes place. Unlike other worlds Athas is cut off from the other settings in the material plane. Athas is heavily influenced by the elemental chaos and both the Black and the Gray can have direct influence upon Athas as well.  The constant war between the elemental and paraelemental planes have a direct influence on Athas and changes in Athas can have a direct impact on the elemental chaos.</div><br>

#### Plane of Air<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag subjective gravity">SUBJECTIVE GRAVITY</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of air</div>
<div class="rule inhab">air elementals, air drakes, jaathoom, sylphs </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Elemental Plane of Air is vast expanse of sky with nothing above and nothing below. The Elemental Plane of Air is the most comfortable and survivable of the Elemental Planes, and it is the home of all types of airborne creatures. Indeed, flying creatures find themselves at a great advantage on this plane. While travelers without flight can survive easily here, they are at a disadvantage. Because they cannot move unless acted upon by others, non-fliers simply float in the air, unable to move.

Cities in the Elemental Plane of Air are vast floating fortresses composed of clouds and walls of wind. While non‐natives will find these disorienting and weird, denizens of the plane have little trouble navigating the streets of these floating cities.

Armies of Air are strange indeed. While many Air elementals are naturally invisible, elemental beasts and incarnations soar within the ranks. They may seem like smaller numbers than are there by sight, but the Armies of Air make a fearsome and terrible noise as they approach. If travelling on the plane, one should flee from the sound of great rushing wind, and thunderclaps that have no clouds or lightning.</div>

#### Plane of Earth<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of earth</div>
<div class="rule inhab">earth drakes, earth elementals, jabalis, oread </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Elemental Plane of Earth is a plane of solid stuff. An unwary and unprepared traveler may find himself entombed within this vast solidity of material and have his body crushed into powder so all that is left is dust to stand as a warning to any foolish enough to follow.

Despite its unyielding nature, the Elemental Plane of Earth is varied in its consistency, ranging from relatively soft soil to veins of heavier and more valuable metal. Moving within the areas of softer soil will lead to the occasional isolated pocket of air. These locations typically have settlements in them for interacting with and talking to non‐natives. The Lords of the Elemental Plane of Earth understand their followers on Athas aren't as hardy as they, and when they seek an audience, it will be here.

When off to war, the inhabitants of the Plane of Earth come like an earthquake. Their forms are the earth itself, so all manner of stone, metal, gems, soil, and sand rush forward to meet their foes. Earth is the most patient of the Elemental Planes, however, and a sign of surrender or intentions of peace will typically be accepted, even if only for a short while.</div>

#### Plane of Fire<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of fire</div>
<div class="rule inhab">munsahirs, ifrit, fire drakes, fire elementals, naari </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Elemental Plane of Fire is a nightmare to behold. The ground is nothing more than great, ever shifting plates of compressed flame. The air ripples with the heat of continual firestorms. The oceans are made of liquid flame. Yet, many creatures call this place home. Nonnatives who lack protection from fire will find themselves nothing more than cinders within minutes if not seconds.

Fire burns here without fuel or air, and flammables brought onto the plane are ignited and consumed. The cities of this plane are constructed of compressed flames and heavy metals, like brass. The Lords of Fire are some of the most volatile, yet weakest rulers of the Elemental Planes. Their passion burns like everything else, and they change their minds in a flash. Beware the traveler who makes a deal with the Lords of Flames as the contract may go up in smoke.

Armies of Fire are masked by the rolling smoke that heralds their approach, and they radiate heat that will burn those that come too close. Travelers on the plane should flee if they encounter a war party, as Fire delights in setting those unburned alight.</div>

#### Plane of Magma<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag magma">MAGMA</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of magma</div>
<div class="rule inhab">alsahari, lavasouls, magma drakes, magma elementals </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
This plane is an endless volcanic waste. Every sort of volcanic feature can be found here from rivers of lava to obsidian wastes. The surface tends to be more liquid (hotter) towards the plane of Fire and
more solid (cooler) towards the plane of Earth.</div><br>

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#### Plane of Rain<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rain">RAIN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of silt</div>
<div class="rule inhab">mistsouls, stormsouls, rain drakes, rain elementals, qorrashi </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
This plane exists between a muddy floor, and a sky of unbroken storm clouds. The rain is constant, and at times becomes sleet or hail. With the sun obscured, most light comes from random bolts of
lightning.</div><br>

#### Plane of Silt<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag earth">SILT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of silt</div>
<div class="rule inhab">dustsouls, silt drakes, silt elementals, silt horrors, wahali </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
On this plane one could believe oneself in the middle of the sea of silt. This is considered the lowest plane; when not obscured by silt storms the sun is a mere pinprick in the sky. There are barren, rocky islands towards the plane of earth, and mud flats towards the plane of water, otherwise, a traveler to this plane must levitate or fly over the silt.</div><br>

#### Plane of Sun<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fire">SUN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of sun</div>
<div class="rule inhab">brightsouls, sun drakes, sun elementals, dukhani </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
This plane is a vast endless green sky dominated by a huge crimson sun. No wind disturbs it. There are clouds (which are unmoving and support weight), but the light is ever present, and shadows are faint at best.</div><br>

#### Plane of Water<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag subjective gravity">SUBJECTIVE GRAVITY</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">elemental lords of water</div>
<div class="rule inhab">faydhaans, water drakes, water elementals, undines </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Elemental Plane of Water is a sea of green and blue. Lacking a floor or a surface, it is an entirely fluid environment lit by a diffuse glow. It is one of the more hospitable of the Elemental Planes once a traveler figures out how to breathe.

The eternal oceans of this plane vary between ice cold and boiling hot, between saline and fresh. The water is constantly in motion, wracked by currents and tides. The plane’s permanent settlements form around bits of coral and other drifting things suspended within this endless liquid. These settlements drift on the tides of the Elemental Plane of Water.

Armies of the Elemental Plane of Water are strange and surprisingly plentiful. Within the waves that are water elementals ride fearsome aquatic creatures, from sharks to kraken. The armies of the plane are aware when an intruder lurks, and if one is injured in battle, the scent of blood will travel for miles, attracting more and more creatures to devour the interloper.</div>

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### Transitive Planes

At a minimum, each Transitive Plane coexists with one or more other planes, a relationship oversimplified by stating 
that Transitive Planes are just used to get from one plane to another. The Astral Plane borders every other plane in existence like the backstage of the cosmos. Bright and dark mirrors of the Material Plane, the Black and the Gray overlap the mortal world, albeit often in bizarre ways such that a short distance in one might be a vast gulf in the other. The daring, wise, or desperate can utilize these planes to bypass barriers in the Material Plane or rapidly cross vast distances through much swifter travel.

#### The Astral<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag immeasurable">IMMEASURABLE</div>
<div class="tag microgravity">MICROGRAVITY</div>
<div class="tag timeless">TIMELESS</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">none</div>
<div class="rule inhab">shining children </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Astral Plane is the plane of thought, memory, and psychic energy. It is a barren place with only rare bits of solid matter. The Astral Plane is unique in that it is infinitesimal instead of infinite; there is no space or time here, though both catch up with beings when they leave.

The few travelers who have ever made it here, powerful explorers or scavenger-mercenaries in service of a sorcerer-king, report that it is nothing but a howling, barren void, empty of all worth and containing only hideous abominations.</div>

#### The Black<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cold">COLD</div>
<div class="tag shadow">SHADOW</div>
<div class="tag subjective gravity">SUBJECTIVE GRAVITY</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Transitive Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">shadow giants, Rajat</div>
<div class="rule inhab"> psi-shadow, shadow, shadow giants, shadow-touched </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Black is a coterminous and coexistent plane that resides next to Athas. It is a reflection of the Prime Material Plane and shows what exists by way of negative space. For as long as Athasians have realized the power of the shadows the Black has been used, whether magically, psychically, or mundanely. The landscape of the Black is in constant flux, spells and psionic powers draw power from the planes, and due to the reflexive nature of the plane, changes on Athas cause changes in the Black.

The power and energy from the Black comes from its connection to the Material Plane of Athas. Shadows show what exist by absence. Shadows are negative space that shows existence through a negative. The Black exists where shadows are, and as its own plane. The Black contains not only the negative space from the reflections of existing objects, but also the potential of what all those things could be. Within the Black, all the things that could be are, but they are reflections, and have no substance, not existence, no life. When creatures used the Black to fuel their abilities, they are drawing on this potential and giving it a reality. The Black is not only the reflection of what is on Athas, but also the reflection of what could be. Powerful spellcasters have investigated the power of exploiting this potentiality to great effect. Rumors of a place beyond the Black, where not even reflections of reality exist are true. </div>

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<div class="rule">
The Hollow is a plane outside of space and time. It is non–existence, and it is here that the Champions trapped Rajaat during the Rebellion.

Because of this, the landscape of the Black is constantly in motion, and never settled. It is at once a reflection of what is, and all the things that could be. The landscape resembles Athas, and there is a definite up and down, ground and sky, buildings, trees, rivers, and seas. However, all these things change and warp constantly. Gravity here exists, but only if one wishes it to. Within the Black there are creatures that once lived on Athas. The halfling servants of the Warbringer were thrown into the Black during the Rebellion. To this day, they remain bodily within the Black, and are only able to interact with Athas through manipulating shadows. Creatures native to the Black are few, but rumor has it that deep within the depths are possibilities of what could be, for both good and ill, and that these things sleep, unless someone awakens them. Terror could be unleashed on Athas if these things were given form outside the depths of the Black.</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

#### The Gray<div class="label">Plane</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag immeasurable">IMMEASURABLE</div>
<div class="tag microgravity">MICROGRAVITY</div>
<div class="tag void">VOID</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule category">Inner Plane</div>
<div class="rule powers">none</div>
<div class="rule inhab">incorporeal undead</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When a character enters the Gray, its vast emptiness stretches out before him. It can be extremely hard to keep one’s bearing in the Gray, especially without a reference point. Distances are hard to determine, and even figuring out which direction one is moving can be a challenge.

The Gray is coexistent with the Material Plane but separate from the Elemental Planes. The Material Plane itself is visible from the Gray, but it appears muted and indistinct, its colors blurring into each other and its edges turning fuzzy. The Gray is usually invisible to those on the Material Plane, and creatures in the Gray cannot normally attack creatures on the Material Plane, and vice versa. A traveler in the Gray is invisible, incorporeal, and utterly silent to someone on the Material Plane. </div><br>

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# Religion
<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
In a world without gods, spiritualism on Athas has unlocked the secrets of the raw forces of which the very planet is comprised: earth, air, fire, and water. However, other forces exist which seek to supplant them and rise to ascendancy in their place. These forces have taken up battle against the elements of creation on the element’s own ground in the form of entropic perversions of the elements themselves: magma, rain, silt, and sun.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

## Faiths

Anyone can be spiritual, but those who do so devoutly should take care to pursue the faith’s edicts (behaviors the faith encourages) and avoid its anathemas (actions considered blasphemous). Each faith has benefits available to the most ardent devotees of the various supreme beings. You get these benefits only if you’re a cleric of the one of the various supreme beings or some other rule specifically gives you a devotee benefit.

## Elemental Clerics
The champions of the elemental lords tend to hold the same environmental views as their elemental masters. This is a result of the peculiar selection process of the elementals and of the initiation that all clerics must suffer.

### Air

Clerics who make pacts with the denizens of the Plane of Air are perhaps the most misunderstood of all the elemental clerics. They are wanderers, diviners, travelers, and mystics. Like the winds, their minds are constantly wandering, and they rarely seem focused on a current problem or situation. Some say that is because they are empowered by flighty patrons, and others say that repetitive viewing of the future drives one mad.<br>
**Edicts** fight all forms of bondage whenever possible, including slavery, and preserve the earth and water <br>
**Anathema**  except any form of bondage, including slavery, allow an innocent to remain jailed.

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Dexterity or Wisdom</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose holy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Performance</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Shortbow</div>
<div class="rule domains">Air, Freedom, Knowledge, Travel</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>gust of wind</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <i>wall <br>of wind</i>, 4th: <i>fly</i>, 5th: <i>elemental form</i>*, 6th: <i>teleport</i>, 7th: <i>unfettered pack</i>,  8th: <i>punishing winds</i></div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Earth trait. Your Summon Elemental and Elemental Form spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Air trait or to take the form of an air elemental.

### Earth
Earth endures, and like the mountains and the drying plains, earth clerics must bear the brunt of the fight for Athas' s survival.

Because air, fire, and water all depend on growing things for their enrichment, and because earth alone must sustain itself, it is the earth clerics who must carry on the burden of preventing the environmental holocaust looming over Athas. For, if they do not preserve the land, will not the death of Athas weigh upon their shoulders?<br>
**Edicts** oppose defilers and teach the nature of the life cycle, attempt to reform any friendly defiler, teach proper agriculture techniques<br>
**Anathema** do not travel with a known defiler, work with one, or allow a defiler to defile in their presence

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Strength or Constitution</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose holy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Nature</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Warhammer</div>
<div class="rule domains">Creation, Earth, Might, Protection </div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>pummeling rubble</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <br><i>one with stone</i>, 4th: <i>shape stone</i>, 5th: <i>elemental form</i>*, 6th: <i>petrify</i> , 7th: <i>planar seal</i> 8th: <i>earthquake</i></div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Air trait. Your Summon Elemental and Elemental Form spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Earth trait or to take the form of an earth elemental.

### Fire
The most feared and unpredictable of the Athasian clerics are those of the Elemental Plane of Fire.

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Some say these individuals become crazed during initiation, and others say that one must be insane to petition the destructive lords of flame in the first place.

Whatever the reason for their erratic nature, fire clerics are the most powerful and the most destructive of the elemental priests. Fire priests have earned their reputations for two reasons, they are very aggressive and very offensive. They will laugh maniacally while their enemies are incinerated, and they appear to thrive only when everything around them is being devoured by the fiery appetites of their patrons.<br>
**Edicts** Encourage the growth of forests, cities, and fields so that they can destroy it again  <br>
**Anathema** Work with a sorcerer-king or any defiler

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Dexterity or Charisma</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose holy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Intimidation</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Bastard Sword</div>
<div class="rule domains">Destruction, Fire, Passion, Zeal</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>breathe fire</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <i>fireball</i>, 4th: <i>wall of fire</i>, 5th: <i>elemental form</i>*, 6th: <i>flame vortex</i>, 7th: <i>fiery body</i>, 8th: <i>burning blossoms</i></div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Water trait. Your Summon Elemental and Elemental Form spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Fire trait or to take the form of a fire elemental.

### Water
Among the elemental brotherhood, none are more desperate than the lords of the Elemental Plane of Water. Millennia ago, these beings were happy, babbling through brook and floating leisurely in the vast, blue seas. Now they are claustrophobic, screaming for each drop lost to the parched earth. They know that they must quench the thirst of the land before their streams and rivers can return, but every spilled drop of water is yielded grudgingly. It must be so, for the Plane of Water has nearly perished. Clerics of the dying Plane of Water are few, still, they perform the age-old functions of water as healer and bringer of life.<br>
**Edicts** give water and aid to any in need except those who would criminally waste water, protect all water sources <br>
**Anathema**  waste water, destroy a forest or any other moisture producing area

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Dexterity or Constitution</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose holy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Medicine</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Trident</div>
<div class="rule domains">Family, Healing, Repose, Water</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>hydraulic push</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <i>aqueous orb</i>, 4th: <i>hydraulic torrent</i>, 5th: <i>elemental form</i>*, 6th: <i>personal ocean</i>, 7th: <i>regenerate</i>, 8th: <i>deluge</i> </div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Fire trait. Your Summon Elemental and Elemental Form spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Water trait or to take the form of a water elemental.<br><br>

## Paraelemental Clerics
Although they are rare, there are a few seers who have looked beyond the elemental planes to the homes of the paraelementals the realms of Silt, Sun, Magma, and Rain. These paraelementals are not as desperate their elemental cousins because they have not suffered from the defilers devastation of Athas.

Like elemental clerics, the paraelemental clerics do what they must to protect and nurture the raw material that feeds their patrons in the inner planes. The natures of these creatures and what pleases them is different than the natures of the more powerful elementals. They are not interested in the flavors of earth, the fiery feasts of destruction, the singing winds, or the babbling of streams.

As the relentless sun scorches earth into dust and magma spills out over its cracking surface, the power of the paraelements is growing. They are beginning to achieve levels of power heretofore unknown, and they are hungry for more. Where the elementals are concerned with quantity and quality, the paraelementals have not matured to that stage they only want quantity

### Magma
Magma demands only that its clerics encourage its growth. Usually, the only things that retard magma are water, rain, or lack of sufficient fuel to maintain the tremendous heat magma requires. Magma clerics have been known to destroy forests to prevent rainfall, and then to feed the branches and logs into rolling rivers of lava. Any ponds or other bodies of water around an eruption are drained or destroyed by magma clerics.<br>
**Edicts**  encourage the growth of magma by destroying forests and feeding the wood to maintain the tremendous heat, drain or destroy bodies of water that turn magma back into earth<br>
**Anathema**  prevent the growth and the flow of magma

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Constitution or Intelligence</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Athletics</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Maul</div>
<div class="rule domains">Destruction, Earth, Fire, Might</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>scorching blast</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <i>elemental annihilation wave</i>, 4th: <i>fire shield</i>, 5th: <i>mantle of the magma heart</i>*, 6th: <i>fire seeds</i>, 7th: <i>volcanic eruption</i> 8th: <i>boil blood</i> </div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Water trait. Your Summon Elemental and Elemental Form spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Magma trait or to take the form of a magma elemental.

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### Rain
The creatures of rain wish only to return their patron's cool caresses to Athas. To do this, the forests that protect and hold the world's water must return. Clerics of rain are required to protect existing forests, and to plant and encourage the growth of new ones.<br>
**Edicts** return the cool caress of rain back to Athas, protect forests, and encourage the growth of new forests <br>
**Anathema**  destroy grasses and forests, allow a defiler to defile in their presence

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Dexterity or Wisdom</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose holy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Survival</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Spear</div>
<div class="rule domains">Air, Cold, Lightning, Water</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>thunderstrike</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <i>lightning bolt</i>, 4th: <i>draw the lightning</i>, 5th: <i>elemental form</i>*, 6th: <i>chain lightning</i>, 7th: <i>frigid flurry</i>, 8th: <i>arctic rift</i></div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Earth trait. Your Summon Elemental and Elemental Form spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Rain trait or to take the form of a rain elemental.

### Silt
The beings who dwell on the Paraelemental Plane of Silt demand only one thing from their mortal minions the growing tides of silt must continue to expand, eventually to wash over the entire planet.<br>
**Edicts** extend the flow of silt by destroying trees, grasses, and fauna that retain moisture. teach farming methods that ruin the soil <br>
**Anathema**  allow water to turn the silt into mud

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Constitution or Wisdom</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Stealth</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Scythe</div>
<div class="rule domains">Death, Decay, Delirium, Dust</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>gritty wheeze</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <br><i>cup of dust</i>, 4th: <i>mirage</i>, 5th: <i>elemental form</i>*, 6th: <i>disintegrate</i>, 7th: <i>control sand</i>,  8th: <i>desiccate</i></div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Air trait. Your Summon Elemental and Elemental Form spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Silt trait or to take the form of a silt elemental.

### Sun
Sun spirits, currently basking in their magnificent power, have the strangest pact in existence between the inner planes and mortal minions.

Sun priests must help eliminate gases that filter and weaken the rays of the sun and remove any other obstructions that would dare defy its radiant omnipotence. <br>
**Edicts** eliminate gases that filter and weaken the rays of the sun and remove any obstruction that dares defy the sun <br>
**Anathema**  grow trees, forests, or buildings that block the sun

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Strength or Charisma</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Intimidation</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Khopesh</div>
<div class="rule domains">Fire, Moon, Star, Sun</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>dizzying colors</i>, 2nd: <i>summon elemental</i>*, 3rd: <br><i>holy light</i>, 4th: <i>radiant beam</i>, 5th: <i>chromatic wall</i>, 6th: <br><i>vibrant pattern</i>, 7th: <i>cosmic form</i>*, 8th: <i>prismatic wall</i></div>
</div><br>

**Special:** You can’t cast any spell with the Water trait. Your <i>summon elemental</i> and <i>cosmic form</i> spells only allow you to summon creatures with the Sun trait or to take the form of a sun elemental.

## Sorcerer-Monarchs

Sorcerer-Kings and Sorcerer-Queens are the uncontested rules of their respective City-States. They are immortal in the sense that they cannot die of old age or non-magical disease. In some cases, they cannot be truly killed, but can be stripped of power.

They are masters of combat and magic. Specifically, they wield vast Arcane power, and often mix this power with other disciplines. All can use defiling techniques to power their magic, but not all do so.

### Abalach-Re

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Raam’s Great Vizier is a neurotic and paranoid woman. Interestingly, and unlike her fellow Sorcerer-Kings, she makes no claim to godhood. Rather, Abalach-Re claims to be the earthly clergy of a divine being called Badna.

Regardless of the origins of her power, she is the most openly detested of all the rulers of the City-States of Athas. Whether her paranoia is the cause or result of this contempt is difficult to say.

Her people openly despise her rule and her Templars. Her neuroses are seen as weakness, and her Nobles openly discuss her overthrow. Making matters worse, her relations with the other Sorcerer-Kings are no better than her relations with her own people. With such abounding threats from both inside and outside her city, her continued rule of Raam appears to be in danger of coming to an end.

That said, she has ruled Raam in this matter for a very, very long time.<br>
**Edicts** uphold the laws of Raam, follow the edicts of your Great Vizier, protect templars that are loyal to you  <br>
**Anathema** revolt against the Great Vizier, assist the nobles in their raids and plans

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Wisdom or Charisma</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Deception</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Scimitar</div>
<div class="rule domains">Fate, Luck, Passion, Void</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>agitate</i>, 2nd: <i>phantom crowd</i>, 5th: <i>false vision</i></div>
</div><br>

### Andropinis

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Andropinis is the rightfully elected ruler of Balic, a position he has held for over nine King’s Ages. The position, entitled Dictator, originally referred to the power of dictating decrees and mandates of the elected general assembly to the populace at large. It was thus envisioned as more of an executive position than a legislative one. Unfortunately for the proudly democratic people of Balic, they had no idea how long lived the sorcerer would be when they elected him to a lifelong term.

Erosion of democracy notwithstanding, Andropinis is credited with tolerating the most egalitarian of all the City-States. He is a seemingly rational individual and has created (or allowed) policies that engender a powerful economy. Andropinis interferes little with the elected assembly’s governance of day-to-day life in his city. Socially outgoing and possessed of a powerful intellect Andropinis is known to greatly enjoy sparring in words with able opponents. It was no accident that earned him his lifelong post, for Andropinis is charismatic and a champion orator.<br>
**Edicts** uphold the laws of Balic, force legal loopholes and manipulate logic to your own end, impress Dictator<br> Andropinis to gain promotions <br>
**Anathema**  displease or revolt against Dictator Andropinis

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Intelligence or Wisdom</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">crafting</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Spear</div>
<div class="rule domains">Cities, Duty, Perfection, Truth</div>
<div class="rule spells">2nd: <i>persistent servant</i>, 3rd: <i>phantom prison</i>, 5th: <i>slither</i></div>
</div><br>

### Dregoth

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"Ravager of Giants". Several hundred years ago Dregoth was killed by several of his fellow sorcerer-kings, led by Abalach-Re, to prevent him from becoming a full dragon. Dregoth was raised from death with the aid of his high templar Mon Adderath, becoming something akin to a kaisharga. New Giustenal exists under the remnants of the old city, and Dregoth reigns there as sorcerer-king. Dregoth rebuilds his city and transforms the inhabitants into the dray.

Some Dray speak of their Creator, a former Sorcerer-King who transcended to godhood. The claim he still lives, deep in the bowls of Athas itself. 
<br>
**Edicts** uphold the laws of Giustenal, kill all non-humans, capture humans to transform into dray, perfect your military skills  <br>
**Anathema** disobey Dregoth, associate with non-humans, discuss Dregoth with outsiders

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Constitution or Wisdom</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Deception</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Kalis</div>
<div class="rule domains">Death, Destruction, Naga, Undeath</div>
<div class="rule spells">4th: <i>telepathy</i>, 6th: <i>dragon form</i>, 7th: <i>mask of terror</i></div>
</div><br>

### Hamanu

Many of the Sorcerer-Kings are avid patrons of gladiatorial sport. From the Forest Arena to the Gladiatorial Coliseum, all the City-States are known for state arenas with regular tournament schedules. Yet, of all the arenas, only The Pit of Black Death of Urik has seen its patron actively participate in the sport itself.

This hands-on approach extends to more than just the games. Hamanu is very active in the rule of his city, passing down edicts and enforcement protocol in the form of his Code of Laws. What’s more, the Lion personally trains with them nearly every day. Not only do his troops bear witness to his physical power, but they also see he holds himself to the same standards of discipline he holds his subjects.

Still, while Hamanu’s templars believe he is a god. He does nothing to thwart or encourage his belief.<br>
**Edicts** uphold the laws of Urik, prepare for war constantly, destroy the enemies of Urik  <br>
**Anathema** allow emotions to rise to the surface, pity the non Urikite, disobey the edicts of Hamanu

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Strength or Constitution</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Athletics</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Short Sword</div>
<div class="rule domains">Might, Perfection, Toil, Zeal</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>endure</i>, 2nd: <i>telekinetic maneuver</i>, 4th: <br><i>winning streak</i></div>
</div><br>

### Kalak

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There can be no question as to the demands Kalak made upon citizen and slave alike within his City-States. His slaves worked seemingly endless shifts in the Iron Mines of Tyr. Kalak appeared old and frail but had the grip of a trained warrior. He rarely worked magic in front of his people, but claimed he was a god. His Templars viciously stamped out other beliefs, although he did not demand reverence or ritual from his people.

Kalak seemed to lack any form of patience and executed frequently. His Templars were called clergy at times but were in fact bureaucrats. Templars of Tyr were once known for honesty and straight-forward natures. Templars known to have displeased The Tyrant usually ended their lives as part of the Levy. This all has changed with his recent death at the hands of the heroes of Tyr.<br>
**Edicts** enforce the laws of Tyr, keep order in Tyr <br>
**Anathema**  revolt against Kalak, break the laws of Tyr

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Dexterity or Intelligence</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Society</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Scourge</div>
<div class="rule domains">Ambition, Secrecy, Trickery, Tyranny</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>befuddle</i>, 2nd: <i>blur</i>, 3rd: <i>magical fetters</i></div>
</div><br>

### Lalali-Puy

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The Oba has achieved what most Sorcerers of Athas can only dream of: she is a Goddess in the hearts of her people. As such, she may be the only Athasian monarch with the genuine support and admiration of her subjects. She peaceably accepted the leadership of Gulg from her people, although they believe it took the sacrifice of 1000 people to bind her to a mortal form. Since that time, her impressive powers and exemplary command of nature rituals elevated her status, in the eyes of her people, from matron to deity.

Lalali-Puy seems to uphold an almost druidic sense of reverence for nature. She is very strict about environmentally sustainable practices to support her city. Further, defilers are hard to find in Gulg, save the Goddess herself. Her slaves are constantly busy planting trees and shrubbery to expand the Crescent Forest within which her city resides. This, of course, puts her explicitly at odds with Nibenay’s emphasis on a lumber-based economy for his city. As the Shadow King decimates the forest from the North, the Oba expands it from the South.

This conflict may, ultimately, be the truest basis of the Oba’s status among her people: they believe, rightfully so, that the vast powers of their Oba are all that preserves their lives in the face of the threat of destruction and enslavement at the hands of Nibenay’s Shadow King.<br>
**Edicts**  protect the citizens of Gulg, uphold the laws of Gulg, encourage the worship of the Oba, sustain the environment<br>
**Anathema**  destroy the crescent forest, disobey the Oba, break the laws of Gulg

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Dexterity or Constitution</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Nature</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Short Bow</div>
<div class="rule domains">Family, Nature, Plague, Swarm</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>animal allies</i>, 2nd: <i>entangling flora</i>, 6th: <i>nature’s reprisal</i></div>
</div><br>

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### Nibenay

The Shadow King is a bizarre and secretive ruler whose eerie title only begins to convey his nature. Impossibly old, he founded the eponymous Nibenay well over a millennium ago. His citizenry barely knows him to exist at all, as it is his way to spend all his time within his walled off inner city. His public appearances are so rare that rumors of his death and conspiracy theories of the Templars perpetuating the charade of his existence to maintain their position of power are commonplace. When these rumors and theories are sufficiently pervasive to support civil unrest, usually once per generation, Nibenay himself emerges to quash the disobedience personally. He then retreats to his sanctum, content to leave matters in the hands of his priesthood until the current generation forgets and the cycle repeats.

All of Nibenay’s Templars are women, and they encourage worship of their husband-ruler. Conjecture exists that each serves him as both wife and priestess. His Templars are the only people to move freely between Nibenay’s private inner city and the larger City-State over which he presides. Slaves that are taken into the compound never return, and Nobles and freemen are never allowed within. The rumors of the dark experiments and practices within the inner city are too terrible to deserve retelling.<br>
**Edicts** battle the enemies of the Shadow-King, uphold the laws of Nibenay, encourage worship of the Shadow-King <br>
**Anathema** disobey the edicts of the Shadow-King, revolt against Nibenay

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Intelligence or Wisdom</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Arcana</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Dueling Spear</div>
<div class="rule domains">Darkness, Glyph, Knowledge, Magic</div>
<div class="rule spells">1st: <i>anticipate peril</i>, 2nd: <i>illusory creature</i>, 7th: <br><i>entrancing eyes</i></div>
</div><br><br>

### Tectuktitlay

Tectuktitlay is a vile and tempestuous man whose favorite pastimes are human (or demihuman) sacrifice and basking in the worship he requires of his people. None can say how old Tectuktitlay is, or how long he has ruled Draj because the King prohibited discussion of such information long ago. In fact, The Master and Father of the Two Moons spends a great deal of time and effort in building upon his own mystique. Presumably, this adds credence to his deification. The results speak for themselves: whether or not he is truly believed to be a God by his people, they certainly worship him as such.

Tectuktitlay is among the more hands-off rulers of the Athasian Tablelands. Still, his rule is felt in the form of the tribute he demands of his people and the cultural impact his recreational preferences have on his City. As miserable as its people may be, Draj prospers because The Father of Life. He is credited with the invention of the chinampas based agriculture that fill the mud flats surrounding the city with high yield crops. Further, Tectuktitlay’ s penchant for sacrifice has made a viciously efficient war-mongering machine of his military. Even Hamanu is forced to take note of the might, and constant activity, of Draj’s armies, busy as they are collecting people for sacrifice. And for good reason: Tectuktitlay collects from the people at large when the war prisoner slave pens run short of victims to fulfill his indulgence.<br>
**Edicts** uphold the laws of Draj, follow the edicts of Tectuktitlay, lead the soldiers of Draj in war, observe the civic worship of King Tectuktitlay <br>
**Anathema**  revolt against your Sorcerer-King, cause the decline of your city state, go against the interests of your sorcerer-king

#### Devotee Benefits

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule divine">Wisdom or Charisma</div>
<div class="rule font">harm or heal</div>
<div class="rule sanctification">can choose unholy</div>
<div class="rule dskill">Lore (Astrology)</div>
<div class="rule weapon">Macuahuitl</div>
<div class="rule domains">Confidence, Might, Moon, Zeal</div>
<div class="rule spells">2nd: <i>knock</i>, 3rd: <i>paralyze</i>, 5th: <i>wave of despair</i></div>
</div><br>

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# Ancestries 
<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
Humanoids of all kinds have made their home in the Tyr Region of Dark Sun along with the insectoid Thri-Kreen. Presented in alphabetical order, the playable Ancestries in this section have especially shaped the land's history.

#### Table 2-1: Ancestry/Heritage Rarity

#### Table 2-2: Versatile Heritage Rarity

## Dark Sun

Intelligent creatures inhabit every harsh, desolate corner of the world of Athas. Giants roam the Silt Sea, gith wander the mountains and canyons, and braxats and belgoi stalk the deserts, but few of these cultures have made a lasting impact on the Tyr Region and its nearby environments as the ten ancestries described in this chapter have.

Common or uncommon, they are all prominent racial types, and thus are available as player characters. If you are familiar with fantasy roleplaying games or literature, you will no doubt find many of Dark Sun's concepts familiar. But Athas is a world where the essential, fundamental nature of things has been twisted through years of unchecked, environmentally abusive magic - many of the things you find familiar may be so in name only.

Thus, your character will often meet single-minded dwarves, nomadic elves, brutish half-giants and sturdy muls among the bustling human settlements.

Mingling among these common races are the members of somewhat uncommon species: a half-elven hermit visits the city of Nibenay, after a long trip in the scorching deserts of Athas, carrying a bunch of ancient artifacts. A group of savage halflings roam the streets, befuddled by the human culture they have just met for the first time. And an alien thri-kreen stands guard outside a watering hole, silent and imposing, its insectoid eyes never blinking.

### Ancestry

A character has one ancestry and one background, both  of which you select during character creation. You’ll also select several languages for your character. Once chosen, your ancestry and background can’t be changed.

This chapter is divided into three parts:
- Ancestries express the culture your character hails from. Within many ancestries are heritages—subgroups that each have their own characteristics. An ancestry provides attribute boosts (and perhaps attribute flaws), Hit Points, ancestry feats, and sometimes additional abilities.
- Backgrounds, starting on page 123, describe training or environments your character experienced before becoming an adventurer. Your character’s background provides attribute boosts, skill training, and a skill feat.
- Languages, starting on page 138, let your character communicate with the wonderful and weird people and creatures of the world.

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## Ancestry Entries

Each entry includes details about the ancestry and presents the rules elements described below (all of these but heritages and ancestry feats are listed in a sidebar).

### Hit Points

This tells you how many Hit Points your character gains from their ancestry at 1st level. You’ll add the Hit Points from your character’s class (including their Constitution modifier) to this number.

### Size

This tells you the physical size of members of the ancestry. Medium corresponds roughly to the height and weight range of a human adult, and Small is roughly half that.

### Attribute Boosts

This lists the attribute scores you apply attribute boosts to when creating a character of this ancestry. Most ancestries provide attribute boosts to two specified attribute scores, plus a free attribute boost that you can apply to any other score of your choice.

### Attribute Flaw

This lists the attribute score to which you apply an attribute flaw when creating a character of this ancestry. Most ancestries, with the exception of humans, include an attribute flaw.

### Languages

This tells you the languages that members of the ancestry speak at 1st level. If your Intelligence modifier is +1 or higher, you can select more languages from a list given here.

### Traits

These descriptors have no mechanical benefit, but they’re important for determining how certain spells, effects, and other aspects of the game interact with your character.

### Special Abilities

Any other entries in the sidebar represent abilities, senses, and other qualities all members of the ancestry manifest. These are omitted for ancestries with no special rules.

### Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or 
ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Ancestry Feats

This section presents ancestry feats, which allow you to customize your character. You gain your first ancestry feat at 1st level, and you gain another at 5th level, 9th level, 13th level, and 17th level, as indicated in the class advancement table in the descriptions of each class.

Ancestry feats are organized by level. As a starting character, you can choose from only 1st-level ancestry feats, but later choices can be made from any feat of your level or lower. These feats also sometimes list prerequisites—requirements that your character must fulfill to select that feat

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### Uncommon Ancestries and heritages

Though uncommon elements of the game are usually acquired during play, you choose your ancestry and heritage at the beginning of the game. This means you should talk to your group and GM about which uncommon ancestries and heritages make sense for the story. For these options, the uncommon 
trait just means you should take that extra step to talk about it first. <br>

### Rare and Unique Backgrounds

Some backgrounds have enough story weight that you need to work with the rest of your group to determine if they’re right for a particular story, like being heir to a throne. You can find more information about these special backgrounds starting on page 123.

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# Aarakocra

Aarakocra are the most encountered bird people of the Tablelands. Some are from Winter Nest in the White Mountains near Kurn, while others are from smaller tribes scattered in the Ringing Mountains and elsewhere. These freedom‐loving creatures rarely leave their homes high in the mountains, but sometimes, either as young wanderers or cautious adventurers, they venture into the inhabited regions of the Tablelands.
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'>
</div>

<div class='descriptive'>
“You are all slaves. You all suffer from the tyranny of the ground. Only in the company of clouds will you find the true meaning of freedom.” ―Kekko Cloud‐Brother, aarakocra cleric </div>

### Beak and Feather
From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing upright, aarakocra might reach 5 feet tall, and they have long, narrow legs that taper to sharp talons.

Feathers cover their bodies. Their plumage typically denotes membership in a tribe. Males are brightly colored, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colors, usually brown or gray. Their heads complete the avian appearance, being something like a parrot or eagle with distinct tribal variations.

### Sky Wardens
Nowhere are the aarakocra more comfortable than in the sky. These bird‐people can spend hours riding the wind currents of the mountains, soaring in the olive-tinged Athasian sky. In battle, they prove dynamic and acrobatic fliers, moving with remarkable speed and grace, diving to lash opponents with weapons or talons before turning and flying away.

Once airborne, an aarakocra leaves the sky with reluctance.  While traveling, aarakocra prefer to fly high above to get a good view all-around of their location and detect any threats well in advance. When they stop to rest, they tend to perch on high peaks or tall buildings. Enclosed spaces threaten the aarakocra, who have a racial fear of being anywhere they cannot stretch their wings. This claustrophobia affects their behavior. Unless it is absolutely necessary, no aarakocra will enter a cave or enclosed building, or even a narrow canyon.

### Avian Mannerisms
The resemblance of aarakocra to birds isn’t limited to physical features.

Aarakocra display many of the same mannerisms as ordinary birds.

They are fastidious about their plumage, frequently tending their feathers, cleaning, and scratching away any tiny passengers they might have picked up. When they deign to descend from the sky, they often do so near pools where they can catch fish and bathe themselves.

Many aarakocra punctuate their speech with chirps, sounds they use to convey emphasis and to shade meaning, much as a human might through facial expressions and gestures. An aarakocra might become frustrated with people who fail to pick up on the nuances; an aarakocra’ s threat might be taken as a jest and vice versa. The idea of ownership baffles most aarakocra. After all, who owns the sky? Even when explained to them, they initially find the notion of ownership mystifying.

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As a result, aarakocra who have little interaction with other people might be a nuisance as they drop from the sky to snatch livestock or plunder harvests for fruits and grains.

Shiny, glittering objects catch their eyes, and they find it hard not to pluck the treasure and bring it back to their settlement to beautify it. An aarakocra who spends years among other races can learn to inhibit these impulses.

### Aarakocra Names
As with much of their speech, aarakocra names include clicks, trills, and whistles to the point that other peoples have a difficult time pronouncing them. Typically, a name has two to four syllables with the sounds acting as connectors. When interacting with other races, aarakocra may use nicknames gained from people they meet or shortened forms of their full names.

**Male Names**: Akthag, Awnunaak, Cawthra, Driikaak, Gazziija, Kraah, Krekkekelar, Nakaaka, Thraka.

**Female Names**: Arraako, Kariko, Kekko, Lisako, Troho.

**Tribal Names**: Cloud Gliders, Sky Divers, Peak Masters, Far Eyes, Brothers of the Sun.

## Aarakocra Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Nightglider Aarakocra
You are a dedicated nocturnal avian, keeping watch and predating in the most lightless environments. You gain darkvision.

### Predator Aarakocra
You come from a line of aarakocra with exceptionally broad wings and lengthy talons. You gain a talon melee unarmed attack that deals 1d4 slashing damage. Your talon attack is in the brawling group and has the agile, finesse, and unarmed traits.

### Scavenger Aarakocra
Your ancestors originated from a land where food was scarce, and threats were many. You are trained in Survival. You gain the Forager skill feat as a bonus feat. Your thoroughness when gathering food provides you a +1 circumstance bonus to Survival checks to Subsist.

### Songbird Aarakocra
You descend from a talented line of aarakocra storytellers. From the highest mountains and purest landscapes where your lungs fill with glorious clean air, you trill, whistle, and croon sweet songs.

<br>

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>8</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>25 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dexterity</div>
Free

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Aarakocra <br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if positive). Choose from Dwarven, Elven, Halfling, and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region)

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Aarakocra</div>
Humanoid <br>
Uncommon

### Low-light Vision 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>You can see in dim light as though it were bright light, so you ignore the concealed condition due to dim light.</div>

### Wings
<div style='margin-top:1px'>All aarakocra possess powerful wings. While not all aarakocra focus on honing their flying skills, a strong flap of their wings allows aarakocra to travel longer distances when jumping. When Leaping horizontally, you move an additional 5 feet. You don't automatically fail your checks to High Jump or Long Jump if you don't Stride at least 10 feet first. In addition, when you make a Long Jump, you can jump a distance up to 10 feet further than your Athletics check result, though still with the normal maximum of your Speed. Additionally, you take no damage from falling, no matter what distance you fall.</div>

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While natural sounds make you predisposed to sing, voices make you predisposed to mimicry. You receive a +1 circumstance bonus on Deception checks to Impersonate a mimicked voice, where the sound of the voice is the only factor; if you are a master in Deception, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus instead. You also gain a +1 circumstance bonus on Performance checks to sing; if you are a master in Performance, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus instead.

## Ancestry Feats
At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 
9th, 13th, and 17th level). As an aarakocra, you select from among the following ancestry feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Aarakocra Defender <div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your ancestral feud with humans gives you experience dealing with vicious foes, and your vengeance knows no bounds. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Intimidation, Perception, and Survival checks against humans, as well as on damage rolls against humans with weapons and unarmed attacks. However, your hatred of humans is immediately obvious, giving you a –2 circumstance penalty to Diplomacy checks against them and usually starting their attitude one step worse towards you.</div><br>

#### Aarakocra Lore <div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're well connected to your tribe and perhaps even aarakocra communities beyond your own, where you've learned about the land and techniques of graceful movement. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Acrobatics and Nature. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Aarakocra Lore.</div><br>

#### Fledgling Flight {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule freq">once per round</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can fly through the air in short bursts. You Fly. If you don't normally have a fly Speed, you gain a fly Speed of 15 feet for this movement. If you aren't on solid ground at the end of this movement, you fall.</div><br>

#### Story Crooner <div class="label">FEAT 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're a talented story weaver and use your voice effectively. You are trained in Performance. If you would automatically become trained in Performance, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You also gain the Impressive Performance skill feat and gain a +1 circumstance bonus when Performing for an audience of aarakocra.</div>

###### 5th Level

#### Aarakocra Vengeance {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule freq">once per 10 minutes</div>
<div class="rule trigger">You, or an aarakocra ally you can see, are damaged by an enemy's critical hit.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You dedicate yourself to destroying those who harm your kin. Until the end of your next turn, you deal an additional +1d6 damage on Strikes against the triggering enemy. The bonus increases to +2d6 if your devastating attacks are two dice and +3d6 if your devastating attacks are three dice. </div><br>

#### Feathered Cloak <div class="label">FEAT 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
To blend in with the grounded and wingless, you fold your wings just so on your back, creating the illusion of a feathered cloak. You receive a +2 circumstance bonus to Deception checks to Impersonate a version of yourself who is not an aarakocra.

Additionally, your folded wings help you obscure objects on your person, providing a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks to Conceal an Object.</div><br>

#### Juvenile Flight<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Fledgling Flight</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your wings become stronger, allowing you to fly farther. The fly Speed you gain from Fledgling Flight increases to 25 feet. </div><br>

#### Thrown Voice <div class="label">FEAT 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned how to throw your voice through the winds, tricking others as to your location. You can cast <i>ventriloquism</i> as a primal innate spell once per day. If you're a songbird aarakocra, you can cast it twice per day instead. </div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Ferocious Gust {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule freq">once per 10 minutes</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
With heavy wing beats, you whip up a furious gust and direct it at your opponents. This air blast has the effects of <i>gust of wind</i> with a DC equal to your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher.</div><br>

#### Fully Flighted<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Juvenile Flight</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can take to the skies at any time. You have a fly Speed of 25 feet at all times.

<b>Special</b> You can take this feat a second time. If you do, your fly Speed increases to 35 feet.</div><br>

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#### Spirit Arts<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
A spirit of the land has begun to bond themselves to you, granting you a pact with the land. You can cast <i>speak with animals</i> and <i>status</i> as primal innate spells once per day each.</div><br>

#### Wing Step {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
With a sharp flap of your wings, you stay light on your feet as you move. You Step 5 feet twice.</div>

###### 13th Level

#### Ancestor's Transformation<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
You can commune with ancestor spirits to assume the form of an enormous primeval aarakocra. You can cast 5th-rank <i>aerial form</i> as a primal innate spell once per day, but you take the form of a primeval aarakocra, using the statistics for a bird form.</div><br>

#### Combat Aerialist<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag aarakocra">AARAKOCRA</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Juvenile Flight</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've studied with aarakocra who have developed fighting<br> styles dedicated to combat in the air. You gain a +2<br> circumstance bonus to Acrobatics checks to Maneuver in Flight<br> and a +5-foot status bonus to your fly Speed.</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

### Aarakocra Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Adventuring aarakocra most commonly take the emissary, hermit, nomad, scout, or street urchin backgrounds. Aarakocra are agile combatants and prudent adventurers who excel as druids, fighters, monks, rangers, or rogues.</div>

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<img 
  src='https://www.enworld.org/media/31-aarakocra-2020-explorers-guide-to-wildemount-png.68929/full' 
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  # Dray
<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
Created many centuries ago by the Sorcerer-King of Giustenal to serve as a race of sorcerous warriors, dray, as they call themselves—are a strong, resilient race of dragon like humanoids. Most dray were cast out of their home by their creator, Dregoth, and a handful of dray survived when Giustenal was destroyed. From those ancient refugees arose a race of mercenaries, sorcerers, and slave traders known for their calculating (and sometimes duplicitous) ways.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

### Created in his image
Dray are tall, lean draconic beings with scaly skin, hairless bodies, and clawed limbs. They have no wings, though they do have tails. The first generation dray are less than the perfect beings Dregoth envisioned. Their claws are jagged, their scales mottled and uneven, their bodies slightly bent and mutated. The second generation are near replicas of the dragon king, with proud draconic heads atop long necks. Straight, ivory teeth are set in neat rows within their long jaws. Their leathery scales come in a variety of colors, and their long, whip like tails stretch out majestically behind them.

### Dray Names

Dray have personal names given at birth, but they put their clan names first as a mark of honor. A childhood name or nickname is often used among clutch mates as a descriptive term or a term of endearment. The name might recall an event or center on a habit.

**Male Names**: Arjhan, Balasar, Bharash, Donaar, Ghesh, Heskan, Kriv, Medrash, Mehen, Nadarr, Pandjed, Patrin, Rhogar, Shamash, Shedinn, Tarhun, Torinn

**Female Names**: Akra, Biri, Daar, Farideh, Harann, Havilar, Jheri, Kava, Korinn, Mishann, Nala, Perra, Raiann, Sora, Surina, Thava, Uadjit

**Clan Names**: Clethtinthiallor, Daardendrian, Delmirev, Drachedandion, Fenkenkabradon, Kepeshkmolik, Kerrhylon, Kimbatuul, Linxakasendalor, Myastan, Nemmonis, Norixius, Ophinshtalajiir, Prexijandilin, Shestendeliath, Turnuroth, Verthisathurgiesh, Yarjerit

## Dray Heritages

A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

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### First Generation Dray
The first generation of dray created were bestial shadows of dragons, and though their bodies are misshapen and mutated they are extremely durable creatures. They are monstrous in appearance and in demeanor, tending toward ferocity rather than wisdom or intellect. Most first generation dray despise Dregoth for having rejected them.

You gain 10 Hit Points from your ancestry instead of 8. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against dragon breath, effects 
with the sleep trait, and effects that would make you paralyzed.

### Second Generation Dray
The second generation of dray created were more refined in form, in body and in mind. They are not necessarily superior to their progenitors, but they consider themselves to be so, and so does their creator. These dray are frequently arcanist, often favoring defiling magic. Most second generation dray still revere Dregoth, though many do not know he has returned in undeath.

You gain an extra Charisma attribute boost but gain a Dexterity attribute Flaw. Second generation dray have a trace of draconic magic flowing through their veins. Choose one cantrip from the arcane spell list. You can Cast this Spell as an arcane innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up. You are trained in the spell attack modifier and spell DC statistics, and your key spellcasting ability is Charisma.

## Ancestry Feats
At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 
9th, 13th, and 17th level). As a dray, you select from among the following ancestry feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Arcane Dragonblood<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Second Generation Dray</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your arcane heritage allows you to wield mastery of magical abilities. As such, you can instinctively grasp the intricacies of magic. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Arcana. If you would automatically become trained in Arcana (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Arcane Sense skill feat. </div><br>

#### Draconic Aspect<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

</div>

You have an obvious draconic feature, such as sharp claws, a snout full of sharp teeth, or strong reptilian tail, that you can use offensively. You gain your choice of one of the following unarmed attacks. The attack is in the brawling group and has the listed damage die and traits. </div>

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>8</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>25 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Strength</div>
Free

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Draconic <br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if positive). Choose from Petran, Pyric, Sakvroth and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region)

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dray</div>
Humanoid <br>
Uncommon

### Born of Fire
<div style='margin-top:1px'>You live underground near blazing heat, gaining incredible resilience to warm environments. You gain fire resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1). Environmental heat effects are one step less extreme for you, and you can go twice as long as normal before you are affected by starvation or thirst. However, unless you wear protective gear or take shelter, environmental cold effects are one step more extreme for you.</div>

### Claws
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Your sharp claws offer an alternative to the fists other humanoids bring to a fight. You have a claw unarmed attack that deals 1d4 slashing damage is in the brawling group and has the agile, finesse, and unarmed traits.</div>

### Darkvision 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You can see in darkness and dim light just as well as you can see in bright light, though your vision in darkness is in black and white.</div>

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- <b>Claws</b> Your claw attack deals 1d6 slashing damage instead of 1d4 and gains the versatile P trait.<br>
- <b>Jaws</b> You gain a jaws unarmed attack that deals 1d8 piercing damage and is in the brawling group.<br>
- <b>Tail</b> You gain a tail unarmed attack that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage, is in the brawling group, and has the sweep trait.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of the unarmed attacks you have gained or improved with this feat, you get its critical specialization effect.
</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
<b>Special</b>  You can take this feat multiple times, choosing a different unarmed attack option each time.</div></div><br>

#### Dragon's Presence<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">First Generation Dray</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
As you are monstrous in apperance, you project unflappable confidence (that collapses catastrophically against the deadliest foes). When you roll a success on a saving throw against a fear effect, you get a critical success instead. When you roll a failure against a fear effect, you get a critical failure instead.

In addition, when you attempt to Demoralize a foe of your level or lower, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the Intimidation check.</div>

#### Dray Breath {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag dray">DRAY</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You channel your draconic power into a gout of fire that manifests as a 15-foot cone, dealing 1d4 fire damage. Each creature in the area must attempt a basic reflex saving throw against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. You can't use this ability again for 1d4 rounds.

At 3rd level and every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d4.</div>

#### Dray Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
You listened carefully to the tales passed down among your community. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Deception and Diplomacy. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Dray Lore.</div><br>

#### Dray Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
You've trained with weapons ideal for subterranean efficiency. You gain access to all uncommon weapons with the dray trait. You have familiarity with weapons with the dray trait plus crossbow, greatpick, light pick, pick, and spear—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect.</div>

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#### Scaly Hide<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">First Generation Dray</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You were born with a layer of scales across your entire body that resemble those of your draconic progenitor. When you’re unarmored, the scales give you a +2 item bonus to AC with a Dexterity cap of +3. The item bonus to AC from these scales is cumulative with armor potency runes on your explorer’s clothing, the mystic armor spell, or bands of force (GM Core 286).</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
<b>Special</b> You can select this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain into or out of this feat</div></div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Deadly Aspect<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Draconic Aspect</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have honed the unarmed attack your draconic heritage has granted you to a lethal degree. The unarmed attack you gained from Draconic Aspect gains the deadly d8 trait.</div><br>

#### Draconic Resistances<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Due to your blood, you have some resistance to certain types of magic. You gain a +1 status bonus to AC and saves against arcane spells and other magical effects. This bonus increases to +2 against sleep and paralysis effects. </div><br>

#### Draconic Scent<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Your sense of smell has heightened to be as keen as that of a dragon. You gain imprecise scent with a range of 30 feet. At their 
discretion, the GM might double this range if you’re downwind from the creature or halve this range if you’re upwind. </div><br>

#### Flexible Tail<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
You can perform simple Interact actions with your tail, such as opening an unlocked door. Your tail can't perform actions that require fingers or significant manual dexterity, including any action that would require a check to accomplish, and you can't use it to hold items.</div><br>

#### Winglets<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
Through the lingering influence of Dregoth, you’ve sprouted a small set of wings. While not suitable for full flight, these weak wings can help you jump further with a small flap. When Leaping horizontally, you move an additional 5 feet. This additional distance isn’t cumulative with the increased Leap distance from the Powerful Leap feat. In addition, when you attempt a Long Jump, you can jump a distance up to 10 feet farther than you normally would based on the result of your Athletics check, though you still can’t jump farther than your Speed. You don’t automatically fail your checks to High Jump or Long Jump if you don’t Stride at least 10 feet first. </div><br>

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###### 9th Level

#### Dangle<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Flexible Tail</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can hang by your tail from any suitable anchor point, such as a tree branch, balcony, or rocky outcropping (subject to the GM's discretion), typically while climbing. While hanging, you have free use of all your other limbs, so you can perform tasks that require both hands, such as firing a bow or swinging a greatsword.</div><br>

#### Evolved Dray<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Second Generation Dray</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your inborn arcane power grows. Choose one common 1st-rank arcane spell and one common 2nd-rank arcane spell. You can cast each of these spells once per day as arcane innate spells.</div><br>

#### Formidable Breath<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Dray Breath</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Thanks to rigorous breathing exercises and a diet similar to that of a dragon, your magical breath is more powerful. The area 
of your Dray Breath increases to 30 feet, and the damage dice are d6s instead of d4s. </div><br>

#### Guarded Thoughts<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag attack">ATTACK</div>
<div class="tag dray">DRAY</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
Your mind, like a dragon's, foils attempts to read your thoughts. Any effect that specifically attempts to read your mind to glean information must succeed at a counteract check against the higher of your class DC or your spell DC to do so successfully; otherwise, it gains no information. The counteract rank is equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Wing Buffet {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Winglets; expert in Athletics</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your pair of draconic wings are strong enough to batter your foes away and shove them away. Choose up to two creatures
adjacent to you. Attempt an Athletics check and compare it to the Fortitude DC of each target. This counts as two attacks for your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn’t increase until after both attacks.

<div class="rule result r4"> The target takes bludgeoning damage equal to double your level and is pushed up to 10 feet away from you.</div>
<div class="rule result r3"> The target takes bludgeoning damage equal to your level and is pushed up to 5 feet away from you.</div>
<div class="rule result r2"> The target takes bludgeoning damage equal to half your level.</div>
<div class="rule result r1"> You fall prone at the end of this activity.</div>
</div><br>

#### Winglet Flight {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DRAY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Winglets</div>
<div class="rule freq">once per round</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Intense use and exercise have made your winglets more powerful. You Fly. If you don’t normally have a fly Speed, you gain a fly Speed of 20 feet for this movement. If you aren’t on solid ground at the end of this movement, you fall.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Draconic Veil<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag dray">DRAY</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Like Dregoth, you have learned to change your shape to walk among humanoids. You can cast <i>humanoid form</i> as a 5th-rank innate spell once per day, except that the duration is increased to 1 hour. </div><br>

#### Majestic Presence {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DRAY</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag fear">FEAR</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
<div class="tag visual">VISUAL</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
By taking an impressive stance, the full force of your personality cows lesser beings. Each creature in a 20-foot emanation must attempt a Will save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. Regardless of the result of the saving throw, the creature is temporarily immune to your Majestic Presence for 24 hours.

<div class="rule result r4"> The creature is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3"> The creature is frightened 1.</div>
<div class="rule result r2"> The creature is frightened 2.</div>
<div class="rule result r1"> The creature is frightened 4.</div>
</div><br>

#### Resplendent Dray<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Second Generation Dray</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your magic continues to flourish. Choose one common 3rd-rank arcane spell and one common 4th-rank arcane spell. You can cast each of these spells once per day as arcane innate spells.</div><br>

#### Wyrmling Flight<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Winglet Flight</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your wings have grown more powerful, capable of keeping you aloft longer. You have a fly Speed of 20 feet at all times.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Form of the Dragon<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag dray">DRAY</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can briefly transform into a paragon of your draconic ancestry. You can cast <i>dragon form</i> as an 8th-rank innate spell once per day. </div><br>

#### Lingering Breath<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Dray Breath</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your draconic breath destroys the surrounding environment and leaves your enemies in pain. When you use Dray Breath, the area of your breath becomes difficult terrain for 1 minute. In addition, a creature who fails or critically fails its saving throw takes 2d6 persistent fire damage.</div><br>

### Dray Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:0px'>Dray often adventure in pursuit of the power, lore, and treasure that they feel befit their large egos. </div>

<br>

</div>

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# Dwarf

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
Cities of dwarves were once as numerous as the caravan forts guarding the trade roads, but today not one exists. Likewise, no more than a handful of dwarf villages remain in the Tyr Region. Kled and the twin villages of North and South Ledopolus are the most prominent. The rest of the dwarf population lives in the city-states of the Sorcerer-Kings or among the slave tribes that wander the desert wastes.<br>
Dwarves of Athas have no lands of their own and live among the other folk of Athas. They reside both in cities and the countryside, and they tend to be builders and farmers instead of nomads or raiders. Despite the absence of their once marvelous cities and strongholds, they still possess a rich cultural history passed down from generation to generation in great sagas and secret traditions.

<div class='descriptive'>
"REMEMBER THE INTENSITY OF YOUR FOCUS. Breaking or ignoring your focus will be detrimental to both your body and mind. There is no greater satisfaction than fulfilling a difficult focus. Be serious and sober, always. The only time to be festive is when you have recently fulfilled your focus, during the hours or days until you set a new focus."* </div>

<div align='Right'> — Vow of the Focus, 1:3</div>

### Stocky and Rugged
Short and powerful, dwarves stand between 4 and 5 feet tall and possess frames that are extremely massive; the average dwarf weighs in the vicinity of 200 pounds. Most dwarves have deep tanned complexions from lives spent toiling in the hot sun, with wide, callused hands and feet. They usually sport little or no hair; the flowing beards commonly found in dwarven societies of other worlds are never seen on Athas.

Life in the Athasian wastes has given the dwarves a rugged look. They prefer simple and practical clothing that is sturdy and unadorned, a set of clothes that shall be worn repeatedly in their span of toiling in the harsh lands.

### Laborious Folk

Dwarves embrace work with joy, often giving themselves over to a favorite cause or task. They are a stoic, single-minded people to whom compromise doesn't come easy. Dwarf soldiers, laborers, and crafters are common, though members of this race can be found among the templars, merchants, and slaves.

Dwarves are by nature industrious, skilled, and materialistic. They make excellent artisans and merchants, specializing in either the craftsmanship of handicrafts, weapons, and armor, or the trade thereof.

While they can serve the city or their tribe as warriors, followers of the Way, or healers, their most important contribution to their community is as artisans or traders.

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### Persistent Minds
Dwarves are known for their stoicism and single-mindedness. They prefer to occupy themselves with meaningful tasks, and often approach these tasks with an intensity rarely seen in other races. Once they fix their minds on the task at hand, be it a challenging bit of engineering, an intricate work of craft, a struggle for survival, or a quest for revenge, it's impossible to abandon it or leave the work half done.

Dwarves will simply fail to listen to reason and will treat any who hinder them as obstacles that must be removed. On the other hand, people who help a dwarf accomplish its task or share its goals are treated with respect and considered good companions.

The commitment to a single task is called a dwarf's focus. A dwarf will work to complete its focus above all else, for the compulsion to succeed is built into the dwarven nature. They literally live for their focus; if a dwarf dies without completing its focus, the need remains so strong that the dwarf may return as an undead to finish the task that drives it.

### Dwarf Names
A dwarf receives its name by the community leader, who usually grants it to them after they have completed their first focus, in accordance with their ancient traditions. Thus, they jealously strive to honor their names and never misuse or bring shame to it.

___
     **Male Names:** Birgaz, Bontar, Brul, Caelum, Caro, Daled, Drog, Ghedran, Gralth, Gram, Hai, Jo'orsh, Jurgan, Kov, Krom, Lian, Lodo, Ltak, Lyanius, Murd, Nati, Portek, Rkard, Sa'ram, Sult, Veso.
  
 **Female Names:** Ardin, Erda, Ghava, Greshin, Gudak, Fyra, Kesi, Lazra, N'kadir, Palashi, Vashara.

## Dwarf Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Ancient-Blooded Dwarf

Dwarven heroes of old could shrug off their enemies’ magic, and some of that resistance manifests in you. You gain the Call on Ancient Blood reaction.
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Call on Ancient Blood</B> {R} <span class="rule trigger">You attempt a saving throw against a magical effect, but you haven’t rolled yet. </span><span class="rule effect"> Your ancestors’ innate resistance to magic surges 
before slowly ebbing down. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws on the triggering save and other saves against magical effects until the end of this turn. </span></div></div>

<br>

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>10</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>20 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Constitution</div>
Wisdom <br>
Free

### Attribute Flaw
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Charisma</div>

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Dwarven<br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it’s positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dwarf</div>
Humanoid <br>

### Darkvision 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You can see in darkness and dim light just as well as you can see in bright light, though your vision in darkness is in black
and white.</div>

### Dwarven Focus
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
A dwarf's focus is the central point of its existence. You gain the Additional Lore feat and the Assurance feat for the chosen Lore.  Once a focus is completed a dwarf can gain a new focus by retraining to a different Lore subcategory in 1 day of downtime. </div>

</div>

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### Anvil Dwarf

You are a descendant of a famed crafter and have your own amazing talent. Other dwarves might consider this a blessing from your ancestor, depending on where you grew up. You become trained in Crafting (or another skill if you were already trained in Crafting) and gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat, but you can pick two different specialties instead of one.

### Death Warden Dwarf

Your ancestors were tomb guardians, and their power to ward off death passed on to you. If you roll a success on a saving throw against an effect that has the void trait or was created by an undead creature, you get a critical success instead.

### Desert Dwarf

You have a remarkable adaptation to hot environments from ancestors who inhabited blazing deserts. This grants you fire resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1), and you treat environmental heat effects as if they were one step less extreme (incredible heat becomes extreme, extreme heat becomes severe, and so on).

### Elemental Heart Dwarf

Through a connection to a genie of the Elemental Planes, you can exude a burst of energy. Choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, electricity, fire, holy, or unholy. Once chosen, this can't be changed. You gain the Energy Emanation activity.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Energy Emanation</B> {2A} <span class="rule">(primal) </span><span class="rule freq">once per day </span><span class="rule effect">Energy bursts forth from your body. You deal 1d6 damage of your chosen type to all adjacent creatures (basic Reflex save using your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher). At 3rd level, and every 2 levels thereafter, this damage increases by 1d6.</span></div></div>

### Oathkeeper Dwarf

Growing up, you never tried to lie to get what you wanted, and even when necessary, lying makes you uncomfortable. The especially faithful might even have thought that you were blessed by the elements. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Sense Motive and to Perception DCs against attempts to Lie to you. Furthermore, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Diplomacy checks to convince others you speak the truth when you are telling the truth, and you take a –4 circumstance penalty to Lie and to your Deception DC against Sense Motive.

### Rock Dwarf

Your ancestors lived and worked among a quarry of the mountains or in the depths of the earth. This makes you solid as a rock when you plant your feet.

You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your Fortitude or Reflex DC against attempts to Reposition, Shove, or Trip you. This bonus also applies to saving throws against spells or effects that attempt to force you to move or knock you prone.

In addition, if any effect would force you to move 10 feet or more, you are moved only half the distance.

### Strong-Blooded Dwarf

Your blood runs hearty and strong, and you can shake off toxins. You gain poison resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1), and each of your successful saving throws against a poison affliction reduces its stage by 2, or by 1 for a virulent poison. Each critical success against an ongoing poison reduces its stage by 3, or by 2 for a virulent poison.

## Ancestry Feats
At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level). As a dwarf, you select from among the following ancestry feats

###### 1st Level

#### Adaptive Vision<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
After years of working under the harsh sun of Athas, you've become accustomed to dazzling flashes of light and sudden shifts in illumination. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against visual effects. If you roll a success on a saving throw against a visual effect, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Avenge In Glory {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule freq">once per day</div>
<div class="rule prereq">Death Warden Dwarf</div>
<div class="rule trigger">An ally within 30 feet gains the dying condition.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You honor your ally’s life, gaining temporary Hit Points equal to your level for 1 minute. As long as you have these temporary Hit Points, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to attack and damage rolls.</div><br>

#### Cultured Dwarf<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your interactions with other cultures have not only taught you about many other ancestries but have also helped you realize the value of your own. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Diplomacy and Society. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead 
become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for the Lore corresponding to your culture (for instance, Kled Lore or Ledopolus Lore).</div><br>

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#### Dwarven Doughtiness<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are either naturally calm and collected in the face of imminent danger, or you are very good at faking it. At the end of your turn, reduce your frightened condition by 2 instead of 1.</div><br>

#### Dwarven Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You eagerly absorbed the old stories and traditions of your ancestors, the elements, and your people, studying in subjects and techniques passed down for generation upon generation. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Crafting and Religion. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Dwarf Lore.</div><br>

#### Dwarven Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your kin have instilled in you an affinity for hard-hitting weapons, and you prefer these to more elegant arms. You gain access to all uncommon weapons with the dwarf trait. You have familiarity with weapons with the dwarf trait plus the battle axe, pick, and warhammer—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Eye For Treasure<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know good artisanship when you see it and can wax poetic about crafting techniques and forms. You become trained in Crafting and gain a +1 circumstance bonus on all Crafting checks made to Recall Knowledge.

If you would automatically become trained in Crafting (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. In addition, you gain the Crafter's Appraisal skill feat, enabling you to identify magic items using the Crafting skill.</div><br>

#### Fire Savvy<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've grown up around a forge and are well-suited to dealing with smoke and flame. Your flat check to remove persistent fire damage is DC 10 instead of DC 15, which is reduced to DC 5 with appropriate assistance. In addition, if you roll a success on a saving throw against suffocation or choking due to smoke or ash, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Forge-Day's Rest<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your unusual rest cycle allows you to recover faster. As long as you rest for 12 hours, you gain the effects of the Fast Recovery general feat, and you can go 20 hours without resting before becoming fatigued.</div>

#### Rock Runner<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your innate connection to stone makes you adept at moving across uneven surfaces. You can ignore difficult terrain caused by rubble and uneven ground made of stone and earth. In addition, when you use the Acrobatics skill to Balance on narrow surfaces or uneven ground made of stone or earth, you aren't off-guard, and when you roll a success at one of these Acrobatics checks, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Stonemason's eye<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You understand the intricacies of stonework. You become trained in Crafting. If you’re already trained in Crafting, you instead gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat for stonemasonry.

You also gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to notice unusual stonework. This bonus applies to checks to discover mechanical traps made of stone or hidden within stone.

If you aren’t using the Seek action or searching, the GM automatically rolls a secret check for you to notice unusual stonework anyway. This check doesn’t gain your normal circumstance bonus</div><br>

#### Unburdened Granite<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned techniques first devised by your ancestors during their ancient wars, allowing you to comfortably wear massive suits of armor. Ignore the reduction to your Speed from any armor you wear.

In addition, any time you're taking a penalty to your Speed from some other reason (such as from the encumbered condition or from a spell), deduct 5 feet from the penalty. For example, the encumbered condition normally gives a –10-foot penalty to Speed, but it gives you only a –5-foot penalty. If your Speed is taking multiple penalties, pick only one penalty to reduce.</div><br>

#### Vengeful Hatred<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You heart aches for vengeance against those who have wronged your people. Choose an ancestry of your choice when you gain Vengeful Hatred. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to damage with weapons and unarmed attacks against creatures with that trait. If your attack would deal more than one weapon die of damage (as is common at higher levels than 1st), the bonus is equal to the number of weapon dice or unarmed attack dice. In addition, if a creature critically succeeds at an attack against you and deals damage to you, you gain your bonus to damage against that creature for 1 minute regardless of whether it has the chosen trait.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Boulder Roll {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Rock Runner</div>
</div>

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<div class="rule">
Your dwarven build allows you to push foes around, just like a mighty boulder tumbles through a subterranean cavern. Take a Step into the square of a foe that is your size or smaller, and the foe must move into the empty space directly behind it. The foe must move even if doing so places it in harm’s way. The foe can attempt a Fortitude saving throw against your Athletics DC to block your Step. If the foe attempts this saving throw, it takes bludgeoning damage equal to your level plus your Strength modifier unless it critically succeeds.

If the foe can’t move into an empty space (if it is surrounded by solid objects or other creatures, for example), your Boulder Roll has no effect</div><br>

#### Defy the Darkness<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">darkvision</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Spending a lengthy time underground has honed your darkvision. You gain greater darkvision, enabling you to see through magical darkness even if it normally hampers darkvision (such as the darkness created by a 4th-rank <i>darkness</i> spell). You can't cast spells with the darkness trait, use item activations with the darkness trait, or use any other ability with the darkness trait.</div><br>

#### Dwarven Reinforcement<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">expert in Crafting</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can use your knowledge of engineering and metalwork to temporarily strengthen thick objects and structures. By spending 1 hour working on an item, you can give it a +1 circumstance bonus to its Hardness for 24 hours. If you're a master in Crafting, the bonus is +2, and if you're legendary, the bonus is +3. You can reinforce a portion of a structure, though 1 hour usually reinforces only a door, a few windows, or another section that fits within a 10-foot cube.</div><br>

#### Sheltering Slab<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dray">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The stone around you is your ally, and you have learned to use it to shore up your weaknesses. As long as you remain on the ground and are adjacent to a vertical stone wall that rises to your height or taller, you aren't off-guard against attacks as a result of being flanked. This works even if you are at the outside corner of the wall.</div><br>

#### Tomb-Watcher's Glare<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ddivine">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Death Warden Dwarf</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you critically hit an undead creature, or an undead creature critically fails a saving throw against one of your abilities, you drive your divine wrath home in your enemy’s heart. The undead is enfeebled 1 for 1 round.</div>

###### 9th Level

#### Echoes in Stone {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule req">You are standing on a stone or earthen surface</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You pause a moment to attune your senses to the stone around you. Until the start of your next turn, you gain imprecise tremorsense with a range of 20 feet.</div>

#### Energy Blessed<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Elemental Heart Dwarf</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Energy runs through your blood more powerfully. When you use Energy Emanation, you can create an emanation of 5 feet, 10 feet, or 15 feet. The damage increases to 6d6 plus an additional 1d6 for every level you have above 9th, instead of 1d6 plus an additional 1d6 for every 2 levels above 1st.</div><br>

#### Heroes' Call<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The songs of ancient heroes echo through your mind and quicken your pulse, especially in dire straits. You gain <i>heroism</i> as a 3rd-rank innate occult spell that you can cast once per day. If you Cast the Spell when you have half or fewer Hit Points, you also gain temporary Hit Points equal to twice your level.</div><br>

#### Kneel For No One<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Ancient-Blooded Dwarf</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your ancestors’ defiance of magic and your people’s strictly egalitarian mindset mean that certain forms of magic have little effect on you. When you use your Call on Ancient Blood reaction against any spell and roll a critical failure on the saving throw against that spell, you get a failure instead.</div><br>

#### Mountain's Stoutness<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

If you also have the Toughness feat, the Hit Points gained from it and this feat are cumulative, and the DC of your recovery checks is equal to 6 + your dying value.</div><br>

#### Stone Bones {R}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule trigger">You are struck by a critical hit that deals physical damage.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your intractable nature can help you shrug off even the most grievous injuries. Attempt a DC 17 flat check. If you are successful, the attack becomes a normal hit.</div><br>

#### Stonewalker<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a deep reverence for and connection to stone. You can cast <i>one with stone</i> as a 3rd-rank primal innate spell once per day.

If you have the Stonemason’s Eye feat, you can attempt to find unusual stonework and stonework traps that require legendary proficiency in Perception. If you have both Stonemason’s Eye and legendary proficiency in Perception, when the GM rolls a secret check for you to notice unusual stonework, you keep your bonus from Stonemason’s Eye.</div><br>

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###### 13th Level

#### Earthen Power<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You channel strength from the earth beneath your feet to pummel your enemies. When making a melee Strike against a target who is standing on the same earth or stone surface as you are, you gain a circumstance bonus to the damage roll equal to the number of weapon damage dice.</div><br>

#### March The Mines {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You march through the earth and lead an ally along. You gain a burrow Speed of 15 feet when you use this activity (if you don’t have a higher one), and then you either Stride twice or Burrow twice. You can choose one willing ally adjacent to you at the start of your movement to move with you. That ally ends its movement one square behind you. </div><br>

#### Scrutinizing Gaze<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a history of encountering undead, this has given you a sixth sense for detecting spirits, haunts, and other restless dead, no matter their form or the strength of their presence. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Sense Motive when trying to determine if a creature is possessed or under the influence of an effect that would make them controlled, a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks made to see through disguises worn by undead, and a +2 circumstance bonus when using the Seek action to find hidden or undetected haunts or undead within 30 feet of you.

If you aren't using the Seek action or searching, the GM automatically rolls a secret check for you to notice haunts or undead within 30 feet anyway. This check doesn't gain the usual +2 circumstance bonus, and instead takes a –2 circumstance penalty.</div><br>

<img 
  src='http://athas.org/system/uploads/article_attachment/attachment/61/Dwarf_Psion.jpg' 
  style='position:absolute; bottom:0px; right:20px;width:400px;mix-blend-mode:darken' />
  
###### 17th Level

#### Stonegate<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Stonewalker</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Earthen barriers no longer impede your progress. You gain <i>magic passage</i> as a 7th-rank primal innate spell that you can cast once per day. Unlike the spell, however, this ability can be used only to open passages through barriers of earth or stone.</div><br>
  
#### Stonewall {R}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag dwarf">DWARF</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule freq">once per day</div>
<div class="rule trigger">An enemy or hazard’s effect hits you or you fail a Fortitude save against one.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The strength of stone overcomes you so strongly that it replaces your stout body. You become petrified until the end of the current turn. You don’t take any damage from the triggering effect or any other ill effects that couldn’t affect stone.</div>

### Dwarven Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dwarven adventurers tend to work as treasure hunters or sell swords. They often leave in search of wealth to enrich their families or to reclaim long-lost dwarven treasures or lands taken by the desert.

Typical dwarven backgrounds include acolyte, artisan, merchant, miner, and warrior. Dwarves excel at many of the martial classes, such as barbarian, fighter, monk, and ranger, but they also make excellent clerics and druids.</div>

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# Elf

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
The elves of Athas are long-limbed sprinters who lead lives of thievery, raiding, trading, and warfare. As members of tribes that wander the sun-scorched lands, elves usually make a living as traders and herders and rarely stay in one place for long. Each of the city-states hosts an Elven Market — a never-ending bazaar where the elves (and others who deal in goods of dubious origin) sell their wares.<br>
Most elf tribes make a living through herding, but merchants and raiders also ply the desert roads. Elf culture, while savage, is also rich and diverse. They have turned celebrating into an art form, and elf song and dance is some of the most beautiful and captivating in all of Athas.

<div class='descriptive'>
THEY RUN ACROSS THE BURNING SANDS LIKE whirling dust sweeps across the baked dunes and parched steppes of the Tyr Region. By day they are untamed winds, blowing hot gusts of chaos from one end of the Tablelands to the other. By night they are swift shadows, always in motion, dancing beneath the light of Athas's twin moons. They are the elves of Athas, and the twisted path they trace over the landscape is fast, furious, and more than a little dangerous.* </div>

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### Savage Beauty
Elves stand between 6 and 7 feet tall, with slender yet muscular builds. They have deeply etched features, with skin that has been made rugged by the baking sun and the scouring sand. Unlike the elves of other worlds, the elves of Athas are not pale-skinned, delicate beings. Their pigmentation is as varied as the flesh of other races and as affected by the rays of the sun. They grow no facial or body hair, but the locks atop their heads come in all colors — from sun-bleached blond to red and brown to darkest black.

Elves prefer to dress in garb designed to protect them from the desert and the elements but also to showcase their tribal customs and traditions. Some also incorporate plunder from raids to enrich their native dress. Song and dance play a major part in elven life, and the music they produce is captivating and seductive to non-elves.

### Natural Wanderers
Elves are tireless desert rovers forged in the desert — burned dark by the sun, toughened by the swirling sand, and given strength and speed by the constant wind. There's no racial unity among them. Within a given tribe, all elves are brethren, but outsiders —even other elves— are regarded as potential enemies.

Outsiders can be accepted and perhaps even become friends, but trust takes time to develop, and it is often associated with tests and great sacrifice.

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Elves crave free, open spaces in which to run, so elven slaves wither in captivity if they can't escape, a practice they always strive for, when captured. Travelers often see whole tribes running swiftly and with great endurance across the sandy wastes.

Only rarely will an elf ride a crodlu or a kank as mount. To do so is dishonorable unless ill or gravely wounded. The custom of the elves is to keep up or be left behind, so those unworthy of following the elf runs are not considered to be strong and useful to the tribe.
 
 ### Indolent and Unscrupulous
Most Athasians consider elves lazy and deceitful. It's true that many elves dislike hard work and prefer to live in the moment, avoiding unpleasant tasks and drudgery. If work can wait for even another moment, then it will. For an elf, the future is a dark, deadly place, so it strives to make every moment as enjoyable and full as possible. They also enjoy taking advantage of, steal from, lie to, or misdirect outsiders, not out of malice so much as a desire to separate the gullible from their items of value.

Still, elves do work. In some ways, they work harder than members of other races. While they detest hard labor and will never voluntarily set out to construct anything more durable than a tent or small hut, they will spend hours on end haggling and negotiating with potential customers. When it's important to maintain a valuable trading relationship, elves honor their word and barter in good faith. But the moment they perceive an opportunity that is too good to pass up, they abandon their previous deals.

### Elf Names
Names are very important to elves, and they take a great deal of time and care before selecting one. Much thought goes into the selection of names, and tribal leaders consider naming young runners as one of their most solemn duties. Elven names are derived from two sources, the name of their tribe, and a given name based upon the elven tradition of a child's first interesting thing while learning to run. While this might seem an easy task, tribal leaders watch for occurrences that are both significant and that fit the child's personality, for traditions hold that names help shape the elves they are given to. With the proper name, a young elf can grow to become a great elf. With the wrong name, the same elf will disappear in the wastes. Some childhood names are changed because of extraordinary actions undertaken during a youth's rites of passage, but such changes do not happen very often.

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* **Male Names:** Abyuuk, Botuu, Coraanu, Dukkoti, Eevuu, Galek, Haaku, Ikan, Jaarati, Kathak, Lobuu, Mutami, Nuuko, Quaar, Radurak, Sorak, Traako.
* **Female Names:** Alaa, Areela, Celba, Deryssa, Ekee, Elas, Enala, Esylk, Grissi, Guuta, Hukaa, Ittee, Jeila, Katza, Keelorr, Nuuta, Nysia, Tala, Utaa, Yalana.
* **Tribe Names:** Clearwater, Night Runner, Shadow, Silt Stalker, Silver Hand, Sky Singer, Swiftwing, Water Hunter, Wind Dancer.

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>6</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>30 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dexterity</div>
Intelligence<br>
Free

### Attribute Flaw
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Constitution</div>

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Elven<br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it’s positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Elf</div>
Humanoid <br>

### Low-Light Vision 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You can see in dim light as though it were bright light, so you ignore the concealed condition due to dim light.</div>

### Elven Resilience
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You live under the desert's blazing heat, gaining incredible resilience to warm environments. You gain fire resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1), and environmental heat effects are one step less extreme for you (incredible heat becomes extreme, extreme heat becomes severe, and so on). </div>

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## Elf Heritages
You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Deep Desert Elf

Your innate connection to the desert makes you adept at moving across sand.  You can ignore difficult terrain and uneven terrain caused by rubble or sand in the desert.

In addition, when you use the Acrobatics skill to Balance on narrow surfaces or uneven ground made of sand, you aren't off-guard, and when you roll a success at one of these Acrobatics checks, you get a critical success instead.

### Moonless Elf

You have traveled countless hours in the dark of night. You gain darkvision.

### Seer Elf

You have an inborn ability to detect and understand magical phenomena. You can cast the <i>detect magic</i> cantrip as an arcane innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.

In addition, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to checks to Identify Magic and to Decipher Writing of a magical nature. These skill actions typically use the Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion skill.

### Well Traveled Elf

In your journeys, you've dabbled in many paths and many styles.  Choose a class other than your own. You gain the multiclass dedication feat for that class, even though you don't meet its level prerequisite. You must still meet its other prerequisites to gain the feat.

### Whisper Elf

Your ears are finely tuned, able to detect even the slightest whispers of sound. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus when using the Seek action to find hidden or undetected creatures within 30 feet of you. When you target an opponent 
that is concealed from you or hidden from you, reduce the DC of the flat check to 3 for a concealed target or 9 for a hidden one. This benefit doesn’t apply if you can’t hear or if the creature is incapable of making sound (for 
example, if it’s affected by a silence spell).

## Ancestry Feats
At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level). As an elf, you select from among the following ancestry feats.

<br>

###### 1st Level

#### Ancient Blooded<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elven magic manifests as a simple arcane spell, even if you aren’t formally trained in magic. Choose one cantrip from the arcane spell list. You can cast this cantrip as an arcane innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Cultivated Knowledge<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You have accumulated a vast array of knowledge through your travels. During your daily preparations, you can reflect upon your journeys to gain the trained proficiency rank in one skill of your choice. This proficiency lasts until you prepare again. Since this proficiency is temporary, you can’t use it as a prerequisite for a skill increase or a permanent character option like a feat.</div><br>

#### Cultivated Linguistics<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Over your travels, you've studied many languages. During your daily preparations, you can recede into old memories to become fluent in one common language or one other language you have access to. You know this language until you prepare again. Since this knowledge is temporary, you can't use it as a prerequisite for a permanent character option.</div><br>

#### Desertcraft<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You have an innate familiarity with desert areas. When in a desert or rocky badlands, if you roll a critical failure on a Survival skill check to Sense Direction, Subsist, or Cover Tracks, you get a failure instead, and if you roll a success, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Elemental Wrath<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You are so attuned to the land that you can call forth a bolt of energy from your surroundings. When you gain this feat, select acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You can call to the land to cast the <i>acid splash</i> cantrip as an innate primal spell at will, except the spell has only verbal components and deals the type of damage you chose instead of acid damage; the spell gains the trait appropriate to its damage instead of the acid trait. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Elf Run<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You lead by example and can help others push themselves beyond their normal limits. When Hustling in an elven group during exploration mode, your elven group can Hustle for up to 20 additional minutes, to a maximum of the amount of time the character with the highest Constitution modifier could Hustle alone.</div><br>

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#### Elven Aloofness<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
As much as you might care for them, you've come to terms with the ephemeral nature of non-elves, and it makes their threats feel less troublesome. If a non-elf rolls a failure on a check to Coerce you using Intimidation, it gets a critical failure instead (and thus can't try to Coerce you again for 1 week).

When a non-elf attempts to Demoralize you, you become temporarily immune for 1 day, instead of 10 minutes.</div><br>

#### Elven Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve studied traditional elven arts, learning about arcane magic and the world around you. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Arcana and Nature. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Elf Lore.</div><br>

#### Elven Verve<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You can shake off flesh-numbing magic of all kinds. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against effects that would impose the immobilized, paralyzed, or slowed conditions. When you would be immobilized, paralyzed, or slowed for at least 2 rounds, reduce that duration by 1 round.</div><br>

#### Elven Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You favor bows and other elegant weapons. You gain access to all uncommon weapons with the elf trait. You have familiarity with weapons with the elf trait plus longbows, composite longbows, sabres, shortbows, and composite shortbows—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect.</div>

#### Know Your Own<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You've spent countless hours listening to the stories of elves on Athas and are a studied expert in your people's ways. If you critically fail a check to Recall Knowledge about elves, elven society, or elven history, you get a failure instead.</div><br>

#### Nimble Elf<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your muscles are tightly honed. Your Speed increases by 5 feet.</div><br>

#### Share Thoughts<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You have developed psychic link to communicate with other elves without speaking, though this habit that is often uncomfortable to observers. You can cast <i>mindlink</i> as an innate occult spell once per day, but you can target only other elves or half-elves.</div>

#### Thri-kreen Slayer<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to damage with weapons and unarmed attacks against kreen. If your attack would deal more than one weapon die of damage (as is common at higher levels than 1st), the bonus is equal to the number of weapon dice or unarmed attack dice.</div><br>

#### Unwavering Mien<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your psychic control and meditations allow you to resist external influences upon your consciousness. Whenever you are affected by a mental effect that lasts at least 2 rounds, you can reduce the duration by 1 round.

You still require natural sleep, but you treat your saving throws against effects that would cause you to fall asleep as one degree of success better. This protects only against sleep effects, not against other forms of falling unconscious.</div>

#### Wildborn Magic<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned to access the primal magic provided by spirits of the land. Choose one cantrip from the primal spell list. You can cast this cantrip as an innate primal spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Cultured Patience<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
You work at a pace born from working with hundreds of non-elves that enhances your thoroughness. You can voluntarily spend twice as much time as normal on a Perception check or skill check to gain a +2 circumstance bonus to that check. You also don't treat a natural 1 as worse than usual on these checks; you get a critical failure only if your result is 10 lower than the DC. For example, you could get these benefits if you spent 2 actions to Seek, which normally takes 1 action. You can get these benefits during exploration by taking twice as long exploring as normal, or in downtime by spending twice as much downtime.

The GM might determine a situation doesn't grant you a benefit if a delay would be directly counterproductive to your success, such as a tense negotiation with an impatient creature.</div>

#### Defiance Unto Death<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
You loathe templars and their controlling magic, and you’ve been trained to be willing to die rather than give into mental manipulation.

If you would start your turn confused, controlled, or fleeing due to a failed Will save, you can attempt a Will save against the same DC; on a success, you become paralyzed until your next turn, rather than act against your will.</div>

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#### Desert Stealth {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">expert in Stealth</div>
<div class="rule req">You are in a desert or rocky badland environment near an environmental feature that would allow you to Take Cover.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are skilled at quickly hiding behind bits of rocky terrain or desert plants. You Take Cover and then use that cover to Hide.</div><br>

#### Elven Instincts<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Your senses let you react rapidly. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks made as initiative rolls. Additionally, if your initiative roll result is tied with that of an opponent, you go first, regardless of whether you rolled Perception or not.</div><br>

#### Elven Suspicion<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Elves have seen elven tribes rice and fall, often at the hands of outside forces. As a result, they have developed a wariness of others who might seek to influence or control them. You've been trained to resist such manipulation, gaining a +2 circumstance bonus to saving throws against effects that would make you controlled, such as dominate, and to Perception checks to Sense Motive when trying to determine if a creature is under the influence of such an effect. When you roll a success on a saving throw against such an effect, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Martial Experience<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
You've crossed blades with a wide variety of foes wielding a wide variety of weapons, and you've learned the basics of fighting with nearly any of them. When wielding a weapon, you aren't proficient with, treat your level as your proficiency bonus.

At 11th level, you become trained in all weapons.</div>

#### Wildborn Adept<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Wildborn Magic</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The whispers of the spirits of the land grant you more diverse access to simple primal magic. You can cast <i>light</i>, <i>tangle vine</i> and, <i>vitality lash</i>,  as innate primal spells at will. If you chose one of those spells with Wildborn Magic, you can select a new spell for Wildborn Magic.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Arcane Acumen<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">at least one innate spell gained from an elf ancestry feat</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The arcane magic you possess grows in power and complexity. Choose one common 2nd-rank spell from the same tradition 
as an innate spell you previously gained from another elf ancestry feat (from the arcane list if you have Ancient Blooded, for example). You can cast that spell as an innate spell once per day, using the same tradition as the list you chose the spell from.

Your magic is adaptable. By spending 1 day of downtime, you can change the spell you chose to a different common 
2nd-rank spell from the same tradition.</div>

#### Brightness Seeker<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
Once per day, you can spend 10 minutes studying your surroundings in search of omens related to a particular course of action to cast <i>augury</i> as an innate occult spell. Unless the result of the <i>augury</i> was “nothing,” you gain the following reaction for the next 30 minutes:
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Call Upon The Brightness</b> {R} <span class="rule trigger">You attempt an attack roll, skill check, or saving throw while performing the course of action from your augury, but you haven’t rolled yet. </span><span class="rule effect">You gain a +1 status bonus to the triggering check, or a +2 status bonus if the result of the <i>augury</i> was “woe” and you proceeded anyway.</span></div></div></div><br>

#### Elf Step {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
You move in a graceful dance, and even your steps are broad. You Step 5 feet twice.</div><br>

#### Improved Elf Run<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
You know how to get the most effort out of your allies during travel. When Hustling in a group during exploration mode, your group can Hustle for as long as the member who could Hustle longest on their own, plus an additional 20 minutes beyond that.</div><br>

#### Polished Knowledge<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Cultivated Knowledge</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve continued to refine the knowledge and skills you’ve gained through your travels. When you choose a skill in which to become trained with Cultivated Knowledge, you can also choose a skill in which you are already trained and become an expert in that skill. This lasts until your Cultivated Knowledge expires.

When the effects of Cultivated Knowledge and Polished Knowledge expire, you can retrain one of your skill increases. The skill increase you gain from this retraining must either make you trained in the skill you chose with Cultivated Knowledge or make you an expert in the skill you chose with Polished Knowledge.</div><br>

#### Sense Thoughts<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Share Thoughts</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have an even stronger knack for communicating psychically. You can cast <i>mind reading</i> as an innate occult spell once per day.</div>

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###### 13th Level

#### Avenge Ally {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag elf">ELF</div>
<div class="tag fortune">FORTUNE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once every 10 minutes</div>
<div class="req"> You are within 30 feet of an ally with the dying condition</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your allies have been accepted as close friends, seeing them at death's door brings clarity to your attacks. Make a Strike. Roll twice on the attack roll and use the higher result.</div><br>

#### Longrunner<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Improved Elf Run</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve perfected your Elf Run ability. While hustling in a group, your group can hustle for a number of hours equal to 1+your constitution modifier.</div><br>

#### Universal Knowledge {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Cultivated Knowledge</div>
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve perfected your ability to keep up with all the skills you’ve learned over your many travels, so you’re almost never truly untrained at a skill. You reflect on your many travels, changing the skill you selected with Cultivated Knowledge (and the skill you selected with Polished Knowledge if you have that feat).</div>

###### 17th Level

#### Magic Rider<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="rule">
Your people used powerful magic to travel between the planes, and the remnants of that magic make such transportation easier for you. When you are the target of a teleportation spell that transports more than one person, it can affect an additional person beyond the normal limit, chosen by the caster. Additionally, when you're the target of a <i>teleport</i> spell, you and the other targets arrive no farther than 1 mile off target, regardless of distance traveled.</div>

### Elven Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Many elves adventure to explore the world and discover new things. Typical backgrounds for an elf include bandit, charlatan, emissary, entertainer, merchant, or nomad.  Elves often become rangers or rogues, taking advantage of their dexterity, or alchemists or wizards, exploring their intellectual curiosity.</div>

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# Fleshwarped

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
Fleshwarps are people whose forms were created or radically transformed by magic, alchemy, or unnatural energies like the Pristine Tower. Their unorthodox appearance can make it difficult for them to find a place for themselves in the world.<br>

Magic and unnatural energies that can warp bone and twist sinew are rare on Athas. Fleshwarps are those who have been permanently altered by such methods—sometimes a sapient being created whole cloth from inanimate flesh, but often a victim unwillingly transformed by strange energies or sadistic creators.

The ancestry name “fleshwarp” is an umbrella term, since on Athas the actual fleshwarping process is more infamously well-known than are alterations caused by uncontrolled magic, or the Pristine Tower. Whether practiced by Sorcerer Kings and Queens fleshwarping is the craft of reshaping flesh and mind in vats of foul magical reagents. This has led some scholars of monsters to argue that only those beings created by the Pristine Tower should be considered fleshwarps. Regardless of the source of their altered forms, fleshwarps bear their new shape forever, transformed beings living a wild and strange existence beyond what was possible for their original ancestry.

Although fleshwarps are humanoid, no two look the same. One might possess limbs in unusual places and skin as smooth as glass, while another might have a thick matting of spiny fur. Some might have animalistic features, like a boar snout, scales, or cloven hooves. Others have entirely alien appearances, such as bulging eyes on the backs of their hands. Some may have only subtly uncanny features that differentiate them, such as glowing teeth, smoking eyes, or fingernails made of bone. The only commonality among fleshwarps is their mismatched nature. Let your imagination run wild when creating a fleshwarp character!

If you want a character who is tough and hardy, can change their form as they grow, and can use their wholly unique appearance to inspire awe or fear in others, you should play a fleshwarp.

### You Might...

- Embrace your unusual appearance to inspire respect or fear.
- Be used to relying on yourself.
- Distrust large groups of people, particularly mobs, based on past experiences.

### Others Probably

- Find your physiology fascinating or terrifying.
- Assume you are an expert on strange creatures or occult phenomena.
- Consider you an enigmatic and unpredictable—and perhaps even dangerous—outsider.

## Physical Description

Fleshwarps are humanoids, ranging from 5 to 7 feet tall and from just under 100 pounds to more than 300 pounds. The proportion and appearance of their limbs and features differ widely, but fleshwarps functionally have two legs, two arms, and a single head; a fleshwarp with more limbs than this should consider an appropriate ancestry feat to reflect this variance, or one of their limbs might be vestigial and mostly nonfunctional. Fleshwarps differ widely in their appearance due to the unique circumstances of their creation. Even fleshwarp siblings or two people transformed through the same procedure might look wildly different.

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### Society

Fleshwarps are so few in number that congregations of them are rare. They most often live on their own, with a small family group, or at the outskirts of a community. Some thrive in cities, however, where they can remain anonymous among the crowds while pursuing careers that allow them to avoid contact with people who might fear or persecute them.

Fleshwarps value endurance and are quick to learn from others, so those who come into contact with others of their kind usually share stories that help each other survive, hide, or thrive more effectively. How a fleshwarp formed can be a painful or horrifying subject, one they consider rude to discuss with anyone besides close friends or loved ones.

### Beliefs

Fleshwarps have little to gain from the broader society, and therefore rarely work to support society in turn, beyond perhaps helping other fleshwarps. They need to be able to adapt quickly to survive on their own. Although bigoted or short-sighted people view fleshwarps as monsters, fleshwarps are no more or less prone to evil than any other people, and most seek only to live their lives without trouble. While alienation doesn't force a fleshwarp to feel contempt for others, neither does it encourage a fleshwarp to avoid it. This is especially true for fleshwarps living in the societies that gave birth to their traumatic transformation. Fleshwarps aren't often casually religious; most either have little to do with the elements at all or are exceptionally devout.

### Fleshwarped Names

Fleshwarps can come from—and thus have names from—any culture or ancestry, but some give themselves new names after being transformed, whether to celebrate the change, recognize a new phase of their lives, or conceal their past identity. Many fleshwarps also carry a descriptive nickname granted to them by others, such as “Triple Handed,” “Barkfoot,” or “Many-Mouth.” Fleshwarps don't keep nicknames they find personally offensive, but they tend to keep ones that describe their distinctive appearances or that are given by people they care about.

## Fleshwarped Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Cataphract Fleshwarp

Your battle-hardened skeleton is laced with additional cartilage and muscle to help bear armor across vast areas of <br>operation, and your skin is bedecked with tiny spurs of pliable, resilient keratin to optimize the grip and weight distribution of your armor.

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>10</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium or Small</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>25 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Constitution</div>
Free

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it’s positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Aberration</div>
Humanoid <br>
Rare <br>

### Low-Light Vision 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You can see in dim light as though it were bright light, so you ignore the concealed condition due to dim light.</div>

### Unusual Anatomy
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your unorthodox body resists physical afflictions meant for other creatures. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against diseases and poisons.</div>

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You gain the Armor Proficiency feat. If your class makes you trained in all types of armor, you instead become trained in Athletics (or a skill of your choice if you're already trained in Athletics) and gain the Armor Assist skill feat.

### Created Fleshwarp

Either through foul defiling magic or psionics, you were created by someone else, voluntarily, or not. Your manufactured body is durable; you don't need to eat and can't starve. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to saving throws against diseases.

### Discarded Fleshwarp

The lifeshapers who warped your form labeled you a “discard on discovery”—a euphemism for destroying you on sight. An anomaly among anomalies, your body stubbornly repudiates the efforts of lifeshapers seeking to mold you to their grandiose visions, and your immune responses blunt the worst effects of unwanted fleshwarping attempts. If you roll a success on a saving throw against a polymorph effect, you get a critical success instead.

### Mutated Fleshwarp

Transformed by uncontrolled magic, by proximity to the Pristine Tower, or by some other mean, you were once a member of a "normal" Athasian ancestry, but not anymore. Due to your toughened or redundant organs, the DC for your checks to recover from persistent bleed damage is 10 instead of 15, and it's reduced to 5 instead of 10 if you have particularly effective assistance recovering from the persistent damage.

### Shapewrought Fleshwarp

A powerful defiler, psionicist, or even a sorcerer-monarch, has reshaped you to make you more resilient. You have nevertheless turned the psychic toll of your transformation into a strength. You gain resistance to mental damage equal to half your level (minimum 1).

### Surgewise Fleshwarp

The undulations of your body's cilia are hyper-attuned to wellsprings of psionics; they trill and thrum with insights into psychic energies, and their vibrations alert you to the presence of secrets. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Occultism. If you're trained in Occultism, you instead become trained in another skill of your choice. You also gain the Oddity Identification skill feat.

### Unknown Origin Fleshwarp

Nobody knows who or what has made you the way you are now. Your emotions are dulled and hard to influence. When you roll a success on a saving throw against an emotion effect, you get a critical success instead. <br><br><br><br><br>

## Ancestry Feats
At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level). As a fleshwarp, you select from among the following ancestry feats.

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###### 1st Level

#### Aberration Kinship<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your mind resonates with the inscrutable thought processes that inhuman aberrations use to communicate. You can cast <i>mindlink</i> as an innate occult spell once per day, but you can target only aberrations.</div><br>

#### Deep Vision<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your vision is suited for night or the underground. You gain darkvision.</div><br>

#### Embodied Nibenese Subjectivity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Cataphract Fleshwarp</div>
<div class="rule access">You're from Nibenay</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Nibenay's Fleshforges shaped you not to achieve individual greatness at arms, but rather to become a part of a legion, a modular piece integral to the combined arms stratagems of Nibenese Templars. You become trained in Arcana and Athletics. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills, you instead gain the trained rank in another skill of your choice. You also become trained in Warfare Lore.</div><br>

#### Living Weapon<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned to use part of your form as a weapon. When you select this feat, you gain a claws unarmed attack that deals 1d4 slashing damage and has the agile and finesse traits; a horn, jaws, or tusk unarmed attack that deals 1d6 piercing damage and has the versatile S trait; or a tail unarmed attack that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage and has the backswing. Each of these unarmed attacks is in the brawling weapon group and has the unarmed trait.

Your features are mutable; you can select this feat at any level, and you can retrain into or out of this feat or change the type of attack you gain.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these unarmed attacks, you get its critical specialization effect.

**Special** You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you do, select a new attack from the options above.</div>

#### Startling Appearance<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are trained in Intimidation (or another skill of your choice, if you were already trained in Intimidation) and gain the Intimidating Glare skill feat as a bonus feat.</div><br>

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###### 5th Level

#### Embodied Dreadnought<br> Subjectivity<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Cataphract Fleshwarp</div>
<div class="rule access">You're from Nibenay</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your colossal might marks you as a behemoth, the pride of Nibenay's Fleshforges, and the heaviest ordnance is a child's toy in your monumental grasp. You're a dreadnought, a living siege weapon, albeit one that wields other siege weapons in battle as your endoskeleton and flesh toughens. You gain the Hefty Hauler skill feat, and your maximum Bulk limit further increases by 3, for a total of 2 to your encumbered limit and 5 to your maximum limit.</div><br>

#### Finned Ridges<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The ridges and flaps of your skin steer you through the water. You gain a swim Speed of 15 feet.</div><br>

#### Gaping Flesh {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule freq">once per day</div>
<div class="rule trigger">A creature you are aware of damages you with a melee Strike.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your wound yawns open, appalling your attacker. The attacker must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher, or become sickened 1 (sickened 2 on a critical failure). It can't recover from the sickened condition while it's adjacent to you.</div><br>

#### Mutate Weapon {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Living Weapon</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Select one unarmed attack you gained with Living Weapon. The damage die for that attack increases by one step until the end of your turn. In addition, choose to either have the attack gain a reach of 10 feet until the end of your turn or for you to gain a +1 status bonus to attack rolls with the chosen unarmed attack until the end of your turn.</div><br>

#### Powerful Guts<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your stomach is particularly durable. When you succeed at a Fortitude save to reduce your sickened value, you reduce it by 2 (or by 3 on a critical success).</div><br>

#### Transposable Compliance<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your protean vitality is fecund and many-succoring: your veins run with life-giving ichor that adapts to the blood and physiology of any body, and your skin molts on command, creating wound-stanching sheaths of tissue for yourself and others. You become trained in Medicine. If you were already trained in Medicine, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You can Administer First Aid without healer's tools by using your physiology instead, but you must take 1 damage to make the attempt. Similarly, you can Treat Wounds without healer's tools but take 2d8 damage. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus on all Medicine checks to Administer First Aid and Treat Wounds using your own physiology.</div><br>

#### Uncanny Awareness<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a keen sense of movement around you. You gain motion sense as an imprecise sense out to 30 feet. Motion sense allows you to detect nearby motion through vibration and air movement.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Captivating Curiosity<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can snare the attentions of onlookers with your unique appearance. You can cast <i>enthrall</i> as a 3rd-rank occult innate spell once per day.</div><br>

#### Coating of Slime<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
An acidic ooze coats your limbs. Your unarmed attacks deal an additional 1d4 persistent acid damage on a critical hit.</div><br>

#### Eerie Compression<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule prereq">Medium size</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your limbs and even your torso can collapse in on themselves, allowing you to fit through tight spaces as though you were a Small creature. You can move at full Speed while Squeezing.</div><br>

#### Embodied Dragoon Subjectivity<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When your allies call for swift reinforcements or lightning raids, you're ready to answer. Your titanic form encompasses both cavalry and rider so that you're able to traverse vast distances and exploit opportunities in the theater of war. Your pores distend and extrude copious amounts of blood, subcutaneous fat, and lymphatic fluid for you to harden and flash-sculpt into gliding wings or a swift-hurtling mount. You can cast <i>gentle landing</i> and <i>marvelous mount</i> each once per day as innate arcane spells. When you cast <i>gentle landing</i> in this way, gliding wings slow your fall, and when you cast <i>marvelous mount</i> in this way, the steed physically protrudes from your own lower body. Neither of these cosmetic changes alter the spells' effects; for example, foes can still attack the <i>marvelous mount</i> as normal.</div><br>

#### Gripping Limbs<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Nodules, hooks, or claws on your limbs allow you to cling to surfaces with ease. You gain a climb Speed of 15 feet.</div><br>

#### Slip the Grasp {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="rule req">You are grabbed, immobilized, or restrained.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have some feature that allows you to quickly evade effects that restrain you. Attempt a check to Escape. </div>

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<div class="rule">
If you succeed, you can Stride, Step, or make a Strike with a melee unarmed attack targeting the creature you Escaped from. If you fail, you instead attempt to Escape a second time.

You increase your multiple attack penalty as appropriate for the actions you took, but only after completing both actions.</div>

###### 13th Level

#### Augment Senses {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You open vestigial eyes, unfurl tympanic flaps of skin, or otherwise enhance your senses. Until the start of your next turn, you gain the following benefits: you can't be flanked; when you Seek for creatures, you can scan a 60-foot cone or a 30-foot burst instead of the normal area; and when you Seek for hidden objects, you can search a 15-foot square instead of the normal area.</div><br>

#### Spew Snakes<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fleshwarp">FLESHWARP</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can open your mouth to an immense size and spew forth an impossibly large mass of snakes. You can cast <i>slither</i> once per day as an innate occult spell, though when you do so, they spew them from your mouth out to the appropriate range, where they land and begin Grappling and damaging creatures as usual. The snakes recognize you as a part of them and don't attempt to Grapple or damage you, even if you are in the area.</div>

### Fleshwarp Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Fleshwarps often live on the margins of society. The hermit, hunter, nomad, or street urchin backgrounds work well for many fleshwarps; others might be criminals, entertainers, or prisoners. The need to defend themselves leads many fleshwarps to become barbarians, fighters, rogues, or rangers. Champions and druids are common callings among fleshwarps who seek to defend and better the lot of others of their kind.</div>

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# Half-Elf
 
<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
Humans and elves must deal with each other from time to time, and in some cases – whether by force or through genuine love – children are born of mixed parentage. These are the half-elves, beings who combine features of both races, creating something different in the process.<br>
Born from two worlds but welcome in neither, half-elves struggle to find their place in a hostile land. While being the offspring of two races, they face prejudice and unwillingness from both sides. That, in conjunction with the lack of culture, has turned the half-elves into lonesome, self-sufficient folk.

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<div class='descriptive'>She kept scouting ahead with the crodlu riders, at times sniffing the air or examining the hard, baked ground. It seemed like she lived in the deserts her whole life, for there wasn't a single day where we took a wrong turn or faced any nasty raiders. Such a lonely and tight-lipped person, I couldn't figure out her whereabouts; even when I tried to approach her, she reluctantly welcomed my effort. Only during the end of our trip did I manage to glean the truth about her. And it was at this moment, when the morning wind brushed her hair, and I suddenly glimpsed a pair of pointed ears. </div>

### Of Two Worlds
Half-elves generally grow taller than their human parents but rarely approach the height of their elven parent. They average well above 6 feet tall, though they tend to inherit some of the bulk of their human half, averaging at 140 pounds. In most cases, a half-elf can pass itself off as a human, though telltale features can be spotted that hint at its elven heritage.

Half-elven coloration and features tend to lie somewhere between their human and elven parents, and thus show a variety even more pronounced than that found among either race. Half-elf men can also grow beards.

### No Homeland
A half-elf’s life is typically hardened by the intolerance of others. Neither fully human nor fully elven, half-elves rarely find acceptance with either race. Elves are especially intolerant, going so far as casting out the mother of a half-elf child, while humans are more apt to welcome them as allies or partners, although they seldom accept them into their homes. More often than not, half-elves remain outsiders, forced to endure on society’s fringes.

Half-elves don’t form their own communities. Instead, they live either among or on the fringe of human society. They are most often encountered in the cities of the Tyr Region, though some can be found in the villages and tribes of ex-slaves that inhabit the wilderness.

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### Natural Survivalists
Intolerance and social rejection has given the half-elf its greatest attribute – self-reliance. As a loner, usually without permanent residence, a half-elf survives the rigors of life in the wilderness completely on its own. The skills involved in survival are only half of the challenge they face – half-elves must also learn to deal with the absence of companionship, the complete lack of conversation and basic friendship. Consequently, these lonesome folk turn for companionship to the animal world, training beasts of the air and sands as servants and friends.

Half-elves hold self-reliance as their most valued trait, never expecting or asking for help no matter what their situation. Self-taught and naturally adept at learning, half-elves dabble in a variety of areas, mastering the skills they need to survive on their own. Some half-elves are bitter and sullen, but most seek to make the best of their circumstances. More than anything, half-elves take pride in defeating expectations.

### Half-Elf Names
Half-elves usually pick human or elven naming conventions. As a result of social rejection from both races, they often come up with twisted forms of human and elven names or invent their own.
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* **Male Names:** Boaz, Brazin, Ero, Fyrian, Gathalimay, Laban, Lafus, Luris, Melestan, Mirch, Navarch, Poortool, Regg, Ruach, Solzak, Vok, Wek, Wheetan, Xutan.
* **Female Names:** Alie, Arya, Aso, Drewet, Feera, Feykaar, Krysta, Lorelei, Mila, Ranis, Sareka, Thania, Vaerhirmana.

<br>

### Half-Elf Heritage
  
Either one of your parents was an elf, or one or both were half-elves. You have pointed ears and other telltale signs of elf heritage. You gain the elf trait, the half-elf trait, and low-light vision. In addition, you can select elf, half-elf, and human feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Ancestry Feats
You can select elf, half-elf, and human feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

###### 1st Level

#### Earned Glory<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Elves are often skeptical of their half-elven kin, and you are experienced at telling stories of your accomplishments to gain their respect. You are trained in Performance. If you would automatically become trained in Performance (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You gain the Impressive Performance feat. When you attempt a Performance check to Make an Impression on an elf, if you roll a critical failure, you get a failure instead.</div><br>

#### Elf Atavism<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elven blood runs particularly strong, granting you features far more elven than those of a typical half-elf. You may also have been raised among elves, steeped in your elven ancestors' heritage. You gain the benefits of the elf heritage of your elven parent or ancestors. You typically can't select a heritage that depends on or improves an elven feature you don't have. For example, you couldn't gain the moonless elf's darkvision ability if you didn't have low-light vision. In these cases, at the GM's discretion, you might gain a different benefit.

**Special** You can take this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain out of this feat or into this feat.</div>
  
#### Round Ears<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elven lineage is subtle enough that you look barely different from other humans, and you’ve learned to use that to your advantage. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Deception (or another skill of your choice if you were already trained in Deception). You gain a +4 circumstance bonus to Impersonate checks to pretend you aren’t a half-elf. Observers are never granted circumstance bonuses to Perception checks due to you Impersonating a full-blooded human, and you never take circumstance penalties due to you Impersonating a full-blooded human.

**Special** You can take this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain out of this feat or into this feat.</div>

#### Sociable<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You’re extremely extroverted, and you often spend your time carousing or otherwise socializing. You are trained in Diplomacy (or another skill of your choice if you were already trained in Diplomacy), and you gain the Hobnobber skill feat.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Inspire Imitation<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Your own actions inspire your allies to great achievements. Whenever you critically succeed at a skill check, you automatically qualify to use the Aid reaction when attempting to help an ally using the same skill, even without spending an action to prepare to do so.</div><br>

#### Supernatural Charm<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
The elven magic in your blood manifests as a force you can use to become more appealing or alluring. You can cast 1st-rank <i>charm</i> as an arcane innate spell once per day.</div><br>

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###### 9th Level

#### Pinch Time<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
One of your parents has a human life span and another an elven life span, with your own somewhere between. As a result, you have an unusual perspective on time, which you've learned to manifest to aid yourself in moments of stress. You gain <i>haste</i> as a 3rd-rank arcane innate spell, though you can target only yourself. You can Cast this Spell once per day.</div>

### Half-Elf Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Many half-elves have difficulty forming lasting bonds with either humans or elves due to the distance they feel from both peoples as a whole. Typical backgrounds for a half-elf include acolyte, courier, hermit, hunter, nomad, or scavenger. Half-elves often become druids, rangers, or psychic.</div>

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# Half-Giant

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
In some lost millennium, as a bizarre experiment or perhaps as some sort of curse, giants were magically crossbred with humans, producing a hardy race of towering creatures known as half-giants. Most of them are enlisted as gladiators or in the armies of the Sorcerer-Kings, while others are cast away and become thugs or mercenaries. Whatever their backstory, they more often than not prove to be mighty warriors. Though no one knows for certain, half-giants seem to be a fairly young race. In the city-states, they serve as soldiers, guards, or laborers. In the wilderness, they attach themselves to charismatic leaders or communities demonstrating tendencies that they admire. Wherever they are, half-giants have to deal with the fact that they are somewhat big for the world around them, for things built for the use and convenience of humans don't work in their hands.

<div class='descriptive'>
THERE IT STOOD, A TOWER OF MUSCLE AND BONES, a hulking beast let loose to rampage on its enemies. As the horns blazed over the walls, this creature of mythical size and strength reached the field of battle, swinging a bloodied stone maul at every side. No later than a few minutes, the enemy lay dead, and this half-giant warrior was back at its cage, slightly winded and smiling at its owner. Confounded, I watched as the half-giant's attitude switched from a bloodthirsty beast to a peaceful creature in an instant. What twisted magics had brought such an unpredictable monster into life? </div>

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### Towering Hulks
A half-giant is an enormous individual, standing between 7 and 8 feet tall, and weighing about 450 pounds. Simply put, a half-giant has inherited its size and massive strength from its giant parent. Its human background, along with human features, has provided it with curiosity, and willingness to learn and cooperate.

Half-giant skin ranges from light brown to deep tan, like certain colors of sand. They either shave their heads or wear long knots, usually in black or brown colors, though paler half-giants can be found with sandy blonde hair.

### Of No Culture
There is no half-giant culture common to all of their kind. On the contrary, having insufficient history and overall intelligence to have their own culture, half-giants tend to readily adopt the cultures of other creatures they admire or associate with. Half-giants are very imitative creatures, eager to fit into new situations as they present themselves.

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Half-giants, however, aren't as emotionally attached to objects or work as are other races. Whenever presented with a new situation, they examine the roles of the people there, determine where they might best fit in, and then start performing the tasks necessary. But if a situation isn't beneficial, or if a half-giant can't perform well in a given environment, it won't imitate the nearby culture, preferring to moving on when it sees fit.

### Fickle Minds
Half-giants switch attitudes very quickly, taking on new values to fit new situations. A half-giant whose peaceful farming life is disrupted by marauders may soon adopt the morals of the very renegades who sacked its village. Goals and lifestyles switch easily, usually based on the charismatic individual that crosses paths with the half-giant or as a reaction to a significant change around it.

Such attitude may present half-giants as unpredictable folk, but more often than not this is not the case. Given the right circumstances, an influential personality can turn a half-giant into an obedient and predictable follower.
It will demonstrate friendliness and eagerness to help its companion and remain loyal most of the time — that is, until some powerful personality seizes the opportunity to influence it, or a major event occurs that shakes its behavior.

### Half-Giant Names
A half-giant's name depends on whether it's free or enslaved. Free half-giants are likely to borrow the naming conventions of the people they interact with, whereas enslaved ones are usually given a human name.

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* **Male Names:** Crag, Den-du, Doorub, Gaanon, Gall, Garchom, Ghurs, Gigus, Hurgen, Jaryx, Junnai, Pegen, T'sor, Tah, Tak, Tutoc.
* **Female Names:** Atrocla, Astara, Baraka, Camla, Er'the, G'rshun, Hezze, Katid, Mura, Ot, Romla, Tal, Vun, Zambia.

### Half-Giant Heritage
  
Your parents were both half-giants. You have an enormous stature and other telltale signs of giant heritage. You gain the giant trait and begin with 12 starting hit points.  Half-Giants start with a Strength, Constitution, and a Free attribute boost and gain an Intelligence attribute flaw. You gain the Big Boned trait.

#### Big Boned

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
While many creatures with large size have increased reach, your reach functions as it would for medium size creatures.

Because half-giants are Large, they must buy gear made for Large humanoids, see page 295 of CRB for the cost and bulk of items made for large creatures. Half-Giants also require twice as much food and water daily compared to other Ancestries or large sized rations and waterskins. In addition, you can select giant, and human feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.
</div><br><br>

## Ancestry Feats
You can select giant and human feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

###### 1st Level

#### Fear Me<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Everyone fears an angry giant, and you know how to make the small folk tremble. You become trained in Intimidation and gain the Intimidating Glare skill feat. If you're already trained in Intimidation, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. 
</div><br>

#### Giant Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have gone through some of the training for young half-giants. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Athletics and Intimidation. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Giant Lore.

</div><br>

#### Giant Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have been brought up with weapons allow you to fully apply your strength. You have familiarity with the battleaxe, greatclub, greataxe, greatsword, javelin, and hatchet—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect. 
</div><br>

#### Powerful Frame<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your giant ancestry shows in your sturdy build or endurance. You gain the Hefty Hauler feat, even if you do not meet its prerequisites.
</div><br>

#### Stoneclad Boulder<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
With your sheer size and strength, armor simply does not weigh you down the way it weighs down smaller creatures. Ignore the reduction to your Speed from any armor you wear. Any other effects which grant an item bonus to AC, but impose a speed penalty (such
as the monk's Mountain Stance) have five feet deducted from that penalty 
</div><br>

#### Stupid Giant Know Nothing!<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
All half-giants are big, dumb, and gullible, right? Sure. You become trained in deception. If you are already trained in deception, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to feint, create a diversion, and any Deception checks made to feign stupidity or ignorance.  
</div><br>

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#### Throw Rock {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain the Throw Rock action.  You are trained in rocks. You interact to pick up a rock within reach or retrieve a stowed rock, then throw it with a ranged rock Strike that deals a base of 1d6 bludgeoning damage, and with a range increment of 60 feet.

This is considered a simple weapon and a ranged weapon attack from the sling weapon group. However, rocks are not truly considered weapons and cannot normally benefit from weapon runes etched upon them.
</div>

###### 5th Level

#### Behind Me, Tiny! {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">You have a shield raised.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You use your large shield to protect your allies. You grant cover to one adjacent ally who is medium or smaller. They may use their reaction to use your help and gain the benefits of standard cover. </div><br>

#### Break the Chains<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Half-Giants are too often exploited by industry or slavers. You will not have it: You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to escape the grappled and constrained conditions, as well as all forms of bondage. You also gain this bonus to checks which would free someone else from those conditions, such as Shove attempts which would move a grappling creature out of their arms’ reach, and to assist others escape bondage. 
  
</div><br>

#### Large Reach<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned to make the most of your size in combat. Your reach increases by 5 feet.
</div><br>

#### Massive Stride<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your stature leads to a larger stride. Your Speed increases by 5 feet. </div><br>

#### Rock Lobber<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Throw Rock</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Rock lobbing becomes a feat of strength. When making a ranged rock Strike it gains the brutal trait.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Catch Rock {R}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">you are targeted with a thrown rock Strike, or a rock would fall on you</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You must have a free hand but can Release anything you are holding as part of this reaction.  You gain a +4 circumstance bonus to AC against the triggering attack or to any defense against falling rocks. If the attack misses you catch the rock, take no damage, and are now holding the rock.</div><br><br>

#### Excessive Bullying<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Athletics or Intimidation</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know how to take advantage of a bad situation. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to intimidation checks against creatures that are grabbed, prone, or restrained. You also gain a +1 circumstance bonus to athletic checks against frightened creatures. These circumstance bonuses increase to +2 when you become legendary in either Athletics or Intimidation.</div><br>

#### Giant Resiliency<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your hardiness lets you withstand more punishment than most before going down. Increase your maximum Hit Points by your level. When you have the dying condition, the DC of your recovery checks is equal to 9 + your dying value (instead of 10 + your dying value). If you also have the Toughness feat, the Hit Points gained from it and this feat are cumulative, and the DC of your recovery checks is equal to 6 + your dying value. </div><br>

#### Monumental Weapon<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have mastered using the weight of large weapons. Weapons that were built for a creature of Large size have the forceful trait while you are wielding them. Large weapons that already have the forceful trait gain a circumstance bonus to the damage roll equal to the number of weapon damage dice.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Relentless Beating<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The heaviest of weapons do best at bringing your strength to bear. When you make a melee attack using strength with a Large weapon which has the forceful, backswing, or shove traits, you gain a circumstance bonus to the damage roll equal to the number of weapon damage. If you have the Monumental Weapon Feat, large weapons that already have the forceful trait gain a circumstance bonus to the damage roll equal to double the number of weapon damage dice.</div>

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### Half-Giant Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>If a half-giant feels like their strength is not appreciated where they are at, they may be turned to adventuring. Although is unlikely a half-giant will ever adventure alone as none will be there to appreciate might and bravery.

Common half-giant backgrounds include guard, hunter, laborer, martial disciple, miner, nomad, and warrior from the Core Rulebook, plus outrider, and refugee from the advanced player guide. Half-giants thrive in martial classes like barbarian and fighter.</div>

</div>

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 # Halfling

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
In the ancient past, halflings were the masters of the world. According to their myths, they were the original inhabitants of the old times, and all other folk are descended from them. That said, today's halflings bear little resemblance to their supposedly ancient forebears. Where once halflings filled the land in every direction, today they inhabit the slowly disappearing forests and jungles, like the Forest Ridge. Where once they were civilized masters of an advanced society, today they are feral, savage creatures as wild as the arid winds. They are more willing to eat a stranger in their lands than to welcome him.

<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>
 
 
<div class='descriptive'>
"YOU HAVE DESECRATED OUR SACRED PLACE," A wispy voice called from behind. Just in front of the stand of trees, there stood a halfling, looking wild and primal with his painted body and forest-decorated hair, and pointing a crude, bone sword at the party. "The ancient nature-masters cannot forgive you for trespassing, and neither can I! I will raise up the forest itself to destroy you!" All of a sudden, a rain of arrows exploded out of the trees, splintering on the ground all around the surprised group, while the feral cries of halfling warriors echoed from the darkness of the forest.* </div>

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### Small and Primitive
Halflings are diminutive in stature, standing about 3 feet tall. They are muscled and proportioned like humans, but they have the faces of wise and beautiful children that never succumb to the rigors of age. They weigh between 50 and 60 pounds and are virtually always in peak physical condition. Their skin ranges between pale to tan and their hair is usually a brown or black mane. They have brown or hazel eyes, though blue are rarely found; such halflings are said to bear the life of the oceans inside them.

The appearances of the halflings are considered primitive by most of the other Athasian races; while their garments are usually a plain loincloth and occasionally a vest or shirt, halflings fancy painting their skins in various colors. They rarely tend to their hair, instead letting them grow in great lengths, and keeping them unkempt and dirty. Halflings sport no body hair.

### Solidary and Ritualistic

Halflings possess a great deal of racial unity. Though divided politically into separate villages and communities, halflings have great respect for their race as a whole. Disputes between members of communities are most often settled peaceably, through ritual and custom.

These customs are often directed by each tribe's shaman, the spiritual leaders who hold positions of honor and respect above all other halflings.

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On a personal level, halflings relate very well to one another, well enough to have built a considerable culture rich in art, song, and other expressive communication. Ritual and custom control every aspect of halfling life. Such is the diversity of their culture, that the rest of the races find it difficult to comprehend. More than a few times, a halfling will be frustrated by outsiders who can't seem to grasp their abstract thinking and complicated concepts. Fortunately, halflings who have travelled widely outside their traditional home have a much greater tolerance toward those "lacking" of culture.

### Self-Improvement
Halfling culture cares for each individual's inner well-being and spiritual unity with race and environment. They have little concept of conquest or monetary wealth, and vices that other societies take for granted — such as greed and avarice — are particularly discouraged.
Treasure that appeals to other characters holds little interest to a  halfling. It is more concerned with promoting halfling culture, its own knowledge, or its inner well-being. A halfling will never lie to or betray another halfling.

### Expanding Knowledge
Halflings face difficulties at first, in adjusting to other customs and points of view, but as a generally openminded race, they tend to be curious or confused by the actions of others rather than initially combative. Halfling adventurers will attempt to learn all they can about other cultures but will almost never adopt those cultures as their own. Their shamans teach that the customs of others are no threat to their own, so a halfling adventurer will welcome the chance to learn another point of view, rather than instantly try to change it.

### Halfling Names
Halflings have a given name, provided to them by their community. They stick to that name as a mark of their heritage, even though they might adopt many different names from the other cultures.

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* **Male Names:** Cha, Derlan, Fullgrin, Lokee, Nok, Pauk, Pletaw, Purhas, Urga-zoltapl, Zivlil.
* **Female Names:** Alansa, Anezka, Dokala, Grelzen, Horga, Jikx, Joura, La, Nasaha, Tar, Vensa.

## Halfling Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>6</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Small</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>25 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dexterity</div>
Wisdom<br>
Free

### Attribute Flaw
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Strength</div>

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Halfling<br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it’s positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Halfling</div>
Humanoid<br>
Uncommon<br>

### Keen Eyes 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your eyes are sharp, allowing you to make out small details about concealed or even invisible creatures that others might miss. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus when using the Seek action to find hidden or undetected creatures within 30 feet of you. When you target an opponent that is concealed from you or hidden from you, reduce the DC of the flat check to 3 for a concealed target or 9 for a hidden one.</div>

### Cannibal
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your ancestry has a reputation of cannibalism. When interacting with creatures of other ancestries that don‘t know you personally or don‘t have any reason to trust you, you get a -1 circumstance penalty on diplomacy checks. On the other hand, you also get a +1 circumstance modifier on intimidation checks against the same creatures.</div>

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### Forest Ridge Halfling

Accustomed to the vibrant life of the forest ridge, the soothing sounds of the forest and plentiful vegetation have provided you with the means to find rest and relaxation especially replenishing. When you regain Hit Points overnight, add your level to the Hit Points regained. When anyone uses the Medicine skill to Treat your Wounds, you can eat a snack to add your level to the Hit Points you regain from their treatment.

### Green-touched Halfling

The blood of the life shapers is so strong within you that you’re truly one of them. Choose one cantrip from the primal spell list. You can cast this spell as a primal innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up. You gain the trained proficiency rank in primal spell attack rolls and spell DCs, and your key spellcasting ability is Charisma. You can change this cantrip to a different one from the same list once per day by meditating to realign yourself with the Green; this is a 10-minute activity that has the concentrate trait.

### Gutsy Halfling
Your tribe is known for keeping a level head and staving off fear when in difficult situations, making them wise leaders and sometimes even heroes. When you roll a success on a saving throw against an emotion effect, you get a critical success instead.

### Nomadic Halfling

Your ancestors have left the forest ridge and have travelled across the Tyr region, never content to settle down. You gain two additional languages of your choice, chosen from among the common and uncommon languages available to you, and every time you take the Multilingual feat, you gain another new language.

### Observant Halfling

Your finely honed senses quickly clue you in to danger or trickery. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your Perception DC, though not to your Perception checks.

### Twilight Halfling

Your ancestors hunted under the concealing cover of the jungle, whether for good or ill, and over time they developed the ability to see in twilight beyond even the usual keen sight of halflings. You gain low-light vision.

### Wildwood Halfling

You hail from deep in the jungle or forest, and you’ve learned how to use your small size to wriggle through undergrowth, vines, and other obstacles. You ignore difficult terrain from trees, foliage, and undergrowth.

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## Ancestry Feats
At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level). As a halfling, you select from among the following ancestry feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Canopy Sight<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can see equally well even in dense jungles where only a small amount of light shines through. You gain low-light vision.</div><br>

#### Distracting Shadows<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned to remain hidden by using larger folk as a distraction to avoid drawing attention to yourself. You can use creatures that are at least one size larger than you (usually Medium or larger) as cover for the Hide and Sneak actions, though you still can't use such creatures as cover for other uses, such as the Take Cover action.</div><br>

#### First World Magic<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the spirits of the land grants you a primal innate spell. Choose one cantrip from the primal spell list. You can cast this spell as a primal innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Halfling Courage<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The most important thing you've learned living with fear is how to overcome it. When you roll a success on a saving throw against a fear effect, you get a critical success instead. In addition, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Will saves against fear effects and a +2 circumstance bonus to your Will DC against attempts to Demoralize you.</div><br>

#### Halfling Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned how to provide for your tribe, be it through hard-earned sustenance or your knowledge of nature. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Crafting and Nature. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Halfling Lore.</div><br>

#### Halfling Scuttle {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">An ally ends a move action adjacent to you.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You take advantage of your ally’s movement to adjust your position. You Step.</div><br>

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#### Halfling Superstition {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">You attempt a saving throw against a spell or magical effect but haven’t rolled yet.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You notice spirits that inhabit objects, learning which bring good fortune and which are unlucky. You focus on the power of a lucky object, granting you a +1 circumstance bonus to your saving throw against the triggering effect.</div><br>

#### Halfling Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've trained with weapons ideally suited to dense forests and jungles. You familiarity with blowguns, hatchets, scythes, shortbows, and composite shortbows—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Hunter's Defense {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour.</div>
<div class="prereq">trained in Nature.</div>
<div class="trigger">A creature with the animal, beast, elemental, fey, fungus, or plant trait attacks you, and you can see the attacker.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your canny understanding of natural and primal creatures helps you predict and dodge their attacks. The triggering attack roll targets your Nature DC instead of your AC. Though this allows you to avoid taking penalties to your AC, it doesn't remove any conditions or other effects causing such penalties. For example, an enemy with sneak attack would still deal extra damage to you for being off-guard, even though you wouldn't take the –2 circumstance penalty against the attack.</div><br>

#### Intuitive Cooperation<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are accustomed to working alongside others, relying on each other to get by. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to checks to Aid, and your allies gain a +2 circumstance bonus to checks to Aid you.</div><br>

#### Jungle Strider<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are adept at dodging roots, foliage, and other jungle obstacles. You ignore difficult terrain in forests and jungles. In addition, when you use the Acrobatics skill to Balance on narrow surfaces or uneven ground made of plant material, you aren't off-guard, and when you roll a success at one of these Acrobatics checks, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Scuttle Up<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your environment requires you to climb mountainous terrain or tree trunks with great regularity. You gain a Climb speed of 10 feet.</div><br><br>

#### Slither<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are an expert at moving through extremely tight spaces. You gain the Quick Squeeze skill feat, even if you're not trained in Acrobatics. When you roll a success on an Acrobatics check to Squeeze, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Snare Setter<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are adept at the time-honored halfling art of trap making. You gain the trained proficiency in Crafting. If you were already trained in Crafting, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Snare Crafting feat.</div><br>

#### Sneaky<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Stealth is an important tool in your arsenal. You can move 5 feet farther when you take the Sneak action, up to your Speed.

In addition, as long as you continue to use Sneak actions and succeed at your Stealth check, you don't become observed if you don't have cover or greater cover and aren't concealed at the end of the Sneak action, as long as you have cover or greater cover or are concealed at the end of your turn.</div>

#### Sure Feet<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Whether keeping your balance or scrambling up a tricky climb, your hairy, calloused feet easily find purchase. If you roll a success on an Acrobatics check to Balance or an Athletics check to Climb, you get a critical success instead. You're not off-guard when you attempt to Balance or Climb.</div><br>

#### Teeth Sharpener<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have filed your teeth into jagged points and have an unusually powerful jaw, making your mouth a dangerous weapon. You gain a jaws unarmed attack that deals 1d4 piercing damage. Your jaws are in the brawling group and have the finesse and unarmed traits. Whenever you score a critical hit with your jaws unarmed attack, your target takes 1 persistent bleed damage per weapon damage die.</div><br>

#### Unfettered Halfling<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You were either pressed into indentured servitude or shackled in a prison, but you’ve since escaped and have trained to ensure you’ll never be caught again. Whenever you roll a success on a check to Escape or a saving throw against an effect that would impose the grabbed, immobilized, or restrained condition on you, you get a critical success instead. Whenever a creature rolls a failure on a check to Grapple you, it gets a critical failure instead.</div><br>

#### Woodcraft<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have an innate familiarity with forested areas. When in a forest or jungle environment, if you roll a critical failure on a Survival skill check to Sense Direction, Subsist, or Cover Tracks, you get a failure instead, and if you roll a success, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

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###### 5th Level

#### Ambush Awareness<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks attempted as initiative rolls.

Additionally, if your initiative roll result is tied with that of an opponent, you go first, regardless of whether you rolled Perception or not.</div><br>

#### Ankle Bite {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">teeth sharpener</div>
<div class="trigger">A foe gives you the grabbed or restrained condition using a part of its body.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Whenever someone grabs onto you, you instinctively bite down hard. Sometimes that makes them let go, and sometimes it just makes them angrier, but either way, it’s both satisfying and tasty. Make a jaws Strike against the triggering foe. On a critical hit, you are no longer grabbed. This Strike doesn’t count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn’t apply to this Strike.</div><br>

#### First World Adept<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">First World Magic</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
By drawing upon the spirits of the land, you can siphon a portion of their power to learn more primal innate magic. Once per day, you can cast <i>animal allies</i>, <i>protector tree</i>, or <i>summon animal</i>. At 7th level, the spell is heightened to 2nd-rank, and every 2 levels thereafter, the spell is heightened an additional spell rank.</div><br>

#### Forest Stealth {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Stealth</div>
<div class="req">You are in a forest or jungle environment near an environmental feature that would allow you to Take Cover.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are skilled at quickly hiding behind bits of underbrush or foliage. You Take Cover and then use that cover to Hide.</div><br>

#### Kneecap {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You deliver a punishing blow to an enemy's knee, shin, or other vulnerable anatomy within your reach. Make a Strike with one of your melee weapons or melee unarmed attacks. This attack doesn't deal damage. On a hit, the target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speed (or a –15-foot status penalty on a critical hit). The penalty lasts for 1 round. This penalty applies only if the target has a land Speed and depends on legs or other targetable appendages to use its land Speed. As with all penalties to Speed, this can't reduce a creature's Speed below 5 feet.</div><br>

#### Recognize Ambush {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">You roll initiative</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your experience with the various predators of the jungles has honed you to be ready for an attack at all times. You Interact to draw a weapon.</div><br>

#### Skilled Climber<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Scuttle Up</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can navigate vertical surfaces with ease. Your climb Speed increases to your land Speed when climbing trees or mountainous terrain.</div><br>

#### Snare Genius<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Crafting; Snare Crafting</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your expertise makes your snares more powerful, and you can place them quickly and efficiently. Each day during your daily preparations, you can prepare three snares from your formula book for quick deployment; if the snare normally takes 1 minute to Craft, you can Craft it with 3 Interact actions. Snares prepared in this way don't cost you any resources to Craft. The number of snares you can prepare this way increases to four if you are a master in Crafting, and to five if you are legendary.

When you Craft and deploy a snare that deals damage, any creature that critically fails its saving throw against the snare's initial effect and takes damage becomes off-guard until the end of its next turn.</div>

#### Step Lively {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">A Large or larger enemy ends a move action adjacent to you.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are an expert at avoiding the lumbering footsteps of larger creatures. You Step to another space adjacent to the enemy.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Between the Scales<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Underestimating you is a grave mistake, but it's one others keep making. You've learned to take advantage of slips in your foes' defenses. When you Strike an off-guard creature using a melee weapon or unarmed attack that has the agile and finesse traits, it gains the backstabber trait.</div><br>

#### Briar Battler<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned to use roots, crevices, uneven ground, and dense underbrush to your advantage. When you're in difficult terrain from an environmental feature, you can Take Cover, even if the feature wouldn't ordinarily be large enough for you to Take Cover.</div><br>

#### Cling {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">Your last action was a successful Strike.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You hang onto a foe to harry them into submission. If your target moves while you're hanging onto it, you can choose to move with the target. The target is released if you choose not to move with it, at the start of your next turn, or if the target Escapes. </div>

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<div class="rule">
Attempts to Escape from a Cling follow the rules for Escape but use your Acrobatics DC and end the Cling instead of the conditions normally ended by the Escape action.

**Special** You can use this action without a free hand if your preceding Strike was made with your jaws or a similar unarmed attack you could use to hang on. The GM determines which unarmed attacks apply. Hanging on in this way prevents you from using that unarmed attack.</div><br>

#### Close Quarters<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've trained to fight with allies in dense undergrowth, or similarly cramped terrain. If you are Small or smaller, you can end your movement in the same square as a Small or smaller ally. No more than two creatures can share the same space when using this ability or a similar one.</div><br>

#### Dance Underfoot<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Step Lively</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You dart under the legs of your enemies in combat. You can end a successful Tumble Through action in a Large or larger enemy's space. Also, when using the Step Lively feat, you can Step into the triggering enemy's space. The enemy must have limbs or otherwise leave you enough room for this maneuver, as determined by the GM. For instance, you could share space with a giant or dragon, but not an ooze.</div><br>

#### First World Expertise<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">at least one primal innate spell</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can use your connection to spirits of the land to hide yourself and expose hidden foes. You can cast <i>invisibility</i> and <i>revealing light</i> each once per day as primal innate spells.</div><br>

#### Hungry Halfling<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Teeth Sharpener</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ll eat anything and anyone. Whenever you inflict persistent bleed damage with your jaws unarmed attack, you gain temporary Hit Points equal to half your level for 1 minute.</div><br>

#### Irrepressible<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are easily able to ward off attempts to play on your fears and emotions. When you roll a success on a saving throw against an emotion effect, you get a critical success instead. If your heritage is gutsy halfling, when you roll a critical failure on a saving throw against an emotion effect, you get a failure instead.</div><br>

#### Skittering Scuttle<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Halfling Scuttle</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can scuttle farther and faster when maneuvering alongside allies. When you use Halfling Scuttle, you can Stride up to half your Speed instead of Stepping.</div><br>

#### Snare Commando {R}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Snare Crafting; expert in Deception or Intimidation</div>
<div class="trigger">A creature fails or critically fails a save against your snare.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your snares are so befuddling that your victims rarely notice you slipping out of sight. If you have expert proficiency in Deception, you can Create a Diversion against the triggering creature. If you have expert proficiency in Intimidation, you can instead Demoralize the triggering creature. If you have both, choose one of the two effects.</div><br>

#### Unhampered Passage<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You won't allow others to restrain you. You can cast <i>unfettered movement </i> on yourself as a primal innate spell once per day.</div><br>

#### Vivacious Conduit<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the spirits of the land has grown, and their vitality energy flows into you rapidly. If you rest for 10 minutes, you gain Hit Points equal to your Constitution modifier × half your level. This is cumulative with any healing you receive from Treat Wounds.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Ceaseless Shadows<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Distracting Shadows</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You excel at going unnoticed, especially among a crowd. You no longer need to have cover or be concealed to Hide or Sneak. If you would have lesser cover from creatures, you gain cover and can Take Cover, and if you would have cover from creatures, you gain greater cover.</div><br>

#### Predator Step<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know how to take advantage of foes thrown off-balance by unstable terrain, or similar impediments. While in an outdoor environment, you can Step into difficult terrain and enemies in difficult terrain are off-guard to you.</div><br><br>

#### Toppling Dance<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dance Underfoot</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
While sharing a creature's space using Dance Underfoot, your weapons and unarmed attacks gain the trip trait, but only against the creature whose space you share. You can be in the same space as a Large or larger prone creature, even if it's not your ally.</div><br>

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#### Very Sneaky<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Sneaky</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can move up to your Speed when you use the Sneak action, and you no longer need to have cover or greater cover or be concealed to Hide or Sneak.</div><br>

#### Vicious Snares<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Snare Crafting; expert in Crafting</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned how to create traps that cause greater injuries. You deal an additional 1d6 precision damage with damaging snares you craft. This increases to 2d6 additional precision damage if you're legendary in Crafting.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Shadow Self<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag halfling">HALFLING</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="prereq">legendary in Stealth</div>
<div class="trigger">You successfully use Stealth to Hide and become hidden from all your current foes or use Stealth to Sneak and become undetected to all your current foes.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
With a powerful talent for misdirection, you slip from your adversaries' notice so thoroughly you appear to be somewhere else. You become invisible for 1 minute or until you take a hostile action, whichever comes first. Choose a location within 10 feet of you. Until your invisibility ends, you appear to be hidden in that location to anyone trying to find you. If the searcher gets clear evidence that you're not there, they no longer think you're hidden there, but they don't discover your actual location.</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

### Halfling Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>For the many halflings who hail from remote regions, wilderness backgrounds like hunter, nomad, or scout are excellent fits. Those more accustomed to urban areas might be animal whisperers, bounty hunters, and herbalists. Hermits are common, and emissaries are critical to maintaining relationships with other peoples. Thanks to their deep cultural connections to nature, halflings make excellent druids and rangers. Halflings' natural agility and perceptiveness also make them capable clerics, fighters, and rogues.</div>

</div>

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# Human

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Humans are the predominant race on Athas. They are a versatile breed, brilliant and exceptional as often as they are unremarkable and mundane. A resourceful and hardy race, they can be found in every social stratum and situation: city dweller or desert villager, herder, or trader, noble or slave. Humans' drive, ambition, and ingenuity help the race survive on the dying world and thrive under the rule of the Sorcerer-Kings.

<div class='descriptive'>
YOU SEE THOSE POOR SODS, STROLLING ABOUT, minding their own business? All those people around you, in their various garments and colorations. A foolish lot they are, for they outnumber every other race, yet they can't control their very lives, instead choosing to live under the tyranny of those Sorcerer-Kings and their lackeys, the templars. But just because they accept this oppressive life doesn't mean they don't have goals or ambitions. This mass of unclean bodies you see can topple their superiors just as easily as they bow their heads at them. You only have to give them motivation, or the promises or wealth and power.</div>

### Diverse in Appearance
There is no typical human in the Tyr Region. An individual can stand a little over 6 feet tall and weigh between 150 and 200 pounds. While they come in all shapes and sizes, they tend to reflect certain traits common to particular city-states. Humans in Draj, for example, have broad chins, bronze skin, and black hair that hardly ever grows on their faces. Humans from Gulg have dark brown skin and rounder features with thick, curly hair. And humans hailing from Balic bear tanned complexions, dark eyes, and grow finely trimmed beards.

More diverse are the humans that have been subject to the abusive magic that devastated the land and twisted its appearance. These people show unusual physical traits — odd skin or eye color, lack of body hair, webbed fingers, or exaggerated features. While unusual, these traits are not uncommon and rarely elicit more than a glance.

### A Multitude of Personalities
Humans are the most adaptable, ambitious, and individualistic people among the common races; even the tyranny of the Sorcerer-Kings hasn't stamped out their diversity. Other races often don't know what to expect when meeting a human for the first time, because predicting their behavior based on cultural norms is difficult. Their widely varying tastes, morals and customs is linked to their various different cultures, which are based around the seven city-states.

Individually and as a group, humans can be adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.

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### Bereft of Past
What generally passes for the history of Athas is actually a jumble of folklore and propaganda. Prohibited by the Sorcerer-Kings and templars from keeping written histories, most humans know only the stories told in their communities. These tales paint the despots as saviors, gods, or anointed champions who, through selfless actions, saved Athas from certain destruction. Many humans scoff at these tales, however, being more concerned with the problems of the present than devoting themselves to the lessons of the past.

Still, there are those who chafe against tyranny's chains, but hold their tongues, seeing no reason to jeopardize the shelter, water, and food they receive in the city-states they usually live in return for their loyalty. The most daring, ambitious, relentless, or even foolish among them are usually the ones who defy the comforts of a city-state to choose the life of adventure.

### Natural-Born Diplomats
Many humans learn at an early age to get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. Since humans are generally more tolerant of other races, they can easily adapt to situations involving elves or dwarves, and even more exotic races such as halflings and thri-kreen. Where other, less tolerant races come into contact with one another, humans often serve as diplomatic buffers.

### Human Names
Humans generally adopt the culture of the city-state they live in or are closest too. Since they are a race in constant motion, however, and due to their diversity, it is all too common to meet humans of different ethnic groups living behind the walls of the same city. As such, their naming conventions have been mostly blurred, and humans welcome any names suitable for themselves or others.
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* **Male Names:** Agis, Astemba, Azzer, Banoc, Brevit, Canth, Daclamitus, Dote, Etheros, Evrim, Faldar, Frayne, G'rshun, Gammeg, Grak, Hargat, Ibl, Jedra, Kargash, Kilay, Kyuln, Leoricius, Limrick, Maetan, Marut, Morlak, Nylorac, Ojoba, Paxitus, Quay, Ragoner, Raka, Rathoras, Salust, Sizzkus, Styan, Tabaros, Taiy, Thanik, Thaxos, Toth, Varnag, Weom, Xamres, Ydris, Zaethus, Zeburon.
* **Female Names:** Amandia, Astara, Averil, Buris, Camla, Catrion, Damras, Dorjan, E'la, Faria, Haarna, Jaseela, Jun, Katid, Kelira, Korla, Lestria, Llunet, Nadia, Nanda, Nauhyotl, Ode, Rasia, Rayne, Sa-rea, Shallin, Sycia, Talara, Tamar, Tara, Tella, Temmnya, Tierney, Ular, Veeshte, Ves.

## Human Heritages

<br>

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>8</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>25 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Two free attribute boosts</div>

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Additional languages equal to 1 + your Intelligence modifier (if it's positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Human</div>
Humanoid <br>

### Other Halves

By default, half-elves, half-giants, and muls descend from humans.

</div>

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A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Half-Elf

Either one of your parents was an elf, or one or both were half-elves. You have pointed ears and other telltale signs 
of elf heritage. You gain the elf trait, the half-elf trait, and low-light vision. In addition, you can select elf, half-elf, 
and human feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

### Half-Giant

Your parents were both half-giants. You have an enormous stature and other telltale signs of giant heritage. You gain the giant trait and begin with 10 starting hit points.  Half-Giants start with a Strength, Constitution, and a Free attribute boost and gain an Intelligence attribute flaw. You gain the Big Boned trait.

#### Big Boned

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag giant">GIANT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
While many creatures with large size have increased reach, your reach functions as it would for medium size creatures.

### Mul
One or your parents was a dwarf. Muls resemble powerfully built humans but with broad shoulders, powerful thighs, thick arms but swept-back ears that come to subtle points. You gain the dwarf trait, mul trait, and dark vision. In addition, you can select dwarf, human, or mul feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

### Skilled Heritage

Your ingenuity allows you to train in a wide variety of skills. You become trained in one skill of your choice. At 5th level, you become an expert in the chosen skill.

### Versatile Heritage

Humanity's versatility and ambition have fueled its ascendance to be the most common ancestry in most city-states throughout Athas. Select a general feat of your choice for which you meet the prerequisites (as with your ancestry feat, you can select this general feat at any point during character creation).

###### 1st Level

#### Adapted Cantrip<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">spellcasting class feature</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Through study of multiple magical traditions, you’ve altered a spell to suit your spellcasting style. Choose one cantrip from a magical tradition other than your own. If you prepare spells, you can choose this spell when you prepare your cantrips, in addition to your other options. If you have a spell repertoire, replace one of your cantrips known with the chosen spell. You can cast this cantrip as a spell of your class’s tradition.

If you swap or retrain this cantrip later, you can choose its replacement from the same alternate tradition or a different one.</div>

#### Cooperative Nature<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The short human life span lends perspective and has taught you from a young age to set aside differences and work with others to achieve greatness. You gain a +4 circumstance bonus on checks to Aid.</div><br>

#### General Training<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your adaptability manifests in your mastery of a range of useful abilities. You gain a 1st-level general feat. You must meet the feat's prerequisites, but if you select this feat during character creation, you can select the feat later in the process in order to determine which prerequisites you meet.

**Special** You can select this feat multiple times, choosing a different feat each time.</div>

#### Haughty Obstinacy<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your powerful ego makes it harder for others to order you around. If you roll a success on a saving throw against a mental effect that attempts to directly control your actions, you critically succeed instead. If a creature rolls a failure on a check to Coerce you using Intimidation, it gets a critical failure instead (so it can't try to Coerce you again for 1 week).</div><br>

#### Know Oneself {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fortune">FORTUNE</div>
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="access">background with a psychic academy</div>
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">You roll a critical failure on a saving throw against an emotion effect.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You center yourself and call to mind the monastic ideals of mindfulness and self-knowledge. You fail the save against the emotion effect instead of critically failing.</div><br>

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#### Natural Ambition<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You were raised to be ambitious and always reach for the stars, leading you to progress quickly in your chosen field. You gain a 1st-level class feat for your class. You must meet the prerequisites, but you can select the feat later in the character creation process in order to determine which prerequisites you meet.</div><br>

#### Natural Skill<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your ingenuity allows you to learn a wide variety of skills. You gain the trained proficiency rank in two skills of your choice.</div><br>

#### Psychic Tattoos<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="access">background with a psychic academy</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have tattoos on your body corresponding to one of the various psychic academies. Choose one of the following cantrips: <i>shield</i>, <i>tangle vine</i>, <i>daze</i>, <i>electric arc</i>, <i>figment</i>,  <i>sigil</i>, or <i>void warp</i>. You can cast the associated cantrip as an innate occult spell at will.</div><br>

#### Unconventional Weaponry<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve familiarized yourself with a particular weapon, potentially from another ancestry or culture. Choose an 
uncommon simple or martial weapon with a trait corresponding to an ancestry (such as dwarf, elf, or halfling) or that is common in another culture. You gain access to that weapon, and for the purpose of proficiency, you treat it as a simple weapon.

If you are trained in all martial weapons, you can instead choose an uncommon advanced weapon that has an ancestry’s 
trait or is common in another culture. You gain access to that weapon and have familiarity with that weapon. For the 
purpose of proficiency, you treat it as a martial weapon.</div>

###### 5th Level

#### Adaptive Adept<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Adapted Cantrip; can cast 3rd-rank spells</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve continued adapting your magic to blend your class’s tradition with your adapted tradition. Choose a cantrip or 1st-rank spell from the same magical tradition as your cantrip from Adapted Cantrip. You gain that spell, adding it to your spell repertoire, spellbook, or prepared spells just like the cantrip from Adapted Cantrip. You can cast this spell as a spell of your class’s magical tradition. If you choose a 1st-rank spell, you don’t gain access to the heightened versions of that spell, meaning you can’t prepare them if you prepare spells and you can’t learn them or select the spell as a signature spell if you have a spell repertoire.</div><br>

#### Clever Improviser<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve learned how to handle situations when you’re out of your depth. You gain the Untrained Improvisation general feat. In addition, you can attempt skill actions that normally require you to be trained, even if you are untrained.</div><br><br>

#### Ornate Tattoo<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psychic Tattoos</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You expand your tattoos to encompass greater magic. Choose a 1st-rank occult spell from the same school as your Psychic Tattoos, either a common spell or another to which you have access. You can cast that spell once per day as an innate occult spell.</div><br>

#### Sense Allies<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Like many humans raised in a close-knit community, you have always been strongly attuned to the presence of others. Willing allies that you are aware of within 60 feet that would otherwise be undetected by you are instead hidden from you. The flat check for you to target willing allies within 60 feet that are hidden from you is 5 instead of 11.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Cooperative Soul<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Cooperative Nature</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have developed a soul-deep bond with your comrades and maintain an even greater degree of cooperation with them. If you are at least an expert in the skill you are Aiding, when you roll a failure or critical failure to Aid a skill check, you get a success instead.</div><br>

#### Group Aid<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your upbringing emphasized teamwork and helping your allies comes naturally to you. After you Aid an ally at a skill check that doesn't have the attack trait, you can also Aid any other ally who attempts the same skill check for the same purpose that round. You do so as a free action rather than a reaction.

The preparation you did to help must still apply to the other allies, and you can Aid each ally only once. For example, if you helped lift up an ally to Aid them on an Athletics check to scale a wall, you could keep the same posture to give a boost to other allies attempting to scale the wall in the same round.</div>

#### Hardy Traveler<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
There's no journey too far or burden too heavy when your friends are at your side. Increase your maximum and encumbered Bulk limits by 1. In addition, you gain a +10-foot circumstance bonus to your Speed during overland travel.</div><br>

#### Incredible Improvisation {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">Clever Improviser</div>
<div class="trigger">You attempt a check using a skill you’re untrained in</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
A stroke of brilliance gives you a major advantage with a skill despite your inexperience. Gain a +4 circumstance bonus to the triggering skill check.</div><br>

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#### Multitalented<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned to split your focus between multiple classes with ease. You gain a 2nd-level multiclass dedication feat, even if you normally couldn't take another dedication feat until you take more feats from your current archetype.

If you're a half-elf, you don't need to meet the feat's attribute score prerequisites.</div>

#### Virtue-Forged Tattoos<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Ornate Tattoo</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your tattoos are a work of psychic genius, a masterpiece of art, psionics, and skin. Choose a 3rd-rank occult spell from the same school as your Psychic Tattoos, either a common spell or another to which you have access, including a lower-rank spell heightened to 3rd-rank if you wish. You can cast that spell once per day as an innate occult spell.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Advanced General Training<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Over the course of adventuring, your adaptability has let you pick up numerous useful abilities. You gain a general feat of 7th level or lower. You must meet the feat's prerequisites.

**Special** You can select this feat multiple times, choosing a different feat each time.</div>

#### Bounce Back {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">You lose the dying condition</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You recover from near-death experiences with astounding resilience. Don't increase the value of your wounded condition due to losing the dying condition.</div><br>

#### Stubborn Persistence<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Humans are renowned for their ability to persist through the most grueling of trials. When you would become fatigued, attempt a DC 17 flat check. On a success, you aren't fatigued. If the fatigued condition has an underlying cause that you don't address, such as lack of rest, you must attempt the check again at an interval determined by the GM until you fail the flat check or address the underlying cause.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Heroic Presence {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag human">HUMAN</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The blood of heroes courses through your veins, and you inspire your allies to dig deep and find a new level of resolve. You grant up to 10 willing creatures within 30 feet the effects of a 6th-rank <i>zealous conviction</i>, though the effect automatically ends on a target if you give that target a command, they would normally find repugnant. This action has the auditory trait or visual trait, depending on how you inspire your allies.</div><br>

### Human Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Humanity is the most diverse of all the ancestries. They can be from any of the listed backgrounds and excel in any class.</div>

</div>

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# Lizardfolk

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Ages ago when Athas was green and lush, the ancestors of the Lizardfolk were the same that you might find on any other sphere in the Material Plane. The Lizardfolk of Athas had some of the same tribal societies, living in the swamps and the tropical regions of the world. That all changed when Athas started to die. As the soil began to change, so did the Lizardfolk.

<div class='descriptive'>
“The people of the Tablelands know nothing of life. They choose no Path for themselves, and consume everything until they are dead.”
-- Keltruch, pterran ranger </div>

Lizardfolk adapt to the environment they are born in. Over several millennia the native Athas Lizardfolk began to change along with the world. They have since developed inito unique heratages.

## Jozhal

A typical jozhal rarely tops 4 feet in height and individuals weighing more than 80 pounds are rare. Jozhal have long, slender legs, lanky arms ending in dexterous hands, and long, flexible tails. The neck of a jozhal is also long and flexible, ending in a narrow muzzled head with large eyes and many needle-like teeth. The skin is covered in many tiny scales, which are only visible on close examination, and can change color to match with or contrast against the creatureʹs surroundings.

The jozhal of athas travel in family groups, traveling between the fertile areas of the Tablelands and Hinterlands, beyond the Ringing Mountains. Jozhals are naturally shy and secretive creatures. The leader of a family will learn the Common tongue, so that he or she may communicate with outsiders on the rare occasion that interaction is necessary. When around those they do not know, especially other races, jozhals become much more withdrawn and are unwilling to even speak to outsiders unless necessary. They will often travel days out of their way just to avoid encountering non-jozhals, especially elves and humans, whom they consider destructive. If forced to interact with members of another race, jozhals will attempt to make the experience as short as possible. Jozhals always make use of every little bit of anything that they find, to the point of extremes, practicing cannibalism and fashioning the bones of their dead into weapons and tools.

## Lizardfolk of Saragar

Lizardfolk have toothy snouts and long and powerful tails. Those from temperate or desert regions tend toward gray, green, or brown scales that aid in camouflage, while those from tropical climes are brightly colored. Many sport dorsal spikes or garish neck frills that hint at their clan lineage. Lizardfolk reach physical adulthood at age 15 and live up to 120 years. The average lizardfolk stands 6 to 7 feet tall, but grows throughout their lifetime, gaining strength and size with age.

The lizard folk of saragar lifted themselves from savagery earlier than their cousins of other worlds, the lizardfolk of sarangar developed a simple yet civilized society ages ago. Living in close contact with the kreel flocks that they shepherd, the saragar lizardfolk have long since lost their taste for sentient flesh, subsisting instead largely on a diet of kreel flesh, kelp and various shellfish.

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Ruled by a line of wise and generous kings, they have also enjoyed the support of Saragar‘s Mind Lords, who saved the lizardfolk from the ravages of the Cleansing Wars and the dread Keltis.

## Nikaal

The nikaal are 5 to 6 feet tall and weigh 150 to 250 pounds. Although their facial features are similar to humans, their scales and eyes set them apart. Their bodies are covered with fine, purple scales that regulate the body temperature in the searing desert sun and prevent evaporation of vital fluids. Nikaalian eyes have a distinctly serpentine shape and color.

Nikaals are a race of nomadic tribes of wanderers and explorers. They rarely remain in one place for more than a week, and some suspect they have traveled to the Tablelands from a faraway homeland beyond the Ringing Mountains.

Nikaal tribes wander from city to city, trading goods bought at the last city or picked up on their travels. Only during tribal crises, such as the appointment of a new elder, does a tribe stop for more than a week. Though supposed to have journeyed from beyond the Ringing Mountains, the nikaals‘ origin is shrouded in mystery.

## Pterran

Pterrans are 5 to 6 1/2 feet tall reptiles with light brown scaly skin, sharp teeth, and a short tail. Pterrans wear little clothing, preferring belts and loincloths, or sashes. They walk upright, like humanoids, and have opposing thumbs and three– fingered, talon–clawed hands. Pterrans have two shoulder stumps, remnants of wings they possessed long ago, and a finlike growth juts out at the back of their heads. Pterrans weigh between 180 to 220 pounds. There is no visible distinction between male and female pterrans.

Pterrans are rarely seen in the Tablelands. They live their lives in the Hinterlands, rarely leaving the safety of their villages. However, the recent earthquake and subsequent storms have brought disruption into the pterran’s lives. More pterrans now venture outside their homes, and come to the Tyr region to seek trade and information.

## Ssurran

Ssurrans range in size from 4 to 6 feet tall and weighing anywhere between 180 and 225 pounds, and there’s little difference between male and female ssurrans in terms of body shape or size. Their thick leathery hide is found in all manner of earthen tones, and has seen them adapt well to the harsh Athasian climate and provides some manner of camouflage in the desert environment. Their heads feature a pronounced, toothy snout –-perpetually curved into a slight, sly smile-– and small, dark eyes. Their crocodilian appearance is completed by a thick, non-prehensile tail, between 2 and 3 feet in length, used for balance, posture, and communication.

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>8</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>25 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Two attribute boosts based on heritage</div>
Free

### Attribute Flaw
<div style='margin-top:1px'>One attribute flaw based on heritage</div>

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Common</div>
Iruxi <br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it's positive). Choose from Elven, Giant, Halfling, Kreen, and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Humanoid</div>
Lizardfolk <br>
Uncommon

### Claws
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your sharp claws offer an alternative to the fists other humanoids bring to a fight. You have a claw unarmed attack that deals 1d4 slashing damage. Your claws are in the brawling group and have the agile, finesse, and unarmed traits.</div>

### Low-Light Vision 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You can see in dim light as though it were bright light, so you ignore the concealed condition due to dim light.</div>

</div>

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Ssurrans are nomadic, humanoid reptiles. Some are raiders while others are simple hunters. As lizardfolk of the desert, they have adapted to the heat of the Athasian day and are active even during the blazing mid-day heat. Ssurrans roam Athas, seeking shelter and food. There have been cases when multiple tribes have joined together against a common threat. These multitribal groups are led by a council of elders formed from the shaman/leaders of each tribe. Ssurrans are strict carnivores. They prefer the flesh of halflings, but prey upon any living thing they find.

### Lizardfolk Names
Lizardfolk names come from their ancient language and tend to be traditional. Names are typically chosen by the clan’s astrologer in accordance to omens and which star signs are ascendant when a lizardfolk egg hatches, though occasionally a lizardfolk’s parents may name a hatchling for an ancestor or a beloved historical hero.
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* **Lizardfolk Names:** Arasheg, Barashk, Essaru, Enshuk, Gishkim, Hazi, Inishish, Kutak, Nasha, Shulkuru, Tizkar, Utakish, Zelkekek

## Lizardfolk Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Jozhal

You can change your skin color to blend in with your surroundings, making minor shifts with a single action and dramatic changes over the course of an hour. When you're in an area where your coloration is roughly similar to the environment (for instance, forest green in a forest), you can use the minor, single action application of this ability to make localized changes that help you blend into your surroundings, gaining a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks until your surroundings change in coloration or pattern. Jozhal are Small size and have an attribute boost in Dexterity and Intelligence and an attribute flaw in Strength.

### Lizardfolk of Saragar

Your family is descended from the most common lizardfolk heritage, and you are accustomed to aquatic environments. You gain a 15-foot swim Speed and you gain the Breath Control general feat as a bonus feat. The lizardfolk of saragar have an attribute boost in Strength and Wisdom and an attribute flaw in Intelligence.

### Nikaal

You can flare your neck frill and flex your dorsal spines, Demoralizing your foes. When you do, Demoralize loses the auditory trait and gains the visual trait, and you don't take a

penalty when you attempt to Demoralize a creature that doesn't understand your language.

You also gain the Threatening Approach action. Nikaal have an attribute boost to Constitution and Strength and an attribute flaw in Charisma.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Threatening Approach</B> {2A} <span class="rule effect"> You Stride to be adjacent to a foe and Demoralize that foe. If you succeed, the foe is frightened 2 instead of frightened 1. </span></div></div>

<br>

### Pterran

You move easily through thick forest and jungle, using every branch or bush. You can always use the Take Cover action when in forest or jungle terrain to gain cover, even if you're not next to an obstacle you would normally be able to Take Cover behind. You gain the Terrain Stalker feat, even if you're not trained in Stealth, and you must choose underbrush as your chosen terrain. Pterran have an attribute boost in Charisma and Wisdom and an attribute flaw in Dexterity.

### Ssurran

Your thick scales help you retain water and combat the sun's glare. You gain fire resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1). Environmental heat effects are one step less extreme for you, and you can go 10 times as long as normal before you are affected by starvation or thirst. However, unless you wear protective gear or take shelter, environmental cold effects are one step more extreme for you. Ssurran have an attribute boost in Constitution and Strength and an attribute flaw in Dexterity.

## Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level). As a thri-kreen, you select from among the following ancestry feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Bone Magic<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to your lizardfolk ancestors manifests as a simple primal spell that you cast using a fragment of an ancestor's bones. Choose one cantrip from the primal spell list. You can cast this cantrip as a primal innate spell at will, and it's heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Consult The Stars<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You find wisdom in the movements of the heavens. Once per day, you can spend 10 minutes to draw upon your readings of a recent night's sky to gain the trained proficiency rank in one skill of your choice; the chosen skill's key attribute must be Charisma, Intelligence, or Wisdom. This proficiency lasts until your next daily preparation. Since this proficiency is temporary, you can't use it as a prerequisite for a skill increase or a permanent character option like a feat.</div><br>

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#### Lightning Tongue {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your tongue darts out faster than the eye can see to retrieve loose objects. You Interact to pick up a single unattended object of light Bulk or less within 10 feet of you. If you don't have enough hands free to hold the object, it falls to the ground in your space.</div><br>

#### Lizardfolk Armaments<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Your weapons are those you were born with. Choose one of the following options:

- <b>Claws</b> Your claw attack deals 1d6 slashing damage instead of 1d4 and gains the versatile P trait.<br>
- <b>Fangs</b> You gain a fangs unarmed attack that deals 1d8 piercing damage and is in the brawling group.<br>
- <b>Tail</b> You gain a tail unarmed attack that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage, is in the brawling group, and has the sweep trait.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of the unarmed attacks you have gained or improved with this feat, you get its critical specialization effect.
</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
<b>Special</b>  You can take this feat multiple times, choosing a different unarmed attack option each time.</div></div><br>

#### Lizardfolk Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You listened carefully to the tales passed down among your community. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Nature and Survival. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for either Astrology Lore or Lizardfolk Lore.</div><br>

#### Lizardfolk Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
In combat, you favor the brutal weapons that are traditional for your lizardfolk ancestors. You gain access to all uncommon weapons with the lizardfolk trait. You have familiarity with weapons with the lizardfolk trait—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons or a lizardfolk unarmed attack, you get its critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Marsh Runner<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">You have a swim speed</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you use the Step action, you can ignore difficult terrain caused by flooding, swamps, or quicksand. In addition, when you 
use the Acrobatics skill to Balance on narrow surfaces or uneven marshy ground, you aren’t off-guard, and if you roll a success on 
the Acrobatics check, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Parthenogenic Hatchling<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You were hatched from an unfertilized egg during hard times for your people, and you are a biological copy of your mother. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against diseases. If you roll a success on a saving throw against a disease, you 
get a critical success instead. If you have a different ability that would improve the save in this way (such as the battle 
hardened fighter class feature), if you roll a critical failure on the save you get a failure instead.

You take damage only every 2 hours from thirst and every 2 days from starvation, rather than every hour and every day. 
</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
<b>Special</b> You can select this feat only at 1st level. </div></div><br>

#### Reptile Rider<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
To you, hatori, giant lizards, and slimahaccs are loyal steeds, not monsters. You gain the Ride feat, even if you don't meet the prerequisites. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Nature checks to Handle an Animal as long as the animal is a reptile or even a non-sapient drake. </div><br>

#### Reptile Speaker<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You hear the sounds of reptiles as language. You can ask questions of, receive answers from, and use the Diplomacy skill with animals that are reptiles (the GM determines which animals count as reptiles). </div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Acid Spit<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Nikaal</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned the art of lobbing acidic spittle at vulnerable spots on your foes, especially the eyes. You gain a acidic spit ranged unarmed attack with a range increment of 10 feet that deals 1d4 acid damage. On a critical hit, the target is also dazzled until the start of your next turn and takes persistent acid damage equal to the number of weapon damage dice. Your spit doesn't have a weapon group, nor a critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Envenom Fangs {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Lizardfolk Armaments (Fangs)</div>
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You envenom your fangs. If the next fangs Strike you make before the end of your next turn hits and deals damage, the Strike deals an additional 1d6 persistent poison damage. The poison becomes inert after you hit, or at the end of your next turn, whichever comes first. </div><br>

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#### Flexible Tail<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

#### Gecko's Grip<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You cling to walls with a preternatural grip. You gain the Combat Climber feat as a bonus feat, and if you roll a success on an Athletics check to climb, you get a critical success instead. </div><br>

#### Guided By The Stars {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fortune">FORTUNE</div>
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">You are about to attempt a skill check or saving throw.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The stars grant you insights that guide your actions. You roll twice and take the better result. If it's night and you can see the stars, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the triggering roll.</div><br>

#### Shed Tail {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Lizardfolk Armaments (Tail)</div>
<div class="trigger">You become grabbed.</div>
<div class="req">You have a fully grown tail</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can shed a portion of your tail to escape. You cease being grabbed, then Stride without triggering any reactions from the creature that grabbed you. It takes 1 day for your tail to fully grow back. Until it does, you can’t use your tail unarmed attack, 
and you take a –2 circumstance penalty on checks to Balance.</div><br>

#### Swift Swimmer<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You gain a swim Speed of 15 feet.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Special</b> If you have the lizardfolk of saragar heritage, your swim Speed instead increases to 25 feet.
</div><br>

#### Tongue Disarm {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> trained in Athletics; Lightning Tongue</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You lash out with your tongue to disarm your foe. You attempt to Disarm a creature within 10 feet, ignoring the requirement that you must have at least one hand free.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Bone Caller<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Using a mixture of reptile bones and the bones of your ancestors to focus your magic, you animate lizards and giant reptiles to carry messages or serve as mounts. You can cast <i>animal messenger</i> and <i>marvelous mount</i> as primal innate spells once per day each. The animal messenger is always a Tiny lizard, and your innate spell transforms it from bones to flesh, even if there are no lizards nearby. The <i>marvelous mount</i> looks like a large reptile rather than a horse but functions identically.</div><br>

#### Dangle<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

#### Hone Claws {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> Lizardfolk Armaments (Claws)</div>
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You grind or gnaw a particularly wicked edge onto your claws. The next claws Strike you hit and deal damage with deals an additional 1d6 bleed damage. You cannot have more than one instance of Hone Claws active at a time.</div><br>

#### Read The Stars<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> trained in Primal or Astrology Lore</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're incredibly skilled in lizardfolk astrology, and you can gain useful (if cryptic) hints from the stars' alignment. Once per night, if you can clearly see the stars, you can spend 1 hour reading the heavens to see how they relate to a particular goal, event, or activity that will occur within 1 week. The GM rolls a secret check, either a DC 28 Astrology Lore check or a DC 32 Primal check. On a success, you learn a cryptic clue or piece of advice that could help with the chosen event, and on a critical failure, you learn a misleading cryptic clue or piece of advice.</div><br>

#### Terrain Advantage<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Non-lizardfolk creatures in difficult terrain are off-guard to you. If you have a swim Speed, non-lizardfolk creatures that are in water and lack a swim Speed are also off-guard to you.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Bone Investiture<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You encase yourself in spiritual dinosaur bones to become a Huge dinosaur. You can cast <i>dinosaur form</i> on yourself as a 5th-level primal innate spell once per day.</div><br>

#### Lizardfolk Spirit Strike<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your lizardfolk unarmed attacks channel the spiritual energy of your ancestors. Any unarmed attacks you acquire from lizardfolk ancestry, lizardfolk heritages, or lizardfolk ancestry feats gain the effects of a ghost touch property rune.</div><br>

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#### Primal Rampage<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You tap into the unstoppable, primeval strength of your ancient kin. You gain <i>mountain resilience</i> and <i>unfettered movement </i> as 4th-level primal innate spells that you can cast once per day. As a 3-action activity, you can Cast a Spell twice to cast both of these innate spells, as long as they are both still available for the day.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Bone Rider<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> Bone Magic</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Using your ancestors’ bones, you manifest their spirits around you in a fossilized form. You can cast <i>mask of terror</i> on yourself as an innate spell once per day. When you do, you appear as a skeletal lizardfolk ancestor, twisted in a way that inspires the deepest fears of those who observe you.</div><br>

#### Scion Transformation<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lizardfolk">LIZARDFOLK</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You go into hibernation for 24 hours and perform a ritual dedicated to your ancestors, undergoing a one-time metamorphosis. You permanently gain the effects of <i>enlarge</i>, and your maximum Hit Points increase by your level. The ritual transforms most of your gear to the appropriate size for your new body (though powerful items like artifacts or items strongly tied to their original size may not transform, at the GM's discretion).</div><br>

### Lizardfolk Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Some background options are particularly suitable for lizardfolk. Wilderness or martial backgrounds like the animal whisperer, hunter, scout, or warrior are ideal. Living at the margins of human civilization means a lizardfolk might have grown up as a hardy street urchin, traveled as a nomad, or found work as a laborer or gladiator. Lizardfolk's ties to the wilderness make them excellent rangers or druids. Their outstanding strength serves them well if they select the barbarian, fighter, or monk classes, though they can also strike from stealth as a rogue. Lizardfolk also have a strong oral tradition kept alive by lizardfolk shamans.</div>

</div>

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 # Mul
 
<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Sterile crossbreeds of humans and dwarves, muls are well-known for their outstanding stamina. Accordingly, templars, noble families, and merchant houses breed them as slaves. <br> Combining dwarven toughness and human ingenuity, muls inherit the best features of both races. Although muls can serve in many ways, most find their lives shaped by a noble's desire to create a worthy champion or a merchant's calculated investment in a gladiator for the arenas.

<div class='descriptive'>
WHO AM I? I AM DARUS, ONCE A SLAVE SERVING A
patrician in the city of Balic. The noble raised me to battle in
the Criterion, to spill the blood of my enemies, revel in the
cheers of the crowd, and fill the pockets of my master with
silver and gold. But now I am free of my bonds, outlawed in
Balic, and a member of this slave tribe. Do I believe in the
dream of freedom? I cannot answer that, for in truth I do not
know. I know that I have tasted freedom and it is very sweet. I
never want to thirst for it again, toiling for a master while my
spirit withers beneath the hot sun of bondage. </div>

### Squat and Brawny
Muscular and fit, muls resemble powerfully built humans. Standing between 6 and 7 feet tall and weighing about 300 pounds, these half-dwarves bear heroic proportions — broad shoulders, powerful thighs, and thick arms. Both genders are hairless and hint at their dwarven ancestry, with strong, stern features and small, swept-back ears that come to subtle points. Mul skin and eye colors are as varied as they are in humans, but many muls have a copper or deeply bronzed complexion, and few have noticeable gold flecks in their eyes.

Muls have little collective racial identity and adopt the dress and fashion of their homes. As products of the city-states where they are bred, they have no culture of their own. Some escaped slaves make a home for themselves among the desert tribes, but because no mul can start a family, they have no place to call their own.

### Born into Slavery
All muls begin their lives as slaves. Slaveholders throughout the Tyr Region have long known that tremendous hardiness and stamina result from mixing human and dwarven lines. Since muls make outstanding gladiators, slave warriors, and heavy laborers, enduring toil and hardships that would kill lesser folk, they are often most sought.

Born to the slave pens, the taskmaster's whip takes the place of loving parents and family. For this reason, muls develop violent reactions.

But when they perform well in the arena, they receive the most pampered treatment of any slave. Consequently, some don't see slavery as that a great hardship. However, those who have tasted the sweet air of freedom will fight to retain it.

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### Gruff and Taciturn
Muls are hard, driven, pragmatic folk with little remorse or sympathy in their hearts. Many grow up under the lash, subjected to brutal training for the arena or grinding toil in fields or quarries. As a result, muls have a hard time offering friendship and trust to anyone. More than a few muls, scarred by the hardships of their upbringings, spend their days as bitter, violent misanthropes. Others are suspicious, grasping mercenaries who have learned never to lift a finger on behalf of another person without establishing what they will gain from providing aid. Despite their tendency to be sullen or self-centered, muls don't have a particular enmity for any people and can learn to work alongside others. Growing up in the slave pits and the underclass of society taught them how to figure out who to trust, who not to, and how to gain favor and reputation among others, slaves, or free people; their survival demanded nothing less.

### Lust for Freedom
Muls who set their hearts on freedom are difficult to keep in chains. Some escape to the wilds and become raiders or join tribes of ex-slaves, whereas others who escape become mercenaries and sell their fighting skills to whomever they can. Muls who don't flee captivity can win their freedom in the arena or by completing a dangerous task for their masters. A few highly prized gladiators receive so many privileges and comforts that they are effectively free, enjoying great latitude to go where they want and do as they wish.

### Mul Names
Muls favor one simple name, generally a human one or variants. They don't have families, so they don't get to pick a last name, but sometimes they use place names to denote their place of origin, like "Mersten of Nibenay" or "Tomak of Tyr".
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* **Male Names:** Aram, Borthomar, Bost, Darok, Darus, Durn, Eben, Erekard, Gard, Harask, Marok, Morg, Rikard, Sanozar, Tomak, Uskan, Zedath, Zorus.
* **Female Names:** Aisa, Aivel, Brithis, Callia, Demosis, Elina, Faivel, Himithis, Laivi, Mersten, Narisel, Raina, Reshel, Saditha, Tirshel, Uisel, Zerima.

### Mul Heritage

One or your parents was a dwarf. Muls resemble powerfully build humans but with broad shoulders, powerful thighs, thick arms but swept-back ears that come to subtle points. You gain the dwarf trait, mul trait, and dark vision. In addition, you can select dwarf, human, or mul feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Ancestry Feats

You can select dwarf, human, or mul feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

###### 1st Level

#### Beast Trainer<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You have an impressive innate ability to tame and command ferocious beasts. You become trained in the Nature skill and gain your choice of the Pet general feat or the Train Animal skill feat.</div><br>

#### Hold Mark<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You bear scars or tattoos enhanced by the mark of your community's prowess. When you select this feat, choose one of the options from the below table. You are trained in the listed skill and gain a +1 status bonus to saves against spells from the listed tradition. You gain a large brand or tattoo in the shape of the chosen emblem or a similar concept (for example, the Burning Sun could be a torch, sun, volcano, or other fiery symbol, while the Empty Hand could be a fist or claw). </div>

| Hold Mark Emblem | Skill | Tradition |
|:---|:-----------:| :---: |
|  Burning Sun | Diplomacy | Arcane |
|  Death's Head  | Survival | Primal |
|  Defiled Corpse | Religion | Divine |
|  Empty Hand | Intimidation | Occult |

<br>

#### Iron Fists<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your fists have been forged by battle, your naturally tough skin and dense bone further hardened by conflict. Your fist unarmed attacks no longer have the nonlethal trait and gain the shove weapon trait.</div><br>

#### Mul Ferocity {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">You would be reduced to 0 Hit Points but not immediately killed.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Fierceness in battle runs through your blood, and you refuse to fall from your injuries. You avoid being knocked out and remain at 1 Hit Point, and your wounded condition increases by 1.</div><br>

#### Mul Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your trainers taught you your people's histories, told tales of great athletic feats, and shared with you the hardships your ancestors endured so that you can pass this wisdom down to future generations. You become trained in Athletics and Survival.  If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Mul Lore. </div><br>

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#### Mul Superstition {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">You attempt a saving throw against a spell or magical effect, before rolling.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You defend yourself against magic by relying on techniques derived from your superstitions. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your saving throw against the triggering spell or magical effect. </div><br>

#### Mul Warmask<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You paint your face to create a warmask, an invested magic item of negligible Bulk with an item level equal to your level and a usage of worn (mask). It has a magical tradition trait depending on its type. Donning or removing your warmask requires 1 minute of work, though you don't need to Invest the mask each time. The warmask is unique to you and might signify your hold, your accomplishments, or your faith. While creating your mask, you must choose the source of your warmask’s power from the options below. This source determines the mask's associated skill as well as magical tradition.

Once you select this source, it can't be changed. You become trained in the associated skill, and you gain the Dubious Knowledge skill feat as a bonus feat. You can spend 1 hour performing a ceremony that costs 50 gp to attune yourself more deeply with your warmask. If you do, you gain a +1 item bonus to the associated skill whenever you wear the warmask.

- **The Elements** Religion, divine tradition
- **The Land** Nature, primal tradition
- **Psionics** Occultism, occult tradition

</div><br>

#### Mul Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
In combat, you favor the brutal weapons that are traditional for mul gladiators. You gain access to all uncommon weapons with the gladiator trait. You have familiarity with weapons with the gladiator trait plus the carrikal, forearm axe, and dejada—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons 
as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect. </div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Athletic Might<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Surviving in hostile terrain has given you a great talent for mobility. Whenever you roll a success on an Athletics check to Climb or Jump, you get a critical success instead. </div><br>

#### Bloody Blows<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Your lethal unarmed attacks leave bloody gouges or cause severe internal bleeding. When you critically hit with a Strike using an unarmed attack that isn't nonlethal, the target takes 1d4 persistent bleed damage. This can be because you're taking the penalty to use a fist for a lethal attack or because you have an unarmed attack without the nonlethal trait due to Iron Fists, or a similar ability. </div><br>

#### Defy Death<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Ferocity</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're exceptionally difficult to kill. The DC of your recovery checks is equal to 9 + your dying value, or 8 + your dying value if you have the Toughness general feat. In addition, whenever someone returns you to life using magic that would normally leave you debilitated for a week (such as raise dead or the resurrect ritual), you don't suffer that condition. </div><br>

#### Mask of Power<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Warmask</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your warmask sharpens your connection to the source of your mask's power. During your daily preparations, choose <i>fear</i>, <i>phantom pain</i>, or <i>sure strike</i>. Until your next daily preparations, you can cast this spell as a 1st-rank innate spell once per day; the spell's tradition is determined by the tradition tied to your warmask. You must be wearing your warmask to Cast the Spell. </div><br>

#### Mask of Rejection {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">Mul Warmask</div>
<div class="trigger">You fail a saving throw against an effect from your warmask’ s magical tradition.</div>
<div class="req">You're wearing your warmask.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your warmask projects a white-hot fury that attempts to vaporize the offending magic. You reroll the triggering check with a +2 circumstance bonus, but you must use the new result, even if it's worse than your first roll. </div><br>

#### Scar-Thick Skin<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Glorious, storied scars cover and protect much of your body. Your DC on flat checks to end persistent bleed damage is reduced from 15 to 10, or from 10 to 5 after receiving especially appropriate assistance. </div><br>

#### Victorious Vigor {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">You bring a foe to 0 Hit Points.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your victories in battle fill you with pride and imbue you with the energy to fight a bit longer despite your wounds. You gain temporary Hit Points equal to your Constitution modifier until the end of your next turn. </div>

###### 9th Level

#### Death's Drums<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
Your life has been spent challenging death itself, and proximity to that implacable foe only makes your heart beat harder. 
When you are taking persistent damage or your wounded value is 1 or greater, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Fortitude saving throws. </div><br>

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#### Mask of Pain {R}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Intimidation; Mul Warmask</div>
<div class="trigger">You succeed at a Demoralize check.</div>
<div class="req">You're wearing your warmask.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your mask has grown into a manifestation of your pain, which you can release. The creature you successfully Demoralized takes 2d6 mental damage, or 4d6 mental damage if you're legendary in Intimidation. The target is then temporarily immune to additional damage from Mask of Pain for 24 hours. </div><br>

#### Pervasive Superstition<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Superstition</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You steep yourself in superstition and practice ancient mental exercises for shrugging off the effects of magic. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against spells and magical effects at all times. </div><br>

#### Undying Ferocity<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Ferocity</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You resist death's clutches with supernatural vigor. When you use Mul Ferocity, you gain temporary Hit Points equal to your level.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Ferocious Beasts<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">animal companion, Pet, or Bonded Animal; Mul Ferocity</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
For many years, the mightiest mul beast tamers would draw out the true fighting spirit of their companion beasts by feeding the creatures a draft incorporating the mul's own blood. All animal companions, pets, familiars, and bonded animals you have gain the Mul Ferocity feat, and gain one reaction per round they can use only for Mul Ferocity. If you have the Undying Ferocity ancestry feat, all animal companions, pets, familiars, and bonded animals you have also gain the benefits of that feat when using the Mul Ferocity reaction.</div><br>

#### Incredible Ferocity<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Ferocity</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Given time to collect yourself after a near-death scrape, you can rebuild your ferocity and withstand additional finishing blows. You can use Mul Ferocity with a frequency of once per hour, rather than once per day.</div><br>

#### Lifeblood's Call<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="rule">
The impulse to survive and continue fighting resonates deep within you. You gain a circumstance bonus to damage rolls on your melee Strikes equal to twice the sum of your wounded and doomed conditions (to a maximum of a +8 circumstance bonus to damage) whenever you have one or both conditions.</div><br>

#### Mask of Fear {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Warmask</div>
<div class="trigger">You start your turn with the frightened condition.</div>
<div class="req">You're wearing your warmask.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your warmask burns off of your face, releasing your apprehension. You remove the frightened condition. Your warmask is destroyed, and you can't reapply it until your next daily preparations.

**Special** You can use this free action even if you have a condition tied to the frightened condition that would normally prevent you from using a free action, such as “fleeing as long as you're frightened” or “paralyzed as long as you're frightened.”</div><br>

#### Spell Devourer<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Superstition</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You don't just resist magic; you devour it. Whenever you succeed at a saving throw against a spell or magical effect, you gain temporary Hit Points equal to double the spell's rank, or equal to the level if the magical effect isn't a spell. These temporary Hit Points last until the end of your next turn.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Rampaging Ferocity {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mul Ferocity</div>
<div class="trigger">You use Mul Ferocity</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You lash out viciously even as you fend off death. Make a single melee Strike. If this Strike brings a foe to 0 Hit Points, this activation of Orc Ferocity doesn't count against its frequency.</div><br>

### Mul Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>A mul's drive to overcome challenges and prove themself spurs many muls to become adventurers, though muls are more likely to set out on their own or with other former slaves than alongside adventurers of other backgrounds.

Common mul backgrounds include gladiator, hunter, martial disciple, nomad, and warrior from the Core Rulebook, plus bandit, outrider, and refugee from this book. Orcs thrive in martial classes like barbarian and fighter.</div>

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# Tari

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
The tari are commonly referred to as ratfolk by the other denizens of the Tyr region. They are small, furry humanoid scavengers, capable of thriving on food and water too polluted for humans to ingest. Hunted freely as pests, the tari are the barbaric descendants of a once thriving culture who inhabited lands to the south of the Tyr region.

<div class='descriptive'>
What you at first mistook for some monstrous breed of rat now rears up on its hind legs and chitters at you in 
indignation. Clad in a ragged assortment of tattered clothing, the creature has matted fur, needlelike teeth and 
a long coiling tail.</div>

The tari are unimpressive creatures, roughly 5 feet tall and weighing 100 pounds. They move about as bipeds, but sometimes walk on their knuckles. Their tails are about 2-1/2 feet long, used mainly for balance, and just strong enough that they can wrap it around a branch and hang from it. Their entire bodies are covered with fine fur, usually brown, but sometimes gray, golden, or even silver, or a combination of any of these. Many tari use dyes from gyava berries to create rings or spots of color for decoration. Males and females alike often braid the longer hair along the back of the neck and the base of the spine and decorate these with beads or feathers. Their mouths are filled with needlelike teeth, and to either side they have long black hairs that add to their overall ratlike appearance.

Tari wear no clothing, though warriors sometimes have leather jerkins or even chitin greaves. Chieftains and warriors are taller than other tari and the former are usually highly decorated with dyes, beads, and ceremonial garb.

Tari have a high-pitched, squeaky language all their own. They can send and receive some signals that are beyond the human ear’s ability to hear. Tari can learn other languages, often Common and Elven, though the sounds of humanoid speech are difficult for them to make with their mouths.

### Tari Society

The tari race once boasted a thriving culture far to the south of the Tyr region. Ythri, their legendary capital city, is now a ruin lost among the crags. Their education and knowledge was much greater than it is today, and their 
technology allowed them to build stone and concrete structures. What happened to their civilization is a mystery; the tari of the Tablelands have no written history. All that remains is a collection of exaggerated myths and legends describing wondrous works. Now the tari live wherever they can – in the underbellies of the cities, the back lots of the villages and the lost and hidden canyons in the deepest heart of the wild.

The lives and attitudes of the urban and wilderness tari are quite different. Both kinds travel in packs, but their 
approaches to matters of survival are quite disparate. Urban tari live like scavengers, taking whatever they can 
get hands on and stealing what they cannot easily get. They often approach life in a similar fashion, forming 
strong attachments that are easily discarded. The tari of the wilderness, however, are nomads who scout for miles in all directions, seeking for the best lands and competing fiercely with the other races of the Tablelands to claim them. In daily life they tend to be harsh and competitive, but given to long-lasting bonds over time.

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Other than the individual differences between urban and wilderness tari, the rat folk tend to avoid the other races 
of the Tablelands as much as possible, wherever necessary. This isolationist behavior is for a very simple reason. Tari are generally despised as vermin by the other races of the Tablelands and are hunted where they are found in the larger cities.

### Tari Names
Every tari family has perhaps two dozen names that have been passed down from generation to generation, sometimes with minor alterations or alternative nicknames. A grandfather might be Grivver, for example, while his daughter goes by Griva and her son is simply Griv. Ratfolk are often assigned nicknames and sobriquets by humanoids they interact with, but most tari find these names distasteful and endure them only when outside tari communities.
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**Tari Names:** Barnan, Chikis, Chonan, Deto, Jass, Jix, Knagi, Kubi, Lolo, Ninnec, Nos, Rak, Renzi, Skigim, Tali, Zess

## Tari Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Deep Rat

Your ancestors lived deeper underground than other ratfolk, granting you the ability to see in the dark. You gain darkvision.

### Desert Rat

You are native to arid plains and likely grew up traveling the roads. You have a leaner build than other ratfolk, with longer limbs and short fur. If you have both hands free, you can increase your Speed to 30 feet as you run on all fours. In addition, environmental heat effects are one step less extreme for you, and you can go 10 times as long as normal before you are affected by starvation or thirst. However, unless you wear protective gear or take shelter, environmental cold effects are one step more extreme for you.

### Longsnout Rat

The long snouts that run in your family give you a keener sense of smell than most ratfolk. You gain imprecise scent with a range of 30 feet. This means you can use your sense of smell to determine a creature’s location. The GM will usually double the range if you’re downwind from the creature or halve the range if you’re upwind.

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>6</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Small</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>25 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dexterity</div>
Intelligence<br>
Free

### Attribute Flaw
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Strength</div>

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Sakvroth</div>
Common<br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it’s positive). Choose from Dwarven, Halfling, or any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Tari</div>
Humanoid <br>
Uncommon

### Low-Light Vision 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You can see in dim light as though it were bright light, so you ignore the concealed condition due to dim light.</div>

### Sharp Teeth
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your prominent incisors offer an alternative to the fists other humanoids bring to a fight. You have a jaws unarmed attack that deals 1d4 piercing damage, is in the brawling group, and has the agile and finesse traits.</div>

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In addition, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Seek a creature or object within the range of your scent.

### Sewer Rat

You come from a long line of ratfolk with a community based in the sewers beneath a large settlement. You are immune to the disease putrid plague. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against diseases and poisons. If you roll a success on a saving throw against a disease or poison, you get a critical success instead. If you have a different ability that would improve the save in this way (such as the battle hardened fighter class feature), if you roll a critical failure on the save you get a failure instead.
### Shadow Rat

Your ancestors lived in dark spaces underground, granting you dark fur and a vaguely unnatural mien that unnerves sapient creatures and frightens animals. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Intimidation and can use Intimidation to Coerce animals. When you Demoralize an animal, you don’t take a penalty for not sharing a language with it. If you would automatically become trained in Intimidation (from your background or class, for example), you become trained in another skill of your choice.

Animals’ attitudes toward you begin one degree worse than normal, usually starting at unfriendly instead of indifferent for domesticated animals, and hostile instead of unfriendly for wild animals.

### Tunnel Rat

Your incredibly small bones allow you to easily compress your body and squeeze through gaps. You gain the Quick Squeeze feat as a bonus feat, even if you aren't trained in Acrobatics. Tight spaces not tight enough to require the Squeeze action aren't difficult terrain for you.

## Ancestry Feats

###### 1st Level

#### Cheek Pouches<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your cheeks are stretchy, and you can store up to four items of light Bulk or less in these cheek pouches. None of these items can have a dimension longer than 1 foot. As long as you have at least one item in your cheek pouches, your speech is noticeably difficult to understand. Placing an item in your cheek pouch or retrieving one is an Interact action. You can empty your mouth with a single action, causing everything you had stored in your cheek pouches to fall to the ground in your square.</div><br>

#### Pack Rat<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve learned how to cram vast quantities into small spaces. You can fit an additional 50% of the listed Bulk capacity into mundane storage containers or vehicles. For example, you can fit 6 Bulk in a backpack, or 12 Bulk in a chest. This doesn’t alter the items’ Bulk, nor does it change how much you can store in a magical or extradimensional storage space, such as a <i>spacious pouch</i>.</div><br>

#### Rat Familiar<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a pet rat that has become magically bonded to you. You gain a familiar using the rules on page 212 of the Player Core, 
and this familiar must be a rat. It still gets the benefits of familiar abilities, but its base form remains a rat.</div><br>

#### Ratspeak<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
To you, the squeaking of rats and other rodents makes a strange kind of sense. You can ask questions of, receive answers from, and use the Diplomacy skill with rodents, including beavers, mice, porcupines, rats, and squirrels, but not with other mammals, such as dogs or bats. The GM determines which animals count as rodents.</div><br>

#### Skull Creeper<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You wear skulls to demoralize foes. You become trained in Intimidation and gain the Intimidating Glare skill feat. If you're already trained in Intimidation, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. If you pay 50 gp for a splendid skull mask, the mask grants you a +1 item bonus to Intimidation; its usage is worn (mask).</div><br>

#### Tari Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Years of experience among ratfolk communities have made you nimble, and you've learned to run and hide when enemies threaten. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Acrobatics and Stealth. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Tari Lore.</div><br>

#### Tinkering Fingers<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You’re trained in Crafting. If you are trained in Crafting from another source (from your background or class, for example), you 
instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You can Repair an item without using a repair toolkit without taking the –2 
circumstance penalty, improvising tools from whatever you have at hand. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Crafting checks to 
Repair an item when you have a repair toolkit.</div><br>

#### Vicious Incisors<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your jaws unarmed attack deals 1d6 piercing damage instead of 1d4, and gains the backstabber trait. You can file down your teeth 
and regrow them later on, enabling you to select this feat at any level, and to retrain into and out of this feat.</div><br>

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#### Warren Friend<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag downtime">DOWNTIME</div>
<div class="tag tari">TARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're adept at making contact with other tari. When you arrive at a new settlement, you automatically find the nearest ratfolk enclave by spending 1 day of downtime searching, provided one exists and its members aren't actively hiding from you. Once you've made contact, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Gather Information and Earn Income in the settlement.</div><br>

#### Warren Navigator<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You're particularly good at solving mazes and navigating twists and turns. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Survival. If you would automatically become trained in Survival (from your background or class, for example), you become trained in another skill of your choice. When you Sense Direction or attempt a roll against a <i>quandary</i> spell, you get a result one degree of success better than you rolled. You don't take a penalty to Sense Direction when you lack a compass.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Cornered Fury<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
If a foe of a larger size than you critically hits and damages you, that foe is off-guard to you for 1 round.</div><br>

#### Gnaw {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Vicious Incisors</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
With enough time and determination, you can chew through nearly anything. You deal double your jaws damage to an unattended, inanimate object.</div><br>

#### Lab Rat<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve spent more than your share of time in an alchemy lab. You have been exposed to a wide variety of alchemical poisons and 
harmful substances, leaving you with an increased tolerance of their effects. You have a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against 
poisons and diseases. If you roll a success on your saving throw against a poison or disease, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Plague Sniffer<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Longsnout Rat</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
You can sniff out the pungent tang of disease. When you detect a creature by scent, you can also detect if that creature is suffering from a disease at a non-carrier state. If the disease is particularly subtle, you might need to attempt a Perception check against the disease's DC (subject to the GM's discretion).</div><br>

#### Quick Stow {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Cheek Pouches</div>
<div class="freq">once per round</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You Interact to store one item you’re holding in your cheek pouches (provided it fits).</div><br>

#### Rat Magic<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
There always seems to be a little rat around to carry messages for you. You can cast <i>animal messenger</i> once per day as a primal innate spell. When you do, the animal that responds is always a rat. If there are no rats within range, the spell is lost.</div><br>

#### Ratfolk Roll {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Your ability to curl up into a tight ball comes in handy. You roll up into a ball and move up to four times your Speed in a straight line down an incline. If you reach the bottom of the incline or hit an obstacle during this first turn of movement, you stop rolling safely. Otherwise, you automatically keep rolling at this Speed during subsequent turns until you hit the bottom of the incline or an obstacle ends this movement (which can happen in the middle of your turn). You're slowed 2 each turn after the first that you keep rolling, and if you hit an obstacle on a turn after the first, you and the obstacle both take 4d6 bludgeoning damage and you stop rolling.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Big Mouth<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Cheek Pouches</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Instead of storing up to four items of Light Bulk in your cheek pouches, you can store up to 1 Bulk worth of items. The maximum size of a given item is unchanged.</div><br>

#### Overcrowd<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
As long as you are Small, you can end your movement in the same square as a Small ally. Only two creatures total can share the same space when using this ability or a similar one.</div><br>

#### Rat Form {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag tari">TARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can transform into an innocuous-looking rat. You gain the effects of a 1st-level <i>pest form</i> spell, except that you must assume the battle form of a Tiny rat.</div><br>

#### Uncanny Cheeks<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain the Prescient Consumable and Prescient Planner feats (Player Core 260), except that you always withdraw the objects from your cheek pouches. This means the object you retrieve must fit in your cheek pouches; this is generally an item of negligible Bulk unless you also have the Cheek Pouches feat.</div><br>

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###### 13th Level

#### Shinstabber<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Overcrowd</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
As long as you’re Small or smaller, you can end your movement in the same square as an ally of any size. Only two creatures 
total can share the same space when using this ability or a similar one.</div><br>

#### Skittering Sneak<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="rule">
You squish, slink, and skitter from cover to cover with great speed and stealth. You can move up to your full Speed when you Sneak.</div><br>

#### Warren Digger<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned to put your sturdy claws to work digging through the earth. You gain a burrow Speed of 15 feet.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Call The Swarm {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Ratspeak</div>
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You give a shrill whistle and point, and a massive swarm of rats 
pours forth from the surrounding terrain to fill a 30-foot burst 
within 120 feet. The rats scurry over the ground and climb up 
walls and surfaces, biting and clawing as they deal 6d8 piercing 
damage to all enemies in the area. The rats continue to swarm 
in the area for the next minute, dealing 3d8 piercing damage to 
any enemy that ends its turn in the area and transforming the 
area into difficult terrain (though the rats allow you and your 
allies to pass normally). You can Dismiss the effect</div><br>

#### Greater Than The Sum<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="rule">
You call upon the familial bonds you share with your allies and other ratfolk to become an overwhelming force in battle. You can cast <i>enlarge</i> as a 6th-rank primal innate spell once per day.</div><br>

### Tari Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Tari might take up the adventuring life to explore and travel, to defend their family or community, or for any number of other reasons.

Their natural wit and nimble fingers make tari excellent alchemists and rogues, while some specialize in ranged weapons as fighters or rangers.

Typical tari backgrounds include animal whisperer, artisan, merchant, medic, nomad, scout, and tinker plus bandit, barber, scavenger, and teacher from this book. </div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

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# Thri-Kreen

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
Alien to most people of Athas, thri-kreen are mantis-like creatures that hunt in packs throughout the wastes of Athas. They have adapted to the harsh climate and are experts at surviving with only scarce resources. Being exceptionally nimble, they live for the thrill of the hunt.<br> In the Tyr Region, thri-kreen aren't common in the city-states. They gather in packs devoted to the hunt that roam the wastes and have little understanding of human society.

<div class='descriptive'>
WE ARE NOW IN THE BROWN TIMES, THE AGE OF OUR KIND, when the world is dry. The kreen are matchless in the dry times. The dra, those-who-sleep, used terrible forces and killed many plants and animals, and the world withered and turned brown. But the kreen were wise and skilled and could hunt and find prey where others could not. So, the kreen stayed with the dra and lived among them, to work and share knowledge. We are the kreen of the south, and we run free, caring for little but the hunt.</div>

<div align='Right'> — Klik-Chaka'da, thri-kreen scout</div>

### Alien Bodies
Thri-kreen resemble a giant praying mantis, bipedal and standing about 7 feet tall and weighing between 300 and 350 pounds. They have six limbs, wedge-shaped heads with compound eyes, two antennae, and powerful mandibles, and are covered in tough, sandy-colored chitinous plates. They have six limbs protruding from their thorax: two for walking and four for use as arms, ending in four-fingered claw-like hands capable of tool- and weapon-use. In combat, thri-kreen hold weapons or shields in their upper limbs, while the middle, smaller pair must use lighter weapons or are used instead for fine manipulation.

### Alien Minds
Thri-kreen behavior may seem bizarre and alien to members of the other races; after all, they never sleep, they don't collect wealth or possessions, and they sometimes eat other intelligent creatures. As for the latter, they have a particular taste for elves, which keeps both races at an uneasy situation.

Despite their fierce appearance and weird habits, the insectoid people can be loyal and courageous companions. Most importantly, thri-kreen judge others solely on physical and mental ability. The lazy and weak deserve contempt, regardless of race; likewise, strength and cleverness merit respect no matter who demonstrates these qualities.

<br>

### Pack Mentality
Thri-kreen view everything through the lens of the hunt and the predator-prey relationship. Their basic social units are the clutch, a small group consisting of members in the minds of "team", "friends", and "family", and the pack, a larger social unit that consists of any number of clutches. If deprived of a clutch, a thri-kreen is biologically compelled to seek out a new group to join.

Obeying their pack instincts, thri-kreen try to find their place in any group. When they join up with potential clutch mates, they seek to establish dominance through a series of challenges, that can be subtle and secret like puzzles or, when necessary, demanding a trial by combat. Thri-kreen seize leadership of groups in which they are the strongest members, but they are willing to accept subordinate roles in the presence of powerful allies. They take orders from the pack or clutch leader without hesitation, eager to fulfill the duties of their position.

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### Natural Hunters
All thri-kreen are obsessed with the hunt, the daily ritual that makes up much of their life. They strive to become skilled and wise hunters, capable of stalking and catching what they need and then moving on before a region is depleted of game.

Non-kreen sometimes view this preoccupation with gathering food and maintaining traveling supplies as a bit strange, especially considering that thri-kreen hunt throughout the night while other races "lazily lie around". Being strict carnivores, thri-kreen will look toward other intelligent races as sources of food in extreme emergencies, 
but they won't turn to other members of their clutch or packs for food — no matter how desperate the situation.

Combat is just another kind of hunt. Thri-kreen rarely fight out of malice and see no need for aggression unless it is the best means of obtaining the resources they need to survive, or where under self-defense. After a victorious battle, a thri-kreen' s first instinct is to collect any useful possessions that belonged to the enemy or to harvest the body for food.

### Thri-Kreen Names
Thri-kreen begin their life and are given a simple name related to something they were observed doing. When the thri-kreen reach adulthood, they take a name that reflects goals or some other aspect of the life path to be pursued. There is no difference between male and females names; both genders use the same names.
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* **Thri-Kreen Names:** Cha'ka, Chuka-tet, Drasna, Drik-chkit, Hakka, Ka'cha, Ka'tho, Klik-chaka'da, Lakta-cho, Qhak'cha, Qhik-ik-cha, Sa'Relka, T'Chai, Tak-tha.

## Thri-kreen Heritages

You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

### Chameleon Thri-kreen

The color of your chitin is mutable. You can slowly change the vibrancy and the exact color, and the coloration can be different across your body, allowing you to create patterns. It takes a single action for minor localized shifts and up to an hour for dramatic shifts throughout your body. When you're in an area where your coloration is roughly similar to the environment (for instance, forest green in a forest), you can use the single action to make minor localized shifts designed to help you blend into your surroundings. This grants you a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks until your surroundings shift in coloration or pattern.

<br>

### Hit Points
<div style='margin-top:1px'>8</div>

### Size
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Medium</div>

### Speed
<div style='margin-top:1px'>30 feet</div>

### Attribute Boosts
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Dexterity</div>
Wisdom<br>
Free

### Attribute Flaw
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Charisma</div>

### Languages
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Kreen</div>
Common<br>
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it's positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

### Traits
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Kreen</div>
Humanoid <br>

### Alien Nature
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your alien physiology sets you apart from humanoids, you can go five times as long as normal before you are affected by thirst. </div>

### Claws
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your sharp Chitin claws offer an alternative to the fists other humanoids bring to a fight. You have a claw unarmed attack that deals 1d4 slashing damage.  Your claws are in the brawling group and have the agile, finesse, and unarmed traits.</div>

### Multiple Limbs
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
You have a shorter pair of arms in the center of your chest. The secondary arms of a thri-kreen cannot be used to wield weapons or shields but can be used to draw or stow small objects. A thri-kreen gains an extra action that can only be used for an Interact action.</div>

### Sleepless 
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Your physiological needs are different than those of other creatures. You don't need to sleep, but you still need a daily period of rest. During this period of rest, you must enter a recuperating torpor state for 2 hours, which is similar to sleeping except you are aware of your surroundings and don't take penalties for being unconscious. Much like with sleeping, if you go too long without entering your torpor state, you become fatigued and can't recover until you enter torpor for 2 hours.</div>

</div>

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### Resourceful Thri-kreen
You have better aptitude to crafting then most other thri-kreen. You become trained in Crafting (or another skill if you were already trained in Crafting) and gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat, but you can pick two different specialties instead of one.

### Scarred Thri-Kreen
Your chitin carries the marks of your harsh life. The marks on your skin show your exceptional hardiness and vitality. You gain 12 Hit Points from your ancestry instead of 8. You also gain the Diehard feat.

### Scavenger Thri-Kreen
Your ancestors originated from a land where food was scarce, and threats were many. You are trained in Survival. You gain the Forager skill feat as a bonus feat. Your thoroughness when gathering food provides you a +1 circumstance bonus to Survival checks to Subsist.

## Ancestry Feats

###### 1st Level

#### Alien Mind<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your alien kreen mind processes emotions differently than other humanoids. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against emotion and fear effects. If you roll a success on a saving throw against an emotion or fear effect, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Ancestral Memory {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="trigger">You attempt a skill check requiring 3 actions or fewer.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You delve into your ancestral memories, channeling those experiences into yourself. You gain a +2 status bonus on the triggering skill check. </div><br>

#### Clicking {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">You critically fail a Deception, Diplomacy, or Intimidation check against a creature that doesn't have the kreen trait.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You let out an awkward clicking or clacking sound to cover up a social misstep or faux pas. You get a failure on the triggering check, rather than a critical failure. All creatures that witnessed you Clicking are temporarily immune for 24 hours.</div><br><br><br>

#### Desert Strider<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are adept at navigating the deserts and rocky badlands. You ignore difficult terrain in deserts and rocky badlands. In addition, when you use the Acrobatics skill to Balance on narrow surfaces or uneven ground made of sand or rubble, you aren't off-guard, and when you roll a success at one of these Acrobatics checks, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Hardened Chitin<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your chitin is medium armor in the plate armor group that grants a +4 item bonus to AC, and has a Dex cap of +1, a check penalty of –2, a Speed penalty of –5 feet, a Strength value of 16, and the comfort trait. You can never wear other armor or remove your chitin. You can etch armor runes onto your hide.</div><br>

#### Improved Antennae<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have heightened senses from your antennae.  You gain darkvision.

**Special** You can take this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain out of this feat or into this feat.
</div><br>

#### Pack Hunter<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You were taught how to hunt as part of a pack. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to checks to Aid, and your allies gain a +2 circumstance bonus to checks to Aid you.</div><br>

#### Powerful Mandibles<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your powerful mandibles are fearsome weapons. You have a mandible unarmed attack that deals 1d6 piercing damage.  Your mandibles are in the brawling group and have the unarmed traits.</div><br>

#### Sensitive Antennae<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your large antennae aren't just for show.  You gain imprecise scent with a range of 30 feet.

**Special** You can take this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain out of this feat or into this feat.
</div><br>

#### Shallow Torpor<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Kreen don‘t really sleep when they rest, though this is particularly the case for you. You get a +2 circumstance bonus to all saving throws against sleep effects and effects that cause or alter dreams.

In addition, torpor is more restorative for you. You regain HP equal to your Constitution modifier times double your level instead of just times your level, and you reduce any drained and doomed conditions you have by 2 instead of by 1.</div>

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#### Stealthy<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Stealth is an important tool in your arsenal. You can move 5 feet farther when you take the Sneak action, up to your Speed.

#### Thri-Keen Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have trained in the hunt for years.  You become trained in Survival and get the Experienced Tracker skill feat. If you would automatically become trained in Survival (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Kreen Lore.</div><br>

#### Thri-Kreen Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
In combat, you favor the kreen weapons that are traditional for your thri-kreen ancestors. You gain access to all uncommon weapons with the kreen trait. You have familiarity with weapons with the kreen trait—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons or your kreen unarmed attacks, you get its critical specialization effect.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Ancestral Ceremony<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You tap into your ancestral memories. You gain the Untrained Improvisation general feat. In addition, you can attempt skill actions that normally require you to be trained, even if you are untrained.</div><br>

#### Climate Adaption<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have adapted to the harsh environment of Athas. You're unaffected by cold or heat environmental effects, these effects are one step less extreme for you (incredible heat becomes extreme, extreme cold becomes severe, and so on).</div><br>

#### Climbing Claws<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can extend your claws to aid you in climbing. You gain a climb Speed of 10 feet.</div><br>

#### Envenom Mandibles {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="prereq">Powerful Mandibles</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You envenom your mandibles. If the next mandible Strike you make before the end of your next turn hits and deals damage, the target is affected by the kreen venom poison. On a critical failure, the poison is wasted as normal.

<span class="abilityname">Kreen Venom</span><span class="rule"> (poison) </span><span class="rule savingthrow">The save DC for your venom is equal to the higher of your class DC or spell DC, Fortitude; </span><span class="rule maxduration">6 rounds </span><span class="rule stage1">1d6 poison damage and off-guard (1 round); </span><span class="rule stage2">2d6 poison damage, clumsy 1, and off-guard (1 round); </span><span class="rule stage3">2d6 poison damage and paralyzed (1 round) </span></div><br>

#### Pack Stalker<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Pack Hunter; expert in Stealth</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Ambushes are an honored thri-kreen tradition. You gain the Terrain Stalker feat and can extend its effects to a single ally so long as they remain within 10 ft. of you. If you have master proficiency in Stealth, you can extend the effect to two allies. If you have legendary proficiency in Stealth, you can extend it to four allies.</div><br>

#### Springing Leaper<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Athletics</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your powerful legs allow you to make sudden and dramatic leaps. You can Leap as a 2-action activity to double the distance you can Leap vertically, or Leap as a 3-action activity to triple the distance you can Leap vertically. You don't automatically fail Long Jumps for jumping in a different direction than your Stride.</div><br>

#### Strengthened Limbs<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your shorter pair of arms become stronger. You can perform simple Interact actions with your smaller arms, such as opening an unlocked door. Your smaller arms can't perform actions that require fingers or significant manual dexterity, including any action that would require a check to accomplish. </div><br>

#### Strong Metabolism<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've spent more than your share of time struggling against the venomous creatures of Athas. You have a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against poison and harmful effects from elixirs. If you roll a success on your saving throw against an elixir or poison, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Dasl Crafting<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">master in Crafting, trained in Survival, Envenom Mandibles</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You delve into your ancestral memory and learn the art of crafting dasl.  You gain the formulas for both gythka and chatkcha and can craft dasl using special unique herbs, known only to thri-kreen, along with your kreen venom. Crafting dasl requires no special tools. While crafting you are unable to use your envenom mandibles until you rest. You gain the Herbal Gathering action.</div><br>

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<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Herbal Gathering</B> <span class="rule">(Exploration, Kreen) </span><span class="rule effect">You have learned where to seek out special thri-kreen herbs used in crafting dasl. You can use Survival to Earn Income gathering herbs. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the check if you are expert in Survival. The bonus increases to a +2 circumstance bonus if you’re a master in Survival.</span></div></div><br>

#### Empowered Limbs<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Strengthened Limbs</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Through constant usage you have empowered your shorter pair of arms to become stronger.  You now have four arms, which allows you to wield and hold up to four hands’ worth of weapons and equipment. While your multiple arms increase the number of items you can have at the ready, it doesn't increase the number of attacks you can make during combat.

Your smaller arms can perform actions that require fingers or significant manual dexterity, including any action that would require a check to accomplish.</div><br>

#### Moderate Enhanced Venom<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Envenom Mandibles</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You upgrade your kreen venom you can apply with Envenom Mandibles to moderate kreen venom. Envenom Mandibles frequency becomes once per 10 minutes.

<span class="abilityname">Moderate Kreen Venom</span><span class="rule"> (poison) </span><span class="rule savingthrow">The save DC for your venom is equal to the higher of your class DC or spell DC, Fortitude; </span><span class="rule maxduration">6 rounds </span><span class="rule stage1">2d6 poison damage and off-guard (1 round); </span><span class="rule stage2">3d6 poison damage, clumsy 2, and off-guard (1 round); </span><span class="rule stage3">3d6 poison damage and paralyzed (1 round) </span></div><br>

#### Pack Tactics<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have mastered how to hunt with your pack. If an enemy is within reach of you and at least two of your allies, that enemy is off-guard against you.</div><br>

#### Terrain Advantage<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can take advantage of the terrain to bypass foes’ defenses. Non-kreen creatures in difficult terrain are off-guard to you.</div><br><br>

#### Thri-kreen Camouflage<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Chameleon Thri-Kreen</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have developed psychic techniques to aid you with stalking your prey. You can cast <i>blur</i> and <i>invisibility</i> each once per day as 2nd-rank occult innate spells.</div><br><br><br><br>

#### Venom Spit {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Envenom Mandibles</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your venomous glands get so powerful they can now project venom at a distance. You gain a venom spit ranged unarmed attack with a range increment of 10 feet that deals 1d6 poison damage. On a critical hit, the target takes persistent poison damage equal to double the number of weapon damage dice and is Off-Guard until the start of your next turn. Your spit doesn't have a weapon group, nor a critical specialization effect.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Heightened Venom<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Envenom Mandibles</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have become more adept with you kreen venom, you can consistently deliver venomous attacks when you hit an enemy's weak points. When you critically hit using a Mandible Strike and deal damage, the target takes persistent poison damage equal to double the number of weapon damage dice.</div><br>

#### Molting<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have outgrown your exoskeleton, emerging out it in a
spectacular metamorphosis. You permanently gain the effects of <i>Enlarge</i>. Molting transforms most of your gear to the appropriate size for your new body (though powerful items like artifacts or items strongly tied to their original size may not transform, at the GM's discretion).</div><br>

#### Venom Purge {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">Envenom Mandibles; trained in Medicine</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You produce a specialized venom that burns out other toxins and impurities in your body. For each disease or poison currently affecting you, attempt a Medicine check to counteract that disease or poison. As normal, your counteract rank is equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Very Stealthy<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Stealthy</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can move up to your Speed when you use the Sneak action, and you no longer need to have cover or greater cover or be concealed to Hide or Sneak.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Adapted Carapace<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Molting</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have mastered you fully grown adult body. You are no longer clumsy due to the effects of enlarge.</div><br>

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#### Greater Enhanced Venom<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Moderate Enhanced Venom</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You upgrade the kreen venom you can apply with Envenom Mandibles to greater kreen venom. Envenom Mandibles frequency becomes once per minute.

<span class="abilityname">Greater Kreen Venom</span><span class="rule"> (incapacitation, injury, kreen, paralysis, poison) </span><span class="rule savingthrow">The save DC for your venom is equal to the higher of your class DC or spell DC, Fortitude; </span><span class="rule maxduration">6 rounds </span><span class="rule stage1">3d6 poison damage and off-guard (1 round); </span><span class="rule stage2">4d6 poison damage, clumsy 2, and off-guard (1 round); </span><span class="rule stage3">4d6 poison damage and paralyzed (1 round) </span></div><br>

#### Vicious Venom <div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag kreen">KREEN</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Envenom Mandibles</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The venom you produce is exceptionally potent and difficult to overcome. Your kreen venom gains the virulent trait, requiring two consecutive saves to reduce the venom's stage by 1. A critical success reduces your venom's stage by only 1 instead of by 2.</div><br>

### Thri-Kreen Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Some background options are particularly suitable for thri-kreen. Wilderness or martial backgrounds like the animal whisperer, hunter, scout, or warrior are ideal. Living at the margins of human civilization means a thri-kreen might have traveled as a nomad or found work as a laborer or gladiator. Thri-kreen’ s ties to the wilderness make them excellent rangers or druids. </div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

</div>

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# Versatile Ancestries

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
There exist instances of these versatile ancestries throughout the world of Athas, as such they are Uncommon or Rare in rarity. However, the following Ancestries are typically the result of unique circumstances around the birth of a child.

Athas is home to a variety of versatile heritages. Some are born to unusual creatures or arise through specific mundane or supernatural circumstances. Many, however, result from an infusion of extraplanar energy, whether through direct parentage, more distant ancestors, or simply direct exposure to the quintessence of that plane. These individuals are known as planar scions.

Because the circumstances that give rise to versatile heritages aren't limited to a single ancestry, a versatile heritage can be chosen by a character of nearly any ancestry. Some versatile heritages are more common among some ancestries than others, and some might list additional restrictions specific to that heritage. Your GM may place other restrictions on which ancestries can use a given versatile heritage based on the story and setting.

## Playing a Versatile<br> Heritage

To play a character with a versatile heritage, first select your ancestry, just like you would for any character. You gain Hit Points, size, Speed, attribute boosts and attribute flaws, languages, traits, and other abilities from that ancestry.

Then, instead of choosing a heritage from those normally available to that ancestry, apply your chosen versatile heritage. You gain all the features from your versatile heritage, some of which might modify or replace statistics, abilities, or traits from your ancestry.

Since a versatile heritage is a heritage, you can have only one, and you can't have any other heritage in addition to your versatile heritage.

Sometimes a versatile heritage might give you an ability that conflicts with an ability from your ancestry. In these cases, you choose which of the conflicting abilities your character has.

When selecting ancestry feats, you can choose from those available to your ancestry as well as those specific to your versatile heritage.

### Lineage Feats

Some ancestry feats within a versatile heritage have the lineage trait.

These feats specify a physiological lineage your character has—such as the type of genie that birthed a naari character, or the type of shadow that influenced a shadow-touched birth.

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You can have only one lineage feat; you can select such a feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain into or out of this feat.

## In This Book

This book includes the rules for ten versatile heritages, all of which are planar scions.

### Planar Scions

Life is present everywhere across the planes of Dark Sun, and the intermingling of Material Plane mortals and extraplanar beings is no rare thing. The resultant children of these relationships—and sometimes the descendants of those children—are known as planar scions. There are numerous types of planar scions, just as there are countless types of beings across the planes that might consort with mortals.

### Geniekin

Kin to the elements and infused with the power of the planes within the Inner Sphere, geniekin live scattered all over the world, especially wherever extreme environments provide a conduit to primal energy. Most commonly found in the Tyr region, many geniekin gather in small communities both within and outside of major cities.

### Gray-Touched

The Gray touches both the prime material and the elemental planes. Any living creature that dies has its soul sucked into the gray where it slowly dissolves into nothingness. In some cases, the power of the gray infuses certain individuals. Those that have been infused rather than born served the cycle of life and death, but their time was cut short until the gray gave them another life. Born anew, each gray touched appears near the site of their past life, forever altered and with an uncertain destiny. Those born gray touched have an uncertain path ahead, as it is clear from birth that they are unlike the parents they were born to.

### Shadow-Touched

Like those that were gray-touched, shadow-touched are individuals infused with the power of the Black.  Shadow-touched are a striking people whose skin appears entirely drained of color. These lithe and shadowy beings seem to sink and vanish into the gloom. They see in darkness, exercise control over shadows, and have strange occult powers. Some shadow-touched develop their powers enough to pass between the Black and Material Planes, leaving other ancestries to whisper about figures that emerge from shaded corners and then vanish without a trace.

### Many Ancestries

Though a character can have only one heritage, it doesn't mean characters with lineages tracing back to multiple ancestries or heritages don't exist. It's certainly possible for an oread to be born to a half-elf mother, or for a gray-touched to appear in a community of death warden dwarves. In these cases, the influence of the versatile heritage overshadows the other heritage—the oread heritage overshadows the half-elf heritage, and the gray-touched abilities replace those of the death warden dwarf heritage. So, while, superficially, a character might bear a resemblance to both heritages, mechanically, they only gain the benefits of the versatile heritage.

### Supernatural Origins

The circumstances that give rise to individuals with versatile heritages vary widely, from direct biological descendance to clandestine rituals, planar incursions, or unique mystical phenomena. It's up to you to decide the details of your character's heritage and how they came into being. The sections in this book provide some broad suggestions that you can use as a jumping-off point, but these aren't restrictions. It's your story to tell! </div>

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# Geniekin

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
The elements themselves flow through the veins of geniekin, mortals who carry the proud legacy of their elemental ancestors.

The strength of mountains, the swiftness of wind, the heat of flame, and the fluidity of tides—geniekin are made of elemental energy as much as they are flesh and blood. They are planar scions, the descendants of unions between mortals and otherworldly creatures from beyond Athas. For geniekin, these planar ancestors are elementals, most often genies, who have altered their families and physiologies forever. Because the category encompasses a wide range of elemental heritages, geniekin vary greatly in appearance. All geniekin clearly read as members of their humanoid ancestry, but some supernatural element always sets them apart. Occasionally, a geniekin child is born to wholly mortal parents who were exposed to powerful elemental forces, or their extraplanar traits might skip one or several generations. Geniekin who grow up without the benefit of an elemental mentor can sometimes have trouble 
navigating mortal society or understanding what makes them different.

### Ardande

Ardande are geniekin descended from spirits of the land. If you want to play a character who embodies the tenacity, flexibility, and succor of the spirits of the land, you should play an ardande.

### Brightsoul

Brightsouls are naari geniekin descended from sun elementals, like dukhani. If you want a character who embodies the brutality, strength, and greed of elemental sun, you should play a brightsoul.

### Dustsoul
Dustsouls are oread geniekin descended from silt elementals, like wahali. If you want a character who embodies the decay, deception, and craving of elemental silt, you should play a dustsoul.

### Lavasoul

Lavasouls are naari geniekin descended from magma elementals, like alsahari. If you want a character who embodies the ferocity, power, and ravenousness of elemental magma, you should play a lavasoul.<br><br><Br><br><br>

### Mistsoul / Stormsoul

Mistsouls and Stormsouls are slyph geniekin descended from rain elementals, like qorrashi.

If you want a character who embodies the fervor, passion, and fury of elemental rain, you should play a mistsoul or stormsoul.

### Naari

Naari are geniekin descended from fire elementals, like ifrit and fire drakes. If you want a character who embodies the intensity, energy, and hunger of elemental fire, you should play a naari.

### Oread

Oreads are geniekin descended from earth elementals, like jabalis and earth drakes.

If you want a character who embodies the strength, stubbornness, and resilience of elemental earth, you should play an oread.

### Sylph

Sylphs are geniekin descended from air elementals, like jaathooms and air drakes. If you want a character who embodies the freedom, caprice, and speed of elemental air, you should play a sylph.

### Undine

Undines, the water elemental geniekin, are descended from planar creatures like water drakes and faydhaans. If you want a character who embodies the adaptability, mystery, and power of elemental water, you should play an undine.

## Geniekin Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As a geniekin you can choose from among the following ancestry feats, in addition to those available to your specific geniekin heritage and your ancestry.

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###### 1st Level

#### Dualborn<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elemental heritage can be traced back to two geniekin ancestors that embodied two combined elements. Choose two of the following elements: air, earth, fire, and water. Once made, this choice can't be changed. You gain resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1) to all damaging effects with the traits of either of your chosen elements.

**Special** This feat replaces the heritage gained from naari, oread, sylph, or undine.

If you take the Elemental Assault or Elemental Bulwark ancestry feats, you can use them only with your chosen elements. You can add your resistance from this feat to the resistance you gain from Elemental Bulwark against effects with your elements' traits, for a total of 5 + half your level, or 10 + half your level with Improved Elemental Bulwark. If you take the Dualelemental Assault feat, you can choose each of your two elements twice each.</div>

#### Elemental Assault {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You shroud your arms and held weapons in elemental magic. Choose the element associated with your heritage. Until the end of your next turn, your Strikes deal an additional 1d6 damage of the indicated type and have the trait corresponding to the element: electricity for air, bludgeoning for earth, fire for fire, or cold for water.</div><br>

#### Elemental Embellish<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can summon a harmless but impressive elemental display. You become trained in Intimidation. If you would automatically become trained in Intimidation (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. When you Demoralize a foe, if you choose to Demoralize via an elemental display, Demoralize loses the auditory trait and gains the visual trait, and you don't take a penalty when you attempt to Demoralize a creature that doesn't understand your language.</div><br>

#### Elemental Eyes<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">low-light vision</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can see in the darkness as easily as an elemental. You gain darkvision.

**Special** You can select this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain into or out of this feat.</div>

#### Elemental Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve devoted yourself to researching the secrets of the Inner Sphere. You gain the trained proficiency in your choice of Survival and either Religion or Nature. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat in the Lore associated with your Elemental Plane of origin (such as Plane of Fire Lore).</div>

### Common Terminology

The term geniekin came into common parlance mostly thanks to tales from Kemalok and, in particular, the city of Tyr. Many of these folk stories, songs, and other common tales include great figures who have genie parentage. The prominence and legacy of these stories, along with the fact that the most common geniekin are those with genie ancestors, have cemented “geniekin” as a common term for any individual who manifests elemental traits. This is true even when genies are not part of a person’s lineage, such as individuals descended from elementals. Scholars have pushed to use the more accurate descriptor of “elemental scion,” but the term has yet to permeate the common lexicon.

### Elemental Permutations

While other planar scions have lineages that reflect the Gray or the Black, geniekin lineages are better described as permutations of elemental expression. Elements sometimes manifest in unique and unusual ways within a line of geniekin, regardless of the elemental they descend from. These permutations and their lineages are as follows.<br>
**Air:** fumesoul (miasma sylph), smokesoul (haze sylph), stormsoul (lightning sylph)<br>
**Earth:** dustsoul (silt oread), gemsoul (crystal oread), miresoul (mud oread)<br>
**Fire:** brightsoul (sun naari), cindersoul (ash naari), lavasoul (magma naari)<br>
**Land:** ambersoul (plant ardande), moldersoul (decay ardande), springsoul (spring ardande)<br>
**Water:** brinesoul (saltwater undine), mistsoul (rain undine), rimesoul (frost undine)

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#### Genie Weapon Familiarity<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve trained with weapons used by your genie ancestors. You gain access to all uncommon weapons with the geniekin trait. You have familiarity with weapons with the geniekin trait plus the falchion, ranseur, scimitar, and tridente—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these that are martial weapons as simple weapons and any that are advanced weapons as martial weapons.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Scholar's Inheritance<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Your parents devoted themselves to alchemical experiments involving elemental energy. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Crafting. If you would automatically become trained in Crafting (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You also gain the Alchemical Crafting skill feat.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Elemental Bulwark {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">An enemy is about to damage you with cold, electricity, or fire, or with a spell that has the air, earth, fire, or water trait associated with your heritage.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You call upon the corresponding elements of your geniekin heritage to resist the effect. You gain resistance 5 against the triggering damage.

**Special** You can add your resistance from your heritage or lineage feat against effects with your elements' traits, for a total of 5 + half your level.</div><br>

#### Noble Resolve<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
Once, genies ruled vast kingdoms, and a remnant of that confidence and power is reflected in your strong will. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Will saves against effects with the mental trait. Regardless of success or failure, you become aware of the person who used the effect on you if they were visible to you at the time of use.</div><br>

#### Skillful Tail<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="rule">
You were born with a tail, and with practice you’ve learned how to perform simple Interact actions with it, such as opening an unlocked door. Your tail can’t perform actions that require fingers or significant manual dexterity, including any action that 
would require a check to accomplish, and you can’t use it to hold items. </div><br><br><br><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Dualelemental Assault<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dual Born, Elemental Assault</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your Elemental Assault cycles through both your elements. When you use Elemental Assault, instead of choosing a single element, you can choose either elements from your Dual Born feat, and then choose a different element at the beginning of each of your next 3 turns without spending an action. Each time you choose an element, until the beginning of your next turn, your Strikes deal an additional 1d6 damage of the indicated type and have the trait corresponding to that element.</div><br>

#### Miraculous Repair {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Geniekin can't grant magical wishes, but some echo of power lingers within you. Faced with a mechanism that is damaged but not destroyed, you can wish it back into a functional state for a period of 10 minutes. The object must be mundane and no larger than 5 Bulk, such as a disabled locking mechanism in a door. For 10 minutes, the object functions as it should, ignoring any damage to its mechanism. This doesn't grant you any knowledge of what a device might do or how it ought to function. Once the 10 minutes are up, the object falls back into disrepair and is temporarily immune to Miraculous Repair for 1 day. </div><br>

#### Suli Magic<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="rule">
The magic of jann runs through your blood. You can cast <i>elemental zone</i> and <i>enlarge</i> once per day each as 2nd-rank primal innate spells. </div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Continuous Assault<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Assault</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can use Elemental Assault once per hour instead of once per day. </div><br>

#### Improved Elemental Bulwark<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Bulwark</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain resistance 10 from Elemental Bulwark instead of 5.

**Special** You can add your resistance from your heritage or lineage feat against effects with your elements' traits, for a total of 10 + half your level.</div><br>

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#### Planar Sidestep {R}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">A creature hits you with a melee Strike.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You shift your body briefly between planes, reducing the damage from your foe's attack. You gain resistance 25 to all damage against the triggering attack. Observers simply see you shimmer with elemental energy for a moment, just as the attack lands.</div>

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# Ardande

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
The strength of a baobab trunk and flexibility of a yew branch, flowers and fruit sprinkled across a forest canopy like 
jewels in a crown, soft moss blankets, and the daytime constellations created by pinpricks of light through leaves—this 
is what ardandes are made of.

Ardandes are geniekin, or elemental planar scions, born from spirits of the land with flesh and blood-like sap flowing through their veins; just as much elemental essence as they are mortal. They are the descendants of spirits of the land, powerful druids, or were born under the influence of powerful elemental forces of Athas.

Ardandes often share a connection to specific aspects of nature, such as spring blossoms, ancient and rotten stumps seething with life that feeds on their decay, or sap dripping down tree bark; this is called an ardande lineage. Typically, an ardande has the same lineage as their ardande parent, though some are born with a new or different lineage, or to parents who didn’t have one. Sometimes a lineage reflects where an ardande was born, such as springsoul ardandes born in the vibrant forest ridge, or moldersoul ardandes influenced by the oblivion swamp below the jagged cliffs.

If you want to play a character who embodies the tenacity, flexibility, and succor of the spirits of the land, you should play an ardande.

### YOU MIGHT…
- Associate your personal identity with spirits of the land, and believe the characteristics of wood, plants, and trees form core aspects of your personality.
- Enjoy giving gifts or expressing love for your friends with food and hospitality.
- Take pride in your elemental lineage and your connection to a specific spirit of the land.

### OTHERS PROBABLY…
- Look to you as an authority on plant creatures and elemental spirits of the land.
- Take you for granted as an endless well of energy, patience, and support.
- Mistake you for a ruvoka, perhaps not even realizing there are spirits of the land.

## Physical Description
Ardandes vary in appearance just as much as their different ancestors do.

Green, brown, and ash gray are the most common skin tones, though many also have bodies covered in moss, bark, or knotted wood. Ardandes are often born with coils of ivy or flowering vines for hair, but just as common are those who grow beards made of petals or leaves, or hair that rustles like a leaf caught in a perpetual wind. Most smell like dew on fresh grass, wildflowers, or a mossy forest floor. Rarely, an ardande is born with amber or bark for nails, leaves or delicate petals freckling their skin, or even rotten, mossy bodies that shed spores and resin.

### Society
Poorly understood by both them and others, ardandes born before the recent convergence of the prime elements have struggled to fully comprehend their own heritage. Due to the recent power surge of the elements, Athas has had too few ardandes for the geniekin to form their own societies or cultural norms. In most regions where ardandes are found, only a single family might have a connection to a spirit of the land, and the norms of the elemental scions in those areas are simply those of that single ardande family.

### BELIEFS
Many ardandes value community and family. Religious ardandes gravitate to the druidic orders. Evil ardandes sometimes look to sorcerer kings for guidance, like Hamanu, Nibenay, or Lalali-Puy. The ardandes who venerate these sorcerer kings and queens often interpret corruption and disease as necessary components of nature’s eternal cycle: death that carves the way for renewal, rather than death as a final ending. <br>
<b>Popular Edicts</b> flow with the cycles of nature, grow the world I want to live in<br>
<b>Popular Anathema</b> betray my family

### Ardande Heritage

You descend from ruvoka or have some other heritage influenced by a spirit of the land. You might have green, mossy skin, vines that grow from your head instead of hair, or thin appendages that resemble twigs.

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You gain the ardande trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision.

You can choose from ardande feats, geniekin feats, and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Ardande Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As an ardande, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry and geniekin feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Ambersoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elemental heritage is reflected in the oils and fragrances of plants, in tree resin that fossilizes into amber, or in the gentle smell of a flower. Sticky, golden sap runs through your veins instead of blood. Each time a creature deals slashing or piercing damage to you with a melee Strike, your sap coats its weapon or unarmed attack. The creature takes a –1 circumstance penalty on attack rolls with that weapon or unarmed attack until the end of its turn.</div><br>

#### Grove-Harbored<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are accustomed to exploring thick woodlands and defending yourself against the attacks of magical plants. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against plant, poison, and wood effects, and if you roll a success on a save against a poison effect, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Moldersoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to elemental wood asserts itself in the form of decay, like forgotten logs left to rot and the char that remains after a forest fire, cycles of devastation clearing away what was to make room for the next generation of life. You gain the 
Decompose action. 
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Decompose</b> {2A} <span class="rule">(primal, void) </span><span class="rule freq">once per day; </span><span class="rule effect">Void energy seeps out of you, decaying everything within a 5-foot emanation and causing plants and foliage to age and decompose. Natural difficult terrain is destroyed, and creatures in the area with the plant or wood trait take 1d6 void damage with a basic Fortitude save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher.</span></div></div><br>

#### Springsoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the spirits of the land manifests as fresh blossoms, spring fruits, and the seeds of new life, and you harness this power to spread vitality and abundance. You can cast the <i>tangle vine</i> cantrip as an innate primal spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br><br><br><br><br>

#### Woodworker<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Practicing your own woodcraft helps you feel a connection with the spirits of the land. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Crafting. If you would automatically become trained in Crafting (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat for woodworking.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Read The Roots {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag scrying">SCRYING</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The root systems of plants are a far-reaching network of information, and you know how to access them and extract their secrets. You Seek within 30 feet using tremorsense, an imprecise sense, instead of one of your own senses. You can also detect subjects touching or burrowing through the surface you are standing on in this way. </div><br>

#### Sunlit Vitality<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain nourishment through photosynthesis, like trees and other green plants. You typically don’t need to pay for food, though you begin to starve if you go without sunlight for 1 week. You can derive nourishment from specially formulated bottles of sunlight instead of natural sunlight, but these bottles cost 10 times as much as standard rations (4 gp per week).</div><br>

#### Treespeech<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">You speak Wildsong.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the spirits of the land allows you to communicate with trees in the Universe in Wildsong. You can ask questions of, receive answers from, and use the Diplomacy skill with woody plants like trees and shrubs.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Druidic Magic<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can wield the primal magic of a druid, casting <i>entangling flora</i> and <i>one with plants</i> once per day each as 2nd-rank primal innate spells.</div><br>

#### Flowering Path {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag plant">PLANT</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Vitality and life energy flows out from your body and into the earth, infusing it with a stream of new life. When you walk, you leave blooming flowers and sprouting vines in your wake.

For the next minute, each time you Step or Stride, you create difficult terrain in each square you leave during your movement.</div><br>

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###### 13th Level

#### Summon Wood Elemental<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the spirits of the land allows you to summon elemental allies. Once per day, you can cast <i>summon elemental</i> as a 5th-rank primal innate spell, but the elemental must be a wood elemental.</div><br>

#### Wooden Mantle<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the magic of the spirits of the land allows you to call upon the power of plants and trees to protect yourself. You can cast <i>mantle of the unwavering heart</i> as a 5th-rank primal innate spell once per day.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Wood Ward {R}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ardande">ARDANDE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag plant">PLANT</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">A creature targets you with an attack.</div>
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
With a sweep of your hand, vines and roots burst from the ground along the edge of your space between you and the attacker, creating a natural lattice of wood that grants standard cover. The circumstance bonus from the cover applies to your AC when you’re determining the outcome of the triggering attack. If the triggering attack still hits and deals physical damage to you, the ward reduces the damage by 30 and is immediately destroyed. If the attack misses, the ward instead persists for 3 rounds before withering back into the earth. Creatures can cross the ward, but it’s difficult terrain.</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

### Ardande Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>
Misunderstood and unexplained, many ardande children turn to lives of adventure as they search for answers and information about themselves. Backgrounds as artists and artisans are common, as woodcrafts and sculpture often help them to feel connected with the spirits of the land, though many also become scholars and elementalists in their quests to uncover the secrets of Athas and their place inside it. </div> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

</div>

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# Naari

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Naaris descend from creatures such as naaris, salamanders, and fire drakes. Their spark of ancestral flame gives them a reputation for being passionate, if not capricious.

Naaris often build up personal relationships between themselves and the idea of fire, feeling as though they embody it mentally or spiritually, in addition to physically. Some naaris relate to fire’s mutable energy, illuminating properties, or destructive nature.
Some naaris share a connection from birth to specific aspects of elemental fire, such as radiance or lava; this is called a naari lineage. Naaris often have the same lineage as their parents, though sometimes naaris are born with lineages different from their families, or to parents without one. Lineages can appear in naari children as a reflection of where they were born. They can also occur as a reflection of the naari’s planar ancestry, such as a brightsoul naari having a fire-themed sun ancestor like a Dukhani. Magma naaris with the lavasoul lineage are most often born the descendants of magma drakes or other magma elementals.

### You Might... 
- Relate your personal identity to elemental fire and believe fire represents core aspects of your personality.<br>
- Always keep yourself moving and busy, traveling to new places or trying new things, for fear that slowing down may dim your inner fire.<br>
- Take great pride in your elemental lineage, especially if you believe you are related to the mighty ifrit nobles, the maliks.

### Others Probably... 
- Look to you as an authority on fire magic or the elemental planes.<br>
- Think of you as a never-ending well of passion and inspiration, with an inner spark that never dies.<br>
- Assume you must be hot-headed and reckless, acting before you think.

## Physical Description
Just as their elemental origins can vary, so too can naaris’ otherworldly appearances. Red, orange, and brass are all common skin colors, while others have charcoal-gray, ash-brown, or radiant white, yellow, or blue hues. Naari hair often falls in untamable coils of flame that grow over the naari’s lifespan. Salamander-descended naaris can have lizard-like scales, while those descended from ifrit may have huge, red horns curling up from their skulls.

Many naaris keep their skin uncovered and open to the air, favoring loose or breathable clothes made in light fabrics like silk and chiffon. Their styles often feature bright colors and bold patterns paired with metallic jewelry.

### Society
Naaris are typically born into societies built by others, where they comprise minority populations. Most naaris place a high value on their freedom, and though they might live within societies and cultures dominated by humans, elves, or dwarves, many carve 
out peaceful, productive, and fulfilling places for themselves. Because most naaris aren’t bothered by high temperatures, many gravitate toward workplaces that get uncomfortably hot for other mortals, like forges.

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### Beliefs
Naaris are fiercely independent, sometimes valuing their personal freedoms above those of others around them.

Though frequently accused of lacking morals by their detractors, naaris who tend toward mischief are rarely motivated by malice.

Naaris are rarely inclined to venerate Athas’ sorcerer kings, typically resenting the strictures and rules of an organized faith, but those who do most often worship elemental lords of fire or the sun.

### Naari Heritage

You descend from fire elementals or bear the mark of the Inner Spheres, and your features illustrate the influence that elemental fire has over you. You gain the naari trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain resistance to fire equal to half your level (minimum 1), and you treat environmental heat effects as if they were one step less severe (incredible heat becomes extreme, extreme heat becomes severe, and so on). You can choose from naari feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Naari Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As a naari, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry.

###### 1st Level

#### Brightsoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The fire inside you asserts itself as beaming, radiant light. Your body is naturally luminescent, glowing with the effects of a primal <i>light</i> cantrip. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up. The light is involuntary and constant; if counteracted, it returns in 1d4 rounds. You suffer a –2 circumstance penalty on Stealth checks to Hide or Sneak and gain a +1 circumstance bonus on saves against light effects and effects that inflict the blinded or dazzled conditions.</div><br>

#### Cindersoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The fire of your elemental ancestor manifests like dying embers of a blaze, and your inner charcoal helps staunch bleeding, purify simple poisons, and absorb acid. The DC for you to recover from persistent acid, bleed, and poison damage is 10 instead of 15 (or 5 if you have particularly effective assistance).</div><br>

#### Ember's Eyes<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eyes blaze with inner flame. You gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision.

<b>Special</b> If your ancestry has neither low-light vision nor darkvision, you can take this ancestry feat a second time to gain darkvision. You can't retrain out of this feat.</div>

#### Inner Fire<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can call the fire inside you into the palm of your hand. You can cast the <i>ignition</i> cantrip as an innate primal or divine spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Lavasoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elemental lineage manifests as magma and molten rock, and you can focus the magma into your hand to attack your foes. You gain a magma spike unarmed attack, which requires a free hand to use. This is an agile, finesse, unarmed attack in the brawling weapon group that deals 1d4 piercing damage, as well as 1 additional fire damage. Instead of the normal critical specialization effect, the target takes 1d6 persistent fire damage; you gain a bonus on this persistent damage equal to your item bonus to attack rolls on unarmed attacks.</div><br>

#### Molten Wit<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elemental soul has sparked not just your body but also your mind. You either become trained in Deception and gain the Charming Liar skill feat, or you become trained in Diplomacy and gain the Group Impression skill feat. If you're already trained in one of these skills, you must take the other and can choose from either skill feat. If you're trained in both skills, you become trained in a different skill of your choice instead and can choose from either skill feat.</div><br>

#### Sinister Appearance<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You possess horns, a tail, or red eyes, or could otherwise be mistaken for an elemental aberration. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Intimidation. If you would automatically become trained in Intimidation (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Intimidating Glare skill feat, as well as a +2 circumstance bonus on Deception checks to Impersonate when pretending to be a version of yourself who is an elemental aberration.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Firesight<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can see through the haze of flame. You automatically succeed at the flat check to target a concealed creature if that creature is concealed only by smoke and fire.</div><br>

#### Heat Wave {R}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per 10 minutes</div>
<div class="trigger">An effect would deal fire damage to you, even if you resist all the damage.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You harness the oncoming flames and twist them into a screen of heat and smoke, granting you concealment until the beginning of your next turn.</div>

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###### 9th Level

#### Charred Remains {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your next fire spell leaves embers in its wake. If your next action is to Cast a Spell with an area and the fire trait, for 1 minute, your spell's area becomes difficult terrain as well as hazardous terrain, dealing 1 fire damage for each square a creature moves through.</div><br>

#### Ifrit Magic<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The magic of your ifrit ancestors flows through you. You can cast <i>enlarge</i> and <i>illusory object</i> once per day each as 2nd-rank primal innate spells.</div><br>

#### Scorching Disarm {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You make a weapon unbearable to hold. Attempt an Athletics check to Disarm a target creature. You don't need to have a hand free to make this Disarm attempt. If the Disarm attempt succeeds, the target takes 4d6 fire damage unless it drops the weapon, and on a critical success, it takes 4d6 fire damage and drops the weapon. If you're legendary in Athletics, this increases to 8d6 fire damage.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Radiant Burst {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag incapacitation">INCAPACITATION</div>
<div class="tag light">LIGHT</div>
<div class="tag visual">VISUAL</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your skin glows with intensity. Creatures within 10 feet who can see you must succeed at a Fortitude save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher.

<div class="rule result r4">The creature is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The creature is dazzled for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature is blinded for 1 round and dazzled for 4 rounds.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature is blinded for 4 rounds and dazzled for 10 minutes.</div>
</div><br>

#### Summon Fire Elemental<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can summon an elemental ally. Once per day, you can cast <i>summon elemental</i> as a 5th-rank primal innate spell, but the elemental summoned must be a fire elemental, sun elemental (brightsoul), or magma elemental (lavasoul).</div>

###### 17th Level

#### Blazing Aura {R}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag naari">NAARI</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">Your turn begins.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You explode in flame. Enemies in a 20-foot emanation take 7d6 fire damage (basic Reflex save using your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher). Allies in the area are quickened for 1 round and can use the additional action to Strike or Stride.</div><br>

### Naari Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Naaris who choose to set out as adventurers usually have backgrounds as artisans, artists, entertainers, and merchants. Naaris who choose to become champions are often redeemers, especially when they enter the service of elemental fire, and naari clerics tend to worship either fire, sun, or magma. </div> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

</div>

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  src='http://alharadnd.wikidot.com/local--files/ifrit/Ifrit.jpg' 
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 # Oread

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
The Plane of Earth’s influence runs through an oread’s family, most often from a jabalis or earth drake ancestor. Oreads tend to be stoic, steadfast, and dependable, but they contain depths not seen on the surface.

Oreads can be slow to reveal their true selves, or perhaps more accurately, have enough depth and mystery inherent to their beings that they can reveal new and unexpected facets of themselves every day. They usually feel that they personify certain aspects of 
earth, stone, or other sediments or minerals, such as a cliff’s tenacious resilience against erosion, the generosity and nourishment of fertile soil, or the versatile utility of metal and stone.

Oreads born with a special connection to a specific subset of elemental earth, such as crystal, mud, or silt, might have an oread lineage. A lineage can be inherited along a family bloodline, or it can manifest spontaneously in oread children. They can be caused by where an oread’s ancestors lived, frequently seen in siltsoul oreads, many of whom are born in a desert or to a family that has lived near the sea of silt for generations. Lineages can also be the result of specific planar heritages. Gemsoul oreads often have an earth drake in their lineage, and miresoul oreads descend from the more sodden creatures of elemental earth.

### You Might... 
- Relate your personal identity with elemental earth and believe stones or mountains represent core aspects of your personality.<br>
- Value moments of peace and quiet seclusion where you can be alone with nature.<br>
- Take great pride in your elemental lineage, especially if you believe you are related to the austere jabali pashas.

### Others Probably... 
- Look to you as an authority on earth magic or elemental planes.<br>
- Think you are wise and cautious, moving into action only after you have considered a problem from all angles.<br>
- Assume you are stoic and quietly strong, keeping your thoughts and feelings to yourself.

## Physical Description

Oreads have the same diversity in height, body type, and physical characteristics as any other member of their mortal ancestries, alongside a handful of other traits that distinguish them as geniekin.

Their skin is often gray or brown, but can also resemble metals and precious stones, with copper and iron veining or crystals that grow out of their skin.

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Instead of hair, oreads often have crystals or rocks that grow from their heads; regardless, most oreads sculpt, decorate, or otherwise maintain the appearance of their hair, whatever form it takes. Almost all oreads have shimmering gemstone eyes, beautiful and multifaceted.

Oreads usually dress in sturdy clothes that can withstand physical labor and exposure to the elements, like fur and leather. Many choose clothing that will expose their unique characteristics, tailored to show off any crystals embedded in their rocky skin.

### Society

Born and raised within the societies of their mortal families, oread children are often (though not universally) described as shy and quiet, growing up to be patient, observant, and clever. They gravitate toward careers that allow them to work in peaceful contemplation with their thoughts, present opportunities to work with their hands, or ideally, both. Many oreads become miners or crafters who work with the earth, such as stonemasons, metalworkers, or gem cutters. Oreads also tend to enjoy opportunities to uphold structures or systems, and many find their vigilance and patience well-suited for careers as guards, wardens, or clerks. Oreads born in rural communities find fulfillment working and living on the land in a peaceful, self-sufficient harmony with nature.

### Beliefs 
Oreads are known for being steadfast and reliable, often placing high value on personal honor and keeping their word. Many are 
fiercely protective of their friends but less concerned for the safety of those outside their circle.

Religious oreads find that lives of silence, contemplation, or seclusion suit them well, and most dedicate themselves to the worship of earth and the Elemental Lords of Earth. Dustsoul oreads however, break this mold and look to further erode the land by deceiving those who wish to enrich their lands with poor farming techniques.  These dustsouls most often serve the elemental lords of silt.

### Oread Heritage

An earth elemental ancestor has influenced your bloodline, and your features highlight this elemental planar connection. You might have a crystalline or metallic sheen to your skin or hair, rough and stony flesh, or glittering gemstone eyes. You gain the oread trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from oread feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Oread Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels).

As an oread, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry.

<br>

###### 1st Level

#### Dustsoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your silt elemental ancestor's influence manifests in you as dust and dirt, like the soil of a field or the hot desert sands. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Survival. If you would automatically become trained in Survival (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You can sustain yourself on sand and silt instead of normal food and water.</div><br>

#### Elemental Trade<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a strong connection with stone and metal. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Crafting. If you would automatically become trained in Crafting (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat for both Stonemasonry and Blacksmithing.</div><br>

#### Gemsoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The earth inside you asserts itself as crystallized gemstones or metals, like a cluster of quartz or veins of iron and gold. This shimmering presence inside your being inspires you to flashy and flamboyant performances. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Performance. If you would automatically become trained in Performance (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Impressive Performance skill feat.</div><br>

#### Miresoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a connection to the muddier denizens of the Plane of Earth from its border with the Plane of Water, and your elemental lineage manifests as clay or mud, reflecting that bond. Your body's mud like quality makes it easy for you to compress and squeeze yourself through smaller areas. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Acrobatics. If you would automatically become trained in Acrobatics (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Quick Squeeze skill feat.</div><br>

#### Silent Stone<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've lived in the shadow of the Ringing Mountains, and the patience of those ancient mountains expresses itself in your stillness. Your body might have veins of granite, sandstone, or similar sedimentary rocks that make it easier for you to camouflage yourself in certain regions. You become trained in Stealth, and you gain the Terrain Stalker skill feat. If you're already trained in Stealth from another source, you become trained in a skill of your choice instead.</div><br>

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#### Steady on Stone<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the earth makes natural uneven surfaces less of a hindrance for you. You can ignore difficult terrain caused by rubble and uneven ground made of stone and earth. In addition, when you use the Acrobatics skill to Balance on narrow surfaces or uneven ground made of stone and earth, you aren't off-guard, and when you roll a success at one of these Acrobatics checks, you get a critical success instead.</div>

###### 5th Level

#### Fortify Shield {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">Shield Block</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You reinforce your shield with a rocky outgrowth of metal and stone. You Raise your Shield. If you use the Shield Block reaction before your next turn, add your character level to your shield's Hardness when determining how much damage is blocked.</div><br>

#### Treacherous Earth {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once every 10 minutes</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have the power to shatter the earth into a shape of your devising. You crack the ground beneath you, creating difficult terrain in a 5-foot burst centered on one corner of your space.</div>

###### 9th Level

#### Earthsense<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to earth and stone allows you to feel the slightest displacement that disturbs them, down to the shift of a pebble. You gain tremorsense as an imprecise sense with a range of 30 feet.</div>

#### Jabali Magic<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The magic of jabalis runs through your blood. You can cast <i>revealing light</i> and <i>resist energy</i> once per day each as 2nd-rank primal innate spells.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Jabali Skin<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When in danger, you can harden the stone in your skin into armor, much like a jabali. You can cast <i>mountain resilience</i> on yourself only, 3 times per day as a 4th-rank primal innate spell.</div><br>

#### Metal-Veined Strikes<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Metallic veins grow throughout your body, giving your unarmed attacks a metallic sheen. Choose either cold iron or silver. Your unarmed attacks are treated as the chosen type of metal.</div><br>

#### One With Earth<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned to harness your connection to the earth to travel through it. You gain a burrow Speed of 15 feet.</div>

#### Summon Earth Elemental<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a connection to the Inner Sphere, allowing you to summon an elemental ally. Once per day, you can cast <i>summon elemental</i> as a 5th-rank primal innate spell, but the elemental summoned must be an earth elemental or silt elemental (dustsoul).</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Stone Form<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag oread">OREAD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can transform your body into a pure primal manifestation of earth, an elemental. Once per day, you can cast <i>elemental form</i> as a 7th-rank primal innate spell, but you can only choose the earth elemental form.</div><br>

### Oread Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Oread adventurers usually come from artisan, herbalist, and miner backgrounds. Many oreads work with their hands as craftspeople, creating their work out of stone, metal, gems, or other forms of their ancestral element. Oread clerics tend to worship elemental earth or in the case of dustsouls elemental silt. Druid and ranger oreads are also common.</div>

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# Sylph

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Sylphs are an intense and lively people, flighty and tempestuous. These planar scions have kinship to beings of elemental air such as jaathooms, invisible stalkers, and air drakes.

Sylphs enjoying following their own tempos, shifting between wild energy that draws all eyes to embodying the spirit of unseen breezes that slip away without note. They often build their identities around their perceived personal connection to the element of air, relating to a gentle breeze, a sudden flash of lightning, or an uncontrollable storm.

Some sylphs are born with a connection to an extremely focused aspect of elemental air, such as smoke, storms, or toxic gas. While it does happen, a child is rarely born with a lineage that differs from their parents', as geniekin typically pass these unusual gifts on to their offspring. Lineages can manifest in sylph children as a result of where they're born, such as when stormsoul sylphs are birthed in regions prone to thunderstorms. A lineage can also reflect a sylph's elemental heritage like in smokesoul sylphs, who often descend from belkers. Fumesoul sylphs, on the other hand, are associated with poisonous and otherwise unbreathable gases.

### You Might...
- Relate your identity with the element of air and believe the wind and storms represent core aspects of your personality.<br>
- Enjoy traveling and exploring high, secluded places where you can observe the world beneath you.<br>
- Take pride in your elemental lineage, especially if you believe you are related to the gregarious jaathoom viziers.

### Others Probably...

- Look to you as an authority on air magic or the elemental Plane of Air.<br>
- Believe you easily flow through all aspects of society, while listening to those around you.<br>
- Assume you must be airheaded or capricious, prone to irresponsible behavior without regard for consequence.

## Physical Description

Like all geniekin, sylphs are recognizable as members of their ancestries with unique characteristics that identify their planar heritage. Their skin and hair can be any color of the sky, ranging from cloudy whites to the twilight tones of dawn and dusk. Complex, swirling marks dance across the skin of many sylphs, resembling shifting summer clouds. Some have skin cool to the touch, while others are surrounded by a constant static.

Their hair can move with a life of its own, and they're often accompanied by light breezes that follow them everywhere they go.

Sylphs typically prefer clothing in light, airy fabrics such as silk and linen, cut in loose and voluminous styles that flow in the breeze. Many of them deliberately wear chimes and jewels that jingle in the wind, though stealthier geniekin endeavor to keep everything pinned down.

### Society

Sylphs exist within the societies of other ancestries, usually that of their mortal families, and it's incredibly common for them to have a sense of never quite belonging.

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Most sylphs engage in a practice known as “listening to the wind,” keeping their eyes and ears open to all that happens, often making their companions uncomfortable in the process. For sylphs, this habit of vigilance and information-seeking helps them feel connected to the world around them. A curious and restless bunch, many sylphs seek out occupations and lifestyles that allow them to travel and explore.

### Beliefs

Most sylphs place little value on laws and tradition, preferring to forge their own paths and go where the wind blows, especially as many have a great love for subterfuge and trickery, placing them at odds with nearly all laws and social norms. Overall to pursue the most expedient avenues toward accomplishing their goals, regardless of legality.

Sylphs often find themselves drawn toward the mysteries of the air elemental lords or rain elemental lords.

### Sylph Heritage

You are descended from air elementals or were born under the element's influence. You gain the sylph trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision or darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from sylph feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Sylph Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As a sylph, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry.

###### 1st Level

#### Fumesoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The air inside you asserts itself as a toxic miasma, inuring you to most poisons. You gain resistance to poison equal to half your level (minimum 1). </div><br>

#### Smokesoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a connection to smoke and haze. You gain the Smoke Blending reaction. 
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Smoke Blending</b> {R} <span class="rule">(sylph) </span><span class="rule trigger">A creature attempts a flat check to target you because you're concealed or hidden due to fog, haze, mist, or smoke; </span><span class="rule effect">You shroud yourself in smoke, making it harder for your foe to hit you. If you're concealed, the DC of the flat check increases from 5 to 7; if you're hidden, it increases from 11 to 13.</span></div></div><br>

#### Stormsoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elemental ancestor's influence manifests in you as tumultuous, thundering storms, with dark clouds and bolts of lightning. You gain resistance to electricity equal to half your level (minimum 1). </div>

#### Swift<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You move with the wind always at your back. Your Speed increases by 5 feet.

**Special** The Speed increase from this feat isn't cumulative with any Speed increase from your ancestry feats (such as Nimble Elf). </div>

#### Wind Pillow<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The winds have whispered to you all your life, and the essence of air itself helps you at times, making you somewhat buoyant when you're suspended in space. Treat all falls as though they were 10 feet less than the actual distance traveled. You also gain the Powerful Leap skill feat, even if you don't meet that feat's prerequisites.</div><br>

#### Wind Tempered<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are at home in tempestuous weather and accustomed to even the harshest winds. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against air and electricity effects. If you roll a success on a save against an air effect, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Cloud Gazer<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to air allows you to see through obscuring mists. You can see well enough through fog, mist, and clouds that would normally cause creatures to be concealed that you don't need to succeed at a flat check to target creatures benefiting from such concealment.</div><br>

#### Slip With The Breeze<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Athletics</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You create gusts of wind when you jump, allowing you to carry yourself across greater distances. You gain the Quick Jump and Powerful Leap skill feats as bonus feats.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Jaathoomi Magic<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The magic of jaathoom runs through your blood. You can cast <i>gust of wind</i> and <i>invisibility</i> once per day each as 2nd-rank primal innate spells.</div><br>

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#### Inner Breath<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your body is capable of recycling its own air. When you hold your breath, you can do so for an additional hour. At the end of this hour, your body needs to rest before it can recycle air again. This rest requires 10 minutes of exposure to breathable air.</div><br>

#### Wings of Air {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag morph">MORPH</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can strain to call forth feathered or cloudy wings from your back. Once manifested, these wings remain for 10 minutes. You gain a fly Speed equal to your land Speed while you've manifested your wings.</div>

###### 13th Level

#### Airy Step {R}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">A creature targets you with an attack or other targeted effect, and you can see the attacker.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You create a blanket of fog in a 5–foot burst centered on one corner of your space. All creatures within that area are concealed, and all others are concealed to them. This concealment applies to the triggering effect, and the fog lasts for 1 minute or until dispersed by a strong wind. After resolving the triggering effect, you Step. If an effect prevents you from Stepping, you attempt to Escape the effect and Step if you succeed.</div><br>

#### Summon Air Elemental<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a connection to the Inner Sphere, allowing you to summon an elemental ally. Once per day, you can cast <i>summon elemental</i> as a 5th-rank primal innate spell, but the elemental summoned must be an air elemental or rain elemental (stormsoul).</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Eternal Wings<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Wings of Air</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your wings are now a permanent part of your body. You gain the effects of Wings of Air at all times rather than just once per day for 10 minutes.</div><br>

#### Storm Form<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag sylph">SYLPH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can transform into an elemental. Once per day, you can cast <i>elemental form</i> as a 7th-rank primal innate spell, but you can only choose the air elemental form.</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

### Sylph Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Sylphs who become adventurers often have backgrounds as acrobats, entertainers, nomads, and scouts. Traveling beneath an open sky or exploring the highest mountains is irresistible, and this drive to always reach for the sky drives many to pursue a life of adventuring. Sylph champions are most often liberators, and clerics typically serve elemental lords of air or rain. Many sylphs are wizards that focus on elemental magic. </div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

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# Undine

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
These dynamic, fluid mortals trace their ancestry to creatures from the Plane of Water, such as faydhaans, water scamps, and water drakes.

Undines often go through life in a series of shifting phases, their interests waxing, waning, or sometimes morphing altogether as old loves are discarded for new interests. Structure provides a much-needed focus to undines’ lives, and without strong goals or support from those around them, undines can find themselves stagnating in feelings of despondence. Most undines feel they personify specific aspects of water, some seeing themselves with the strength and power of the waves, the speed and tenacity of a river current, or the calm of a peaceful lake or pond. Others identify with all these aspects and more, their demeanors shifting like the 
tides from one situation to the next.

Undines born with a connection only to a specific subtype of elemental water, such as ice, brine, or mist, might have a specific undine lineage. These are typically passed down from parent to child, as with other geniekin, but on occasion, a child is born with a lineage never seen in their family. Sometimes lineages are the result of where an undine’s ancestors lived, such as rimesoul undines being born at the tops of mountain peaks. At other times it can be related to the undine’s elemental heritage, as is often the case with brinesoul undines, who usually descend from water drakes. Mistsoul undines might have a distant but powerful connection to elemental water or might even have a bit of elemental air mixed into their ancestry.

### You Might...

- Relate your identity to elemental water and believe the streams and tides represent core aspects of your personality.<br>
- Be equally comfortable above the waves as you are beneath them.<br>
- Take great pride in your elemental lineage, especially if you believe you are related to the formidable faydhaan shahzadas

### Others Probably...

- Look to you as an authority on water magic or the elemental planes.<br>
- Think you can speak with aquatic creatures.<br>
- Assume you are easily swayed by others, with few real opinions of your own

## Physical Description

With all the same diversity in height, body type, and physical characteristics as any other member of their ancestries, undine coloration runs a vast breadth of variation.

Most commonly, an undine’s skin and hair mimic the colors of the lakes, seas, or oceans near where they were born, ranging from the palest of blues to sea greens and navies. A rare few undines may even take on the bioluminescence of deep-sea fish, the bright colors of corals and anemones, or the pale bone hues of seashells. More unusual traits can include fin-like ears, thin layers of shimmering fish scales covering their bodies, coral growths at their joints or temples, tails with caudal fins, and even webbed hands and feet.

### Society

Unlike other geniekin, undines create and congregate within their own tightly knit communities near water or floating on top of it.

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Undine neighborhoods that develop within larger cities, typically near the docks or directly on the water, are informally known as flotillas. Because undines deliberately create and seek out these communities, their children usually have healthy childhoods focused on the values of fellowship and harmony. This stands in contrast to many other planar scions, who all-too-often grow up feeling like outsiders.

Undines typically gravitate toward occupations that allow them to live and work near water, and many of them excel at fishing and sailing thanks to their love and understanding of the sea.

### Beliefs

Undines are flexible and community-minded, often valuing the overall health of their communities above that of any one individual. Usually, their moral concerns are often centered around their societies rather than their actions.

Religion isn't a major part of most undine's lives, but they often have strong spiritual connections to elemental water or to water itself. Some undines worship elemental lords of water or rain.

### Undine Heritage

A water elemental ancestor influences your bloodline. You gain the undine trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain a swim Speed of 10 feet and the amphibious trait. Like all creatures with the amphibious trait, you can breathe both water and air. You can choose from undine feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Undine Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As an undine, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry.

###### 1st Level

#### Aquatic Eyes<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
As your connection to water grows, you can see more easily in places with less light, such as the depths of the ocean. You gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision.

**Special** If your ancestry has neither low-light vision nor darkvision, you can take this ancestry feat a second time to gain darkvision. You can't retrain out of this feat.</div>

#### Brinesoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elemental ancestor's legacy asserts itself as brackish water, like the seawater of the ocean. You gain the Salt Wound reaction.
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Salt Wound</b> {R} <span class="rule">(undine) </span><span class="rule freq">once per day; </span><span class="rule trigger">A creature that has blood and is not at its maximum Hit Points hits you with a melee Strike; </span><span class="rule effect">You channel salt and brine from your blood into the creature's wounds. The creature must attempt a Fortitude save using your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. On a failure, the creature takes 1d6 persistent acid damage and is sickened 1 by the pain. On a critical failure, it instead takes 2d6 persistent acid damage and is sickened 2.</span></div></div><br>

#### Mistsoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a connection to vaporous forms of water, such as fog and mist. You gain the Mist Blending reaction.

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Mist Blending</b> {R} <span class="rule">(undine) </span><span class="rule trigger">A creature attempts a flat check to target you because you're concealed or hidden due to fog, haze, mist, or smoke; </span><span class="rule effect">You shroud yourself in mist, making it harder for your foe to hit you. If you're concealed, the DC of the flat check increases from 5 to 7; if you're hidden, it increases from 11 to 13.</span></div></div><br>

#### Native Waters<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You were born with or obtained a special connection to either fresh water or salt water. Once made, this decision can't be changed. Whenever you take your full rest in a natural body of water of the type corresponding to your connection, you recover additional Hit Points equal to your level, and if you have the doomed or fatigued conditions, you reduce them by 2 instead of 1.</div><br>

#### Rimesoul<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag lineage">LINEAGE</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The water inside you is cold and frozen, like sheets of ice and frigid glaciers. You gain resistance to cold equal to half your level (minimum 1), and you treat environmental cold effects as if they were one step less severe (incredible cold becomes extreme, extreme cold becomes severe, and so on).</div><br>

#### Tide-hardened<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're at home in the unpredictable tides. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against cold and water effects. If you roll a success on a save against a cold or water effect, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Fluid Contortionist<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can ignore difficult terrain caused by moving through tight spaces that aren't tight enough to force you to Squeeze. When you roll a critical failure on a check to Squeeze, you get a failure instead, and when you roll a success, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

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#### Steam Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You transform your fire spells into steam, making them more effective underwater. If your next action is to Cast a Spell with the fire trait, you can cast it underwater. When you do so, it takes the form of scalding steam. Underwater creatures do not gain the normal fire resistance for being underwater against this spell, but they don't light things on fire or cause persistent fire damage, nor do they add other effects that would apply to fire but not steam (at the GM's discretion).</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Faydhaan Magic<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You channel the magic of faydhaans. You can cast <i>hydraulic push</i> and <i>mist</i> each once per day as 2nd-rank primal innate spells.</div><br>

#### Strong Swimmer<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your swim Speed increases to match your land Speed.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Summon Water Elemental<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can summon an elemental ally. Once per day, you can cast <i>summon elemental</i> as a 5th-rank primal innate spell, but the elemental summoned must be a water elemental, or rain elemental (mistsoul).</div><br>

#### Translucent Skin<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your body is translucent while underwater. Whenever you are fully submerged in water, you can Hide from other creatures even if you don't have cover against them and aren't concealed from them.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Tidal Shield {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag undine">UNDINE</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You conjure the force of the tides to gain a +4 circumstance bonus to AC until the end of your next turn. Any allies adjacent to you during the duration gain a +2 circumstance bonus to AC as long as they remain adjacent to you. You can Sustain the effect to a maximum duration of 5 rounds. When a creature receiving a circumstance bonus to AC from Tidal Shield would take damage from an attack, as a reaction, you can reduce the damage to that creature by 40; after you do so, Tidal Shield ends.</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

### Undine Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Undines often come from the animal whisperer, artist, and sailor backgrounds before becoming adventurers. The artist background is especially common among undines descended from faydhaans, and undines raised on the Plane of Water in their parent's courts often develop their skills as an entertainer. Undine clerics usually serve water or rain elemental lords. </div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

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# Gray-Touched

<div class="wide flavor subtitle">
You see a person appearing gaunt and sickly, with pale skin, hollow cheeks, and sunken, weary, and sore-looking eyes.

Gray-touched creatures are those who have been scarred by the horrifying effects of death magic. Born from the undead, cursed by a kaisharga, victor of an immortal conflict, or merely a survivor of a terrible encounter with undeath. Most appear paler and more feral than normal versions of their races. Some gray-touched are generations removed from their undead progenitors.
 
Gray-touched have an inherent understanding of the cycle of life and death. In most cases this manifests as a deep respect for that cycle and pushes the gray-touched toward occupations that help them to protect it, such as hunters of the undead, midwives, morticians, and priests.

### You Might...

- Seek out opportunities to form strong friendships with a diverse array of companions.
- Become focused on preventing the spread of undeath.
- Be intrigued at finding your identity in a previous life.

### Others Probably...

- Assume you’re a necromancer or have some other strange interest in death or the dead.
- Want to know if you remember your past life or ask you about the secrets of death or the afterlife.

## Physical Description

Whether it is because you have died and have escaped the Gray to return to your body, or because you have magically contacted it, you have developed a physical link to the Gray. As gray-touched retains many of the physical traits they possessed in their previous life and is a member of that ancestry, though as a gray-touched they have distinctive ash-gray, dark blue, or pale corpse-like skin.

### Society

It’s not uncommon for a gray-touched to go their entire life without encountering another of their kind. Despite their overall rarity, gray-touched are likely to become adventurers, both due to the strange conditions of their creation and common feelings of social isolation.

### Beliefs

Gray-touched are a macabre lot, usually filled with a love for the morbid and sepulchral. Being infused by the force of the Gray itself, gray-touched rarely display fear.

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### Gray-Touched Heritage

Somehow you were infused by the Gray in your past life, now you have been reborn as a gray-touched, a planar scion with a connection to the Gray. You gain the gray-touched trait in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain resistance to void damage equal to half your level (minimum 1). You can choose from gray-touched feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Gray-Touched Ancestry<br> Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As a gray-touched, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry.

###### 1st Level

#### Chance Death {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fortune">FORTUNE</div>
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">You would die as a result of a failed recovery check or saving throw.</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Your previous life ended due to sheer poor luck, struck by lightning, or choking on a fish bone. You can reroll the triggering recovery check or saving throw, but you must use the new result, even if it's worse than the first roll.</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
<b>Special</b> You can select this feat only at 1st level, and you can't retrain into or out of this feat.</div></div><br>

#### Dead Sight<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Your eyes gleam with the darkness of undeath. You gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision.</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
<b>Special:</b> If your ancestry has neither low-light vision nor darkvision, you can take this ancestry feat a second time to gain darkvision. You can't retrain out of this feat.</div></div><br>

#### Death Glare<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your glare makes people think death is approaching. You are trained in Intimidation and gain the Intimidating Glare skill feat. If you were already trained in Intimidation (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.</div><br>

#### Death Touched<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have been reborn, but you are still not quite living, as the power of the Gray still courses through your body. When you have the drained condition, calculate the penalty to your Fortitude saves and your Hit Point reduction as though the condition value were 1 lower. You are trained in Diplomacy. If you would automatically become trained in Diplomacy, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. </div><br>

#### Deliberate Death {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">You are about to gain the dying condition as a result of another creature's attack or ability, and that creature is within your melee reach.</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Once, you died because someone—murderer or monster, soldier, or executioner— chose to strike you down. Just before losing consciousness, make a melee Strike against the triggering creature.</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
<b>Special</b> You can select this feat only at 1st level, and you can't retrain into or out of this feat.</div></div><br>

#### Ghost Hunter<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the Gray ensures that your blows strike true against spectral beings. Your weapon and unarmed attack Strikes against incorporeal creatures become magical. If they are already magical, they instead gain the effects of a ghost touch property rune.</div><br>

#### Gloomy<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are constantly thinking about death, which you had a taste of. This leaves you stoic and emotionless. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Will saves against effects with the emotion trait, and when you roll a success on a saving throw against such an effect,
you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Gray-Touched Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You either found another gray-touched who taught you the secrets of your kind, or you managed to research your unusual heritage. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Arcana and Medicine. If you would automatically become 
trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Gray Lore.</div>

#### Willing Death {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fortune">FORTUNE</div>
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">An ally within 30 feet takes damage that would otherwise reduce them to 0 Hit Points and give them the dying condition.</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Once, you died because you valued someone else's life above your own; just as then, you protect an ally by suffering in their stead. Reduce the damage the triggering ally would take by 1 + your level. You redirect this damage to yourself, but your immunities, weaknesses, resistances, and so on don't apply. You aren't subject to any conditions or other effects from whatever damaged your ally (such as poison from a venomous bite)—your ally is still subject to those effects even if you redirect all of the triggering damage to yourself.

If the redirected damage prevents the ally from being reduced to 0 Hit Points, they remain conscious and don't gain the dying condition.</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div class="rule">
**Special** You can select this feat only at 1st level, and you can't retrain into or out of this feat.</div></div>

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###### 5th Level

#### Death's Door<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the Gray allows you to usher undead to true death.  You gain <i>infuse vitality</i> as an innate arcane spell. You can cast that spell once per day as an innate arcane spell. You can also cast <i>vitality lash</i> as an arcane innate cantrip at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Lifesense<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a limited ability to sense life force, like the undead of the Gray. You gain lifesense as an imprecise sense with a range of 10 feet. This allows you to sense the life force of living and undead creatures within the listed range. The sense can distinguish between the vitality energy animating living creatures and the void energy animating undead creatures, much as sight distinguishes colors.</div><br>

#### Spirit Soother<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are attuned to the minute sounds and sensations of restless spirits. Even if you aren't Searching, you can attempt a check to find haunts that normally require you to be Searching. You still need to meet any other requirements to find the haunt. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to checks to disable haunts.</div><br>

#### Undead Companion<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">an animal companion or a familiar</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your companion is also touched by undeath, a mix of a traditional companion and a skeleton, zombie, or stranger form of unlife. Your companion gains the undead trait instead of the animal trait and gains void healing. It otherwise uses the normal rules for an animal companion or familiar; that means it can still be affected by many conditions or effects to which most undead are immune.</div><br>

#### Undead Slayer<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your knowledge of your own not-quite-living anatomy, combined with your experience in combat, helps you take down undead foes with ease. Against undead creatures, you gain a circumstance bonus to damage with weapons and unarmed attacks equal to the number of weapon damage dice for the Strike. This bonus increases to double the number of weapon damage dice if your target has the spirit trait.</div><br>

#### Ward Against Corruption<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your soul is warded against the power of undeath and plague. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against death effects, disease, and all effects from undead. This bonus increases to +2 against an undead’ s death effect or disease.</div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Gray Magic<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the Gray gives you the power to glimpse the near future and protect corpses from the ravages of undeath. You can cast <i>augury</i> and <i>peaceful rest</i> each once per day as 2nd-rank arcane innate spells.</div><br>

#### Spirit Strikes<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the Gray empowers you to bring death to all forms of life and unlife, exploiting their weaknesses. All your weapon and unarmed Strikes are magical and deal 1 additional void damage to living creatures and 1 additional vitality damage to undead. The extra damage increases to 2 if the Strike has a +3 attack potency.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Resist Ruin<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your gray-touched heritage allows you to extend protection against void energy to yourself or an ally in need. You gain resistance 5 to void energy plus half your level, and once per day, you can cast <i>false vitality</i> as an arcane innate spell.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Call of the Gray<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a powerful connection to the Gray, granting you the ability to travel to and from the Gray. You gain <i>interplanar teleport</i> as an arcane innate spell. You can cast it twice per week. This can be used only to travel to the Gray or from the Gray to the Material Plane. Due to your unique connection to the Gray, your body serves as the focus, and you don't require a planar key.</div><br>

#### Death's Grandeur {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag gray-touched">GRAY-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have been granted a sliver of the power of the Gray.  You exhale a blast of icy wind. This is a 30-foot cone that deals 14d6 slashing damage and 4d6 persistent slashing damage (basic Reflex save using your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher). On a critical failure, targets also become sickened 2.</div><br>

### Gray-Touched Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Gray-Touched become adventurers most often out of some sense of misplaced destiny. While gray-touched have free will, they also feel the pressure to make good use of their reincarnation. Many gray-touched choose to study the otherworldly arts and become wizards. Gray-touched are also more concerned than most with matters of the soul, commonly becoming clerics, champions, and monks. Gray-Touched most often come from the acolyte, fortune teller, hermit, martial disciple, and scholar backgrounds.</div>

</div>

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# Shadow-Touched
 
 <div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Somehow or someway, you have been infused with the power of the Black, shadow-touched display the netherworld’s ancient influence through monochrome complexions, glowing eyes, and the casting of supernatural shadows.

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Shadow-touched are a striking people whose skin appears entirely drained of color. These lithe and shadowy beings seem to sink and vanish into the gloom. They see in darkness, exercise control over shadows, and have strange arcane powers. Some shadow-touched develop their powers enough to pass between the Black and Material Planes, leaving other ancestries to whisper about figures that emerge from shaded corners and then vanish without a trace. Through magic and other means, they've spread across Athas, as adaptable as the humans they once were.

### You Might...

- Live and work in gloomy areas of dim light with plenty of shadows, only providing bright light when expecting visitors.
- Look to people's shadows as a way of identifying them, alongside features like stature or facial structure.
- Maintain composure when faced with strange creatures and circumstances.

### Other's Probably...

- Believe you have shadowy powers, such as the ability to consume light as food, melt into darkness, or travel between planes.
- Expect you to be cautious, reserved, and a loner.
- Express interest in your ancestral physiological connection to the Shadow Plane.

## Physical Description

Most of the Black appears as an altered version of Athas but leeched of color. These same forces in the Black have infused the shadow-touched, whose skin tones fall on a monochromatic scale from stark white to deep black, and all the shades of gray between. Their bodies are just as diverse in shape and size as any ancestry, though most display a certain fluidity of motion reminiscent of shifting shadows. Shadow-touched’ s reflective, pupilless eyes can pierce shadow.

A shadow-touched’ s most notable feature is their shadow, which almost never faithfully reflects their body. Instead, shadow-touched shadows might have incongruous shapes or sizes, while others flicker, move of their own accord, or imitate the shadow of another nearby creature.

### Society

Most shadow-touched remain close to Athas on either the Material Plane or the Black but forge solitary paths. Both planar groups tend to be insular; many shadow-touched preserve memories of their early, perilous days confronting the Black's hostile or beguiling denizens. Their predilection for forming tight communal bonds and adapting to local customs has spread to become part of broader shadow-touched culture, who live in the shadow of more powerful entities.

### Beliefs

A culture of survival passed down through generations means many shadow-touched prefer to maintain a cautious worldview and adapt to prevailing circumstances. As a result, many trend toward a neutral outlook on life. Some choose to join with local powers for personal or communal advancement, or to tear systems down from the inside. Others attempt to shatter what they see as fetters that bind them and their communities.

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### Shadow-Touched Heritage

You have somehow been infused with the power of the Black or were born under the Black's influence. You gain the shadow-touched trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision or darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from shadow-touched feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

## Shadow-Touched Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As a shadow-touched, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry.

###### 1st Level

#### Black Eyes<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">low-light vision</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can see in the darkness as easily as shadow. You gain darkvision.

**Special** You can select this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain into or out of this feat. </div>

#### Hard to Fool<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're accustomed to seeing through shifting darkness and bewildering magic. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus on Perception checks against illusions as well as to Will saves against illusions and shadow effects.</div><br>

#### Shadow Blending {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag illusion">ILLUSION</div>
<div class="tag shadow">SHADOW</div>
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">A creature attempts a flat check to target you while you're concealed or hidden due to dim light or darkness.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You draw shadows close to create a shroud. Increase the DC of the flat check by 2. </div><br>

#### Shrouded Magic<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Choose one cantrip from the arcane spell list. You can cast this cantrip as an arcane innate spell at will, heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

#### Shrouded Mien<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're used to dealing with dangerous situations and sinister creatures. You become trained in Deception (or another skill of your choice, if you're already trained in Deception), and you gain the Lengthy Diversion skill feat as a bonus feat.</div><br><br><br><br>

#### Slink<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can move through gloom with the speed of darkness. You can move 5 feet farther when you take the Sneak action, up to your Speed. In addition, as long as you continue to use Sneak actions and succeed at your Stealth check, you don't become observed if you end a Sneak action in dim light or darkness, as long as you have cover or greater cover or are concealed at the end of your turn.</div><br><br>

#### Shadow-Touched Lore<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned obscure lessons about your fellow shadow-touched. You're trained in Arcana and Stealth.  If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.

You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Black Lore.</div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Clever Shadow<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag shadow">SHADOW</div>
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can perform simple Interact actions with your shadow, such as opening an unlocked door. Anything your shadow Interacts with must be within your reach. Your shadow can't perform actions that require significant manual dexterity, including any action that would require a check to accomplish, and you can't use it to hold items. </div><br>

#### Extinguish Light {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag darkness">DARKNESS</div>
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once every 10 minutes</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You wrap shadow around a single unattended light source within 120 feet that's no larger than a torch. Any non-magical light source you target is automatically extinguished. For magical light sources, attempt a counteract check using your Fortitude or Thievery modifier against the target's DC. Your counteract rank is equal to half your level rounded up. Successfully counteracting the light source suppresses its ability to produce light for 1 minute, but not any other effects. If you're in dim light or darkness when you Extinguish Light, its range is 240 feet. </div><br>

#### Lightless Litheness<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your body is almost as flexible as your shadow. When you critically fail at Squeezing, you get a failure instead. Additionally, when you roll a success at an Escape check, you get a critical success instead; if you roll a critical success, you can Step instead of Striding up to 5 feet.</div><br>

#### Shadowy Disguise<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You wrap yourself in shadow to change your appearance. You can cast <i>illusory disguise</i> as a 1st-rank arcane innate spell once per day. This spell gains the shadow trait.</div><br>

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###### 9th Level

#### Hefting Shadow<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag shadow">SHADOW</div>
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Clever Shadow</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your shadow can contain objects. You can Interact with your shadow to store or retrieve objects, just like you would a mundane container (meaning you spend two Interact actions total to store and then retrieve the object, for example). Your shadow can contain 2 Bulk of objects, which don't count toward the Bulk you're carrying. The items remain solid but take on a shadowy patina while stored this way.

Though the items are in your shadow and can be detected normally, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks to Conceal the Objects unless someone knows to check your shadow for items. </div><br>

#### Sculpt Shadows {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag shadow">SHADOW</div>
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You coax nearby shadows into the shape of a simple weapon or a simple tool or item, using a tiny piece of your shadow to make it solid; in doing so, you lose 1 Hit Point. You can create only level-0 common, non-consumable weapons, or adventuring gear with no intricate parts, written text, or other complicated components. The item lasts until used for a single activity, until you Sculpt Shadows again, or for 1 minute, whichever comes first. Once the duration expires, the object dissipates, and you regain the lost Hit Point unless the item was Broken or Destroyed. As the object holds a tiny sliver of your shadow, you can't recover the lost Hit Point until after the object dissipates. </div><br>

#### Shadow Sight {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You draw on your connection with the Black to see through all but the deepest darkness. You gain greater darkvision for 1 minute. </div><br>

#### Slip Into Shadow<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">ability to cast at least one spell with the darkness trait</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your shadow magic bleeds into the space around you. Whenever you cast a spell with the darkness trait, a lingering aura of shadows reduces bright light within a 5-foot emanation around you to dim light until the end of your turn. Like in natural dim light, you can use these shadows to Hide, but the aura still makes your overall position obvious, so you can't become undetected through the use of these shadows alone. </div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Shadow's Assault<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your shadow assaults your foes. You can cast <i>shadow blast</i> as a 5th-rank arcane innate spell once per day. At 17th level, your <i>shadow blast</i> is heightened to 6th-rank. </div><br>

#### Skirt the Light<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can travel the border between the Material and Shadow Planes and even bring others along. You can cast <i>umbral journey</i> as an arcane innate spell once per day. </div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Pierce the Light<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag shadow-touched">SHADOW-TOUCHED</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You tear the veil between the Material Plane and its shadow. You can cast <i>interplanar teleport</i> twice per week as an arcane innate spell that can only target yourself; you can travel only to the Material or the Black, and your body serves as the focus component. </div><br>

### Shadow-touched Adventurers
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Shadow-touched have a well-earned reputation as travelers. Their merchants and emissaries ply many roads, while nomads seek what lies over the next horizon. Charlatans, criminals, and street urchins carve livelihoods from inhospitable environs. Many shadow-touched leverage their natural litheness as swashbucklers or rogues. The Black's caress awakens hidden power in many shadow-touched and drives them to study deeper mysteries as wizards</div>

</div>

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# Wild Talents
<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
All ancestries on Athas are born with innate access to the will and the way. You gain the wild talent trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain the psychic dedication feat. You can choose from wild talent feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

Psionic energy suffuses Athas, making it the most common and accessible power source. Most inhabitants of Athas are born with some small aptitude for psionics. In time, these abilities develop into psionic tricks called wild talents.

## Wild Talent Ancestry Feats

At 1st level, you gain one ancestry feat, and you gain an additional ancestry feat every 4 levels thereafter (at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels). As you have a psychic ancestry, you can choose from among the following feats in addition to those available from your ancestry.

###### 1st Level

#### Community Knowledge {R}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag occult">OCCULT</div>
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="trigger">You attempt a skill check requiring 3 actions or fewer.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You commune with the psychic echoes of your ancestors and community, channeling their experiences into yourself. You gain a +2 status bonus on the triggering skill check. </div><br>

#### Emotional Partitions<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have created strong mental partitions in your mind to filter out negative emotional influences. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus on saving throws against emotion effects. If you roll a success on a saving throw against an emotion effect, you get a critical success instead. </div><br>

#### Open Mind<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have inherent psychic abilities that allow you to tap into the power of your mind. Choose one cantrip from the occult spell list. You can cast this spell as an occult innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up. </div><br>

###### 5th Level

#### Empathic Calm<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Once per day, you can cast either <i>calm</i> or <i>sanctuary</i> as an innate occult spell, heightened to half your level rounded up. </div><br>

#### Unlock Secret<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You delve deeper into your psychic potential. Choose a 1st-rank occult spell, either a common spell or another to which you have access. You can cast that spell once per day as an innate occult spell. </div><br>

#### Well of Potential {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">focus pool, at least one innate spell from a wild talent ancestry or psychic dedication feat that shares a tradition with at least one of your focus spells</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your mind is a deep well of psychic potential. You regain 1 Focus Point, up to your usual maximum. </div><br>

#### Fortified Mind<div class="label">FEAT 5</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your mind is unusually resilient and resistant to influence. When you would gain the fascinated or stupefied condition, you can attempt a DC 17 flat check. On a success, you don't gain the fascinated or stupefied condition. </div><br>

###### 9th Level

#### Mental Sustenance<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can sustain yourself with the power of your mind. You need only a single serving of food and water each week to avoid starvation or dehydration. You can hold your breath for an additional 5 rounds before running out of air. </div><br>

#### Telekinetic Slip {R}<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">Your turn begins, and you're grabbed or restrained.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
A thin shell of telekinetic energy pushes from your skin, widening your enemy's grasp enough for you to slip free. </div>

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<div class="rule">
You gain a +2 status bonus to checks to Escape from whatever has you grabbed or restrained. This bonus lasts until either you're no longer grabbed or restrained, or you fall unconscious.</div><br>

#### Transcendent Realization<div class="label">FEAT 9</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Unlock Secret</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've unleashed even more of your mind's limitless potential. Choose a 3rd-rank occult spell, either a common spell or another to which you have access, including a lower-rank spell heightened to 3rd-rank if you wish. You can cast that spell once per day as an innate occult spell.</div><br>

###### 13th Level

#### Psychic Revivification {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">You have the dying condition and are about to attempt a recovery check. You can use Psychic Revivification even if you're otherwise unable to act.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The well of psychic energy held within your mind can exceed the limitations of your physical body. You're restored to 1 Hit Point, lose the dying and unconscious conditions, and can act normally on this turn. You gain or increase the wounded condition as normal for losing the dying condition.</div><br>

#### Reimagine<div class="label">FEAT 13</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Transcendent Realization</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can cast <i>dreaming potential</i> as an innate occult spell. You can cast this spell targeting yourself as your last activity before falling asleep to receive its normal benefits and effects.</div><br>

###### 17th Level

#### Bend Space<div class="label">FEAT 17</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wild talent">WILD TALENT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Transcendent Realization</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Not even space itself is a match for the unleashed power of your mind. You can cast <i>teleport</i> as an innate occult spell. You don't need to touch creatures to target them with this innate spell as long as they're in range of your empathic sense.</div>

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# Backgrounds
 
  <div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Backgrounds allow you to customize your character based on their life before adventuring. This is the next step in their life story after their ancestry, which reflects the circumstances of their birth. Your character’s background can help you learn or portray more about their personality while also suggesting what sorts of things they’re likely to know. Consider what events set your character on their path to the life of an adventurer and how those circumstances relate to their background.

At 1st level when you create your character, you gain a background of your choice. This decision is permanent; you can’t change it at later levels. Each background listed here grants two attribute boosts, a skill feat, and the trained proficiency rank in two skills, one of which is a Lore skill. 
If you gain the trained proficiency rank in a skill from your background and would then gain the trained proficiency rank in the same skill from your class at 1st level, you instead become trained in another skill of your choice.

Lore skills represent deep knowledge of a specific subject and are described on page 247. If a Lore skill involves a choice (for instance, a choice of terrain), explain your preference to the GM, who has final say on whether it’s acceptable or not. If you’d like some suggestions, the Common Lore Subcategories sidebar on page 248 lists a number of Lore skills that are suitable for most campaigns.

Skill feats expand the functions of your skills and appear in Chapter 5: Feats

#### Academy Dropout<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You were once a student in one of the numerous Athasian schools of the Way but have since dropped out. Maybe there was a momentous incident, maybe you had to return to other responsibilities, or perhaps it was just too much for you. Whatever the case, your exit from the academy has shaped your life as much as your entrance and led you to where you are today.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in Occult and Psychic Schools Lore. You gain the Dubious Knowledge skill feat.</div>

#### Acolyte<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You have served as an acolyte to one or more elemental or paraelemental clerics. Maybe you were part of an order or other kind of organization, like a monastery, or maybe you served under a single preacher. You might have stayed with them in a single place, like a sanctuary, or followed them in incessant wandering. Whether you’re still with them or not, their tutelage has made you what you are now.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Religion skill and the Elemental Lore skill. You gain the Student of the Canon skill feat.
</div>

#### Acrobat<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You have survived by performing as an acrobat in one or more Athasian cities’ streets, either as part of a troop, or by yourself. You might have constantly travelled from one city to another, or always have stayed in the same place. Street entertainment isn’t a very lucrative trade in itself, but it allows you to find different sidelines, if it isn’t only a cover for some other, more secretive activity.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Acrobatics skill and a Lore skill related to one of the cities you practiced in. You gain the Steady Balance skill feat.
</div>

#### Amnesiac<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Your background is... well... honestly, you can’t remember! You might have inklings deep within your mind, undercurrents of unusual emotions or unexpected responses to certain people or situations, but ultimately you don’t know who you once were. Maybe you barely survived an encounter with some desert dwelling monster that left your mind maimed, or you had a psychic surgery performed on you to erase your memory. Whatever you are doing right now isn’t related to what you once were, or maybe it is, but you wouldn’t know.

It’s up to you and the GM how to handle the truth of your character’s backstory. You could leave it to the GM so it’s a secret, work together with the GM, or even choose to leave it undecided until later. In any case, you and your GM should determine a few noteworthy details about your character or their belongings to get the first clues to your past.

You gain three free attribute boosts. You choose two, and the GM chooses the third based on their first inklings of your character’s possible history.
</div>

#### Animal Whisperer<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You have always felt a connection to animals, and it was only a small leap to learn to train them. Whatever you, you do it while befriending the animals you meet along the way.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost. </div>

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<div class="rule">
   You’re trained in the Nature skill and a Lore skill related to one terrain inhabited by animals you like (such as Rocky Badlands Lore or Stony Barren Lore). You gain the Train Animal skill feat.
</div>

#### Anti-magical<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Maybe you represent a recent adaptation of Athasian life to the arcane devastation of the planet’s ecosystems, or maybe you were exposed to arcane magic to an early age and developed a resistance to its effects. Whatever the reason, arcane magic doesn’t affect you as much as usual people.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in a Lore skill of your choice, though it can’t be about a magical subject (as determined by the GM if it’s unclear, but psionics aren't considered magic in this case). Whenever you would be affected by arcane magic, even your own or that of an ally, the originator of the effect must attempt a DC 5 flat check. On a failure, the magic doesn’t affect you (though it still has its normal effects on anyone else). This
includes any defiling effect that could occur as a consequence of this arcane magic effect. On a success, the magic affects you and there is no need to attempt further flat checks for the same magical effect, even if it affects you again later.
</div>

#### Archeologist<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When it comes to exploring the ruins of Athas’ ancient past, you’re the specialist. You might have developed those skills in service to a larger organization, like a sorcerer-monarch’s inner temple or the Veiled Alliance, or simply to insure you or your community’s survival, if not prosperity. Though you can easily locate the site of any kind of ruin and are very knowledgeable about the dangers that might lurk inside, you
might never fully understand what societies left them there, a knowledge that would undoubtedly put you in danger anyway...

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Architecture Lore skill. You gain the Additional Lore skill feat related to a type of terrain in which you have actively searched for ruins (such as Sandy Wastes Lore or Sea of Silt Lore) or to a type of monster you can encounter in such places (such as Silt Monsters Lore or Undead Lore)
</div>

#### Arena Doctor<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a specialized slave, you served as an arena doctor, healing and patching wounded gladiators as best you could, or at least diminishing their suffering, if not ending their misery. You might have been serving the city-state and its sorcerer-monarch directly as a public arena worker or been at the service of a particular gladiator team or owner. Whether you still hold this function or not, the skills you’ve
learned can prove vital in the violent Athasian life.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You are trained in the Medicine skill and the Gladiatorial Lore skill. You gain the Risky Surgery skill feat.
</div><br><br><br><br>

#### Artisan<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a specialized slave, you practiced a particular form of building or crafting, developing a specialized skill. You might have been a chitin worker, producing chitin objects such as chitin armors, a stonemason, toiling over the construction of a city-state’s monuments, or even a Tyrian blacksmith, knowledgeable in the rare skill of iron working. You still hone these skills.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Crafting skill and the Labor Lore skill. You gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat.
</div>

#### Artist<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a specialized slave, you have mastered an art form. You might be working independently, selling your products to rich patrons, or be serving under a particular one, such as a noble house, a merchant house, or even a sorcerer-monarch.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Crafting skill and the Art Lore skill. You gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat.
</div>

#### Astrologer<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Rightly or not, Athasian peoples put a lot of importance in the movement of celestial objects, to the point that astrology often acts as a religion per se. You studied the stars and learned to interpret their movement. You might have served as an apprentice to an established and renowned astrologer or learned another way.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in Arcana, Occult, or the Religion skill, and the Astrology Lore skill. You gain the Oddity Identification skill feat.
</div>

#### Bandit<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Your past includes no small amount of rural banditry, robbing travelers on the road and scraping by. Whether your robbery was sanctioned by a local noble or you did so of your own accord, you managed until now to escape retribution, whether by some authority or self-served justice.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Intimidation skill and a Lore skill related to the terrain you worked in (such as Salt Flat Lore or Scrub Plain Lore). You gain the Group Coercion skill feat.
</div>

#### Barber<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Haircuts, dentistry, bloodletting, and surgery—if it takes a steady hand and a razor, you do it, either as a free worker or as a slave.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Medicine skill and the Surgery Lore skill. You gain the Risky Surgery skill feat.

</div>

#### Barkeep<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
In a world as dry as Athas, thirst surely has to be quenched one way or another. Either as a free worker or as a slave, you worked in a tavern, or any other similar establishment.</div>

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<div class="rule">
   Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Alcohol Lore skill. You gain the Hobnobber skill feat.

</div>

#### Barrister<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Most Athasian city-states are corrupt, absolutist regimes, but that doesn’t mean there is no law at all. And where there is law, there are barristers. Most of the time, the occupation is not a profession per se, but a sideline to a more common occupation. You know the law and juridical proceedings, either formal or informal. You might be a templar habilitated to prosecute or pass judgment, the member of a noble or merchant house promoting your house’s interests in face of the Templarate, or an independent professional offering legal counseling to whomever able to pay or
deserving it according to your world view.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Legal Lore skill. You gain the Group Impression skill feat.
</div>

#### Blessed<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You have been blessed by an elemental or paraelemental lord, a spirit of the land, or even by a sorcerer-monarch. For an unknown reason, and irrespective of your actual beliefs, something has granted you a boon to use for good or ill. Your blessing grants wisdom and insight to aid you in your struggles. You may or may not even know the identity of the being who blessed you, and the blessing might come with a cost you discover later on.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You are trained in a Lore skill associated with the entity who blessed you (such as Last Drink’s Spirit Lore) if you know their identity, or else in a Lore skill of the GM’s choice if you don’t. Either you can cast guidance as a divine innate spell at will, or you gain a similar blessing determined by the GM.
</div>

#### Bookkeeper<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a specialized slave, you ran the numbers on a large farming estate, for a merchant house’s endeavors, or for your own small establishment. You kept track of expenses, payroll, profits, and anything else that had to do with money, for better or worse. If better, you might still be running numbers for a prosperous enterprise. If worse, you may be fleeing from impending consequences, in the hope that no one finds you.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Accounting Lore skill. You gain the Eye for Numbers skill feat.

</div>

#### Bounty Hunter<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Whoever you were working for, be it the Templarate, the Veiled Alliance, some crime lord, a slave tribe village, or as an independent, you have earned your living by fetching wanted people. You may have abandoned this trade since, or maybe you are still practicing it, but one way or another, you know how to track someone, or something.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Legal Lore skill. You gain the Experienced Tracker skill feat.

</div>

#### Bureaucrat<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a specialized slave, you spent years working as a clerk to a Templar in a city-state’s government. Your service taught you a thing or two about rousing speeches and manipulating the bureaucracy.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Charisma or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Templarate Lore skill. You gain the Group Impression skill feat.

</div>

#### Caravan Master<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Caravan leading is a huge responsibility. Logistic, itinerary, supplies, personnel management, and so on, you do it all. This gives you an important status within the merchant world, sure, but on the road, you’re the only master on board (as long as you promote the caravan’s owners interests, of course).

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Mercantile Lore skill. You gain the Group Impression skill feat.

</div>

#### Caravan Merchant<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve taken part to use caravans to trade your goods, either as an independent merchant or as a merchant house operative.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Mercantile Lore skill. You gain the Multilingual skill feat.

</div>

#### Charlatan<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You travelled from place to place, never staying long at the same point. In one village you pretended to be a druid able to raise draught </div>

<div class="rule">
withered crops, on a Sea of Silt island to be a Silt paraelemental cleric who could, for a price, reverse the curse dooming the isle and its inhabitant to sink to their death, and in a city-state to be a gladiatorial manager from a distant merchant house. Maybe you are fleeing your last victims, or maybe are on the road in search of your next con.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Deception skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Charming Liar skill feat.

</div>

#### Chosen One<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Your birth has fulfilled a prediction, or so it is believed, and people close to you are counting on you to do great things. There’s intense pressure on you to be up to the task, and the fickle nature of prophecy complicates your path.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

Decide with your GM the basics of the prophecy in which you’re meant to play a major part. You’re trained in one skill related to the prophecy, and the Astrology Lore skill. You gain the Prophecy’s Pawn free action.
</div>

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<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Prophecy's Pawn</b> {0A} <span class="rule">(divine, fortune) </span><span class="rule trigger">You fail a saving throw, attack roll, or skill check </span><span class="rule effect">You twist the prophecy in your favor, which will have consequences later. Reroll the failed check. You must use the result of the second roll.

For 24 hours afterward, the GM can force you to reroll a successful saving throw, attack roll, or skill check as fate balances the scale. This is a misfortune effect. You can’t use prophecy’s pawn again until the GM uses this option or 24 hours pass, whichever comes first.  </span></div></div>

#### Circuit Judge<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’re a circuit judge, a templar who is habilitated to pass judgment and who serves a group of client villages around your city-state. You show up every couple of months, hear the cases that have piled up since your last visit, give verdicts, and then it’s on to the next town in your itinerary.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in Deception and Legal Lore. You gain the Lie to Me skill feat.
</div>

#### Code Breaker<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Whether you’re serving a Templarate, the Veiled Alliance, or any other secretive organization of the sort, you have a head for patterns and linguistics, using this ability to break code.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Cryptography Lore skill. You gain the Glean Contents skill feat.
</div>

#### Cook<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a slave, you grew up in the kitchens of a tavern and became an exceptional cook or were in the service of a merchant or noble house, or even of a templar. Baking, cooking, or a little brewing on the side—you’ve spent lots of time out of sight.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Cooking Lore skill. You gain the Seasoned skill feat.

</div>

#### Courier<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either for a noble or merchant house, a templar or anybody with a minimal station, you have been running messages, as a free worker or as a slave, darting through crowded cobblestone streets.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Lore skill for the city in which you were raised. You gain the Glean Contents skill feat.
</div>

#### Criminal<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
As an unscrupulous independent or as a member of an underworld organization, you lived a life of crime. You may now be seeking redemption, trying to escape the law, or simply trying to get bigger and better loot.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Stealth skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Experienced Smuggler skill feat.
</div>

#### Crystal Healer<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Mineral formations can be beautiful things, sparkling and arrayed in geometric configurations. To you, they are also potent natural healing aids. You may have taken up adventuring to prove yourself by healing the ailing or to find new crystals with unique properties to add to your growing collection.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Nature skill and the Plane of Earth Lore skill. You gain the Natural Medicine skill feat.
</div>

#### Cursed<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You are the victim of a personal or hereditary curse. Through great effort and astrological study, you have learned to fend off the curse’s worst effects and, by extension, you can protect yourself against other harmful magic. However, the curse still hangs over you and sometimes manifests in dangerous ways.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You are trained in Astrology Lore and Curse Lore. You gain the Warding Sign reaction. You and the GM should determine the full effects of the curse, though you’ve staved most of them off for now. The GM determines the curse’s lingering manifestations on you, which usually include at least a constant or very frequent thematic effect and occasional more dangerous effects.
</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Warding Sign</b> {R} <span class="rule">(divine, fortune) </span><span class="rule freq">once per minute </span><span class="rule trigger">You attempt a saving throw against a magical effect, but you haven’t rolled yet </span><span class="rule effect">You call on the power of a personal, primal sign of protection, which flares brightly before slowly fading. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the triggering saving throw, or a +3 circumstance bonus if the effect is a curse  </span></div></div><br>

#### Deckhand<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a slave, you were a deckhand on a ship sailing the Sea of Silt. Whether you’re still navigating or not, you still retain an excellent sense of balance and quick reflexes.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute boost.

You're trained in the Acrobatics skill, and the Sailing Lore skill. You gain the Cat Fall skill feat.
</div>

#### Dendrologist<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Trees grow in every biome, and your awe at their ability to conquer terrain has inspired deeper study into their workings.
There are trees everywhere, and your study of them will inevitably take you ever further afield in search of new varieties, perhaps even to the Planes themself.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Spirit of the Land Lore skill. You gain the Terrain Expertise skill feat for forests.</div>

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#### Deputy<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You were once deputized as the lawful protector of a community, either by being in service to a templar, by being elected to this function in a slave tribe village, by hereditary right, or any other mean. That responsibility shaped you. Whenever a community is in trouble, and the lawful authorities are nowhere to be found (or are not to be called upon...), residents call on you to capture a criminal, rescue people, or go toe to toe
with outlaws.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Hunting Lore skill. You gain the Experienced Tracker skill feat.
</div>

#### Desert Herder<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You grew up far from civilization as the member of a small community or herder. You might have herded creatures such as Aprigs, Carrus, or Kanks, but in any case, you quickly came to know animals and the way you can insure your survival thanks to them.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Nature skill and the Animal Lore skill. You gain the Train Animal skill feat.
</div>

#### Detective<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You solved crimes as a templar or took jobs for wealthy clients as a private investigator. Whether you’re still operating as such or not, you may find it very attractive with the idea of going into a new mystery or have to live with the unsuspected consequences of a prior case.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Streetwise skill feat.
</div>

#### Driver<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You practically live at the reins of a vehicle, like a chariot or a wagon, and can handle just about anything the harsh road can throw at you. With such a lifestyle, there are a lot of opportunities for travel and adventuring.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Acrobatics skill and the Piloting Lore skill. You gain the Assurance skill feat with Piloting Lore.
</div>

#### Dune Trader<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as an independent worker or as a merchant house operative, you travel through the Tablelands and beyond to trade goods. You may be one among a lot of competitors when in a city-state, but to an isolated village, you often represent the difference between life and death. Your lifestyle has made you a clever merchant as much as a hardened survivor.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Society and Survival skills, and a Lore skill related to one terrain type you’re used to travel through (such as Mud Flat or Stony Barrens).
</div>

#### Dung Handler<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Fire is one of the foundations of civilization. In a world mostly devoid of wood where timber is far too precious to be burned, dried dung is the most common combustible, a commodity as abundant as it is base. As a Dung Handler, it is your function to gather dung and make it dry to serve as a combustible. You might be a free worker, especially in communities like a slave tribe village, but in tyrannical societies like a city-state
ruled by a sorcerer-monarch, you’re probably a slave. Even if you’re free, you’re probably of a very low social status, except in the most democratic and egalitarian slave tribes.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Nature skill and the Dung Lore skill. You gain the Assurance skill feat with Dung Lore.
</div>

#### Elementally Infused<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You were exposed to a strong burst of elemental essence originating directly from an elemental plane, most likely caused by a planar breach. Your body absorbed the elemental essence with no ill effects, and now it coalesces within you. With time, you’ve learned to project elemental power in a manner safe to you but still deadly to others.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

Choose one elemental plane: Air, Earth, Fire, Magma, Rain, Silt, Sun, or Water. You are trained in the corresponding Lore skill: Plane of Air Lore, Plane of Earth Lore, Plane of Fire Lore, Plane of Magma Lore, Plane of Rain Lore, Plane of Silt Lore, Plane of Sun Lore, or Plane of Water Lore. You also gain a cantrip according to your chosen plane: <b>Air:</b> <i>gale blast</i>; <b>Earth:</b> <i>scatter scree</i>; <b>Fire:</b> <i>ignition</i>; <b>Magma:</b> <i>magma shield</i>; <b>Rain</b> <i>rousing splash</i>; <b>Silt</b> <i>ancient dust</i>; <b>Sun</b> <i>ray of sunlight</i>; or <b>Water:</b> <i>water spout</i>. You can cast this spell as a primal innate spell at will.
</div>

#### Emissary<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
As a diplomat or messenger in the service of a noble or merchant house, of a city-state or even of a Veiled Alliance’s chapter, you traveled to lands far and wide. Communicating with new people and forming alliances were your stock and trade, and you’re still very good at it.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and a Lore skill related to one city you’ve visited often. You gain the Multilingual skill feat.
</div>

#### Energy Scarred<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Exposure to a significant magical event overloaded you with magical energy. Perhaps you were exposed to the defiling effects of arcane magic and were barely saved by powerful druidic magic. Perhaps it was something even more peculiar. Whatever happened, you still bare the marks of this event.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be Constitution and one is a free attribute boost.

Your innate magical trait is primal. Choose acid, cold, electricity, fire, force, void, vitality, or sonic. You are trained in a Lore skill associated with the chosen energy (such as Fire Lore) and you gain resistance to that energy type equal to half your level (minimum 1).</div>

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#### Entertainer<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Through an education in the arts or sheer dogged practice, you learned to entertain crowds. You might have been an actor, a dancer, a musician, a street magician, or any other sort of performer, either as a free worker or as a specialized slave.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Performance skill and the Entertainment Lore skill. You gain the Fascinating Performance skill feat.
</div>

#### Escaped Slave<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You were once a slave, but not anymore. Either because you wanted to go back to the life you had before being enslaved, to flee the harsh living conditions that befall most slaves, or simply for the sake of freedom, you fled. You might be pursued in order to be punished or put back into bondage, but for now, you don’t belong to anybody.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Deception and the Stealth skills. You gain the Lengthy Diversion skill feat.
</div>

#### Exorcist<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You’re a healer, but your skills attack the ill at its root: malefic spirits, haunts, possession, and more.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Medicine skill and the Herbalism Lore skill. You gain the Inoculation skill feat.
</div>

#### False Medium<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
There are people in this world who possess the attribute to pierce the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead, allowing them to communicate with spirits. You... are not one of them. But you know enough about the Gray, as well as cold reading tricks and various practices from local religions and astrology, to scam your way into people’s coin purses.

Unlike a through-and-through charlatan, there’s some real mystic methodology behind your flimflam, but that’s likely cold comfort to the people you swindle.

You might have decided to take a more righteous path, been caught, and made to pledge to make it right, or still have been slipping in a few "séances".

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Religion and Gray Lore. You gain the Deceptive Worship skill feat.
</div>

#### Farmhand<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a slave, you tilled the land and tended crops. Maybe you still do, or perhaps something happened to throw your life in disarray or to make you regain your freedom.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Farming Lore skill. You gain the Assurance skill feat with Athletics.
</div>

#### Farmsteader<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You once owned or managed a farm, and maybe you still do, either as a husbandman, as a yeoman, as the head of a small noble house, or as a contractor for a large noble family.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Farming Lore skill. You gain the Forager skill feat.
</div>

#### Feral Child<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You spent your youth in the wilderness, living close to or perhaps raised by animals. You have a close, mystical connection with these animals and gained certain abilities from them, though this limited your well-roundedness in mental pursuits.

Choose one attribute boost. It must be Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.

You are trained in Nature and Survival. You gain low-light vision (or darkvision if you already had low-light vision), imprecise scent with a range of 30 feet, and the Forager skill feat. </div>

#### Field Medic<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
In the chaotic rush of battle, you learned to adapt to rapidly changing conditions as you administered to battle casualties. You patched up soldiers, guards, or other combatants, and learned a fair amount about the logistics of war.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Medicine skill and the Warfare Lore skill. You gain the Battle Medicine skill feat.
</div>

#### Fire Warden<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
Whether you fought against fires in the wilderness or in crowded city streets, you’ve had your fair share of dealing with uncontrolled flames. Battling thick smoke and toxic fumes, you’ve broken down obstacles to save trapped people from a fiery grave, and you’ve studied the nature and source of fire itself to try and better learn how to fight it.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Plane of Fire Lore skill. You gain the Breath Control feat.
</div>

#### Forest Dweller<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You were raised in the Forest Ridge, the CrescentForest, or any other wooded area.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Nature skill as well as the Forest Lore skill. You gain the Natural Medicine skill feat
</div>

#### Forest Guerilla<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You most probably grew up in Gulg or one of its client villages, or in a Halfling community from the Forest Ridge. Woodcraft comes naturally to you, and you have learned how to use the forest to your tactical advantage against superior forces in skirmishes against the Nibeneese templars, slave raiders, or any other threat. </div>

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Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Stealth skill and the Forest Lore skill. You gain the Terrain Stalker (underbrush) skill feat. </div>

#### Fortune Teller<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
The strands of fate are clear to you, as you have learned many traditional forms by which
laypeople can divine the future. You might have used these skills to guide your
community, or simply to make money. But even the slightest peek into these practices
connects you to the astrological mysteries of the universe.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Religion skill and the Astrology Lore skill. You gain the Oddity
Identification skill feat. </div>

#### Gambler<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
The thrill of the win drew you into games of chance. This might have been a lucrative
sideline that paled in comparison to some other venture, or you might have fallen on
hard times due to your gambling and have to flee your way out of a spiral. Perhaps
you’re still indebted, or you simply cannot stop gambling.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Deception skill and the Games Lore skill. You gain the Lie to Me skill
feat. </div>

#### Genie-Blessed<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have somehow received a genie’s blessing. Maybe you drew their attention, or offered
something in exchange for their favor. However, it happened, you are now blessed
with luck.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Genie Lore skill. You gain the Wish for Luck
free action. 
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Wish For Luck</b> {0A} <span class="rule">(arcane, auditory, fortune) </span><span class="rule freq">once per day </span><span class="rule trigger">You are about to roll an attack roll, saving throw, or skill check </span><span class="rule effect">You wish aloud for success. Roll the check twice and take the higher result. </span></div></div></div><br>

#### Gladiator<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
The burning sand of the Athasian arenas is where you received you education. A fearsome
combatant, you are nonetheless very skilled at entertaining a crowd with your fighting
prowess.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Performance skill and the Gladiatorial Lore skill. You gain the
Impressive Performance skill feat. </div>

#### Grave Robber<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
As few as they may be, some people on Athas are rich enough to afford sumptuous ceremonial burial. Most aren’t.

To whichever group you belong to, you know the first one can bring you the ceramics you need to survive or whatever other goal you may fancy.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Stealth skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Experienced Smuggler skill feat.</div>

#### Guard<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You served in the guard, out of patriotism or the need for coin, in a small village or in a large
city-state. Either way, you know how to get a difficult suspect to talk.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Intimidation skill and the Legal Lore or Warfare Lore skill. You gain
the Quick Coercion skill feat. </div>

#### Haunted<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are followed by a spirit or entity, either from childhood or since a traumatic or
momentous event. You may have seen this entity. Others may have seen it as well.
You have studied for a long time, trying to understand your situation, but this
presence in your life remains a mystery. Whatever this entity is or wants, it influences
your life in subtle ways, not always good. Sometimes the entity helps you, but at other
times, its influence is malevolent or harmful. The entity is most likely to surface in
stressful situations.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You are trained in Religion and an additional skill in which the haunting entity is well-versed,
determined by the GM. Any time you attempt a skill check for the entity’s skill, the
GM can offer you a +1 circumstance bonus to the check, as though the entity were
Aiding you. If you accept but fail the check, you are frightened 2 (frightened 4 on a
critical failure). The initial frightened value can’t be reduced by effects that would
reduce or prevent the condition (such as a fighter’s bravery). </div>

#### Haunted Citizen<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You grew up in a region where undead lurk everywhere. This could be a small village
unlucky enough to have settled near a haunted ruin from the ancient times, Under-Tyr,
or simply a city block in which lived a powerful necromantic defiler. As an ever-
present concern, the undead greatly shaped your life. Living with fear became an
everyday skill... as did pleading for your life.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Lore skill for your home settlement. You gain
the No Cause for Alarm skill feat. </div>

#### Herbalist<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
As a formally trained apothecary or a rural practitioner of folk medicine, you learned the
healing properties of various herbs. You’re adept at collecting the right natural cures
in all sorts of environments and preparing them properly.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Nature skill and the Herbalism Lore skill. You gain the Natural
Medicine skill feat. </div>

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#### Hermit<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
In an isolated place—like a cave, remote oasis, or secluded mansion—you lived a life of
solitude, which gave you lots of time to pounder on your inner self. You are very well
adapted to this solitude and can survive by yourself in the harsh Athasian
environment.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Intelligence, and one is a free
attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Nature or Occult skill, plus a Lore skill related to the terrain you lived
in as a hermit (such as Mountain Lore or Mud Flat Lore). You gain the Dubious
Knowledge skill feat. </div>

#### Hired Killer<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Your life truly began after your first kill. Maybe you killed in self-defense, maybe it was a
crime of passion, or maybe it was just an accident, and you were a kid in the wrong
place at the wrong time. In the end, the why doesn’t matter. You got away with it.
And then you found that maybe it didn’t bother you as much as it should have. And
maybe, just maybe, you had a talent you could use to forge a life for yourself. A
blood-soaked talent and a blood-soaked life, sure. But it’s yours.

Choose two attribute boosts. One boost must be to Strength or Dexterity, and one is a free
attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Stealth skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Terrain
Stalker skill feat, choosing a terrain appropriate for where you make your kills. </div>

#### Hounded Thief<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Some time ago, you stole a unique item from a strange individual. Who knows what
organization this individual might have been a part of? You might still have your loot
or you might have parted with it one way or another, but either way, you can’t shake
the feeling that you’re being followed and watched, likely by forces who want to
retrieve what you took.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Thievery skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Pickpocket
skill feat. </div>

#### Hunter<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You stalked and took down animals and other creatures of the wild. Skinning animals,
harvesting their flesh, and cooking them were also part of your training, all of which
can give you useful resources while you adventure.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Tanning Lore skill. You gain the All the Animal
skill feat. </div>

#### Inlander<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You grew up in an untamed region, and you know how to survive in the wild.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and a Lore skill related to the terrain type associated with
your home region (such as Boulder Fields Lore or Mountain Lore). You gain the
Survey Wildlife skill feat. </div><br><br><br><br>

#### Insurgent<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You were either a Veiled Alliance operative or asset, or the member of any other kind of subversive
organization. Whatever the cause, you fought for what you thought was right. You
may or may not still believe in that cause, or perhaps victory or exile has led you on a
new journey to trumpet your glory... or to escape the consequences of your defeat.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Deception skill and the Warfare Lore skill. You gain the Lengthy
Diversion skill feat. </div>

#### Junk Collector<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
To most Athasians, life is a daily struggle just to survive, while for some happy few, it is a
long stream of pleasure and excess. You belong to the first category, but live from the
refuse of both. Whether by sifting through scrap heaps or digging up old battlefields,
you remain on the lookout for lost or discarded objects that you might be able to turn
into something useful. More often than not, you just manage to survive, but who
knows what surprise could radically change your life?

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Crafting skill and your choice of either the Engineering Lore or Mining
Lore skill. You gain the Crafter’s Appraisal skill feat.</div>

#### Junker<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You live on the outskirts of civilization, combing through the detritus left behind for
interesting trinkets to sell or use in your own crafting. Though you have a preferred
terrain to search, you know that the greatest treasures occur near large city-states.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Lore skill of the terrain in which you scavenge.
You gain the Hefty Hauler skill feat.</div>

#### Laborer<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a slave, you’ve spent years performing arduous physical labor. It
was a difficult life, but you somehow survived it, keeping the robustness this
occupation gave you.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Labor Lore skill. You gain the Hefty Hauler skill
feat.</div>

#### Magical Experiment<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
At some point in your life, powerful people performed magical experiments on you that
changed you permanently. You still bear the marks, as well as the abilities.

You gain one attribute boost. It must be to Constitution.

You’re trained in Arcana and the Underworld Lore skill.

You gain one special ability as a result of the magical experimentation. Work with the GM to
select an appropriate ability from the following list or to come up with another special
ability.</div>

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- Enhanced Senses You gain low-light vision (or darkvision if you already had low-
light vision) and an imprecise sense with a range of 30 feet, such as scent,
thoughtsense, tremorsense, or wavesense.
- Resistant Skin The experiments rendered your skin tougher and resilient to a
particular type of damage. You gain resistance equal to half your level (minimum
resistance 1) against two of the following types of energy damage, one chosen by you
and the other chosen by the GM: acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic.
- Touch Telepathy The experiments to your body allowed you to link minds via touch.
You gain telepathy with creatures as long as you are in physical contact. This allows
you to communicate mentally with any creatures you’re in physical contact with, as
long as you both share a language. This doesn’t give any special access to their
thoughts, and communicates no more information than normal speech would.

</div>

#### Magical Merchant
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Selling magic items isn’t like being an ordinary merchant. The wares you buy, and sell are
expensive and most of the time illegal, making each sale as rare and lucrative as it is
dangerous. Be it magical items or spell components, you know how to find them all,
for those who can pay for them or can even find you.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Crafting and the Mercantile or Underworld Lore skill. You gain the
Crafter’s Appraisal skill feat.</div>

#### Magical Misfit<div class="label">Background</div>

<div class="rule">
You don’t understand folks who claim that magical talent is some sort of burden or great
responsibility: you’ve always used your magic to cause trouble and to escape the
consequences. Preserver or defiler, you shun dedicated wizards who serve in the
Veiled Alliance or a sorcerer-monarch, or even those self-serving who long to attain a
definite goal. Your only aim is to wreak havoc and have fun while doing it, and the
more dangerous the prank, the funnier it is.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Arcana and Underworld Lore. You gain the Trick Magic Item skill feat.</div>

#### Market Runner<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
"Standard markets", slave markets, elven markets, you know them all, running errands to buy
and sell whatever good is asked of you. You may be serving a merchant house or any
other affluent organization or person as a slave or as a free worker, or even be an
independent trader. Whatever your status, you can make a living just by hanging
around on a market place, waiting for good deals to present themselves.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Mercantile Lore skill. You gain the Bargain
Hunter skill feat.</div><br><br>

#### Martial Disciple<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You dedicated yourself to intense training and rigorous study to become a great warrior. The
school you attended might have been a traditionalist monastery, an elite military
academy, or the local branch of a prestigious mercenary organization.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in your choice of the Acrobatics or Athletics skill. You gain a skill feat: Cat
Fall if you chose Acrobatics or Quick Jump if you chose Athletics. You’re also
trained in the Warfare Lore skill.</div>

#### Menagerie Dung Sweeper<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Whether you washed warrior beasts below some arena floor or tended to the mounts of elite
military forces, you are experienced with all manner of weird animal life.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Nature skill and the Animal Lore skill. You gain the Train Animal skill
feat.</div>

#### Merchant<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You’re a merchant house operative or an independent merchant, but in either case, you buy
and sell goods in the street, a shop, or an emporium.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Mercantile Lore skill. You gain the Hobnobber
skill feat.</div>

#### Merchant House Underling<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Your experience as a ledger-keeper for one of the great merchant houses of the Tablelands
has made you a canny investor and shrewd entrepreneur.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Mercantile Lore skill. You gain the Experienced
Professional skill feat.</div>

#### Miner<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a slave, you worked wrenching precious minerals from the
lightless depths of the earth: obsidian, copper or even maybe even iron. In any case,
you’re not the one who pocketed the wealth you extirpated from the ground.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Mining Lore skill. You gain the Terrain Expertise
skill feat with underground terrain.</div>

#### Missionary<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You are a missionary, travelling to spread the word of your faith, be it elemental,
paraelemental, or of a different nature.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You are trained in the Diplomacy and Religion skills. You gain the Group Impression skill
feat.</div>

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#### Mortuary Tender<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Death is a common thing on Athas and societies have to dispose of their corpses one way or
another, be it by burial in a scrub plain in order to return what the dead one has eaten
to the ground, by natural mummification in a salt flat, by sky burial, or by mandatory
reanimation in order to enlarge the ranks of the sorcerer-monarch’s undead forces.
You tend to a funeral site where those rites are proceeded to, be it a burial ground, a
tower of silence, or a reanimation chamber.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Medicine skill and the Funeral Lore skill. You gain the Forensic
Acumen skill feat.</div>

#### Musical Prodigy<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Either as a free artist or as a specialized slave, you are a master of musical performances,
most probably living by the graces of a musically inclined master or patron.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Performance and Music Lore. You gain the Virtuosic Performer skill feat.</div>

#### Necromancer’s Apprentice<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You apprenticed under a necromancer—a hard education in a field where a cadaver you were
dissecting could suddenly animate, and every magical artifact seemed deadly. Now on
your own, you’re grateful you learned to identify magical threats quickly and
thoroughly.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Intelligence, and one is a free
attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Arcana skill and the Necromancy Lore skill. You gain the Quick
Identification skill feat.</div>

#### Nibeneese Forest Laborer<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker, or most probably, as a slave, you’ve toiled in the Crescent Forest
cutting wood for some of Nibenay’s merchant houses or for the city-state itself. You
somehow managed to survive the harsh conditions and the deadly raids of the Oba’s
angered servants.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Forest Lore skill. You gain the Assurance skill
feat with Athletics.</div>

#### Noble<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Though enjoying a level of comfort, luxury, and even hubris that most Athasians are unable
to even imagine, you know a noble’s lot is obligation and intrigue: obligations
foremost to one’s house, and intrigue with everybody.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and a Lore skill related to the region or city-state you live
in. You gain the Courtly Graces skill feat and Literacy Feat.</div>

#### Nomad<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Traveling far and wide, you picked up basic tactics for surviving on the road and in unknown
lands, getting by with few supplies and even fewer comforts.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and a Lore skill related to one terrain you traveled in
(such as Salt Flats Lore or Sandy Wastes Lore). You gain the Assurance skill feat
with Survival.</div>

#### Otherworldly Mission<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You’re called to serve a specific purpose—some elemental, paraelemental, or any other kind
of entity told you so, and so it must be true. Maybe you grew up knowing all along, or
maybe it came to you one day in a vision, clear as a bell and twice as loud. You have
some task that only you can accomplish. Your mission might be as dangerous as
killing a deadly tyrant or as simple as opening a particular door on a particular day.
You should work with your GM on how to handle the truth of your character’s backstory or
leave it to the GM to decide in secret.

Is this call to action a message from the character’s own mind, are they being manipulated by some manner of supernatural
entity, or are they actually getting marching orders from one of the elemental or paraelemental lords?

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Religion. Once per adventure, you can ask the voice you believe to be a
superior entity commanding you for orders and get some kind of instruction—you
never get any kind of explanation, simply a command to go somewhere or do
something. Following those commands isn’t always safe, but it’s usually interesting.</div>

#### Pilgrim<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
In your youth, you made several pilgrimages to important shrines and holy sites. You might
have been a mendicant friar, a seller of holy relics (real or fraudulent), or just a simple
farmer following the dictates of your faith or philosophy. Whatever the aims of your
wanderings now, your faith still protects you on the road.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Religion skill and the Lore skill for your faith. You gain the Pilgrim’s
Token skill feat.</div>

#### Planar Migrant<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your birthplace was on one of the elemental planes, but you traveled to the Universe for some reason. Maybe you left on good terms, or maybe you were driven out and hope to one day return. Maybe you were even exiled, and any mention of it brings pain and resentment. In any case, nowhere has quite felt like home since, and you’ve roamed the land, carrying your life’s possessions on your back wherever you go. You adventure possibly in search of a place to belong or a way to return to your plane of origin and settle unfinished business.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be Dexterity or Constitution, and one is a free attribute boost.</div>

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<div class="rule">
   You’re trained in the Athletics skill and one of the following lore skills: Plane of Air Lore, Plane of Earth Lore, Plane of Fire 
Lore, Plane of Magma Lore, Plane of Rain Lore, Plane of Silt Lore, Plane of Sun lore, or Plane of Water Lore. You gain the Hefty Hauler and Prescient Planner skill feats.</div>

#### Plant Whisperer<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You’ve always had a green thumb, allowing you to care for plants that others found too
difficult to grow and tend with a skill that borders on the magical. If you travel, you
encounter all sorts of new plants and plant creatures, allowing you to expand your
horizons and deepen your understanding of flora.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Nature and Plant Lore. You gain the Natural Medicine skill feat.</div>

#### Press-Ganged<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You might remember what happened, or not, but it doesn’t matter. You’ve been enslaved, by
being captured by slavers in the desert, by punishment for a crime you may or may
not have committed, to repay a debt, or whatever reason. You now belong to someone
else, who has total power over you.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Labor Lore skill. You gain the Hefty Hauler skill
feat.</div>

#### Prisoner<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You might have been imprisoned for crimes (whether you were guilty or not), maybe
awaiting execution, or most probably enslaved for some time now. Either way, you’ve
had time to learn something from the criminals you encountered there.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Stealth skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Experienced
Smuggler skill feat.</div>

#### Raider<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
In a world where resources are as scarce as Athas, Raiding is a common activity. More than
that, it often is a vital activity, to the point it has become a way of life for lots of
different people. You are such a raider. You might be a remorseless and brutal
criminal, or simply a person who couldn’t find any other way to insure the survival of
your family and community. In any case, either in small group or with a whole tribe,
you scourge the desert, riding fast beasts to be able to hit and run efficiently at any
valuable target.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the nature skill and a Lore skill related to the terrain you hunt in (such as
Grassland or Scrub Plain). You gain the Express Rider skill feat.</div>

#### Raised by Belief<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Whether in a monastery, a religious household, or just as part of your everyday life, your
upbringing was steeped in the traditions of a faith or philosophy. You might remain
committed or you may have turned from your childhood creed, but your skills are still
founded in your devotion.

Choose two attribute boosts. One boost must be to an attribute specified in the (Para)Elemental or
Sorcerer-Monarch Attribute entry for your faith, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in your (Para)Elemental or Sorcerer-Monarch’s associated skill, and you gain
Assurance with that skill. You gain a Lore skill with a subcategory associated with
your (Para)Elemental or Sorcerer-Monarch.</div>

#### Refugee<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
A city-state, a village, or whatever community you were a part of has been destroyed, either
during a war, a natural disaster, or anything else. Although your home is gone, you
have managed to survive and are making your way in search of a better life.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Intelligence, and one is a free
attribute boost.

You are trained in the Survival skill and the Hunting Lore skill. You gain the Forager skill
feat.</div>

#### Returned<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You died, but one way or another, you willed yourself to return to life before being called
into the Gray, and yet with knowledge of the realms beyond death and a stronger link
to life. Some dead and undead souls might feel a strange, instinctual kinship with you.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You gain the Diehard feat and the Additional Lore feat for Gray Lore.</div>

#### Revenant<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You died. No real doubt about that, you were dead as dead can be. Then you got back up
again. Maybe you had some unfinished business, or maybe someone called for you so
strongly it brought you back. Either way, you came back for a reason, but not before
having been into the Gray and touched by it.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Religion and Gray Lore. You’re still alive, not undead, but you have the
void healing ability, which means you’re harmed by vitality damage and healed
by void effects as if you were undead.</div>

#### Saboteur<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Whether you do it for personal enjoyment or at the behest of a military organization or rebel
organization, you have a knack for destroying things. You have a sense for an object
or structure’s weak spots and know where to deliver them a fatal blow.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Thievery skill and the Engineering Lore skill. You gain the Concealing
Legerdemain skill feat.</div>

#### Sailor<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Either as an officer, a free worker or as a slave, you’ve been sailing the Sea of Silt on ships
floated by psionicists. Silt creatures, giants, silt storms, you know them all.</div>

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<div class="rule">
   Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Sea of Silt Lore skill (a player might also opt to
take Forked Tongue Estuary Lore instead). You gain the Silt Marauder skill feat.</div>

#### Scavenger<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You’ve made a living sorting through the things society throws away. You might have
scavenged simply to survive, or plied a trade as a ragpicker, dung carter, or the like.
While you’ve left that life behind, you still keep one eye on the ground out of habit.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Lore skill of the settlement in which you
scavenge. You gain the Forager skill feat.</div>

#### Scholar<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You’ve been privileged enough to learn to read, either under lawful authorization, or
clandestinely. In either case, this has changed your life and the way you look at the
world.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You receive the Literacy general feat. You’re also trained in a Lore skill of your choice (the
GM might impose some restrictions on this choice, though).</div>

#### Scion of Slayers<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You were born into a lineage of undead slayers. No mere occupation, in your family slaying
is a mantle of almost mystic responsibility passed from parent to child. Over the
generations, this single-minded focus has begun to manifest in uncanny ways during
combat.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Undead Lore skill. You can cast <i>vitality lash</i>
as an innate divine cantrip. You can use Intelligence as your spellcasting ability for
this innate spell.</div>

#### Scout<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You called the wilderness home as you found trails and guided travelers. Whether you’re still
a scout or not, you can easily find your way in the wilderness.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and a Lore skill related to one terrain you scouted in (such
as Boulder Field Lore or Salt Flats Lore). You gain the Forager skill feat.</div>

#### Sea of Silt Islander<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You’ve lived for the most part of your life on an island in the Sea of Silt, living from the
resources available on this island per se, and in seasonal or permanent nearby mud
flats.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and Sea of Silt Lore skill related. You gain the Terrain
Expertise skill feat for mud flat.</div><br><br>

#### Seer of the Dead<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have long been gifted with the ability to see and speak with the departed. This could
have manifested at your birth or when a chance encounter linked you inextricably to
the spirits of the dead. Their constant presence might feel like a curse, or it might
provide you with welcome companionship.

You gain one attribute boost. It must be to Constitution or Wisdom.

You’re trained in Religion and Undead Lore. You gain the effects of the spirit sense spell at
all times.</div>

#### Servant<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a slave, you served, waiting on nobles, and engendering their
trust as one of the confidantes of the household. You might still be, or you might have
earned your freedom one way or another.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Labor Lore skill. You gain the Read Lips skill feat.</div>

#### Shadow Hunted<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
For a reason or another, you have some acquaintance with the Black. Though not a black-
touched per se, and whether you like it or not, you still seem to be followed by
shadows, and you make people and animals uncomfortable.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Intimidation skill and the Black Lore skill. You gain the Quick
Coercion skill feat.</div>

#### Sky Rider<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The freedom of a bird in flight is something to envy, and envy it you did, but not for long. You’ve borrowed mechanical gliders or sought out the benefits of magically aided gliding and flight, doing anything for an opportunity to look down on the world with only the wind to keep you aloft. The expense of these experiences may have been a notable factor in why you undertook the adventuring lifestyle or perhaps you are seeking new methods of flight to master.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Acrobatics skill and the Plane of Air Lore skill. You gain the Cat Fall skill feat.</div>

#### Slave Overseer<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Slaves have to do the job that is asked of them, but they also have to be managed, ordered
around, and, quite often, disciplined. It is your job to do so. You might be a templar
overseeing public slaves, a member of a merchant or noble house managing your own
chattel, a free worker hired to do the job, or even a slave elevated to the position for
good behavior or through corruption. In any case, you’re used to be subservient to
those higher than you in the social hierarchy, and to bully those bellow you.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Intimidation skill and the Labor Lore skill. You gain the Group
Coercion skill feat.</div>

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#### Slave Tribe Villager<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You live in a small village, founded by escaped slaves, and well hidden from a city-state’s
troops and templars, surviving by tending crops and herds, or by raiding trade
caravans. You might be an escaped slave yourself, or maybe you’ve been born here.
Then again, maybe you simply stumbled on this community or have been saved by it
before settling there.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and a Lore skill related to the terrain in which your village
is located (such as Sandy Wastes or Salt Flat). You gain the Survey Wildlife skill feat.</div>

#### Spotter<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
An eye for detail, a sense for the wind, and a strong trust in your gut feelings. These qualities
have set you apart from others when it comes to assisting a sharpshooter with setting
up the perfect shot against their target. Elevation, wind direction, and concealment—
these are all vital factors that need to be considered to pull off a feat of true
marksmanship, and no sniper would be able to function without an experienced
spotter.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Stealth skill and the Scouting Lore skill. You gain the Terrain Stalker
skill feat.</div>

#### Spy<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You have been trained to become a spy. Whether it has been on the account of a sorcerer-
monarch, a templarate, the Veiled Alliance, the Order, or any other such organization,
you know how to avoid detection while discerning who might be an enemy operative
within your ranks. You also know what awaits you if you ever get caught.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or to Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Deception skill. You gain the Lie to Me and the Secret Speech skill
feats.</div>

#### Squire<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You trained at the feet of an army officer, military templar, warrior noble, or any other such
figure, maintaining their gear and supporting them in daily life and in battle.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and your choice of the Heraldry Lore or Warfare Lore
skill. You gain the Armor Assist skill feat.</div>

#### Storm Survivor<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Through luck or through skill, you managed to survive a catastrophic disaster, such as a Sea
of Silt shipwreck or the Great Earthquake. You have a keen sense for weather or
situations that are similar to the one you escaped.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Weather Lore skill. You gain the Forager skill
feat.</div>

#### Street Preacher<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
May the sorcerer-monarchs and their templars be damned to the Gray! You’re a follower of
an elemental or paraelemental faith or philosophy, most probably a cleric, and you’re
decided to bring your beliefs to the people of a city-state. You’ve preached on the
street corners and in public houses, always avoiding being caught by the guard or by
templars.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Religion skill and the Elemental Lore skill. You gain the Dubious
Knowledge skill feat.</div>

#### Street Urchin<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You eked out a living by picking pockets on the streets of a major city, never knowing where
you’d find your next meal. While some folk adventure for the glory, you do so to
survive.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Thievery skill and a Lore skill for the city you lived in as a street urchin
(such as Nibenay Lore or Tyr Lore). You gain the Pickpocket skill feat.</div>

#### Student of Psionics<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You spent years understanding, identifying, and harnessing the innate psionic talents within
you. A psionic-rich world has taught you that you can never have too much training
when everyone around you is capable of psionics.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be Intelligence or Charisma and one is a free attribute
boost.

You're trained in Occult, and the Psionic Schools Lore skill. You gain the Recognize Spell
skill feat.</div>

#### Tall-Tale<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You’ve successfully pleaded for your life to the Dragon, went to the bottom of the Sea of Silt,
and seen an oasis so large the other side wasn’t even visible.

That’s what the stories say, anyway, and even if people don’t strictly believe them, they are curious about
you. Certainly, the stories keep spreading, and it would appear that you either have a
unique destiny or are trying to convince the world that you do.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in Performance. You gain the Impressive Performance skill feat. You can gain
the Connections skill feat later without being expert in Society or having Courtly
Graces—this represents less traditional social connections and more the way that your
legend has spread, and you’ve learned to leverage your legend, with people wanting to
meet you and see you for themselves.</div>

#### Tavern Scourge<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
All you want to do is entertain the people, but sure enough, bad news seems to follow you.
Stabbings, brawls, robberies, and more befall establishments you perform to, and word
is quick to spread. Keep one town ahead of the gossip, and you just might be able to
play a gig, command a stage, or run a table again.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Charisma or Dexterity, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Performance skill and a lore skill of your choice. You gain the Virtuosic
Performer skill feat.</div>

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#### Tax Collector<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Reviled but required, you were sent when taxes were due. You’re most probably a templar,
but you might also be a noble or even a free worker to which tax collecting powers
have been granted. Performing your job might have required travel and persuasion, or
perhaps you were responsible for collecting taxes on trade. Either way, you still know
how to get what is due.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Intimidation skill and the Lore skill for the settlement that employed
you. You gain the Quick Coercion skill feat.</div>

#### Templarate Aspirant<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Whether you were following a sense of duty towards your city-state or sorcerer-monarch, or
your own self-interest, you’ve studied to become a templar. You may since have been
accepted as such, or you might have been rejected, unless you just didn’t want to be a
templar anymore and went away when you were done studying. In any case, you
know how to make your demands and requests heard.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill, and the Lore skill for your city-state. You gain the Bon
Mot skill feat and literacy general feat.</div>

#### Tinker<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
In a world so devoid of resources as Athas, problem-solving and ingenuity don’t bring wealth
or fame but are simply a matter of life and death. Your engineering skills take a
particularly creative bent, though, pushing it a little further than most people do.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Crafting skill, and the Engineering Lore skill. You gain the Specialty
Crafting skill feat.</div>

#### Tomb Born<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your parents conceived you for a fell purpose at a site tainted by death, like a wight’s barrow,
mass grave, or ossuary. Their reasons could be a mystery, or you might know of their
grand design and seek to escape—or fulfill—their plans. Either way, you’re at your
most dangerous when near death.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Undead Lore skill. You gain the Final Spite reaction. </div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Final Spite</b> {R} <span class="rule freq">once per day </span><span class="rule trigger">You're reduced to 0 Hit Points; </span><span class="rule effect">You make a Strike before falling unconscious. </span></div></div><br>

#### Trailblazer<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Uncharted realms have always intrigued you, and you’ve explored and mapped large
territories in service to merchants, city-states, or your own curiosity. Where some see
a blank spot on a map, you see the potential for something new and undiscovered.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Cartography Lore skill. You gain the Terrain
Expertise skill feat with one terrain you’ve explored (such as Forest or Mountain).</div>

#### Undercity Scavenger<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You are an undercity dweller, with muscles and mind hardened by years spent tunneling through rock and earth and a confidence built
upon your pride in your ability to adapt, survive, and thrive in such an environment.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Crafting skill, and in the Mining Lore skill or the Engineering Lore
skill. You gain the Improvise Tool skill feat.</div>

#### Veiled Alliance Prospect<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You might not even know it, but you’ve been spotted by the Veiled Alliance as a potential
asset. Maybe you already know, maybe it was you who wanted to go under the Veil.
You might be a preserver, or you might have never learned magic at all. In either case,
you’ve set foot in a desert full of undetectable quick sand pits.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or to Charisma, and one is a free
attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Deception skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Lie to Me
skill feat.</div>

#### Wandering Preacher<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
While you once spoke to a small congregation in a ramshackle shrine, those days are behind
you now. Whatever happened, you now meander the lands holding a worn religious
symbol in one hand, and a fiery conviction in the other.

Choose two attribute boosts. One boost must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free
attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Religion skill and a Lore skill associated with the Element,
Paraelement, or any other religious patron you worship. You gain the Pilgrim’s Token
skill feat.</div>

#### Ward<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Either as a free worker or as a slave, you became the ward of another house—boarded, fed,
and maybe even educated, but never quite a part of the family. Perhaps you had to
tend to their needs in return for feeding and raising you, or perhaps you were provided
for but disregarded.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Constitution or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Performance skill and the Genealogy Lore skill. You gain the
Fascinating Performance skill feat.</div>

#### Warrior<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
In your younger days, you waded into battle as a mercenary, a warrior defending a nomadic
people, or a member of a militia or army. Maybe you still are, or you might have
wandered to other occupations.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Intimidation skill and the Warfare Lore skill. You gain the Intimidating
Glare skill feat.</div>

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#### Waste Walker<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
You’re a survivor, having been through, for whatever reason, the deep, desolate Athasian
desert, where you quickly learned that only the strong survive. You were forced to
evade monsters, undead, and worse, as each new day heralded the possibility of a
danger or threat you’d never seen before, and the very daily threat of dehydration.
You learned to adapt to the worst possible conditions and how to forage and survive
in a place few others would survive, even less dare to venture to.

Choose two attribute boosts. One boost must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Survival skill, and a Lore skill related to the terrain you went to (such as
Salt Flat Lore or Sandy Wastes Lore). You gain the Forager skill feat.</div>

#### Well Master<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="rule">
Be it in a slave tribe village, a fort, a trade post, or in a city-state, someone’s got to ensure
water is supplied in quantity minimally allowing the community’s survival (and the
luxury of the rich and powerful). As the well master, this is your job. You might be a
free citizen, a water cleric, or a templar who has been given a well concession; you
might do this as a civic duty or for the sake of profiteering, but one thing is certain:
your people and your community won’t live long without you (or a suitable
replacement).

Choose two attribute boosts. One boost must be to Strength or Intelligence, and one is a free
attribute boost.

You’re trained in the Crafting skill, and the Aquifer Lore skill. You gain the Specialty crafting skill feat.</div>

#### Willing Host<div class="label">Background</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You speak to spirits only you can perceive: wispy shreds of lost souls, household guardians,
ancestral spirits, and other entities. You can negotiate with these beings, allowing
them into your body to impart knowledge or aid in a task for the price of a favor.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute
boost.

You’re trained in the Spirit Lore skill. You gain the Host Spirit action. </div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Host Spirit</b> <span class="rule">(arcane, exploration) </span><span class="rule freq">once per day </span><span class="rule effect">You attempt one skill check to perform an exploration activity, even if it normally requires you to be trained to do so. You’re trained in the skill just long enough to make that single check (to a maximum of 10 minutes).

Whether or not the check succeeds, in the next 24 hours you must perform a minor favor to appease the spirit who aided you, determined by the GM (usually something sensation related, such as tasting a certain food, listening to a specific song, or smoking a pipe). You can’t use Host Spirit again until you’ve performed the favor. If you haven’t
completed it after 24 hours, you’re fatigued until the obligation is fulfilled. </span></div></div><br>

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# Languages

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Athas is a world where the intelligent races come from a wide variety of species - humans and humanoids are very different than the insectoids and reptilians. Each intelligent race - with the exception of half-elves, half-giants, and muls - has its own language, sometimes even its own approach to language and communication.<br>
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Half-Elves, half-giants, and muls don't have their own societies or cultures to draw upon, so they speak the language of the society they live in. For example, a mul raised in the gladiator pits of Urik would converse in Urikite a High Tyrian variety in that city. Thri-kreen, on the other hand, use a combination of clicks and whines that come naturally to their pincer mouths, a speech humans find almost impossible to imitate. Language barriers therefore present a major obstacle for adventures set in Athas. Characters must rely heavily on magic, psionics, or interpreters for communication.

Because knowledge is power, and the most efficient way of passing on knowledge is through literature, the Sorcerer-Monarchs have decreed that literacy is outlawed and punishable by death. No one but templars and nobles are permitted to read and write. Other people who gain access to that knowledge are considered threats to the stability of the system and are hunted down.  Most Sorcerer-monarchs have authorized their templars to execute on the spot anyone demonstrating any reading or writing skills. Merchants are educated enough to keep accounts, and thus they seldom face any repercussions, although some are fully literate. 
  
Slaves of nobles with artistic abilities may also have access to reading and writing, but when they are no longer needed, they are often disposed of prematurely.

## Languages

The following languages are present in the world of Athas. Most humanoids in the world of Athas speak at least one of the common languages. Uncommon languages are typically only be found in isolated cultures.

Many uncommon languages are spoken by natives of other planes who rarely appear near the Tyr region unless summoned. Mortals learning these languages might spend a lifetime without meeting a native speaker.

### Regional Languages

These regional languages are uncommon outside the region of their genesis. A character hailing from one of the regions listed below automatically has access to that language. In the Tyr region, the language referred to as Common elsewhere in the rules is the same as Tyrian.

<br>

#### Table 2-3: Regional Languages

| Language | Regions |
|:---------|:-----------------|
| Balican | Balic |
| Draji | Draj |
| Gulgan | Gulg |
| Nibenese | Nibenay |
| Raamish | Raam |
| Tyrian | Tyr |
| Urikite | Urik |

#### Table 2-3: Common Languages

| Language | Typical Speakers |
|:---------|:-----------------|
| Common | Traders, Tyr region |
| Dwarvish | Dwarves |
| Elvish | Elves |

#### Table 2-4: Uncommon Languages
| Language | Typical Speakers |
|:---------|:-----------------|
| Aarakocran | Aarakocra |
| Anakore | Anakore |
| Belgoi | Belgoi |
| Braxat | Braxat |
| Draconic | Dray |
| Gith | Gith |
| Halfling | Halflings |
| Iruxi |  Lizardfolk, Pterran, Nikaals, Ssurrans |
| Jotun | Giants, B'rohg |
| Kreen | Thri-kreen |
| Necril | Undead creatures |
| Petran | Earth creatures |
| Pyric | Fire creatures |
| Sakvroth | Hej-Kin, Serpentfolk, Tari | 
| Shadowtongue | Shadow Giants |
| Susurran | Air creatures |
| Tarek | Tarek |
| Thalassic | Water creatures |

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# Classes

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Characters in a Dark Sun campaign have a limited number of classes to choose from compared to those in other campaign worlds. Those classes that are available often vary from those listed in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and other supplemental materials.
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<div class='descriptive'>
“From the lowliest slave to the highest templar, our fates are decided for us. The slave at the hands of the master, and the templar at the will of the king. Pray to Ral and Guthay that your children are born when the stars align to favor them. Few are those privileged to choose their own path of life and cursed are those for they are bound by choice and have but themselves to blame for their misfortune. It is the choices that define who you are and how you die, regardless of who makes them.”</div>

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#### Alchemist<div class="label">Page 141</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>
                          The alchemist uses their skill at crafting to <br>                               create alchemical items—such as bombs, <br>                                 elixirs, and poisons—that they use to defeat <br>                                foes and aid allies. Smart and resourceful, <br>                               an alchemist often has just the right tool for <br>                            the job and esoteric knowledge to help their <br> friends get out of a jam.<br>

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#### Barbarian<div class="label">Page 145</div>
                         The barbarian is a fearsome embodiment<br>                              of rage, focusing the deadly power of their<br>                                  anger against anyone who stands in their<br>                                  way. A barbarian is quick to enter battle<br>                                and, once their fury has been unleashed, is<br>                           immensely strong, often unpredictable, and <br> nearly unstoppable.<br>

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#### Bard<div class="label">Page 149</div>
                          Athasian bards are the unquestioned masters<br>                             of oral tradition and forgotten lore, but rather<br>                               than sharing their lore with whoever will<br>                               listen, Athasian bards guard their secrets as<br>                            jealously as the sorcerer‐kings harbor their<br>                          water and iron.<br>

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#### Champion<div class="label">Page 153</div>
                          A defender of the (para)elements, or a sorcerer<br>                                 king, who straps on armor and wields a <br>                                righteous weapon, the champion protects <br>                                 those who follow his cause. Steadfast in <br>                                 their beliefs, and devoted to his cause, they<br>                         follow a strict code as they fight to protect his (para)element or sorcerer-king.<br>

#### Cleric<div class="label">Page 162</div>

Athas is a world without gods, so clerics in the <br>                                 Dark Sun setting draw power from the <br>                                 enigmatic rulers of the (para)elemental <br>                                 planes or sorcerer-kings. These clerics <br>                               devote themselves to a single elemental <br>                         domain: Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. Those that serve the sorcerer-kings are their templars. <br>

#### Druid<div class="label">Page 166</div>

The druids are the remnants of an ancient <br>                             order dedicated to protecting Athas and the <br>                               unseen spirits that dwell within the land. <br>                               Each druid draws spiritual energy from a <br>                             landmark or stretch of terrain known as <br>                         their "guarded land". They are fierce enemies <br> of the defilers and Sorcerer-Kings that seek to destroy the land for their own purposes. <br>

#### Fighter<div class="label">Page 169</div>

With calculated daring and fearless <br>                             determination, the fighter tracks down and <br>                               confronts their enemies while defending <br>                                allies from harm. A master of the battlefield, <br>                              the fighter is quick to exploit opportunities <br>                         and strike any who stumble within reach of<br> their sword or bow. <br>

#### Investigator<div class="label">Page 173</div>

Clever and insightful, the investigator solves <br>                             mysteries and teems with knowledge.  In <br>                               battle, they play out every possibility in <br>                               advance, striking true when the time is right. <br>                             Their methodology grants them an edge, and <br>                       their high Intelligence and number of skills <br> mean they almost always have the right tool for the job.

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#### Kineticist<div class="label">Page 176</div>

The power of the elements flows from within you.                            Roaring fire, pure water, fleeting air, steadfast<br>                              earth, twisting wood, slicing metal. A kinetic<br>                              gate inextricably tied to your body channels<br>                           power directly from the elemental planes,<br>                        causing elements to leap to your hand, whirl<br> around your body, and blast foes at your whim. As your connection to the planes grows, you attain true mastery over your chosen elements.

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#### Monk<div class="label">Page 181</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>

Although rare, monks do exist on Athas.<br>                                 Through training and discipline they <br>                                  hone their minds and bodies, tapping <br>                                  into psychic powers within. Other monks <br>                               may be hermits, hiding in secluded canyons <br>                       and atop high peaks, far away from the rigors of urban life.

#### Oracle<div class="label">Page 186</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
                            The oracle is a paradox of elemental magic, <br>                                 able to tap into and manipulate energies <br>                                   from the elemental and paraelemental  <br>                                 planes that would overwhelm anyone else.  <br>                               These mysteries grant unusual powers and <br>                         revelations, as well as a double-edged curse -<br> which they must learn how to simultaneously endure and exploit.

#### Psychic<div class="label">Page 191</div>
                            Guided by the personal combination                                                     of their access to the will and the way,                                           a psychic calls forth psionics with but a <br>                                 thought. The psychic focuses more on <br>                                 moment than on daily spell slots,  <br>                             wielding, unique, versatile cantrips and <br> unleashing their mind to use strange and 
powerful abilities.

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#### Psychic Warrior<div class="label">Page 194</div>
                            The psychic warrior, a polymath of battle,                                             trains in both psionics and strikes. <br>                                 Combining  these arts, a psychic  <br>                                 warrior channels psionics into their <br>                               weapon or body to inflict devastating <br>                           wounds upon their foes. The psychic warrior's <br> versatility in combat and knowledge of psionics makes them a welcome addition to any party.

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#### Ranger<div class="label">Page 205</div>
                            Resourceful and cunning, the ranger <br>                                  is a hunter, tracker, and warrior who <br>                                 preserves the natural world and  <br>                                 protects civilization from its ravages. <br>                               Whether they use a bow, crossbow <br>                           a pair of weapons, or snares, the ranger <br> is a fearsome enemy and great ally in the wild.

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#### Rogue<div class="label">Page 208</div>
                            Cunning and quick, the rogue brings<br>                                  skill and expertise few of their comrades <br>                                 can match. In battle, they excel at  <br>                                 sneak attacks and ambushes. Their  <br>                                 racket gives them the tools they need <br>                           to get the job done, and their wide array of <br> skill choices lets them specialize as they see fit.

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#### Summoner<div class="label">Page 210</div>
                            You can magically beckon a powerful being<br>                                  called an eidolon to your side, serving as <br>                                 the mortal conduit that anchors it to the<br>                                 world. Your connection to it marks you as<br>                            extraordinary, shaping the course of your life.

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#### Swashbuckler<div class="label">Page 218</div>
                  To a swashbuckler, anything worth doing is worth<br>                       doing with style. This dynamic daredevil performs <br>                        bold feats of derring-do and mixes their own  <br>                        unique style with flamboyant attacks. The  <br>                      swashbuckler tumbles around the battlefield,<br>           befuddling their foes to set them up for powerful finishing moves.

#### Wizard<div class="label">Page 221</div>
                  The wizard is the arcane master of spellcasting, <br>                      plucking incredible power from the land through<br>                         complicated  spell formulas. They stride with<br>                        confidence, without a need for armor or ,<br>                     weapons enacting their will upon the world and<br>                  bringing woe upon their enemies. <br>

#### Table 3-1: Variant Features
| Level| Benefits |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">- |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1st attribute boost, attack potency +1, free archetype</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd attribute boost, skill potency (one at +1)</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd attribute boost, devastating attacks (two dice), free archetype</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th attribute boost, defense potency +1</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Free archetype, skill potency (two at +1 each)</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1st attribute boost (a second set), perception potency +1</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd attribute boost, free archetype, saving throw potency +1</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd attribute boost, skill potency (one at +2, one at +1) </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th attribute boost, attack potency +2, free archetype</div>  |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Defense potency +2</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1st attribute boost (a third set), devastating attacks (three dice), free archetype</div>  |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd attribute boost, perception potency +2, skill potency (two at +2 each, one at +1)</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd attribute boost, free archetype, saving throw potency +2</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th attribute boost, skill potency (three at +2 each, one at +1)</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Attack potency +3, free archetype</div>  |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1st attribute boost (a fourth set), attribute apex, skill potency (one at +3, two at +2 each, two at +1 each)</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd attribute boost, defense potency +3, free archetype</div>  |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd attribute boost, devastating attacks (four dice), perception potency +3</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th attribute boost, free archetype, saving throw potency +3, skill potency (two at +3 each, two at +2 each, two at +1 each)</div> |

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# Alchemist

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
There’s no sight more beautiful to you than a strange brew bubbling in a beaker, and you consume your ingenious elixirs with abandon. You’re fascinated by uncovering the secrets of science and the natural world, and you’re constantly experimenting in your lab or on the go with inventive concoctions for every eventuality. You are fearless in the face of risk, hurling explosive or toxic creations at your foes. Your unique path toward greatness is lined with alchemical brews that push your mind and body to their limits.<br>
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### Dark Sun Alchemist

The alchemist is mostly unchanged from how it is presented in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. Any new changes are noted below.

### During Combat Encounters...

You lob bombs at your foes, harry your enemies, and support the rest of your party with potent elixirs. You might even use mutagens to warp your body into a resilient and powerful weapon

### During Social Encounters...

You provide knowledge and experience about alchemical items and related secrets, such as poisons and diseases.

### While Exploring...

You keep an eye out for additional ingredients that you can turn into alchemical reagents, while giving advice on all things alchemical and mysterious..

### In downtime... 
You experiment in an alchemical lab, brewing elixirs, making bombs, and furthering your alchemical knowledge.

### You Might...

- Enjoy tinkering with strange formulas and alchemical reagents, often with a single-minded dedication and recklessness that gives others pause.
- Get a kick out of wreaking havoc with the alchemical concoctions you’ve made, and enjoy watching things burn, dissolve, freeze, and jolt. 
- Endlessly experiment to discover new, more potent alchemical tools.

### Others Probably...

- Think you’re some kind of wizard and don’t understand and fear what you can do. The general population doesn't understand that you don't cast spells.
- Don’t understand your zeal for alchemy, creativity, and invention. 
- Assume that if you haven’t caused a catastrophe with your experimentations, you inevitably will.

#### Table 3-2: Alchemist Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, alchemy, research field, alchemist feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, field discovery, powerful alchemy, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemical weapon expertise, general feat, skill increase, will expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemical feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemical expertise, ancestry feat, double brew, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div>| <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Advanced vials, chemical hardiness, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, greater field discovery, medium armor expertise, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemical weapon mastery, explosion dodger, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Abundant vials, alchemical mastery, ancestry feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, medium armor mastery, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alchemist feat, skill feat</div> |

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## Class Changes
### Research field
#### Bomber
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">UNCOMMON</div>
</div>
Bombs have recently been introduced into Dark Sun.  This makes this research field and all Bomb Feats Uncommon.

#### Chirurgeon

This research field has been around for millennia and is accessed as normal.

#### Mutagenist
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
Mutagens have been unlocked from the ancient blue age technology of lifeshaping.  These secrets are held by few and are not shared with the outside world. This research field and mutagen feats are Rare.

#### Toxicology
The ancient art of poison making has been around since the beginning of time. This research field is accessed as normal.

## Alchemist Feats

At each level that you gain an alchemist feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. The feats listed below are new or updated alchemist feats.

###### 4th Level

#### Inured to Alchemy<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag alchemist">ALCHEMIST</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Fortitude saves</div>
<div class="access">You're from Kemalok or the hinterlands</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've developed control over how your body processes alchemical poisons and drugs. Each of your successful saving throws against an alchemical poison, a drug, or an addiction reduces the stage by 2, or by 1 for a virulent alchemical poison, drug, or addiction. Each critical success reduces the stage by 3, or by 2 for a virulent alchemical poison, drug, or addiction.</div><br>

###### 6th Level

#### Artokus's Fire {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag additive">ADDITIVE 2</div>
<div class="tag alchemist">ALCHEMIST</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per round</div>
<div class="trigger">You use Quick Alchemy to craft an alchemist's fire, and that bomb's level is at least 2 levels lower than your advanced alchemy level.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Artokus developed a mixture of volatile materials that burns hotter and longer than typical alchemist's fire. You include this additive mixture when crafting your alchemist's fire. The alchemist's fire deals 1d4 persistent fire damage in addition to what the alchemist fire would normally cause (for instance, a moderate alchemist's fire deals 1d4+2 persistent fire damage). A creature taking persistent fire damage from the alchemist's fire requires two successful flat checks to end the persistent damage, or one check if the creature had an assisted recovery that reduces the flat check to DC 10. The enhanced alchemist's fire burns even underwater, and any attempts to end the persistent damage by using water have no effect.</div><br>

###### 8th Level

#### Retaliatory Cleansing {R}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag alchemist">ALCHEMIST</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">You're holding holy water or a bomb that deals vitality damage in one of your hands.</div>
<div class="trigger">You would take damage from an adjacent creature's Strike.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You twist your hand in front of the blow, ensuring the enemy's attack shatters the required holy water or bomb. The creature takes the on-hit and splash damage from the holy water or required bomb, not counting any additional affects you would add or apply when you throw the bomb, such as weapon specialization or Calculated Splash. You're splashed by the holy water or required bomb, although since vitality damage harms only undead and creatures with void healing, it's unlikely you will take damage.</div><br>

###### 12th Level

#### Shaped Contaminant<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag alchemist">ALCHEMIST</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Through a combination of careful manipulation and precise breath control, you can deploy inhaled toxins precisely. When you activate an inhaled poison, you can cause it to fill a 20-foot line that’s 5 feet tall rather than a 10-foot cube. You gain a +3 status bonus to saving throws against inhaled poisons that you activate.</div><br>

###### 20th Level

#### Astonishing Explosion {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag additive">ADDITIVE 2</div>
<div class="tag alchemist">ALCHEMIST</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per minute</div>
<div class="trigger">You use Quick Alchemy to craft an alchemical bomb that deals splash damage and is at least 2 levels lower than your advanced alchemy level.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your bomb incorporates an explosive spark of wonder that leaves witnesses dumbfounded. Any target hit by your Strike with the bomb is fascinated by you for 1 round. On a critical success, the target is also stunned 1.</div><br>

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#### Plum Deluge {3A} <div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag alchemist">ALCHEMIST</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You have at least three of the same contact poison.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned to saturate an area with poison. As part of this ability, you Interact to draw three vials of the same contact poison and throw them in the air, where they shatter and spread a poisonous deluge affecting a 20-foot burst within 60 feet. All creatures in the burst are automatically exposed to the poison, immediately bypassing any onset time, and must attempt a saving throw against that poison. The three vials must be identical, even if the poison can come in multiple types or different levels.</div><br>

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# Barbarian
  
  <div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Rage consumes you in battle. You delight in wreaking havoc and using powerful weapons to carve through your enemies, relying on astonishing durability without needing complicated techniques or rigid training. Your rages draw upon a vicious instinct, which you might associate with an animal, a spirit, or some part of yourself. To many barbarians, brute force is a hammer, and every problem looks like a nail, whereas others try to hold back the storm of emotions inside them and release their rage only when it matters most.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

### Dark Sun Barbarians

The barbarian is mostly unchanged from how it is presented in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. Any new changes are noted below.

### During Combat Encounters...

You summon your rage and rush to the front lines to smash your way through. Offense is your best defense—you’ll need to drop foes before they can exploit your relatively low defenses.

### During Social Encounters...

You use intimidation to get what you need, especially when gentler persuasion can’t get the job done.

### While Exploring...

You look out for danger, ready to rush headfirst into battle in an instant. You climb the challenging rock wall and drop a rope for others to follow, and you wade into the risky currents to reach the hidden switch beneath the water’s surface. If something needs breaking, you’re up to the task!

### You Might...

-  Have a deep-seated well of anger, hatred, or frustration.
-  Prefer a straightforward approach to one requiring patience and tedium. 
-  Engage in a regimen of intense physical fitness—and punch anyone who says this conflicts with your distaste for patience and tedium.

### Others Probably...

- Rely on your courage and your strength, and trust that you can hold your own in a fight.
- See you as uncivilized or a boorish lout unfit for high society.
- Believe that you are loyal to your friends and allies and will never relent until the fight is done.

<br>

#### Table 3-3: Barbarian Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, rage, instinct, barbarian feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Deny advantage, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, brutality, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, juggernaut, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, lightning reflexes, raging resistance, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, mighty range, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, greater juggernaut, medium armor expertise, skill increase, weapon fury</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, greater weapon specialization, indomitable will, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, heightened senses, skill increase, quick rage</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Armor of fury, devastator, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Barbarian feat, skill feat</div> |

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## Instincts

### Animal Instinct
Athas is home to very fierce beasts, some of which fill you with wild ferociousness when you Rage, granting you ferocious unarmed attacks. Select an animal from Table 3–4: Animal Instincts that best matches your chosen animal.

##### Specialization Ability <div class="levels">7th</div>
Increase the damage die size for the unarmed attacks granted by your chosen animal by one step, and increase the additional damage from Rage from 2 to 5 for your chosen animal's unarmed attacks. If you have greater weapon specialization, increase the damage from Rage from 5 to 12 for your chosen animal’s unarmed attacks.

#### Table 3-4: Animal Instincts
| <div style="text-align: left">Animal | <div style="text-align: left">Attack | <div style="text-align: left">Damage | <div style="text-align: left">Traits |
|:---:|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">Ant | <div style="text-align: left">Mandibles | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P | <div style="text-align: left">Grapple, unarmed |
| <div style="text-align: left">Bat | <div style="text-align: left">Fangs<br> Wings| <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P<br> 1d4 P  | <div style="text-align: left">Unarmed<br>Parry, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Bird | <div style="text-align: left">Beak<br> Wings| <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P<br> 1d4 P  | <div style="text-align: left">Unarmed<br>Parry, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Carru | <div style="text-align: left">Horn | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P | <div style="text-align: left">Shove, unarmed |
| <div style="text-align: left">Dagorran | <div style="text-align: left">Jaws | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P | <div style="text-align: left">Trip, unarmed |
| <div style="text-align: left">Dunecrab | <div style="text-align: left">Big Claw<br> Claw| <div style="text-align: left">1d10 B<br> 1d4 S  | <div style="text-align: left">Razing, unarmed<br>Parry, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Feylaar | <div style="text-align: left">Fist | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 B | <div style="text-align: left">Grapple, unarmed |
| <div style="text-align: left">Hatori | <div style="text-align: left">Jaws<br> Tail| <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P<br> 1d6 B  | <div style="text-align: left">Unarmed<br>Agile, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Inix | <div style="text-align: left">Jaws<br> Tongue| <div style="text-align: left">1d10 B<br> 1d4 B  | <div style="text-align: left">Unarmed<br>Agile, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Kirre | <div style="text-align: left">Jaws<br> Claw  | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P<br> 1d6 S  | <div style="text-align: left">Unarmed<br> Agile, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Klar | <div style="text-align: left">Jaws<br> Claw  | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P<br> 1d6 S  | <div style="text-align: left">Unarmed<br> Agile, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Mekillot | <div style="text-align: left">Jaws<br> Tail  | <div style="text-align: left">1d8 P<br> 1d6 B  | <div style="text-align: left">Deady d12, Unarmed<br> Agile, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Sand Shark | <div style="text-align: left">Jaws | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P | <div style="text-align: left">Grapple, unarmed |
| <div style="text-align: left">Scorpion | <div style="text-align: left">Stinger<br> Pincer  | <div style="text-align: left">1d6 P<br> 1d4 S  | <div style="text-align: left">Reach, unarmed, venomous<br> Parry, unarmed|
| <div style="text-align: left">Snake | <div style="text-align: left">Fangs | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P | <div style="text-align: left">Grapple, unarmed |
| <div style="text-align: left">Spider | <div style="text-align: left">Stinger<br> Pincer  | <div style="text-align: left">1d8 P<br> Special*  | <div style="text-align: left">Reach, unarmed, venomous<br> Range increment 15 feet |
| <div style="text-align: left">Sygra | <div style="text-align: left">Horn | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 P | <div style="text-align: left">Shove, unarmed |
| <div style="text-align: left">Wasp | <div style="text-align: left">Stinger | <div style="text-align: left">1d4 P | <div style="text-align: left">Backstabber, deadly d8, unarmed, venomous |

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### Dragon Instinct
There are no dragon's living on Athas except for The Dragon. This instinct is renamed to Drake Instinct and all are Primal. Select a type of drake from the Drake Instincs table as your instinct's drake type.

##### Instinct Ability - Drake Rage
While raging, you can increase the additional damage from Rage from 2 to 4 and change its damage type to match that of your instinct’s drake breath instead of the damage type for your weapon or unarmed attack.

If you do this, your Rage action gains the primal trait, as well as the trait matching the damage type where applicable.

##### Specialization Ability <div class="levels">7th</div>
When you use drake rage, you increase the additional damage from Rage from 4 to 8. If you have greater weapon specialization, instead increase the damage from Rage when using drake rage from 8 to 16.

##### Raging Resistance
You resist piercing damage and the damage type of your instinct’s drake breath.

### Fury Instinct
A world so brutal as Athas can fuel a deep rage within people who have not been lucky enough to avoid its cruelty and unfairness. You are such a person. Your rage comes from a deep and purely personal well within you. You use your rage as you choose. No change to the abilities listed in <i>Pathfinder Core 2</i>.

### Giant Instinct
Giants of the Sea of Silt have had some profound influence on you, one way or another. No change to the abilities listed in <i>Pathfinder Core 2</i>.

### Spirit Instinct
Whether you are emotionally sensitive to the spirits around you; worship ancestors or apparitions; or are haunted by the specter of an ancestor, relative, friend, or foe, your rage takes the form of a spiritual possession. No change to the abilities listed in <i>Pathfinder Core 2</i>.<br><br>

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### Superstition Instinct
Arcane magic has left the world in ruins, and as such, you rightly despise it.

While you don’t have anything against elemental, druidic, or maybe even templar magic, or against the Way, you can’t accept the very existence of any practitioner of arcane magic, whatever their nature or their actual goals.

##### Anathema
Your deep superstition means it’s anathema for you to learn or Cast an arcane Spell, or to wield or use an item that can be activated to Cast an arcane Spell. If you violate this anathema, you lose the instinct’s abilities and any feats that list the instinct as a prerequisite until you spend 1 day of downtime re-centering yourself, though you keep all your other barbarian abilities.

While raging, you gain a +2 status bonus to all saves against magic. Increase your damage from Rage from 2 to 3, or 4 against creatures you have witnessed Casting a Spell within the last hour. When you Rage, you regain Hit Point equal to the temporary HP you gained from the Rage action; you then can’t regain HP in this way again for 10 minutes. While raging, if you willingly accept the effects of an arcane spell or effect, you are frightened 1.

You cannot reduce your frightened condition below 1 as long as you are affected by the spell or effect.

##### Superstitious Resilience (Instinct Ability)
While raging, you gain a +2 status bonus to all saves against magic. Increase your damage from Rage from 2 to 3, or 4 against creatures you have witnessed Casting a Spell within the last hour. When you Rage, you regain Hit Point equal to the temporary HP you gained from the Rage action; you then can’t regain HP in this way again for 10 minutes. While raging, if you willingly accept the effects of a magic spell or effect, you are frightened 1. You cannot reduce your frightened condition below 1 as long as you are affected by the spell or effect.

##### Specialization Ability <div class="levels">7th</div>
Increase the damage from Rage from 3 to 7, or 8 against creatures you have witnessed Casting a Spell within the last hour. If you have greater raging specialization, instead increase the damage from Rage to 13, or 16 against creatures you have witnessed Casting a Spell within the last hour.

##### Raging Resistance <div class="levels">9th</div>
Choose two associated magical traditions: arcane and occult, arcane and primal or arcane and divine. The resistance from your raging resistance class feature applies against all damage you take from spells cast with these two traditions of magic, regardless of the type of damage dealt by the spell.

## Barbarian Feats

At each level that you gain a barbarian feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. The feats listed below are new or updated barbarian feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Draconic Arrogance<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag barbarian">BARBARIAN</div>
<div class="tag rage">RAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">drake instinct</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Few can sway you from your goals while the fury of combat fills you. While raging, you gain a +2 status bonus to saving throws against emotion effects.</div>

###### 6th Level

#### Drake's Rage Breath {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag barbarian">BARBARIAN</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag rage">RAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">drake instinct</div>
<div class="freq">once per 10 minutes</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You breathe deeply and exhale powerful energy in a 30-foot cone, dealing 1d6 damage per level to each creature in the area 
with a basic Reflex save against your class DC. The damage type matches your instinct’s drake breath.</div><br>

###### 12th Level

#### Drake's Rage Wings {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag barbarian">BARBARIAN</div>
<div class="tag morph">MORPH</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag rage">RAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">drake instinct</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You sprout dragon wings from your back. While you are raging, you gain a fly Speed equal to your land Speed. If you are flying when your rage ends, you start to fall, but your transformation doesn’t revert until the last moment, so you take no damage from the fall and land standing up. </div><br>

###### 16th Level

#### Drake Transformation {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag barbarian">BARBARIAN</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag morph">MORPH</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag rage">RAGE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Drake's Rage Wigs</div>
<div class="freq">once per 10 minutes</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You transform into a ferocious Large drake, gaining the effects of 6th-rank <i>dragon form</i> except that you use your own AC and attack modifier, you apply your extra damage from Rage, and the Dragon Breath action uses your class DC. Add the temporary Hit Points from dragon form to any you already have from entering a rage (or any other action with the rage trait). The action to Dismiss the transformation gains the rage trait.

At 18th level, you gain a +20-foot status bonus to your fly Speed, your damage bonus with dragon Strikes increases to +12, and you gain a +14 status bonus to your Dragon Breath damage. </div><br>

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# Bard
  
  <div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
You are a master of artistry, a scholar of hidden secrets, and a captivating persuader. Using powerful performances, you influence minds and elevate souls to new levels of heroics. You might use your powers to become a charismatic leader, or perhaps you might instead be a counselor, manipulator, scholar, scoundrel, or virtuoso. While your versatility leads some to consider you a beguiling ne’er-do-well and a jack-of-all-trades, it’s dangerous to dismiss you as a master of none.<br>
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### Dark Sun Bards

Athasian bards are the unquestioned masters of oral tradition and forgotten lore, but rather than sharing their lore with whoever will listen, Athasian bards guard their secrets as jealously as the sorcerer‐kings harbor their water and iron.

### During Combat Encounters...

You use psychic performances to alter the odds in favor of your allies. You confidently alternate between attacks, healing, and helpful psionics as needed.

### During Social Encounters...

You persuade, prevaricate, and threaten with ease.

### While Exploring...

You’re a font of knowledge, folktales, legends, and lore that provide a deeper context and helpful reconnaissance for the group’s adventure. Your psionics and performances inspire your allies to greater discovery and success.

### You Might...

- Have a passion for your art so strong that you forge a spiritual connection with it.
- Take point when tact and nonviolent solutions are required.
- Follow your muse, whether it’s a philosophical concept, or psychic force, and with its aid learn secret lore that few others possess.

### Others Probably...

- Relish the opportunity to invite you to social events, either as a performer or guest, but consider you to be something of a curiosity in their social circles.
- come to you to spy, gather information, or possibly assassinate their rivals
- Respond favorably to your social charm and abilities but remain suspicious of your beguiling magic.

<br>

#### Table 3-3: Bard Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------|
| 1 | Ancestry and background, attribute boosts, bard spellcasting, initial proficiencies, spell repertoire, composition spells, muse |
| 2 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 3 | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells, general feat, reflex expertise, signature spells, skill increase</div> |
| 4 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 5 | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, attribute boosts, ancestry feat, skill increase</div> |
| 6 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 7 | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, expert spellcaster, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| 8 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 9 | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, ancestry feat, fortitude expertise, performer’s heart, skill increase</div> |
| 10 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 11 | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, bard weapon expertise, general feat, skill increase, vigilant senses</div> |
| 12 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 13 | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, light armor expertise, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| 14 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 15 | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, attribute boosts, general feat, master spellcaster, skill increase</div> |
| 16 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 17 | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, greater performer’s heart, skill increase</div> |
| 18 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |
| 19 | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, legendary spellcaster, magnum opus, skill increase</div> |
| 20 | <div style="text-align: left">Bard feat, skill feat</div> |

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## Class Features
The following class features have been changed to represent the Athasian Bard.

### Bard Spellcasting

Your spellcasting draws on the will and the way to cast psychic powers. You are a spellcaster and can cast psychic powers using the Occult spell list using the Cast a Spell activity. As a bard, when you cast spells, your psychic powers might include musical riffs or clever limericks, your gestures might incorporate dance and dramatic pantomiming, and you might accompany your spellcasting by playing a musical instrument.

Each day, you can cast up to two 1st-rank spells. You must know spells to cast them, and you learn them via the psychic repertoire class feature. The number of spells you can cast each day is called your spell slots. As you increase in level as a bard, your number of spells per day increases, as does the highest rank of spells you can cast, as shown on the Bard Spells per Day table in <i>Player Core</i>.

Some of your psychic powers require you to attempt a spell attack to see how effective they are or have your enemies roll against your spell DC (typically by attempting a saving throw). Since your key attribute is Charisma, your spell attack modifiers and spell DCs use your Charisma modifier.

##### Heightening Psionics

When you get spell slots of 2nd rank and higher, you can fill those slots with stronger versions of lower-rank spells. This increases the spell’s rank, heightening it to match the spell slot. You must have a spell in your psychic repertoire at the rank you want to cast in order to heighten it to that rank. Many spells have specific improvements when they are heightened to certain ranks. The signature spells class feature lets you heighten certain psionics freely.

##### Cantrips
Some of your psychic powers are cantrips. A cantrip is a special type of psychic power that doesn’t use spell slots. You can cast a cantrip at will, any number of times per day. A cantrip is automatically heightened to half your level rounded up—this is usually equal to the highest rank of bard spell slot you have. For example, as a 1st-level bard, your cantrips are 1st-rank spells, and as a 5th-level bard, your cantrips are 3rd-rank spells.

### Psychic Repertoire
The collection of psychic powers you can cast is called your psychic repertoire. At 1st level, you learn two 1st-rank occult spells of your choice and five occult cantrips of your choice. You choose these from the common spells from the occult list or from other occult spells to which you have access. You can cast any spell in your psychic repertoire by using a spell slot of an appropriate spell rank.

You add to this psychic repertoire as you increase in level. Each time you get a spell slot (see the Bard Spells per Day table), you add a spell to your psychic repertoire of the same rank. At 2nd level, you select another 1st-rank spell; at 3rd level, you select two 2nd-rank spells, and so on. When you add spells, you might add a higher-rank version of a spell you already have, so you can cast a heightened version of that spell.

Though you gain them at the same rate, your spell slots and the spells in your psychic repertoire are separate. If a feat or other ability adds a spell to your psychic repertoire, it wouldn’t give you another spell slot, and vice versa.

### Muses
As a bard, you select one muse at 1st level. This muse leads you to great things and might be someone you know, a supernatural creature, location, philosophy, or captivating mystery. Depending on the type of inspiration you receive, your 1st-level muse grants you a specific 1st-level bard feat and adds a spell to your repertoire.

In addition to this, each muse opens the door to many later bard feats. If one type of inspiration is not enough to represent your muse, consider the Multifarious Muse feat.

##### Enigma 
Your muse is a mystery, driving you to uncover the hidden secrets of life and the planes of Athas. These muses can be people you cannot fully grasp, texts layered deeply with symbolism, or emotional paradoxes that underline a lifetime’s work. If your muse is an otherworldly creature, it might be a mysterious elemental or an elemental drake. Art inspired by an enigma muse could be cryptic, eerie, or laden with speculation and conspiracy. As a bard with the enigma muse, you support your allies by providing knowledge alongside inspiration and occult support. <br>
<b>Muse Feat</b> Bardic Lore <br>
<b>Muse Spell</b> sure strike

##### Maestro 
Your muse constantly inspires you to greater heights of artistic prowess. For many bards, a teacher or rival fills this role, although some set their sights higher and attempt to surpass great composers of the past or blaze a new trail entirely. If your muse is a supernatural creature, it might be one who loves to perform. Art inspired by a maestro muse is precise and inventive, a formalist achievement. As a bard with a maestro muse, you are an inspiration to your allies and confident of your musical and oratorical abilities. <br>
<b>Muse Feat</b> Lingering Composition <br>
<b>Muse Spell</b> soothe

##### Polymath 
Your muse is a jack of all trades, flitting between skills and pursuits. Some bards are constantly moved by new muses or draw their inspiration from an idealized being, whether it’s based on a real person or purely philosophical. If your muse is a single creature, it might be an eclectic creature or one who’s learned a lot over a long lifespan. Art inspired by a polymath muse is restless, with each composition exhibiting new techniques and an ever-evolving style.

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As a bard with a polymath muse, you are interested in a wide array of topics but rarely dedicated to any one, and you rarely make up your mind—you want to try everything. <br>
<b>Muse Feat</b> Versatile Performance<br>
<b>Muse Spell</b> phantasmal minion

##### Warrior 
The battlefield is your stage, the clang of steel, your song. Your muse has seen countless battles, whether reveling in combat or resigned to its necessity. An individual soldier or general might inspire you, but so might a battlefield or weapon with a particularly profound history. If your muse is a creature, it might be an otherworldly soldier, such as an elemental genie. Art inspired by a warrior muse is triumphant and strident, often detailing epic battles. As a bard with a warrior muse, you train for battle in addition to performance, and you prepare your allies for the dangers of combat. You might even wade into the thick of things with them. <br>
<b>Muse Feat</b> Martial Performance <br>
<b>Muse</b> Spell fear

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# Champion

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
You are an emissary of the elements or a faithful servant of a Sorcerer-King, a devoted servant who has taken up a weighty mantle, and you adhere to a code that holds you apart from those around you. You have powerful defenses that you share freely with your allies and innocent bystanders, as well as primal power you use to end those that threaten your devotion. 
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### During Combat Encounters...
You confront enemies in hand-to-hand combat while carefully positioning yourself to protect your allies.

### During Social Encounters...
An elemental champion is a voice of hope, striving to reach a peaceful solution that strengthens bonds and yields good results for all. A paraelemental champion is a voice of destruction, striving to reach a solution that strengthens their element. As a Templar Knight you look to uphold the laws of your City-State and protect those that serve your Sorcerer-King.

### While Exploring...
You overcome barriers both physical and spiritual, providing inspiration to your allies through your actions and—when your fellow adventurers ask for it—providing guidance.

### In Downtime...
You spend much of your time in solemn prayer and contemplation, rigorous training, and fulfilling the tenets of your code, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time to take up a craft or hobby.

### You Might...
- Believe there is always hope that your element will triumph over its opposition, no matter how grim the odds.
- Know the ends justify the means, since justified acts increase the influence of your Sorcerer-King.
- Have a strong sense of how the elemental planes interact with the world, and grow frustrated when others don't understand this fact

### Others Probably...
- See you as a symbol of hope or one of tyranny.
- Worry you secretly despise them for not living up to the impossible standards of your Sorcerer-King, or afraid you may bring the wrath of the elements down upon them if they disagree with you.
- Know that you've sworn an oath of service they can trust you to keep.

#### Table 3-5: Champion Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, champion's code, oath and cause, religious weapon, champion's reaction, devotion spells, champion feat, shield block</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Divine ally, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, skill increase, weapon expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Armor expertise, general feat, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, champion expertise, divine/elemental smite, juggernaut, lightning reflexes, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alertness, diving will, exalt, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, armor mastery, skill increase, weapon mastery</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, greater weapon specialization, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, champion mastery, legendary armor, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, hero's defiance, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Champion feat, skill feat</div> |

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### Faith
As a champion, you are a warrior in the name of a supreme being you revere above all others. The most common supreme beings in Dark Sun appear on pages 20-26 of this campaign guide, along with their edicts, areas of concern, and the benefits you get for being a devotee of that supreme being. Choose one supreme being.

##### Skill
You become trained in the divine skill listed for your supreme being. As normal, if you’re already trained in that skill, you become trained in a different skill of your choice.

##### Anathema
Champions care deeply about the edicts and anathema they take from their supreme being, sanctification, and cause. As with any implementation of edicts and anathema in the rules, these are a tool for roleplaying between you, the GM, and the other players at the table—you’re still playing a nuanced character, not strictly following a script.

Acts fundamentally opposed to your supreme being’s ideals are anathema to your faith. Learning or casting spells, committing acts, and using items that are anathema to your surpeme being remove you from your faith’s good graces.

Similarly, using items, spells, or actions that are anathema to the tenets or goals of your faith could interfere with your connection to your supreme being. For example, assisting with a ritual that raises undead would be anathema to Air, Earth, Fire or water elements. Many actions that are anathema don’t appear in any faith’s formal list. For borderline cases, you and your GM determine which acts are anathema.

If you perform enough acts that are anathema to your faith, you lose the magical abilities that come from your connection to your deity. The class features that you lose are determined by the GM, but they likely include your holy or unholy trait, your focus pool, and your blessing of the devoted. These abilities can be regained only if you repent by conducting an atone ritual (Player Core 390). If your faith doesn’t require the specific sanctification you had, your GM might let you retrain your sanctification and cause (page 89) while still following the same faith.

##### Sanctification

Depending on your faith, their sanctification can make you holy or unholy. This commits you to one side of a struggle over souls. Whether you become holy, unholy, or neither will limit your choice of causes, devotion spells, and feats.

If you “can be” holy or unholy according to your faith’s sanctification entry, you make that choice, and if you “must be” holy or unholy, you gain the trait automatically. If the deity lists “none,” you can choose only options that don’t require the holy or unholy trait. If you are holy or unholy and gain the opposing trait in some way, you lose the previous trait until you atone.

Unholy sanctification for a champion can be extremely disruptive to a typical game and should be a player character option only in appropriate adventures or campaigns where the group collectively decides to embrace them.

Unholy sanctification and causes are uncommon options.

<b>Holy:</b> You gain the holy trait and add that trait to any Strikes you make. You gain the edict, “Do not knowingly harm innocents or fail to prevent harm to an innocent if your direct intervention could save them” and the anathema “Commit murder.” Even if your game includes behavior outside the Pathfinder baseline (Player Core 397), the acts listed there are anathema to you.

<b>Unholy:</b> You gain the unholy trait and add that trait to any Strikes you make. You gain the edict, “Do not put another’s needs before your own or those of your faith” and the anathema “Commit an entirely altruistic act, such as giving something away in charity” and “Put anyone’s needs before those of your supreme being.” None of these prevents you from performing acts others might consider helpful, but these acts must be done with the expectation that they ultimately further your own goals or those of your deity.

##### Weapon of Faith
You zealously bear your faith’s favored weapon. If it’s an unarmed attack with a d4 damage die or a simple weapon, increase the damage die by one step (d4 to d6, d6 to d8, d8 to d10, d10 to d12). If the weapon is uncommon, you gain access to it, and if it’s an advanced weapon, you treat it as a martial weapon for the purposes of proficiency.

##### Champion's Aura
You’re surrounded by an aura in a 15-foot emanation. It has the aura and divine traits. Any follower of your faith within the aura immediately knows you’re a champion of your faith. This aura is used as the range for your champion’s reaction and for various other effects. You can suppress or resume the aura as a single action, which has the concentrate trait, and it ends if you fall unconscious.

### Cause
You devote yourself to a specific cause in your faith’s name. Some causes are limited to certain sanctifications. Your cause adds to your edicts and anathema and grants you a special protective reaction called your champion’s reaction. The following champion causes are on pages 91–93 of <i>Player Core 2</i>

<b>Desecration (Unholy, Paraelemental):</b> You selfishly corrupt and destroy.

<b>Grandeur (Holy, Elemental):</b> You exemplify the glory and splendor of the celestial realms.

<b>Iniquity (Unholy, Paraelemental or Sorcerer King):</b> You destroy, take advantage, and act with dishonor.

<b>Justice (Elemental, Paraelemental, or Sorcerer King):</b> You follow laws and mete out just punishment.

<b>Liberation (Elemental or Paraelemental):</b> You oppose tyranny and fight for freedom.

<b>Obedience (Elemental, Paraelemental, Sorcerer King):</b> You enforce hierarchies and order.

<b>Redemption (Holy, Elemental):</b> You try to redeem those who commit wicked deeds.

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### Devotion Spells
Your faith’s power grants you special divine spells called devotion spells, which are a type of focus spell. Choose one of the spells appearing on page 256 of <i>Player Core 2</i>, either <i>shields of the spirit</i> or a spell based on your deity’s divine font (<i>lay on hands</i> if your deity allows heal, <i>touch of the void</i> if your deity allows harm).

It costs 1 Focus Point to cast a focus spell. When you gain your first devotion spell, you also gain a focus pool of 1 Focus Point. You refill your focus pool during your daily preparations, and you regain 1 Focus Point by spending 10 minutes using the Refocus activity to pray to your faith or do service toward their causes.

Your devotion spells are divine spells. Your spellcasting attribute is Charisma.

Focus spells are automatically heightened to half your level rounded up. Certain feats give you more focus spells. The maximum Focus Points your focus pool can hold is equal to the number of focus spells you have, but can never be more than 3 points. The full rules for focus spells appear on page 298 of Player Core.

### Blessing of the Devoted<div class="levels">3rd</div>
Your supreme being blesses your service with a boon. This might come in the form of an elemental spirit that visits you and inhabits your items or body, a mysterious tattoo upon your body, or the like. Choose one of the following blessings, or any other to which you have access.

<b>Blessed Armament:</b> Select one weapon or unarmed strike. You gain that armament’s critical specialization effect, and you grant the armament a property rune of your choice from the following list: corrode, crushing, fearsome, flame, ghost touch, ice, jolt, returning, shifting, or vitalizing. During your daily preparations, you can change the spirit to inhabit a different armament, grant a different rune, or both. Elemental Faith's choose rune's that match their element.

<b>Blessed Shield:</b> In your hands, a shield gains the <i>minor reinforcing rune</i>. As you go up in level, the shield gains the <i>reinforcing rune</i> of your level (lesser at 7th level, moderate at 10th level, greater at 13th level, major at 16th level, and supreme at 19th level). If your shield already has the appropriate <i>reinforcing rune</i> for your level, or if it’s a <i>sturdy shield</i> of the same level as the appropriate <i>reinforcing rune</i>, the shield’s Hardness instead increases by 1.

<b>Blessed Swiftness:</b> You gain a +5-foot status bonus to Speed. If you’re mounted, your mount gains the bonus instead. In addition, when the movement of one of your allies triggers an enemy’s reaction while the ally is in your champion’s aura, the ally gains a +2 status bonus to all defenses against that reaction.

## Champion Feats

At each level that you gain a champion feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. The feats listed below are new or updated champion feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Agile Shield Grip {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are wielding a shield with a shield boss or shield spikes in one hand.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You change your grip on the shield, allowing you to combine rapid attacks with your shield boss or shield spikes and your main weapon's Strikes in a series of swift motions. You reduce your shield boss and shield spikes weapon damage die to 1d4. As long as the weapon damage die is 1d4, your shield boss and shield spike Strikes gain the agile weapon trait. You can use Agile Shield Grip again to switch to a normal grip, returning the damage to the usual amount and removing the agile trait.</div><br>

#### Everstand Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are wielding a shield.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You brace your shield with both hands, enhancing its potential for both offense and defense. When in this stance, you wield the shield with both hands. When wielding a shield this way, increase the weapon damage die of the shield’s boss or spikes by one step, and increase the shield’s Hardness by 2 when using the Shield Block reaction.</div><br>

###### 2nd Level

#### Defiler Executioner's Oath<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">elemental or paraelemental faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve sworn an oath to slay defilers that lurk in the remote corners of Athas. Add the following tenet to your champion’s code, after the other tenets. “You must slay defilers you encounter as long as you have a reasonable chance of success.”

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against a defiler, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. If you have Iron Command when you use your champion’s reaction against a defiler, the extra damage you deal with Strikes increases by 1 (or by 2 at 9th level and by 3 at 16th level). The resistance you gain from Glimpse of Redemption or Flash of Grandeur against damage from a defiler is 7 + your level. If you use Liberating Step triggered by a defiler, your ally gains a +4 circumstance bonus to checks granted by your Liberating Step, and the ally can Step twice afterward.

You don’t consider defilers to be legitimate authorities, even in nations they rule.</div><br>

#### Devoted Guardian {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">Your last action was to Raise a Shield.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You adopt a wide stance, ready to defend both yourself and your chosen ward. Select one adjacent creature. As long as your shield is raised and the creature remains adjacent to you, the creature gains a +1 circumstance bonus to their AC, or a +2 circumstance bonus if the shield you raised was a tower shield.</div><br>

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#### Elemental Restoration Oath<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">elemental faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know the only way to restore Athas to its former glory is to restore the strength of the four elements. You’ve sworn an oath to rid the surface of Athas of any paraelemental influence. Add the following tenet after all the others: “You must hunt down and
exterminate creatures that have a paraelemental trait or that are clerics or champions of a paraelement as long as you have a reasonable chance of success and aren’t engaged in a mission that would prevent your doing so.”

If you can use it, your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against any such creature, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used.  If you have Iron Command when you use your champion’s reaction against a paraelemental threat, the extra damage you deal with Strikes increases by 1 (or by 2 at 9th level and by 3 at 16th level). If you can use it, your Flash of Grandeur or Glimpse of Redemption’s resistance against damage from any such creature is 7 + your level. If you use Liberating Step triggered by a paraelemental foe, your ally gains a +4 circumstance bonus to checks granted by your Liberating Step, and the ally can Step twice afterward.

You don’t consider rulers worshipping the paraelements to be legitimate authorities, even in nations they rule.</div><br>

#### End to Arcane Magic Oath<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have sworn an oath to rid the surface of Athas of any arcane spellcasting. Add the following tenet after all the others: “You must hunt down and exterminate creatures that use arcane magic as long as you have a reasonable chance of success and aren’t
engaged in a mission that would prevent your doing so.”

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against any such creature, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. If you have Selfish Shield, Destructive Vengeance, or Iron Command when you use your champion’s reaction against an arcane spellcaster, the extra damage you deal with Strikes increases by 1 (or by 2 at 9th level and by 3 at 16th level). If you can use it, your Flash of Grandeur or Glimpse of Redemption’s resistance against damage from any such creature is 7 + your level. If you use Liberating Step triggered by an arcane spellcaster, your ally gains a +4 circumstance bonus to checks granted by your Liberating Step, and the ally can Step twice afterward.</div>

#### Oath of Balance<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">elemental or paraelemental faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know the only way to restore Athas to its former glory is to instate balance between all of the eight elements and paraelements and you’ve sworn an oath to defend all of them. Add the following tenet after all the others: “You must maintain balance between all eight elements and paraelements, and fight against any unbalancing force, as long as you have a reasonable chance of success and aren’t engaged in a mission that would prevent your doing so.”

During your daily preparation, you can choose the domains you have access to among the domains granted by any element or paraelement adjacent to yours (for instance, magma or silt for earth, air, or water for rain, and so on).

You gain the domain’s initial domain spell as a devotion spell.
</div><br>

#### Oath of Civic Loyalty<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">Sorcerer-king faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have sworn an oath to defend your city-state from any exterior threat. Add the following tenet after all the others: “You must hunt down and exterminate creatures that infiltrate your city-state to hurt its established order or to spy on it as long as you have a reasonable chance of success and aren’t engaged in a mission that would prevent your doing so.”

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against any such creature, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. When you use your champion’s reaction against an exterior threat to your city-state, the extra damage you deal with Strikes increases by 1 (or by 2 at 9th level and by 3 at 16th level).</div><br>

#### Oath of Paraelemental Usurpation<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">paraelemental faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve embraced Athas’ decay and have sworn an oath to see the paraelements replace the elements as its determining natural forces. Add the following tenet after all the others: “You must hunt down and exterminate creatures that have an elemental trait or that
are clerics or champions of an element as long as you have a reasonable chance of success and aren’t engaged in a mission that would prevent your doing so.”

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against any such creature, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. If you have Selfish Shield, Destructive Vengeance, or Iron Command when you use your champion’s reaction against an elemental foe, the extra damage you deal with Strikes increases by 1 (or by 2 at 9th level and by 3 at 16th level). If you use Liberating Step triggered by an elemental foe, your ally gains a +4 circumstance bonus to checks granted by your Liberating Step, and the ally can Step twice afterward.</div><br>

#### Reliable Squire<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know the path to victory isn't traveled alone, and you lend aid to your companions whenever you can. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to checks to Aid. If you roll a critical failure on a check to Aid, you get a failure instead.</div><br>

#### Resilient Mind<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're firm in your convictions and have girded your mind against outside influence. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against mental effects. This bonus increases to +2 against mental effects originating from undead.</div><br>

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#### Shining Oath<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">elemental faith</div>

</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve sworn an oath to put the undead to rest. Add the following tenet to your champion’s code after the other tenets: “You must end the existence of undead you encounter as long as you have a reasonable chance of success; in the unlikely event you find an undead that isn't unholy, you can try to work out a more peaceful way to help it recover from its undead state rather than destroying it in combat, such as helping it complete its unfinished business and find peace.

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against an undead, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. When you use your champion’s reaction against an undead, the extra damage you deal with Strikes increases by 1 (or by 2 at 9th level and by 3 at 16th level). Your Flash of Grandeur, Glimpse of Redemption’s resistance against damage from an undead is 7 + your level. If you use Liberating Step triggered by an undead, your ally gains a +4 circumstance bonus to checks granted by your Liberating Step, and the ally can Step twice afterward.

You don’t consider undead to be legitimate authorities, even in nations ruled by undead.</div><br>

#### Slaver Oath<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag oath">OATH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">sorcerer-king faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve sworn an oath to crush any slave who would dare rebel or not to submit in anyway. Add the following tenet after all the others: “You must hunt down and exterminate slaves that have rebelled or foment rebellion against their condition or your city-
state’s established order as long as they don’t repent and as long as you have a reasonable chance of success and aren’t engaged in a mission that would prevent your doing so.”

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against a slave, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. When you use your champion’s reaction against a slave, the extra damage you deal with Strikes increases by 1 (or by 2 at 9th level and by 3 at 16th level).</div>

###### 4th Level

#### Accelerating Touch<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">devotion spell (<i>lay on hands</i>)</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your healing energies are infused with bounding energy. A creature that recovers Hit Points from your lay on hands gains a +10-foot status bonus to its Speed until the end of its next turn.</div><br>

#### Everstand Strike {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag press">PRESS</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Everstand Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are wielding a shield in two hands.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your follow-up blow leaves you an opening to set your shield. Make a Strike with the wielded shield. If the Strike hits and deals damage, you also Raise your Shield.</div>

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#### Inspiring Resilience {R}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">You and at least one other creature become the target of a spell or effect with the emotion, fear, or mental trait that allows a saving throw, and you haven't rolled the save yet.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You show defiance in times of hardship and inspire your companions to persevere. Allies within 30 feet of you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to their Will save against the triggering effect, or a +2 circumstance bonus if the effect originated from an undead.</div><br>

#### Knock Sense {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You attack carefully to knock some sense into a creature whose actions aren't their own. Make a Strike against a confused ally. The Strike is nonlethal and doesn't take a –2 penalty for using a weapon without the nonlethal trait; if you hit and deal damage, your ally automatically succeeds at the flat check to remove the confused condition when taking damage.</div><br>

#### Light of Revelation<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve learned to call upon light to reveal what is hidden. You gain the <i>light of revelation</i> devotion spell.</div><br>

#### Sun Blade<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">sun faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can unleash burning sunlight from your sword or spear. You gain the <i>Sun Blade</i> devotion spell.</div><br>

###### 6th Level

#### Corrupted Shield<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">blessed shield, unholy</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your shield ally is more than just an elemental spirit of protection— it's a conduit for deadly elemental magic. When you use your shield ally to Shield Block a melee unarmed attack or a melee weapon Strike from an adjacent creature, the attacker takes 1d6 void damage. If the attack or Strike breaks or destroys your shield, double this additional damage.

The damage the attacker takes increases to 2d6 at 11th level and 3d6 at 16th level.</div>

#### Shield Wall {R}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">Your shield is raised and an adjacent ally Raises a Shield.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You use your shield in tandem with an ally's, forming a barricade. Both you and the triggering creature have standard cover as long as you remain adjacent to each other and you both have your shields raised; when this is no longer the case, the effect ends. You and your ally can't use this cover to Hide, as it's obvious you're standing there holding your shields, but you and your ally can use it to Take Cover. Normally, if you and your ally don't move, Shield Wall lasts until the beginning of your next turn, when your shield is no longer raised.</div>

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###### 8th Level

#### Impassible Wall Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">reactive strike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You refuse to let foes past your guard. As long as you are in this stance, when you critically hit with a Reactive Strike triggered by a move action, you disrupt that move action.</div><br>

#### Sacrifice Armor {R}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">You are hit by a Strike that deals physical damage.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
With unnatural awareness, you twist your body to lessen the impact of an attack. Reduce the damage you take by an amount equal to twice your armor's level. Your armor becomes broken, reducing its Hit Points to its Broken Threshold. If your armor was already damaged, it is destroyed instead.</div><br>

#### Sense Defiling<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You sense the mark of defiling as a queasy or foreboding feeling. When in the presence of a creature that bears the mark of defiling, you eventually detect the aura, though you might not do so instantly, and you can't pinpoint the location. This acts as a vague sense, similar to humans' sense of smell. A creature that bears the mark of defiling using a disguise or otherwise trying to hide its presence attempts a Deception check against your Perception DC to hide its aura from you. If the creature succeeds at its
Deception check, it is then temporarily immune to your Sense Defiling for 1 day.</div><br>

###### 10th Level

#### Elemental Blade Armament<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">blessed armament</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your blessed armament radiates power, enhancing your chosen weapon. When you choose the weapon for your blessed armament during your daily preparations, add the astral, brilliant, corrosive, deathdrinking, flaming, frost, shock, thundering,  crushing (greater) and wounding. Elemental faiths choose rune's that match their element. If you're holy, also add the holy rune, and if you're unholy, also add the unholy rune. In addition, you can change the rune you've selected for the day to a different rune from your list as a 10-minute activity that has the concentrate, divine, and exploration traits. Changing the rune doesn't restore abilities that can be used only a limited number of times, such as Holy Healing for the holy rune.</div><br>

#### Elemental Light {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag light">LIGHT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">elemental faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You raise your arms to the sky and pray fervently, surrounding yourself in a beacon of elemental light. The beacon sheds bright light in a 30-foot-radius, 100-foot-high cylinder centered on you until the beginning of your next turn. Unholy creatures in the area must succeed at a Will save equal to your class DC or spell DC (whichever is higher) or become dazzled for 1 round.</div><br>

#### Litany against Evil<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag align">Holy</div>
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You rail against evil, turning a foe’s laziness against it. You can cast the <i>litany against evil</i> devotion spell. Increase the number of Focus Points in your focus pool by 1.</div><br>

#### Litany of Self-Interest<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag align">Unholy</div>
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Unholy</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You compel a creature to act toward its own ends rather than consider others. You can cast the <i>litany of self-interest</i> devotion spell.</div><br>

#### Resilient Touch<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">devotion spells (lay on hands)</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your healing energies create an aura of protection that defends your allies against more than just blades and arrows. An ally that recovers Hit Points from your lay on hands gains a +1 status bonus to their saving throws until the end of their next turn.</div><br>

###### 12th Level

#### Amplifying Touch<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">devotion spell <i>lay on hands</i>, Holy</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your healing energies empower attacks. An ally that recovers Hit Points from your lay on hands gains a +1 status bonus to their attack rolls and deals 1 additional spirit damage on all their Strikes until the end of their next turn.  In addition, all their Strikes are holy until the end of their next turn.</div><br>

#### Enforce Oath {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">You've sworn to an oath against a specific type of creature.</div>
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You call on your oath to embolden you in combat. When you Enforce your Oath, select one creature you can see that you've sworn to defeat as part of your oath. You gain a +1 status bonus to AC and saves against attacks and effects by the chosen creature. You also gain a +1 status bonus to attack rolls against the chosen creature. However, your dedication to Enforcing your Oath draws your focus away from all other foes. While you are Enforcing your Oath, you take a –1 status penalty to AC, attack rolls, and saves against all other creatures until you stop Enforcing your Oath.

You stop Enforcing your Oath once the chosen creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points or offers a legitimate surrender to you or your allies. You immediately stop Enforcing your Oath if you are unconscious or if the chosen creature goes unnoticed by you for more than 1 minute. You can also stop Enforcing your Oath at any time during your turn as a free action.</div>

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#### Miraculous Intervention {R}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">An adjacent undead begins to use a reaction.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Through elemental intervention or whispered prayers, you foil an enemy's response. If the triggering creature's level is equal to or lower than yours, you disrupt the triggering reaction. If the triggering creature's level is higher than yours, you must make an attack roll or spell attack roll against its AC (your choice). On a success, you disrupt the reaction.</div><br>

#### Necromantic Deflection<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You imbue your shield with life-giving energy to deflect harmful void magic. When you have your shield raised, you gain the shield's circumstance bonus to your AC and saving throws against spells with the void trait. If you have the Shield Block reaction, damage you take as a result of a void spell can trigger that reaction, even if it isn't physical damage.</div><br>

#### Pale Mount<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">faithful steed; sorcerer-king faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your mount becomes a grotesque creature of foreboding when you ride it. Its appearance transforms as flames erupt from its skin, a whorl of void energy surrounds it, or poison leaks from its flesh. When you Mount your steed ally, you can choose fire, void, or poison. As long as you ride it, your steed gains resistance 10 to the chosen damage type, and any creature that touches your steed takes 1d6 damage of the chosen type; this includes hitting the steed with unarmed attacks or with a melee weapon Strike while adjacent to the steed. This damage increases to 2d6 at 16th level and 3d6 at 20th level.</div><br>

###### 14th Level

#### Anchoring Aura<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Defilers Executioner’s Oath, or End to Arcane Magic Oath</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your aura hampers creatures that bear the mark of defiling or arcane spellcaster's teleportation depending on your oath. Your aura attempts to counteract teleportation spells cast by those creatures within your champion aura, using the spell rank and DC of your devotion spells.</div><br>

#### Aura of Vengeance<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">exalted reaction; Retributive Strike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you call upon others to take retribution, you also guide their aim. When you use Retributive Strike, your allies who make Strikes take only a –2 penalty, instead of a –5 penalty.</div><br>

#### Greater Interpose<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Sacrifice Armor</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your elemental grace empowers you to avoid hits when you otherwise could not. You can use Sacrifice Armor to reduce any type of damage from an attack or effect requiring a Reflex save. When you use Sacrifice Armor against a critical hit or a critical failure on a Reflex save that would otherwise cause you to take double damage, you take the normal amount of damage instead.</div><br>

#### Litany of Righteousness<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You call upon righteousness to expose a foe’s weakness. You can cast the <i>litany of righteousness</i> devotion spell. </div><br>

#### Magicbane Aura<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Defilers Executioner’s Oath, or End to Arcane Magic Oath</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your aura protects against destructive energies. You and all allies within 15 feet gain resistance equal to your Charisma modifier to acid, cold, electricity, fire, and poison. If the source of one of these types of damage is from a defiler or arcane spell caster, depending on your oath, increase the resistance to half your level.</div><br>

###### 16th Level

#### Auspicious Mount<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Imposing Destrier</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Guided by your ongoing care, your steed has developed incredible intelligence and skill. The mount you gained with Faithful Steed is now a specialized animal companion (<i>Player Core</i> 211). You can select one of the usual specializations or the auspice specialization. A faithful steed with the auspice specialization gains the following benefits.

- It gains the elemental, or dragon trait—whichever best matches your deity, and its appearance shifts to look more like them. It also gains the holy trait or the unholy trait if you are sanctified.
- Its Intelligence modifier increases by 2 and its Wisdom modifier by 1.
- Its proficiency rank in Religion increases to expert.
- It can speak the language associated with your deity (such as Susurran, Petran, Pyric, or Thalassic). 
- Its maximum Hit Points increase by 20, increasing to 25 at 18th level and 30 at 20th level. If the mount has the holy trait, the extra HP increase by 5, and the mount gains weakness 5 to unholy. If it has the unholy trait, the extra HP increase by 5, and the mount gains weakness 5 to holy.
- It gains wings that grant it a fly Speed equal to its land Speed.

</div>

###### 18th Level

#### Dragon Form<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">sorcerer-king faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your features reshape into those of a type of dragon, for example scales, elongated snout, and tail. You gain a fly Speed equal to your Speed. You gain darkvision if you don’t already have it, and you gain the dragon trait and the trait appropriate to your sorcerer-monarch.</div><br>

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#### Elemental Form<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">elemental or paraelemental faith</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You take on an elemental or paraelemental countenance, appearing like a type of elemental or paraelement corresponding to your chosen element or a paraelement. You gain a fly Speed equal to your Speed. You gain darkvision if you don’t already have it, and you gain the element trait and the trait appropriate to your chosen element or paraelement type.</div><br>

###### 20th Level

#### Aura of Unbreakable virtue<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are a paragon of your champion's code, your overwhelming aura causing foes to cower. All opposed (para)elemental creatures, clerics, or elemental knights or creatures threatening your chosen city-state and its established order within 15 feet of you take a –1 status penalty to checks and DCs that target you or your allies. This penalty is –2 against creatures you have taken an oath against (such as defilers if you have the Defiler Executioner's Oath feat). You can choose to suppress or resume this aura as an action, which has the concentrate trait. </div><br>

#### Banishing Blow {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Any oath that targets an elemental or paraelemental creature.</div>
<div class="trigger">You use your champion’s reaction, triggered by an elemental or paraelemental creature you’ve sworn an oath to fight within your reach.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You attempt an Athletics check to Shove the creature that triggered your champion's reaction; on a success, the target can't teleport or summon creatures for 1 minute. On a critical success, the target is also stunned 1 and can't teleport or summon creatures for 1 hour, and if you are on your home plane and the target is a creature of level 18 or lower from another plane, it is also banished to its home plane. Your multiple attack penalty doesn't apply to this attack.</div><br>

#### Elemental Blade Paragon<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">blessed armament</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Add the following property runes to the list you can choose for your blessed armament: animated, greater fearsome, grievous, keen, and greater vitalizing. If you have the Elemental Blade Armament feat, add greater astral, greater brilliant, greater corrosive, greater flaming, greater frost, greater shock, and greater thundering to the list as well.

In addition, you can change the rune you’ve selected for the day to a different rune from your list as a single action that has the concentrate and divine traits. Changing the rune doesn’t restore abilities that can be used only a limited number of times.

</div><br>

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#### Everdistant Defense{R}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">A creature within your aura is targeted by a ranged attack or a creature moves through your aura.</div>
<div class="req">You have at least one aura from a champion feat or feature.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Each square within your aura that the triggering attack or creature would move through counts as triple the distance. If this reaction is used on a ranged attack, the attack takes range increment penalties based on the adjusted range and fails if this would cause it to exceed its maximum range.</div><br>

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# Cleric

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Spiritual powers work their will upon the world in infinite ways, and you serve as one of their most stalwart mortal servants. Blessed with elemental magic, you live the ideals of your faith, adorn yourself with the symbols of your element or sorcerer-monarch, and train diligently to wield your element’s or sorcerer-monarch's favored weapon. Your spells might protect and heal your allies, or they might punish foes and enemies of your faith. Yours is a life of devotion, spreading the teachings of your faith through both word and deed.

### During Combat Encounters...
If you’re a warpriest, you balance between casting spells and attacking with weapons— typically the favored weapon of your element. If you’re a cloistered cleric, you primarily cast spells. Most of your spells can boost, protect, or heal your allies. Depending on your outlook, you get extra spells to heal your allies or harm your enemies.

### During Social Encounters...
You might make diplomatic overtures or deliver impressive speeches. Because you’re wise, you also pick up on falsehoods others tell.

### While Exploring...
You detect nearby magic and interpret any religious writing you come across. You might also concentrate on a protective spell for your allies in case of attack. After a battle or hazard, you might heal anyone who was hurt.

### In Downtime...
You might perform services at a temple, travel to spread the word of your element or sorcerer-monarch, research scripture, celebrate holy days, or even found a new temple.

### You Might...
- Visit the temples sacred to your element or in your city-state and have an immediate affinity with other worshipers of your element or other templars.
- Follow the beliefs and guidance of your element or uphold the laws of your city-state.
- Cooperate with your allies, provided they don’t ask you to go against your element or sorcerer-king.

### Others Probably...
- Find your devotion impressive, even if they don’t understand it.
- Expect you to heal their wounds.
- Rely on you to interact with other spiritual figures

#### Table 3-6: Cleric Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, elemental power or sorcerer-monarch, cleric spellcasting, divine font, doctrine</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells, general feat, second doctrine, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, ancestry feat, perception expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, general feat, skill increase, third doctrine</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, ancestry feat, resolute faith, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, fourth doctrine, general feat, lightning reflexes, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, divine defense, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, fifth doctrine, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Final doctrine, general feat, miraculous spell, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Cleric feat, skill feat</div> |

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## Class Changes

### Elemental Power or Sorcerer-Monarch

As a cleric, you are a mortal servitor of an elemental power or sorcerer-monarch you revere above all others. You may choose from the elements of Air, Earth, Fire, or water or the paraelements of Magma, Rain, Silt, or Sun.  The Templars (clerics of the sorcerer monarchs) choose from either Abalach-Re, Andropinis, Dregoth, Hamanu, Kalak, Lalali-Puy, Nibenay, or Tectuktitlay. These spiritual powers appear on pages 17-23, along with their benefits you get for being a cleric of that spiritual power. Your spiritual power grants you the trained proficiency rank in one skill and with the power's favored weapon.  If the favored weapon is uncommon, you also get access to that weapon.

Your spiritual power also adds spells to your spell list. You can prepare these just like you can any spell on the divine spell list once you can prepare spells of their level as a cleric. Some of these spells aren't normally on the divine list, but they're divine spells if you prepare them this way.

### Sanctification

Depending on your faith, its sanctification can make you holy or unholy. This gives you the holy or unholy trait, which commits you to one side of a struggle over the lives of Athas and may be referenced in other abilities. If you “can be” holy or unholy according to your faith, you make that choice, and if you “must be” holy or unholy you gain the trait automatically. If you gain the opposing trait in some way, you lose the previous trait until you complete an atone ritual.

### Anathema

Acts fundamentally opposed to your spiritual powers ideals are anathema to your faith. Learning or casting spells, committing acts, and using items that are anathema to your spiritual power remove you from your power's good graces.

Casting spells opposed to your element is always anathema to the elemental lords and would interfere with your connection to your elemental lord.

If you perform enough acts that are anathema to your spiritual power, or your Sorcerer-monarch dies, you lose the magical abilities that come from your connection to your spiritual power. The class features that you lose are determined by the GM, but they likely include your divine font and all divine spellcasting. These abilities can be regained only if you demonstrate your repentance by conducting an atone ritual. For those templars that have a sorcerer-monarch die it is possible to pledge your loyalty to a new sorcerer-monarch.

## Cleric Feats

At each level that you gain a cleric feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. The feats listed below are new or updated cleric feats.<br><br>

###### 1st Level

#### False Faith<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">worshipper of a sorcerer king</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your sorcerer-king knows you may need to disguise yourself in societies that oppose your faith. After spending 1 hour in prayer to your sorcerer-king, you can cast spells using the religious symbol of another power as your divine focus, and you can address verbal prayers to that power. Your sorcerer-king intercepts your prayers and answers them without the named power knowing.

This ability applies to the religious symbol of only one power at a time—making a different religious symbol work in this fashion requires another hour of prayer and causes the old one to cease functioning. You can always use a religious symbol of your sorcerer-king without affecting this ability.</div><br>

###### 2nd Level

#### Resilient Mind<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
</div>

###### 4th Level

#### Prayer-Touched Weapon {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">divine spells</div>
<div class="req">Your most recent action was to cast a non-cantrip divine spell.s</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You coat a weapon you're wielding in prayers and the divine power given to you by your deity. Until the end of your turn, the weapon deals an extra 1d6 vitality damage. As usual for vitality damage, this damage harms only undead and creatures with void healing.</div><br>

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#### Sun Light {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag cdivine">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag light">LIGHT</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">paraelemental faith of sun</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You raise your arms to the sky and pray fervently, surrounding yourself in a beacon of sun light. The beacon sheds bright light in a 30-foot-radius, 100-foot-high cylinder centered on you until the beginning of your next turn.

Enemy creatures in the area must succeed at a Will save equal to your class DC or spell DC (whichever is higher) or become dazzled for 1 round.</div>

###### 14th Level

#### Purifying Breeze {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">divine spells</div>
<div class="req">Your most recent action was to cast a non-cantrip spell with the healing trait.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You transfer the divine essence of your magic to the air around you, cleansing it of toxins. Attempt a counteract check against each airborne disease or poison effect in a 15-foot radius around you. Regardless of your success or failure, until the beginning of your next turn, all creatures in the purified area gain a +1 status bonus to Fortitude saving throws.</div><br>

###### 20th Level

#### Dance of Intercession {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">three times a day</div>
<div class="prereq">expert in Performance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You either performed in or stood witness to the dance used to invoke the elemental lord of water Lormoch. You Stride in a dance up to half your Speed, attempting a DC 35 Performance check. You can perform this dance up to three times per day. The second time you do so in the same day, use the degree of success one worse than your actual roll on the Performance check. The third time in a day, use the degree of success two lower than your actual roll.

<div class="rule result r4">You perform the movements of the Dance of Intercession so gracefully that you evoke a glimmer of the memory of Lormoch's awesome power. You cast the 3-action version of either 9th-rank harm or heal at any point during your Stride. This does not use any spell slots.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but the spell is 7th-rank instead of 9th as you stumble through the movements.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">As critical success, but the spell is 5th-rank instead of 9th as you stumble through the movements.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You fail to remember the steps of the dance. You gain no additional effect beyond Striding half your Speed, and you can't attempt the Dance of Intercession again until your next daily preparations.</div>
</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

#### Denier of Destruction {R}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">healing font</div>
<div class="trigger">Any ally within 30 feet that you can heal with your heal spell would take damage from an attack or effect from a source you can observe.</div>
<div class="req">You have a heal spell prepared and you aren't off-guard to the source of the damage.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can manipulate the same energies that the elements use to sustain life. You cast heal on the triggering target. Instead of its normal effects, the heal spell reduces the triggering damage by an amount equal to the Hit Points a 1-action heal spell of that rank would have recovered. As usual, if this reduces the damage to 0, it might also remove additional effects of the triggering attack, such as injury poisons.</div><br>

#### Emblazon Divinity <div class="label">FEAT 20</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag cleric">CLERIC</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Emblazon Armament</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your sacred etchings imbue objects with power. It takes you only 1 minute to emblazon a symbol using Emblazon Armament, and you can have up to four symbols emblazoned at a time. Each item can still have only one symbol emblazoned upon it, and if you exceed the limit of four, the oldest symbol disappears. These symbols can benefit even those who don’t follow the deity, provided they aren’t directly opposed (as determined by the GM).

You can select a different benefit for each emblazoned symbol, chosen from any you have from Emblazon Armament or other feats such as Emblazon Energy or Emblazon Antimagic.</div>

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# Druid

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
The power of nature is impossible to resist. It can bring ruin to the stoutest fortress in minutes, reducing even the mightiest works to rubble, burning them to ash, burying them beneath an avalanche of snow, or drowning them beneath the waves. It can provide endless bounty and breathtaking splendor to those who respect it—and an agonizing death to those who take it too lightly. You are one of those who hear a spirit of the land’s call. You stand in awe of the majesty of its power and give yourself over to its service.

### During Combat Encounters...
You call upon the forces of nature to defeat your enemies and protect your allies. 
You cast spells that draw upon primal magic to protect yourself and your friends, 
heal their wounds or summon deadly animals to fight at your side. Depending on 
your bond to nature, you might call upon powerful elemental magic or change shape 
into a terrifying beast.

### During Social Encounters...
You represent balance and a reasoned approach to problems, looking for solutions 
that not only are best for the natural world, but also allow the creatures within it to 
live in harmony and peace. You often propose compromises that allow both sides to 
gain what they truly need, even if they can’t have all that they desire.

### While Exploring...
Your nature skills are invaluable. You track down enemies, navigate the wilderness, 
and use spells to detect magical auras around you. You might even ask wild animals 
to lend their extraordinary senses and scouting abilities to your group

### In Downtime...
You might craft magic items or potions. Alternatively, your tie to nature might lead 
you to tend a wilderness area, befriending beasts and healing the wounds caused by 
civilization. You might even teach sustainable farming and animal husbandry techniques 
that allow others to subsist off the land without harming the natural balance

### You Might...
- Have a deep and meaningful respect for the power of nature.
- Be in constant awe of the natural world, eager to share it with others but wary of their influence upon it.
- Treat plants and animals as allies, working with them to reach your goals.

#### Table 3-7: Druid Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, druid spellcasting, anathema, druidic order, Shield Block, voice of nature, Wildsong</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells, fortitude expertise, general feat, perception expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, ancestry feat, reflex expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, expert spellcaster, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, ancestry feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, general feat, skill increase, weapon expertise, wild wildpower</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, medium armor expertise, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, general feat, master spellcaster, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, legendary spellcaster, primal hierophant, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Druid feat, skill feat</div> |

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### Others Probably...
- View you as a representative of nature and are sure you can control it.
- Assume you’re a recluse who avoids society and cities and prefers to live in the wild.
- Consider you a mystic, similar to a priest, but answering only to the forces of nature.

## Druid Feats

At each level that you gain a druid feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. The feats listed below are new or updated druid feats.

###### 12th Level

#### Necromantic Deflection<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag druid">DRUID</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You imbue your shield with life-giving energy to deflect harmful void magic. When you have your shield raised, you gain the shield's circumstance bonus to your AC and saving throws against void spells. If you have the Shield Block reaction, damage you take as a result of a void spell can trigger that reaction, even if it isn't physical damage.</div><br>

#### Cactus Skin {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag druid">DRUID</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are transformed into a plant by a polymorph spell.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your plant form sprouts hundreds of spines, and your blood causes mild hallucinations in creatures exposed to it. Each time a creature touches you, hits you with an unarmed attack, or hits you with a melee weapon attack while adjacent to you, that creature takes 1d6 piercing damage. Increase the damage to 2d6 if the polymorph spell is 8th-rank or higher, or to 3d6 if it’s 10th-rank.

When an adjacent creature damages you with piercing or slashing damage, it must succeed at a Fortitude save against your class DC or become stupefied 1 (or stupefied 2 on a critical failure) until the end of its next turn.

These benefits last until you’re no longer polymorphed into a plant.</div><br>

###### 20th Level

#### Apex Companion<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag druid">DRUID</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">animal companion</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can call upon the essence of every individual animal of a particular species to temporarily transform your animal into an exemplar of its kind. You learn the <i>apex companion</i> order spell.</div><br>

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# Fighter

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Fighting for honor, greed, loyalty, or simply the thrill of battle, you are an undisputed master of weaponry and combat techniques. You combine your actions through clever combinations of opening moves, finishing strikes, and counterattacks whenever your foes are unwise enough to drop their guard. Whether you are a guard, mercenary, sharpshooter, or blade master, you have honed your martial skills into an art form and perform devastating critical attacks on your enemies.

### During Combat Encounters...
You strike with unmatched accuracy and use specialized combat techniques. A melee fighter stands between allies and enemies, attacking foes who try to get past. A ranged fighter delivers precise shots from a distance.

### During Social Encounters...
You can be an intimidating presence. This can be useful when negotiating with enemies but is sometimes a liability in more genteel interactions.

### While Exploring...
You keep up your defenses in preparation for combat and keep an eye out for hidden threats. You also overcome physical challenges in your way, breaking down doors, lifting obstacles, climbing adeptly, and leaping across pits.

### In Downtime...
You might perform manual labor or craft and repair armaments. If you know 
techniques you no longer favor, you might train yourself in new ones. If you’ve 
established your reputation, you might build an organization or a stronghold of 
your own

### You Might...
-  Know the purpose and quality of every weapon and piece of armor you own.
- Recognize that the danger of an adventurer’s life must be balanced out with great revelry or ambitious works.
- Have little patience for puzzles or problems that require detailed logic or study

### Others Probably...
- Find you intimidating until they get to know you—and maybe even after they get to know you.
- Expect you’re all brawn and no brains.
- respect your expertise in the art of warfare and value your opinion on the quality 
of armaments.

#### Table 3-8: Fighter Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, Reactive strike, fighter feat, Shield Block</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Bravery, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, fighter weapon mastery, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Battlefield surveyor, general feat, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, battle hardened, combat flexibility, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Armor expertise, fighter expertise, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, skill increase, weapon legend</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, greater weapon specialization, improved flexibility, skill increase, tempered reflexes</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, armor mastery, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, skill increase, versatile legend</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Fighter feat, skill feat</div> |

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## Fighter Feats

At each level that you gain a fighter feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. The feats listed below are new or updated fighter feats.

###### 1st Level

#### Agile Shield Grip {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are wielding a shield with a shield boss or shield spikes in one hand.</div>
</div>

###### 4th Level

#### Flip {R}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Acrobatics; trained in medium armor</div>
<div class="trigger">An enemy targets you with a melee Strike.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Flinging your body into a twisting somersault, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your AC against the triggering attack. If the attack still hits you, you can Step to an open space that's still within the triggering enemy's reach, turning the impact of the blow into momentum.</div><br>

#### Inured to Alchemy<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Fortitude saves</div>
<div class="access">You're from Kemalok or the hinterlands</div>
</div>

#### Knock Sense {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

###### 6th Level

#### Pain Tolerance<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Fortitude saves</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain resistance to mental damage equal to half your level and a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against effects that would make you clumsy, drained, or enfeebled.</div><br>

#### Shield Wall {R}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">Your shield is raised and an adjacent ally Raises a Shield.</div>
</div>

###### 8th Level

#### Warrior's Retaliation {R}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Athletics</div>
<div class="trigger">An undead creature within your reach critically fails a Strike against you.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You knock the enemy's blow aside and twist, unbalancing your foe. You attempt to Disarm, Shove, or Trip the triggering creature.</div><br>

###### 10th Level

#### Dazzling Display {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Intimidation</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You perform a bewildering show of prowess, such as by whirling and flashing a weapon, that unnerves foes. Attempt Intimidation checks to Demoralize each enemy within 30 feet. If your last action was a critical hit against an enemy or reduced an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your Intimidation checks. Regardless of the results of your checks, each creature is then temporarily immune to Dazzling Display for 1 minute.</div><br>

###### 20th Level

#### Reflecting Riposte {R}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag fighter">FIGHTER</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dueling Riposte, Mirror Shield, or Twin Riposte</div>
<div class="trigger">An opponent casts a spell and you critically succeed at a saving throw against it.</div>
<div class="req">You have a shield raised or are benefiting from Dueling Parry or Twin Parry.</div>
</div>

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<div class="rule">
You attempt to counteract the triggering spell using powerful magical techniques. Use your attack roll modifier with your shield or parrying weapon for your counteract check. If you counteract the spell, it is reflected upon the caster. If the spell targeted individual creatures, it targets the caster only. If the spell targeted an area centered on a point, the new area is centered on the caster. If the spell was a cone or line, the cone or line emanates from you toward the caster. If the spell has a save DC, it uses your class DC, and if it requires a spell attack roll, use the same attack roll modifier as the counteract check.</div><br>

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# Investigator

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
You seek to uncover the truth, doggedly pursuing leads to reveal the plots of devious villains, discover ancient secrets, or unravel other mysteries. Your analytical mind quickly formulates solutions to complicated problems and your honed senses identify even the most obscure clues. Wielding knowledge as a weapon, you study the creatures and dangers you encounter to exploit their weaknesses.

### During Combat Encounters...
Your keen insights regarding your foes make you more dangerous than your physical strength would suggest. After spending a moment to study your enemies, your perceptiveness allows you to act quickly, striking them where it hurts most. You often assist tougher members of your party, wisely protecting yourself while providing vital aid.

### During Social Encounters...
Few can stand up against your scrutiny. You might not be the most charming, but you see things for what they really are and develop an understanding of a social situation rapidly. Every conversation is an investigation, after all, and you never know what you might uncover!

### While Exploring...
You look for clues in your environment. You often prove yourself to be a valuable ally by serving as a party scout, analyzing the intricacies of puzzles or mysterious phenomena, and pursuing leads that could reveal beneficial information.

### In Downtime...
You study up on subjects new and old, make new allies you can share information with, and pursue hobbies that keep your active mind satisfied. You might make a bit of coin on the side working as a private detective or consulting with the local constabulary.

### You Might...
- Start asking questions—including several that are quite involved—immediately after you’re presented with a conundrum.
- Strive to uncover the deeper meanings behind anything you encounter and to identify the social machinations that truly drive events behind the scenes.
- Get so involved in a case that you ignore other matters, deeming them trivial.

#### Table 3-9: Investigator Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, on the case, Devise a Stratagem, methodology, investigator feat, strategic strike 1d6</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, keen recollection, skill increase, skillful lesson</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, skill increase skillful lesson, strategic strike 2d6, weapon expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, skill increase, skillful lesson, vigilant senses, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, great fortitude, investigator expertise,  skill increase, skillful lesson, strategic strike 3d6</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Deductive improvisation, general feat, resolve, skill increase, skillful lesson</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, incredible senses, light armor expertise, skill increase, skillful lesson, strategic strike 4d6, weapon mastery</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Evasion, general feat, greater weapon specialization,  skill increase, skillful lesson</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, greater resolve, skill increase, skillful lesson, strategic strike 5d6</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, light armor mastery, master detective, skill increase, skillful lesson</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |

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### Others Probably...
- Find the cascades of information you spout forth extremely helpful, if difficult to fully comprehend.
- Get a bit annoyed that you’re such a know-it-all.
- Rely on you to solve mysteries, puzzles, or other challenges requiring intellectual curiosity and reasoning.

## Class Changes

### Methodology

#### Alchemical Sciences
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
</div>
This methodology has only just developed with the alchemical discoveries from Kemalok.  This methodology and all feats associated with it are Rare.

#### Empiricism

Many investigator's pursue the methodology of Empiricism. This methodology is common.

#### Forensic Medicine

Many city-states will hire an Investigator that pursues forensic medicine.  This methodology is common.

#### Interrogation
Many templar's in the city-states have an investigator on hand that pursues the methodology of interrogation.  This methodology is common.<br><br>

## Investigator Feats

At each level that you gain an investigator feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. The feats listed below are new or updated investigator feats.

###### 4th Level

#### Merchant House Initiate <div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag investigator">INVESTIGATOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Survival</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've received the basic training developed for all merchant house recruits. You become an expert in Survival and gain the Experienced Tracker and Survey Wildlife skill feats.</div><br>
  
###### 8th Level

#### Merchant House Veteran <div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag investigator">INVESTIGATOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">Your turn starts, and you're in combat against a creature you spent at least 10 minutes Tracking.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your time spent tracking your target allows you to quickly identify its weaknesses and relay them to your allies. Attempt a Recall Knowledge check against the creature you were Tracking. On a success, you always know the creature's greatest weakness and highest resistance or immunity, in addition to any other information the check would typically provide. You immediately use a quick series of hand gestures to signal this information to any allies who can see you.</div><br>

#### Unseen Passage <div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag investigator">INVESTIGATOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have mastered a magical technique for moving through dangerous woodlands unseen. You can cast <i>vanishing tracks</i> as an innate primal spell heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.</div><br>

###### 20th Level

#### All The Time In The World <div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag investigator">INVESTIGATOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your firsthand experience of the subjective nature of time and space has given you new observational insights. Your mind processes information so quickly that time appears to stop for all creatures but you. You can take up to 9 actions in 3 sets of up to 3 actions each. During this time, you can use purely mental and observational abilities such as Recall Knowledge, Seek, and Devise a Stratagem, and you can use an action to move a mental projection of yourself to a location within a 60- foot radius to observe objects more closely and from different angles, though you can't affect your surroundings in any way (for instance, you could move your mental projection more closely to a distant door to read a minute inscription on its handle, but you could not open it to observe the other side). When the duration elapses, time resumes its normal flow.</div><br>

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# Kineticist

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
The power of the elements flows from within you. Roaring fire, pure water, fleeting air, steadfast earth. A kinetic gate inextricably tied to your body channels power directly from the elemental planes, causing elements to leap to your hand, whirl around your body, and blast foes at your whim. As your connection to the planes grows, you attain true mastery over your chosen elements.

### During Combat Encounters...
Elemental magic surges from you throughout the fight. Without any restrictions on how often you can use your abilities, you become a reliable slinger of magic. You can develop powers you can use in a variety of situations... or you can choose just a few favorite attacks you use repeatedly

### During Social Encounters...
The elements you channel might guide or even influence how you carry yourself in social situations. You might leap to anger like a raging fire, stand your ground as solid as a mountain, keep your motives elusive as the wind, go with the flow like water, make cutting remarks sharp as metal, or exhibit the slow patience of the forest.

### While Exploring...
Your innate connection to the elements hones your awareness of the natural world. In an environment full of an element you can channel, you’re unparalleled, with the ability to repeatedly manipulate the element around you.

### In Downtime...
You could commune with the elements or practice your control over your kineticist powers. Through retraining, you can realign the flow of your kinetic gate to perfect different manifestations of your element.

### You Might...
- Have a conflicted relationship with the kinetic gate that fuels your 
kineticist magic, possibly because it manifested at a traumatic point in 
your past.
- Struggle with controlling and understanding your elemental powers.
- Form a kinship with elemental creatures or feel at home in areas strong 
with your element.

#### Table 3-10: Kineticist Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, kinetic gate, kinetic aura,  impulses (Elemental Blast, Base Kinesis), kineticist feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Extract Element, general feat, skill increase, Will expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, gate's threshold, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, kinetic durability, kinetic expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, gate's threshold, perception expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, kinetic quickness, reflow elements, skill increase, weapon expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, gate's threshold, light armor expertise, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, greater kinetic durability, kinetic mastery, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, double reflow, gates' threshold, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Final gate, general feat, kinetic legend, light armor mastery, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Kineticist feat, skill feat</div> |

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### Others Probably...
-  Find your ability to keep calling on more and more elemental power truly 
astonishing.
- Defer to you in all matters related to your element, from the smallest tasks 
to the politics of the elemental planes.
- Worry you’ll consume yourself with elemental magic or lose control of its 
primal forces.

## Class Changes

### Kinetic Gate

The plane of wood and metal do not exist in Dark Sun.

### Dual gate

When choosing to combine elements you select from the paraelements.  In Dark Sun you select from Magma (earth and fire), Rain (water and air), Silt (earth and water), and Sun (fire and air). Then, select two 1st-level impulse feats, one with the trait of the first element and one with the trait of the other.

## Kineticist Feats

At every level that you gain a kineticist feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat. Wood and Metal impulses are not available on Dark Sun.

<b>Elemental Impulses:</b> When you gain a kineticist feat, you can either select one from the feats available to all kineticists or select an impulse feat for one of your kinetic elements: air, earth, fire, or water. You can also choose a composite impulse if you can channel all the kinetic elements it requires.

## Composite Impulses

###### 4th Level

#### Ice pinions {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag overflow">OVERFLOW</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Small icicles fly from you, propelled with air at great velocity. Make ranged impulse attack rolls against up to 
three creatures within 60 feet of you. All three attacks count toward your multiple attack penalty, but it doesn’t increase until after all the attacks. The icicles deal 3d4 cold damage and 3d4 piercing damage on a hit (or double damage on a critical hit).</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b> Each type of damage increases by 1d4.</div><br>

#### Ice Strike {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Jagged ice shards form in the air and lash out from you. You choose shards or spines, which changes the area, damage type, and critical failure effect. Each creature in the area attempts a basic Reflex save against your class DC. Shards deal 3d6 slashing damage in a 15-foot cone, and a creature that critically fails takes 2d6 persistent bleed damage. Spines deal 3d6 piercing damage in a 30-foot line, and a creature that critically fails is clumsy 1 until the start of your next turn.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b> The damage increases by 1d6.</div><br>

#### Lava Leap {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag overflow">OVERFLOW</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You wreath yourself in molten stone and hurtle toward your enemy. Leap up to your Speed. At the end of your Leap, a wave 
of lava crashes onto all creatures in a 10-foot emanation. Each creature in the area takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage and 2d6 fire 
damage, with a basic Reflex save against your class DC. <br>
   The cooling remains of the lava form a temporary protective shell around you, granting you a +2 circumstance bonus to AC until the start of your next turn.
</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+3)</b>  Each type of damage increases by 1d6.</div><br>

#### Living Sunlight {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
A mass of light forms at your command, forming a bright light fearsome enough to scare off predators in the night. You conjure the light in an unoccupied 10-foot-square space within 30 feet. The light shines for 10 hours, providing all the benefits of a normal campfire. If you use this impulse again, any previous one ends.<br>
   When you make an air or fire ranged Elemental Blast, you can have it come from the mass of light instead of you, flinging burning rays of light. This blast deals an additional 1d6 fire damage. Each time you do this, the size of your ball of light is reduced by one 5-foot square. If all the squares are removed, the impulse ends.
</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+5)</b>  The fire damage increases by 1d6.</div><br>

#### Silt Stream {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Streams of silt spread out on surfaces in your kinetic aura. A creature that starts its turn in the silt takes a -10-foot circumstance penalty to its Speeds until it leaves the area.  The silt is hazardous terrain. A creature takes 2 void damage each time it moves into one of these squares. If any square the silt grows on is sand or silt, double the hazardous terrain damage for all silt streams. If you move, the silt disappears, new silt flows from you at the end of your turn.
</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+4)</b> The damage increases by 1.</div><br>

#### Sun Rays {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
A fusillade of sun rays flies from you. Creatures in a 30-foot cone take 3d4 fire damage and 3d4 persistent fire damage with a basic Reflex save against your class DC.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b>  Each type of damage increases by 1d4.</div><br>

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###### 6th Level

#### Consume Power {R}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger"> You would take acid, electricity, fire, or sonic damage.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You absorb energy and hold it in your kinetic gate. You gain resistance equal to your level to the triggering damage—choose 
one eligible type of resistance. If this reaction prevents any damage, you gain a status bonus equal to half your level to the 
damage roll of the next air or fire impulse you use before the end of your next turn.</div><br>

#### Dash of Rain {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag healing">HEALING</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag vitality">VITALITY</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div><br>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
A small cloud of rain heals a creature. The clouds effects change depending on which malady you decide to treat: confused, disease, poison, sickened, or injuries. Target one living creature within 30 feet, who regains 2d8+4 HP and can attempt a new save against one malady of the chosen kind. If you chose injuries, instead increase the healing dice to d10s. The creature becomes temporarily immune to Dash of Rain for 10 minutes.<br>
   Alternatively, you can add the rain to a dish of food being prepared for up to six people. Creatures who partake in the meal gain the benefits. The herbs’ healing effects wear off if not eaten within an hour, though their flavor remains.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b>  The healing increases by 1d8.</div><br>

#### Magma Barricade {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag overflow">OVERFLOW</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div><br>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Pieces of magma flow together into a structure. The barricade is up to 30 feet long, 15 feet high, and 1/2 inch thick. It must form in a straight line in an unbroken open space that doesn’t pass through any creatures or objects, or the impulse fails. Each 10-foot-by-10-foot section of the wall has AC 10, Hardness 10, and 20 Hit Points, and it’s immune to critical hits and precision damage. If any section is destroyed, the entire wall collapses, and each creature adjacent to the wall takes 2d8 fire damage with a basic Reflex save against your class DC. The wall lasts until the end of your next turn, but you can Sustain it up to 1 minute.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b> The maximum length of the wall increases by 10 feet, the HP of each section increases by 10, and the damage when it’s destroyed increases by 1d8.</div><br>

###### 8th Level

#### Conductive Sphere {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag electricity">ELECTRICITY</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div><br>

<div class="rule">
A floating storm cloud forms in a space within 30 feet, flashing with electricity. It can’t be targeted or damaged. Any of your 
allies adjacent to it gain resistance to electricity equal to your level and add the shock rune to all their Strikes. The sphere lasts until the end of your next turn, but you can Sustain it up to 1 minute.

When you conjure the sphere and the first time you Sustain the impulse on subsequent rounds, you can either have it Fly up to 20 feet or deal 1d12 electricity damage to an adjacent creature with a basic Reflex save against your class DC.</div>

#### Magma Skin {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You touch a willing creature, causing its skin to harden and form spiky protrusions. The target gains resistance 4 to all physical 
damage (except adamantine). Whenever a creature damages the target with an unarmed attack or non-reach melee weapon, 
the attacking creature takes 2 fire damage.<br>
   This impulse lasts for 10 minutes, but each time the target takes physical damage, the duration decreases by 1 minute. The target is temporarily immune to this impulse for 1 hour. If you use Spike Skin again, any previous one ends.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b> The resistance and damage each increase by 2.</div><br>

#### Silt Retch {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag composite">COMPOSITE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag impulse">IMPULSE</div>
<div class="tag kineticist">KINETICSIT</div>
<div class="tag overflow">OVERFLOW</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You exhale a cloud of silt. All creatures in a 30-foot cone take 4d10 void damage with a basic Fortitude save against your class DC. A living creature that fails its save also takes 2d4 persistent void damage.</div></div>

<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b> The cloud’s void damage increases by 1d10 and the persistent damage increases by 1d4.</div><br><br>

#### Solar Radiation {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="rule">
Solar radiation spreads around you. A creature in your kinetic aura when you enter the stance, or who later enters the aura or ends its turn in the aura, attempts at a Fortitude save against your class DC. On a failure, it’s sickened 1 (sickened 2 on a critical failure) and dazzled until it’s no longer sickened. A creature attempts this save no more than once per round and doesn’t attempt a new save if already affected.</div>

###### 12th Level

#### Rain of Magma {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
Globs of magma from the sky. Each creature in a 20-foot burst within 60 feet takes 9d6 fire damage with a basic Reflex save against your class DC. The magma sticks to all surfaces in the area, making them hazardous terrain for 1 minute. A creature that moves through this hazardous terrain takes 3 fire damage for every square of the area it moves into.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (+2)</b> The initial damage increases by 1d6 and the hazardous terrain damage increases by 1.</div><br>

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###### 18th Level

#### Beasts of slumbering cloud {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="rule">
You conjure rain elemental mounts made of solid clouds. Target up to 5 Medium or smaller willing creatures within 30 feet. Large mounts appear underneath them, and the targets can immediately Mount the creatures. Each mount can take four different forms. One form has only a land Speed of 80 feet, and the other forms each have a land Speed of 30 feet with a climb, fly, or swim Speed of 60 feet. Each rider chooses the initial form and can change the form as a single action, which has the concentration trait.

The mounts have AC 40, Fortitude +30, Reflex +30, Will +25, and 180 Hit Points. They’re mindless and immune to bleed, healing, paralyzed, poison, and sleep. They can’t attack. They remain for 1 minute or until you use this impulse again. You can use this impulse as a 1-minute exploration activity to make the duration 1 hour, but this halves the mounts’ defenses and HP.</div>

#### Magma Hell {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
The landscape fills with flows of magma and hardens into stone. The magma flows into a cube 30 feet on a side within 500 feet.Each creature in the area takes 13d6 fire damage, with a basic Reflex save against your class DC.<br>
   Each creature that fails its save is covered in stone, becoming immobilized until it Escapes (the DC is your class DC); a creature that critically failed is also off-guard as long as it’s covered.<br>
   The hell remains until the end of your next turn, but you can Sustain it up to 1 minute. Using this impulse again ends any previous one. The first time you Sustain it each round, the magma reignites. Each creature in the area takes 3d12 fire damage with a basic Reflex save against your class DC.<br>
   Squares in the area are hazardous terrain. A creature takes 6 fire damage for every square of the area it moves through.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
<b>Level (20th)</b> The initial damage is 17d6, and the hazardous terrain damage is 7</div><br>

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# Monk

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
The strength of your fist flows from your mind and spirit. You seek perfection—honing your body into a flawless instrument and your mind into an orderly bastion of wisdom. You’re a fierce combatant renowned for martial arts skills and combat stances that grant you unique fighting moves. While the challenge of mastering many fighting styles drives you to great heights, you also enjoy meditating on philosophical questions and discovering new ways to obtain peace and enlightenment.

### During Combat Encounters...
You speed into the fray, dodging or leaping past obstacles with acrobatic maneuvers. You strike opponents in a rapid flurry of attacks, using your bare fists or wielding specialized weapons that you mastered during your monastic training. Stances let you change up your combat style for different situations, and ki abilities allow you to perform mystic feats like healing yourself and soaring through the air.

### During Social Encounters...
Your perceptiveness lets you see through falsehoods, and your philosophical training provides insight into any situation.

### While Exploring...
You climb up walls, dodge traps, overcome obstacles, and leap over pits. You usually stay toward the outside of the group to protect more vulnerable members, and you’re well suited to looking for danger or moving stealthily.

### In Downtime...
You diligently exercise, eat healthy foods, meditate, and study various philosophies. You might also take up a craft that you strive to perfect.

### You Might...
- Maintain a regimen of physical training and meditation.
- Face adversity with a calm and measured approach, never panicking or succumbing to despair.
- Look to the future for ways you can improve, while remaining at peace with your present self.

### Others Probably...
- Marvel at your feats of physical prowess.
- Think you’re more than a bit uptight, given your vows and tenets.
- Come to you for philosophical advice.

<br>

#### Table 3-10: Monk Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, flurry of blows, monk feat, powerful fist</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, incredible movement +10 feet, mystic strikes, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Alertness, ancestry feat, expert strikes, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, incredible movement +15 feet, path to perfection, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, metal strikes, monk expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, incredible movement +20 feet, second path to perfection, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, graceful mastery, master strikes, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, greater weapon specialization, incredible movement +25 feet, skill increase, third path to perfection</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Adamantine strikes, ancestry feat, graceful legend, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, incredible movement +30 feet, perfect form, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Monk feat, skill feat</div> |

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## Class Changes

The below changes represent monks in Dark sun.

#### <div style="text-align: left">Table 3-11: Monk Unarmed Attacks</div>

| <div style="text-align: left">Attack</div>| <div style="text-align: left">Damage</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Group</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Traits</div> |
|:---:|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">Dagorran jaw</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d8 P</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Agile, backstabber, finesse, nonlethal, unarmed</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">Drake tail</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d10 B</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Backswing, nonlethal, unarmed</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">Erdlu wing</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d6 B</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Agile, finesse, nonlethal, unarmed</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">Falling stone</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d8 B</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Forceful, nonlethal, unarmed</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">Iron sweep</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d8 B</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">nonlethal, parry, sweep, unarmed</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">Kirre claw</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d8 S</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Agile, finesse, nonlethal, unarmed</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">Lashing branch</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d8 S</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Agile, finesse, nonlethal, unarmed</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">Wind crash</div> | <div style="text-align: left">1d6 S</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Brawling</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Agile, nonlethal, propulsive, unarmed</div> |
<div class="tablefooter rule">Some monk stances allow you to make special unarmed attacks while in those stances. These attacks are summarized above.</div>

</div>

## Monk Feats
Every level at which you gain a monk feat, select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before taking the feat.

###### 1st Level

#### Dagorran Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter the stance of a dagorran, low to the ground with your hands held like fanged teeth. You can make dagorran jaw unarmed attacks. These deal 1d8 piercing damage; are in the brawling group; and have the agile, backstabber, finesse, nonlethal, and unarmed traits.

If you’re flanking a target while in Dagorran Stance, your dagorran jaw unarmed attacks also gain the trip trait.</div><br>

#### Drakes Stance  {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter the stance of a drake and make powerful leg strikes like a lashing drake’s tail. You can make drake tail attacks that deal 1d10 bludgeoning damage. They are in the brawling group and have the backswing, nonlethal, and unarmed traits. While in Drake Stance, you can ignore the first square of difficult terrain while Striding.</div><br>

#### Erdlu Stance  {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter the stance of an erdlu, holding your arms in an imitation of an erdlu’s wings and using flowing, defensive motions. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC, but the only Strikes you can make are erdlu wing attacks. These deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage; are in the brawling group; and have the agile, finesse, nonlethal, and unarmed traits.

While in Erdlu Stance, reduce the DC for High Jump and Long Jump by 5, and when you Leap, you can move an additional 5 feet horizontally or 2 feet vertically.</div><br>

#### Feylaar Stance  {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You lower yourself to the ground and take an imposing, knuckle-walking stance.

While in this stance, the only Strikes you can make are feylaar slam unarmed attacks. These deal 1d8 bludgeoning damage; are in the brawling group; and have the backswing, forceful, grapple, nonlethal, and unarmed traits.

While you are in Feylaar Stance, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks to Climb, and if you roll a success on an Athletics check to Climb, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Kirre Stance  {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter the stance of a kirre and can make kirre claw attacks. These deal 1d8 slashing damage; are in the brawling group; and 
have the agile, finesse, nonlethal, and unarmed traits. On a critical success with your kirre claws, if you deal damage, the 
target takes 1d4 persistent bleed damage.

As long as your Speed is at least 20 feet while in Kirre Stance, you can Step 10 feet.</div><br>

#### Rain of Embers Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter the stance of an enraged phoenix, holding your fingers as rigid as deadly talons while moving with quick, flickering gestures that dance with biting flames. The only Strikes you can make are fire talon Strikes. These deal 1d4 fire damage; are in the brawling group; and have the agile, finesse, fire, nonlethal, and unarmed traits.

While in Rain of Embers Stance, you gain a +1 status bonus to AC and fire resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1).</div><br>

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###### 6th Level

#### Blazing Talon Surge {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Rain of Embers Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Rain of Embers Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You rush forward and latch onto your enemy with talons of hungering fire. Stride once. If you end your movement within reach of at least one enemy, you can make a fire talon Strike against that enemy that deals an additional 1d4 persistent fire damage. If it hits and deals damage, you can attempt an Athletics check to Grapple the creature you hit.</div><br>

#### Dagorran Drag {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dagorran Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Dagorran Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You rip your enemy off their feet. Make a dagorran jaw Strike. Your dagorran jaw gains the fatal d12 trait for this Strike, and if the attack succeeds, you knock the target prone.</div><br>

#### Drake Roar {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Drakes Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Drakes Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You bellow, instilling fear in your enemies. Enemies within a 15-foot emanation must succeed at a Will save against your 
Intimidation DC or be frightened 1 (frightened 2 on a critical failure). When a creature frightened by the roar begins its turn 
adjacent to you, it can’t reduce its frightened value below 1 on that turn. Your first attack that hits a frightened creature 
after you roar and before the end of your next turn gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage.

After you use Drake Roar, you can’t use it again for 1d4 rounds. Its effects end immediately if you leave Drake Stance. Creatures in the area of your roar are then temporarily immune for 1 minute.</div><br>

#### Erdlu Flutter {R}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Erdlu Stance</div>
<div class="trigger">You are targeted with a melee attack by an attacker you can see.</div>
<div class="req">You are in Erdlu Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You interpose your arm between yourself and your opponent. Your circumstance bonus to AC from Erdlu Stance increases to +3 against the triggering attack. If the attack misses you, you can immediately make an erdlu wing Strike against the attacker at a –2 penalty, even if the attacker isn’t within your reach.</div><br>

#### Feylaar Pound {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Intimidation; Feylaar Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Feylaar Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You pound your chest before slamming into your foes. Attempt an Intimidation check to Demoralize, then make one feylaar slam Strike against the same target. If your Strike hits, you gain a circumstance bonus to the damage roll equal to triple the value of the target's frightened condition.

<b>Special</b> If you have this feat, while you are in Feylaar Stance, you gain a climb Speed of 15 feet.</div><br>

#### Kirre Slash {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kirre Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Kirre Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You make a fierce swipe with both hands. Make a kirre claw Strike. It deals two extra weapon damage dice (three extra dice if you’re 14th level or higher), and you can push the target 5 feet away as if you had successfully Shoved them. If the attack is a critical success and deals damage, add your Strength modifier to the persistent bleed damage from your kirre claw.</div><br>

###### 8th Level

#### Floater Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">You are unarmed</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You relax your posture and loosen your joints, allowing yourself to move with incredible fluidity. You can make stinging lash attacks that deal 1d6 slashing damage. These attacks are in the brawling group, and have the finesse, nonlethal, reach, and unarmed traits.

While in Floater Stance, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Reflex saves and on checks to Escape and Squeeze.</div><br>

###### 10th Level

#### Entwined Energy Qi <div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can transform your inner power into a type of energy to empower your qi abilities. When you gain this feat, choose either acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic damage. When you cast qi blast, you can choose to have the spell deal the type of damage you chose instead of force damage. When you cast qi form or qi strike, add the type of damage you chose to the list of damage types you can select for the spell.

<b>Special</b> At the GM's discretion, this feat can alter other ki spells.</div><br>

#### Wronged Monk's Wrath <div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">ki spells</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain the <i>wronged monk's wrath</i> ki spell. </div><br>

###### 12th Level

#### Sense Qi <div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">ki spells</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can read the presence of qi in your area. You gain imprecise lifesense out to a range of 30 feet.</div><br>

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###### 14th Level

#### Explosive Death Drop {1A} <div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Blazing Talon Surge</div>
<div class="req">You are in Rain of Embers Stance and have a target grabbed or restrained.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You lift your enemy into the air before bringing them crashing down with a fiery detonation. Roll an Athletics check against your target's Fortitude DC. You take a –1 circumstance penalty to your check if the target is one size larger than you and a –3 circumstance penalty if it's larger than that. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your check if the target is one size smaller than you and a +3 circumstance bonus if it's smaller than that.

<div class="rule result r4">The target takes 12d6 fire damage and falls prone in an unoccupied adjacent square of your choice. The target is no longer grabbed. The target and any creature adjacent to it also each take 1d6 persistent fire damage.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but the target takes 6d6 fire damage instead of 12d6, and creatures don't take persistent fire damage.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The target is no longer grabbed.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">As failure, but you fall prone.</div>
</div><br>

###### 16th Level

#### Electric counter {R} <div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag electricity">electricity</div>
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Wild Winds Initiate</div>
<div class="trigger">You would take damage.</div>
<div class="req">You are in Wild Winds stance.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain resistance to electricity equal to your level until the start of your next turn. If the triggering damage was electricity, this resistance applies to it. If the triggering damage was from a melee attack, the attacker takes 3d6 electricity damage.

<b>Special</b> This feat has the trait corresponding to the tradition of qi spells you cast, either divine or occult.</div><br>

###### 18th Level

#### Effortless Reach <div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag monk">MONK</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Focusing the powers of your qi to augment your blows, you stretch and lengthen your body in ways that defy logic. Your unarmed attacks gain the reach trait.</div><br>

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# Oracle

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Your conduit to elemental power eschews the traditional channels of prayer and servitude—you instead glean elemental truths that extend beyond normal elemental worship. You understand the great mysteries of the inner planes embodied in overarching concepts that transcend the elemental and paraelemental powers, whether because you perceive the common ground across multiple elements or circumvent their power entirely. You explore one of these mysteries and draw upon its power to cast miraculous spells, but that power comes with a terrible price: a curse that grows stronger the more you draw upon it. Your abilities are a double-edged sword, which you might uphold as an instrument of the elemental lords or view as a curse from the elements.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

### During Combat Encounters...
You draw upon your mystery to empower yourself in combat, balancing miraculous 
effects with the increasing severity of your curse as conflicting divine demands 
overtax your physical body. You cast spells to aid your allies and devastate your 
foes, or depending on your mystery, you might wade into battle yourself.

### During Social Encounters...
You rely upon the insights drawn from your mystery. You might leverage your curse to intimidate people or hide its effects to better blend in.

### While Exploring...
You recenter yourself to bring the terrible metaphysical conflicts causing your curse back under control so you can draw upon your mystery’s power again later. You remain aware of supernatural forces acting around you, perhaps peeking into the future to gain insights.

### In Downtime...
You might seek to learn more about your mystery and the divine wellsprings that fuel your power. Associating with others interested in the subject of your mystery can make it easier to live with your curse. You could associate with an organized religion or even 
start your own faithful following devoted to your mystery.

### You Might...
- View your oracular powers as a blessing, a curse, or both.
- Push yourself to the limits of what you can withstand to work great acts of magic.
- Rely on magical items to provide a pool of safer and more reliable magic.

| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, divine spellcasting, spell repertoire, mystery</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells, general feat, signature spells, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, ancestry feat,  skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, expert spellcaster, general feat, resolve, skill increase, </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, ancestry feat, magical fortitude, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle  feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, alertness, general feat, major curse, skill increase, weapon expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle  feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, light armor expertise, lightning reflexes, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle  feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, general feat, master spellcaster, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle  feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, extreme curse, greater resolve, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, legendary spellcaster, oracular clarity, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Oracle feat, skill feat</div> |

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### Others Probably...
- Don’t realize your spellcasting draws upon elemental power and instead believe you command stranger—and possibly evil—powers.
- Assume you performed some terrible transgression to become cursed by the elements. 
- Admire your determination and the sacrifices you make to perform wondrous acts.

## Class Changes
On dark sun the Oracle wields miraculous power from the elemental lords.  They have a direct connection to the elemental and paraelemental planes.

### Mystery
An oracle wields elemental power, either from the elemental or paraelemental planes. This power could come from a potent concept or ideal, the attention of an elemental lord whose area of concern is a specific element, or a direct and dangerous 
conduit to raw elemental power. This is the oracle’s mystery, a source of elemental magic not beholden to any elemental power.

Choose the mystery that empowers your magic. Your mystery grants you special spells called revelation spells and might later grant you divine domain spells. It dictates the effects of your oracular curse, adds an additional cantrip to your repertoire, and gives you one or more trained skills. Drawing insight and power from the collective divine influences that fuel your magic also provides you with a special benefit.

The following oracle mysteries are available in Dark sun.

**Ash:** You see all things in the world as little more than fleeting and temporary, waiting to be purified into their base essence: the ash left behind after a burning fire.

**Flames:** You dance with fire and do your best to remain unscorched by it.

**Frost:** Ice encrusts your heart, and cold pulses through your veins.

**Life:**  The teeming energies of life flow through you out into the world.

**Mountain:** Your soul is linked to the awesome might of towering mountains.

**Radiance:** The light is the purveyor of truth, and the truth is inescapable.

**Tempest:**   Wind, waves, and storms rage at your beck and call.

## Mysteries
Choose the elemental mystery that fuels your mystical power. Your mystery might represent a devotion to an elemental lord with power over the element of your mystery, or a conduit to raw elemental energy.

Whatever its origin and nature, your mystery determines the revelation spells you can cast and the oracular curse that overtakes your body when you do. You learn skills related to that mystery, gain access to a cantrip, and gain a special benefit drawn from the combined divine knowledge and experience of your mystery.

## Reading a Mystery Entry
A mystery entry contains the following information, 
followed by a description of that mystery’s curse.

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> You automatically add the spells listed here to your spell repertoire, as described in Spell Repertoire on 
page 130 of <i>player core 2</i>. At 1st level, you gain a cantrip and a 1st-rank spell. You learn the other spells on the list as soon as you gain the ability to cast oracle spells of that rank.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> You automatically gain your mystery’s initial revelation spell at 1st level and can gain more by selecting the Advanced Revelation, Greater Revelation, and Diverse Mystery oracle feats. </div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Related Domains</b> These are the cleric domains associated with your mystery. You gain domain spells, which you can cast as 
revelation spells, by taking the Domain Acumen and Domain Fluency feats. At 11th level, the divine access class feature also gives you additional slotted spells based on your domains. The domains and their domain spells appear on page 372 of <i>Player Core</i>. Domains marked with an asterisk (*) are found in Pathfinder Lost Omens Divine Mysteries.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Mystery Skill</b> You become trained in the listed skill. A few mysteries make you trained in more than one skill.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Oracle Feat</b> You gain this 1st-level oracle feat. This is a cursebound feat, so using it aggravates your oracular curse.</div><br>

### Ash

You see all things in the world as little more than fleeting and temporary, waiting to be purified into their base essence: the ash left behind after a burning fire. While you understand fire is a necessary part of this process, you see fire mostly as a tool to achieve final purity, not a goal. You have much in common with oracles with the flames mystery, but you may consider them to be short-sighted, or at best simply lacking in understanding of the truths that their burning fires impart.

You might see ash as the only true representation of the impermanent nature of life and its pointless existence. Alternatively, you may see the benefit ash can have on soils and farmlands as part of a larger cycle of death and rebirth.<br>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> cantrip: <i>ignition</i>, 1st: <i>dehydrate</i>, 2nd: <i>ash cloud</i>, 3rd: <i>elemental annihilation wave</i></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> initial: <i>ashen wind</i>; advanced: <i>incendiary ashes</i>; greater: <i>ash form</i></div>
<b>Related Domains</b> destruction, fire, nature, toil<br>
<b>Mystery Skill</b> Nature<br>
<b>Oracle Feat</b> Whispers of Weakness<br><br>

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#### Curse of Creeping Ashes
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag curse">CURSE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>

Your body is slowly being consumed by the fires of your internal power, purifying you with each passing day. You are occasionally wracked with dry, wheezing coughs, and wherever you go you leave behind a fine trace of ash that falls from your body. When you have the cursebound condition, you are enfeebled with a value equal to your cursebound value, and you take a status penalty to perception checks equal to your cursebound value as ash floods your vision..

### Flames
Fire lives at the center of the world, the center of the sun, and the center of civilization. You might revere this elemental force, siphon power from the Elemental Plane of Fire, or the Paraelemental Plane of Sun.
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> cantrip: <i>ignition</i>, 1st: <i>breath fire</i>, 2nd: <i>blazing bolt</i>, 3rd: <i>fireball</i></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> initial: <i>incendiary aura</i>; advanced: <i>whirling flames</i>; greater: <i>flaming fusillade</i></div>
<b>Related Domains</b> dust, fire, star, sun<br>
<b>Mystery Skill</b> Acrobatics<br>
<b>Oracle Feat</b> Foretell Harm<br><br>

#### Curse of Engulfing Flames
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag curse">CURSE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Fires flare noticeably (though not dangerously) in your presence, you occasionally smoke slightly, and your body is almost painfully hot to the touch. When you have the cursebound condition, you catch fire, taking persistent fire damage equal to your cursebound value. The flames shed light like a torch, and if you enter an environment where they could not burn (such as underwater), you simply seethe with flameless heat. The flames subside when you begin Refocusing to assuage your curse or if you fall unconscious, but they resume if your Refocus activity is interrupted or when you return to consciousness.</div> <br>

### Frost

Ice encrusts your heart, and cold pulses through your veins. No matter where you go, or what you do, subzero temperature clings to you as a vessel of the cold. You draw your powers from the heart of the Paraelemental Plane of Rain, the fierce power of ice shall be known by your presence.

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> cantrip: <i>frostbite</i>, 1st: <i>chilling spray</i>, 4th: <i>ice storm</i>, 5th: <i>howling blizzard</i></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> initial: <i>sheets of ice</i>; advanced: <i>ice shield</i>; greater: <i>fractal frosting</i></div>
<b>Related Domains</b> air, cold, creation, water<br>
<b>Mystery Skill</b> Crafting<br>
<b>Oracle Feat</b> Foretell Harm<br><br>

#### CURSE OF ICY STEPS
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag curse">CURSE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag cold">COLD</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your gaze is nearly as cold as the touch of your skin. Even in warm weather, your breath condenses as if it were freezing, and patches of ice sometimes appear on your clothes or hair. The cold has been a companion when others have felt you were distant and unapproachable, and it has never bothered you.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 1</b> The ice begins to set, imposing a -10-foot status penalty to all your Speeds.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 2</b> The ice begins to claim more than just your feet, you have a -15-foot status penatlty to all your speeds.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 3</b> The ice thickens, you have a -20-foot status penatlty to all your speeds.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 4</b> The ice fully encloses your body and you become grabbed by the ice.</div><br>

### Life

The never-ending flow of vitality within living beings is palpable to you. You might uphold the sanctity of life, or perhaps you seek to undermine it. You draw power from the Elemental Plane of Water.
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> cantrip: <i>vitality lash</i>, 1st: <i>soothe</i>, 2nd: <i>false vitality</i>, 5th: <i>grisly growths</i></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> initial: <i>life link</i>; advanced: <i>delay affliction</i>; greater: <i>life-giving form</i></div>
<b>Related Domains</b> death, healing, pain, soul<br>
<b>Mystery Skill</b> Medicine<br>
<b>Oracle Feat</b> Nudge the Scales<br><br>

#### Curse of Outpouring Life
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag curse">CURSE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Life energy flows outward from you and connects you to all living things, but you expend your vital essence to do so. Your presence comforts the ill and injured, causes scars to fade slightly, spurs new growth in plants, and otherwise infuses your surroundings with vitality. As your life force seeps outward, it becomes more difficult to keep your body functioning. Magical effects that restore Hit Points to you take a status penalty equal to your level (minimum 1) times your cursebound value to the number of HP you recover. </div><br>

### Mountain

Your soul is linked to the awesome might of towering mountains. You have a direct connection with the Elemental Plane of Earth. You yourself are a holy peak, and your powers manifest as such.<br>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> cantrip: <i>scatter scree</i>, 1st: <i>pummeling rubble</i>, 2nd: <i>exploding earth</i>, 4th: <i>grasping earth</i></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> initial: <i>rolling rubble</i>; advanced: <i>raise mountain</i>; greater: <i>juggernaut of jagged stone</i></div>
<b>Related Domains</b> creation, earth, might, protection<br>
<b>Mystery Skill</b> Athletics<br>
<b>Oracle Feat</b> Moutain's Endurance<br><br>

#### CURSE OF THE ANCIENT SUMMIT
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag curse">CURSE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your dreams are haunted by visions of a tall, mighty peak calling you to join it and become a part of the mountain yourself. In moments of stillness, your skin almost resembles stone, and you might find moss growing on you after a restful night's sleep. You can't help but feel that perhaps you are simply a vessel of this mountain and that one day, you'll return to it and join it in an eternal, stony slumber.</div>

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<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 1</b> Your skin starts to petrify, giving you a heavy, rock-like appearance. You have a -5 status foot penalty to all of your speeds</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 2</b> More and more stone and rock builds up around you, coming around your legs from the ground you stand upon. You have a -10-foot status penalty to all of your speeds.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 3</b> Further stone and rock cover your body. You have a -15-foot status penalty to all of your speeds.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 4</b> You give in to the call of the earth, you become immobilized.</div><br>

### Radiance

The light is the purveyor of truth, and the truth is inescapable. You carry light with you as a great warrior would wield a weapon, though perhaps it burns you greater than any mortal weapon could hope to wound you. You found the guiding light from the Paraelemental Plane of Sun. The light will shine as long as you walk with it by your side.
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> cantrip: <i>light</i>, 1st: <i>scorching blast</i>, 2nd: <i>revealing light</i>, 3rd: <i>holy light</i></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> initial: <i>flash of brilliance</i>; advanced: <i>rainbow blade</i>; greater: <i>light prison</i></div>
<b>Related Domains</b> fire, moon, star, sun<br>
<b>Mystery Skill</b> Arcana<br>
<b>Oracle Feat</b> Foretell Harm<br><br>

#### CURSE OF UNSUPRESSABLE BRILLIANCE
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag curse">CURSE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag light">LIGHT</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your inner light shines so bright that it exudes from your eyes, ears, mouth, and fingertips with blinding extravagance. At all times you exhibit a faint glow of a color that reflects the energy of where your magic originates.  </div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 1</b> You are distracted by the dazzling light, you take a -1 status penaly to Perception checks and Will saving throws.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 2</b> Your brilliant light shines so bright it’s difficult to see. You are dazzled, but only to creatures and objects
within 15 feet of you.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 3</b> The shimmering brilliance overwhelms your senses entirely. You are dazzled.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 4</b> You are bursting with radiance. You are blinded.</div><br>

### Tempest

The fury of the wind and waves pounds in your heart, whether your power flows from natural storms, a conduit to the elemental Planes of Air, Water, or paraelemental Plane of Rain.
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Granted Spells</b> cantrip: <i>selectric arc</i>, 1st: <i>thunderstrike</i>, 4th: <i>hydraulic torrent</i>, 6th: <i>chain lightning</i></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Revelation Spells</b> initial: <i>tempest touch</i>; advanced: <i>thunderburst</i>; greater: <i>tempest form</i></div>
<b>Related Domains</b> air, cold, lightning, water<br>
<b>Mystery Skill</b> Nature<br>
<b>Oracle Feat</b> Foretell Harm<br><br>

#### Curse of inclement headwinds
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag curse">CURSE</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">

The weather seems to always oppose you in ways large and small. Even when you are calm and at rest, your hair and clothing are inconveniently blown about by gentle winds, you are slightly damp from the faintest drizzle, and your touch often comes with a static shock. When you have the cursebound condition, you are opposed by the elements, with the following effects.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 1</b> Lightning is drawn to you. You gain electricity weakness 2 and electricity spells or effects that have additional effects for a creature wearing or holding metal treat you as though you were wearing metal. Any immunity or resistance you have to such spells and effects is suppressed.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 2</b> Blowing winds impose a -2 circumstance penalty to ranged attack rolls you make.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 3</b> Your weakness to electricity is equal to 5 + your level.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Cursebound 4</b>  The raging winds push you back, imposing a -10-foot status penalty to all your Speeds.</div><br>

## Oracle Feats
At every level that you gain an oracle feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat.

###### 1st Level
#### Mountain's Endurance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cursebound">CURSEBOUND</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> mountain mystery</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are innately suited to survival in the mountains. Your hardened your skin to that of stone, you gain a +4 item bonus to 
AC and a +2 circumstance bonus to any defenses against Reposition, Shove, Trip, and other forced movement effects. You have a Dexterity modifier cap to your AC of +0, meaning you don’t add your Dexterity to your AC, and your Speeds are all reduced by 5 feet. The item bonus to AC from Mountain's Endurance is cumulative with armor potency runes on your explorer’s clothing, mystic armor, and bands of force.</div><br>

###### 10th Level
#### Trial by Skyfire {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cursebound">CURSEBOUND</div>
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag oracle">ORACLE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> ash, cosmos flames ,or radiance mystery</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your lips murmur as you portend a great disaster, one you hope you survive. A rain of blazing bolts begins to fall from the heavens in a 10-foot emanation, centered on you, that deals 2d6 fire damage to all creatures in the emanation at the end of each of your turns (basic Reflex save); you can’t exclude yourself from the emanation. The skyfire persists for 1 minute; while you can’tDismiss it, you can suppress the effect for 1 round with a Sustain action. The rain of fire is suppressed if you fall unconscious. If you become cursebound 3 or 4 at any point during Trial by Skyfire’s duration, the emanation increases to 15 feet and the damage increases to 4d6.</div><br>

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# Psychic

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
The mind can perceive truths hidden to fine-tuned instruments, house more secrets than any tome, and move objects and hearts more deftly than any lever. By delving into both the will and the way, you have awoken to the might of psionics, allowing you to cast spells not through incantations or gestures but by the power of your will alone. While the thin line between your mind and reality means that a single errant thought could have unintended consequences for yourself and your companions, you know that anything is possible, if you can imagine it.

### During Combat Encounters...
You rely on your collection of psionic cantrips as a mainstay, choosing where and when to amplify them for maximum effect. You weave your more conventional powers into the fray where more complex psionics are needed, unleashing your mind’s full potential in a blaze of power when the time is right.

### During Social Encounters...
You navigate situations guided by the source of your subconscious power. If your power springs from your personality, you might maneuver with empathy and sociability; if it’s more cerebral, you might provide a steady logical front.

### While Exploring...
You keep your mind’s eye open for the many paranormal threats that those who are less sensitive might not detect. Typically, you either scan for magic or investigate for psychic impressions, veiled thoughts, and wandering spirits.

### In Downtime...
You strive to learn more about the depths of the mind, seeking out new psionics and phenomena to uncover, knowing that as you gain a deeper understanding of yourself, you can access more of the power within. You test the limits of your adaptability by retraining to fit your evolving understanding of your potential.

### You Might...
-  Show a preference for learning, meditation, dreams, or other intangible manifestations of thought over the immediacy of the physical world.
- Learn new things about yourself, just when you thought you knew it all.

#### Table 3-13: Psychic Advancement
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, psychic spellcasting, spell repertoire, psi cantrips and psi amps, unleash Psyche, subconscious mind, conscious mind</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells, general feat, signature spells, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, ancestry feat, clarity of focus, precognitive reflexes, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, expert spellcaster, general feat, skill increase, </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, ancestry feat, great fortitude, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, extrasensory perception, general feat, skill increase walls of will, weapon expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, personal barrier, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, general feat, master spellcaster, skill increase, </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, fortress of will, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, infinite mind, legendary spellcaster, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic feat, skill feat</div> |

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- Think of your psionics as so much a part of you that you use it even when normal methods suffice, perhaps preferring to communicate via mental messages or levitating an object to a companion at the opposite end of a table.

### Others Probably...
- Are awed by your mental abilities, especially when your psyche is unleashed.
- Have difficulty understanding that the magic you perform with your mind comes from the same source as more conventional spellcasting.
- Wonder if you might be a monster in disguise, possessed by spirits, or have some other unusual reason for your strange powers.

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# Psychic Warrior

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Where the psychic spends his days studying the intricacies of psionic power and unlocking the mysteries of the mind, others choose to use their internal power to augment their physical form. These psychic warriors use their psionic potential as a way to improve their natural abilities, becoming fierce and deadly in their chosen path.

| KEY ATTRIBUTE<br><br> STRENGTH OR DEXTERITY<br><br>| 
|:---|
|  At 1st level, your class gives you an attribute boost to your choice of Strength or Dexterity. |

| HIT POINTS<br><br> 8 plus your Constitution modifier| 
|:---|
|  You increase your maximum number of HP by this number at 1st level and every level thereafter |

</div>

### During Combat Encounters...
You channel psionics through your weapon or body to hit enemies with a powerful attack and spell combination. Because your spells per day are limited, you often rely on trusty, carefully chosen cantrips and focus spells. When necessary, you know how to win a fight without psionics.

### During Social Encounters...
Your education and breadth of experience make you knowledgeable about many subjects. You can contribute information related to your scholarly pursuits, especially about psionics.

### While Exploring...
Your flexibility means you might look for psychic auras, remain on guard, or even sneak around. Your ability to fill different niches means that your role often depends on the talents of the other members of your group.

### In Downtime...
You split your time between psychic pursuits, like researching psionics and crafting items, and martial practice, such as retraining combat abilities to learn new techniques.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

### Initial Proficiencies
<div style='margin-top:1px'>At 1st level, you gain the listed proficiency ranks in the following statistics. You’re untrained in anything that is not listed unless you gain a better proficiency rank in some other way.</div>

### Perception
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Trained in Perception</div>

### Saving Throws
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Expert in Fortitude</div>
Trained in Reflex<br>
Expert in Will

### Skills
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Trained in Arcana</div>
Trained in a number of additional skills equal to 2 plus your Intelligence modifier

### Attacks
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Trained in simple weapons</div>
Trained in martial weapons<br>
Trained in unarmed attacks

### Defenses
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Trained in light armor</div>
Trained in medium armor<br>
Trained in unarmored defense

### Spells
<div style='margin-top:1px'>Trained in occult spell attacks</div>
Trained in occult spell DCs
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

</div>

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#### <div style="text-align: left">Table 3-14: Psychic Warrior Advancement</div>
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, conflux psionics, hybrid study, psychic spellcasting, psionic cascade, psystrike</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells, general feat, skill increase, unlimited signature spells</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, ancestry feat, lightning reflexes, skill increase, weapon expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, general feat, skill increase, studious spells, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, alertness, ancestry feat, expert spellcaster, resolve, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, general feat, medium armor expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, skill increase, weapon mastery</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, general feat, greater weapon specialization, juggernaut, skill increase, </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, master spellcaster, medium armor mastery, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Double psystrike, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Psychic warrior feat, skill feat</div> |

### You Might...
- Continually refine your psionics and item selections to suit your personal style or prepare battle plans and psychic lists for a variety of situations. 
- Socialize with scholars of psionics and veteran combatants alike, seeking out masters to teach you new techniques.
- Overreach with ambitious plans that pull you in too many directions at once.

### Others Probably...
- Wonder how you can keep on top of two disparate disciplines at the same time.
- Believe you have a broad enough skill set to take care of yourself in most situations.

## Class Changes

The abilities listed below apply to the psychic warrior which is a reskinned Magus.

### Psychic Spellcasting

You study psionics so you can combine them with your attacks or solve problems that strength of arms alone can’t handle. You can cast occult spells using the Cast a Spell activity, and you can supply material, somatic, and verbal components when casting spells. Because you’re a psychic warrior, you can draw replacement sigils with the tip of your weapon or your free hand for psionics requiring material components, replacing them with somatic components instead of needing a material component pouch.

At 1st level, you can prepare one 1st-rank spell and five cantrips each morning from the spells in your repertoire (see below). Prepared spells remain available to you until you cast them or until you prepare your spells again. The number of spells you can prepare is called your spell slots.

As you increase in level as a psychic warrior, your number of spell slots and the highest rank of spells you can cast from spell slots increase, shown in Table 3–15: Psychic Spells per Day. Because you split your focus between physical training and psionic scholarship, you have no more than two spell slots of your highest rank and, if you can cast 2nd-rank spells or higher, two spell slots of 1 rank lower than your highest spell rank.

Some of your spells require you to attempt a psychic attack roll to see how effective they are, or have your enemies roll against your spell DC (typically by attempting a saving throw). Your psychic attack rolls and spell DCs use your Intelligence modifier. Details on calculating these statistics appear on page 447 of the <i>Core Rulebook</i>.

### Heightening Spells
When you gain spell slots of 2nd rank and higher, you can fill those slots with stronger versions of lower-rank spells. This increases the spell’s rank, heightening it to match the spell slot. Many spells have specific improvements when they are heightened to certain ranks.

### Cantrips
A cantrip is a special type of spell that doesn’t use spell slots. You can cast a cantrip at will, any number of times per day. A cantrip is always automatically heightened to half your level rounded up—this is usually equal to the highest rank of spell you can cast as a psychic warrior. For example, as a 1st-level psychic warrior, your cantrips are 1st-rank spells, and as a 5th-level psychic warrior, your cantrips are 3rd-rank spells.

### Spell Repertoire

The collection of spells you can cast is called your spell repertoire. At 1st level, you learn four 1st-rank occult spells of your choice and eight cantrips from any type of your choice. You can choose the eight cantrips from any spell list.

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You choose the 1st-rank spells from the common spells from the occult list or from other occult spells to which you have access. You can cast any spell in your spell repertoire by using a spell slot of an appropriate spell rank.

You add to this spell repertoire as you increase in level. Each time you get a spell slot (see Table 3-15), you add a spell to your spell repertoire of the same rank. At 2nd level, you select another 1st-rank spell; at 3rd level, you select one 2nd-rank spell, and so on. When you add spells, you might add a higher rank version of a spell you already have, so you can cast a heightened 
version of that spell. Your conscious mind also adds additional spells to your repertoire as you gain spells of higher ranks.

Though you gain them at the same rate, your spell slots and the spells in your spell repertoire are separate. If a feat or other ability adds a spell to your spell repertoire, it wouldn’t give you another spell slot, and vice versa.

### Swapping Spells in your Repertoire

As you gain new spells in your repertoire, you might want to replace some of the spells you previously learned. Each time you gain a level and learn new spells, you can swap out one of your old spells for a different spell of the same rank. If it’s a level at which you lose a set of lower rank slots, you can replace the two in either order. You can also instead swap a cantrip. You can also swap out spells by retraining during downtime.

At 6th level and every even level thereafter, you can swap out any number of your spells for different spells of a rank you can cast. When you do, you must keep at least one spell you can cast with your lowest rank of spell slots so you don’t end up with slots you can’t use. For instance, at 6th level you would need to keep at least one 2nd-rank spell, but all your other spells could be 3rd-rank.

### Psystrike
You’ve learned the fundamental psychic warrior technique that lets you combine psychic and physical attacks together. You gain the Psystrike activity.

#### Psystrike {2A}

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">until recharged (see below)</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You channel a psychic spell into a punch or sword thrust to deliver a combined attack. You Cast a Spell that takes 1 or 2 actions to cast and requires a spell attack roll. The effects of the spell don’t occur immediately but are imbued into your attack instead. Make a melee Strike with a weapon or unarmed attack. Your psychic spell is coupled with your attack, using your attack roll 
result to determine the effects of both the Strike and the spell. This counts as two attacks for your multiple attack penalty, but you don’t apply the penalty until after you’ve completed the Psystrike. The infusion of psionic energy grants your Strike the occult trait, making it magical.

After you use Psystrike, you can’t do so again until you recharge your Psystrike as a single action, which has the concentrate trait. You also recharge your Psystrike when you cast a conflux psionic that takes at least 1 action to cast; casting a focus spell of another type doesn’t recharge your Psystrike.</div>

### Psystrike Specifics

Though the base Psystrike rules cover most spells, various modifications apply to more complicated spells when loaded into your fist, blade, or other attack.

**One Target:** The spell targets only the target of your Strike, even if it normally allows more targets. Some feats let you affect more creatures.

**Reach:** The coupled psionic affects the target using the reach of the weapon or unarmed attack you make your Psystrike with. For instance, <i>thunderstrike</i> would affect a creature beyond the reach of your hand if you used a weapon with reach, and <i>frostbite</i> would affect only a creature in your weapon’s reach, even though the spell’s range is longer.

**Ancillary Effects:** Your spell still has any non-targeted effects that might affect creatures other than the target, as well as any ongoing effects starting from the moment you hit with the Strike. For example, <i>caustic blast</i> would still deal its splash damage to creatures other than the target and <i>tangle vine</i>’s circumstance penalty would last for its normal duration. The spell takes effect after the Strike deals damage; if the Strike has other special effects, the GM determines whether they happen before or after the spell.

**Multiple Defenses:** Any additional rolls after the initial spell attack still happen normally, such as the Fortitude save attempted by the target of a disintegrate spell. Similarly, a spell that allows you to attack with it again on subsequent rounds would only combine a Strike with its initial attack roll, not with any later ones.

**Invalid or Immune Target:** If the target you hit wouldn’t be a valid target for the spell, the spell is still expended but doesn’t affect the target. If the target is immune to your attack but not the spell, it can still be affected by the spell.

**Variable Actions:** Some spells have different effects based on the number of actions you spend to cast them. You choose whether to use the effects of the 1- or 2-action version of the spell when you use Psystrike. A spell has to take exactly 1 or 2 actions; you can’t use Psystrike with a spell that takes a free action, reaction, or 3 or more actions.

**Spellshape:** You typically can’t use spellshape with Psystrike because spellshape requires the next action you take to be Cast a Spell, and Psystrike is a combined activity that doesn’t qualify.

### Psionic Cascade
After you wield psionics, you can enter a special stance to make your attacks more effective.

#### Psionic Cascade {1A}

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> You used your most recent action this turn to Cast a Spell or make a Psystrike. You need to meet this requirement only to enter the stance, not to remain in it.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You divert a portion of the spell’s magical power and keep it cycling through your body and weapon using specialized forms, breathing, or footwork. While you’re in the stance, your melee Strikes deal 1 extra damage. This damage increases to 2 if you have weapon specialization and 3 if you have greater weapon specialization. </div>

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#### TABLE 3-15: CLASS SPELLS BY LEVEL
| Your Level | Cantrips | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
|1|5|1|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|2|5|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|3|5|2|1|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|4|5|—|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|5|5|—|2|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|6|5|—|2|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|7|5|—|*|2|2|—|—|—|—|—|
|8|5|—|*|2|2|—|—|—|—|—|
|9|5|—|*|—|2|2|—|—|—|—|
|10|5|—|*|—|2|2|—|—|—|—|
|11|5|—|—|*|—|2|2|—|—|—|
|12|5|—|—|*|—|2|2|—|—|—|
|13|5|—|—|—|*|—|2|2|—|—|
|14|5|—|—|—|*|—|2|2|—|—|
|15|5|—|—|—|*|—|—|2|2|—|
|16|5|—|—|—|*|—|—|2|2|—|
|17|5|—|—|—|*|—|—|—|2|2|
|18|5|—|—|—|*|—|—|—|2|2|
|19|5|—|—|—|*|—|—|—|2|2|
|20|5|—|—|—|*|—|—|—|2|2|
<div class="tablefooter rule">* The studious spells class feature gives you extra slots of this rank for specific spells. </div>
</div>

Any Strike that benefits from this damage gains the occult trait, making it magical.

If your most recent spell before entering the stance was one that can deal damage, the damage from the stance is instead the same type that spell could deal (or one type of your choice if the spell could deal multiple types of damage).

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### Hybrid Study

Your extensive physical training and carefully chosen psionics combine to form a unique and dangerous fighting style that’s more than the sum of its parts. You choose one field of hybrid study to represent your particular combination of skills. Your hybrid study gives you a special ability, usually tied to Psystrike or Psionic Cascade, and it determines your initial conflux psionic. The hybrid studies presented in this book are as follows.

##### Inexorable Iron
Once you begin along a path, nothing can stop you from reaching its end. You transform the mass of a greataxe, greatsword, or polearm into an unstoppable force to augment your own striking power or keep you standing on the battlefield.

When you enter Psionic Cascade stance and at the start of each of your turns while you’re in that stance, if you’re wielding a melee weapon in two hands, you gain temporary Hit Points equal to half your level (minimum 1 temporary HP).

**Conflux Psionic** *thunderous strike*

##### Laughing Shadow
Psionics are freeing, a means to your ends, and you can use it to go where you want, do as you please, and avoid the consequences. You are a laughing shadow of psionics and blade, always one step ahead of your foes, always with a trick up your sleeve.

While in Psionic Cascade stance, you gain a +5-foot status bonus to your Speeds, or a +10-foot bonus if you’re unarmored. If you have a free hand while in the stance and are attacking an off-guard creature, you increase the extra damage to 3, to 5 if you have weapon specialization, or to 7 if you have greater weapon specialization. You must have your other hand completely free; the extra damage doesn’t apply if you have a free-hand weapon or other item in that hand, even if you would normally be able to use the 
hand for other things.

**Conflux Psionic** *dimensional assault*

##### Sparkling Targe
You’ve studied the applications of psionics, training yourself to perform not just offensive maneuvers but defensive tactics as well.

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When psychic power flows through you, your shield can block impossible things, even a dragon’s breath or a *force barrage*.

You gain the Shield Block general feat.

When you’re in Psionic Cascade stance with your shield raised, your circumstance bonus to AC from your shield also applies to your saves against spells and other magical effects. In addition, damage you take as a result of a spell or magical effect while you’re in Psionic Cascade can trigger your Shield Block reaction, even if the damage isn’t physical.

When blocking damage in this way, increase your shield’s Hardness by an amount equal to the extra damage from Arcane Cascade (typically 1, but 2 if you have weapon specialization, or 3 if you have greater weapon specialization). These benefits apply whether you’re using an actual shield, the *shield* spell, or something else that works like a shield (such as a raised tome if you have the Raise a Tome feat).

**Conflux Psionic** *shielding strike*

##### Starlit Span
With psionics, the sky’s the limit, and you can’t be bound by the confines of physical proximity. Your power reaches as far as your senses can perceive, transcending the space between you and your target even with spells that normally require direct physical contact.

When you use Psystrike, you can make a ranged weapon or ranged unarmed Strike, as long as the target is within the first range increment of your ranged weapon or ranged unarmed attack. You can deliver the spell even if its range is shorter than the range increment of your ranged attack.

**Conflux Psionic** *shooting star*

##### Twisting Tree
The staff is perhaps one of the simplest of weapons, but this simplicity belies its elegance and versatility. To you, a staff is casting implement and martial weapon alike—the foundation of a fighting style.

While you wield a staff in one hand, the staff adjusts in shape and weight, gaining the agile trait and increasing its damage die size to 1d6. While you wield a staff in both hands, it lengthens, twists, and reshapes, gaining the parry, reach, and trip traits. While you’re in Psionic Cascade stance, you can Interact or Release to change your grip on the weapon as a free action when you Strike with your staff, including Strikes made in a Psystrike. This happens before you roll your attack roll. You can also Interact to change your grip on the staff as a free action triggered at the end of your turn.

**Conflux Spell** *spinning staff*

### Conflux Psionics

You learn a conflux psionic from your hybrid study, and you can cast additional conflux psionics by selecting certain feats. Conflux psionics are psychic warrior-specific spells created for combat and are a type of focus spell. It costs 1 Focus Point to cast a focus spell, and you start with a focus pool of 1 Focus Point.

You refill your focus pool during your daily preparations, and you can regain 1 Focus Point by spending 10 minutes using the Refocus activity to perform a physical regimen. Psychic Warrior conflux psionics appear on pages 280–281.

Focus spells are automatically heightened to half your level rounded up. Focus spells don’t require spell slots, nor can you cast them using spell slots. Taking feats can give you more focus spells and increase the size of your focus pool, though your focus pool can never hold more than 3 points. The full rules can be found on page 300 of the Core Rulebook.

### Unlimited Signature Spells <div class="levels">3rd</div>

All of your spells are signature spells. That means that if you know a spell, you can heighten it freely by casting it from a higher rank spell slot, up to the maximum rank of spell you can cast. You can similarly cast any of its lower rank versions without learning them separately.

### Studious Spells <div class="levels">7th</div>

Your hybrid study grants you additional spells that can enhance your power in combat. You gain two special 2nd-rank studious spell slots, which can be used to prepare <i>gecko grip</i>, <i>sure strike</i>, <i>water breathing</i>, and an additional spell depending on your hybrid study. You add any spells from this class feature to your spellbook. At 11th level, the extra slots increase to 3rd-rank, and you add haste and an additional spell depending on your hybrid study. At 13th level, the extra slots increase to 4th-rank, and you add fly and an additional spell depending on your hybrid study.<br>
<b>Laughing Shadow</b> 7th: <i>mirror image</i>; 11th: <i>shift blame</i>; 13th:

<i>translocate</i><br>
<b>Sparkling Targe</b> 7th: <i>resist energy</i>; 11th: <i>warding aggression</i>;

13th: <i>mountain resilience</i><br> 
<b>Starlit Span</b> 7th: <i>darkvision</i>; 11th: <i>wall of wind</i>; 13th:

<i>freedom of movement</i><br>
<b>Inexorable Iron</b> 7th: <i>enlarge</i>; 11th: <i>earthbind</i>; 13th:

<i>planar seal</i><br>
<b>Twisting Tree</b> 7th: <i>embed message</i>; 11th: <i>slow</i>; 13th: <i>blink</i>

## Psychic Warrior Feats

At every level that you gain a psychic warrior feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat.

###### 1st Level

#### Familiar<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You make a pact with a creature that helps you with your martial endeavors and assists your spellcasting. You gain a familiar (<i>Core Rulebook</i> 217).</div><br>

#### Psionic Fists<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your physical training encompasses unarmed combat forms. The damage die for your fist changes to 1d6 instead of 1d4.
</div>

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<div class="rule">
You don’t take the normal –2 circumstance penalty when making a lethal attack with your fist or any other unarmed attacks. Your unarmed attacks gain the occult trait, making them magical.

At 5th level, you also gain the critical specialization effects of unarmed attacks in the brawling group and weapons in the brawling group.</div><br>

#### Psychic Warrior's Analysis {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You make an assessment informed by your knowledge of how a creature fights. Attempt a check to Recall Knowledge about a creature.</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your check if you previously hit the creature with a Strike this turn. If your check is successful, recharge your Psystrike. The subject of your check is temporarily immune to Psychic Warrior’s Analysis for 1 day.</div><br>

###### 2nd Level

#### Cantrip Expansion<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Dedicated study allows you to prepare a wider range of simple spells. You can prepare two additional cantrips each day.</div><br>

#### Enhanced Familiar<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">a familiar</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You infuse your familiar with more magical energy. You can select four familiar or master abilities each day, instead of two.</div><br>

#### Expansive Psystrike<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve adapted a wider array of spells to work with your attacks. Rather than needing to use a spell that has a spell attack roll for a Psystrike, you can use a harmful spell that can target a creature or that has an area of a burst, cone, or line (abiding by any other </div>

<div class="rule">
restrictions of Psystrike). When you Cast a Spell that doesn’t have a spell attack roll as part of a Psystrike, it works in the following ways.

- If your Strike critically fails, the spell is lost with no effect.
- Creatures use their normal defenses against the spell, such as saving throws.
- If the spell lets you select a number of targets, it instead targets only the creature you attacked with your Strike.
- If the spell has an area, the target must be in that area. A burst is centered on a corner of the target’s square, or the square corner closest to the center of the target, if the target is Large or larger; you choose the corner if more than one is eligible. A cone or line emits from you and must include the target; if you’re not adjacent to the target (using a reach weapon or starlit span, for example), choose any square adjacent to the target as the source. The spell affects all creatures in the area as 
normal, but the Strike still targets only one creature.</div><br>

#### Force Fang<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">focus pool</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can turn your attack into an unerring blur of force. You learn the <i>force fang</i> conflux psionic (page 279). </div><br>

#### Spell Parry {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">You have one or more hands free.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You infuse psionic power into your body or armaments to parry both physical and magical assaults. You raise your guard, gaining a +1 circumstance bonus to AC and to saving throws against spells that target you until the start of your next turn, as long as you continue to meet the requirements.</div>

#### Spirit Sheath<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag extradimensional">EXTRADIMENSIONAL</div>
<div class="tag occult">OCCULT</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">You have one or more hands free.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve psionically constructed an extradimensional sheath for your weapon that you access through your clothing, typically through a pocket, sleeve, or seam. This sheath is hard to notice, granting a +2 circumstance bonus to your Stealth checks to Conceal an Item within it. A spirit sheath can hold only one weapon at a time, and the weapon must be 1 Bulk or less.

During a Psystrike, you can Interact to draw the weapon before you Cast the Spell. You can draw or return a weapon in a spirit sheath as an Interact action, as can anyone else holding or wearing the clothing that contains the sheath.

A dispel magic spell or similar effect can be used against the spirit sheath to expel the weapon. The counteract check is made against your spell DC and uses the sheath’s counteract rank of 1. The weapon is also expelled if you become unconscious.</div>

###### 4th Level

#### Devastating Psystrike {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade, inexorable iron hybrid study, Psystrike</div>
<div class="req">You are in Psionic Cascade stance and your Psystrike is charged.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your Psystrike sweeps are so wide and devastating, they splash onto nearby foes. Make a Psystrike. Foes adjacent to the target take splash damage equal to 2 + the extra damage from Psionic Cascade. The damage type is the same as Psionic Cascade; if the spell already deals splash damage of the same type, combine the damage together before applying weaknesses or resistances. </div><br>

#### Distracting Psystrike {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">laughing shadow hybrid study hybrid study, Psystrike</div>
<div class="req">You’re in Psionic Cascade stance and have a hand free.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You weave distracting psionics with one hand to enhance your Psystrike. Make a Psystrike and Feint against the target of your Strike. Do this immediately before making the Strike, but after choosing your target. </div>

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<div class="rule">
The Feint gains the occult, illusion, and visual traits, and it always has the basic effects of a Feint, rather than applying any adjustments or alternate effects from other feats or abilities.</div><br>

#### Emergency Targe {R}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">sparkling targe hybrid study</div>
<div class="trigger">An enemy hits you with a melee Strike or a melee spell attack roll, or you fail a save against an enemy’s spell</div>
<div class="req"> You are wielding a shield or have the <i>shield</i><br> spell prepared</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You immediately Raise a Shield or cast <i>shield</i>. The circumstance bonus applies to your defenses when determining the outcome of the triggering attack or spell.</div><br>

#### Starlit Eyes<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade, starlit span hybrid study</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Starlight shines in your sight, enhancing your perception and range. When you make a ranged Strike while in Psionic Cascade stance, you lower the DC of your flat check to target a creature that’s concealed or hidden from you. The DC is reduced to 3 instead of 5 against a concealed creature and to 9 instead of 11 against a hidden one.

When you cast <i>shooting star</i> and target a hidden creature, you don’t have to attempt the flat check for targeting a hidden creature with a ranged Strike.</div>

#### Steady Spellcasting<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Confident in your technique, you don’t easily lose your concentration when you Cast a Spell. If a reaction would disrupt your spellcasting action, attempt a DC 15 flat check. If you succeed, your action isn’t disrupted.</div><br>

#### Striker's Seal<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can attach a seal to your weapon or handwraps of mighty blows to blend its spell into an attack, carefully 
folding it around a part of the weapon or sealing it to the weapon’s surface. Attaching a seal requires using the Affix 
a Talisman action (Core Rulebook 565). You can have only one seal affixed to a weapon at a time, and you can’t have 
both a talisman and seal attached.

You can Cast the Spell from the seal as part of a psystrike, assuming the spell is one you could normally use with 
Psystrike. You can’t Cast the Spell in any other way while it’s affixed, though you can use Affix a Talisman again to remove 
the seal and use it as a normal—if a bit scratched—seal.</div>

#### Student of the Staff<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade, twisting tree hybrid study</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve studied the staff extensively to learn the hidden capabilities of your chosen weapon. When you critically succeed at an attack roll using a staff, you apply the critical specialization effect of the club group. While you’re in Psionic Cascade stance, your staff gains the deadly d6 trait, with the damage from the deadly die being the same damage type as the extra damage from Psionic Cascade.

In addition, you can place property runes into a magic staff you prepare, even though a magic staff can’t typically hold property runes. You can’t inscribe runes that can’t be placed on a non-magical staff, nor can you inscribe the shifting rune. When you prepare a staff, you can impart any number of property runes into the staff, up to the limit imposed by your attack potency bonus.</div>

###### 6th Level

#### Reactive strike {R}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="trigger">A creature within your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or 
leaves a square during a move action it’s using.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You lash out at a vulnerable foe. Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If your attack is a critical hit and the 
trigger was a manipulate action, you disrupt that action. This Strike doesn’t count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn’t apply to this Strike.</div><br>

#### Cascade Countermeasure<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade, focus pool</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When in Psionic Cascade, you can make yourself resistant to magic. You learn the <i>cascade countermeasure</i> conflux psionic (page 143).</div><br><br>

#### Knowledge is Power<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you critically succeed at a Recall Knowledge check about a creature, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your next attack roll against the creature, to your AC against its next attack roll, and to your save against its next effect requiring a save. If you share this information with your allies, they gain the benefits as well. If not used, these bonuses end after 1 minute.</div><br>

###### 8th Level

#### Capture Magic {R}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade</div>
<div class="trigger"> You succeed at your save against a foe’s harmful spell, or a foe fails a spell attack roll against you from a harmful spell.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you resist a spell, you capture some of its magic for your own use. You enter your Psionic Cascade stance, using the triggering spell to determine what damage type your Psionic Cascade deals. Alternatively, if you’re already in Psionic Cascade, you can instead amplify its effects temporarily. Until the end of your next turn, you gain a +2 status bonus to the damage from your 
Psionic Cascade.</div><br>

#### Fused Staff<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you prepare a staff, you can hold it up to a weapon to merge the two items. </div>

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<div class="rule">
You can switch the fused item’s form from the weapon to the staff or vice versa as a single action, which has the concentrate trait. When the item is in staff form, you can Cast the Spells from the staff and benefit from any other abilities the staff grants. They don’t share any runes or specific abilities.

You can Cast Spells from the staff as part of a Psystrike even when the staff is in weapon form. Otherwise, you can’t cast the staff’s spells while it’s in weapon form.

The fusion lasts until your next daily preparations, though you can spend 10 minutes to separate the two items and meld the staff into a different weapon. The melding works for you alone. A different wielder can use the staff in its current form but can’t transform it, get the benefit of the shared runes, or use its spells for a Psystrike if it’s in weapon form.</div><br>

#### Psychic Swipe {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
<div class="req">Your psystrike is charged.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You attack in an arc and enact your psychic spell against everyone you hit. Make a Psystrike, but roll separate Strikes to attack two creatures, each of whom must be within your melee reach and adjacent to each other.

If your psychic spell could affect two or more targets, your psychic spell affects whichever foes you hit, not just the first target; otherwise, choose one target to affect with the spell. A Psionic Swipe counts as two attacks for your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn’t increase until after you make both attacks.

If you’re using a weapon that has the sweep trait, its circumstance bonus applies against both targets. You can use this activity with only melee Strikes, even if you have the starlit span hybrid study or a similar ability.

If you use Expansive Psystrike to Psystrike with an area spell, apply the area as described in Expansive Psystrike, choosing one of the creatures you Strike to determine the area and whether the spell fails due to a critically failed Strike. If you use Expansive Psystrike to Psystrike with a targeted spell, the spell is lost completely only if both Strikes are critical failures.</div><br>

#### Runic Impression<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">focus pool</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can temporarily replicate the effects of a property rune for your weapon or unarmed attacks. You learn the <i>runic impression</i> conflux psionic (page 279).</div><br>

#### Standby Psionic<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve honed one psionic as your favored combat technique, and you’ve practiced it enough that you no longer need to prepare it to cast it. Choose a spell in your spell repertoire that you could use with Psystrike and that has a rank no higher than the highest rank psychic warrior spell slot you have. You can Cast this Spell without having it prepared ahead of time by expending a spell slot of a sufficient rank to cast your chosen spell. You can change this spell whenever you add new spells to your spell repertoire, or by meditating on your spell repertoire for 1 hour.</div><br>

###### 10th Level

#### Cascading Ray {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag attack">ATTACK</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
<div class="req">Your last action was a successful Psystrike, and the spell you cast dealt energy damage (acid, cold, electricity, fire, force, void, vitality, or sonic).</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Psionic energy spills out to extend beyond the creature you struck. The flowing energy forms a ray with a range of 60 feet from the creature you damaged. You can’t target any of the creatures you damaged with your Psystrike with the ray. Make a spell attack roll against the new target’s AC, at the same multiple attack penalty as the Strike. On a hit, the target of the ray takes 1d4 damage per spell rank of the same type of energy damage the spell deals (double damage on a critical hit). If you cast the spell in your Psystrike from a spell slot, the damage from Cascading Ray increases to 1d8 damage per spell rank.

If the spell deals more than one type of energy damage, you choose only one for the ray. This ray has the attack trait, the school and tradition traits of the original spell, and the trait matching the damage type.</div><br>

#### Dazzling Block<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag attack">ATTACK</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade, sparkling targe hybrid study</div>
<div class="req">You are in Psionic Cascade stance.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you use Shield Block, you can create a flash of brilliant, multicolored light in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must attempt a Fortitude save, with the following effects.

<div class="rule result r4">The creature is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The creature is dazzled for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature is blinded for 1 round and dazzled for 1 minute. The creature can spend an Interact action rubbing its eyes to end this blinded condition.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature is blinded for 1 round and dazzled for 1 hour.</div></div><br>

#### Dimensional Disappearance<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag attack">ATTACK</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> <i>dimensional assault</i> focus spell, laughing shadow hybrid study</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You take advantage of teleportation to better hide your position. When you cast <i>dimensional assault</i>, you’re affected by an <i>invisibility</i> spell at the end of the teleport. You can choose not to make the Strike that is normally part of <i>dimensional assault</i>. If you do make the Strike, your invisibility ends after the Strike, as normal for <i>invisibility</i>.</div><br>

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#### Lunging Psystrike {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag occult">OCCULT</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> Psystrike, twisting tree hybrid study</div>
<div class="req">You're wielding a staff.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your spell unwinds the structure of your staff to make it exceptionally long, or even separate it into shards held together by magical power. Make a Psystrike with a staff, with a spell that isn’t a cantrip or focus spell. Increase the staff’s reach by 5 feet × the spell’s rank.</div><br>

#### Meteoric Psystrike {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag occult">OCCULT</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> Psystrike, starlit span hybrid study</div>
<div class="req"> You’re wielding a ranged or thrown weapon or have a ranged unarmed attack.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
A trail of energy flows from your target back to you. Make a Psystrike with a ranged weapon or ranged unarmed attack against a target within the ranged weapon or unarmed attack’s first range increment. The spell you cast for the Psystrike can’t be a cantrip or focus spell. </div>

<div class="rule">
Each creature in a line between you and the target, excluding you and the target, takes damage equal to double the spell's rank. Determine the damage type as described in Psionic Cascade.</div><br>

#### Rapid Recharge {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> Psystrike</div>
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You tap into an psychic trick to recover your ability to meld spells and attacks. You recharge your Psystrike.</div><br>

#### Sustaining Steel {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag healing">HEALING</div>
<div class="tag occult">OCCULT</div>
<div class="tag vitality">VITALITY</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div><br>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade, inexorable iron hybrid study</div>
<div class="trigger"> You Cast a Spell using a spell slot.</div>
<div class="req"> You're in Psionic Cascade stance.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You pull psychic power into your weapon, using its substance to transform the magic into restorative energy. You regain Hit 
Points equal to double the spell’s rank and roll to end any persistent void damage you have.

If the spell had the void trait, any persistent void damage you have ends automatically, and you can change the damage type from Psionic Cascade to vitality if you wish. (Vitality damage typically damages only undead or other creatures with void healing.)</div><br>

###### 12th Level

#### Conflux Focus<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">conflux psionics</div>
<div class="req">Your last action was a successful Psystrike, and the spell you cast dealt energy damage (acid, cold, electricity, fire, force, void, vitality, or sonic).</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You imagine how you’ll focus psionics and combat into future battles, improving your focus. Whenever you Refocus, completely refill your focus pool.</div><br>

#### Magic Sense<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag detection">DETECTION</div>
<div class="tag occult">OCCULT</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a literal sixth sense for ambient magic in your vicinity. You can sense the presence of magic auras as though you were always using a 1st-rank <i>detect magic</i> spell. This detects magic in your field of vision only. When you Seek, you gain the benefits of a 3rd-rank <i>detect magic</i> spell on things you see (in addition to the normal benefits of Seeking). You can turn this sense off and on with a free action at the start or the end of your turn.</div><br>

#### Overwhelming Psystrike {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
<div class="req">Your Psystrike is charged.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You pierce through your foe’s resistance. Make a Psystrike. The spell you cast as part of the Psystrike ignores an amount of the target’s resistance to acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic damage equal to your level. This applies to all damage the spell deals, including persistent damage and damage caused by an ongoing effect of the spell. A creature’s immunities are unaffected.</div><br>

###### 14th Level

#### Hasted Assault<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">focus pool</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can speed yourself up to move and attack more swiftly. You learn the <i>hasted assault</i> conflux psionic (page 279). 
</div><br>

#### Preternatural Parry {R}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Spell Parry</div>
<div class="trigger">You’re targeted by a Strike or a spell attack roll, or you’re about to roll a saving throw against a spell effect.</div>
<div class="req">You have one or more hands free.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You snap your weapon or limb into place to ward off harm at the last second. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to AC and saving throws against the triggering effect until the start of your next turn.</div><br><br>

#### Psionic Shroud {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade, Psystrike</div>
<div class="freq">once per turn</div>
<div class="req">Your most recent action was to Cast a Spell from a spell slot or make a Psystrike with a spell from a spell slot.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your magic has a powerful aftereffect, briefly granting you a certain spell. When you take this feat, choose three of <i>false vitality</i>, <i>fire shield</i>, <i>fleet step</i>, <i>flicker</i>, <i>invisibility</i>, <i>mountain resilience</i>, and <i>see the unseen</i>. You use psionic Cascade and are subject to an additional aftereffect spell of your choice from the three you selected. </div>

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<div class="rule">
This aftereffect spell’s duration lasts until the end of your next turn or its normal duration, whichever is shorter. Using Psionic Shroud again ends any existing spell you gained from Psionic Shroud.  </div><br>

###### 16th Level

#### Dispelling Psystrike {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
<div class="req">Your Psystrike is charged.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The spell you deliver tries to force out magic affecting your enemy. Make a Psystrike.

If it hits, you also attempt to counteract a single spell (of your choice) active on the target. The counteract rank is half your level rounded up, and the counteract check modifier is the standard modifier for counteracting with a spell (your Intelligence modifier plus your spellcasting proficiency bonus, plus any bonuses or penalties that specifically apply to counteract checks).</div><br>

#### Resounding Cascade {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psionic Cascade</div>
<div class="trigger">You use Psionic Cascade</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you enter your Psionic Cascade, you disperse the magical reinforcement to nearby allies. You grant the extra damage of Psionic Cascade in an aura affecting all allies in a 5-foot emanation. This uses only the base damage of the stance, based on the ally’s weapon specialization; it doesn’t use any increase you get from bonuses, the laughing shadow hybrid study, or the like. As normal for duplicate effects, multiple Psionic Cascades affecting the same creature aren’t cumulative.</div><br>

###### 18th Level

#### Versatile Psystrike<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can channel the entire realm of possibilities of your spell repertoire into an attack. Once during your daily preparations, you can use a spell slot to hold that infinite potential, rather than using it to prepare a spell. When you make a Psystrike, you can expend this special spell slot to immediately prepare and cast a spell from your spell repertoire at 2 ranks lower than the slot’s rank. (As normal for preparing spells, you can use a spell of an even-lower rank, heightening it accordingly.) You don’t have any spell prepared in that slot until you cast from that slot.</div><br>

###### 20th Level

#### Supreme Psystrike<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve made it almost effortless to combine psionics and attacks. You’re permanently quickened. You can use your extra action only to Strike or to recharge psystrike.</div><br>

#### Whirlwind Psionic {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psystrike</div>
<div class="req">Your Psystrike is charged.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You combine the might of a multitarget spell with a whirling flurry of attacks. You use Psystrike, making a melee Strike against each enemy within your reach instead of against one enemy. If your spell can affect multiple targets, your spell affects all foes you hit, not just the first target, up to the spell’s normal maximum targets. If you Strike more foes than the spell could target, choose which foes are affected by the spell. Each attack counts toward your multiple attack penalty but doesn’t increase your penalty until you’ve made all your attacks.

If you use Expansive Psystrike to Psystrike with an area spell, apply the area as described in Expansive Psystrike, choosing one of the creatures you Strike to determine the area and whether the spell fails due to a critically failed Strike. If you use Expansive Psystrike to Psystrike with a targeted spell, each creature you critically fail to Strike is unaffected by the spell, but the spell isn’t lost completely from a single critical failure.

You can use this activity with only melee Strikes, even if you have the starlit span hybrid study or a similar ability.</div><br>

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# Ranger

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Some rangers believe civilization wears down the soul, but still needs to be protected from wild creatures. Others say nature needs to be protected from the greedy, who wish to tame its beauty and plunder its treasures. You could champion either goal, or both. You might be a scout, tracker, or hunter of fugitives or beasts, haunting the edge of civilization or exploring the wilds. You know how to live off the land and are skilled at spotting and taking down both opportune prey and hated enemies.

### During Combat Encounters...
You can single out particular foes to hunt, making you better at defeating them. You target and brutalize your chosen foe with either a bow or melee weapons, while supporting your allies with your skills.

### During Social Encounters...
When you speak, it’s with the voice of practical experience, especially involving wilderness exploration.

### While Exploring...
You guide your allies through the wilderness or follow tracks. You keep an eye out for trouble, constantly alert for danger even when it’s not overt.

### In Downtime...
You craft weapons and train animals in preparation for your next venture. If you prefer to get outside, you might go on hunts or scout nearby areas to better understand your environment.

### You Might...
- Respect the raw power of nature and understand how to make the best of its bounty.
- Enjoy the thrill of the hunt.
- Scout out ahead of the party, reconnoitering dangers before combat begins.

### Others Probably...
- Call upon you to protect them from the wilds or the encroachment of civilization.
- Expect you to be a quiet or taciturn loner.
- Think there is something dangerous and wild about you

#### <div style="text-align: left">Table 3-15: Ranger Advancement</div>
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, hunt prey, hunter's edge, ranger feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, skill increase, will expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, ranger weapon expertise, skill increase, trackless journey</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, natural reflexes, skill increase, perception mastery, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, nature's edge, ranger expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, medium armor expertise, skill increase, unimpeded journey, warden's endurance</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, skill increase, martial weapon mastery</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, greater natural reflexes, greater weapon specialization, perception legend, skill increase, </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, masterful hunter, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, medium armor mastery, skill increase, swift prey</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ranger feat, skill feat</div> |

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## Class Changes

The following entries have been changed to reflect a ranger in Dark sun.

## Ranger Feats
At every level that you gain a ranger feat, you can select one of the following. You must satisfy any prerequisites before taking the feat.

###### 2nd Level

#### Favored Terrain<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ranger">RANGER</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have studied a specific terrain to overcome its challenges. Choose aquatic, forest, mountain, rocky badlands, salt flats, sandy wastes, scrub plains, silt, sky, stony barrens, or underground as your favored terrain. When in that terrain, you can ignore the effects of non-magical difficult  terrain.  If you have the unimpeded journey class feature, you gain a second benefit while in your favored terrain, depending on your choice:

- **Aquatic** You gain a swim Speed equal to your Speed. If you already had a swim Speed, you gain a +10-foot status bonus to your swim Speed.
- **Sandy Wastes, Salt Flats, or Stony Barrens** You need to eat and drink only one-tenth as much as usual, you aren’t affected by severe or extreme heat, and you can walk along sand at full Speed without needing to Balance.
- **Forest, Mountain, Rocky Badlands, or Underground** You gain a climb Speed equal to your Speed. If you already had a climb Speed, you gain a +10-foot status bonus to your climb Speed.
- **Scrub Plains** You gain a +10-foot status bonus to your land Speed.
- **Silt** You can move through silt at full Speed, even if it is deep enough to be greater difficult terrain.
- **Sky** You gain a +10-foot status bonus to your fly Speed, if you have one.</div><br>

###### 4th Level

#### Favored Enemy<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag ranger">RANGER</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have studied a specific type of wild creature and can hunt it more easily. When you gain this feat, choose animals, beasts, drakes, or both fungi and plants as your favored enemy. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as belgoi and gith) as favored enemies. When you roll initiative and can see an enemy that belongs to the chosen category, you can Hunt Prey as a free action, designating that enemy.

You can use this free action even if you haven’t identified the creature yet with Recall Knowledge. The benefit doesn’t apply against favored enemies disguised as other creatures, and the GM determines whether it applies against a creature disguised as a favored enemy.</div><br>

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# Rogue

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
You are skilled and opportunistic. Using your sharp wits and quick reactions, you take advantage of your opponents’ missteps and strike where it hurts most. You play a dangerous game, seeking thrills and testing your skills, and likely don’t care much for any laws that happen to get in your way. While the path of every rogue is unique and riddled with danger, the one thing you all share in common is the breadth and depth of your skills.

### During Combat Encounters...
You move about stealthily so you can catch foes unawares. You’re a precision instrument, more useful against a tough boss or distant spellcaster than against rank-and-file soldiers.

### During Social Encounters...
Your skills give you multiple tools to influence your opposition. Pulling cons and ferreting out information are second nature to you.

### While Exploring...
You sneak to get the drop on foes and scout for danger or traps. You’re a great asset, since you can disable traps, solve puzzles, and anticipate dangers.

### In Downtime...
You might pick pockets or trade in illegal goods. You can also become part of a thieves’ guild, or even found one of your own.

### You Might...
- Hone your skills through intense practice, both on your own and out in the world.
- Know where to attain illicit goods.
- Skirt or break the law because you think it’s meaningless or have your own code.

### Others Probably...
- Find you charming or fascinating, even if they think they know better than to trust you.
- Come to you when they need someone who is willing to take risks or use questionable methods.
- Suspect you’re motivated primarily by greed.

#### <div style="text-align: left">Table 3-16: Rogue Advancement</div>
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, rogue's racket, sneak attack 1d6, surprise attack, rogue feat, skill feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Deny advantage, general feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, skill feat, skill increase, sneak attack 2d6, weapon tricks
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Evasive reflexes, general feat, skill feat, skill increase, vigilant senses, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, debilitating strike, rogue resilience, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, rogue expertise, skill feat, skill increase, sneak attack 3d6</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, improved rogue reflexes, incredible senses, light armor expertise,  master tricks, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Double debilitation, general feat, greater weapon specialization, skill feat, skill increase, </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, skill feat, skill increase, slippery mind, sneak attack 4d6</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, light armor mastery, master strike, skill feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Rogue feat, skill feat, skill increase</div> |

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# Summoner

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
You can magically beckon a powerful being called an eidolon to your side, serving as the mortal conduit that anchors it to the world. Whether your eidolon is a friend, a servant, or even a personal god, your connection to it marks you as extraordinary, shaping the course of your life dramatically.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

### During Combat Encounters...
You and your eidolon fight together as one. You can rely on your eidolon for mundane challenges, saving your spells for when they’re needed most.

### During Social Encounters...
Your powerful personality allows you to take the lead when negotiating. You and your eidolon might engage with others in different ways, but even if your guardian remains silent, its presence reminds those around you of your power

### While Exploring...
Whether you remain on alert for the presence of strange magic or keep an eye out for trouble, you and your eidolon act together to cover more ground, pool your knowledge, and leverage each other’s abilities.

### In Downtime...
You might attempt to learn more about the nature of your eidolon and delve deeper into the secrets of its magical tradition to Learn a Spell, Craft magic items with your eidolon’s help, or make allies using your social skills.

### You Might...
-  Rely on your eidolon to accomplish physical tasks while you handle the mental ones.
-  Develop attitudes and mannerisms in line with your eidolon’s way of thinking, even as your nature shapes its behavior.
-  Consider your eidolon a close friend, a guiding figure, a protector, or a rival bound to you.

### Others Probably...
- Feel safe with you (and your eidolon) at their side.
- Expect that since you know information about your eidolon, you might know details about other sorts of strange monsters
-  View you with awe or fear because of the powerful, strange creature that accompanies you.

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#### <div style="text-align: left">Table 3-17: Summoner Advancement</div>
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, eidolon, evolution feat, link spells, spell repertoire, summoner spellcasting</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells,  general feat, shared vigilance, skill increase, unlimited signature spells</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, ancestry feat, eidolon unarmed expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, eidolon symbiosis, eidolon weapon specialization, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, ancestry feat, expert spellcaster, shared reflexes, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, eidolon defensive expertise, general feat, simple weapon expertise, skill increase, twin juggernauts</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, defensive robes, eidolon unarmed mastery, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, greater eidolon specialization, general feat, shared resolve, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, eidolon transcendence, master spellcaster, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, eidolon defensive mastery, instant manifestation, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, summoner feat</div> |

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### Reading an eidolon entry

An eidolon entry contains the following information, followed by a description of the eidolon’s initial ability and abilities gained from the eidolon symbiosis and eidolon transcendence class features.

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Tradition</b> This is the eidolon’s corresponding magical tradition, which determines the type of magic you can cast.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Traits</b> All eidolons have the eidolon trait, and each type of eidolon has additional traits. They all appear in this entry.</div>

<div class="box">
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Home Plane</b> This is the eidolon’s home plane, where it goes when unmanifested. This can help you determine the effects of abilities dependent on a creature’s home plane, such as banishment. </div></div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Size</b> This is the eidolon’s starting Size.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Suggested Attacks</b> This entry suggests forms that the eidolon’s attacks might take (see Unarmed Attacks above).</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Eidolon Array</b> Choose from one of two arrays for your eidolon. This choice sets its ability scores, as well as the 
form of its defenses, as represented by an item bonus to AC and its Dexterity cap. For instance, a demon eidolon can have the wrecker array, with a higher Strength and item bonus to AC, or be a tempter, with a higher Charisma and Dexterity cap. The appearance of the eidolon’s protection can be anything you choose that fits the eidolon: armor, scales, tough hide, a mystical aura of deflection, and so on. Though each eidolon has two arrays in this book, it’s possible for other varieties to appear elsewhere.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Skills</b> These are the skills that the eidolon has taught you, or that you learned as part of linking with your eidolon. 
You are trained in these skills, and the eidolon shares this proficiency as normal for its skills.</div>
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<b>Senses</b> This entry, if present, lists your eidolon’s special senses. If this entry is not present, the eidolon has senses like a human’s.</div>

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<b>Language</b> This is the eidolon’s starting language. You know this language, in addition to the other languages you know normally. Your eidolon doesn’t gain any additional languages based on its Intelligence modifier, but it can speak all the same languages you can.</div>
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<b>Speed</b> This entry lists your eidolon’s Speeds.</div></div>
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<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> The eidolon starts with an initial ability, gains the symbiosis ability when you gain the eidolon symbiosis class feature, and gains the transcendence ability when you gain the eidolon transcendence class feature.</div>

### Anger Phantom Eidolon

Your eidolon is a lost soul, bound to the mortal world by undying anger or a bitter grudge. Most phantom eidolons are humanoids with a spectral or ectoplasmic appearance, though some take far stranger forms. Your link with your eidolon prevents it from succumbing to corruption and undeath.

Together, you will need to decide whether to work with your eidolon to control its anger, or channel its wrath into power.
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<b>Tradition</b> Occult</div>
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<b>Traits</b> eidolon, ethereal, phantom</div>
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<b>Home Plane</b> The Gray </div></div>
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<b>Size</b> Medium or Small </div>
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<b>Suggested Attacks</b>  fist (bludgeoning), tendril (bludgeoning), unarmed attacks shaped like a weapon</div>
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<b>Wrathful Berserker</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +0, Cha +1; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Enraged Assassin</b> Str +2, Dex +4, Con +3, Int +0, Wis +-1, Cha +1; +1 AC (+4 Dex cap</div>
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<b>Skills</b>  Intimidation, Occultism</div>
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<b>Senses</b>  darkvision</div>
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<b>Language</b> one common mortal language the eidolon spoke 
in life</div>
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<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
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<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> furious strike; <i>Symbiosis</i> seething frenzy; <i>Transcendence</i> anger aura</div>

##### Furious Strike
Your eidolon can infuse an attack with unmitigated rage. It gains the Furious Strike activity.

#### Furious Strike {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your eidolon channels its anger into a furious attack. It makes a melee Strike. This counts as two attacks when calculating your multiple attack penalty. If this Strike hits, your eidolon deals an extra die of weapon damage and gains a +1 circumstance bonus to the damage roll. If you’re at least 10th level, increase this to two extra dice with a +2 circumstance bonus, and if you’re at least 18th level, increase it to three extra dice with a +3 circumstance bonus.</div><br>

##### Seething Frenzy<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your eidolon can stoke itself into a frenzy. It gains the Seething Frenzy action.

#### Seething Frenzy {1A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your eidolon’s fury boils over into a reckless, outof-control frenzy. While frenzied, your eidolon is affected by boost eidolon and gains temporary Hit Points equal to your level, but it takes a –2 penalty to AC. Your eidolon can’t voluntarily end the frenzy or start another frenzy while in the frenzy. The frenzy lasts for 1 minute, after which it’s fatigued for 1 minute and can’t start another frenzy for 1 minute.</div><br>

##### Anger Aura<div class="levels">17th</div>

Your eidolon exudes wrath in an aura around it, rousing the ire of nearby creatures and causing their defenses to crack as they seethe with rage. Your eidolon gains a 20-foot anger aura, which has the aura, emotion, enchantment, mental, and occult traits. The resistances of any creature in the aura, including you, your allies, your enemies, and your eidolon, are reduced by an amount equal to 3 + your eidolon’s Constitution modifier.

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Your eidolon can hold in its rage by spending a single action, which has the concentrate trait. This reduces the aura’s effect to affect only your eidolon. It can take this action again to reinstate the full effect of its aura. Creatures in a barbarian Rage, Seething Frenzy, or similar ability that allows them to channel their anger aren’t affected by the anger aura.

### Beast Eidolon
Your eidolon is a manifestation of the life force of nature in the form of a powerful magical beast that often has animal features, possibly even several from different species. You might have learned the way to connect with the world’s life force via a specific philosophy or practice, such as the beliefs of the god callers of Sarkoris, or formed a bond on your own. Regardless, your link to your eidolon allows you both to grow in power and influence to keep your home safe from those who would despoil it.
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<b>Tradition</b> Primal</div>
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<b>Traits</b> beast, eidolon</div>
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<b>Home Plane</b> Material Plane</div></div>
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<b>Size</b> Medium </div>
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<b>Suggested Attacks</b> claw (slashing), jaws (piercing), fangs (piercing), hoof (bludgeoning), horn (piercing)</div>
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<b>Brutal Beast</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +1, Cha +0; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Fleet Beast</b> Str +2, Dex +4, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +1, Cha +0;+1 AC (+4 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Skills</b>  Intimidation, Nature</div>
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<b>Senses</b>  low-light vision</div>
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<b>Language</b> Wildsong</div>
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<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
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<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> beast’s charge; <i>Symbiosis</i> primal roar; <i>Transcendence</i> whirlwind maul</div>

##### Beast's Charge
Your eidolon can make a ferocious charge or pounce on foes, allowing it to quickly engage. It gains the Beast’s Charge activity.

#### Beast's Charge {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your eidolon rushes forward, using its momentum to increase the power of its attack. Your eidolon Strides twice and then Strikes. If the eidolon moved at least 20 feet away from its starting position and moved entirely in a straight line, it gains a +1 circumstance bonus to this attack roll.</div><br>

##### Primal Roar<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your eidolon can bellow a terrifying roar, screech, croak, or other overpowering sound to frighten foes. It gains the Primal Roar activity

#### Primal Roar {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag auditory">AUDITORY</div>
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your eidolon unleashes a primal roar or other such terrifying noise that fits your eidolon’s form. Your eidolon attempts Intimidation checks to Demoralize each enemy that can hear the roar; these Demoralize attempts don’t take any penalty for not sharing a language.</div><br>

##### Whirlwind Maul<div class="levels">17th</div>

Your eidolon thrashes violently, damaging many foes in its reach. It gains the Whirlwind Maul activity.

#### Whirlwind Maul {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your eidolon lashes out in all directions. It makes a melee unarmed Strike against up to four enemies within reach. It can choose different unarmed attacks for each enemy. Each attack counts toward your multiple attack penalty, beastbut you don’t increase your penalty until the eidolon has made all its attacks.</div><br>

### Construct Eidolon

Your eidolon is a mental construct based on an astral thoughtform and given physical presence and life by its connection to you, its shape limited only by your imagination. Your eidolon's appearance and physical form vary based on your shared vision for its construction, from clockworks to stuffed dolls and everything between, and it's not uncommon for that appearance to change greatly as your construct gains evolutions. Because it arises from an astral entity, your construct is no mindless servitor, but a fully thinking being with its own ideas, goals, and even emotions. These entities are extremely diverse; while many construct eidolons come from a powerful symbiotic connection with astral denizens, just as many arise from the forgotten memories of ancient empires and craftworks drifting across the Silver Sea of the Astral Plane.
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<b>Tradition</b> Occult</div>
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<b>Traits</b> astral, construct, eidolon</div>
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<b>Home Plane</b> Astral Plane</div></div>
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<b>Size</b> Medium </div>
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<b>Suggested Attacks</b> fist (bludgeoning)</div>
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<b>Scout Construct</b> Str +2, Dex +4, Con +3, Int +1, Wis +0, Cha +-1; +1 AC (+4 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Warrior Construct</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +1, Wis +0, Cha +-1; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Skills</b>  Crafting, Occultism</div>
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<b>Senses</b>  darkvision</div>
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<b>Language</b> one common mortal language</div>
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<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
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<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> construct heart; <i>Symbiosis</i> reconfigured evolution; <i>Transcendence</i> ultimate reconfiguration</div>

##### Construct Heart
Your construct eidolon has a link directly to your life force, which renders it a living creature and therefore susceptible to many ailments that bother only the living, though it does possess some resistances to these effects. It doesn't have a construct's normal immunities, but does gain a +2 circumstance bonus to saving throws against death effects, disease, void, and poison effects, as well as effects causing the fatigued or sickened conditions.

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Additionally, its astral essence bleeds off slowly, and it only needs to succeed at a DC 10 flat check to remove persistent bleed damage (or DC 5 after receiving particularly effective aid).

##### Reconfigured Evolution<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your construct eidolon is particularly easy to reconfigure, gaining an additional evolution that suits both of your whims. Choose one additional evolution feat of 6th level or lower. Your eidolon gains that feat. You can Retrain this feat for any other evolution feat of 6th level or lower with only a single day of downtime if you succeed at a Crafting check, with a standard DC of your eidolon's level. If you fail, you can try again on a later day. Many summoners choose Eidolon's Wrath for this ability.

##### Ultimate Reconfiguration<div class="levels">17th</div>
Your construct eidolon becomes even more customizable. Choose an evolution feat of 16th level or lower. Your eidolon gains that feat. You can spend downtime to adjust it using Crafting, just like the feat from reconfigured evolution. Many summoners select Ever-Vigilant Senses for this ability.

### Devotion Phantom Eidolon
Your eidolon is a lost soul, unable to escape the mortal world due to a strong sense of duty, an undying devotion, or a need to complete an important task. Most phantom eidolons are humanoid with a spectral or ectoplasmic appearance, though some take far stranger forms. Your link with your eidolon prevents them from succumbing to corruption and undeath, and together, you will grow in strength and fulfill your phantom's devotion.
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<b>Tradition</b> Occult</div>
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<b>Traits</b> eidolon, ethereal, phantom</div>
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<b>Home Plane</b> The Gray</div></div>
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<b>Size</b> Medium or Small</div>
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<b>Suggested Attacks</b> fist (bludgeoning), tendril (bludgeoning), unarmed attacks shaped like a weapon</div>
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<b>Stalwart Guardian</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +0, Wis +0, Cha +0; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Swift Protector</b> Str +2, Dex +4, Con +3, Int +0, Wis +0, Cha +0; +1 AC (+4 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Skills</b>  Medicine, Occultism</div>
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<b>Senses</b>  darkvision</div>
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<b>Language</b> one common mortal language the eidolong spoke in life</div>
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<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
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<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> dutiful retaliation; <i>Symbiosis</i> steadfast devotion; <i>Transcendence</i> devotion aura</div>

##### Dutiful Retaliation
Your eidolon deeply respects your assistance, and it extends its loyalty to you, attacking those who dare harm you. It gains the Dutiful Retaliation reaction.

#### Dutiful Retaliation {R}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
<div class="tag occult">OCCULT</div>
</div>

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<div class="trigger">An enemy within 15 feet of you hits you with a Strike and deals damage to you. </div>
<div class="req">Your eidolon is within 15 feet of you.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon instinctively flashes with ectoplasmic energy, allowing them to strike back against an enemy who dares to harm you. Your eidolon makes a melee unarmed Strike against the triggering enemy, even if that enemy isn't within your eidolon's reach.</div>

##### Steadfast Devotion<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your eidolon's dedication makes it extremely challenging for your foes to bend its mind. Your eidolon gains a +2 circumstance bonus to saving throws against mental effects, and if they roll a success against such an effect, they get a critical success instead. If you have the shared resolve class feature and your eidolon rolls a critical failure against a mental effect, they get a failure instead.

##### Devotion Aura<div class="levels">17th</div>
After fighting at your side for so long, your eidolon has become as devoted to protecting you and your allies as it is to its original cause. It gains a 20-foot devotion aura, which has the aura and occult traits. Whenever one of your eidolon's allies within the aura takes damage, you can reduce the damage by your eidolon's Constitution modifier. You lose a number of Hit Points equal to half the amount by which the eidolon reduced the damage, rounded down. If the damage was lower than the Constitution modifier, base the damage you take on the actual amount of damage prevented.

### Drake Eidolon
Because drakes have a strong connection to elemental magic, their minds can often leave an echo floating in the Astral Plane. Such an entity is extremely powerful but unable to interact with the outside world on its own. Drake eidolons manifest in the powerful, scaled forms they had in life. You have forged a connection with such a drake eidolon and together, you seek to grow as powerful as an ancient drake.
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<b>Tradition</b> Primal</div>
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<b>Traits</b> dragon, eidolon, and one more (see Breath Weapon below)</div>
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<b>Home Plane</b> Astral Plane</div></div>
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<b>Size</b> Medium</div>
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<b>Suggested Attacks</b> claw (slashing), jaws (piercing), horn (piercing), tail (bludgeoning), wing (bludgeoning)</div>
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<b>Cunning Drake</b> Str +1, Dex +4, Con +1, Int +2, Wis +0, Cha +1; +1 AC (+4 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Marauding Drake</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +0, Wis +0, Cha +0; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Skills</b>  Intimidation, Nature</div>
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<b>Senses</b>  darkvision</div>
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<b>Language</b> Draconic</div>
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<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
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<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> breath weapon; <i>Symbiosis</i> draconic frenzy; <i>Transcendence</i> Trancendence drake's breath</div>

##### Breath Weapon
Your eidolon has a powerful breath weapon, which they are able to use regularly to wreak havoc upon your foes. They gain the Breath Weapon activity. Choose a damage type from among acid, cold, electricity, fire, piercing, poison or void, and choose whether the area is a 60-foot line or a 30-foot cone.

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Unless you chose piercing damage, both Breath Weapon and your eidolon gain the trait matching the damage type.

#### Breath Weapon {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon exhales a blast of destructive energy. Your eidolon deals 1d6 damage to all creatures in the area, with a basic Reflex save against your spell DC. The area and damage type of the Breath Weapon are chosen when the eidolon gains this ability. Your eidolon then can't use their Breath Weapon again for the next 1d4 rounds.

At 3rd level and every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d6.</div>

##### Draconic Frenzy<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your eidolon can make a furious assault, potentially recovering the use of their Breath Weapon. They gain the Draconic Frenzy activity.

#### Draconic Frenzy {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon makes one Strike with their primary unarmed attack and two Strikes with their secondary unarmed attack (in any order). If any of these attacks critically hits an enemy, your eidolon instantly recovers the use of their Breath Weapon.</div>

##### Drake's Breath<div class="levels">17th</div>
Your eidolon can draw upon the power of drakes to enhance the eidolon's Breath Weapon. Your eidolon gains the Drake's Breath free action.

#### Drake's Breath {0A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>

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<div class="freq">once per minute </div>
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<div class="rule">
Your eidolon gathers the power of the mightiest wyrms to make its magical breath even more spectacular. If your eidolon's next action is to use Breath Weapon, both the number of damage dice and area of the Breath Weapon are doubled.</div><br>

### Elemental Eidolon
Your eidolon is a primal chunk of elemental matter infused with sapience, power, and identity, but unable to manifest a true form of their own without the life force you provide via your connection. Most elementals in their natural environment already have different sorts of forms, from vaguely humanoid, to animalistic, to simple masses of their component element. As your life force provides your eidolon the instincts necessary to adopt a physical form, their appearance varies based on the strength of their own self image and your prior exposure to elementals.

Elemental eidolons tend to reach their unusual state— powerful but formless—as the result of large scale events or cataclysms, such as the war to seal the benevolent Elemental Lords or their recent unsealing. Whether elemental eidolons possess any memories of a previous life or are a new sapience formed from left-over essence of a mighty servant of the Elemental Lords brought low varies from eidolon to eidolon.

Together, you might undertake a journey to understand your eidolon's mysterious past or leave the past behind and forge a new destiny of your own.
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<b>Tradition</b> Divine</div>
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<b>Traits</b> eidolon, elemental, </div>
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<b>Home Plane</b> elemental plane matching their Elemental Core</div></div>
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<b>Size</b> Medium</div>
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<b>Suggested Attacks</b> fist (bludgeoning), spike (piercing), tendril (bludgeoning), wave (bludgeoning)</div>
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<b>Adaptable Elemental</b> Str +1, Dex +4, Con +3, Int +0, Wis +1, Cha +0; +1 AC (+4 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Primordial Elemental</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +1, Cha +0; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
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<b>Skills</b>  Religion, Survival</div>
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<b>Senses</b>  darkvision</div>
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<b>Language</b> Sussuran (air, rain or sun elemental), Petran (earth, magma, or silt elemental), Pyric (fire, magma, or sun elemental), or Thalassic (water, rain, or silt elemental)</div>
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<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
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<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> elemental core; <i>Symbiosis</i> elemental burst; <i>Transcendence</i> elemental maelstrom</div>

##### Elemental Core
Your elemental eidolon is an amalgam of elemental matter and mortal life force, which helps protect them from certain effects that are more harmful to mortals than elementals. They gain a +2 circumstance bonus to saving throws against poison and sleep effects, as well as effects causing the paralyzed condition. Additionally, their elemental essence bleeds less easily than flesh, so the DC of any flat check they make to remove persistent bleed damage is 10 (or 5 after receiving particularly effective aid). Choose for your eidolon to be an air, earth, fire, magma, rain, silt, sun or water elemental. Your eidolon and all their unarmed attacks gain the trait of the chosen element, and the eidolon gains additional effects based on your choice.

- <b>Air:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental air and is light as a breeze. Your eidolon can Leap, High Jump, and Long Jump twice as far, and doesn't take falling damage.
- <b>Earth:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental earth, and is incredibly hard to move by force. Your eidolon gains a +2 circumstance bonus to their Fortitude or Reflex DCs against attempts to Shove or Trip them. This bonus also applies to saving throws against spells or effects that attempt to knock them prone. In addition, if any effect would force them to move 10 feet or more, they're moved only half the distance.
- <b>Fire:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental fire and burns with embers of flame. Your eidolon gains resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1) to fire and an equal amount of weakness to cold and water. Their unarmed attacks deal 1 additional fire damage.
- <b>Magma:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental magma and its body flows with lava. Your eidolon gains resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1) to fire and weakness equal to your level vs cold and water. Their unarmed attacks deal 1 additional fire damage. Your eidolon also gains a +1 circumstance bonus to their Fortitude or Reflex DCs against attempts to Shove or Trip them. This bonus also applies to saving throws against spells or effects that attempt to knock them prone.

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- <b>Rain:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental rain and lightning flows around it. Your eidolon gains resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1) to electricity. Their unarmed attacks deal 1 additional electricity damage.
- <b>Silt:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental silt and swims through silt and sand with ease. Your eidolon gains the silt  trait, allowing them to breathe in sand and silt. Your eidolon's land Speed is reduced to 15 feet, and they gain a swim Speed of 25 feet in sand or silt. You can take the Silt Form feat to increase their land Speed back up to 25 feet, as described in the feat.
- <b>Sun:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental sun and emits radiance like the sun. Your eidolon gains resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1) to fire and an equal amount of weakness to cold and water. Their unarmed attacks deal 1 additional fire damage. Your eidolon emits bright light in a 20-foot radius (and dim light to the next 20 feet). As an action it can suppress this aura.
- <b>Water:</b> Your eidolon is formed from elemental water and swims with ease. Your eidolon gains the amphibious trait, allowing them to breathe in water and air and to avoid the normal –2 penalty for making bludgeoning and slashing unarmed Strikes underwater. Your eidolon's land Speed is reduced to 15 feet, and they gain a swim Speed of 25 feet. You can take the Amphibious Form feat to increase their land Speed back up to 25 feet, as described in the feat.

##### Elemental Burst<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your eidolon can form projectile attacks from their own body. Your eidolon gains the Elemental Burst activity.

#### Elemental Burst {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>

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<div class="freq">once per 10 minutes </div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon rips off a chunk of elemental matter from their own form and hurls it into a group of foes. Your eidolon loses a number of Hit Points equal to your level. All creatures in a 20-foot burst within 60 feet take 6d6 damage with a basic Reflex save against your spell DC. The damage increases by 1d6 for each level you have beyond 7th. The damage's type is either fire damage if your eidolon is a fire, magma, or sun elemental, electricity damage if your eidolon is a rain elemental, or the same physical damage type as your eidolon's primary unarmed attack if your eidolon isn't a one of those elementals. Elemental Burst gains any traits that your eidolon's unarmed attacks gain from elemental core.</div><br>

##### Elmental Maelstrom<div class="levels">17th</div>
Your eidolon can form a swirling vortex of elemental matter and move across the battlefield, damaging everything in their path. Your eidolon gains the Elemental Maelstrom activity.

#### Elemental Maelstrom {3A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon temporarily shifts its form into a swirling vortex of elemental matter and rampages through their foes. Your eidolon Strides. During their movement, they can attempt a Strike against each enemy that is within their reach. If an enemy comes within your eidolon's reach more than once, your eidolon makes only a single Strike against a given enemy. These attacks all count towards your eidolon's multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn't increase until after all the attacks. If your eidolon has the appropriate Speed, they can Climb, Fly, or Swim instead of Stride.</div><br>

### Plant Eidolon
Your eidolon is an intelligent plant, formed from the same disembodied fragments of nature's life energy that become leshys. Plant eidolons tend to be curious and adaptable, with temperaments based on the parts of mortal culture they feel affinity toward. Despite coming from the same source, plant eidolons don't always look like leshys. Plant eidolons have forms that vary greatly and can look like almost any kind of plant creature in existence. Some even resemble plant creatures so strange they are impossible to identify.
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Tradition</b> Primal</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Traits</b> eidolon, plant </div>
<div class="box">
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Home Plane</b> Material Plane</div></div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Size</b> Medium</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Suggested Attacks</b> vine (bludgeoning), branch (bludgeoning), root (bludgeoning)</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Creeping Plant</b> Str +1, Dex +4, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +2, Cha +0; +1 AC (+4 Dex cap)</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Guardian Plant</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +1, Cha +0; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Skills</b>  Nature, Survival</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Senses</b>  low-light vision</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Language</b> Wildsong</div>
<div class="box">
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> tendril strike; <i>Symbiosis</i> growing vines; <i>Transcendence</i> field of roots</div>

##### Tendril STrike
Your eidolon can stretch out vines and roots, attacking foes outside its reach. It gains the Tendril Strike action.

#### Tendril Strike {1A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Stretching to extend its body to its limits, your eidolon attacks a foe that would normally be beyond its reach. Your eidolon makes a melee unarmed Strike, increasing its reach by 5 feet for that Strike. If the unarmed attack has the disarm, shove, or trip trait, the eidolon can use the corresponding action instead of a Strike.</div><br>

##### Growing Vines<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your eidolon's vines and branches lengthen even more. All your eidolon's melee unarmed attacks gain the reach trait.

##### Field of Roots<div class="levels">17th</div>
Your eidolon learns how to send its roots underground to hinder foes. It gains the Field of Roots activity.

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#### Field of Roots {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon extends its roots underground to entangle and possibly damage all foes nearby. All enemies within your eidolon's reach take damage of the same type and amount as your eidolon's most damaging Strike, depending on their Reflex saves. Any ongoing effects of the save last until the enemy either Escapes or leaves your eidolon's reach. After using Field of Roots, your eidolon is immobilized until it takes a single action, which has the manipulate trait, to detach from the ground; this also ends any remaining effects on enemies from Field of Roots.

<div class="rule result r4">The enemy is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The enemy takes no damage, but takes a –10 foot circumstance penalty to its Speeds.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The enemy takes half damage, takes a –10-foot circumstance penalty to its Speeds, and, at the end of each of its turns, takes half damage again.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The enemy is immobilized, takes full damage, and, at the end of each of its turns, takes full damage again.</div></div><br>

### Undead Eidolon
Your eidolon is an undead spirit pulled from the Gray, embodied, and bound to your life force in an unusual, potentially antithetical way that even other summoners can't quite understand. Undead eidolons take about every imaginable shape and form, as their bodies manifest from their connection to you. Their ultimate form can be influenced by an amalgamation of the echoes and memories of their old life before becoming undead, their cause of death, their encounters in the afterlife, and portions of your own essences. Together, you and your eidolon need to explore the mysteries of life, death, and undeath to understand what your bond means for both of your futures.
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Tradition</b> Divine</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Traits</b> eidolon,undead </div>
<div class="box">
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Home Plane</b> The Gray</div></div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Size</b> Medium or Small</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Suggested Attacks</b> claw (slashing), fist (bludgeoning), jaws (piercing)</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Undead Brute</b> Str +4, Dex +2, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +0, Cha +1; +2 AC (+3 Dex cap)</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Undead Stalker</b> Str +2, Dex +4, Con +3, Int +-1, Wis +1, Cha +0; +1 AC (+4 Dex cap)</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Skills</b> Intimidation, Religion</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Senses</b>  darkvision</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Language</b> Necril</div>
<div class="box">
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Speed</b> 25 feet</div></div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Eidolon Abilities</b> <i>Initial</i> void essence; <i>Symbiosis</i> drain life; <i>Transcendence</i> rejuvenation</div>

##### Void Essence
Your undead eidolon has a link directly to your life force, which grants it a twilight state between living and undead. This renders it a living creature and therefore susceptible to many ailments that bother only the living, though it does possess some resistances to these effects.

The eidolon has void healing, meaning it heals from void energy effects that heal undead and is damaged by vitality energy effects that damage undead. It doesn't have an undead's normal immunities, but it does gain a +2 circumstance bonus to saving throws against death effects, disease, and poison effects, and non-damaging effects that target only undead. Additionally, its necrotic essence stanches its wounds easily. The flat check to remove persistent bleed damage from the eidolon is DC 10 (or DC 5 after receiving particularly effective aid).

##### Drain Life<div class="levels">7th</div>
Your eidolon's link with you sustains it, but it still craves the life essence of the living, whether through blood or pure essence.

#### Drain Life {2A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag divines">DIVINE</div>
<div class="tag eidolon">EIDOLON</div>
<div class="tag void">VOID</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon attacks a living creature and drains some of the creature's life force to feed your shared link. Your eidolon Strikes a living enemy. If the Strike hits and deals damage, the target must attempt a Fortitude save, with the following effects. On a critical hit, the enemy uses the result one degree worse than it rolled.

<div class="rule result r4">No effect</div>
<div class="rule result r3">Your eidolon drains a small amount of life force. The enemy takes additional void damage equal to half your level.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">Your eidolon drains enough life force to satisfy itself. The enemy takes additional void damage equal to half your level and is drained 1. Your eidolon gains temporary Hit Points equal to the enemy's level, which last for 1 minute.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">Your eidolon drains an incredible amount of life force and is thoroughly glutted with energy. As failure, but the enemy is drained 2 and the temporary Hit Points are equal to double the enemy's level.</div></div><br>

##### Rejuvenation<div class="levels">17th</div>
Your eidolon's unusual connection with you allows you both to rejuvenate when defeated. The first time each day your turn begins while you're dying, you instantly regain a number of Hit Points equal to three times your level and wake up. (Increase your wounded condition as normal.) You can immediately Manifest your Eidolon as a free action. You can then take your turn as normal.

###### 2nd Level

#### Silt Form<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag evolution">EVOLUTION</div>
<div class="tag summoner">SUMMONER</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your eidolon adapts to life on land and under sand and silt. It gains the silt trait, allowing it to breathe in sand, silt, and air and to avoid the normal –2 penalty for making bludgeoning and slashing unarmed Strikes under silt. It gains a swim Speed equal to its land Speed or 25 feet in sand and silt, whichever is less; or if it normally has the silt trait, it gains a land Speed equal to its swim Speed or 25 feet, whichever is less.</div><br>

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# Swashbuckler

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Many warriors rely on brute force, weighty armor, or cumbersome weapons. For you, battle is a dance where you move among foes with style and grace. You dart among combatants with flair and land powerful finishing moves with a flick of the wrist and a flash of the blade, all while countering attacks with elegant ripostes that keep enemies off balance. Harassing and thwarting your foes lets you charm fate and cheat death time and again with aplomb and plenty of flair.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

### During Combat Encounters...
You show off to gain panache, leveraging your flair to build up to powerful finishing moves. You stay nimble, moving into the best position to perform your maneuvers while dodging enemy blows and responding with swift ripostes. Depending on your swashbuckler’s style, you might dance among your foes; slip past their defenses; or beguile, distract, or frighten them.

### During Social Encounters...
You are equally likely to charm or intimidate others—or both. You might be an adept socialite, or you might create distractions for others who do the talking.

### While Exploring...
You keep a careful eye on your surroundings and other people, always prepared to leap into action with bravado and flair. You interact with the environment in bold, sweeping strokes rather than skulking to avoid detection.

### In Downtime...
You might carouse at the tavern, repair, and maintain your armaments, or train to learn new techniques. To maintain your impressive reputation, you might build an organization in your name or establish a following of admirers.

### You Might...
- Portray yourself as a heroic daredevil or a roguish braggart, knowing you can live up to the image you present.
- Hold yourself in high esteem, confident in your abilities and your reputation.
- Practice your skills and maneuvers regularly to ensure you never grow rusty.

#### <div style="text-align: left">Table 3-17: Swashbuckler Advancement</div>
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, panache, swashbuckler's style, precise strike (2d6), confident finisher, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, great fortitude, opportune riposte, skill increase, stylish trick, vivacious speed +10 feet</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, precise strike (3d6), skill increase, weapon expertise
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Evasion, general feat, skill increase, stylish trick, vivacious speed +15 feet, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, exemplary finisher, precise strike (4d6), skill increase, swashbuckler expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Continuous flair, general feat, skill increase, vigilant senses, vivacious speed +20 feet</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, improved evasion, light armor expertise, precise strike (5d6), skill increase, weapon mastery</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">General feat, greater weapon specialization, keen flair, skill increase, stylish trick, vivacious speed +25 feet </div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry feat, precise strike (6d6), resolve, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Eternal confidence, general feat, light armor mastery, skill increase, vivacious speed +30 feet</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, swashbuckler feat</div> |

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### Others Probably...
- Admire your theatrics, bravado, and skill with a blade. 
- Find you arrogant unless they know you well enough to appreciate your style.
- Underestimate how much of a threat you pose until they face the end of your deadly blade.

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# Wizard

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Athasian wizards drain energy from the surrounding soil. The method used labels the wizard as a defiler or a preserver. Preservers have the self–control to gather energy without destroying plants. Those who do not, or who feel no remorse about the damage caused, become Defilers. Defilers leave behind sterile soil and infertile ash when they cast spells. Because of this, most wastelanders blame wizards for the desert landscape that dominates the Tablelands today, and their hatred extends to defilers and preservers alike. In the seven cities, arcane magic is outlawed and feared.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

### During Combat Encounters...
You likely try to stay out of the fray, carefully judging when to use your spells. You save your most powerful magic to incapacitate threatening foes and use your cantrips when only weaker foes remain. When enemies pull out tricks like invisibility or flight, you answer with spells like revealing light or earth bind, leveling the field for your allies.

### During Social Encounters...
You provide a well of knowledge about arcane matters and solve arguments with logic.

### While Exploring...
You locate magical auras and determine the arcane significance of magical writing or phenomena you uncover. When you run across an unusual obstacle to further exploration, you probably have a scroll that will make it easier to overcome.

### In Downtime...
You learn new spells, craft magic items, or scribe seals for your party, and seek out new and exciting formulas in addition to spells. You might even join the veiled alliance in your city-state.

### You Might...
- Have an unquenchable intellectual curiosity about how everything in the world around you works—magic in particular.
- Believe fervently that your school of magic is superior (if you’re a specialist) or that true mastery of magic requires knowledge of all schools (if you’re a universalist).
- Use esoteric jargon and technical terms to precisely describe the minutiae of magical effects, even though the difference is probably lost on other people.

#### <div style="text-align: left">Table 3-17: Wizard Advancement</div>
| Level| Class Features |
|:---:|:-----------:|
| <div style="text-align: left">1</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, wizard spellcasting, arcane study, arcane bond, arcane thesis</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">2</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">3</div> | <div style="text-align: left">2nd-rank spells, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">4</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">5</div> | <div style="text-align: left">3rd-rank spells, ancestry feat, reflex expertise, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">6</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">7</div> | <div style="text-align: left">4th-rank spells, expert spellcaster, general feat, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">8</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">9</div> | <div style="text-align: left">5th-rank spells, ancestry feat, magical fortitude, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">10</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">11</div> | <div style="text-align: left">6th-rank spells, general feat, perception expertise, skill increase, wizard weapon expertise</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">12</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">13</div> | <div style="text-align: left">7th-rank spells, ancestry feat, defensive robes, skill increase, weapon specialization</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">14</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">15</div> | <div style="text-align: left">8th-rank spells, general feat, master spellcaster, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">16</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">17</div> | <div style="text-align: left">9th-rank spells, ancestry feat, prodigious will, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">18</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">19</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Archwizard's spellcraft, general feat, legendary spellcaster, skill increase</div> |
| <div style="text-align: left">20</div> | <div style="text-align: left">Skill feat, wizard feat</div> |

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### Others Probably...
- Consider you to be incredibly powerful and dangerous.
- Fear what your magic can do to their minds, bodies, and souls, and attack you furiously, as few can identify whether one of your spells is harmless or malevolent until it’s too late.

## Class Changes

The following rules reflect arcane spell casters in Dark Sun.

#### Defiling {0A}

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag wizard">Wizard</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per round</div>
<div class="prereq">must be in non-desolate terrain</div>
<div class="trigger">prior to casting a spell</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Prior to casting a spell, you can strip the life energy of the land. You defile a 5 feet burst of defilement in Forest or Verdant areas or 10 feet burst in barren terrain. Plants in the defiled area die and turn to ash. The terrain changes to desolate and can no longer support defiling. Any creature in the area of the defiling must make a fortitude saving throw vs your spell casting DC or become sickened 1. On a critical failure they become sickened 2.

The act of defiling empowers you with magic. If your next action is to cast a cantrip or a spell, reduce the number of actions to cast it by 1 (minimum 1 action).

If your next action is to cast a focus spell, there is no focus cost for casting the spell.
</div>

### Terrain Types

Below are some guidelines on which terrain type to use when determining area of defilement. Note that these guidelines may be adjusted for specific situations. For example, in a city, the mud pits might have no more vegetation than the stony barrens, while the gardens of the Sorcerer-King will be equal to a teeming forest.<br>
**Desolate:** Includes defiled, dust basin, salt flat, and silt

sea terrains.<br>
**Barren:** Includes boulder field, mountain, rocky badland,

sandy wastes, and stony barren terrains.<br>
**Verdant:** Includes mud flat, salt marsh, savannah, scrub

plain, and verdant belt terrains.<br>
**Forest:** Includes the forest ridge and other areas with

abundant vegetation.

</div>

### The Cost of Defiling

Defiling leaves a trace in the body and soul of a defiler.

When an arcane spellcaster defiles, three things happen: you attempt a saving throw against addiction, you suppress the negative effects of addiction for 1 day, and you gain the defiling trait. Failing a save against addiction caused by defiling causes you to go to 1 stage higher than the maximum stage you had previously (2 stages higher on a critical failure.) If you're currently suffering from addiction when you attempt a save from defiling, you can't improve your stage; if you succeed on the save, the stage remains the same as it was.

When you attempt your save against addiction each week, the stage you are currently at can't get worse - it can only stay the same or improve. The conditions from addiction can only be removed by an atonement ritual while you are affected by the addiction and suppressing the addiction by defiling only avoids the effects - it doesn't remove the disease.
<div class="abilbox">
<div>

**Saving Throw** Fortitude (difficulty equal to spell rank DC (10 for cantrips) + amount of times previously defiled that week.) **Onset** 1 round; **Stage 1** +1 status bonus to spell attack rolls and DCs and -1 status penalty to any non-intimidate charisma check or DC (1 week);
**Stage 2** fatigued, +1 status bonus to spell attack rolls and DCs and -2 status penalty to any non-intimidate charisma check or DC (1 week); **Stage 3** fatigued, sickened 1, +1 status bonus to spell attack rolls and DCs and -3 status penalty to any non-intimidate charisma check or DC (1 week); **Stage 4** fatigued, drained 1, sickened 2, stupefied 1 and -4 status penalty to any non-intimidate charisma check or DC (1 week).</div></div>

As soon as an arcane spell caster has any addiction stage, they can be felt as defilers.  Any druid, natural animal, beast, or spirit of the land can make a secret perception check. DC 30 stage 1, DC 20 stage 2, DC 15 stage 3, DC 10 stage 4.

<div class="rule result r4">They feel ill at ease and are able to pinpoint the defiler.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">They feel ill at ease and are able to understand there's a defiler in the vicinity</div>
<div class="rule result r2">They feel ill at ease, but don't necessarily understand why.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">They feel nothing
</div><br>

## Arcane Studies

Most wizards acquire their knowledge of spells from a teacher. At 1st level, you choose your arcane study, which grants you magical abilities.

You gain additional spells and spell slots from the curriculum learned during your studies. Some wizards follow the study of unified magical theory, which attempts to forge a new way of learning by studying independently and drawing information from a multitude of texts. Though a wizard with this approach lacks the focus of formal training, they have greater flexibility.

### Arcanamach

The royal defilers are feared and powerful wizards traditionally in the service of the sorcerer-monarchs. They are often trained in the arcane arts by more powerful defilers in service of the king or queen, and sometimes even personally by the sorcerer-monarch. Royal defilers can exert the same authority as templars within the boundaries of their monarch’s city state. In cities that have lost their dragon kings, some defilers still serve the new rulers of the cities, either openly or in secrecy. Contrary to the templars of many city-states, the defilers have not lost their spellcasting abilities. These defilers can attain powerful positions in the templar hierarchy and can achieve great personal power.

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<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>shield, telekinetic projectile</i>; 1st: <i>breath fire, force barrage, mystic armor</i>; 2nd: <i>mist, resist energy</i>; 3rd: <i>earthbind, fireball</i>; 4th: <i>wall of fire, weapon storm</i>; 5th: <i>howling blizzard, impaling spike</i>; 6th: <i>chain lightning, disintegrate</i>; 7th: <i>energy aegis, true target</i>; 8th: <i>arctic rift, desiccate</i>; 9th: </i>falling stars</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>force bolt</i>; advanced: <i>energy absorption</i></span>
</div></div><br>

### Arena Mage

The arena mage is a wizard who has acquired the skills necessary to survive the rigors of arena combat,
engaging his opponents with an arsenal of spells. The lesson to conceal this spellcasting ability comes quickly, as
failure means death. As such, an arena mage becomes a master at casting spells in secret, as well as masking his
magic-use. To accomplish this feat, the arena mage has developed a unique talent to help him: giving his spells
the trappings of psionic powers. Through the art of deception and a constant charade of psionic aptitude he is
able to maintain secret his spellcasting even in the most public of places.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>figment, message</i>; 1st: <i>charm, command, dizzying colors, fear</i>; 2nd: <i>invisibility, silence</i>; 3rd:<i>haste, paralyze</i>; 4th: <i>confusion, suggestion</i>; 5th: <i>hallucination, subconscious suggestion</i>; 6th: <i>mislead, vibrant pattern</i>; 7th: <i>duplicate foe</i>, <i>true target</i>; 8th: <i>disappearance, uncontrollable dance</i>; 9th: <i>foresight</i> </span>
</div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>scramble body</i>; advanced: <i>shifting form</i></span></div></div><br>

### Chasseur

Chasseurs, or huntsmen, are wizards who specialize in hunting down others of their kind. Some chasseurs are found working for the Veiled Alliance hunting down defilers, while others are employed by the templars and the sorcerer-kings to hunt down preservers. Some do not answer to any authority at all, but have their own agendas. Whether a defiler or a preserver, a chasseur uses skill and magic to hunt down and kill or capture other wizards.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>daze, shield</i>; 1st: <i>command, dizzying colors, fear, illusory disguise</i>; 2nd: <i>dispel magic, stupefy; 3rd: blindness, paralyze</i>; 4th: <i>confusion, dispelling globe</i>; 5th: <i>false vision, slither</i>; 6th: <i>spellwrack, truesight</i>; 7th: <i>planar seal, warp mind</i>; 8th: <i>hidden mind, pinpoint</i>; 9th: <i>detonate magic</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>charming push</i>; advanced:<i>dread aura</i></span></div></div><br>

### Earth Defender

Earth defenders are preservers concerned with protecting the environment at all costs. Some earth defenders choose to protect an area of land, while others devote their efforts to protect a species. The earth defender’s charge is called a ward, and she is prepared to go to almost any length to protect it.

Many earth defenders are fanatics. Their hatred against defilers or anything else that could harm their ward can be extreme. Death is the most usual punishment for threatening the earth defender’s ward.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>gouging claw, tangle vine</i>; 1st: <i>pest form, pummeling rubble, spider sting, summon animal</i>; 2nd: <i>entagling flora, mist</i>; 3rd: <i>insect form, wall of thorns</i>; 4th: <i>mirage, outcast's curse</i>; 5th: <i>toxic cloud, wall of stone</i>; 6th: </i>cursed metamorphosis, tangling creepers</i>; 7th: <i>mask of terror, project image</i>; 8th: <i>monstrosity form, quandary</i>; 9th: </i>metamorphosis</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>fortify summoning</i>; advanced: <i>spiral of horrors</i></span>
</div></div><br>

### Exterminator

Exterminators are defilers who use their defiling methods to purposefully destory the ecosystem. Some of these defilers enjoy the rush of power that destroying plants give them; some are so consumed by hatred that they want to annihilate everything in their path. Others may be convinced that the evil plants of Athas need to be obliterated.  Exterminators are the blood enemies of restorationists and earth defenders.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>caustic blast, ignition</i>; 1st: <i>breath fire, enfeeble, runic weapon, sure strike</i>; 2nd: <i>blazing bolt, noise blast</i>; 3rd: <i>fireball, vampiric feast</i>; 4th: <i>fire shield, weapon storm</i>; 5th: <i>magic passage, toxic cloud </i>; 6th: <i>disintegrate, vampiric exsanguination</i>; 7th: <i>energy aegis, fiery body</i>; 8th: <i>desiccate, earthquake</i>; 9th: </i>massacre</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>earthworks</i>; advanced: <i>elemental tempest</i></span>
</div></div><br>

### Illusionist

As an illusionist, you use magic to create images, figments, and phantasms to baffle your enemies. You understand 
that perception is reality.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>figment, message</i>; 1st: <i>dizzying colors, illusory disguise, illusory object, ventriloquism</i>; 2nd: <i>illusory creature, invisibility</i>; 3rd: <i>hypnotize, invisibility sphere</i>; 4th: <i>mirage, vision of death</i>; 5th: <i>hallucination, illusory scene</i>; 6th: <i>phantasmal calamity, vibrant pattern</i>; 7th: <i>mask of terror, project image</i>; 8th: <i>disappearance, scintillating pattern</i>; 9th: </i>phantasmagoria</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>warped terrain</i>; advanced: <i>invisibility cloak</i></span>
</div></div><br>

### Mercenary

Mercenary wizards are those who sell their talents to the highest bidder. They work for whoever pays the best-usually.  There are exceptions. Mercenaries are usually flamboyant, openly practicing their magic whenever possible so that prospective employers will notice them.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>figment, prestidigitation</i>; 1st: <i>dizzying colors, item facade, runic weapon, ventriloquism</i>; 2nd: <i>blur, enlarge</i>; 3rd: <i>lightning bolt, wall of wind</i>; 4th: <i>fly, weapon storm</i>; 5th: <i>howling blizzard, sending</i>; 6th: <i>repulsion, vibrant pattern</i>; 7th: <i>eclipse burst, mask of terror</i>; 8th: <i>arctic rift, uncontrollable dance</i>; 9th: <i>falling stars</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>protective wards</i>; advanced: <i>community restoration</i></span>
</div></div><br>

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### Necromancer

As a necromancer, you call upon the powers of life and death. While your study is often vilified for its association with raising the undead, you understand that control over life also means control over healing.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>torturous trauma, void warp</i>; 1st: <i>enfeeble, grim tendrils, spider sting, summon undead</i>; 2nd: <i>deafness, false vitality</i>; 3rd: <i>blindness, vampiric feast</i>; 4th: <i>enervation, sanguine mist</i>; 5th: <i>blister, toxic cloud</i>; 6th: <i>necrotize, vampiric exsanguination</i>; 7th: <i>eclipse burst, tempest of shades</i>; 8th: <i>desiccate</i>, <i>devour life</i>; 9th: <i>massacre</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>call of the grave</i>; advanced: <i>life siphon</i></span>
</div></div><br>

### Restorationist

Restorationists are preservers whose main goal is to return Athas to its former state of verdant vegetation and plentiful water. Wholly subsumed to their task, restorationists often tutor others in ecologically sound land management. A restorationist seldom takes lives unnecessarily, eats meat only when fruit and other plants that can return something to the land are unavailable, and searches for magic in her travels that can revitalize Athas.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>light, telekinetic hand</i>; 1st: <i>alarm, create water, mystic armor, summon construct</i>; 2nd: <i>environmental endurance, peaceful rest</i>; 3rd: <i>safe passage, veil of privacy</i>; 4th: <i>shape stone, unfettered movement</i>; 5th: <i>magic passage, truespeech</i>; 6th: <i>teleport, wall of force</i>; 7th: <i>energy aegis, retrocognition</i>; 8th: <i>power word stun, quandary</i>; 9th: <i>foresight</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>physical boost</i>; advanced: <i>dimensional steps</i></span>
</div></div><br>

### Tribal Wizard

The tribal wizard is a spellcaster who comes from a small tribal group. Mysterious and often feared, they nonetheless exert great influence in their communities.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>light, message</i>; 1st: <i>alarm, ant haul, create water, mending</i>; 2nd: <i>create food, translate</i>; 3rd: <i>cozy cabin, safe passage</i>; 4th: <i>creation, telepathy</i>; 5th: <i>mind probe, truespeech</i>; 6th: <i>teleport, truesight</i>; 7th: <i>retrocognition, true target</i>; 8th: <i>disappearance, pinpoint</i>; 9th: <i>foresight</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>diviner's sight</i>; advanced: <i>rune of observation</i></span>
</div></div>

<br>

### Unified Theory

You eschew the idea that magic can be neatly expressed by the teachings of any single study, instead directing your self-study to pick up the best of every study of magic. In doing so, you’ll find the truths that lie at the intersection of each school, coming closer to the ideal nature of arcane magic.

One day, you’ll uncover that single elegant theory detailing all magic (perhaps a theory bearing your name?), but until then, your studies continue.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>No Curriculum</b> <span class="rule"> You don’t have a set curriculum, and so you don’t have curriculum spells and can’t benefit from abilities that specifically affect them. Instead, you gain an additional 1st-level wizard class feat, and you add one 1st rank spell of your choice to your spellbook to represent your diverse studies. <br>
 Your studies into the very nature of magic itself have let you use it more efficiently—instead of using Drain Bonded Item only once per day, you can use it once per day for each rank of spell you can cast, recalling a spell of that rank each time.
</span></div></div><br>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</b> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>hand of the apprentice</i>; advanced: 
<i>interdisciplinary incantation</i></span></div></div>

### Veiled One

Veiled ones are wizards who have joined the secretive network of preservers known as the Veiled Alliance. In the Alliance they find a safe haven and gain access to magical resources otherwise unavailable. In return they devote themselves to the causes of the Alliance.

The Alliance is the enemy of the sorcerer-kings and all defilers, although the various Alliance chapters have different approaches and varying degree of success. Missions Veiled Ones undertake range from assaults on defilers and templars and rescuing imprisoned preservers to obtaining rare spell components and arcane items. Other missions revolve around breaking into templar offices to find compromising information, and hunting down renegade members who pose a threat to the organization. Alliance wizards benefit from archives of spells and arcane knowledge, but once they join the Alliance there is usually no way out except through death. This is due to well-founded paranoia that the wizard could betray the Alliance, or be captured by agents of the sorcerer-kings.

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Curriculum</B> <span class="rule"> cantrips: <i>detect magic, telekinetic hand</i>; 1st: <i>charm, command, disguise magic, illusory disguise</i>; 2nd: <i>embed message, humanoid form</i>; 3rd: <i>blindness, veil of privacy</i>; 4th: <i>detect scrying, peaceful bubble</i>; 5th: <i>false vision, subconscious suggestion</i>; 6th: <i>mislead, scrying</i>; 7th: <i>contingency, warp mind</i>; 8th: <i>hidden mind, unrelenting observation</i>; 9th: </i>implosion</i> </span></div></div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Study Spells</B> <span class="rule"> initial: <i>ancestral memories</i>; advanced: <i>extend spell</i></span></div></div>

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## Wizard Feats

At each level that you gain a wizard feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before taking the feat.

#### Agonizing Radius<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your defiling techniques are extremely painful. Any creature in the area of the defiling that fails its Fortitude save increases the sickened value by 1.</div><br>

#### Controlled Raze<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned to draw energy from further away. Your defiling radius increases by 5 feet.

If you are in an area of desolate terrain but barren, verdant, or forest is within 10 feet you expand your defiling radius by 5 feet to gather the energy you need.
</div>

#### Defiling Conservation {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per minute</div>
<div class="prereq">defiled on the previous round</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You focus on the energy gathered by defiling. By carefully manipulating the arcane energies gathered during defiling, you conserve enough power to cast another spell. During your turn, you gain the ability to cast one spell you prepared today, without spending a spell slot. You must still Cast the Spell and meet the spell’s other requirements. </div><br>

#### Destructive Raze<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can focus the energy you absorb from plants to increase the damage your spells inflict. Add +1 to damage per damage die inflicted by spells when defiling.</div><br>

#### Distance Raze<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can gather energy for spells at a distance. You can move the center of your defiling circle up to 5 feet per caster level, in effect moving the entire circle of defiling.</div><br>

#### Efficient Raze<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can gather energy more efficiently, utilizing the maximum energy potential of a given terrain. Treat the terrain you gather energy in as one category better when you defile. This feat has no effect in the Obsidian Plains. </div><br>

#### Master Defiler<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have mastered the art of defiling and have learned how to fully utilize the energy gathered during defiling. Spells cast in the same round you defile are heightened by one rank. Your defiling radius increases by 5ft. </div><br>

#### Superior Defiling<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag defiler">DEFILER</div>
<div class="tag wizard">WIZARD</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Defiling Conservation</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned to use defiling effectively. You are able to use Defiling Conservation once per round.

</div><br>

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# Animal Companions and Familiars

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Some adventurers travel with loyal allies known as animal companions and familiars. The former begin as young animals but acquire impressive physical abilities as you level up, while the latter share a magical bond with you.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

## Animal Companions

An animal companion is a loyal comrade who follows your orders. Your animal companion has the animal and minion traits, and it gains 2 actions during your turn if you use the Command an Animal action to command it; this replaces the usual effects of Command an Animal, and you don’t need to attempt a Nature check. If your companion dies, you can spend a week of downtime to replace it at no cost. You can have only one animal companion at a time.

### Young Animal Companions

The following are the base statistics for a young animal companion, the first animal companion most characters get. You adjust these statistics depending on the type of animal you choose. Animal companions calculate their modifiers and DCs just as you do with one difference: the only item bonuses they can benefit from are to Speed and AC (their maximum item bonus to AC is +3). As you gain levels, you might be able to make your companion stronger by advancing.

An animal companion’s starting statistics are as follows.

**Level:** Your animal companion’s level is equal to yours.

**Proficiencies:** Your animal companion is trained in its unarmed attacks, unarmored defense, barding (a type of armor for animals), all saving throws, Perception, Acrobatics, and Athletics. Animal companions can’t use abilities that require greater Intelligence, such as Coerce or Decipher Writing, even if trained in the appropriate skill, unless they have a specialization that allows it.

**Attribute Modifiers:** An animal companion begins with base attribute modifiers listed in its stat block.

**Hit Points:** Your animal companion has ancestry Hit Points from its type, plus a number of Hit Points equal to 6 plus its Constitution modifier for each level you have.

### Companion Types
The species of animal you choose is called your companion’s type. Each companion type has its own statistics, as follows. <br>
**Size** The companion’s size<br>
**Unarmed Attacks** One or more entries with the companion’s

unarmed attacks and their traits and damage<br>
**Attribute Modifiers** Starting attribute modifiers<br>
**Hit Points** The companion’s ancestry Hit Points<br>
**Skill** An additional trained skill your companion has<br>
**Senses Special** senses your companion has<Br>
**Speed** Your companion’s Speeds<br>
**Special** If present, this lists any special ability your

companion has, such as whether it often serves as a

mount.<br>
**Support Benefit** A special benefit you gain by Commanding

the Animal to use the Support action (see below).<br>
**Advanced Maneuver** A powerful new action your

companion learns how to use if it becomes a nimble or

savage animal companion

#### Support {1A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The creature is an animal companion.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your animal companion supports you. You gain the benefits listed in the companion type’s Support Benefit entry. If the animal uses the Support action, the only other actions it can use on this turn are basic move actions to get into position to take advantage of the Support benefits; if it has already used any other action this turn, it can’t Support you.</div><br>

### Riding Animal Companions

You or an ally can ride your animal companion as long as it is at least one size larger than the rider. If it is carrying a rider, the animal companion can use only its land Speed, and it can’t move and Support you on the same turn. However, if your companion has the mount special ability, it’s especially suited for riding and ignores both of these restrictions.

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### Air Elemental
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your companion is an air elemental, such as a zephyr hawk.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  gust (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+1</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+1</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">4</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">fly 50 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your air elemental swirls around you with concealing gusts, making it harder for your foes to hit you and possibly giving you a moment to hide. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit with a Strike and deal damage to a creature in your air elemental's reach, you are concealed to that creature until the start of your next turn.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Circling Flyby</span></div></div>

#### Circling Flyby {1A}
<div class="rule">
Your air elemental flies in a circle, blowing gusts at your foes before returning back to its starting position. The air elemental Flies up to half its Speed, makes two gust Strikes, then Flies up to half its Speed again to return to its original location. Both attacks count toward the air elemental's multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn't increase until after it makes both attacks..</div><br>

### Ape
<div class="rule">
Your companion is an ape or Feylaar: A lumbering, four-armed ape with a pronounced bony plate over its forehead, this creature stands a foot taller than a full elf and ripples with muscles beneath its furry hide. Long quills run the length of its spine, with an extra pair flaring backwards from the creature’s cheekbones and you see broad yellow fangs in the beast’s wide mouth. Its fur is brown, with amber highlights, the flesh of its face and bare chest is a dull grey and the quills are a glossy black.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  fist</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Intimidation</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet, climb 25 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your ape threatens your foes with menacing growls. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit and deal damage to a creature in your ape's reach, the creature becomes frightened 1.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Frightening Display</span></div></div>

#### Frightening Display {1A}
<div class="rule">
Your ape makes a loud and frightening display, throwing a foe off balance. The ape attempts to Demoralize the target creature; this display gains the visual trait and doesn’t require language. While frightened by this ability, the target is off-guard to your ape.</div><br>

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### Aprig, Boar
<div class="rule">
Your companion is an Aprig Boar. A small, piglike creature with a hard shell and a flat, snuffling snout, this timid beast noses about the undergrowth for food along with its herd-mates.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  tusk</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule speed">35 feet</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule support">Your aprig boar gores your foes. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your boar’s reach also deal 1d6 persistent bleed damage. If your boar is nimble or savage, the persistent bleed damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule advanced">Boar Charge</span></div></div><br>

#### Boar Charge {2A}
<div class="rule">
The aprig boar Strides twice in a straight line and then makes a tusk Strike. As long as it moved at least 20 feet, it gains a +2 
circumstance bonus to its attack roll.</div><br>

### Baazrag
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a baazrag. Two feet long or less, it is one of the smallest omnivores in the stony barren regions. The baazrag’ s face is protected by a bony covering that reaches down on either side of the head and across the nose, with holes for the creature’s nostrils and eyes. The mouth and lower jaw are not protected below the bony covering. The beast’s humped back is covered with a hard, natural armor that protects the animal, especially the fluid storage sack just beneath the shell. Its four legs are comparatively frail but are adequate for darting from shelter to shelter around its rocky home.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule speed">35 feet</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule support">Your baazrag digs around your foe’s position, interfering with its footing. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit and deal damage to a creature your baazrag threatens, the target can’t use a Step action (unless it can Step through difficult terrain) until it moves from its current position.</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule advanced">Baazrag Rage</span></div></div><br>

#### Baazrag Rage {1A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The baazrag isn’t fatigued or raging.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The baazrag enters a state of pure rage that lasts for 1 minute, until there are no enemies it can perceive, or until it falls unconscious, whichever comes first. It can’t voluntarily stop raging. While raging, the baazrag is affected in the following ways.</div>

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- It deals 4 additional damage with its bite attacks and 2 additional damage with its claw attacks.
- It takes a –1 penalty to AC.
- It can’t use actions that have the concentrate trait unless they also have the rage trait. The animal companion can Seek even while raging.

After it has stopped raging, it can’t use Baazrag Rage again for 1 minute.</div>

### Bat
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a particularly large bat, such as a giant bat.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  wing (agile, finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d4 slashing</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule senses">echolocation 20 feet (the bat can use hearing as a precise sense within this range), low-light vision</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule speed">15 feet, fly 30 feet</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule support">Your bat flaps around your foes' arms and faces, getting in the way of their attacks. Until the start of your next turn, creatures in your bat's reach that you damage with Strikes take a –1 circumstance penalty to their attack rolls.</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule advanced">Wing Thrash</span></div></div><br>

#### Wing Thrash {2A}
<div class="rule">
The bat thrashes wildly with its wings, making wing Strikes against up to three adjacent foes. Each attack counts toward the bat's multiple attack penalty, but the penalty only increases after all the attacks have been made.</div><br>

### Beetle, Screamer
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a  hard-shelled, larger-than-normal insect that has a multicolored shell and can let out an ear-piercing screech.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  mandible</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+3</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your beetle stomps around and smashes into foes, knocking them off balance or pushing them aside when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that deal damage to a creature within your Screamer Beetle's reach make the target off-guard until the end of your next turn.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Sonic Blast</span></div></div><br>

#### Sonic Blast {2A}
<div class="rule">
The screamer beetle emits a sonic blast in a 30-foot cone of sound, dealing 1d6 sonic damage for every 2 levels the screamer beetle has to all creatures in the area (basic Reflex save). This uses a trained DC using the screamer beetle's Constitution modifier or an expert DC if the screamer beetle is specialized.</div>

### Bird
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a bird of prey, such as an eagle, hawk, or owl.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  talon (agile, finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d4 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">4</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">10 feet, fly 60 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">The bird pecks at your foes’ eyes when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature that your bird threatens also deal 1d4 persistent bleed damage, and the target is dazzled until it removes the bleed damage. If your bird is nimble or savage, the persistent bleed damage increases to 2d4.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Flyby Attack</span></div></div><br>

#### Flyby Attack {2A}
<div class="rule">
The bird Flies and makes a talon Strike at any point along the way.</div><br>

### Cat
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a big cat, such as a kirre, panther, or tigone.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  talon (agile, finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d4 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">4</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">35 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">Your cat deals 1d4 extra precision damage against off-guard targets.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your cat throws your enemies off-balance when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that deal damage to a creature within your cat's reach make the target off-guard until the end of your next turn.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Cat Pounce</span></div></div><br>

#### Cat Pounce {1A}
<div class="rule">
The cat Strides and then Strikes. If it was undetected at the start of its Cat Pounce, it remains undetected until after the attack.</div><br>

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### Conashellae
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a conashellae, a tiny crustacean with a hard shell covering its top and a soft underbelly.

Two rows of pseudopods jut out from the creature’s front, one set dexterous and probing the dust like sensory organs, the other hard as bone, pointed, and strong, used for burrowing.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  pseudopod (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet, burrow 10 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your conashellae moves its pseudopod in the way of enemy attacks. You gain lesser cover from your conashellae against all attacks, not just ones where the conashellae would be in the way.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Extend Pseudopod</span></div></div><br>

#### Extend Pseudopod {1A}
<div class="rule">
Your conashellae lengthens itself, granting its pseudopod Strike a reach of 10 feet until the beginning of your next turn.</div><br>

### Crodlu
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a crodlu, a large, flightless combination of bird and reptile resembling an ostrich. It has wicked claws at the end of its long fore and hind limbs, and its scaly hide is a yellowish red, with similar colors along its side and underbelly.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Large</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} beak</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} talon (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">40 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">mount</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your crodlu screeches at your enemies when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that deal damage to a creature within your crodlu’ s reach make the target off-guard until the start of your next turn.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Tearing Clutch</span></div></div><br>

#### Tearing Clutch {2A}
<div class="rule">
The crodlu makes a beak Strike; on a successful hit, the target takes 2d6 persistent bleed damage.</div><br>

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### Dagorran
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a dagorran, a large, frog-like monsters with a gold-colored hide.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">40 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your dagorran tears tendons with each opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage creatures your dagorran threatens give the target a –5-foot status penalty to its Speeds for 1 minute (–10 on a critical success).</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Knockdown</span></div></div><br>

#### Knockdown {1A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The animal companion’s last action was a successful jaws Strike.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
The dagorran automatically knocks the target of its jaws Strike prone.</div><br>

### Drik
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a drik, a large giant lizard, used as mounts and pack animals.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Large</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws </span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} foot </span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+3</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Athletics</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">mount</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your drik assists you in battle. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus on your next attack roll to Strike a foe within your drik's reach. The bonus lasts until the first time you use it or until the beginning of your next turn, whichever comes first.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Lurching Rush</span></div></div><br>

#### Lurching Rush {2A}
<div class="rule">
The drik Strides and then makes a jaws Strike. If it moved at least 15 feet away from its starting position, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus to this attack roll.</div><br>

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### Dunecrab
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a dunecrab.  A five-foot-diameter crab, its ridge covered shell blending in perfectly with the surrounding sand and dust. The crab’s four eyestalks angle about, looking for prey to mash with its barbed pincers.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} pincer (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your dunecrab holds your enemies with its pincers, interfering with reactions. Until the start of your next turn, any creature your dune crab threatens can’t use reactions triggered by your actions unless its level is higher than yours.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Constrict</span></div></div><br>

#### Constrict {1A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The dunecrab has a smaller creature grabbed.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The dunecrab deals 12 bludgeoning damage to the grabbed creature; the creature must attempt a basic Fortitude save. If the dunecrab is a specialized animal companion, increase this damage to 20.</div><br>

### Earth Elemental
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your companion is an earth elemental, such as a living boulder or sod hound.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  fist</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+0</span>
<span class="rule con">+3</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">10</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">20 feet, burrow 10 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your earth elemental cracks the earth beneath your foe's feet, making it difficult for the foe to move. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit with a Strike and deal damage to a creature in your earth elemental's reach, the first square the creature moves into after taking that damage is difficult terrain.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Rolling Knockdown</span></div></div><br>

#### Rolling Knockdown {2A}
<div class="rule">
Your earth elemental rolls along the ground like a bowling ball and knocks a foe over. It Strides up to 10 feet then makes a fist Strike. If it hits, the target is also knocked prone.</div><br>

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### Erdlu
<div class="rule">
Your companion is an erdlu.  A tall, flightless bird with heavy scales or rough feathers, this creature is as tall as an elf. It has a long neck, large beak and stands on two tough, sinewy legs.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} talon (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">40 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your erdlu constantly darts into flanking position. Until the start of your next turn, it counts as being in its space or an empty space of your choice within 10 feet when determining whether you and your companion are flanking; you can choose a different space for each of your attacks.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Darting Attack</span></div></div><br>

#### Darting Attack {1A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The erdlu Steps up to 10 feet and then Strikes or Strikes and then Steps up to 10 feet.</div><br>

### Fire Elemental
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a fire elemental, such as a cinder rat.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  tendril (agile, finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 fire</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">4</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Intimidation</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special"> Immunities fire, Weaknesses cold and water (equal to the fire elemental's level)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your fire elemental burns your foes and sets them on fire. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your fire elemental's reach also deal 1d6 persistent fire damage. If your fire elemental is nimble or savage, the persistent fire damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Flamethrower</span></div></div><br>

#### Flamethrower {2A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">Once per 10 minutes.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The fire elemental makes a tendril Strike against all creatures in a 60-foot line, even those that aren't in the tendril Strike's reach. All these Strikes count toward the fire elemental's multiple attack penalty, but it doesn't increase until all the Strikes.</div><br>

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### Giant Centipede
<div class="rule">
Your companion is one of the various species of giant centipede.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} mandibles</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing plus poison</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">The centipede's jaws attack deals an additional 1d4 poison damage or 2d4 poison damage if the giant centipede is a specialized companion.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your giant centipede drips poison from its mandibles when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your giant centipede's reach also deal 1d6 persistent poison damage. If your giant centipede is nimble or savage, the persistent poison damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Lurching Rush</span></div></div><br>

#### Lurching Rush {2A}
<div class="rule">
The giant centipede Strides and then makes a mandibles Strike. If it moved at least 20 feet away from its starting position, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus to this attack roll.</div><br>

### Giant Poisonous Snake
<div class="rule">
Your companion is one of the various species of giant poisonous snakes.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} fangs (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing plus poison</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">20 feet, climb 20 feet, swim 20 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">The giant poisonous snake attack deals an additional 1d4 poison damage or 2d4 poison damage if the giant poisonous snake is a specialized companion.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your giant poisonous snake  drips poison from its fangs when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your giant poisonous snake's reach also deal 1d6 persistent poison damage. If your giant poisonous snake is nimble or savage, the persistent poison damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Darting Attack</span></div></div><br>

#### Darting Attack {1A}
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The giant poisonous snake Steps up to 10 feet and then Strikes or Strikes and then Steps up to 10 feet. </div><br><br><br><br><br>

### Giant Wolf Spider
<div class="rule">
Your companion is one of the various species of giant wolf spiders.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} fangs (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing plus poison</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">20 feet, climb 20 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">The giant wolf spider attack deals an additional 1d4 poison damage or 2d4 poison damage if the giant wolf spider is a specialized companion.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your giant wolf spider drips poison from its fangs when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your giant poisonous snake's reach also deal 1d6 persistent poison damage. If your giant poisonous snake is nimble or savage, the persistent poison damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Tearing Bite</span></div></div><br>

#### Tearing Bite {2A}
<div class="rule">
The giant wolf spider makes a fangs Strike; on a successful hit, the target takes 2d6 persistent bleed damage.</div><br>

### Hatori
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a hatori, a crocodile of the sands.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} tail (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet, burrow 10 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">The hatori can hold its breath for about 2 hours.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your hatori clamps its jaws on your foe, refusing to let go. Until the start of your next turn, if your Strike damages a creature in your hatori’ s reach, your hatori can latch onto the creature. While thus attached, the hatori can move along with the target whenever the target moves until the end of your next turn. Your hatori can latch onto only one creature in this way, and it must release the creature to make a jaws Strike. If the target is smaller than the hatori, it takes a –10-foot circumstance penalty to its Speeds and can't Fly while the hatori is latched on.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Death Roll</span></div></div><br>

#### Death Roll {2A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The hatori has a creature grabbed.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The hatori tucks its legs and rolls rapidly, twisting its victim. It makes a jaws Strike with a +2 circumstance bonus to the attack roll against the grabbed creature. If it hits, it also knocks the creature prone. If it misses, it releases the creature.</div>

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### Inix
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a large lizard that is protected by a thick shell, and flexible scales on its underside.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Large</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} tail (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">mount</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">The inix distracts an adjacent opponent with snapping jaws and rapid movements. Until the start of your next turn, if your Strike damages a foe, any time the foe attempts an action with the manipulate trait until the end of your next turn, it must attempt a DC 5 flat check. On a failure, the action is disrupted.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Lurching Rush</span></div></div><br>

#### Lurching Rush {2A}
<div class="rule">
The inix Strides and then makes a jaws Strike. If it moved at least 20 feet away from its starting position, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus to this attack roll.</div><br>

### Jankz
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a Jankz, a small, furry, mammalian animal with long curved spurs on its limbs.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} claw (agile, finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing plus poison</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">4</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet, burrow 10 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">The jankz attack deals an additional 1d4 poison damage or 2d4 poison damage if the jankz is a specialized companion.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your jankz drips poison from its claws when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your jankz’ s reach also deal 1d6 persistent poison damage. If your jankz is nimble or savage, the persistent poison damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Hustle</span></div></div><br>

#### Hustle {2A}
<div class="rule">
The jankz moves at incredible speed. It Strides three times.</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

### Jhakar
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a jhakar, This creature is squat and leathery, dull in color except for the garish frill rising from its back. Its eyes are wide set on either side of a large maw filled with a wall of teeth.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your jhakar tears tendons with each opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage creatures your jhakar threatens give the target a –5-foot status penalty to its Speeds for 1 minute (–10 on a critical success).</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Knockdown</span></div></div><br>

#### Knockdown {1A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The animal companion’s last action was a successful jaws Strike.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The jhakar automatically knocks the target of its jaws Strike prone.</div><br>

### Kank
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a Kank, a large insect often used as mounts.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Large</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} mandible</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} foot (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+3</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">35 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">mount</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your kank stomps around and smashes into foes, knocking them off balance or pushing them aside when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, while riding on your kank, your Strikes that deal damage either make the target off-guard until the end of your next turn or move the target 5 feet away from the kank (this is forced movement). The target chooses which effect occurs.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Hustle</span></div></div><br>

#### Hustle {2A}
<div class="rule">
The kank moves at incredible speed. It Strides three times.</div>

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### Kes'trekel
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a kes’trekel, a large scavenging bird.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">10 feet, fly 45 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">Your kes'trekel gains a +1 status bonus to all saves against disease, and if it rolls a success on a save against a disease, the result is a critical success instead.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">The kes'trekel retches and vomits onto a foe within 10 feet. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit and deal damage to the target, the target must succeed at a Fortitude save or become sickened 1 (sickened 2 on a critical failure). The DC of the Fortitude save is 12 (or 14, if the kes'trekel is a specialized animal companion) + your level + the kes’trekel’ s Constitution modifier.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Feast on the Fallen</span></div></div><br>

#### Feast on the Fallen {R}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="trigger">A creature adjacent to the kes'trekel is reduced to 0 Hit Points</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The kes'trekel consumes a piece of the defeated foe, regaining 18 Hit Points. If the kes'trekel is a specialized animal companion, increase the Hit Points regained to 30.</div><br>

### Klar
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a klar, a large bear covered with chitinous plate on its back.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} claw (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Intimidation</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">35 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your klar mauls your enemies when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, each time you hit a creature in the klar’ s reach with a Strike, the creature takes 1d8 slashing damage from the klar. If your klar is nimble or savage, the slashing damage increases to 2d8.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Klar Hug</span></div></div><br>

#### Klar Hug {1A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The klar’ s last action was a successful claw Strike.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The klar makes another claw Strike against the same target. If this Strike hits, the target is also grabbed, as if the klar had successfully Grappled the target.</div><br><br>

### Mekillot 
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a mekillot, a huge lizard with a thick shell covering its head and back.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Large</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} foot (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+3</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Intimidation</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">mount</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your mekillot roars and puts on a fearsome display as you attack, startling your foes. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit and deal damage to a creature within your mekillot’ s reach, the creature is frightened 1.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Overwhelm</span></div></div><br>

#### Overwhelm {2A}
<div class="rule">
The mekillot bears down on an enemy and pins it with its jaws. The mekillot makes a jaws Strike; on a hit, the target is grabbed.</div><br>

### Minotaur Lizard
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a minotaur lizard, a huge lizard with horns on top of its head.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Large</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} claw (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">The minotaur lizard distracts an adjacent opponent with snapping jaws and rapid movements. Until the start of your next turn, if your Strike damages a foe, any time the foe attempts an action with the manipulate trait until the end of your next turn, it must attempt a DC 5 flat check. On a failure, the action is disrupted.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Lurching Rush</span></div></div><br>

#### Lurching Rush {2A}
<div class="rule">
The minotaur lizard Strides and then makes a jaws Strike. If it moved at least 20 feet away from its starting position, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus to this attack roll. </div>

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### Mole Boar
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a mole boar, a cross between a weasel and a boar.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} claw (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet, burrow 10 feet, climb 10 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your mole boar digs around your foe’s position, interfering with its footing. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit and deal damage to a creature your mole boar threatens, the target can’t use a Step action (unless it can Step through difficult terrain) until it moves from its current position.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Mole Boar Rage</span></div></div><br>

#### Mole Boar Rage {1A}
<div class="rule">
The mole boar enters a state of pure rage that lasts for 1 minute, until there are no enemies it can perceive, or until it falls unconscious, whichever comes first. It can’t voluntarily stop raging. While raging, the mole boar is affected in the following ways.

After it has stopped raging, it can’t use Mole Boar Rage again for 1 minute.</div><br>

### Pterrax
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a pterrax, a large pteranodon-like creatures which are capable of flight.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} beak (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} talon (agile, finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d4 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">10 feet, fly 60 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your pterrax expands its wings and makes distracting flapping motions. Any creature that would gain lesser cover from the pterrax gains standard cover instead.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Pterrax Swoop</span></div></div><br>

#### Pterrax Swoop {1A}
<div class="rule">
The pterrax Flies up to its Speed and makes one beak Strike at any point during that movement.</div><br><br><br>

### Rasclinn
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a rasclinn, a small dog-like creature with an almost metallic hide.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">40 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">Your rasclinn gains a +1 status bonus to all saves against poison, and if it rolls a success on a save against a poison, the result is a critical success instead.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your rasclinn tears tendons with each opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage creatures your rasclinn threatens give the target a –5-foot status penalty to its Speeds for 1 minute (–10 on a critical success).</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Rasclinn Rage</span></div></div><br>

#### Rasclinn Rage {1A}
<div class="rule">
The rasclinn enters a state of pure rage that lasts for 1 minute, until there are no enemies it can perceive, or until it falls unconscious, whichever comes first. It can’t voluntarily stop raging. While raging, the rasclinn is affected in the following ways.

- It deals 4 additional damage with its jaws attacks.
- It takes a –1 penalty to AC.
- It can’t use actions that have the concentrate trait unless they also have the rage trait. The animal companion can Seek even while raging.

After it has stopped raging, it can’t use Rasclinn Rage again for 1 minute.</div><br>

### Rhynox
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a rhynox a large muscular quadruped with three large horns used for combat.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} horn</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+3</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">Normal</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your rhynox swings its heavy head to unbalance your enemy. The first creature within your rhynox’ s reach that you hit and deal damage to before the start of your next turn becomes clumsy 1 until the end of your next turn.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Rhynox Charge</span></div></div><br>

#### Rhynox Charge {2A}
<div class="rule">
The rhynox Strides and makes a horn Strike at the end of its Stride. As long as the rhynox moved at least 20 feet, the horn Strike deals 1d8 additional piercing damage, or 2d8 additional damage if your rhynox is nimble or savage.</div>

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### Sand Shark
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a sand shark, a shark that swims in sand.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">tremorsense (imprecise, 30 feet), scent (imprecise, 60 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">10 feet, burrow 30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">When your land shark senses blood, it tears into your enemies. Until the start of your next turn, each time you hit a creature in the land shark's reach with a Strike and deal slashing or piercing damage, the creature takes 1d8 slashing damage from the land shark. If your land shark is nimble or savage, the slashing damage increases to 2d8.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Shred</span></div></div><br>

#### Shred {1A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The land shark hit with a jaws Strike on its most recent action this turn.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The land shark viciously rips into the wound, dealing additional damage. The target of the land shark's Strike takes 1d8 slashing damage (2d8 for a mature land shark or 3d8 for a specialized companion). </div><br>

### Scorpion
<div class="rule">
Your companion is one of the various species of giant scorpion.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} stinger</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing plus poison</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} pincer (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 slashing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">The scorpion's stinger attack deals an additional 1d4 poison damage or 2d4 poison damage if the scorpion is a specialized companion.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your scorpion drips poison from its stinger when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your scorpion's reach also deal 1d6 persistent poison damage. If your scorpion is nimble or savage, the persistent poison damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Grab and Sting</span></div></div><br>

#### Grab and Sting {2A}
<div class="rule">
The scorpion holds its foe in place with its pincers in order to sting it. It makes a pincer Strike. If the Strike hits, the target creature automatically becomes grabbed by the scorpion, which then makes a stinger Strike against it. The grabbed condition lasts until the end of your next turn.</div><br><br><br><br>

### Shadow Hound
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a canine creature related to the Black denizens known as shadow mastiffs.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule access">You're a shadow wizard</span></div><div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+1</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">4</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Intimidation</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your shadow hound shrouds your foes in shadow when you leave an opening. Until the start of your next turn, when you damage a creature with a Strike and that creature is within reach of your shadow hound, both you and your shadow hound become concealed to the creature until the end of your next turn.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Bay</span></div></div><br>

#### Bay {2A}
<div class="rule">
The shadow hound releases an eerie bay, attempting to Demoralize each foe in a 20-foot emanation. These Demoralize attempts don't require a language and don't take any penalty due to not sharing a language.</div><br>

### Slimahacc
<div class="rule">
Slimahaccs are a sinuous species of reptile with uncertain heritage. They are also sometimes known as sand drakes, but it is unknown if they are truly related to drakes or are instead some sort of native reptilian or worm offshoot. They roam the deserts, using stealth and speed to overrun and devour their prey.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Large</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} tail (agile)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, tremorsense (imprecise) 30 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet, burrow 10 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">mount</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your slimahacc holds your enemies with its coils, interfering with reactions. Until the start of your next turn, any creature your slimahacc threatens can’t use reactions triggered by your actions unless its level is higher than yours.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Tail Swipe</span></div></div><br>

#### Tail Swipe {2A}
<div class="rule">
Your slimahacc sweeps its tail, making tail Strikes against up to two adjacent foes. Each attack counts toward the slimahacc's multiple attack penalty, but the penalty only increases after all the attacks have been made.</div>

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### Snake
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a constrictor snake, such as a boa or python.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} jaws (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">20 feet, climb 20 feet, swim 20 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your snake holds your enemies with its coils, interfering with reactions. Until the start of your next turn, any creature your snake threatens can’t use reactions triggered by your actions unless its level is higher than yours.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Constrict</span></div></div><br>

#### Constrict {1A}
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="req">The snake has a smaller creature grabbed.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The snake deals 12 bludgeoning damage to the grabbed creature; the creature must attempt a basic Fortitude save. If the snake is a specialized animal companion, increase this damage to 20.</div>

### Treant Sapling
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag plant">PLANT</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a walking tree, a cousin of the great athasian treants. A treant sapling has the plant trait instead of the animal trait, but it otherwise functions normally as an animal companion. They are typically only selected by animal order druids who are also members of the leaf order.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} branch</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Stealth</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">25 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your treant sapling plants roots around your foe, impeding its movement. Until the start of your next turn, if you hit and deal damage to a creature in your treant sapling's reach, the first square the creature moves into after taking that damage is difficult terrain.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Throw Rock </span></div></div><br>

#### Throw Rock {1A}
<div class="rule">
The treant sapling Interacts to pick up a rock within reach or retrieve a stowed rock, then throws it with a ranged rock Strike that deals a base of 1d6 bludgeoning damage with a range increment of 30 feet. The damage is 2d6 for a mature arboreal sapling and 3d6 for a specialized one.</div>

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### Warthog
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a warthog, a giant boar.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Medium</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} tusk</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 piercing</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+3</span>
<span class="rule dex">+1</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+2</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">8</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">35 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your warthog gores your foes. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your warthog's reach also deal 1d6 persistent bleed damage. If your warthog is nimble or savage, the persistent bleed damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Warthog Charge</span></div></div><br>

#### Warthog Charge {2A}
<div class="rule">
The warthog Strides twice in a straight line and then makes a tusk Strike. As long as it moved at least 20 feet, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus to its attack roll.</div>

### Water Elemental
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a water elemental, such as a brine shark.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div> 
<span class="rule melee">{1A}  wave</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d8 bludgeoning</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+2</span>
<span class="rule con">+1</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">darkvision</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">15 feet, swim 35 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">Resistances fire (equal to the water elemental's level)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your water elemental waterlogs a foe. The first time before the start of your next turn you hit with a Strike that deals damage to a creature within your water elemental's reach, that creature becomes clumsy 1 until the end of your next turn.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Drench</span></div></div><br>

#### Drench {1A}
<div class="rule">
Your water elemental drenches nearby fires to extinguish them. Your elemental puts out all fires in a 5-foot emanation. It extinguishes all non-magical fires automatically and attempts to counteract magical fires (its counteract modifier is equal to its attack modifier with its wave Strike, unmodified by any bonuses or effects that apply to attack rolls).</div><br>

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### Weezer
<div class="rule">
Your companion is a weezer, an enormous flying insect that makes its home undergrounds.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<span class="rule sizes">Small</span></div><div>
<span class="rule melee">{1A} stinger (finesse)</span><span class="rule damage"> 1d6 piercing plus poison</span></div><div>
<span class="rule str">+2</span>
<span class="rule dex">+3</span>
<span class="rule con">+2</span>
<span class="rule int">-4</span>
<span class="rule wis">+1</span>
<span class="rule cha">+0</span></div><div>
<span class="rule hitpoints">6</span></div><div>
<span class="rule cskill">Survival</span></div><div>
<span class="rule senses">low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)</span></div><div>
<span class="rule speed">10 feet, fly 45 feet</span></div><div>
<span class="rule special">The weezer’s stinger attack deals an additional 1d4 poison damage or 2d4 poison damage if the weezer is a specialized companion.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule support">Your weezer drips poison from its stinger when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that damage a creature in your weezer’ s reach also deal 1d6 persistent poison damage. If your weezer is nimble or savage, the persistent poison damage increases to 2d6.</span></div><div>
<span class="rule advanced">Flyby Attack</span></div></div><br>

#### Flyby Attack {2A}
<div class="rule">
The weezer Flies and makes a stinger Strike at any point along the way.</div><br>

## Companion Advancement
You can advance an animal companion, usually due to one of your class feat choices. Normally, you can advance a young animal companion to a mature animal companion, advance a mature companion to either a nimble or savage companion, and advance a nimble or savage companion into a specialized companion.

### Genie-Touched
If you take a feat that would normally allow you to choose to have a savage or nimble animal companion, you can instead choose to for it to become a genie-touched companion.

When you choose the feat, select the type of genie whose power infuses your companion. The genies and their elemental traits are as follows: jaathoomi (air), ifrit (fire), faydhaan (water), or jabali (earth). A genie-touched companion increases its Wisdom modifier by 2 and its Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution modifiers by 1. It deals 3 additional damage with its unarmed attacks; this damage is fire damage for an ifrit-touched companion or of the same type as the unarmed attack for the others. It gains resistance 5 to damage of a type depending on the genie: acid for jaathoomi, fire for ifrit or faydhaan, and electricity for jabali. If the companion is jaathoomi-touched or ifrit-touched, increase its proficiency rank in Acrobatics to expert; if it is faydhaan-touched or jabali-touched, increase its proficiency rank in Athletics to expert. It also learns the advanced maneuver for its type. Its attacks count as magical for the purpose of ignoring resistances and gain the genie's elemental trait.

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### Indomitable
When you pick your animal companion, you can choose to have it be a megafauna animal companion. Megafauna animal companions are mostly similar to other animal companions of the same category, though they look different, and they have one difference in their upgrade path.

If you take a feat that would normally allow you to choose to have your companion become a savage or nimble animal companion, a megafauna companion instead can choose to become a savage or indomitable companion.

An indomitable companion increases its Constitution modifier by 2 and its Strength, Dexterity, and Wisdom modifiers by 1. It deals 3 additional damage with its unarmed attacks. Increase its proficiency rank in Athletics to expert and its proficiency rank in barding to expert. It also learns the advanced maneuver for its type. If your companion is Medium or smaller, it grows in size by one category. Its attacks count as magical for the purpose of ignoring resistances.

### Mature Animal Companions

To advance a young animal companion to a mature animal companion (usually a result of one of your class feat choices), increase its Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, and Wisdom modifiers by 1.

Increase its unarmed attack damage from one die to two dice (for instance 1d8 to 2d8), and its proficiency rank for Perception and all saving throws to expert. Increase its proficiency ranks in Intimidation, Stealth, and Survival to trained, and if it was already trained in one of those skills from its type, increase its proficiency rank in that skill to expert. If your attack companion is Medium or smaller, it grows by one size.

### Nimble Animal Companions

To advance a mature animal companion to a nimble animal companion, increase its Dexterity modifier by 2 and its Strength, Constitution, and Wisdom modifiers by 1.

It deals 2 additional damage with its unarmed attacks. Increase its proficiency ranks in Acrobatics to expert. It also learns the advanced maneuver for its type. Its attacks become magical for the purpose of ignoring resistances.

### Savage Animal Companions

To advance a mature animal companion to a savage animal companion, increase its Strength modifier by 2 and its Dexterity, Constitution, and Wisdom modifiers by 1. It deals 3 additional damage with its unarmed attacks. Increase its proficiency rank in Athletics to expert. It also learns the advanced maneuver for its type. If your companion is Medium or smaller, it grows by one size. Its attacks become magical for the purpose of ignoring resistances.

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### Unseen

Cryptid animal companions look a touch peculiar, often with uncanny features or ones that seem to come from a different animal. If you take a feat that would normally allow you to choose to have your companion become a savage or nimble animal companion, you can choose to make it an unseen animal companion instead. An unseen companion increases its Wisdom modifier by 2 and its Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution modifiers by 1.

It deals 3 additional damage with its unarmed attacks and deals an extra 1d4 precision damage against off-guard targets (if the animal companion already deals precision damage, such as a cat, combine the precision damage). Increase its proficiency rank in Stealth to expert. It also learns the advanced maneuver for its type.

### Specialized Animal Companions
Specialized animal companions are more intelligent and engage in more complex behaviors. The first time an animal gains a specialization, it gains the following: Its proficiency rank for unarmed attacks increases to expert. Its proficiency ranks for saving throws and Perception increase to master. Increase its Dexterity modifier by 1 and its Intelligence modifier by 2. Its unarmed attack damage increases from two dice to three dice, and it increases its additional damage with unarmed attacks from 2 to 4 or from 3 to 6. Each specialization grants additional benefits. Most animal companions can have only one specialization.

**Ambusher:** In your companion’s natural environment, it can use a Sneak action even if it’s currently observed. Its proficiency rank in Stealth increases to expert (or master if it was already an expert from its type), and its Dexterity modifier increases by 1. Its proficiency rank for unarmored defense increases to expert.

**Bully:** Your companion terrorizes foes with dominance displays and pushes them around the battlefield.

Its proficiency ranks for Athletics and Intimidation increase to expert (or master if it was already expert from its type), its Strength modifier increases by 1, and its Charisma modifier increases by 3

**Daredevil:** Your companion joins the fray with graceful leaps and dives. It gains the deny advantage ability, so it isn’t flat footed to hidden, undetected, or flanking creatures unless such a creature’s level is greater than yours. Its proficiency rank in Acrobatics increases to master, and its Dexterity modifier increases by 1. Its proficiency rank in unarmored defense increases to expert.

**Racer:** Your companion races. It gains a +10-foot status bonus to its Speed, swim Speed, or fly Speed (your choice). Its proficiency in Fortitude saves increases to legendary, and its Constitution modifier increases by 1.

**Shade:** (shadow wizard) Your companion's physical form is made, in whole or in part, of shadow. It gains darkvision, resistance 5 to all damage except force, and in areas of dim light or darkness, it can Step 10 feet instead of 5 feet. Its proficiency rank in unarmored defense increases to expert.

**Steadfast Strider:** Your companion ignores natural difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain from sediment or stone and can move across quicksand, mud, sand, and similar surfaces as if they were solid. It gains a +2 status bonus to saving throws and DCs to prevent being Shoved or Tripped. Its Strength modifier increases by 1 and its proficiency for barding increases to expert. This specialization can only be selected by jabali-touched companions.

**Tracker:** Your companion is an incredible tracker. It can move at full Speed while following tracks. Its proficiency rank in Survival increases to expert (or master if it was already an expert from its type), and its Wisdom modifier increases by 1.

**Wildfire Scorcher:** Your companion gains resistance to fire equal to your level. Any creature that attempts to Grapple or Grab your companion, hits your companion with a melee unarmed attack, or hits your companion with a melee weapon Strike while adjacent to your companion takes 2d6 fire damage. Its Dexterity modifier increases by 1 and its proficiency rank increases to legendary for Reflex saves and to expert for unarmored defense. This specialization can only be selected by ifrit-touched companions.

**Wind Chaser:** Your companion gains a +20-foot status bonus to its Speed or fly Speed (your choice if it has both). Its proficiency in Acrobatics increases to master and its Dexterity modifier increases by 1. Its proficiency rank increases to legendary for Reflex saves and to expert for unarmored defense. This specialization can only be selected by jaathoomi-touched companions.

**Wrecker:** Your companion smashes things. Its unarmed attacks ignore half an object’s Hardness. Its Athletics proficiency increases to master, and its Strength modifier increases by 1.

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## Familiars

Familiars are mystically bonded creatures tied to your magic. Most familiars were originally animals, though the ritual of becoming a familiar makes them something more. You gain the Pet general feat (page 259), except that your pet has special abilities. Common choices for familiars include bats, cats, foxes, ravens, and snakes. Some familiars are different, usually described in the ability that granted you a familiar; for example, a druid’s leshy familiar has the plant or fungus trait instead of animal. A familiar is different from a basic pet in the following ways

### Modifiers and AC

For Perception, Acrobatics, and Stealth, you can have your familiar use your spellcasting attribute modifier + your level instead of 3 + your level if it’s higher.

### Communication
Your familiar can communicate empathically with you as long as it’s within 1 mile of you, sharing emotions. It doesn’t understand or speak languages normally, but it can gain speech from a familiar ability.

### Selecting Familiar and Master Abilities
Instead of choosing two abilities only when you gain your familiar as you do with a normal pet, you can choose the two abilities each day during your daily preparations. You can choose from familiar abilities and master abilities. You can choose the pet abilities from the feat as familiar abilities as well. You can’t swap out abilities that are innate to your familiar. For example, you couldn’t choose not to give a raven familiar flying.

### Familiar Abilities

<span style="padding-left: 1em">**Accompanist:** Your familiar helps you perform. Whenever you attempt a Performance check, if your familiar is nearby and can act, it accompanies you with chirps, claps, or its own miniature instrument. This grants you a +1 circumstance bonus, or +2 if you're a master in Performance.</span>

**Alchemical Gut:** Your familiar can act as a bomb coagulant alembic by swallowing the bomb to be affected, which takes two Interact actions from it and one from you. Your familiar regurgitates the concentrated item 1 minute later. If your familiar tries to distill a bomb that's level is higher than your own —1, it instead takes damage as though it were successfully struck with the bomb.

**Ambassador:** Your familiar knows how to act cute or focused on cue, helping you make a good impression. Despite being a minion, your familiar gains 1 reaction at the start of its turns, which it can use only to Aid you on a Diplomacy check to Make an Impression (it still has to prepare to help you as normal for the Aid reaction, which requires it to participate throughout the activity). It automatically succeeds at its check to Aid you with those skills or automatically critically succeeds if you're a master of the skill in question.

**Amphibious:** It gains a swim Speed of 25 feet (or Speed of 25 feet if it already has a swim Speed).Burrower: It gains a burrow Speed of 5 feet, allowing it to dig Tiny holes.

**Burrower:** It gains a burrow Speed of 5 feet, allowing it to dig Tiny holes.

**Climber:** It gains a climb Speed of 25 feet. Damage Avoidance: Choose one type of save. It takes no damage when it rolls a success on that type of save; this doesn’t prevent effects other than damage.

**Damage Avoidance:** Choose one type of save. It takes no damage when it rolls a success on that type of save; this doesn't prevent effects other than damage.

**Darkeater:** This ability is for a shadow familiar. Your familiar naturally recovers in the shadows. After spending 10 consecutive minutes in an area of dim light or darkness, your familiar recovers a number of Hit Points equal to half your level.

**Darkvision:** It gains darkvision.

**Fast Movement:** Increase one of the familiar’s Speeds from 25 feet to 40 feet.

**Flier:** It gains a fly Speed of 25 feet.

**Focused Rejuvenation:** When you Refocus, you generate magical energy that heals your familiar. Your familiar regains 1 Hit Point per level whenever you Refocus.

**Gills:** Your familiar grows a set of gills, allowing it to breathe water in addition to air.

**Greater Resistance:** Your familiar increases the resistance it gains from its resistance familiar ability to 3 + half your level. Your familiar must have the resistance ability to select this.

**Independent:** In an encounter, if you don't Command your familiar, it still gains 1 action each round. Typically, you still decide how it spends that action, but the GM might determine that your familiar chooses its own tactics rather than performing your preferred action. This doesn't work with valet or similar abilities that require a command, if you're capable of riding your familiar, or similar situations.

**Kinspeech:** It can understand and speak with animals of the same species. To select this, your familiar must be an animal, it must have the speech ability, and you must be at least 6th level.

**Lab Assistant:** It can use your Quick Alchemy action. You must have Quick Alchemy, and your familiar must be in your space. This has the same cost and requirement as if you used it. It must have the manual dexterity ability to select this.

**Manual Dexterity:** It can use up to two of its limbs as if they were hands to perform manipulate actions.

**Master's Form:** Your familiar can change shape as a single action, transforming into a humanoid of your ancestry with the same age, gender, and build of its true form, though it always maintains a clearly unnatural remnant of its nature, such as a cat's eyes or a serpent's tongue. This form is always the same each time it uses this ability. This otherwise uses the effects of humanoid form, except the change is purely cosmetic. It only appears humanoid and gains no new capabilities. Your familiar must have the manual dexterity and speech abilities to select this.

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<span style="padding-left: 1em">**Partner in Crime:** Your familiar is your criminal associate. Despite being a minion, your familiar gains 1 reaction at the start of its turns, which it can use only to Aid you on a Deception or Thievery skill check (it still has to prepare to help you as normal for the Aid reaction). It automatically succeeds at its check to Aid you with those skills or automatically critically succeeds if you're a master of the skill in question.</span>

**Plant Form:** Your plant familiar can change shape as a single action, transforming into a Tiny plant of a type roughly similar to the familiar's nature. This otherwise uses the effects of <i>one with plants</i>. You must have a familiar with the plant trait, such as a leshy, to select this ability.

**Poison Reservoir:** Your homunculus familiar has a reservoir for poison, allowing it to apply an injury poison to an adjacent ally's exposed weapon with a single Interact action. You must supply the poison and instill it into this reservoir using two consecutive Interact actions. You must have a homunculus familiar to select this ability.

**Resistance:** Choose two of the following: acid, cold, electricity, fire, poison, or sonic. Your familiar gains resistance equal to half your level against the chosen damage types.

**Scent:** It gains scent (imprecise, 30 feet).

**Second Opinion:** Your familiar is your academic confidant. Despite being a minion, your familiar gains 1 reaction at the start of its turns, which it can use only to Aid you on a Recall Knowledge skill check for a skill in which it has the skilled familiar ability (it still has to prepare to help you as normal for the Aid reaction).

It automatically succeeds at its check to Aid you with those skills or automatically critically succeeds if you're a master of the skill in question. Your familiar must have the skilled ability to select this.

**Shadow Step:** This ability is for a shadow familiar. A shadow wizard, however, can select this ability for any kind of familiar. Your familiar gains the Shadow Step action. You must be at least 7th level to select this familiar ability for your familiar.
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Shadow Step</B> {1A} <span class="rule">(shadow, teleportation) </span><span class="rule req">The familiar is in dim light or darkness. </span><span class="rule effect">The familiar teleports itself up to 30 feet. The destination must be in dim light or darkness and must bewithin your familiar's line of sight and line of effect. This action has the trait matching your tradition of magic, or occult if you aren't a spellcaster.</span></div></div><br>

**Skilled:** Choose a skill other than Acrobatics or Stealth. Your familiar's modifier for that skill is equal to your level plus your key spellcasting ability modifier, rather than just your level. You can select this ability repeatedly, choosing a different skill each time.

**Snoop:** Your familiar keeps its eyes and ears open, ready to relay every snippet of gossip it catches, helping you gather information. Despite being a minion, your familiar gains 1 reaction at the start of its turns, which it can use only to Aid you on a Diplomacy check to Gather Information (it still has to prepare to help you as normal for the Aid reaction, which requires it to participate throughout the activity). It automatically succeeds at its check to Aid you with those skills or automatically critically succeeds if you're a master of the skill in question.

**Speech:** It understands and speaks a language you know.

**Spellcasting:** Choose a spell in your repertoire or that you prepared today that is at least 5 ranks lower than your highest rank spell slot. Your familiar can Cast that Spell once per day using your magical tradition, spell attack modifier, and spell DC. If the spell has a drawback that affects the caster, both you and your familiar are affected. You must be able to cast 6th-rank spells using spell slots to select this ability.

**Threat Display:** Your familiar helps you convey wordless threats through body language. Whenever you attempt an Intimidation check to Demoralize a creature, if your familiar is within 30 feet of your target and can act, it accompanies you with snarls, hisses, or raising its hackles. If it can do so, you don't take the normal –4 penalty on the Intimidation check if your target doesn't understand the language you're speaking.

**Toolbearer:** Your familiar can carry a set of tools of up to light Bulk. So long as your familiar is adjacent to you, you can draw and replace the tools as part of the action that uses them as if you were wearing them. Your familiar must have the manual dexterity ability to select this.

**Touch Telepathy:** Your familiar can telepathically communicate with you via touch. If it also has the speech ability, it can telepathically communicate via touch with any creature if they share a language.

**Tough:** Your familiar's maximum Hit Points increase by 2 per level.

**Tremorsense:** Your familiar is keenly aware of any vibrations traveling through a surface. It gains imprecise tremorsense with a range of 30 feet.

**Valet:** You can command your familiar to deliver you items more efficiently. Your familiar doesn't use its 2 actions immediately upon your command. Instead, up to twice before the end of your turn, you can have your familiar Interact to retrieve an item of light or negligible Bulk you are wearing and place it into one of your free hands. The familiar can't use this ability to retrieve stowed items. If the familiar has a different number of actions, it can retrieve one item for each action it has when commanded this way.

**Wavesense:** Your familiar can sense vibrations in the water or silt. It gains imprecise wavesense with a range of 30 feet.

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### Master Abilities
Master abilities primarily affect you or the magic that passes between you and your familiar.

**Absorb Familiar:** Your familiar can transform into a mark you carry on your flesh, typically seeming like a birthmark, tattoo, or gem that vaguely resembles its normal form. When transformed, the familiar can’t act except to turn back into a familiar. It isn’t affected by area effects and must be targeted separately to affect it, which requires knowledge that it’s a creature. This means you and your allies can heal or assist the familiar while most enemies stay unaware of its true nature. Creatures must attempt a DC 20 Perception check to Seek to realize a it is actually a familiar. Your familiar can still communicate its feelings empathically. Transforming the familiar between forms is a 1-minute activity that has the concentrate trait.

**Cantrip Connection:** You can prepare an additional cantrip or, if you have a repertoire, designate a cantrip to add to your repertoire every time you select this ability; you can retrain it but can’t otherwise change it. You must be able to prepare cantrips or add them to your repertoire to select this.

**Extra Reagents:** Your familiar grows extra infused reagents on or in its body. You gain an additional batch of infused reagents. You must have the infused reagents ability to select this ability.

**Familiar Focus:** Once per day, your familiar can use 2 actions with the concentrate trait to restore 1 Focus Point to your focus pool, up to your usual maximum. You must have a focus pool to select this.

**Innate Surge:** Once per day, you can draw upon your familiar's innate magic to replenish your own. You can cast one innate spell gained from an ancestry feat that you have already cast today. You must still Cast the Spell and meet the spell's other requirements.

**Lifelink:** If your familiar would be reduced to 0 HP by damage, as a reaction with the concentrate trait, you can take the damage. If you do, you take all the damage and your familiar takes none. However, special effects that would occur due to that damage (such as snake venom) still apply to your familiar.

**Recall Familiar:** You can summon your familiar to your side. Once per day, you can use a 3-action activity, which has the concentrate trait, to teleport your familiar to your space. Your familiar must be within 1 mile or the attempt to summon it fails. This is a conjuration and teleport effect.

**Restorative Familiar:** Once per day, your familiar can use 2 actions with the concentrate trait to give up some of its animating energy and heal you. It must be in your space to do so. You restore a number of Hit Points equal to 1d8 times half your level (minimum 1d8).

**Share Senses:** Once every 10 minutes, you can use a single action with the concentrate trait to project your senses into your familiar. When you do, you lose all sensory information from your own body, but can sense through your familiar's body for up to 1 minute. You can Dismiss this effect.

**Spell Battery:** You gain one additional spell slot at least 3 ranks lower than your highest-rank spell slot; you must be able to cast 4th-rank spells using spell slots to select this master ability.

**Spell Delivery:** If your familiar is in your space, you can cast a spell with a range of touch, transfer its power to your familiar, and command the familiar to deliver the spell. If you do, the familiar uses its 2 actions for the round to move to a target of your choice and touch that target. If it doesn’t reach the target to touch it this turn, the spell has no effect.

**Tattoo Transformation:** Your familiar can transform into a tattoo you carry on your flesh. When transformed into a tattoo, the familiar looks like a colorful and stylized version of itself and can't act except to turn back into a familiar. It isn't affected by area effects and must be targeted separately to affect it, which requires knowledge that it's a creature. This means you and your allies can heal or assist the familiar while most enemies stay unaware of its true nature. Creatures must attempt a DC 20 Perception check to Seek to realize a tattoo is actually a familiar (which few foes will try). Your familiar can still communicate its feelings empathically. Transforming into a tattoo or back to familiar form is a 1-minute activity that has the concentrate trait.

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# Archetypes

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Beyond your class and general feats, you can expand your character concept by choosing an archetype. Are you more heavily armored than your peers from the sentinel archetype? Are you a gladiator, experienced in fighting in the arena? Perhaps you’re a medic, tending to the fallen. These are just a few possibilities archetypes offer.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

Applying an archetype requires you to select archetype feats instead of class feats. Start by finding the archetype that best fits your character concept and select the archetype’s dedication feat using one of your class feat choices. Once you have the dedication feat, you can select any feat from that archetype in place of a class feat as long as you meet its prerequisites. The archetype feat you select is still subject to any selection restrictions on the class feat it replaces. For example, if you gained an ability at 6th level that granted you a 4th level class feat with the dwarf trait, you could swap out that class feat only for an archetype feat of 4th level or lower with the dwarf trait. Archetype feats you gain in place of a class feat are called archetype class feats.

Occasionally, an archetype feat works like a skill feat instead of a class feat. These archetype feats have the skill trait, and you select them in place of a skill feat, otherwise following the same rules above. These are not archetype class feats (for instance, to determine the number of Hit Points you gain from the Fighter Resiliency archetype feat).

Each archetype’s dedication feat represents a certain portion of your character’s time and focus, so once you select a dedication feat for an archetype, you must satisfy its requirements before you can gain another dedication feat. Typically, you satisfy an archetype dedication feat by gaining a certain number of feats from the archetype’s list. You cannot retrain a dedication feat as long as you have any other feats from that archetype.

Sometimes an archetype feat lets you gain another feat, such as the alchemist’s basic concoction. You must always meet the prerequisites of the feat you gain in this way.

Two special kinds of archetypes are designated by the class and multiclass traits. The archetypes in this book are all multiclass archetypes.

### Additional Feats

Some archetypes allow other feats beyond those in their entry. These are typically class feats, such as fighter feats that represent certain combat styles. The list of additional feats includes the feat’s name, its level, and the page number where it appears. You can take the feat as an archetype feat of that level, meaning it counts toward the number of feats required by the archetype’s dedication feat. When selected this way, a feat that normally has a class trait doesn’t have that class trait.

### Multiclass Archetypes

Archetypes with the multiclass trait represent diversifying your training into another class’s specialties. You can’t select a multiclass archetype’s dedication feat if you are a member of the class of the same name (for instance, a swashbuckler can’t select the Swashbuckler Dedication feat).

### Spellcasting Archetypes

Some archetypes grant you a substantial degree of spellcasting, albeit delayed compared to a character from a spellcasting class. A spellcasting archetype allows you to use scrolls, staves, and wands in the same way that a member of a spellcasting class can.

Spellcasting archetypes always grant the ability to cast cantrips in their dedication, and then they have a basic spellcasting feat, an expert spellcasting feat, and a master spellcasting feat. These feats share their name with the archetype; for instance, the witch’s master spellcasting feat is called Master Witch Spellcasting. All spell slots you gain from spellcasting archetypes are subject to the restrictions within the archetype. For instance, the eldritch archer archetype allows you to pick a spell list when you take its dedication feat. If you pick arcane spells, the archetype then grants you spell slots you can use only to cast arcane spells from your eldritch archer repertoire, even if you are a sorcerer with occult spells in your sorcerer repertoire.

**Basic Spellcasting Feat:** Usually available at 4th level, these feats grant a 1st-rank spell slot. At 6th level, they grant you a 2nd-rank spell slot, and if you have a spell repertoire, you can select one spell from your repertoire as a signature spell. At 8th level, they grant you a 3rd-rank spell slot. Archetypes refer to these benefits as the “basic spellcasting benefits.”

**Expert Spellcasting Feat:** Typically taken at 12th level, these feats make you an expert in spell attack rolls and DCs of the appropriate magical tradition and grant you a 4th-rank spell slot. If you have a spell repertoire, you can select a second spell from your repertoire as a signature spell. At 14th level, they grant you a 5th-rank spell slot, and at 16th level, they grant you a 6th-rank spell slot. Archetypes refer to these benefits as the “expert spellcasting benefits.”

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**Master Spellcasting Feat:** Usually found at 18th level, these feats make you a master in spell attack rolls and DCs of the appropriate magical tradition and grant you a 7th-rank spell slot. If you have a spell repertoire, you can select a third spell from your repertoire as a signature spell. At 20th level, they grant you an 8th-rank spell slot. Archetypes refer to these benefits as the “master spellcasting benefits.”

### Bounded Spellcasting Archetype

Some archetypes, such as the psychic warrior multiclass archetypes, grant you spellcasting abilities based on the way psychic warriors cast spells, albeit delayed compared to a character from those classes. In this book, this archetypes is a bounded 
spellcasting archetypes, but future books might introduce bounded spellcasting archetypes that aren’t multiclass archetypes. A bounded spellcasting archetype allows you to use scrolls, staves, and wands in the same way that a member of a spellcasting class can, and the basic bounded spellcasting feat counts as having a spellcasting class feature.

Bounded spellcasting archetypes always have a basic bounded spellcasting feat, an expert bounded spellcasting feat, and a master bounded spellcasting feat. These feats share their name with the archetype. For instance, the psychic warrior’s master spellcasting feat is called Master Psychic Warrior Spellcasting. All spell slots you gain from bounded spellcasting archetypes have restrictions depending on the archetype.

**Basic Bounded Spellcasting Feat:** Usually gained at 6th level, these feats give you a 1st-rank spell slot and a 2nd-rank spell slot from that magical tradition. If you have a spell repertoire, you can select one spell from your repertoire as a signature spell. Archetypes refer to these benefits as the “basic bounded spellcasting benefits.” At 10th level, you replace your 1st-rank spell slot with a 3rd-rank spell slot.

**Expert Bounded Spellcasting Feat:** Usually taken at 12th level, these feats make you an expert in spell attack rolls and DCs of the appropriate magical tradition. You gain an additional 3rd-rank spell slot. If you have a spell repertoire, you can select a second spell from your repertoire as a signature spell. At 14th level, you replace your spell slots with two 4th-rank spell slots and one 5th-rank spell slot, and at 16th level, you replace your spell slots with two 5th-rank spell slots and one 6th-rank spell slot. Archetypes refer to these benefits as the “expert bounded spellcasting benefits.”

**Master Bounded Spellcasting Feat:** Usually taken at 18th level, these feats make you a master in spell attack rolls and DCs of the appropriate magical tradition and grant you an additional 6th-rank spell slot. At 20th level, they replace your two 5th-rank spell slots with two 7th-rank spell slots. Archetypes refer to these benefits as the “master bounded spellcasting benefits.”

### Alchemical Archetypes

Some archetypes give you abilities to use alchemy in a similar manner to an alchemist and say that you get the basic alchemy benefits.

This means you get the Alchemical Crafting feat, infused reagents (a pool of reagents usable to make alchemical items), and advanced alchemy (allowing you to make  alchemical items during your daily preparations without the normal cost or time expenditure). The individual archetype might impose special restrictions or benefits or adjust the number of reagents you get or your advanced alchemy level. The rules for these are in the <i>Core Rulebook</i>: Alchemical Crafting on page 258, and rules for infused reagents and advanced alchemy are on page 72.

If you gain infused reagents from more than one source, you use the highest number of reagents to determine your pool rather than adding them together. For instance, at 2nd level an alchemist with a +4 Intelligence modifier would normally get six batches of infused reagents per day from the class, and a character with the Herbalist Dedication feat would normally get two batches. A character who is both an alchemist and an herbalist has six batches—the higher number from alchemist—but is able to use them for abilities in the class or the archetype. Your advanced alchemy level always depends on which ability you’re using. In the example above, the herbalist’s advanced alchemy level for their herbalist abilities is 1st, though it’s 2nd for alchemist abilities.

### Temporary Items

Several archetypes allow you to prepare temporary items. Much like the infused items created by alchemists, these temporary items last only a short time before becoming useless. Examples include temporary scrolls created by the scroll trickster and temporary weapons, armor, or adventuring gear created by the scrounger.

Temporary items are clearly not up to the same quality as other items, so they typically can’t be sold. If an ability doesn’t list how long a temporary item lasts, the item lasts until the next time you make your daily preparations. Any effect created by a temporary item also ends at that time if it hasn’t already (unless it’s a permanent effect).

## Champion
You have sworn a solemn oath to your deity, who has granted you champion powers to aid you in your cause.

### Multiclass Champion Characters

The champion archetype greatly improves defenses, particularly armor.

It’s a great way for a character to gain armor proficiency or a powerful defensive reaction.

#### Champion Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
<div class="tag multiclass">MULTICLASS</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Strength +2, Charisma +2</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Choose an element or sorcerer-king and cause as you would if you were a champion. You become trained in light, medium, and heavy armor. You become trained in Religion and your power’s associated skill; for each of these skills in which you were already trained, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You become trained in champion class DC.</div>

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<div class="rule">
You are bound by your power’s anathema and must follow the champion’s code and edict requirements for your cause. You don’t gain any other abilities from your choice of power or cause.</div><br>

#### Basic Devotion<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Champion Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain a 1st- or 2nd-level champion feat.</div><br>

#### Champion's Devotion<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Champion Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You embody an aspect of your element or sorcerer-king. Choose one of its domains. You gain the domain's initial domain spell as a devotion spell.</div><br>

#### Champion Resiliency<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Champion Dedication, class granting no more Hit Points per level than 8  + your Constitution modifier</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain 3 additional Hit Points for each champion archetype class feat you have. As you continue selecting champion archetype 
class feats, you continue to gain additional Hit Points in this way.</div><br>

#### Advanced Devotion<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Basic Devotion</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain one champion feat. For the purpose of meeting its prerequisites, your champion level is equal to half your character level.

<b>Special</b> You can select this feat more than once. Each time 
you select it, you gain another champion feat.</div><br>

#### Champion's Reaction<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Champion Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You can use the champion’s reaction associated with your cause.</div><br>

#### Elemental Ally<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Champion Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain an elemental ally of your choice (page 141).</div><br>

#### Diverse Armor Expert<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq"> Champion Dedication, expert in unarmored defense or one or more types of armor</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your proficiency ranks for light armor, medium armor, heavy armor, and unarmored defense increase to expert.</div><br>

## Kineticist
You have, intentionally or accidentally, awoken a gateway to elemental power inside yourself and can now channel that power to devastating effect, adding an elemental arsenal to your abilities.

### Multiclass Kineticist Characters

Kineticist is a great fit for characters with high Constitution who want to add some magical blasting to their repertoire without managing the complexity of spell slots. Kineticist impulses can also provide damage types that are useful against certain creatures and special utility abilities such as better movement or battlefield control.

Champions looking to diversify their capabilities, barbarians with the Moment of Clarity feat, and particularly stout druids might all find suitable options.

#### kineticist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
<div class="tag multiclass">MULTICLASS</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Constitution +2</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You become trained in kineticist class DC and impulse attack rolls. Choose one element to be your kinetic element (air, earth, fire, or water). You gain a kinetic aura and the Channel Elements action, though you don’t get to use an Elemental Blast or stance impulse when you take that action. You gain the Elemental Blast action. Your Elemental Blast does not automatically gain additional damage dice every four levels, instead requiring you to take the Improved Elemental Blast feat.</div><br>

#### Base Kinesis<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kineticist Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the Base Kinesis impulse. For the purposes of determining when the range and Bulk improvements of the action occur, your kineticist level is equal to half your level (for example, Base Kinesis for a 10th level character with this feat would have a range of 45 feet and could affect 1 Bulk of their chosen element).</div><br>

#### Through The Gate<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kineticist Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain a 1st- or 2nd-level kineticist feat of your choice. Your options include impulse feats for your kinetic element, as normal for a kineticist.</div><br>

#### Advanced Element Control<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Through the Gate</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
<div class="box">
You gain one kineticist feat. For the purpose of meeting its prerequisites, your kineticist level is equal to half your level.
Your options include impulse feats for your kinetic element, as normal for a kineticist.</div>
<b>Special</b> You can select this feat more than once. Each time you select it, you gain another kineticist feat.</div><br>

#### Improved Elemental Blast<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kineticist Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
<div class="box">
The power of your elemental blast improves. The damage of your elemental blast increases by one die.</div>
<b>Special</b> You can take Improved Elemental Blast a second time at 14th level to increase your Elemental Blast to three 
damage die, and a third time at 18th level to increase your Elemental Blast to four damage die</div><br>

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#### Add Element<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Advanced Element Control</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Choose a second kinetic element to add to the one you already have. You gain an impulse feat for that element. For the purpose of meeting its prerequisites, your kineticist level is equal to half your level. If you gain more kineticist feats, you can select hybrid impulses that have both your elements, as normal for a kineticist.</div><br>

#### Expert Kinetic Control<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kineticist Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You become an expert in kineticist class DC and impulse attack rolls.</div><br>

## Psychic Warrior

You’ve mixed physical combat with psionics.

### Multiclass Psychic Warrior Characters

If your character wants to dabble in the power of a psychic warrior, you can take the following multiclass archetype to do so.

#### Psychic Warrior Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
<div class="tag multiclass">MULTICLASS</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Strength +2, or Dexterity +2; Intelligence +2</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You cast spells like a psychic warrior, gaining a spell repertoire with four common cantrips of your choice. You gain the Cast a Spell activity. You can prepare two cantrips each day from your spell repertoire. Each time you gain a spell slot of a new rank from the psychic warrior archetype, add a spell of that rank or lower to your spell repertoire. You’re trained in occult spell attack rolls and spell DCs.

Your key spellcasting ability for psychic warrior archetype spells is Intelligence, and they are occult psychic warrior spells. You become trained in Occult; if you were already trained in Occult, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You become trained in simple weapons.</div><br>

#### Basic Martial Magic<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psychic Warrior Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain a 1st- or 2nd-level psychic warrior feat of your choice.</div><br>

#### Hybrid Study Spell<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psychic Warrior Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Gain the conflux spell from a hybrid study of your choice (page 200). If you don’t already have one, you gain a focus pool of 1 Focus Point, which you can Refocus by performing a physical regimen. You don’t gain any of the hybrid study’s other benefits.</div><br>

#### Psystriker<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psychic Warrior Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the magus’s Psystrike activity. You can recharge it only as an activity that takes 1 minute. This restriction applies 
even if you gain another ability that recharges Psystrike.</div><br>

#### Advanced Martial Magic<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Basic Martial Magic</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
<div class="box">
You gain one psychic warrior feat. For the purpose of meeting its prerequisites, your psychic warrior level is equal to half your character level.</div>
<b>Special</b> You can select this feat more than once. Each time you select it, you gain another psychic warrior feat.</div><br>

#### Basic Psychic Warrior Spellcasting<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Psychic Warrior Dedication</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the basic bounded spellcasting benefits (page 236).</div><br>

#### Expert Psychic Warrior Spellcasting<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Basic Psychic Warrior Spellcasting, master in Occult</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the expert bounded spellcasting benefits (page 236).</div><br>

#### Master Psychic Warrior Spellcasting<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Expert Psychic Warrior Spellcasting, legendary in Occult</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the master bounded spellcasting benefits (page 236).</div><br>

## Acrobat

You have trained your body to perform incredible, seemingly superhuman feats of grace. You move in ways that leave your opponents caught off guard and fumbling for a response, turning every fight into performance art

#### Acrobat Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Acrobatics</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You become an expert in Acrobatics. At 7th level, you become a master in Acrobatics, and at 15th level, you become legendary in Acrobatics. Whenever you critically succeed at an Acrobatics check to Tumble Through an enemy’s space, you don’t treat the enemy’s space as difficult terrain.</div><br>

## Alter Ego

A highly guarded castle in the middle of an extravagant ball, the headquarters of a city’s infamous thieves’ guild, the locked room in the back of a cultist hideout—all perfect targets for you to use your expertise at blending in. Rather than skulking through the shadows, you use your training and latent supernatural abilities to become a mirror, playing on the perceptions of others and taking on whatever role necessary to get in and out of your destination before anyone has a chance to think something is amiss.

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Performing an alter ego means going unregarded. Passing as just a face in the crowd is crucial, and accolades come as the gratitude from your leaders or coin from your clients, rather than the awed adoration from a crowd.

This arrangement might suit you fine, as you thrive in a job well done and on the thrill of walking flagrantly past your duped adversaries. Or it might become pent up, until you can’t resist a dramatic reveal or a signature calling card that shows you were there. One final word before speeding away from the castle, a gloating message left behind, or some other sign reveals your skill—usually too late for your victims to do anything about it.

#### Alter Ego Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Deception and Stealth</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You make yourself into a living mirror, becoming a double of someone unremarkable, and you slip into exactly the role that can get you past security or into a sensitive facility. You become an expert in Deception. You gain the Assume a Role activity.<br>
<b>Assume a Role</b> (concentrate) <b>Requirements</b> You’ve spent at least 1    hour studying a creature whose role you intend to copy and have    done so within the last 3 days. This could include meeting and    learning from someone in that role, tailing and spying on<br>    someone, using magic to observe them at work, or some other    method, as long as you have a visual source of information;<br>    <b>Effect</b> You quickly and accurately learn how to do mundane jobs    or at least copy the movements enough to appear as if you do. A    chosen role can take many forms—from cook, cleaner, or librarian    to cult member, priest, or duke—but it’s always a role and never a    specific individual.<br>
      You perform the Impersonate activity to pass as a member of    the role you observed and gain a +1 circumstance bonus to any    Deception checks you attempt in your impersonation. This takes    the normal amount of time it takes you to Impersonate. You also    choose one Lore skill relevant to that role (such as Farming Lore    for a farmer). While in your role, you gain a +1 circumstance<br>    bonus to checks for that Lore skill, and if you’re untrained in it,    you can use your level as your proficiency bonus. You stop<br>    assuming the role after 24 hours, if you start studying for a new    role, or if you choose to.<br>
<b>Special</b> You can’t select another dedication feat until you’ve gained two other feats from the alter ego archetype.</div><br>

## Animal Trainer

You have befriended an animal to serve as an able assistant and loyal guardian.

#### Animal Trainer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Nature</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the services of a young animal companion that travels with you and obeys simple commands as best as it can. This trained animal is trained in Performance instead of the skill listed for its type.</div><br><br><br>

## Archaeologist

Adventurers raid tombs for material gain, but true archaeologists treasure the knowledge gained from such sites.

You might accomplish your goals with scholarly learning, by training to overcome the tricks and traps set by ancient peoples and rivals, through magical training, or even with a bit of inexplicable luck.

#### Archaeologist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained Perception; trained in Society, and Thievery</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are a student of peoples and their histories and are in constant pursuit of knowledge and artifacts from the past. You become an expert in Society and Thievery, and you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Recall Knowledge about ancient history, peoples, and cultures.</div><br>

## Archer

Bows of all types are powerful weapons. Generals and hunters alike recognize the power in dealing death from long distances, and from behind cover. Those dedicated to the bow—from mysterious cloaked strangers to heartless snipers—are often viewed with a mixture of respect and fear. Like any weapon adept, the archer's skill is forged through experience and constant practice. A true archer becomes one with the bow and is able to accomplish with that weapon things that most would consider impossible, or at least nearly magical.

#### Archer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You become trained in all simple and martial weapons in the bow weapon group. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in certain weapons, you also gain that proficiency rank in all simple and martial weapons in the bow weapon group. If you are at least an expert in the bow you are using, you gain access to the critical specialization effect with that bow.
</div><br>

## Assassin
Targeted killing through stealth and subterfuge is the expertise of an assassin. While assassins are skilled in ending lives and many are evil, some live by a moral code, preying on the wicked, the cruel, or those who revel in unchecked aggression or power.

#### Assassin Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Alchemical Crafting; trained in Crafting, Deception, and Stealth</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've trained to assassinate your foes, and you do so with tenacity and precision. You gain the Mark for Death activity.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Mark for Death</B> {3A} <span class="rule req">You can see and hear the creature you intend to mark; </span><span class="rule effect">You designate a single creature as your mark. This lasts until the mark dies or you use Mark for Death again.</span></div></div>

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<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<div class="rule">
   You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Seek your mark and on Deception checks to Feint against your mark. Your agile and finesse weapons and unarmed attacks gain the backstabber and deadly d6 weapon traits when you're attacking your mark. If the weapon or unarmed attack already has the deadly trait, increase the size of the deadly damage die by one step instead of giving it deadly d6.
</div></div></div><br>

## Bastion
Some say that a good offense is the best defense, but you find such boasting smacks of overconfidence. In your experience, the best defense is a good, solid shield between you and your enemies. You've focused your training on how best to use a shield to protect yourself and those around you.

#### Bastion Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shield Block</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are particularly skilled at using a shield in combat. You gain the Reactive Shield fighter feat (<i>Core Rulebook</i> 145). This fulfills any prerequisites requiring Reactive Shield as normal.
</div><br>

## Beastmaster
You attract the loyalty of animals, and as your powers increase you can command more of them, briefly inhabit their body to perceive what they perceive, and even communicate with them over vast distances. Your animals may see you as a beloved parent, teacher, and mentor, or they may consider you a poor, defenseless cub that needs protection. Regardless, they will fight for you and alongside you, even sacrificing their lives for you if necessary.

#### Beastmaster Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Nature</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the service of a young animal companion that travels with you and obeys your commands. The rules for animal companions appear on page 214 of the <i>Core Rulebook</i>. Contrary to the usual rules for animal companions, this feat can grant you a second animal companion. If you ever have more than one animal companion, you gain the Call Companion action.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Call Companion</B> {3A} <span class="rule">(Exploration) </span><span class="rule effect">You spend 1 minute calling for a different animal companion, switching your active companion for another of your animal companions.</span></div></div><br>

<div class="rule">
Certain beastmaster feats give you primal focus spells. The rules for focus spells appear on page 300 of the <i>Core Rulebook</i>. When you gain your first beastmaster focus spell, you become trained in primal spell attack rolls and spell DCs, and your spellcasting ability for these spells is Charisma. Feats that grant beastmaster focus spells tell you to increase the number of Focus Points in your pool, but if you don’t already have a focus pool, you instead get a focus pool with 1 Focus Point. You can Refocus by grooming, feeding, playing with, or otherwise tending to an animal companion.
</div><br><br>

## Blessed One
Through luck or deed, heritage, or heroics, you carry the blessing of an element.

This blessing manifests as the ability to heal wounds and remove harmful conditions and exists independent of worship. You might offer thanks daily to the element whose power you wield, or you might carry these blessings reluctantly, seeking to avoid responsibility or even acting to defy the elements’ influence on you. You might wear an elemental focus of your element, or you might give little thought and even less reverence to the source of your powers. However, you feel about these gifts, there can be no doubt that you wield a special power.

#### Blessed One Dedication<div class="label">DEDICATION FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are touched by an element and gifted with the ability to alleviate the suffering of others. You gain the <i>lay on hands</i> devotion spell. It costs 1 Focus Point to cast a focus spell. This feat grants a focus pool of 1 Focus Point that you can recover using the Refocus activity (<i>Core Rulebook</i> 300). You can Refocus by meditating, whether you reflect on the deity granting the blessing or not, allowing your blessing to refill your focus pool. Your devotion spells from the blessed one archetype are divine spells
</div><br>

## Bounty Hunter
Whether for coin, glory, or justice, you know how to track, defeat, and capture dangerous individuals. You're accustomed to perusing wanted posters, searching up on leads, and pursuing villains to hell and back.

#### Bounty Hunter Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Survival</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
When focused on finding your quarry, you’re relentless. You gain the Hunt Prey action <i>Core Rulebook</i> 168). You can use Hunt Prey to designate only a creature that you’ve seen, heard about, or learned about through some other means, such as a bounty board or wanted poster. In addition to the other benefits of Hunt Prey, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to checks to Gather Information regarding your prey.

If you already have Hunt Prey, you become an expert in Survival and gain the circumstance bonus to Gather Information about your prey; you can still designate a creature you’re tracking during exploration, in addition to the conditions above.
</div><br>

## Butterfly Blade
You've trained in one of the oldest traditions of espionage, intimidation, and combat mastery. You use your skills to learn about your enemies and cut them down with your mastery of the butterfly sword.

#### Butterfly Blade Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in butterfly swords</div>
</div>

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<div class="rule">
You become trained in Deception and Stealth; if you were already trained, you become an expert instead. Whenever your proficiency rank in any weapon increases to expert or beyond, you also gain that new proficiency rank with butterfly swords. You gain access to butterfly swords.</div><br>

## Captivator
Others find you inherently fascinating. You have a facility with words that draws others in, and you've always found it easy to sway others to your point of view. This ability has grown to the point where you're capable of innate psionics. You can bend others' wills to your own by weaving alluring enchantments and compelling illusions.

Captivators come from all areas of the world and all walks of life. A farmhand with the right gifts, sent to the market every week to hawk their latest crop, could find themself on the path to becoming a captivator. An urchin who relies on the sympathy of others just to survive may become a captivator out of necessity, and a noble, immersed in a deadly game of luxury and influence, might have trained to be a captivator since birth. Regardless of background, most captivators use their abilities to advance their station in life, make things easier for themselves, or befriend those who can help them achieve their goals.

Some captivators use their gifts and skills to bring people together. They might turn a would-be tavern brawl into a night of sharing drinks and telling stories. They might offer encouragement to those facing depression or doubt. They excel at ending conflict peacefully and efficiently, leaving everyone around them happier. When faced with violence, they use their psionics to quickly subdue or enthrall enemies while minimizing harm to their companions.

Other captivators manipulate others to achieve status, wealth, and power. They have no qualms about deceiving someone or using their psionics to cause harm. These captivators are dangerous tricksters whose enchantments and illusions make them seem harmless, unimportant, or friendly. The slick politician, the devious con artist, the cunning courtier—these are all roles that these captivators can easily assume.

#### Captivator Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Charisma +2; trained Deception or Diplomacy</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your ability to captivate others borders on the preternatural. You are seldom at a loss in social situations, and you can create minor enchantments or illusions. Choose Deception or Diplomacy. You become trained in that skill or become an expert if you were already trained.

Choose two cantrips from the occult list; each cantrip must be from either the enchantment or illusion school. You gain access to the Cast a Spell activity and can cast these spells as occult innate spells. You're trained in occult spell attack rolls and spell DCs. If you have a hand free, you can usually replace material components with somatic components, so you don't need to use a spell component pouch. Your key spellcasting ability for these spells is Charisma.
</div><br>

## Cavalier
You are a skilled and dedicated warrior of the battlefield who specializes in fighting astride a powerful animal companion that serves as your mount.

You and your mount are an unparalleled team, moving with shared intent to become a powerful force on the battlefield. You might wield a banner in the name of a greater organization, a liege, or an ideal you uphold, or you might fight solely to further enrich your own prestige, reputation, and coffers.

#### Cavalier Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained Nature or Society</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain a young animal companion that serves as your mount. You can choose from animal companions with the mount special ability, as well as any additional options from your pledge, as determined by your GM. You must choose an animal companion that's at least one size larger than you, but if the animal usually starts as Small, you can begin with a Medium version of that animal (changing no statistics other than its size).
</div><br>

## Celebrity
You're a special personality... and you know it. You're not merely comfortable in the spotlight, you crave it. While the traditional celebrity is a musician or another type of performer, you could be known for any occupation.

#### Celebrity Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
The more people you have looking at you, the more content you are, and you take every opportunity to show up others when their performances are less than perfect. You gain the Upstage reaction. In addition, when you Earn Income, if the level of the task is higher than your level, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your check to Earn Income.<br>
</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Upstage</B> {R} <span class="rule trigger">A foe attempts a skill check and doesn't get a critical success; </span><span class="rule effect">After your foe has tried their best, you show everyone how it's really done. Attempt a check using the same skill that triggered this reaction.</span>
</span><div class="rule result r4">You gain a +1 status bonus to attack rolls, Perception checks, saving throws, and skill checks until the end of your next turn.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, except you gain the benefits only if the triggering creature failed their skill check.</div></div></div><br>

## Clawdancer
Nature provides many creatures weapons for hunting and defense, but few are as common and simple as the claw. Whether for climbing, catching, or rending, claws are an indispensable tool for any limbed denizen of the wild. Humanoid species with these weapons often take pride in such a gift, developing clawed combat into an art.

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#### Clawdancer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">permanent unarmed claw or talon attack (such as one granted by your ancestry)
</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You’ve practiced the art of fighting with your natural claws, hooking them into prey and thrashing at targets surrounding you. You gain the following two actions, which let you assume specific stances to strike more effectively with your claws.
</div><br>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Claw Stance</b> {1A} (stance) <b>Effect</b> You extend the claws in your hands and focus your attention to take down single targets. The only Strikes you can make are frenzied claw unarmed attacks. These deal 1d6 slashing damage, are in the brawling group, and have the agile, finesse, grapple, unarmed, and versatile piercing traits.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Talon Stance</b> {1A} (stance) <b>Effect</b>  You sway in a loose stance that lets you sweep in wide arcs with the claws on your feet. The only Strikes you can make are spinning talon unarmed attacks. These deal 1d8 slashing damage, are in the brawling group, and have the finesse, sweep, and unarmed traits. You don’t need a free hand to use spinning talon strikes.</div><br>

## Corpse Tender
You tend to mindless undead, such as the zombie farmhands and farm animals.

#### Corpse Tender Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Religion</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have a connection to mindless undead that allows you to communicate your intentions to them on a rudimentary level.

You can use Diplomacy to Make an Impression on mindless undead and to make very simple Requests of them; their mindless trait doesn't grant immunity to these mental effects. Most mindless undead are likely hostile toward you by default and must be kept at a safe distance to give you time to Make an Impression.

You become trained in Diplomacy; if already trained, you instead become trained in another skill of your choice.
</div><br>

## Curse Maelstrom
Some folks are ridden with bad luck: the rations they were counting on turn out to be spoiled, the ship they were hoping to catch sinks in the harbor, or the new home they bought is destroyed by a rampaging golem. Most know that they are cursed, feeling an emptiness in their soul that weighs upon them, gnawing at their confidence and shrouding their ambitions. Sometimes, these curse maelstroms learn to control and channel their curse; you are one such unfortunate soul.

You have a powerful curse living deep within you. You might have been able to restrain your curse for the most part, but it flares up occasionally and tempts you with the power to curse your foes, should you allow it to exert itself. Why should you be the only one who has to endure a cursed life when others have so clearly earned such woe?

Living with a curse every day, you become intimately familiar with the workings of curses, getting a sense of when bad luck is about to befall those around you. You might try to avoid further bad fortune—which rarely pans out as you'd like—or you could come to terms with your lot in life and regard your curse as something akin to an old friend. Either way, fate cares little.

Misery loves company, so your curse can even be a beacon for more misfortune. You might have multiple curses all tied to you, all fighting to make your life as hellish as possible.

#### Curse Maelstrom Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">You are cursed or have previously been cursed.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
A horrible curse has left a lingering stain on your soul, and its effects continue to plague you even if the curse's other effects have ended. You can choose to suppress it, but if you instead let it manifest, you can channel its power in your favor. During an encounter, when you succeed at a check, the GM can offer to have you roll again, taking the second result. This is a misfortune effect. If you do so, you enter a curse maelstrom state. If the misfortune effect is somehow canceled or negated (by a fortune effect, for example), you don't enter a curse maelstrom state.

In addition, the curse is jealous of its place within your soul and gladly lashes out whenever others dare to usurp that position, granting you its power without the usual price. If a foe places a misfortune effect on your roll and the effect applies to your roll, you enter a curse maelstrom state, and if you fail a saving throw against a foe's curse effect and are affected by the curse, you also enter a curse maelstrom state. No matter the source, you can only enter a curse maelstrom state during an encounter, and if you don't end the state on your own, it ends at the end of the encounter. Once it ends, you can't enter a curse maelstrom state again for 1 minute.

While in a curse maelstrom state, you can't benefit from fortune effects, and they also don't cancel misfortune effects on you; they simply have no effect. While in this state, all creatures other than you within a 10-foot emanation take a –1 status penalty to all saving throws and skill checks due to the storm of bad luck swirling out of your body. You gain the Expel Maelstrom action, which you can use to focus the brunt of your curses onto an unlucky target.</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<b>Expel Maelstrom</b> {1A} (curse, occult) <b>Requirements</b> You are in a curse maelstrom state; <b>Effect</b> You expel the maelstrom from your body, sending the energy to reside in one unlucky creature within 60 feet. Your curse maelstrom state ends. The result depends on  the creature's Will save.</div>
<div class="abilbox"><b>Critical Success</b> The creature is unaffected, and the curse's energy dissipates harmlessly.</div>
<div class="abilbox"><b>Success</b> The creature comes to house the maelstrom's wrath within it. It takes a –1 status penalty to all saving throws and skill checks for 1 minute.</div>
<div class="abilbox"><b>Failure</b> The maelstrom strikes deep into the creature's soul. It takes a –2 status penalty to all saving throws and skill checks for 10 minutes.</div>
<div class="abilbox"><b>Critical Failure</b> The maelstrom pitches the creature into a single fit of utter misfortune before burrowing into its soul. As failure, but the creature also must roll twice and take the lower result on its next saving throw or skill check this is a misfortune effect.
</div><br>

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## Dandy
You are a genteel master of style, culture, and decorum, aware of even the subtlest rules of etiquette. Whether you were born into status, acquired it later in life, or merely pretend to possess it, you look and act your part to manicured perfection.

#### Dandy Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Diplomacy</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are a consummate student of dignity, etiquette, and fashion. You can use the Diplomacy skill to perform the special downtime activity Influence Rumor, spending at least one day of downtime to manipulate the course, tone, or content of a rumor to your benefit. The difficulty of Influencing a Rumor is determined by the GM based on the size of the community, the relative perceptiveness of the inhabitants, and the agency of other rumormongers, but it typically starts with at least DC 15 for a small village and increases to at least DC 20 for a town, at least DC 30 for a city, and at least DC 40 for a metropolis.

You become trained in Deception and Society; if you were already trained, you become an expert instead.
</div><br>

## Dual-Weapon Warrior
You're able to effortlessly fight with multiple weapons simultaneously, weaving your weapons together into a storm of quick attacks. To you, continual offense is the best form of defense, and you leave little room for your foes to avoid your whirlwind of weapons.

#### Dual-Weapon Warrior Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You’re exceptional in your use of two weapons. You gain the Double Slice fighter feat (<i>Core Rulebook</i> 144). This serves as Double Slice for the purpose of meeting prerequisites.
</div><br>

## Duelist
All across Athas, students are trained by weapon masters with their blades to master one-on-one combat. These weapon masters show deep troves of information detailing hundreds of combat techniques, battle stances, and honorable rules of engagement. Those who are trained by such masters might train in formalized duels—and that's certainly the more genteel route to take. However, others assert that there's no better place to try out dueling techniques than in the life-and-death struggles common to an adventurer's life.

#### Duelist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in light armor and simple weapons</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are always ready to draw your weapon and begin a duel, no matter the circumstances. You gain the Quick Draw ranger feat, enabling you to both draw and attack with a weapon as 1 action. This serves as Quick Draw for the purpose of meeting prerequisites.
</div><br>

## Elementalist
You revere the four elements—air, earth, fire, and water—as the building blocks of creation and the source of all life. You believe that by balancing, mixing, and rearranging these four elements, magic is made. This belief has led you to eschew traditional magical theories and divisions, and you instead focus on harnessing, manipulating, and shaping the four elements. You cast spells drawn from multiple traditions and can use the four elements to alter and empower your spells, making them manifest and mixing them in unique ways. Most elementalists embrace the four elements equally as a mystical quaternity, and they strengthen their connection to one of these elements each day to protect themselves from harm. Others, notably wizard elementalists, feel a stronger connection to a singular element that they hone to great heights, utilizing the other three elements to support and augment their favored element.

#### Elementalist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">elemental magic</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Each day when you make your daily preparations, you can attune yourself to one element of your choice from your elemental philosophy. You gain resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1 resistance) against damage dealt by effects with your attuned elemental trait. This attunement lasts until you next make your daily preparations.
</div><br><br><br>

## Familiar Master
From the wise critic perched on the wizard's shoulder to the crafty snake that serves a templar for their own reasons, the ghastly homunculus in the alchemist's lab to the clever z'tal that picks the lock of the thief's cell, familiars have always served. Whether through rigorous training or a preternatural connection, yours serves better than most. <br><br>

#### Familiar Master Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have forged a mystical bond with a creature. This might have involved complex rituals and invocations, such as meditating under the moon until something crept out of the forest. Or maybe you just did each other a good turn, such as rescuing the beast from a trap or a foe, and then being rescued in turn. Whatever the details, you are now comrades until the end. You gain a familiar. If you already have a familiar, you gain the Enhanced Familiar feat.
</div><br>

## Firebrand Braggart
You travel the Tyr region drawing attention to yourself, making great shows of your exploits, and proclaiming your great deeds.

#### Firebrand Braggart Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 4</div><br>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Charisma +2</div>
</div>

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<div class="rule">
Your Firebrand training has taught you that achieving something is more satisfying if you boast about it first. You declare a boast about a particular skill action, such as Balance, Demoralize, or Recall Knowledge. The first time you attempt this action within the next minute in a context the GM deems both suitably challenging and meaningful, you must roll twice and use the lower result. If you succeed at this check, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to checks to attempt the same action for 10 minutes. If you fail this check or don’t attempt the action within 1 minute, you instead take a –1 circumstance penalty on checks to attempt the same action for 1 hour.

If the chosen action can be used with multiple skills, such as Identify Magic or Recall Knowledge, you must specify which skill you are using for that particular action, such as using Arcana to Identify Magic, and your bonus or penalty after the boast applies only to checks using that skill for that action. Once you declare a boast about a particular action, you cannot declare a boast about the same action until the next time you make daily preparations, regardless of whether you succeed or fail at the check.

Typically, a challenging task is one with at least a standard DC for your level, though the difficulty may be higher depending on the situation. A meaningful context is one where the action’s success or failure is relevant to the pursuit of your goals, rather than a boast you made simply to gain a bonus later.
</div>

## Flexible Spellcaster
You've learned how to cast spells flexibly, blending the best elements of spontaneous and prepared spellcasting at the cost of casting fewer spells each day.

#### Flexible Spellcaster Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">flexible spell preparation</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You now have four cantrips per day instead of three. At 4th level, you have five cantrips per day instead of four.
</div><br>

## Folklorist
Folklorists are welcome across the Tyr Region for the entertaining stories they tell and the counsel they impart. However, those who take the art of storytelling to the next level can produce psionic effects based on their understanding of stories and their firm belief that life conforms to the contours of these tales. While many such folklorists are benevolent, terms like hero and villain are notoriously relative, changing to fit the perspective of the storyteller.

#### Folklorist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Performance</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are a master archivist and entertainer, capable of pulling wisdom from the tales you tell and weaving your allies and enemies into a powerful narrative. You gain the Spin Tale action.<br>
<b>Spin Tale</b> {1A} (auditory, linguistic) <b>Frequency</b> once every 10 minutes;    <b>Effect</b> You tell a story, designating one of your allies (but not<br>    yourself) as the hero of the story, and one enemy as the villain;    both must be within 60 feet. The hero gains a +1 status bonus to    attack rolls and saving throws against the villain until the start of    your next turn. If you Spin a Tale on your next turn, the story<br>    continues for another round, for a maximum of 10 rounds. While    the tale continues, minor, crude illusions spring into being in your    space; these are occult illusion effects that have no mechanical    impact other than illustrating your tale.</div><br>

## Game Hunter
Game hunters find, follow, and slay game animals, then honor their fallen rivals by securing and preserving a trophy of the kill. Many game hunters show a reverential respect for their prey bordering on the sacred. The finest game hunters engage only in a fair chase, strive for painless kills, and use every part of the animal's carcass.

#### Game Hunter Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Survival</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are skilled at tracking big game animals and similar creatures. You gain the Hunt Prey action, but you can designate only animals, beasts, and dragons as prey. In addition to the other benefits of Hunt Prey, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks against your hunted prey.

When you succeed at a Strike against your hunted prey while it's flat-footed, it must attempt a Fortitude save against your class DC. On a failure, the prey's Speeds are each reduced by 10 feet for 1 round; on a critical failure, the duration of this effect is 1 minute. The prey is then temporarily immune to this effect for 10 minutes.

If you already have Hunt Prey, you become an expert in Survival. You apply the Stealth bonus and the Speed reduction only when your prey is an animal, beast, or drake.
</div><br>

## Gang Enforcer
You've become a powerful gang enforcer. This archetype is the same as Golden League Xun.

#### Gang Enforcer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">master in Underworld Lore.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are a gang enforcer, aiding the organization. You gain expert proficiency in two of the following skills (or in two other skills of your choice in which you're trained, if you were already an expert in the listed skills): Athletics, Deception, Intimidation, or Stealth. In addition, if you use Underworld Lore to Earn Income or Recall Knowledge, when you get a success, you get a critical success instead.
</div><br>

## Geomancer
You know how to draw power from the land around you, no matter the terrain, by attuning your magic to match its mystical properties.

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You might be a druid with an elemental focus (such as the flame, stone, or wave orders) or a naturalist with a touch of magic at your disposal. You could concentrate on a single type of terrain to wring every last drop of power from it or choose to wander the land to experience every type of terrain possible.

#### Geomancer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Nature; ability to cast spells from spell slots; at least one spell with the air, cold, earth, fire, plant, or water trait</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You feel a deep connection to the world no matter where you are, a phenomenon known as “terrain attunement.” When you expend a spell slot to cast a spell with a trait that corresponds to the type of terrain you are currently in (as listed below), you gain the terrain attunement effect for that type of terrain. The GM might determine an attunement applies as long as it's prevalent enough around you. For instance, you might be in aquatic terrain on a riverbank or on a boat. Similarly, one place might count as multiple types of terrain, such as a mountain in the far north being both arctic and mountain. In this case, you choose only one terrain attunement effect, even if the spell has traits that would apply to each terrain type.

Certain terrain attunements affect your enemies instead of you. If they do, when you cast the spell, you apply the listed effect to all enemies who are either adjacent to you, in the area of the spell, or targeted by the spell. These enemies receive the listed saving throw against your spell DC to attempt to avoid the effect.
Aquatic (water) You ride the currents of water. If you're in the water, you gain a swim Speed equal to your land Speed. If you're on a surface, temporary waves of water follow your movements, allowing you to use your swim Speed—if you have one—as your land Speed. </div>

- Desert (fire) The scorching heat of the desert dehydrates your foes. Enemies must attempt a Fortitude save. On a failure, they're fatigued until they drink water or another potable liquid.
- Forest (plant) Branches and vines reach out to get in your foes' way. Enemies must attempt a Reflex save. On a failure, they become clumsy 1 for 1 round (clumsy 2 on a critical failure).
- Mountain (earth) The rugged endurance of the mountain protects you from harm. You gain resistance to physical damage (except adamantine) equal to the spell rank for 1 round.
- Plains (plant) The growing fields and pulsing vitality of the plains provide you vigor. You gain temporary Hit Points equal to the spell rank for 1 round.
- Sky (air) A gust of wind carries you aloft. You can Fly up to 10 feet. If you're in the air at the end of the turn and don't have a fly Speed, you fall.
- Swamp (plant) Your magic draws in noxious swamp gas to fumigate your foes. Affected foes take persistent poison damage equal to half the spell's rank (minimum 1 damage) with a basic Fortitude save.
- Underground (earth) The endless darkness of the cavern depths opens up its secrets to your senses. For 1 round, you gain darkvision as well as imprecise tremorsense out to 15 feet.

</div>

## Ghost Hunter
Ghosts have a wide range of capabilities and features— no two ghosts are exactly alike, as the nature of their abilities depends as much upon who they were in life as on how they died. Haunts, the spectral phenomena remaining in a site of death or powerful emotions, are related to but distinct from ghosts.

The ghost hunter knows that ghosts and haunts share many features. By focusing on these similarities, they can track down, confront, and defeat all manner of unquiet souls, helping them to find peace and move on to dissolve in the Gray.

#### Ghost Hunter Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Occultism or Religion</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have focused your training on hunting and defeating ghosts, spirits, and all manner of haunts. Pick Spirit Lore or Haunt Lore; you become trained in this skill. If you were already trained in both skills, you become trained in a new Lore skill of your choice.

Choose two cantrips from the occult spell list. Each cantrip must have the divination, enchantment, or necromancy trait. You can cast these spells as innate occult spells. You gain access to the Cast a Spell activity if you didn't have it already. You're trained in occult spell attack rolls and spell DCs. You can usually replace material components with somatic components, so you don't need a spell component pouch. Your key spellcasting ability for these spells is Charisma.
</div><br>

## Gladiator
The roar of the crowd and thrill of competitive combat drive you to become the best—and the fame isn't bad either.

If there are sapient creatures observing a combat encounter, and these onlookers are neither engaged in the combat themselves nor allied or affiliated with either side, the combatants have spectators. The GM is the final arbiter.

#### Gladiator Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Impressive Performance</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You know how to turn combat into a form of entertainment. You become trained in Gladiatorial Lore; if already trained in Gladiatorial Lore, you instead become trained in another Lore skill of your choice.

At the start of a combat encounter, if you have spectators, you gain a number of temporary HP equal to your character level for 1 minute and you can roll Performance for your initiative.
</div><br>

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## Hallowed Necromancer
It's quite common for mages of all sorts to study necromancy—the surprisingly diverse school holds the secrets of vitality and void energy, as well as life and death. Many tap into these powers with no consideration of the morality of their use. For these unscrupulous magic users, it's simply another avenue in their never-ending pursuit of power, and the abilities learned are turned to the caster's personal ends, whatever they may be.

Others choose a different path. Through spiritual study and introspection, they have come to recognize the evil intrinsic in the existence of undead, the fundamental wrongness of using the universal energy of death to create an appearance of life. To combat this evil, these casters learn to conduct vitality energy and direct it to great effect against the undead they encounter. They may also engage in ongoing study to learn of the nature of life, death, and undeath, and the precise relationship between each state. These scholars and mages are commonly known as hallowed necromancers—a slightly misrepresentative name, as many of them don't use religious methods, but a frequently used shorthand regardless.

The exact origin of hallowed necromancers' abilities may vary from one to the next. Some are granted their gifts directly by a sympathetic elemental lord, while others might use their knowledge of religion and the planes to learn such abilities on their own. Though rarer, it's even possible these practitioners might discover they possess an intuitive understanding and control over abilities that manifest spontaneously as their capabilities grow. Despite this variance, all share a fundamental understanding that undeath is an aberration to be quickly remedied.

Though the majority of hallowed necromancers have similar goals and are willing to work together, they tend not to form their own organizations. More often, these necromancers attach themselves to existing groups and use their powers in support of those groups' causes. Otherwise, they plan and carry out their own personal vendettas against the forces of undeath, often enlisting the help of trusted friends and allies.

#### Hallowed Necromancer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Religion; able to cast spells using spell slots, able to cast at least one necromancy spell</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've studied techniques allowing you to blend so-called hallowed necromancy into your own spellcasting to bolster the living and destroy the undead. You gain the <i>hallowed ground</i> focus spell. It costs 1 Focus Point to cast a focus spell. This feat grants a focus pool of 1 Focus Point that you can recover using the Refocus activity. You can Refocus by meditating or praying to connect yourself to conduits of vitality energy. Focus spells from the hallowed necromancer archetype have the same tradition as your spell slots.

Casting spells that create, heal, or otherwise aid or promote undead is anathema to you, as is cooperation with undead. Using void energy isn't anathema, as it serves a natural purpose, but twisting that void energy for creation is blasphemous to you. If you perform acts that are anathema to your principles, you lose access to all feats from this archetype. These abilities can be regained only with an atone ritual.
</div>

## Herbalist
The plants around you can provide more remedies than the finest hospital or temple, and you are skilled in their use.

#### Herbalist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Nature; Natural Medicine</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You can create remedies and other herbal products. You gain the basic alchemy benefits, though they apply only for herbal items: alchemical items with the healing trait, plus antidote and antiplague. You gain batches of infused reagents per day equal to your level or half your level if you didn't make your daily preparations in the wilderness. Your advanced alchemy level for creating these is 1 and doesn't increase on its own. You become an expert in Nature and can use Nature instead of Crafting to Craft herbal items. You don't need to be trained in Crafting or have the Alchemical Crafting feat to do so, and you can use healer's tools instead of alchemist's tools.</div><br>

## Horizon Walker
Many long for the open road, but you prefer the trackless wild. You can find safe passage through the most inhospitable terrain in the world—salt flats, deserts, and similar environs are where you're comfortable. Your talents open untrod paths for you and help guide others through the wilderness.

#### Horizon Walker Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Survival</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've mastered travel within a specific type of terrain. You gain the Favored Terrain feat. When in your favored terrain, you gain a +10-foot circumstance bonus to your travel Speed. When other creatures Follow the Expert with you as a guide in your favored terrain, they gain both the ability to ignore non-magical difficult terrain for the purpose of their travel Speed and the bonus to travel Speed.
</div><br>

## Juggler
You’re a skilled performer, with impressive balance and coordination that help you greatly in battle.

#### Juggler Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dexterity +2</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You become trained in Performance; if you were already trained in Performance, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You also gain the Juggle skill feat, even if you don’t meet its prerequisites.
</div><br>

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## Linguist
Whether you study to further your own ambitions or simply out of fascination with the intricacies of language, your way with words is unparalleled.

#### Linguist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">you speak at least three languages</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have studied languages and their development. You become trained in Society; if you were already trained in Society, you instead become an expert in Society. You gain the Multilingual skill feat twice.
</div><br>

## Loremaster
Knowledge is power, and you labor in pursuit of that power. No matter the situation, you can usually procure some tidbit of knowledge to inform your actions. You specialize in secrets, both uncovering them and hiding them away, and your command of the written word borders on the supernatural. As you discover deeper secrets of lore, you might develop a power over knowledge that becomes outright magical, allowing you to understand and disguise information even more effectively.

#### Loremaster Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in at least one skill to Decipher Writing</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've compiled a vast repository of information that touches on nearly every subject. You are trained in Loremaster Lore, a special Lore skill that can be used only to Recall Knowledge, but on any topic. If you have legendary proficiency in a skill used to Decipher Writing, you gain expert proficiency in Loremaster Lore, but you can't increase your proficiency rank in Loremaster Lore by any other means. You can take feats in the loremaster's additional feats entry even if you don't meet the enigma muse prerequisite.
</div><br>

## Marshal
Marshals are leaders, first and foremost. Marshals can come from any class or background, though they all share a willingness to sacrifice their own glory for the greater good of the team. Some marshals lead from the front, sword and shield raised, while others may call instructions and encouragements from the rear while providing allied spellcasters with skilled support.

Regardless of their preferred method of combat, marshals' ability to bring the best out in every ally is a valuable addition to any group.

#### Marshal Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in martial weapons; trained in Diplomacy or Intimidation</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've combined your social skills and combat training to become a talented combat leader. Choose Diplomacy or Intimidation. You become trained in that skill or become an expert if you were already trained in it.

In addition, you're surrounded by a marshal's aura in a 10-foot emanation. Your aura has the emotion, mental, and visual traits and grants you and allies within the aura a +1 status bonus to saving throws against fear.
</div><br>

## Mauler
You shove your way through legions of foes, knock enemies on all sides to the ground, and deal massive blows to anyone or anything that comes near.

#### Mauler Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Strength +2</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You specialize in weapons that require two hands. You become trained in all simple and martial melee weapons that require two hands to wield or have the two-hand trait. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in weapons, you also gain that proficiency rank in these weapons. If you are at least an expert in such a weapon, you gain access to the critical specialization effect with that weapon.
</div><br>

## Medic
You've studied countless techniques for providing medical aid, making you a peerless doctor and healer.

#### Medic Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Medicine; Battle Medicine</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You become an expert in Medicine. When you succeed with Battle Medicine or Treat Wounds, the target regains 5 additional HP at DC 20, 10 HP at DC 30, or 15 HP at DC 40. Once per day, you can use Battle Medicine on a creature that's temporarily immune. If you're a master in Medicine, you can do so once per hour.
</div><br><br>

## Mind Smith
“The mind makes it real.” Though uttered in many parts of Athas, nowhere is this more literal than perhaps among mind smiths—those with a mysterious mental talent that allows them to manifest their mind into a physical object. Some gain this power through magical training from an ancestor or mentor, while others earn it as a gift or reward from some greater being, or by inexplicable chance.

Whatever the source, you have mastered the ability to form a mental image into a corporeal figment solid enough to affect the physical world. You trained the power to aid you in battle by shaping itself into a potent weapon, bound by only the reaches of your own imagination.

#### Mind Smith Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've learned to imagine a shape in your mind, to envision it so strongly it takes form in the material world. You gain a single melee weapon of your choosing, called a mind weapon. Your mind weapon is a martial melee weapon. The overall shape and design of your mind weapon can be of your choosing, but it has one of the following four basic statistics:</div>

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- A one-handed weapon that deals 1d4 damage and has the agile and finesse traits
- A one-handed weapon that deals 1d6 damage and has the finesse trait
- A one-handed weapon that deals d8 damage
- A two-handed weapon that deals 1d10 damage and has the reach trait

Each day during your daily preparations, you can decide if you want your weapon to deal bludgeoning damage and be in the club weapon group, deal piercing damage and be in the spear weapon group, or deal slashing damage and be in the sword weapon group. Your mind weapon is an extension of your mind—it has no Hardness, and any ability that would damage your mind weapon instead damages you directly, pushing back against the weapon's corporeal form and becoming mental damage of the same amount the weapon would have taken.

You can project your mind weapon using an Interact action, just as you would draw any other weapon. Only you can hold, carry, or wield your mind weapon; if held by another person, it quickly disappears from their hand, reforming in your mind for you to project again. If you're disarmed of your mind weapon, it dematerializes, but you can draw it again with an Interact action starting at the beginning of your next turn.

Upon creating your mind weapon, you also learn to use a mind smith's keepsake: an object of light Bulk, such as a bracelet or figurine, that you wear or keep on your person and inscribe with weapon runes. Your keepsake can't be a magic item, nor can it have any significant monetary value beyond the value of any runes you inscribe on it. You can buy and inscribe fundamental runes and weapon property runes onto your keepsake in the same way you would for a regular weapon, and you can move runes to and from your keepsake to other weapons or runestones for the usual cost. Any runes inscribed on the keepsake apply to your mind weapon when you create it. </div>

<div class="rule">
If your keepsake is ever lost or destroyed, you can spend 1 week of downtime imprinting a new object with your weapon's mental properties, though this new keepsake won't have any of the runes that were inscribed on the prior keepsake.
</div><br>

## Oozemorph
You have suffered from the deadly touch of an ooze or other amorphous creature, like a gibbering mouther or a tyrian slime, and have come away changed. Alternatively, you might have been exposed to some alchemical accident involving experiments with oozes, such as those performed in the city of Nibenay. Parts of your body occasionally liquefy and threaten to slough off, and only through force of will can you keep your natural form intact. Your affliction is plainly supernatural in origin and distressingly permanent.

#### Oozemorph Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are plagued by sporadic anatomical rearrangements, which grant you insights into other creatures with unusual anatomies. You become trained in Occultism and Ooze Lore; if you were already trained, you become an expert instead. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Reflex saves to avoid being Engulfed by creatures, and to checks to Escape after being Engulfed.

As you develop more abilities based on your amorphous affliction, you become increasingly off-putting to mundane creatures. You take a penalty to Diplomacy checks against animals and humanoids. This penalty is equal to your number of class feats from the oozemorph archetype, to a maximum of –4 for four or more feats.
</div><br>

## Pirate
You live a life of freedom, taking by force and intimidation all that you desire.

You may be a privateer, raiding and plundering on behalf of a particular nation or another authority, or you may answer to no one but your own capricious whims. Either way, you rely on intimidation, wits, and combat prowess to take what you want from those you deem less deserving.

Pirates have much in common with swashbucklers, and many pirates have the swashbuckler class or archetype. Much like a swashbuckler's daring deeds, classic pirate maneuvers are often showy feats intended to impress, intimidate, and gain panache. For example, if you have the panache class feature and your Acrobatics check for a Boarding Assault exceeds the very hard DC for your level, you would gain panache.

#### Pirate Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Intimidation</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
As a pirate, you sail the seas in search of enemy ships to plunder. You become trained in Sailing Lore or become an expert in it if you were already trained. You ignore the effects of difficult terrain or uneven ground caused by a ship's movement. Additionally, you gain the Boarding Assault action.<br>
<b>Boarding Assault</b> {2A} (Flourish) <b>Effect</b> Either Stride twice or<br>    attempt an Acrobatics check (DC determined by the GM, but<br>    usually DC 20) to swing on a rope up to twice your Speed. If you    boarded or disembarked from a boat or similar vehicle during<br>    this movement, you can make a melee Strike that deals one<br>    additional weapon damage die.
</div><br>

## Poisoner
People are so delightfully fragile when exposed to the glories of nature. The bite of a certain serpent makes the blood congeal to jelly. A particular stone, suitably powdered, causes hallucinations and delirium. The sap of a tree inflicts such pain that death seems preferable. You are a student of such dark wonders, making you a dangerous foe indeed.

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#### Poisoner Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Crafting</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You make a point of always having a few toxins near at hand—you never know when some arsenic or the like might prove useful. You gain the basic alchemy benefits, though they can be used only for alchemical poisons. You gain batches of infused reagents per day equal to your level. Your advanced alchemy level for creating these is 1 and doesn't increase on its own.
</div><br>

## Provocator
The provocator is a gladiator who mixes brilliant performance with mastery of weapons.

#### Provocator Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Strength +2; Charisma +2</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
For you, fighting is as much about style as skill. You become trained in simple weapons, martial weapons, and one advanced weapon of your choice. When you critically succeed at an attack roll using your chosen advanced weapon, you also apply the critical specialization of that weapon. You become an expert in Performance and your choice of either Acrobatics or Athletics. If you were an expert in all three of these skills, you instead become an expert in a skill of your choice.
</div><br>

## Psychic Duelist
The mental landscape of the psychic duel rises to meet your steps and reshapes at your touch. You understand the binary mindscape links two minds, making its foundation only as strong as the wills of those involved. Two psychic castles in a siege—patch every loose brick in your walls and single out every flaw in your foe's defenses.

#### Psychic Duelist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Occultism; you have been in a psychic duel</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Through experience and in-depth visualizations of mental battles, you've grown adept at psychic duels. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your initiative rolls for psychic duels. Each time you enter a psychic duel, choose one of the following benefits for the duration of that duel.</div>

- <b>Mind Mace</b> You gain a status bonus to mental damage with spells you cast equal to the spell's rank.
- <b>Psychic Fist</b> You can use your standard ability modifier for Strike damage instead of your highest mental modifier, and you can use your full AC instead of using your Will DC in place of your AC.

</div><br>

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## Reanimator
Most cultures revere the bodies of the deceased, laying to rest the mortal remains of their companions according to tradition formed generations before. Such customs assume a common conclusion: once the spirit that inhabited it has gone on to the Gray, the empty shell of a corpse has no purpose beyond its eventual return to the elements that formed it. You know differently. As the vessels that once housed immortal souls, corpses hold great power and potential, perfect construction materials for creations of unsurpassed wonder.

As a reanimator, you have chosen to focus your study of the necromantic arts on the transformation of dead flesh into innumerable varieties of undead, from the lowliest shuffling corpses and brittle skeletons to abominations of ghastly splendor barely conceived of by only the most fanatical—or brilliant— mortal minds.

#### Reanimator Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">able to cast animate dead with a spell slot</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have dedicated your studies to the art of raising and commanding undead. If you're a spontaneous spellcaster with animate dead in your repertoire, it becomes a signature spell in addition to your usual signature spells. If you're a prepared spellcaster with animate dead in your spells known, spellbook, or the like, you can spend 10 minutes contemplating undeath to replace one of the spells you've prepared in your spell slots with an animate dead spell of the same rank.

In addition, if you're able to target the mostly intact remains of an appropriate type of dead creature when casting animate dead, the undead you animate gains a +1 status bonus to attack rolls, AC, saving throws, and skill checks for the duration of animate dead.
</div><br>

## Ritualist
While some learn the art of ritual casting through rigorous study, other gifted individuals may find that a combination of natural talent and luck gives them surprising skill at performing rituals, whether they want that power or not.

#### Ritualist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have begun to master the difficult art of casting rituals. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to all primary checks to perform a ritual. You learn two uncommon rituals with a rank no higher than half your level; you must meet all prerequisites for casting the ritual to choose it. At 8th level and every 4 levels thereafter, you learn another uncommon ritual with a rank no higher than half your level and for which you meet the prerequisites. You can cast these as the primary caster, but you can't teach them to anyone else or allow someone else to serve as primary caster unless they know the ritual as well.
</div><br>

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## Scout
You're an expert in espionage and reconnaissance, able to skulk silently through the wilderness to gather intelligence, sneak through enemy lines to report to your comrades, or suddenly and decisively strike your foes. Your skills ease the difficulty of travel for you and your companions and keep you all on guard when you're approaching danger.

#### Scout Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Stealth and Survival</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are a highly skilled scout, capable of providing your allies a timely warning of any danger. You gain the Scout's Warning ranger feat. When you're using the Scout exploration activity, you grant your allies a +2 circumstance bonus to their initiative rolls instead of a +1 circumstance bonus.
</div><br>

## Sentinel
Armor offers solid, reassuring protection in combat, and as someone who faces danger on a regular basis, you have made it your business to get the most out of your defenses. You stand solid on any battlefield, encased in the sturdiest armor you can find. 
When danger threatens, your solid defenses will safely get you, and possibly your companions, home again. As a sentinel, you might be a member of an order of knights or bodyguards that trained you how best to take advantage of heavy armor.

On the other hand, you might just be an adventurer who took one too many scrapes and decided that enough was enough, so you trained yourself to wear the heaviest plate you could get your hands on. Some witches or sorcerers have chosen to follow the path of the sentinel to increase their survivability.

#### Sentinel Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You have trained carefully to maximize the protective qualities of your armor. You become trained in light armor and medium armor. If you already were trained in light armor and medium armor, you gain training in heavy armor as well. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in any type of armor (but not unarmored defense), you also gain that proficiency in the armor types granted to you by this feat. If you are at least 13th level and you have a class feature that grants you expert proficiency in unarmored defense, you also become an expert in the armor types granted to you by this feat.
</div><br>

## Shadowdancer
Shadow has always been the cousin of fear. Within the darkness, monsters dwell, plans are hatched, and enemies strike with fang and dagger and dark magic. But some embrace the Black, gain power from it, and dance within its shifting dark.

A true shadowdancer is a creature who flits on the edge of light and darkness. Moving amid the inky blackness, shadowdancers are spies, assassins, infiltrators, and emissaries. Some shadowdancers use their relationship with the Black for good, while others embrace the primordial night, its terror, and its betrayal.

Regardless of the reason why someone embraces the shadows, the shadows embrace that person in turn, gradually transforming them into something inky, nebulous, and mysterious.

#### Shadowdancer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Performance and master in Stealth</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You dedicate yourself to the shadows. Your coloring becomes gray and gloomy, your senses adjust to the darkness, and you can sneak through darkness with ease. You gain greater darkvision.

You also gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks when you are within dim light or darkness.
</div><br>

## Sixth Pillar
The Sixth Pillar follows a tradition that blends martial arts with magic. Traditionally, this is a way to better focus and harness innate magic, but it can be used by anyone who can cast spells.

#### Sixth Pillar Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dexterity +2; expert in Acrobatics; ability to cast spells</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You use your physical discipline to channel your magic. </div>

<div class="rule">
If your proficiency rank in unarmed attacks is at least expert, your proficiency rank in spell attacks increases to expert. Likewise, if your proficiency rank in spell attacks is at least expert, your proficiency rank in unarmed attacks improves to expert. You become an expert in Athletics, or in another trained skill if you were already expert in Athletics.
</div><br>

## Sleepwalker
Many think of mental realms and mindscapes as rare and elaborate constructions, forgetting that everyone creates their own mental realm when they sleep, one where even the strangest occurrences seem perfectly normal. Anything is possible inside these dreamscapes, but few sapient creatures have the will and insight to take control and truly explore their unconscious mind.

Sleepwalkers dedicate themselves to unlocking the secrets of the sleeping mind, taking control of their dreams, and walking through the slumbering vistas of others. Some are nefarious manipulators, whispering to the slumbering for personal gain. Others use their powers for good, seeking evildoers and those who corrupt dreams to nightmares. As their power grows, a sleepwalker's appearance gradually becomes slightly indistinct, as though they were blurred around the edges, and those who encounter them find it difficult to recall exact details about their appearance.

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#### Sleepwalker Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Occultism</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've learned to manipulate states of consciousness, beginning with your own. You can send yourself into a half-awake, daydreaming state and gain the Daydream Trance action.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Daydream Trance</b> {1A} (mental, occult) You fall into a half-sleeping trance. This lasts for 1 minute or until you fall unconscious, whichever comes first. You can voluntarily end your trance by taking a single action, which has a concentrate trait, and succeeding at a Will save against your own class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. Once your trance ends, you can't enter a Daydream Trance again for 1 minute. While you're in your trance, you gain the following effects:</div>

-  You gain a +1 status bonus to Will saves. This bonus increases to +2 against mental effects. If you're legendary in Occultism, the bonus against mental effects increases to +3.
-  You take a –1 penalty to Perception checks and initiative rolls.

## Snarecrafter
You're able to take ordinary materials and use them to create deadly snares, special traps that you can rig up quickly when the situation demands. While traps might grant you less brute force to apply in a fair fight than weapons would, you rarely allow your fights to be fair.

Instead, when a battle takes place at a location of your choice, you have a major advantage thanks to your well-placed snares. Once your foes come to realize that you may have trapped any location on the battlefield, their fear of walking into another trap can help you corral them toward the waiting blades of your allies, or even make them too paranoid to move at all, locking them in place.

#### Snarecrafter Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Crafting; Snare Crafting</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You've learned to create a limited number of snares at no cost. Each day during your daily preparations, you can prepare four snares from your formula book for quick deployment; if they normally take 1 minute to Craft, you can Craft them with 3 Interact actions. The number of snares increases to six if you're a master in Crafting and eight if you're legendary. Snares prepared in this way don't cost you any resources to Craft.
</div><br>

## Soul Warden
You consider yourself a shepherd of spirits who ensures the cycle of souls progresses unimpeded. Although you're unable to safeguard the cycle of souls in its entirety, you strive to ensure each soul's time on the Material Plane proceeds without incident. You work to free souls from imprisonment, prevent necromancers from animating the dead, and destroy undead so their souls rejoin the cycle.

While most who hunt undead do so out of fear, vengeance, or a desire to protect the lives of others, you take a more measured and far less emotional approach; you destroy undead so their souls can continue their journey to the Gray, thus ensuring the continuation of existence.

#### Soul Warden Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Occultism or Religion</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You can take 10 minutes to emblazon a symbol of power—a spiraling comet that represents the winding path a soul takes through its existence—upon a shield, tabard, banner, or other prominent object that your wear or wield. The symbol doesn't fade until 1 year has passed, but if you emblazon the symbol again, any symbol you previously emblazoned and any symbol already emblazoned on that item instantly disappears. The item becomes a religious symbol and can be used as a divine focus while emblazoned.
</div>

<div class="rule">
Whenever an undead creature or captive soul is within 100 feet of this object, the spiral glows, shedding dim blue light in a 10-foot radius. If the creature is hiding or the soul is hidden, it must succeed at a Stealth check against your Perception DC to fool the sigil and prevent the spiral from glowing.

In addition, you can cast <i>vitality lash</i> as a divine innate cantrip at will. As normal, a cantrip is automatically heightened to half your level rounded up. You gain access to the Cast a Spell activity if you didn't have it already. You're trained in divine spell attack rolls and spell DCs. Your key spellcasting ability for these spells is Wisdom.</div>

<div class="rule">
When you have at least two other feats from this archetype, the spiral glows with bright light in a 10-foot radius (and dim light for the next 10 feet). Feats that require a creature or object to be in the light of your spiral function whether it's in the bright or dim light.
</div><br>

## Staff Acrobat
You can perform amazing acts in and out of combat when you have a spear, staff, or polearm.

#### Staff Acrobat Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dexterity +3; trained in Acrobatics and Athletics; trained with at least one of the following weapons: staff, bo staff, halfling sling staff, or any weapon in the spear or polearm group (referred to in this archetype as “your staff”).</div></div>

<div class="rule">
When you High Jump, Leap, or Long Jump while wielding your staff, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to any Athletics check required and add 5 feet to the distance you can Leap vertically and horizontally. You can Shove and Trip even if you don’t have a free hand, provided you are wielding your staff. Finally, when you roll a success on a check to Balance while wielding your staff, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

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## Swarmkeeper

Many civilizations throughout history have benefited from a symbiotic relationship with insects. A community might raise insects for certain byproducts, such as a bee’s honey or a spider’s silk, or tame larger versions of common species as mounts. Some even take this harmony to the extreme and willingly host a swarm of insects inside their bodies. Because of their unusual arrangement, swarmkeepers tend to live solitary lives, or at least as solitary as you can be as a host of thousands. When dealing with those who might be squeamish of their abilities, some swarmkeepers wear straw skeps, backpack-like boxes often employed by beekeepers as a kind of social camouflage. Such items might even be used to house additional insects if their swarm grows too big to fit inside their body.

Swarmkeepers can add new capabilities to their swarms. For some, this means incorporating many different species of insects into their swarm, making even mortal enemies in nature work together. Others selectively cultivate one kind of insect precious to them into various morphs that give the swarm new capabilities.

#### Swarmkeeper  Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Nature</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your body has become a symbiotic hive for a swarm of crawling insects. You can emit your swarm using the Swarm Forth action, and you can use the Bite and Sting action while your swarm is outside your body to command it to attack. Your deep connection to your swarm precludes you from also having an animal companion, though if an ability allows you to have more than one animal companion (such as the beastmaster archetype), you can count your swarm as one. You're immune to any damage from your swarm, and during your daily preparations you can anoint up to five willing creatures with a concoction made from your pheromones to grant them immunity as well.

While outside your body, your swarm is Large and has a Speed of 15 feet and a climb Speed of 15 feet. It can occupy the same space as other creatures. While outside your body, the swarm can be attacked. It uses your statistics for defenses but is immune to grappled, prone, restrained, and mental effects that target only a specific number of creatures. The swarm has resistance equal to your level to physical damage and weakness equal to your level to area and splash damage. Any damage that would be dealt to the swarm is dealt to you instead, though you take damage only once from any ability that includes both you and the swarm in the area of effect (though you take the greater amount of damage).

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Swarm Forth</b> {2A} (concentrate) <b>Requirements</b> Your swarm is within your body; <b>Effect</b> Your swarm boils forth from your body into a space adjacent to yours. (Its space can overlap yours.) It remains separate from you until the end of your next turn, but you can Sustain the effect up to 1 minute. The effect also ends if you end your turn more than 60 feet away from the swarm. When you use Swarm Forth and each time you Sustain the effect, you can have the swarm Stride.

When Swarm Forth ends, the swarm disperses into individual creatures. While dispersed, it can no longer be used for actions or be targeted, and the insects return to you and nest in your body again. This typically takes 1 minute unless you're extremely far away (as determined by the GM). </div>

<div class="abilbox">
<b>Bite and Sting</b> {1A} <b>Requirements</b> Your swarm is outside your body; <b>Effect</b> Each creature in your swarm's space takes 1d4 piercing damage with a basic Reflex save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. At 4th level and every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d4.</div>
</div><br>

## Swordmaster
Those trained to master the sword learn so to survive, defend others, and defeat their enemies. The swordmaster embodies these skills, focusing on practicality and ignoring ideals or methods that interfere with their ability to overcome any challenge.

#### Swordmaster Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Strength+2, Dexterity +2, or Constitution +2</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your Swords training taught you to never lose hold of your weapon. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your Reflex DC when foes attempt to Disarm you. If you have the Deft Cooperation feat and critically succeed on a check to Aid an ally’s attack roll or skill check, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus from Deft Cooperation (instead of a +1 bonus) the first time you attempt an attack roll or attempt a skill check where the bonus would apply.
</div><br>

## Undead Master
Not everyone with an interest in the undead raises a vast army of faceless, disposable minions. You prefer to cultivate a more personal relationship with a small number of undead companions, personalized to your needs and expectations. Those companions with minds trust you implicitly; those without are extensions of your will. Perhaps they see you as a teacher or caretaker, shepherding them on the path to peace and passing on, or perhaps they are your protectors, bound to aid you by negotiation and magical spells.
Whatever the case, they will fight for and alongside you without question, throwing themselves into danger without hesitation if it will provide a means to your desired end.

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This archetype works well for a necromancer capable of raising undead but isn't exclusive to them. You could be a warrior who befriended an undead, an evil champion granted an undead companion by your deity, or an undead bloodline sorcerer undead are drawn to. The additional feats below are found in the beastmaster archetype. Whenever one of these additional feats refers to an animal companion, as an undead master, you apply it to your undead companion instead.

#### Undead Master Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You gain the services of an undead companion that travels with you and obeys your commands. The rules for undead companions are under Undead Companions and utilize those for animal companions.

Contrary to the usual rules for companions, as an undead master it's possible for you to have more than one undead companion at a time. However, only one of those companions, your “active companion,” follows you during exploration and encounters; the rest are reduced to an “inactive” state that can be easily tucked into an inventory or stored in a nearby crypt. </div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Call Companion</B> {2A} <span class="rule">(Exploration) </span><span class="rule effect">You spend 1 minute calling for a different animal companion, switching your active companion for another of your animal companions.</span></div></div>

## Undead Slayer
Anywhere undead prey upon the living, some brave souls make it their mission to destroy the monsters. Many adventurers are skilled at dispatching undead, but you go a step further. You study them, learn their weaknesses, and master the tools to end them quickly and cleanly. An undead slayer doesn't simply kill monsters; they become what even monsters fear. Leave it to others to be a shield—you become the blade that strikes evil at its heart. You can identify the common types of undead by sight. You drill and practice with the special gear necessary to destroy some of the more complicated undead, like T’liz; train in their strengths and weaknesses; and learn how to create safe houses to stash your arsenal and hide from undead.

#### Undead Slayer Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Religion</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your training has prepared you to recognize most undead on sight. You become trained in two Lore skills, each about a specific type of undead, or become an expert if you were already trained. You gain the Slayer's Identification free action.<br>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Slayer's Identification</b> {0A} <span class="rule trigger">You roll initiative and can observe a creature you know is undead; </span><span class="rule effect"> You attempt to Recall Knowledge to identify the undead creature with a +1 circumstance bonus. If you're a master in the skill you're using to Recall Knowledge, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus instead.</span></div>
</div></div><br>

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## Weapon Improviser
As far as you're concerned, the best weapon to wield is the one that your opponents never see coming. By knowing how to fight effectively with whatever's at hand, you ensure that you're never caught unarmed, and you often get the drop on opponents who mistakenly think they've caught you off guard.

Whether you're smashing someone over the head with a bar stool, tossing a mug of ale in their face to blind them, or stabbing your foes with a broken bottle, you can find weapons anywhere and employ them creatively whenever a fight breaks out. Because you fight with disposable weapons, you don't need to be as careful with your weapons as other warriors do, and you can break them when needed to win a fight without feeling any regrets later.

#### Weapon Improviser Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in all martial weapons</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You don't take the normal –2 penalty to attack rolls with improvised weapons. Additionally, whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency with any weapon, you also gain that proficiency with improvised weapons.
</div><br>

## Winged Warrior

Nature provided wings to certain creatures to help them soar above predators or reach food hanging from tall trees or the side of a cliff. When those graced with wings no longer have to depend on flight for survival, their appendages can be turned to a different use: combat. In addition to granting strategic elevation over foes, wings provide a variety of combat advantages.

Winged warriors are found independently among several ancestries. Aarakocra of the Tyr region are the most commonly seen practitioners of this fighting style. Warriors able to take flight, even temporarily, can often name their price when joining a merchant caravan. Despite the ranged armaments available on many caravans, many guards are hard-pressed to defend against skilled aerial assailants.

Even those who develop wings later in life, like certain Dray and those with grafted wings, can learn the fighting style of a winged warrior. Although it’s a long path, many of the techniques involved are reinvented, rediscovered, and even updated by individual warriors.

#### Winged Warrior Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">you have permanent wings (such as from an ancestry or graft)</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Through rigorous training, you have strengthened your wings, granting you enough thrust to gain additional altitude. When you make a horizontal Leap, increase the distance by 10 feet up to a maximum of your Speed. Any fly Speed granted by ancestry feats and other permanent wings increases by 5 feet.
</div>

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## Wrestler
Wrestlers are athletes who pit their strength and skill against powerful foes. Specializing in a variety of grabs, holds, and strikes, wrestlers are dangerous opponents whose techniques can leave a foe broken and defeated without taking their life.

The wrestling tradition is common all over Athas. Gladiators and other warriors who fight for entertainment use wrestling techniques in combat. The discipline's focus on grappling is also useful in non-gladiatorial matches, as many foes are unable to contend with an opponent's hold. Grappling is particularly effective against spellcasters, who have a difficult time completing the somatic components of their spells while grabbed.

#### Wrestler Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Athletics; trained in unarmed attacks, and unarmored defense</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
Your training in the wrestling arts has made you particularly adept at moving, striking, and grappling while unencumbered. You become an expert in Athletics and gain the Titan Wrestler skill feat. You don't take the –2 circumstance penalty for making a lethal attack with your nonlethal unarmed attacks. In addition, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your Fortitude DC when resisting an opponent's attempts to Grapple you or Swallow you Whole.
</div>

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# Dark Sun Archetypes

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
On Athas there exists unique archetypes that are only available in Dark Sun. Be it the Dark Sun Martial Artist, Living Vessel, Elemental, or even a Dragon.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

## Avangion

Having mastered both psionics and arcane magic, some of Athas' most powerful preservers seek out the mysteries of a
metamorphosis, to change themselves into strange beings of gossamer wings and light. As avangions, they can combine their mastery of the Way and arcane arts into psionic enchantments that some say counters dragon magic. Others say that the avangions bring a healing power, and that they come not to fight, but to return life to dying lands. Most sages have never heard of avangions, and would probably call them myth.

#### Avangion Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">master in Arcana and Crafting; Basic Psychic Spellcasting, living creature, ability to cast 6th-rank or higher spells from spell slots, completed ritual to become an avangion.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
Avangions are incredibly powerful individuals who have mastered both arcane magic and psionics. In their quests for power, these individuals have chosen to undergo a metamorphosis, changing them into a celestial avangion. Avangions command powerful magic capable of countering defiling magic and restoring Athas to its previous glory.

You gain the celstial trait and are surrounded by a halo of light and goodness at all times as well as your skin glitters in the sunlight. Your halo sheds light with the effects of a divine <i>light</i> cantrip. A cantrip is heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up. You can suppress or reestablish the halo with a single action, which has the concentrate trait.  Your eyes turn silver, and you gain Dark Vision. Finally, you gain the Celestial Wings action.
</div>
<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Celestial Wings</B> {2A} <span class="rule">(Avangion, Divine, Polymorph)  </span><span class="rule freq">once per day </span><span class="rule effect">With effort, you can call forth magical wings from your back. These wings remain for 10 minutes. You gain a fly Speed equal to your Speed while you've manifested your wings. </span></div></div><br>

#### Aura of Righteousness<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Avangion Dedication</div></div>
<div class="rule">

Your righteous aura dampens evil's might. You and all allies in the avangions halo of light gain unholy resistance 5. </div><br>

#### Avangion Metamorphosis I<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Avangion Dedication; completed 7th-rank preserver metamorphosis ritual</div></div>
<div class="rule">
At the next stage of the avangion metamorphosis the avangion’s skin takes on a metallic glow similar to its eyes, and any hair they have turns pure white. Their body becomes frail and the avangion's maximum HP is reduced by its level. However, the avangion becomes resistant to damage and gains resistance 1 to all damage except unholy or void damage. This resistance increases to 2 if the source is non-magical.

At 16th level, the resistance increases to 2, or 4 if the source is non-magical. At 18th level, the resistance increases to 3, or 5 if the source is non-magical.

</div><br>

#### Avangion Metamorphosis II<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Avangion Metamorphosis I; completed 8th-rank preserver metamorphosis ritual</div></div>
<div class="rule">
At the next stage of the avangion metamorphosis any concealment of the avangions true form is lost at this stage. As enormous gossamer wings sprout from the back and shoulders. The wings themselves are filmy and nearly transparent. You gain the Celestial Wings at all times, rather than just once per day for 10 minutes.

</div><br>

#### Aura of unbreakable virtue<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Avangion Dedication</div></div>
<div class="rule">
You are a paragon of all that is good, your overwhelming aura causing evildoers to cower. All unholy creatures within your halo of light take a –1 status penalty to checks and DCs that target you or your allies. This penalty is –2 against dragons. You can choose to suppress or resume this aura as an action, which has the concentrate trait.

</div><br>

#### Avangion Metamorphosis III<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Avangion Metamorphosis II; completed 9th-rank preserver metamorphosis ritual</div></div>
<div class="rule">
At the next stage of the avangion metamorphosis the avangion's true form becomes increasingly vague.  All hair has vanished at this point and webs of filmy winglike material forms between the arms, torso, and thier fingers and toes. Their wings further extend granting them a +10-foot status bonus to fly Speed.</div><br>

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<div class="rule">
The avangionn's magic cloaks themselves in a permanent <i>illusory disguise</i> of 2nd-rank.  To all those that view the avangion they look as a celestial version of their ancestry.  All enemies of the avangion must attempt a Will save when they see the avangion.

<div class="rule result r4">The target disbelieves the illusion and is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">For 1 round, the target is stupefied 2 and takes a –2 status penalty to any checks it makes to determine the effects of reactions.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">For 1 minute, the target is stupefied 2 and can't use reactions.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">As failure, and all spaces are difficult terrain for the target.</div>

</div><br>

## Dragon

Athasian dragons are a species of reptiles native to Athas that are created when a powerful wizard uses their powers to absorb enough magic from the natural world or from captured slaves to evolve into a new form. The process takes several stages, the first being the larval dragon, the form the wizard evolves into when they complete the initial ceremony of transformation. The new dragon then progresses through a series of stages, fueled by defiler magic all the way, till they are transformed into a full-fledged dragon. <br>

#### Dragon Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">master in Arcana and Crafting; Basic Psychic Spellcasting, living creature, ability to cast 6th-rank or higher spells from spell slots, completed ritual to become a dragon.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
Dragons are incredibly powerful individuals who have mastered both arcane magic and psionics. In their quests for power, these individuals have chosen to undergo a metamorphosis, changing them into reptilian dragons. Dragons command terrible magic capable of draining the life-force of both man and beast, leaving only withered skulls behind.

You gain the dragon trait. Your skin becomes scaly giving you fire resistance equal to half your level and environmental heat effects are one step less extreme. Your fingers elongate into sharp claws. You have a claw unarmed attack that deals 1d4 slashing damage and has the agile and finesse traits in the brawling weapon group.  Finally, your eyes turn reptilian, and you gain Dark Vision.

During the Dragon Metamorphosis you crafted a perfect obsidian sphere and swallowed it whole. You gain the Dragon Magic action.

</div><br>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Dragon Magic</B> {0A} <span class="rule">(dragon, wizard)  </span><span class="rule freq">Once per round </span><span class="rule prereq">living creatures within 10 feet </span><span class="rule trigger">prior to casting a spell </span><span class="rule effect">Athasian dragons can choose to power their spells with energy from living creatures rather than plants.  Prior to casting a spell, you can strip the life energy of living creatures within 10 feet.  Any creature in the area of the defiling must make a fortitude saving throw vs your spell casting DC or take 1d4 void damage per spell rank (cantrips inflict 1 point of void damage) and become sickened 1. On a critical failure they take double damage and become sickened 2.

The act of defiling empowers you with magic. If your next action is to cast a cantrip or a spell, reduce the number of actions to cast it by 1 (minimum 1 action). Dragon magic also improves with additional defiling feats. </span></div></div><br>

#### Dragon Metamorphosis I<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dragon Dedication; completed 7th-rank defiler metamorphosis ritual</div></div>
<div class="rule">
At the next stage of the dragon metamorphosis your face elongates into a snout, and you gain a jaws unarmed attack that deals 1d6 piercing damage and is in the brawling group.  Your scales harden and provide a +3 item bonus to AC with a Dex cap of +2. This uses your unarmored profiency and you can inscribe runes directly into your scales. If you were armor of any kind, your runes don't function.  Finally, you gain a Dragon Breath action.
</div><br>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Dragon Breath</B> {2A} <span class="rule">(arcane, dragon)  </span><span class="rule freq">Once every 1d4 rounds </span><span class="rule effect">You channel your draconic power into a gout of super-heated sand that manifests as a 30-foot cone, dealing 6d4 fire damage and 6d4 piercing damage. Each creature in the area must attempt a reflex saving throw against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. You can't use this ability again for 1d4 rounds.

At every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d4 for each damage type. </span></div></div><br>

#### Dragon Metamorphosis II<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dragon Metamorphosis I; completed 8th-rank defiler metamorphosis ritual</div></div>
<div class="rule">
At the next stage of the dragon metamorphosis your dragon magic infuses your body with energy.  You permanently gain the effects of <i>enlarge</i>, becoming Large, increasing your reach to 10 feet, becoming clumsy 1, and gaining a +2 status bonus to melee damage. and gain wings.  You gain a fly speed equal to your speed.
</div><br>

#### Dragon Senses<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dragon Dedication</div></div>
<div class="rule">
Your dragon magic empowers your senses with magic.  Magic enhances your sense of smell. You gain imprecise scent with a range of 30 feet. You gain further improvements to your sight as dragon magic heightens your vision.  You gain the effects of <i>see the unseen</i> at all times.
</div><br>

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#### Frightful Aura<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag aura">AURA</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag fear">FEAR</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dragon Dedication; master in intimidation</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You're surrounded by a palpable sense of menace and power that's terrifying to behold. The aura is a 15-foot emanation. An enemy that enters or ends its turn in the aura must attempt a Will save against the higher of your spell DC or class DC.</div>

<div class="rule">
<div class="rule result r3">The creature is unaffected and temporarily immune to your Frightful Aura for 1 minute</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature is frightened 1.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature is frightened 2.</div>

</div><br>

#### Dragon Metamorphosis III<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dragon Metamorphosis II; completed 9th-rank defiler metamorphosis ritual</div></div>
<div class="rule">
This is the final stage of the Dragon Metamorphosis. You permanently gain the effects of a 4th-rank <i>enlarge</i>, becoming huge, increasing your reach to 15 feet, and gaining +4 status bonus to melee damage.  Finally, you become resistance to just about every kind of energy.  You gain resistance 5 to acid, cold, electricity, fire, force, mental, poison, sonic, vitality, and void damage.
</div><br>

## Elemental
There are several ways for a mortal to consume a primordial spark but continuing to become an elemental takes concentrated effort. A mortal might be born with an elemental spark, gifted one, or they could gain one by consuming the power of an elemental. Once acquired, one must spend a great deal of time contemplating and understanding the spark to unlock its full potential.

The process of attaining elemental mastery is dangerous. The slightest slip in control can cause devastation on a massive scale.<br>

#### Elemental Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">master in Religion; Basic Psychic Spellcasting, living creature, ability to cast 4th-rank or higher divine spells from spell slots, completed elemental metamorphosis ritual.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
Elemental Characters are born when a humanoid absorbs a spark of the elemental planes. These forces are the purest building blocks of creation, and a fostered spark quickly grows to an all-consuming flame. Mastering the elements requires unlearning the limitations of mortality, a process that spurs rapid transformation.

You gain the elemental trait and are attuned to the element you worship: air, earth, fire, magma, rain, silt, sun, or water.  You gain resistance equal to half your level against damage dealt by effects with your elemental trait. In addition, you gain the Naari, Oread, Sylph, or Undine trait and can choose ancestry feats from those versatile heritages.
</div><br>

#### Disciple of the Elements<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain an appropriate focus spell for your element: <i>lightning form</i> for rain, <i>magma field</i> for Magma, <i>silt web</i> for Silt, <i>sunlight burst</i> for sun, <i>unfolding wind blitz</i> for Air, <i>unblinking flame emblem</i> for Fire, <i>unbreakable wave barrier</i> for Water, or <i>untwisting iron augmentation</i> for earth.  </div><br>

#### Elemental Spells<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The elemental planes provide in depth knowledge about the elements, teaching you secrets of the primal energy beyond other spellcasters of your tradition. Add cantrip: <i>ignition*</i>, 1st:<i>chilling spray*</i>, 2nd: acid arrow*, 3rd: <i>elemental absorption</i>, 4th: <i>mountain resilience</i>, 5th: <i>howling blizzard</i>*, 6th: <i>elemental confluence</i>, 7th: <i>spell turning</i>, 8th: <i>prismatic wall</i>, 9th: <i>wrathful storm</i> to your spell list. You can thus potentially learn these spells even if they aren't normally on your tradition's spell list.

Depending on the element that influenced you, you changed the marked spells damage based on your element. If your element is air, you buffet your foes with powerful winds; if it's earth, you toss huge chunks of rock; if it's fire, you incinerate your foes with flame; and if it's water, you inundate your foes with torrents of water. For fire, magma, or sun, all marked spells deal fire damage.

For Air, Earth, or Water elements, they deal bludgeoning damage. For rain they deal lightning damage and for silt they deal void damage. You replace any existing elemental traits with the trait of the element you chose.</div><br>

#### Burning Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication: Fire, Magma, or Sun Elemental</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enhance your spell with elemental fire, causing it to set the target on fire. If the next action you use is to Cast a non-cantrip Spell that deals damage at a single target, the spell deals additional persistent fire damage equal to the spell rank, in addition to its other effects. This has no effect if the spell already deals persistent fire damage. The spell gains the fire trait.</div><br>

#### Current Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication: Air, Rain, or Water Elemental</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
As you use your magic to manipulate air, rain, or water, you divert some of its currents to form a barrier around you. If your next action is to Cast a Spell with the air, rain, or water trait, until the start of your next turn, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC or a +2 circumstance bonus against ranged attacks.

This effect has the air, rain, or water trait, or both, depending on the traits of the spell you cast. You also gain a +1 circumstance bonus to all saves against effects with the air trait, rain trait, water trait, or all until the start of your next turn, depending on the spell's traits.</div><br>

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#### Rockslide Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication: Earth Elemental</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enhance your spell with elemental earth, causing chunks of stone to litter the ground. If the next action you use is to Cast a non-cantrip Spell that affects an area, a number of 5-foot squares in the area equal to the spell rank become difficult terrain for 1 round. These squares must be on the ground, and the entire area of difficult terrain must be contiguous. The spell gains the earth trait.</div><br>

#### Void Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
<div class="tag void">VOID</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication: Silt Elemental</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You perform complex manipulations to make the energy from your spells so powerful that your enemies remain vulnerable to it afterward. If your next action is to Cast a Spell that deals void damage, you can select one target that was damaged to gain weakness 10 to the void damage type until the end of your next turn. This has no effect on creatures with resistance or immunity to void damage.</div><br>

#### Wind-Tossed Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication: Air or Rain Elemental</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enhance your spell with elemental air or rain, using the wind to find your target and carry your magic around cover. If the next action you use is to Cast a Spell that requires a spell attack roll, you ignore the target's concealed condition and any cover they have from you. The spell gains the air or rain trait.</div><br>

#### Scintillating Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag light">LIGHT</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication: Sun Elemental</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your spells become a radiant display of light and color. If your next action is to Cast a Spell that doesn't have the darkness trait, has no duration, and requires creatures to attempt a Reflex save, the spell explodes in a spray of scintillating lights, in addition to its other effects. Each creature that failed its Reflex save against the spell is dazzled for 1 round, and those who critically failed are instead blinded for 1 round.</div><br>

#### Elemental Form<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Elemental Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can transform into an elemental. Once per day, you can cast <i>elemental form</i> as a 7th-rank primal innate spell, but you can only choose the elemental form of your type.</div><br>

## Kaisharga
Kaishargas are extremely powerful undead. They voluntarily embraced this existence through a complicated ritual in order to prolong their life and increase their power. They come from all classes: fighters, wizards, gladiators, psions, and even evil clerics.

Gaunt, skeletal beings, kaishargas gain incredible powers through undeath. Their eyes burn with green fire of hatred for the living, and their connection to the Gray gives their skin a grayish tint. Kaishargas dress as they did in life.

A kaisharga’s transformation gives it great strength and agility, as well as deep cunning and wisdom. The defiler becoming or creating a kaisharga must be able to cast 6th-rank arcane spells.<br>

#### Kaisharga Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Nature; living creature, completed ritual to become a kaisharga.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have succesfully eatedm the fruit from a tree of death and survived the ritual to transform yourself into a kaisharga. Now, neither death nor time can prevent you from pursuing your studies and achieving your grand ambitions. You gain the undead trait and the basic undead benefits. Your undead craving is for knowledge.

<b>Special</b> You can't select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the kaisharga archetype.</div>

#### Hand of the Kaisharga<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kaisharga Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Void energy intensifies your undead form and makes your very touch the antithesis of life. You gain the advanced undead benefits. The damage die for your fist increases to 1d6 instead of 1d4, it deals void damage instead of bludgeoning damage, and it loses the nonlethal trait. Your fist becomes magical.

When you critically hit a living creature with your fist Strike, the creature is slowed 1 until the end of your next turn unless it succeeds at a Fortitude save against your spell DC. This is a critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Kaisharga Magic<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kaisharga Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Delving into undeath has open your mind to greater possibilities.  You gain an extra 1st-rank spell slot, 2nd-rank spell slot, and 3rd-rank spell slot as if gaining the basic spellcasting archetype feat from cleric, psychic, or wizard.</div><br>

#### Magic Sense<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag detection">DETECTION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kaisharga Dedication</div>
</div>

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<div class="rule">
This detects magic in your field of vision only. When you Seek, you gain the benefits of a 3rd-rank <i>detect magic</i> spell on things you see (in addition to the normal benefits of Seeking). You can turn this sense off and on with a free action at the start or the end of your turn.

<b>Special</b> This feat has the trait corresponding to the tradition of spells you cast (arcane, divine, occult, or primal).</div><br>

#### Enhanced Kaisharga Magic<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kaisharga Magic; master in Arcana, Occult, or Religion</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your link to the Gray further enhances your spellcasting. You gain a 4th-rank spell slot, 5th-rank spell slot, and 6th-rank spell slot as if gaining Expert spellcasting archetype feat for cleric, psychic or wizard.</div><br>

#### Frightful Aura<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag aura">AURA</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag fear">FEAR</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kaisharga Dedication; master in intimidation</div>
</div>

<div class="rule result r3">The creature is unaffected and temporarily immune to your Frightful Aura for 1 minute</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature is frightened 1.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature is frightened 2.</div><br>

#### Legendary Kaisharga Magic<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Enhanced Kaisharga Magic; legendary in Arcana, Occult, or Religion</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have mastered the power from the Gray. You gain an extra 7th-rank spell slot and an 8th-rank spell slot as if you gained master spellcasting archetype feat for cleric, psychic or wizard.</div><br>

</div><br>

## Living Vessel
With the dawning of a new era comes the need for a new seat of power, and what better way to show your coming master your devotion than by sacrificing your entire being for their use? You presented yourself before their altar and they answered your call, flooding your body with their power and granting you the gift of their original form. Or maybe you were abducted in the dark, on a night that the moon refused to shine, when you were taken to a profane location where a mysterious cult bound you to their master against your will. Now you have powers you didn't before and you have new features that scare (and maybe, in a small dark part of your heart, thrill) you.

You might have even become a living vessel through a strange bargain. For instance, perhaps at the brink of death, you received an offer from an entity to spare your life in exchange for inhabiting you. Or you might have offered yourself to the entity in exchange for saving a loved one, for riches, or to fulfill a lifelong dream.

Beings of any alignment can inhabit a living vessel. Part of being a living vessel is learning more about your entity and finding what assuages them best and what their ultimate plans might be for your body and the world. Few vessels can fully dictate the terms of the arrangement, but the fact that you give the entity a corporeal form does give you some amount of leverage. Use it wisely.<br>

#### Living Vessel Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Whether willingly or not, you've become a vessel for a being of unimaginable power. You and your GM should work together to determine the being's nature and decide how much you know and how much remains a mystery to you for now. Some decisions might influence your options later. You might need to decide whether the entity is an elemental, for instance, to know if you qualify for later feats.

You need to spend at least an hour each day assuaging the entity within you, or you take a –1 penalty to Will saves for 24 hours. The process of assuaging the entity is determined together between you and the GM. It might be as simple as meditating with the entity to learn more about them, but it might be as extreme as committing gruesome, unspeakable sacrifices to keep their unknowable blessings. After a full week of failing to assuage your entity, you become doomed 1, and you can't remove or ameliorate the condition until you allow your entity to take full possession of your body for 24 hours, during which time it pursues its own agenda.

You also gain the Entity's Resurgence reaction, allowing you to unleash your entity in lieu of falling unconscious, though at the risk of letting it enact its will.

<b>Entity's Resurgence</b>  {R} <b>Trigger</b> You would be reduced to 0 Hit Points but not immediately killed; <b>Effect</b> Instead of letting you fall unconscious; your entity takes control. You remain at 1 Hit Point and gain temporary Hit Points equal to your level + your key attribute modifier that last for 1 minute. However, the entity is in control for 1 minute or until you fall unconscious, whichever comes first.

While the entity is in control, you gain a +1 status bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls, and the GM usually controls your character, roleplaying the entity. The GM might decide to have you roleplay the entity instead, but they retain final say over any decisions you make. No matter the entity's nature, the entity is sure to wreak vengeance upon the foe who jeopardized the life of their vessel—even an evil entity won't change allegiances or ignore danger except in the most extreme circumstances.

<b>Special</b> You can't select another dedication feat until you've gained two other feats from the living vessel archetype.</div><br>

#### Entity's Strike<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Living Vessel Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The more you try to force your body to stay yours, the more it warps to channel the energy flowing through you. </div>

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<div class="rule">
Whether your shadow has a mind of its own, develop a claw like that of some undead spirit sharing your soul, or feel a tentacle rip out of you from the elemental that imprinted itself on your soul, the entity within you refuses to be contained. You gain an unarmed attack of your choice with its type determined by your entity. It deals 1d6 damage of a damage type appropriate for the unarmed attack (such as bludgeoning for the tentacle). This unarmed attack is in the brawling weapon group and has the agile, finesse, and magical traits.</div><br>

#### Tap Vitality {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag healing">HEALING</div>
<div class="tag vitality">VITALITY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="prereq">Living Vessel Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You tap into the entity's life force to heal your wounds, though at the cost of the entity's personality bleeding into your own. You recover a number of Hit Points equal to four times your level. Each time you use Tap Vitality, you begin to bleed more and more of the entity's personality and instincts into your own until the next time you spend an hour or more assuaging the entity, bringing your mind back under your own control.

<b>Special</b> This action has the tradition trait appropriate to your entity, typically divine for an elemental, arcane for an entity from the Black or undead spirit from the Gray, or primal for a spirit of the land.</div><br>

#### Elemental Constriction {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Living Vessel Dedication; your entity is an elemental</div>
<div class="req">You have a foe grabbed or restrained.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The elemental inhabiting your body is a being with alien motivations, and when you hold a foe close, tendrils and tentacles unfurl from your body to crush your foe and strike it with elemental energy. Your grabbed or restrained foe takes bludgeoning damage equal to your level and elemental (fire, cold, electricity, acid, or additional bludgeoning) damage equal to your highest mental attribute modifier.

The creature attempts a basic Reflex save that applies to both types of damage and uses the higher of your class DC or spell DC.</div><br>

#### Exude Undead Corruption {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag void">VOID</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Living Vessel Dedication; your entity is an undead spirit</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Most of the changes from the undead within you have harmed you so far, but you've found a way to expel some of the corruption within you to harm others. Until the beginning of your next turn, you and your weapons are covered in void energy or another similar manifestation of the undead corruption; your melee Strikes deal an additional 1d6 void damage, and each time a creature hits you with a melee unarmed attack or otherwise touches you, it takes 1d6 void damage.

At 14th level, the unholy damage increases to 2d6, and at 20th level, the void damage increases to 3d6.</div>

#### Shadow's Trickery {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag illusion">ILLUSION</div>
<div class="tag visual">VISUAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="prereq">Living Vessel Dedication; your entity is from the Black</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You connect with the shadow entity within yourself to wrap a target in shadows. This has the effects of <i>penumbral disguise</i>.</div><br>

#### Vessel's From {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">Living Vessel Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You symbiotically combine your form with that of the entity within you, taking a powerful hybrid form to temporarily boost your abilities in combat while maintaining control. For 1 minute, you gain the following effects.

- If you were Medium or smaller, you become Large, and your reach increases to 10 feet.
- You gain a +2 status bonus to attack and damage rolls and a +1 status bonus on saving throws against spells. If you use Entity's Resurgence, the status bonuses to attack and damage rolls increase to +3 during the time that the two effects overlap.
- If you have the Entity's Strike feat, the unarmed attack you gained from that feat increases its damage die from 1d6 to 1d8.
- You gain 40 temporary Hit Points.
- You gain a fly Speed equal to your Speed.

## Martial Artist
You have trained in the martial arts, making your unarmed strikes lethal. You seek neither mysticism nor enlightenment, and you don't view this training as some greater path to wisdom. Yours is the way of the fist striking flesh, the hand turning aside the blade, and the devastating kick taking your enemy down. Your training is focused and practical, and since you have turned every part of your body into a weapon, you never find yourself without one. While you might have learned your techniques in a dojo or school focused on training the body, you might just as easily have learned them in street brawls and bar fights, combining instincts with intense athleticism for a deadly combination.<br>

#### Martial Artist Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have trained to use your fists as deadly weapons. The damage die for your fist unarmed attacks becomes 1d6 instead of 1d4. You don't take the –2 circumstance penalty for making a lethal attack with your nonlethal unarmed attacks. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in certain weapons, you also gain that proficiency rank in all unarmed attacks.

<b>Special</b> You can't select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the martial artist archetype.</div><br>

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#### Brawling Focus<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know how to make the most of your attacks when fighting hand-to-hand. You gain access to the critical specialization effects of unarmed strikes in the brawling group and weapons in the brawling group. If you have Monastic Weaponry, you also gain the critical specialization effects of all monk weapons in which you are trained.</div><br>

#### Dagorran Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

If you’re flanking a target while in Dagorran Stance, your dagorran jaw unarmed attacks also gain the trip trait.</div><br>

#### Drake Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

#### Erdlu Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter the stance of an erdlu, holding your arms in an imitation of an erdlu’ s wings and using flowing, defensive motions. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC, but the only Strikes you can make are erdlu wing attacks. These deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage; are in the brawling group; and have the agile, finesse, nonlethal, and unarmed traits.

While in Erdlu Stance, reduce the DC for High Jump and Long Jump by 5, and when you Leap, you can move an additional 5 feet horizontally or 2 feet vertically.</div><br>

#### Feylaar Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You lower yourself to the ground and take an imposing, knuckle-walking stance. While in this stance, the only Strikes you can make are feylaar slam unarmed attacks. These deal 1d8 bludgeoning damage; are in the brawling group; and have the backswing, forceful, grapple, nonlethal, and unarmed traits. While you are in Feylaar Stance, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks to Climb, and if you roll a success on an Athletics check to Climb, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Kirre Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are unarmored.</div>
</div>

As long as your Speed is at least 20 feet while in Kirre Stance, you can Step 10 feet.</div><br>

#### Mountain Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are unarmored and touching the ground.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter the stance of an implacable mountain—a technique first discovered by dwarven monks—allowing you to strike with the weight of an avalanche. The only Strikes you can make are falling stone unarmed attacks. These deal 1d8 bludgeoning damage; are in the brawling group; and have the forceful, nonlethal, and unarmed traits.

While in Mountain Stance, you gain a +4 item bonus to AC and a +2 circumstance bonus to any defenses against being Shoved or Tripped. However, you have a Dexterity modifier cap to your AC of +0, meaning you don't add your Dexterity to your AC, and your Speeds are all reduced by 5 feet. The item bonus to AC from Mountain Stance is cumulative with armor potency runes on your explorer's clothing, <i>mystic armor</i>, and bracers of armor.</div><br>

#### Stumbling Stance {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag stance">STANCE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication; trained in Deception</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You enter a seemingly unfocused stance that mimics the movements of the inebriated—bobbing, weaving, leaving false openings, and distracting your enemies from your true movements. While in this stance, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Deception checks to Feint. The only Strikes you can make are stumbling swing unarmed attacks. These deal 1d8 bludgeoning damage; are in the brawling group; and have the agile, backstabber, finesse, nonlethal, and unarmed traits. If an enemy hits you with a melee Strike while in this stance, it becomes off-guard against the next stumbling swing Strike you make against it before the end of your next turn.</div><br>

#### Follow-Up Strike{1A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
<div class="req">Your last action was a missed Strike with a melee unarmed attack.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have trained to use all parts of your body as a weapon, and when you miss with an attack, you can usually continue the attack with a different body part and still deal damage.</div>

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<div class="rule">
Make another Strike with a melee unarmed attack, using the same multiple attack penalty as for the missed Strike, if any.</div><br>

#### Dagorran Drag {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Dagorran Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Dagorran Stance</div>
</div>

#### Drake Roar {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag auditory">AUDITORY</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag fear">FEAR</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Drake Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Drake Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your first attack that hits a frightened creature 
after you roar and before the end of your next turn gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage.

#### Erdlu Flutter {R}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You interpose your arm between yourself and your opponent.

Your circumstance bonus to AC from Erdlu Stance increases to +3 against the triggering attack. If the attack misses you, you can immediately make an erdlu wing Strike against the attacker at a –2 penalty, even if the attacker isn’t within your reach.</div><br>

#### Feylaar Pound {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Intimidation; Feylaar Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Feylaar Stance</div>
</div>

<b>Special</b> If you have this feat, while you are in Feylaar Stance, you gain a climb Speed of 15 feet.</div><br>

#### Grievous Blow {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You know how to deliver focused, powerful blows that bypass your enemies' resistances. Make an unarmed melee Strike. This counts as two attacks when calculating your multiple attack penalty. If this Strike hits, you deal two extra weapon damage dice. If you are at least 18th level, increase this to three extra weapon damage dice.

This attack also ignores an amount of resistance to physical damage, or to a specific physical damage type, equal to your level.</div><br>

#### Kirre Slash {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Kirre Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Kirre Stance</div>
</div>

#### Mountain Stronghold {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mountain Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Mountain Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You focus on your connection to the earth and call upon the mountain to block attacks against you. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to AC until the beginning of your next turn.

Special If you have this feat, the Dexterity modifier cap to your AC while you’re in Mountain Stance increases from +0 to +1.</div><br>

#### Stumbling Feint<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Deception; Stumbling Stance</div>
<div class="req">You are in Stumbling Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You lash out confusingly with what seems to be a weak move but instead allows you to unleash a dangerous flurry of blows upon your unsuspecting foe. When you use Flurry of Blows, you can attempt a check to Feint as a free action just before the first Strike. On a success, instead of making the target off-guard against your next attack, they become off-guard against both attacks from the Flurry of Blows.</div><br>

#### Path of Iron {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per minute</div>
<div class="prereq">Martial Artist Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
With a burst of effort, you weave a path through your enemies, striking each in turn as you move past them. You Stride; this movement doesn't trigger reactions. You can Strike up to three times at any point during your movement, each against a different enemy. Each attack counts toward your multiple attack penalty, but your multiple attack penalty doesn't increase until you have made all your attacks.</div><br>

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#### Mountain Quake {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mountain Stronghold</div>
<div class="req">You are in Mountain Stance</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You stomp, shaking the earth beneath you. Creatures on the ground within a 20-foot emanation take damage equal to your Strength modifier (minimum 0), with a basic Fortitude save against your class DC. On a failure, they also fall prone. After you use this action, you can't use it again for 1d4 rounds.

<b>Special</b> If you have this feat, the Dexterity modifier cap to your AC while using Mountain Stance increases from +1 to +2.</div><br>

## Mekillot Lord
You are one of the brave individuals that have trained a Drik, Inix, Mekillot, or Slimahacc from birth.  Collectively this group is known as mekillot lords but often are called Drik, Inix, Mekillot, or Slimahacc Lords.

They often ride these enormous creatures into battle.  Astride these mighty steeds, Mekillot lords lead their followings, and they defend their people from enemies and other perils of the desert wastes.

You're one of these rare individuals, a true Mekillot Lord. You've captured or befriended one of the megafauna of the desert and tamed it. This heroic deed is best done as part of an adventure, but if that isn't possible, work with your GM to determine the details of how you managed to make one of these tremendous creatures your companion. You now ride this fantastic beast into battle, fighting from atop its back. <br>

#### Mekillot Lord Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've undertaken the ultimate challenge of the Mekillot Lords andtamed a megafauna. You gain a megafauna you tamed as a young
animal companion. Your megafauna animal companion must be a megafauna appropriate to Athas; Drik, Inix, Mekillot, or Slimahacc.
While an animal companion usually starts as Small, you can begin with a Medium version of that animal (changing no statistics other
than its size).

Contrary to the usual rules for animal companions, this feat can give you a second animal companion. If you have more than one
animal companion, you can adventure with only one of them at a time. You can switch between them like a beastmaster does. You
gain the Call Companion action, as the beastmaster archetype, and you follow all the other rules found in the Call Companion sidebar.
</div><br>

#### Quick Mount {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication; expert in Nature</div>
<div class="req">You are adjacent to a creature that is at least one size larger than you and is willing to be your mount.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You and your mount can spring into action at a moment's notice. You Mount the creature and Command an Animal to issue it an order of your choice.</div><br><br>

#### Wild Empathy<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a connection to the creatures of the natural world that allows you to communicate with them on a rudimentary level. You can use Diplomacy to Make an Impression on animals and to make very simple Requests of them. In most cases, wild animals will give you time to make your case.</div><br>

#### Companion's Cry<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can urge your companion to do its utmost. You can spend 2 actions to Command an Animal instead of 1 when commanding your animal companion. If you do, your animal companion uses an additional action.</div><br>

#### Mature Megafauna Companion<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've raised your megafauna companion to be a more powerful force on the battlefield than most of its kind. The companion you gained through the Mekillot Lord Dedication feat becomes a mature animal companion, granting it additional capabilities. During an encounter, even if you don't use the Command an Animal action, your megafauna animal companion can still use 1 action on your turn to Stride or Strike.</div><br>

#### Megafauna Veterinarian<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication; expert in Nature</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
By heeding the wise advice of elders in your following— and aided by your own experience—you've learned how to provide medical care to the megafauna of the Mekillot Lord followings. You can attempt a Nature check instead of a Medicine check for any of Medicine's trained and untrained uses, provided the subject of your medical care is a megafauna. If you're attempting an action that requires a particular proficiency rank in Medicine (such as Treat Wounds), use your proficiency rank in Nature instead. If the subject of your care is your megafauna and you roll a success on your check, you get a critical success instead.</div><br>

#### Mekillot Charge {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are riding your megafauna companion.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You Command an Animal to order your megafauna companion to Stride twice. At any point during this movement, you can make a melee Strike against one enemy within reach.</div><br><br>

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#### Speech of the Mekillot Lords<div class="label">FEAT 7</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication; master in Diplomacy and Intimidation</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned how to communicate with your megafauna. You can ask questions of, receive answers from, use the Diplomacy skill with, and Coerce megafauna. In most cases, megafauna will hear you out.</div><br>

#### Incredible Megafauna Companion<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication; Mature Megafauna Companion</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Under your care and training, your megafauna companion has realized its innate potential. Your companion becomes an indomitable or savage animal companion (your choice), gaining additional abilities determined by the type of companion.</div><br>

#### Stalwart Mind {R}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
<div class="trigger">You fail a Will save.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When necessary to avoid a magical compulsion or curse, you can be as stubborn as your megafauna companion. Attempt a new Will save against the triggering effect.</div><br>

#### Staggering Blow {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You're riding a megafauna companion that has a melee Strike.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've trained your megafauna companion to stagger its enemies, impeding their ability to fight back. You Command an Animal to order your megafauna companion to spend both its actions making a single, powerful Strike. The attack deals an extra die of weapon damage, and if the attack hits and deals damage, the target is slowed 1 until the end of its next turn.</div><br>

#### Unbreakable Bond<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You and your megafauna companion are bound together; as long as you live, it's much harder for your companion to die. If your megafauna companion gains the dying condition, it automatically succeeds at the recovery check to stabilize at 0 Hit Points on its turn. Additionally, your megafauna companion only dies at dying 5 rather than dying 4. Finally, the first time each day your megafauna companion would reach dying 5 and die, as long as you're still alive, your companion's dying value decreases to 0 instead.</div><br>

#### Gigantic Megafauna Companion<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The mekillots and other megafauna ridden by your people are larger than any ordinary beast. Your megafauna companion increases in size to Huge but doesn't otherwise change its statistics.</div>

#### Trampling Charge {3A}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are riding a mount that has a melee Strike using its legs (claw, talons, hoof, etc.).</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You urge your mount forward, trampling enemies in your path. You command your mount to Stride up to its Speed (or to Burrow, Climb, Fly, or Swim, if it has the corresponding movement type), moving through the spaces of any foes in your path up to one size smaller than your mount. Your mount deals damage equal to the melee Strike using its legs to each creature whose space you move through, subject to a basic Reflex save against your mount's Athletics DC. On a critical failure, the creature also becomes off-guard until the end of your next turn. You can damage a given creature only once during this movement.</div><br>

#### Specialized Megafauna Companion<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
<div class="req">You are riding a mount that has a melee Strike using its legs (claw, talons, hoof, etc.).</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've trained your mekillot or other megafauna companion to perform in unusual or extreme situations, granting it abilities far beyond others of its kind. Your megafauna gains your choice of the bully, racer, tracker, or wrecker specialization.

<b>Special</b> You can select this feat up to three times. Each time, add a different specialization of the ones listed above to your megafauna companion. Your megafauna can't have more than three specializations.</div><br>

#### Legendary Rider<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Mekillot Lord Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You and your mount move like one being, effortlessly reading each other's signals. Whenever you are riding your mount, you are quickened; you can use the extra action only to command your mount using the Command an Animal skill action.</div><br>

## Morg
A morg is a powerful undead similar to a kaisharga or t'liz but with one critical difference: a morg cannot bring himself into the 
eternity of undeath.  The process of creating a morg is extremely complex and requires that the subject be dead before it commences.

Morg’s desiccated; near-mummified features and brown-gray pallor mark them as noticeably dead. Their bodies often appear emaciated but not skeletal, for the mummification process leeches most of the liquids from the body, replacing them with spiced unguents and balms. The result is a smooth-skinned, sweet-smelling corpse, with flesh tight but not shriveled around the bones. <br>

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#### Morg Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">you are dead and were mummified by ritualistic means</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Through foul rituals, your body was mummified, and you've risen as an undead morg. You gain the mummy and undead traits, as well as basic undead benefits.

Many effects that harm the living are far less effective against your desiccated form. You gain the Toughness feat, but also light blindness.

Your tongue elongates; you gain a tongue unarmed attack that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage. It is in the brawling group and has the disarm, grapple, trip, and unarmed traits.

You gain the leech life action.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Leech Life</B> {1A} <span class="rule">(arcane)  </span><span class="rule req">A grabbed, paralyzed, restrained, unconscious, or willing creature is within your reach </span><span class="rule effect">You grasp that creature and leech its life essence. This
requires an Athletics check against the victim's Fortitude DC if the victim is grabbed, and automatically succeeds for any of the other conditions. If you succeed, the creature becomes drained 1, and you gain temporary HP equal to the target's level that last for 10 minutes. You also become satiated for 1 hour. Further uses against the target don't increase the drained condition or grant you more temporary HP.</span></div></div><br>

#### Crushing Grab<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Morg Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Like a powerful constrictor, you crush targets in your unyielding grasp. When you successfully Grapple a creature, you can deal bludgeoning damage to that creature equal to your Strength modifier. You can make this attack nonlethal with no penalty.</div><br>

#### Semblance of Life {0A}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag illusion">ILLUSION</div>
<div class="tag visual">VISUAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Morg Dedication</div>
<div class="trigger">You deal damage to a living creature with your tongue Strike or with Desiccating Inhalation.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You draw the moisture you've drained from others into your own flesh, temporarily taking on the appearance of life. This has the effects of <i>illusory disguise</i>, except you can appear only as yourself while you were a living humanoid.</div><br>

#### Grave Mummification<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Morg Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Void energy intensifies your undead form and makes your very touch the antithesis of life. You gain the advanced undead benefits and no longer have light blindness. The damage die for your tongue deals void damage instead of bludgeoning damage and your tongue becomes magical.

When you critically hit a living creature with your tongue Strike, the creature is slowed 1 until the end of your next turn unless it succeeds at a Fortitude save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. This is a critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Morg's Despair {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag aura">AURA</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag fear">FEAR</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="prereq">Morg Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You force your mental anguish outward, projecting it upon those around you. You gain an aura of despair in a 30-foot emanation lasting 5 rounds. A creature that enters or begins its turn in the aura must succeed at a Will save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC or be frightened 1 (frightened 2 on a critical failure). A creature that succeeds at the save is temporarily immune to Morg's Despair for 10 minutes. </div><br>

#### Accursed Tongue<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Grave Mummification</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've learned to harness the supernatural magic that animates you, imbuing your most powerful attacks with a terrible curse. When you critically hit with a tongue Strike, void energy binds to it; this is a curse and a disease. The creature takes 2d6 persistent void damage. While the creature has this persistent damage, it's also stupefied 1. The persistent damage increases to 3d6 at 14th level and 4d6 at 20th level. This is a critical specialization effect.</div><br>

#### Desiccating Inhalation {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">once per hour</div>
<div class="prereq">Morg Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You draw in the moisture from nearby creatures, draining them dry to heal your wounds. Creatures in a 30-foot cone take 6d8 void damage, with a basic Reflex save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. A creature that critically fails this saving throw is also drained 1. As long as at least one creature was damaged by your Desiccating Inhalation, you regain HP equal to your level.

At 14th level and every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d8.</div><br>

#### Greater Despair<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Morg's Despair</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You increase the frequency of Morg's Despair to once per 10 minutes instead of once per hour. A creature that critically fails its Will saving throw is paralyzed for 1 round instead of frightened 2. Morg's Despair gains the incapacitation trait.</div><br>

## Necromant
Necromants are wizards who have somehow become tied to the plane known as the Gray, which they tap into to power their
spells.

Necromants are either undead wizards who have developed the ability to cast spells where there is no life, such as in the
Obsidian Plains, or they can be living creatures seeking to unravel the mysteries of death and find answers to questions that only
the ancient dead know.

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Some necromants seek out powerful intelligent undead to learn the secrets to becoming undead, or to
increase their already impressive powers. Others might yet have other sinister reasons for their preoccupation with death. <br>

#### Necromant Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">ability to cast arcane spells</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've sacrificed a piece of your soul, allowing the powers of the Gray into your being, and changing the nature of your magic. You can no longer cast spells with the vitality trait; if an ability, such as a class feature or ancestry feat, would automatically grant you a spell with the vitality trait, you don't gain that spell.

You gain the <i>call of the grave</i> domain spell that is powered by the Gray. It costs 1 Focus Point to cast a focus spell. This feat grants a focus pool of 1 Focus Point that you can recover using the Refocus activity. You can Refocus by meditating to siphon power from the Gray and refill your focus pool. Your domain spells from the necromant archetype are arcane and you may defile the Gray when casting.</div><br>

#### Familiar<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain the services of an undead companion that travels with you and obeys your commands. The rules for undead companions are under Undead Companions and utilize those for animal companions.</div><br>

#### Undeath Spells<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The dead in the Gray whisper to you, teaching you secrets of the grave beyond other spellcasters of your tradition. Add <i>gray plague</i>, <i>wails of the damned</i>, <i>talking corpse</i>, <i>pernicious poltergeist</i>, <i>possession</i>, <i>rip the spirit</i>, and <i>spirit blast</i> to your spell list. You can thus potentially learn these spells even if they aren't normally on your tradition's spell list.</div><br>

#### Disciple of Death<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've delved deeper into the mysteries of the Gray and become blessed with magical power that allows you to leech life energy from other creatures. You gain the <i>drain life</i> domain spell. </div><br>

#### Enhanced Familiar<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication; a familiar</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You infuse your familiar with additional magical energy. You can select four familiar or master abilities each day, instead of two.

<b>Special</b> (Wizard) If your arcane thesis is improved familiar attunement, your familiar's base number of familiar abilities, before adding any extra abilities from the arcane thesis, is four.</div><br><br><br>

#### Gray Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag disease">DISEASE</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You attach a piece of the Gray to a spell to empower it with void energy. If the next action you take is to Cast a Spell that has the void trait, choose one creature affected by the spell. The wounds caused by your spell are difficult to heal. The DC to Treat these Wounds using Medicine increases by 5, and magically or alchemically healing these wounds requires a counteract check against your spell DC. Succeeding at any of these removes the disease. The effect also ends if the creature is healed to full Hit Points by any means. If the chosen creature is your enemy, it's affected only if your spell attack roll succeeded or if it failed its saving throw.

This spell is powered by the Gray and any defiling pulls additional power from the Gray.</div><br>

#### Gray Magic<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The gray speaks to you and imparts a means to create and rule undead. You learn a reanimator focus spell of your choice: <i>malignant sustenance</i> or <i>grasping grave</i>  If you don't already have one, you gain a focus pool of 1 Focus Point, which you can Refocus by meditating and the powers of undeath.

As with your other Necromant spells these spells are powered by the gray and when defiling with these spells it pulls energy from the Gray.</div><br>

#### Necromantic Reservoir<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Gray speaks to you, providing knowledge of spells and a reservoir of magical power. Your necromantic reservoir contains a single spell of each spell rank at least 2 ranks lower than the highest-rank spell you can cast from your spell slots. This spell must come from your spell list, you must have access to it, and it must require a spell attack roll or a saving throw. These spells don't need to be prepared and aren't in your repertoire.

These additional spells are powered from the Gray. An arcane spell caster can defile as normal when casting these spells with no effect to plant life around the spell caster.

Regardless of the way in which you cast spells; you can spontaneously cast a spell from your necromantic reservoir by using one of your spell slots of the same rank. If you're a prepared spellcaster, you lose the spell you prepared in that slot.

Spells cast from your necromantic reservoir gain the void trait. If the spell requires an attack roll, use the lower of the target's AC or their Fortitude DC. If the spell requires a saving throw, the target uses their Fortitude saving throw or the spell's normal saving throw, whichever is lower. Each time a creature fails its saving throw against a spell cast from your reservoir, a small piece of your flesh dies.

If you have more than one source of spells you can cast with spell slots, such as if you're a spellcaster with a multiclass archetype, your necromantic reservoir spells are always arcane.</div><br>

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#### Additional Gray Magic<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication; Necromantic Reservoir</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Choose an additional focus spell you haven't already selected from Gray Magic. </div><br>

#### Secrets of the Gray<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication; Necromantic Reservoir</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Gray's voice grows ever clearer; it whispers secrets of true power to you and shields your flesh from harm. Your necromantic reservoir gains an additional spell 1 rank below the highest rank spell you can cast, in addition to the spells it already contains for all the ranks below that.

As Necromantic Reservoir this additional spell is powered from the Gray. An arcane spell caster can defile as normal when casting this spell, with no effect to plant life around the caster.

In addition, the dead flesh generated by casting necromantic spells protects your body against harmful damage, but you also become innately weaker. Your maximum HP is reduced by your level. You gain resistance 1 to all damage except for holy, vitality, and any damage done by a weapon with the ghost touch rune. This resistance increases to 2 if the source is non-magical.

At 14th level, the resistance increases to 2, or 4 if the source is non-magical. At 16th level, the resistance increases to 3, or 5 if the source is non-magical.</div><br>

#### Gray Power<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned to focus the power of the Gray to animate the dead. You can cast <i>summon undead</i> as an innate arcane spell once per day at 6th-rank with a duration of 10 minutes. At 16th level, you heighten <i>summon undead</i> to 7th-rank. At 18th level, you can heighten it to 8th-rank.  Finally, at 20th level you can heighten <i>summon undead</i> to 9th-rank.</div><br>

#### Enhanced Gray Casting<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Necromant Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the Gray has strengthen to the point you can now fully power your arcane spellcasting directly from this plane.

If you want to, you can cast any arcane spell without any effect from defiling. If you do so, you can cast arcane spells while in lifeless environments, such as the obsidian plains. Powering your arcane spellcasting through the Gray allows you to defile with no destruction to plant life. </div><br>

## Ruvoka

Ruvoka are elemental creatures that are created when a powerful druid uses psychic power to transform into a creature with affinity to one elemental plane. They travel the planes easily, even the Astral Plane, but on Athas they are bound to certain locations.

#### Ruvoka Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Nature and Crafting; Basic Psychic Spellcasting, living creature, ability to cast 6th-rank or higher spells from spell slots, completed ritual to become an elemental character.</div></div>
<div class="rule">
Some of the most devoted druids in Athas's choose to undergoe a ritual to metamorphosis into a ruvoka.  This ritual greatly increases their bond with one element they are aligned to.

You gain the elemental trait and you are attuned to an element of your choice; air, earth, fire, or water. You gain resistance equal to half your level against damage dealt by effects with your elemental trait. Ruvoka also gain the feat Domain Initiate for the element they select.

</div><br>

#### Summon Elemental<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">Archetype</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Ruvoka Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can summon an elemental ally. Once per day, you can cast <i>summon elemental</i> as a 6th-rank primal innate spell, but the elemental summoned must be of the same element as you choose with Ruvoka Dedication.</div><br>

#### Elemental Blade {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">Archetype</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">concentrate</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Ruvoka Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
A scimitar-shaped beam of elemental energy springs from your free hand. Make a melee spell attack against an adjacent target's AC. On a hit the blade deals 3d6 slashing damage (air), 3d6  bludgeoning damage (earth or water), or 3d6 fire damage (fire). On a critical success, it deals double the usual damage. The elemental trait chosen must match the element chosen with Ruvoka Dedication.</div><br>

#### Advanced Domain<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">Archetype</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Ruvoka Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your studies or prayers have unlocked deeper secrets of your elements’s domain. You gain an advanced domain spell from one of your domains. Increase the number of Focus Points in your focus pool by 1.

<b>Special</b> You can select this feat multiple times. Each time, you must select a different advanced domain spell from a domain for which you have an initial domain spell.</div><br>

#### Planar Sidestep {R}<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">Archetype</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">concentrate</div>
<div class="tag primal">Primal</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Ruvoka Dedication</div>
<div class="freq">once per day</div>
<div class="trigger">You would take damage from an attack, spell, or other effect.</div>
</div>

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#### Plane Shift<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Ruvoka Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have a powerful connection to an elemental plane, granting you the ability to travel to and from the elemental plane aligned with your Ruvoka Dedication. You gain <i>interplanar teleport</i> as an primal innate spell. You can cast it twice per week. This can be used only to travel to the elemental plane or from the elemental plane to the Material Plane. Due to your unique connection to this plane, your body serves as the focus, and you don't require a tuning fork.</div><br>

## Shadow Wizard

The world is full of shadows, but each living creature possesses a form of inner light to ward against that ever-present darkness… all except shadow wizards.

By trading away that piece of their spirit, shadow wizards have removed a limiter, allowing them to gain magical power rooted in the darkness; however, this trade also exposes them to otherworldly whispers from the realm of the Black.

#### Shadow Wizard Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">ability to cast arcane spells</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've sacrificed a piece of your spirit, allowing the powers of the Black into your being, and changing the nature of your magic. You can no longer cast spells that have the light trait; if an ability, such as a class feature or ancestry feat, would automatically grant you a light spell, such as the Domain Initiate feat granting you the dazzling flash spell, you don't gain that spell.

You gain the <i>cloak of shadow</i> domain spell that is powered by the Black. It costs 1 Focus Point to cast a focus spell. This feat grants a focus pool of 1 Focus Point that you can recover using the Refocus activity. You can Refocus by meditating to siphon power from the Black and refill your focus pool. Your domain spells from the shadow wizard archetype are arcane and you may defile the Black when casting.</div><br>

#### Familiar<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You make a pact with a creature that serves you and assists your spellcasting. You gain a familiar.</div><br>

#### Shadow Spells<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Hidden darkness whispers to you, teaching you secrets of shadow beyond other spellcasters of your tradition. Add <i>replicate</i>, <i>shadow army</i>, <i>shadow blast</i>, <i>shadow projectile</i>, <i>shadow raid</i>, <i>shadow siphon</i>, and <i>umbral journey</i> to your spell list. You can thus potentially learn these spells even if they aren't normally on your tradition's spell list.</div><br>

#### Disciple of Shade<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You've delved deeper into the mysteries of the Black and become blessed with magical power that increases your skills in the arts of deception and persuasion. You gain the <i>inscrutable mask</i> domain spell. </div><br>

#### Enhanced Familiar<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication; a familiar</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You infuse your familiar with additional magical energy. You can select four familiar or master abilities each day, instead of two.

#### Shadow Spell {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 8</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag shadow">SHADOW</div>
<div class="tag spellshape">SPELLSHAPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You attach a piece of the Black to a spell to cloud the senses and cause mischief. If the next action you take is to Cast a Spell that has the shadow trait, choose one creature affected by the spell. This creature either gains a +2 status bonus to Stealth or takes a –2 status penalty to Perception (your choice). This lasts for 1 round. This choice and the effect occur after resolving any checks for the spell's initial effects. If the chosen creature is your enemy, it's affected only if your spell attack roll succeeded or if it failed its saving throw.

This spell is powered by the Black and any defiling pulls additional power from the Black.

The effects of Shadow Spell end if you use Shadow Spell again.</div>

#### Shadow Reservoir<div class="label">FEAT 10</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Black speaks to you, providing knowledge of spells and a reservoir of magical power. Your shadow reservoir contains a single spell of each spell rank at least 2 levels lower than the highest rank spell you can cast from your spell slots. This spell must come from your spell list, you must have access to it, and it must require a spell attack roll or a saving throw. These spells don't need to be prepared and aren't in your repertoire.

These additional spells are powered from the Black. An arcane spell caster can defile as normal when casting these spells with no effect to plant life around the spell caster.

Regardless of the way in which you cast spells; you can spontaneously cast a spell from your shadow reservoir by using one of your spell slots of the same rank. If you're a prepared spellcaster, you lose the spell you prepared in that slot.

Spells cast from your shadow reservoir gain the shadow trait and affected creatures might be able to disbelieve them. If the spell requires an attack roll, use the lower of the target's AC or their Will DC.

If the spell requires a saving throw, the target uses their Will saving throw or the spell's normal saving throw, whichever is lower. Each time a creature fails its saving throw against a spell cast from your reservoir, you gain a small tattoo inked on your flesh out of pure shadow stuff.

If you have more than one source of spells you can cast with spell slots, such as if you're a spellcaster with a multiclass archetype, your shadow reservoir spells are always arcane.</div><br>

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#### Secrets of Shadow<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication; Shadow Reservoir</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The Black's voice grows ever clearer; it whispers secrets of true power to you and shields your flesh from harm. Your shadow reservoir gains an additional spell 1 rank below the highest rank spell you can cast, in addition to the spells it already contains for all the ranks below that.

As Shadow Reservoir this additional spell is powered from the Black. An arcane spell caster can defile as normal when casting this spell, with no effect to plant life around the caster.

In addition, the tattoos generated by casting shadow spells protect your body against harmful energies. You gain void resistance equal to the highest rank of spell you can cast from spell slots; if you have void healing (or are otherwise harmed by vitality damage and not void damage), you instead gain vitality resistance in the same amount.</div><br>

#### Shadow Magic<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You gain the ability to fuse and play with shadows by using focus spells specific to shadowdancers. You learn a shadowdancer focus spell of your choice: <i>dance of darkness</i> or <i>shadow jump</i>. If you don't already have one, you gain a focus pool of 1 Focus Point, which you can Refocus by meditating within an area of dim light or darkness.

As with your other Shadow Wizard spells these shadowdancer spells are powered by the Black and you may defile as normal.

Shadowdancer focus spells are arcane spells. </div><br>

#### Additional Shadow Magic<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication; Shadow Magic</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Choose an additional shadowdancer focus spell you haven't already selected from Shadow Magic. </div><br>

#### Shadow Illusion<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication; Shadow Magic</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
With an artful eye, you shape shadows into illusory forms. You gain the <i>shadow illusion</i> focus spell.

You become an expert in arcane spell attack rolls and DCs if not already.</div><br>

#### Unending Emptiness<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication; focus pool</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You pool the power of shadow within your eyes, gaining the ability to gather darkness into a turbulent orb of crushing emptiness within your line of sight. You gain the <i>darklight</i> domain spell.</div><br>

#### Shadow Power<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication; Shadow Magic</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can focus the shadows into a powerful blast. You can cast <i>shadow blast</i> as an innate arcane spell once per day. Its rank is always 1 rank lower than the rank of your shadowdancer focus spells. You become an expert in arcane spell attack rolls and DCs if not already.</div><br>

#### Enhanced Shadow Casting<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>

<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Shadow Wizard Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your connection to the Black has strengthen to the point you can now fully power your arcane spellcasting directly from this plane. If you want to, you can cast any arcane spell without any effect from defiling. If you do so, you can cast arcane spells while in lifeless environments, such as the obsidian plains. Powering your arcane spellcasting through the Black allows you to defile with no destruction to plant life. </div><br>

## T'liz
T’Liz are undead defilers whose spirits have outlived their bodies. They are extremely powerful undead who seek magical knowledge and power above all else and exist as such to continue their study of magic. They seldom associate with the living except when mortals provide suitable pawns.

Because they appear much as they did in life, t’liz can move freely among the living. Their only unusual features are their skin, which is extremely pale, and their weight, which often diminishes until they become no greater than average in build. T’Liz must anoint themselves with numerous oils and substances that prevent their bodies from deteriorating. They must also feast upon the life energy of the living to sustain their own energies.

T’Liz may be detected in a number of ways. They cast no reflection or shadow and they move in complete silence.<br>

#### T'liz Dedication<div class="label">FEAT 14</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag dedication">DEDICATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Crafting; living creature, ability to cast 6th-rank or higher spells from spell slots, completed ritual to become a T'liz and crafted T'liz Oil.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
After years of study and careful planning, you have finally forged a pact with a dishonored spirit. This spirit permanently infuses the caster with the energy needed to become a T'liz. Now, neither death nor time can prevent you from pursuing your studies and achieving your grand ambitions. You gain the undead trait and the basic undead benefits, and you hunger for the life force of the living. You also gain the leech life action.</div>

<div class="abilbox">
<div>
<b>Leech Life</B> {2A} <span class="rule">(arcane)  </span><span class="rule req">A grabbed, paralyzed, restrained, unconscious, or willing creature is within your reach </span><span class="rule effect">You grasp that creature and leech its life essence. This
requires an Athletics check against the victim's Fortitude DC if the victim is grabbed, and automatically succeeds for any of the other conditions. If you succeed, the creature becomes drained 1, and you gain temporary HP equal to the target's level that last for 10 minutes. You also become satiated for 1 hour. Further uses against the target don't increase the drained condition or grant you more temporary HP.</span></div></div><br>

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#### Replenishing Consumption<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">T'liz Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
When you devour life energy and satiate your hunger, you also recover from some of your wounds, your necrotized flesh knits back together almost immediately as soon as you begin draining life force. Once every 10 minutes, when you Leech Life, you regain 1d6 Hit Points for every 2 levels you have, rounded up. </div><br>

#### Grave Strength<div class="label">FEAT 16</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">T'liz Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The life force you've consumed over the course of your existence as a T'liz has made you stronger, gifting you with strange insights from the minds of the sapient creatures you've devoured and bringing you closer to a state of undead perfection. You gain the advanced undead benefits. In addition, you gain a +5-foot status bonus to your Speed while you're satiated. </div><br>

#### Frightful Aura<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag aura">AURA</div>
<div class="tag emotion">EMOTION</div>
<div class="tag fear">FEAR</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">T'liz Dedication; master in intimidation</div>
</div>

</div><br>

#### Breath of Hungry Death {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag acid">ACID</div>
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag incapacitation">INCAPACITATION</div>
<div class="tag void">VOID</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">Once Per hour</div>
<div class="prereq">Replenishing Consumption</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have uncovered mysteries of the Gray that allow you to unleash the devastating hunger of undeath upon your foes with a single exhalation, releasing a massive cloud of flesh-eating gas that glows with a sickly green light. You deal 7d6 acid and 7d6 void damage to all creatures within a 30-foot cone (basic Reflex save with a DC equal to your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher). A creature that gets a critical failure on this Reflex save is also paralyzed for 1 round. A creature that succeeds at this save becomes temporarily immune to Breath of Hungry Death for 24 hours.

When a creature is killed using Breath of Hungry Death, its body is reduced to a smoldering pile of ash wafting with necrotic fumes. You can use a reaction to immediately inhale these fumes and become satiated or fully satiated as if you had used Life Leech. </div><br>

#### Glutton for Life<div class="label">FEAT 18</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">T'liz Dedication</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You have developed a capacity to store more life force within your gaunt body to leave yourself satiated longer. If you Leech Life while satiated, you become fully satiated. You stay fully satiated for 3 hours, after which you become satiated for 1 hour.

If you're fully satiated when an ability would end your satiation, you cease being fully satiated but remain satiated. If you have Grave Strength, you gain a +10-foot status bonus to your Speed when fully satiated instead of a +5-foot status bonus for being satiated. </div><br>

#### Improved Life Leech<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">Glutton for Life</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Gorging on life force after you are satiated fortifies you, making you hardy enough to withstand more punishment. When you become fully satiated, you gain an amount of temporary Hit Points equal to 10 + your level. </div><br>

#### Wrath of the First T'Liz {2A}<div class="label">FEAT 20</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag arcane">ARCANE</div>
<div class="tag archetype">ARCHETYPE</div>
<div class="tag death">DEATH</div>
<div class="tag flourish">FLOURISH</div>
<div class="tag mental">MENTAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="freq">Once per day</div>
<div class="prereq">Glutton for Life</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The ravenous energy inside you becomes capable of exploding forth from your attacks into the wounds of an opponent, whispering telepathic words of destruction that invoke psychic images of hundreds of maggots bursting from the victim's flesh all at once. Make a melee Strike against a target creature. If it hits, in addition to taking damage from the Strike, the target is affected by a 10th-rank casting of <i>Power Word Kill</i>. If Wrath of the First T'Liz is used against a holy creature and does not instantly kill the creature, the target takes double damage </div><br>

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# Feats

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
All kinds of experiences and training can shape your character beyond what you learn by advancing in your class. Abilities that require a degree of training but can be learned by anyone—not only members of certain ancestries or classes—are called general feats.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

###### 1st Level

#### All of the Animal<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You know how to make the best and most efficient use of a hunted animal's carcass. Choose a Large or larger corpse of an animal that died within the past day. While using Survival to Subsist near the carcass, you always receive enough food for yourself and one additional Medium creature, using up the meat from the carcass to do so. Since you're using all of the animal, others can't use the carcass's meat for any other purpose, including their own use of All of the Animal. </div><br>

#### Different Worlds<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">ability to select ancestry feats from multiple ancestries</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Your separate experiences in different societies have evolved into entirely separate lives. Create a second identity for yourself with a different name, history, and background. This identity must correspond to one of the ancestries whose ancestry feats you can select. You gain the trained proficiency rank in the Lore skill from the second background you chose (but you don’t gain any of the background’s other benefits), and you gain a +4 circumstance bonus to Deception checks when making a statement that would be true of your second identity or when disguising yourself as your second identity. </div><br>

#### Forager<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Survival</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
While using Survival to Subsist, you add +5 to your Subsist checks. Additionally, if the player character is not Fatigued, then you may reattempt the check on any result less than a Success. On a critical success, you can take care of an additional creature.

Each time your proficiency rank in Survival increases, double the number of additional creatures you can take care of on a critical success (two if you’re an expert, 4 if you're a master, or 8 if you're legendary).  You can choose to care for half the number of additional creatures and provide a comfortable living instead of subsistence living.

Multiple smaller creatures or creatures with significantly smaller appetites than a human are counted as a single creature for this feat, and larger creatures or those with significantly greater appetites each count as multiple creatures. The GM determines how much a non-human creature needs to eat.</div><br>

#### Literacy<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You learn to read and write associated with the languages you know. The ability to read has been outlawed for thousands of
years by the sorcerer‐kings. All characters in a Dark Sun campaign start without the ability to read or write unless their background provides this feat.</div><br>

#### Medical Researcher<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You have learned not only how to apply medicines with your medical skills but how to craft them as well. When you Craft healer's kits, vaccines, addiction suppressants, antidotes, antiplagues, elixirs of life, or other non-magical medical or healing items, you can use Medicine instead of Crafting. </div><br>

#### Secret Speech<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
Choose a secret society (such as the Veiled Alliance). You’ve learned that society’s secret cant or jargon, enabling you to share hidden messages when signing or speaking with others who’ve also learned it. If an observer succeeds at a Perception check against your Deception DC when you do this, they realize you are passing a message but fail to discern its content, unless they subsequently succeed at a Society check against your Deception DC. On a critical success, they learn not only the message, but also who you’re passing the message to.

<b>Special</b> You can take this feat multiple times. You learn the secret speech of a different society each time.</div>

#### Silt Marauder<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="rule">
You’ve learned to fight in silt. You are not off-guard while in silt, and you don’t take the usual penalties for using a bludgeoning or slashing melee weapon in silt. </div>

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#### Tame Animal<div class="label">FEAT 1</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag exploration">EXPLORATION</div>
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Nature</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
Animals born and raised far from humanoid settlements rarely get along with two-legged beings, whom they assume to be dangerous predators. In spite of this, you know how to approach and entreat a wild animal so that it's more receptive to your presence and requests.

To use this feat, choose a wild animal that isn't actively hostile to you, and which isn't confined to an area smaller than its Speed in diameter (animals held in place or trapped are typically too scared to be tamed). Attempt a Nature check against a DC determined by the GM; this is usually the animal's Will DC, but circumstances might adjust the precise DC. This attempt usually takes an hour, but you can perform it in 10 minutes if you have expert proficiency in Nature, 1 minute if you have master proficiency, or as a three-action activity if you have legendary proficiency. </div>

<div class="rule result r4"> You form a friendly bond with the animal. As long as it isn't starving, the animal won't attack you or creatures obviously allied with you, even if they're creatures the animal would normally prey upon. This effect is permanent.</div>
<div class="rule result r3"> As critical success, but the effect lasts for 1 month. If you or an ally teach the animal a basic action during that time with the Train Animal skill feat, the effect is permanent.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">You fail to make any kind of meaningful impression on the animal.</div>
<div class="rule result r1"> Failure The animal does its best to attack you and is immune to Tame Animal for 1 month.</div><br>

###### 2nd Level

#### Eye of the Sorcerer-King {1A}<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Arcana; Arcane Sense</div>
<div class="access">you worship a sorcerer-monarch</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You open an incandescent third eye upon your forehead. The eye can remain open for 1 minute, and you can close it before then with a single action with the concentrate trait. It can remain open for 2 minutes if you’re a master in Arcana, or 5 minutes if you’re legendary. While the eye is open, you gain the following benefits:

- you gain the effects of the <i>detect magic</i> arcane innate spell from your Arcane Sense at the start of each of your turns without needing to cast the spell; <br>
- you gain darkvision; <br>
- you gain a +2 status bonus to Perception checks to Seek undetected and hidden creatures and to your Perception DC against Hide and Sneak.

After your third eye closes, you are dazzled for an amount of time equal to how long you had it open. </div><br>

#### Eyes of the City<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">trained in Diplomacy or Society</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You can track down targets with the help of locals. You can use Diplomacy or Society, whichever you're trained in, to Track creatures in settlements. You chat with locals to help follow the trail of creatures you Track. At the GM's discretion, there might not be enough people to speak with to keep following the trail.</div><br>

#### Fleeing Diversion<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Deception</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">
You are quick to capitalize on your distractions. If you critically<br> succeed at your check to Create a Distraction against the majority of the creatures (at least half of the creatures) whose attention you're trying to divert, you can use your reaction to immediately Hide, Sneak, or Step. As normal, you are only hidden to creatures against which you succeed on your check to Create a Diversion, even if you manage to Hide or Sneak away.</div><br>

#### Half-Truths<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Deception and Diplomacy</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You are able to weave your words in such a way that you never use actual lies, but still mislead people to certain conclusions. You can attempt to make a Request of a creature using Deception instead of Diplomacy. You can attempt to Lie to a creature using Diplomacy instead of Deception. If you fail your check to Lie, the creature realizes that you were twisting words to fool them without outright lying.</div><br>

#### Predict Weather<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="rule">
By observing often subtle indicators in the environment, you may try to predict the day's weather. Spend 10 minutes outdoors then attempt a DC 20 Survival check. (This check is reduced to DC 15 if you have a commanding view of the region, but increases to 30 if conditions are poor, such as attempting to predict weather with impaired visibility).

Once you make an attempt to Predict the Weather, you cannot attempt to do so again for 24 hours.</div>

<div class="rule result r4"> You accurately predict the day's precipitation, temperature, and wind. You learn if a weather event will occur in the region within the next 24 hours, and if so, what the event is and approximately when it will occur. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Survival checks made to prepare for this weather event.</div>
<div class="rule result r3"> You accurately predict the day's precipitation, temperature, and wind. You learn if a weather event will occur in the region during the next 24 hours, but not what that event will be or when it will take place. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Survival checks made to prepare for this weather event. </div>
<div class="rule result r1"> You come to a dramatically wrong conclusion. The GM provides information to you as though you had received a critical success, including the specifics of a weather event that will not occur that day (instead, a different event—or no event—may occur).</div><br>

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#### Triumphant Boast<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="rule">
You relate a loud and impressive tale of your triumph over a formidable foe. When you Perform, choose a single target within 30 feet of you and compare the result of your Performance check to that observer's Will DC. If you're a master in Performance, you can choose up to four targets, and if you're legendary, you can choose any number of targets. If you succeed, any attempt made by you to Demoralize that creature within the next 24 hours gains a +1 circumstance bonus. If your Charisma score is 20 or higher and you're a master in Performance, this bonus increases to +2. Once a creature is boasted at in this manner, it becomes temporarily immune to further Triumphant Boasts for 24 hours.</div><br>

#### Tweak Appearances<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="rule">
You spend 1 minute making quick adjustments to someone’s clothing and appearance, causing their words to carry more weight with an audience of your choice. </div>

<div class="rule">
While speaking to that audience, the target gains a +1 item bonus to Diplomacy and Performance checks. If you have master proficiency in Crafting, the bonus increases to +2; if you have legendary proficiency in Crafting, the bonus increases to +3. This bonus lasts until this ability is used on the target again, the situation they were prepared for ends, or they next change their outfit.</div><br>

#### Wilderness Spotter<div class="label">FEAT 2</div>

<div class="rule">
Select one type of terrain from the following list: aquatic, arctic, desert, forest, mountain, plains, sky, swamp, or underground.</div>

<div class="rule">
You can use Survival in place of Perception to roll initiative when in the selected terrain in a natural location (not a structure) even if you weren’t tracking or otherwise using Survival before the encounter. You can also use Survival instead of Perception to notice traps in natural locations in the chosen terrain; if you find a snare in this way, you can also use Survival instead of Thievery to Disable the Device.

<b>Special</b> You can select this feat more than once. Each time you select it, the feat applies to a new type of terrain.</div><br>

###### 4th Level

#### Ambush Tactics<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="rule">
You've made a study of the best practices for laying ambushes in terrains you've spent time learning about, be it the best way to ambush foes or the best methods of reacting to surprise attacks in those terrains. In any combat during which an enemy rolls Stealth to determine initiative, you can choose to roll initiative using a Lore check that's appropriate for the encounter's terrain, if you're trained in the appropriate Lore skill.</div><br><br><br>

#### That's Not Natural! {R}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="rule">
Your mastery at surviving in the wild has given you a sort of sixth-sense when it comes to noticing creatures that aren't part of the natural order. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to all initiative checks made at the start of a battle in which at least one of your enemies is an aberration, mutant, or undead, or if one of your enemies is from a plane other than the Material Plane, as long as the battle takes place in a wilderness region. In wilderness regions, you also increase your Perception DC by 1 against these types of creatures for the purposes of resolving their Stealth checks. If you're master in Survival, this circumstance bonus increases to +2.

If you know the <i>commune with nature</i> ritual, you can use Survival as a primary or secondary check to resolve that ritual—if you do so, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus.</div><br>

#### Veiled Alliance Cognitive Crossover {R}<div class="label">FEAT 4</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="access">Member of the Veiled Alliance</div>
<div class="trigger">You gain no information from a Recall Knowledge check (usually because you failed the secret check) using one of the two skills you chose for this feat.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The veiled alliance teaches its members that an agile mind can glean clues leading to the truth, even from the most unlikely of sources. You immediately reattempt the triggering check using the other chosen skill.

<b>Special</b> When you gain this feat, choose two of the following skills: Arcana, Crafting, Lore (any one), Medicine, Nature, Occultism, Religion, or Society.</div><br>

###### 6th Level

#### Say That Again{R}<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Athletics</div>
<div class="trigger">An opponent gets a critical failure when attempting to Demoralize you or Lie to you.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
The world is full of obnoxious weasels who think they can pull one over on you—put them in their place! When an adjacent creature attempts to Lie to you or to Demoralize you and gets a critical failure on the roll, you can use your reaction to make a Shove attempt against that opponent. If combat results, you can roll Intimidation for your initiative check.</div><br>

###### 7th Level

#### Magical Crafting<div class="label">FEAT 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">expert in Crafting</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You can Craft magic items, though some have other requirements. When you select this feat, you gain formulas for four common magic items of 4th level or lower.</div><br>

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###### 12th Level

#### Too Angry to Die{R}<div class="label">FEAT 12</div>

<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag general">GENERAL</div>
<div class="tag skill">SKILL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox">
<div class="prereq">master in Intimidation</div>
<div class="trigger">you stand up from prone after waking up from being unconscious</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">
You refuse to yield the battle, even after you've been knocked off your feet and nearly killed. For you, such a brush with death is less something to fear and more a thing to become infuriated by. As you stand up, you roar in defiance and can attempt to Demoralize a foe.</div><br>

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# Equipment

IN A WORLD WHERE SURVIVAL ALWAYS HANGS in the balance, gear can be crucial. As you make your way across the Athasian wilds, your items help to keep thirst, starvation, sand, salt, and the blazing sun at bay. You need a good weapon and effective armor to fight off predators. A hardy mount can shorten your trip or, if you're desperate, serve as extra provisions. Your traveling gear will make sure you won't get lost, get eaten, or fall prey to the multitude of raiders that roam the deserts.

To understand commerce and the availability of equipment on Athas, one must understand that Athas is a metal-poor world. Nearly bereft of metals, all items - including armor and weapons - are made from substitute materials, such as bone, obsidian, or wood. The scarcity of metal has forced the people to rely on barter and different materials, such as ceramic, to use as currency. It has also hampered industrial and economic development as well; farms, mills, and workshops rarely have quality tools to produce everyday products. This chapter details the mundane and exotic merchandise that adventurers commonly find useful in the face of the threats that the world of Athas presents.

## Monetary Systems
Wealth appears in many forms in the world of Athas. Coins, gemstones, trade goods, art objects, animals, and property can reflect your character's financial well-being. Societies on Athas exchange goods and services in three ways: coins, barter, and service. Nomads usually trade in common goods, bartering for what they need. Free citizens, members of the nobility and merchants prefer coinage, though deals in services are not uncommon. Many an adventurer has provided mercenary work at a merchant house's trading caravan, only to be offered food, water, and some shade to rest during the long trip.

### Athasian Coinage
Ceramic coins marked in various denominations are the most common form of money in civilized areas of Athas. Each city state strikes its own coins, sculpting, glazing, firing, and treating them in specific ways to discourage forgery. The typical ceramic coin—or bit, as it’s sometimes called— weighs approximately one-sixth of an ounce and is equivalent in value to a metal coin type:
copper bit, silver bit, or gold bit

(For convenience, this book uses the standard Pathfinder *Core Rulebook* abbreviations of cp for copper piece, sp for silver piece, and gp for gold piece; just remember that these denominations refer to ceramic, not metal, coins.) Ceramic coins equivalent to platinum pieces are simply gold bits marked with a higher value. Talented criminals can make good profits counterfeiting ceramic coins, but if they are caught, the penalties are severe and usually affect the counterfeiter’s entire family.

Sorcerer-kings back their cities’ ceramic coins with royal wealth and carefully regulate the currency as a means of controlling the population. In merchant emporiums, travelers can exchange the coins of one city-state for those of another for a fee of 5 percent. In practice, few people bother swapping their currency, since most merchants accept coins of any city (though the templars might start cracking down on that custom).

Metal coins exist on Athas, having been found in ancient treasure troves and circulated now and then. Very old coins attract unwanted attention unless the owner pays “taxes” to the right templars and nobles. In addition, merchant houses and minters who serve the sorcerer kings strike small amounts of metal coins, which have the normal value. Real coinage is a necessary guarantee against the possibility of a monarch abruptly devaluing the ceramic currency or banning the coins of an enemy city. Real coins are also useful for dune traders who deal with villagers or tribes in the wastes, where ceramic coins are just pretty clay chips Merchant houses prize metal coinage and exchange local ceramic currency for it at full value, but city officials watch these transactions closely. Only merchant houses, nobles, or travelers who deal with such individuals can trade large amounts of ceramic coins for metal equivalents (or vice versa) without arousing suspicion.

### Barter
Barter is the exchange of goods for other goods - no coins change hands. By its very nature, barter is an age-old ceremony of negotiation. Characters who often venture out in the deserts encounter tribes and nomads who usually deal in this type of trade - a herdsman or a hunter would rather own a few waterskins than a handful of coins. Thri-kreen always resort to bartering since they have little use of coins.

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When your character enters a barter, you compare the costs of the items to be exchanged and then match the quantities until they are approximately even. For example, Kyuln's tribe wishes to exchange its crop of rice for barrels of water. On Athas, rice is worth 5 copper pieces per pound, and each barrel of water is worth 25 cp. Kyuln's tribe would have to trade 5 pounds worth of rice to the merchant in exchange for one barrel of water.

### Selling Treasure
Opportunities abound to find treasure, equipment, weapons, armor, and more in your adventures. Normally, you can sell your treasures and trinkets when you return to a city or other settlement, provided that you can find buyers, and merchants interested in your loot.

**Arms, Armor, and Other Equipment**. As a general rule, undamaged weapons, armor, and other equipment fetch half their cost when sold in a market.

**Gems, Jewelry, and Art Objects.** These items retain their full value in the marketplace, and you can either trade them in for coin or use them as currency for other transactions. For exceptionally valuable treasures, the DM might require you to find a buyer, per the rules for selling a magic item.

**Trade Goods.** Outside the city-states, many people conduct transactions through barter. Like gems and art objects, trade goods - bars of iron, bags of rice, livestock and so on - retain their full value in the market and can be used as currency.

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# Armor

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Armor increases your character’s defenses, but some medium or heavy armor can hamper movement. If you want to increase your character’s defense beyond the protection your armor provides, they can use a shield. Armor protects your character only while they’re wearing it.<br>
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On Athas, an armorer might spend an entire career without accumulating a sufficient quantity of metal to create a suit of armor. Even if a windfall of metal were to be found, the techniques for forging such armor have largely been lost to the ages. Were these challenges overcome and the armor constructed, Athas’s intense heat would leave the crafter with few interested buyers. For these reasons, Athasian crafters turn to more lightweight materials, such as bone, chitin, leather, and wood, when assembling protective gear.

## Armor Class

Your Armor Class (AC) measures how well you can defend against attacks. When a creature attacks you, your Armor Class is the DC for that attack roll.

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Armor Class = 10 + Dexterity modifier (up to your armor’s Dex Cap) + proficiency bonus + armor’s item bonus to AC + other bonuses + penalties </div>

Use your proficiency bonus for the category (light, medium, or heavy) or the specific type of armor you’re wearing. If you’re not wearing armor, use your proficiency in unarmored defense.

## Donning and Removing Armor
Getting in and out of armor is time consuming—so make sure you’re wearing it when you need it! Donning and removing armor are both activities involving many Interact actions. It takes 1 minute to don light armor, 5 minutes to don medium or heavy armor, and 1 minute to remove any armor.

## Armor Statistics
Table 6–1: Unarmored Defense provides the statistics for the various forms of protection without wearing armor. Table 6–2: Armor provides the statistics for suits of armor that can be purchased and worn, organized by category. The columns in both tables provide the following statistics.

### CATEGORY
The armor’s category—unarmored, light armor, medium armor, or heavy armor—indicates which proficiency bonus you use while wearing the armor.

### AC BONUS
This number is the item bonus you add for the armor when determining Armor Class.

### DEXTERITY MODIFIER CAP [DEX CAP]
This number is the maximum amount of your Dexterity modifier that can apply to your AC while you are wearing a given suit of armor. For example, if you have a Dexterity modifier of +4 and you are wearing a suit of half plate, you apply only a +1 bonus from your Dexterity modifier to your AC while wearing that armor

### CHECK PENALTY

While wearing your armor, you take this penalty to Strength- and Dexterity-based skill checks, except for those that have the attack trait. If you meet the armor’s Strength threshold (see Strength below), you don’t take this penalty.

### SPEED PENALTY

While wearing a suit of armor, you take the penalty listed in this entry to your Speed, as well as to any other movement types you have, such as a climb Speed or swim Speed, to a minimum Speed of 5 feet. If you meet the armor’s Strength threshold (see below), you reduce the penalty by 5 feet.

### STRENGTH

This entry indicates the Strength modifier at which you are strong enough to overcome some of the armor’s penalties. If your Strength modifier is equal to or greater than this value, you no longer take the armor’s check penalty, and you decrease the Speed penalty by 5 feet (to no penalty if the penalty was –5 feet, or to a –5-foot penalty if the penalty was –10 feet).

### BULK

This entry gives the armor’s Bulk, assuming you’re wearing the armor and distributing its weight across your body. A suit of armor that’s carried usually has 1 more Bulk than what’s listed here (or 1 Bulk total for armor of light Bulk). An armor’s Bulk is increased or decreased if it’s sized for creatures that aren’t Small or Medium in size.

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### GROUP

Each type of clothing and armor belongs to an armor group, which classifies it with similar types of armor. Some abilities reference armor groups, typically to grant armor specialization effects.

### ARMOR TRAITS

The traits for each suit of armor appear in this entry. Armor can have the following traits.

<b>Adjusted:</b>  The equipment comes with an adjustment described in its entry. This adjustment is built into the equipment permanently, meaning the equipment can’t have another adjustment added, nor can it be swapped out for a different adjustment. If the adjustment alters the item’s base statistics, such as adding the noisy trait, that’s reflected in the equipment’s table entry.

<b>Bulwark:</b> The armor covers you so completely that it provides benefits against some damaging effects. On Reflex saves to avoid a damaging effect, such as a fireball, you add a +3 modifier instead of your Dexterity modifier.

<b>Comfort:</b> The armor is so comfortable that you can rest normally while wearing it.

<b>Flexible:</b> The armor is flexible enough that it doesn’t hinder most actions. You don’t apply its check penalty to Acrobatics or Athletics checks.

<b>Hindering:</b> This armor is so heavy and bulky it slows you down no matter what. You take a –5 penalty to all your Speeds (to a minimum of a 5-foot Speed). This is separate from and in addition to the armor’s Speed penalty and affects you even if your Strength or an ability lets you reduce or ignore the armor’s Speed penalty.

<b>Laminar:</b> The armor is made up of layered sections, so when it breaks, it isn’t as much of a problem. The status penalty to AC if this armor is broken is –1 for broken medium armor, –2 for broken heavy armor, or no penalty for broken light armor.

<b>Noisy:</b> This armor is loud and likely to alert others to your presence. The armor’s check penalty applies to Stealth checks even if you meet the required Strength score.

### ARMOR SPECILIZATION EFFECTS
Certain class features can grant you additional benefits with certain armors. This is called an armor specialization effect. The exact effect depends on which armor group your armor belongs to, as listed below. Only medium and heavy armors have armor specialization effects.

<b>Chain:</b> The armor is so flexible it can bend with a critical hit and absorb some of the blow. Reduce the damage from critical hits by either 4 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for medium armor, or 6 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for heavy armor. This can’t reduce the damage to less than the damage rolled for the hit before doubling for a critical hit.

<b>Composite:</b> The numerous overlapping pieces of this armor protect you from piercing attacks. You gain resistance to piercing damage equal to 1 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for medium armor, or 2 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for heavy armor.

<b>Leather:</b> The thick second skin of the armor disperses blunt force to reduce bludgeoning damage. You gain resistance to bludgeoning damage equal to 1 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for medium armor, or 2 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for heavy armor.

<b>Plate:</b> The sturdy plate provides no purchase for a cutting edge. You gain resistance to slashing damage equal to 1 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for medium armor, or 2 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for heavy armor.

<b>Skeletal:</b> Armor made from the bone or exoskeleton of creatures as diverse as bears, insects, and coral, skeletal armor protects vital points from precision damage. You gain resistance to precision damage equal to 3 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for medium armor, or 5 + the value of the armor’s potency rune for heavy armor.

<b>Wood:</b> Wood armor is generally flexible and light, but it can splinter as it breaks, throwing off shards and fragments that damage foes who deal you critical blows. If a foe critically hits you with a melee unarmed attack or critically hits you with any melee attack while adjacent to you, it takes piercing damage equal to 3 + the armor’s potency rune value for medium armor, or 5  + the armor’s potency rune value for heavy armor.

## Armor Descriptions

Each type of armor is described in more detail below.

**Breastplate.** This breastplate is made from pieces of shell taken from large beasts such as from ankhegs or braxats. The pieces of shell are then carved to shape and affixed to a sturdy leather cuirass.

**Bone Armor:** In places where wood is hard to come by armor has been fashioned from slats and strips of bone or horn, along with whole bones or horns. Bone armor is usually woven together with strong cord, forming a suit like a breastplate. This suit is worn over heavy clothing or a surcoat like padded armor.

**Buckle Armor:** Tyrian style once led famous adventurers to wear clothing with an unusual number of buckles, pouches, and straps. This fashion birthed a trend that led to “buckle armor,” a colloquial name for chic armor with spacious tool storage. Buckle armor comes with the storage armor adjustment.

**Ceramic Plate:** Ceramic plate alleviates the need for metallurgy and smithing, instead relying on ceramic firing, glazing, and strong cord work with a backing of leather and thick canvas. Ceramic plate is colorful and artistic and is built with the armor latches armor adjustment.

**Chitin Armor.** This armor is skillfully made by interlocking hexagonal bits of chitin (usually carved from a kank’ s carapace). Chitin armor is the Athasian equivalent to the *Core Rulebook’s* chain shirt armor.

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## <div style="text-vertical-align: top"></div>

#### TABLE 6-1: UNARMORED DEFENSE

| <div style="vertical-align: text-top">Unarmored</div> | Price | AC Bonus | Dex Cap | Check Penalty | Speed Penalty | Strength | Bulk | Group | Armor Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----|
| Explorer's clothing | 1 sp | +0 | +5 | — | — | — | L | Cloth | Comfort |
| Gi | 2 sp  | +0 | +5 | — | — | — | L | Cloth | Comfort |

#### TABLE 6-2: ARMOR

| Light Armor | Price | AC Bonus | Dex Cap | Check Penalty | Speed Penalty | Strength | Bulk | Group | Armor Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----|
| Buckle armor | 4 gp  | +2 | +3 | -1 | — | +1 | 1 | Leather | Adjusted, noisy | 
| Chitin Armor | 5 gp | +2 | +3 | -1 | — | +1 | 1 | Chain | Flexible, noisy |
| Leaf weave | 4 gp | +1 | +4 | -1 | — | +0 | 1 | Wood | Laminar |
| Leather lamellar | 3 gp | +1 | +4 | -1 | — | +0 | 1 | Composite | Laminar |
| Leather armor | 2 gp | +1 | +4 | -1 | — | +0 | 1 | Leather | — |
| Padded armor | 2 sp  | +1 | +3 | — | — | +0 | L | Cloth | Comfort | 
| Quilted armor | 3 sp  | +2 | +2 | -1 | — | +1 | L | Cloth | Comfort | 
| Studded leather armor | 3 gp | +2 | +3 | -1 | — | +1 | 1 | Leather | — |
| Wood armor | 5 gp | +2 | +3 | -1 | — | +1 | 1 | Wood | Laminar |

| Medium Armor | Price | AC Bonus | Dex Cap | Check Penalty | Speed Penalty | Strength | Bulk | Group | Armor Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----|
| Bone armor | 5 gp  | +3 | +2 | -2 | -5 ft. | +2 | 2 | Skeletal | Laminar | 
| Breastplate | 8 gp  | +4 | +1 | -2 | -5 ft. | +3 | 2 | Plate | — |
| Ceramic plate | 6 gp | +3 | +2 | -2 | -5 ft. | +2 | 2 | Plate | Adjusted, noisy |
| Hide Armor | 2 gp | +3 | +2 | -2 | -5 ft. | +2 | 2 | Leather | — |
| Lamellar breastplate | 7 gp | +4 | +1 | -2 | -5 ft. | +3 | 2 | Composite | Hindering, Laminar |
| Scale mail | 4 gp | +3 | +2 | -2 | -5 ft. | +2 | 2 | Composite | — |
| Shell armor | 6 gp | +4 | +1 | -2 | -5 ft. | +3 | 2 | Chain | Flexible, noisy |
| Wooden breastplate | 6 gp | +3 | +2 | -2 | -5 ft. | +2 | 2 | Wood | — |

| Heavy Armor | Price | AC Bonus | Dex Cap | Check Penalty | Speed Penalty | Strength | Bulk | Group | Armor Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----|
| Full plate (level 2) | 30 gp  | +6 | +0 | -3 | -10 ft. | +4 | 4 | Plate | Bulwark | 
| Half plate (level 1) | 18 gp  | +5 | +1 | -3 | -10 ft. | +3 | 3 | Plate | — |
| Lamellar armor (level 2) | 35 gp  | +6 | +0 | -3 | -10 ft. | +4 | 5 | Composite | Bulwark, laminar |
| Splint mail (level 1) | 13 gp  | +5 | +1 | -3 | -10 ft. | +3 | 3 | Composite | — |

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**Explorer’s Clothing:** Adventurers who don’t wear armor travel in durable clothing. Though it’s not armor and uses your unarmored defense proficiency, it still has a Dex Cap and can grant an item bonus to AC if etched with potency runes (as described on page 581).

**Full plate.** Plate mail consists of interlocking plates that encase nearly the entire body in a carapace of chitin. It is costly and heavy, and the wearer often requires help to don it correctly, but it provides some of the best defense armor can supply. A suit of this armor comes with an undercoat of padded armor and a pair of gauntlets.

**Gi:** Also called martial arts suits or practice clothes, gi are outfits of tough cloth built for comfort and unrestricted movement—ideal for practicing martial arts. They have reinforced stitching resistant to strenuous use.

**Half plate.** Half plate consists of most of the upper body plates used in full plate, with lighter or sparser chitin plate protection for the arms and legs. This provides some of the protection of full plate with greater flexibility and speed. A suit of this armor comes with an undercoat of padded armor and a pair of gauntlets.

**Hide Armor**. This crude armor is usually fashioned from the dense hides of mekillots or braxats.

**Lamellar Armor:**  Larger plates of leather, horn, shell, or wood are laced together to make up a suit of heavy lamellar. The custom-fitted and often highly decorative suit covers most of the body. Rounding out the suit are a tiered helmet and fearsome mask, often depicting a fiendish or monstrous creature.

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**Lamellar Breastplate:** Small plates of leather, horn, shell, or wood are laced together to form a protective coat making up lamellar breastplates. Leather bracers and greaves provide some measure of defense for the limbs.

**Leaf Weave:** Specialized crafters, often from Gulg, create leaf weave out of sturdy leaves from ancient agafari trees. Such leaves, when treated properly, have the strength of leather, and other tough plant materials hold the leaves together to form the armor. Such suits are popular among those who wish to avoid materials taken from slain beasts. As a material, leaf weave has the same statistics as thin wood.

**Leather Lamellar:** Leather lamellar is a composite armor made of small rectangular pieces of lacquered leather laced together with high-quality cord. It’s typically worn with an undershirt.

**Leather Armor.** Perhaps the most common type of armor used on Athas, leather armor is usually made of carru leather, stiffened in oil.

**Padded Armor**. Padded armor consists of quilted layers of cloth and batting. Many Athasian warriors don padded armor woven from giant hair.

**Quilted Armor:** Quilted armor is built in a long coat intended for defensive use without other armor. Quilted armor protects the upper body and legs, differentiating it further from the typical padded undercoat. This armor is frequently made in stylish colors or patterns to facilitate use as protective outerwear or a military uniform.

**Scale Mail.** This armor is crafted by affixing the hide of a scaled creature like an erdlu or inix over a sturdy leather
backing to form a heavy coat and leggings or greaves.

**Shell Armor**.  Shell armor is made by weaving giant’s hair around the shells of various small creatures such as an aprig. Shell armor is the Athasian equivalent to the *Core Rulebook’s* chain mail armor.

**Splint mail.**  This type of armor is shell armor reinforced with flexible, interlocking chitin plates, typically located on the wearer’s torso, upper arms, and legs. A suit of this armor comes with an undercoat of padded armor (see above) and a pair of gauntlets.

**Studded Leather Armor.** Made from tough but flexible leather, studded leather is reinforced with close-set rivets or spikes made of bone or chitin.

**Wood Armor.** Made of small wooden plates or longer slats, typically vertical, joined with sinew or cord and painted with decorations. Wood armor traditionally comes with a fearsome wooden helm carved in the shape of a mighty creature.

**Wooden Breastplate:** A suit of carved and tempered wood, a wooden breastplate resembles a metal breastplate in shape and function. Such suits can be carved from large pieces of wood, but they most often come from agafari trees.

### Metal Armor
Though exceptionally rare and expensive, suits of bronze, iron, or even steel armor can still be found in old ruins or crafted by legendary artisans.

While metal armor provides superior protection and durability, it is also cumbersome and potentially deadly in the extreme heat of the Athasian sun. Wearing armor constructed of metal has the following benefits and drawbacks.

##### Cost
Metal is crafted with the rules for Crafting with Precious Materials. Low-grade metal is 100 gp per Bulk.

#### Armor Latches<div class="label">ITEM 1</div>

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<div class="tag adjustment">ADJUSTMENT</div>
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<span class="rule usage">applied to armor</span>
<span class="rule bulk">—</span>
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This armor is easily doffed. A set of armor with armor latches gains the noisy trait; you can’t add latches to armor that already 
possesses the noisy trait. You can remove a set of armor with armor latches with a 3-action activity, which has the manipulate 
trait. This doesn’t affect the time it takes to don the armor.</div><br>

#### Storage<div class="label">ITEM 1</div>

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<div class="tag adjustment">ADJUSTMENT</div>
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<span class="rule usage">applied to armor or unarmored defense clothing</span>
<span class="rule bulk">L</span>
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<div class="rule">
The storage adjustment fits the armor or clothing with belts, buckles, pouches, and loops for holding and storing tools. Countless fasteners make the armor as jangly as chain mail. While wearing armor with this adjustment, you can wear up to 3 Bulk of tools instead of the usual 2. However, the armor acquires the noisy trait. If it already has the noisy trait, increase its penalty to Stealth checks by 1.</div><br>

#### Table 6-3: Damaging Armor

| Material | Hardness | HP | BT | 
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|
| Bone (bone armor, breastplate, chitin armor, full plate, half plate, lamellar armor, lamellar breastplate, scale mail, shell armor, splint mail)   | 6  | 24 | 12 |
| Cloth (explorer's clothing, gi, padded armor, quilted armor) | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Leather (buckle armor, hide armor, leather armor, leather lamellar, studded leather armor) | 4  | 16 | 8 | 
| Stone (ceramic plate)| 7  | 24 | 12 | 
| Thin Wood (leaf weave) | 3  | 12 | 6 | 
| Wood (wood armor, wooden breastplate)| 5  | 20 | 10 | 
<div class="tablefooter rule">Your armor’s statistics are based on the material it’s predominantly made from.</div>

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# Shields

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A shield can increase your character’s defense beyond the protection their armor provides. Your character must be wielding a shield in one hand to make use of it, and it grants its bonus to AC only if they use an action to Raise a Shield. This action grants the shield’s bonus to AC as a circumstance bonus until their next turn starts. A shield’s Speed penalty applies whenever your character is holding the shield, whether they have raised it or not<br>
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Raise a Shield is the action most commonly used with shields. Most shields must be held in one hand, so you can’t hold anything with that hand and Raise a Shield, and you lose its benefits if that hand is no longer free. A buckler, however, doesn’t take up your hand, so you can Raise a Shield with a buckler if the hand is free (or, at the GM’s discretion, if it’s holding a simple, lightweight object that’s not a weapon).

When you have a tower shield raised, you can use the Take Cover action (page 471) to increase the circumstance bonus to AC to +4. This lasts until the shield is no longer raised, or until any of the normal conditions that end Take Cover, whichever comes first. If you would provide lesser cover against an attack, having your tower shield raised provides standard cover against it (and other creatures can Take Cover as normal using the cover from your shield).

If you have access to the Shield Block reaction (from your class or from a feat), you can use it while Raising your Shield to reduce the damage you take by an amount equal to the shield’s Hardness. Both you and the shield then take any remaining damage.

## Shield Statistics

Shields have statistics that follow the same rules as armor: Price and Bulk. Their other statistics are described here.

### AC Bonus
A shield grants a circumstance bonus to AC, but only when the shield is raised. This requires using the Raise a Shield action.

### Hardness
Whenever a shield takes damage, the amount of damage it takes is reduced by this amount. This number is particularly relevant for shields because of the Shield Block feat (page 266).

### HP (BT)
This column lists the shield’s Hit Points (HP) and Broken Threshold (BT).

These measure how much damage the shield can take before it’s destroyed (its total HP) and how much it can take before being broken and unusable (its BT). These matter primarily for the Shield Block reaction.

### Speed Penalty
A shield's Speed penalty applies whenever your character is holding the shield, whether they have raised it or not.

### Shield Traits
Unlike in the *Core Rulebook*, many of the new shields have traits.

**Deflecting:** This shield is designed to block or divert certain types of attacks or weapons. Increase the shield’s Hardness against the listed type of attack by 2.

**Foldaway:** This shield can collapse into a smaller form, which is attached to a gauntlet for stability and easy travel.

**Hefty:** A hefty shield is so heavy that raising it takes more effort. Raising a Shield with the hefty trait is a 2-action activity unless your Strength modifier equals or exceeds the number with the trait.

**Integrated:** This shield has been created to include a weapon in its construction, which works like an attached weapon but can’t be removed from the shield.

**Launching:** A mechanism within this shield can shoot projectiles, functioning as a ranged weapon.

**Shield Throw:** A shield with this trait is designed to be thrown as a ranged attack.

## Attacking with a Shield
A shield can be used as a martial weapon for attacks, using the statistics listed for a shield bash. The shield bash is an option only for shields that weren’t designed to be used as weapons. A shield can’t have runes added to it. You can also buy and attach a shield boss or shield spikes to a shield to make it a more practical weapon. These work like other weapons and can even be etched with runes.

## Shield Descriptions
Each type of shield is described in more detail below.

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#### Table 6-4: Shields
| Shield | Price | AC Bonus* | Speed Penalty | Bulk | Hardness | HP (BT) | Shield Traits | 
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Buckler  | 1 gp  | +1 | — | L | 3 | 6 (3) | — |
| Chitin shield| 2 gp | +2 | — | 1 | 4 | 16 (8) |  — |
| Dart shield | 8 gp  | +1 |  — | 1 | 3 | 12 (6) | Launching dart | 
| Fortress shield | 20 gp  | +3/+4** | -10 ft. | 5 | 6 | 24 (12) | Hefty +2 | 
| Gauntlet buckler | 5 gp  | +1 |  — | 1 | 3 | 6 (3) | Foldaway |
| Heavy rondache | 4 gp  | +1 |  — | 1 | 5 | 24 (12) |  — |
| Hide shield | 2 gp  | +2 |  — | 1 | 4 | 20 (10) | Deflecting bludgeoning |
| Meteor shield | 4 gp  | +2 |  — | 1 | 4 | 16 (8) | Shield throw 30 ft. |
| Razor disc | 5 gp  | +1 |  — | 1 | 4 | 16 (8) | Integrated 1d6 S, shield throw 20 ft.
| Salvo shield | 6 gp  | +2 |  — | 1 | 4 | 16 (8) | Deflecting physical ranged |
| Swordstealer shield| 6 gp  | +2 |  — | 1 | 4 | 16 (8) | Deflecting slashing |
| Tortoise blade | 3 gp  | +1 |  — | 1 | 3 | 10 (5) | Integrated 1d6 S (versatile P)
| Tower shield | 10 gp  | +2/+4** | -5 ft. | 4 | 5 | 20 (10) |  — |
| Wooden shield | 1 gp  | +2 | — | 1 | 3 | 12 (6) | — |
<div class="tablefooter rule">* Gaining a shield’s circumstance bonus to AC requires using the Raise a Shield action. </div>
<div class="tablefooter rule">** Getting the higher bonus for this shield requires using the Take Cover action while the shield is raised.</div>
</div>

**Buckler:** This very small shield is a favorite of duelists and quick, lightly armored warriors. It’s typically made of chitin, shell, or bone and strapped to your forearm. You can Raise a Shield with your buckler as long as you have that hand free or are holding a light object that’s not a weapon in that hand.

**Chitin Shield:** Like wooden shields, chitin shields come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Though more expensive than wooden shields, they are much more durable.

**Dart Shield:** This wooden shield features a spring-loaded device on its surface that can fire darts with powerful force. A small mechanism within the shield allows you to fire a dart even while actively holding the shield or blocking with it.

**Fortress Shield:** Also known as portable walls, these thick and heavy shields are slightly larger than tower shields. Like tower shields, they’re typically made from wood reinforced with stone.

**Gauntlet Buckler:** This buckler-sized shield is segmented, allowing it to collapse into a housing bound to a gauntlet for easy storage. A small catch enables you to expand the shield quickly in battle when you’re in need of defense.

**Heavy Rondache:** Similar in size to a buckler, this chitin shield is intended to absorb as many blows as possible instead of deflecting attacks. It features multiple layers of chitin and is reinforced with additional wood.

**Hide Shield:** Hide shields come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Specialized tanning techniques combined with tough hides from creatures such as mekillot result in these particularly tough shields. The hardened hide of the shield still has enough flexibility to diminish the impact of battering and pummeling attacks.

**Meteor Shield:** Meteor shields are specifically designed with throwing in mind. A meteor shield is made from 
thin chitin and has quick-release straps, allowing for easy, long-distance throws.

**Razor Disc:** Several small blades line the outside edge of this chitin shield. This specialized throwing shield is common among warriors in Gulg, where its blades can cut down foliage as it flies.

**Salvo Shield:** This specialized chitin shield features an outer layer of angled wooden plates, which help deflect or redirect incoming ranged projectiles but don’t offer any additional protection against melee weapons.

**Swordstealer Shield:** This specialized chitin shield features several wide bone hooks along its surface. These hooks help catch swords and other blades, reducing the impact of their incoming attacks.

**Tortoise Blade:** The tortoise blade consists of a foot‐long dagger mounted to the center of a shell. The tortoise blade is strapped over the wearer’s hand, preventing them from holding anything but the tortoise blade.

**Tower Shield:** These massive shields can be used to provide cover to nearly the entire body. Due to their size, they are typically made of wood reinforced with bone or chitin.

**Wooden Shield:** Though they come in a variety of shapes and sizes, the protection offered by wooden shields comes from the stoutness of their materials. While wooden shields are less expensive than chitin shields, they break more easily.

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# Weapons

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Most characters on Athas carry weapons, ranging from mighty warhammers to graceful bows to even simple clubs. Details on how you calculate the bonuses, modifiers, and penalties for attack rolls and damage rolls are summarized below, followed by the rules for weapons and dozens of weapon choices.<br>
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## Attack Rolls

When making an attack roll, determine the result by rolling 1d20 and adding your attack modifier for the weapon or unarmed attack you’re using. Modifiers for melee and ranged attacks are calculated differently.

<div class="thinbar rule">
Melee attack modifier = Strength modifier (or optionally Dexterity for a finesse weapon) + proficiency bonus + other bonuses + penalties </div><br>

<div class="thinbar rule">
Ranged attack modifier = Dexterity modifier + proficiency bonus + other bonuses + penalties </div><br>

Bonuses, and penalties apply to these rolls just like with other types of checks.

### Multiple attack penalty
If you use an action with the attack trait more than once on the same turn, your attacks after the first take a penalty called a multiple attack penalty. Your second attack takes a –5 penalty, and any subsequent attacks take a –10 penalty.

The multiple attack penalty doesn’t apply to attacks you make when it isn’t your turn (such as attacks made as part of a reaction). You can use a weapon with the agile trait to reduce your multiple attack penalty.

## Damage Rolls
When the result of your attack roll with a weapon or unarmed attack equals or exceeds your target’s AC, you hit your target! Roll the weapon or unarmed attack’s damage die and add the relevant modifiers, bonuses, and penalties to determine the amount of damage you deal. Calculate a damage roll as follows.

<div class="thinbar rule">
Melee damage roll = damage die of weapon or unarmed 
attack + Strength modifier + bonuses + penalties</div><br>

<div class="thinbar rule">
Ranged damage roll = damage die of weapon + Strength 
modifier for thrown weapons + bonuses + penalties</div><br>

Ranged weapons don’t normally add an attribute modifier to the damage roll, though weapons with the propulsive trait
add half your Strength modifier (or your full modifier if it is a negative number), and thrown weapons add your full
Strength modifier.

Characters with devastating attacks add one or more weapon damage dice to your damage roll. These extra dice are the same die size as the weapon’s damage die. At higher levels, most characters also gain extra damage from weapon specialization.

## Critical Hits
When you make an attack and succeed with a natural 20 (the number on the die is 20), or if the result of your attack exceeds the target’s AC by 10, you achieve a critical success (also known as a critical hit).

If you critically succeed at a Strike, your attack deals double damage. Other attacks, such as spell attack rolls and some uses of the Athletics skill, describe the specific effects that occur when their outcomes are critical successes.

## Unarmed Attacks
Almost all characters start out trained in unarmed attacks. You can Strike with your fist or another body part, calculating your attack and damage rolls in the same way you would with a weapon. Unarmed attacks can belong to a weapon group, and they might have weapon traits. However, unarmed attacks aren’t weapons, and effects and abilities that work with weapons never work with unarmed attacks unless they specifically say so.

Certain ancestry feats, class features, and spells give access to special, more powerful unarmed attacks. Details for those unarmed attacks are provided in the abilities that grant them.

## Improvised Weapons
If you attack with something that wasn’t built to be a weapon, such as a chair or a vase, you’re making an attack with an improvised weapon. Improvised weapons are simple weapons. You take a –2 item penalty to attack rolls with an improvised weapon. The GM determines the amount and type of damage the attack deals, if any, as well as any weapon traits the improvised weapon should have.

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## Weapon Statistics

The tables on pages 247–248 list the statistics for various melee and ranged weapons that you can purchase. The tables present the following statistics. All weapons listed in this chapter have an item level of 0.

### Damage
This entry lists the weapon’s damage die and the type of damage it deals: B for bludgeoning, P for piercing, or S for slashing.

##### Damage Dice

Each weapon lists the damage die used for its damage roll. A standard weapon deals one die of damage, but a magical striking rune can increase the number of dice rolled, as can some special actions and spells. These additional dice use the same die size as the weapon or unarmed attack’s normal damage die.

##### Counting Damage Dice

Effects based on a weapon’s number of damage dice include only the weapon’s damage die plus any extra dice from a striking rune. They don’t count extra dice from abilities, critical specialization effects, property runes, weapon traits, or the like.

##### Increasing Die Size

When an effect calls on you to increase the size of your weapon damage dice, instead of using its normal weapon damage dice, use the next larger die, as listed below (so if you were using a d4, you’d use a d6, and so on). If you are already using a d12, the size is already at its maximum. You can’t increase your weapon damage die size more than once.

### Range
Ranged and thrown weapons have a range increment. Attacks with these weapons work normally up to that distance. Attack rolls beyond a weapon’s range increment take a –2 penalty for each additional multiple of that increment between you and the target. Attacks beyond the sixth range increment are impossible. For example, a shortbow takes no penalty against a target up to 60 feet away, a –2 penalty against a target beyond 60 feet but up to 120 feet away, and a –4 penalty against a target beyond 120 feet but up to 180 feet away, and so on, up to 360 feet.

### Reload
While all weapons need some amount of time to get into position, many ranged weapons also need to be loaded and reloaded. This entry indicates how many Interact actions it takes to reload such weapons. This can be 0 if drawing ammunition and firing the weapon are part of the same action. If an item takes 2 or more actions to reload, the GM determines whether they must be performed together as an activity, or you can spend some of those actions during one turn and the rest during your next turn.

An item with an entry of “—” must be drawn to be thrown, which usually takes an Interact action just like drawing any other weapon. Reloading a ranged weapon and drawing a thrown weapon both require a free hand. Switching your grip to free a hand and then to place your hands in the grip necessary to wield the weapon are both included in the actions you spend to reload a weapon.

### Bulk
This entry gives the weapon’s Bulk. A weapon’s Bulk is increased or decreased if it’s sized for creatures that aren’t Small or Medium size.

### Hands
Some weapons require one hand to wield, and others require two. A few items, such as a longbow, list 1+ for its Hands entry. You can hold a weapon with a 1+ entry in one hand, but the process of shooting it requires using a second to retrieve, nock, and loose an arrow. This means you can do things with your free hand while holding the bow without changing your grip, but the other hand must be free when you shoot. To properly wield a 1+ weapon, you must hold it in one hand and also have a hand free.

Weapons requiring two hands typically deal more damage. Some one-handed weapons have the two-hand trait, causing them to deal a different size of weapon damage die when used in two hands. In addition, some abilities require you to wield a weapon in two hands. You meet this requirement while holding the weapon in two hands, even if it doesn’t require two hands or have the two-hand trait.

### Group
A weapon or unarmed attack’s group classifies it with similar weapons. Groups affect some abilities and what the weapon does on a critical hit if you have access to that weapon or unarmed attack’s critical specialization effects.

### Weapon Traits
The traits a weapon or unarmed attack has are listed in this entry. Any trait that refers to a “weapon” can also apply to an unarmed attack that has that trait.

### Ammunition
Some entries in the ranged weapons tables are followed by an entry for the type of ammunition that weapon launches. The damage die is determined by the weapon, not the ammunition. Because that and other relevant statistics vary by weapon, ammunition entries list only the name, quantity, Price, and Bulk. Using ammunition destroys it.

### Inferior Material and Athasian Weapons

Metal is rare on Athas, and many weapons ordinarily crafted using metal components are extremely expensive.

Unworked iron is worth 100 gp per pound on average, but can cost much, much more in some places.

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#### Table 6-5: ATHASIAN MELEE WEAPONS
| Simple Weapons | Price | Damage | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Club | 0  | 1d6 b | 1 | 1 | Club | Thrown 10 ft. | 
| Dagger | 2 sp  | 1d4 P | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, finesse, thrown 10 ft., versatile S | 
| Gauntlet | 2 sp  | 1d4 B | L | 1 | Brawling | Agile, free-hand | 
| Light mace | 4 sp  | 1d4 B | L | 1 | Club | Agile, finesse, shove | 
| Longspear | 5 sp  | 1d8 P | 2 | 2 | Spear | Reach | 
| Mace | 1 gp  | 1d6 B | 1 | 1 | Club | Shove | 
| Morningstar | 1 gp  | 1d6 B | 1 | 1 | Club | Versatile P | 
| Puchik | 3 sp  | 1d4 P | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, deadly d6, gladiator, monk | 
| Quabone| 5 sp | 1d4 B | L | 1 | Club | Agile, finesse, nonlethal, versatile S |
| Sickle | 2 sp  | 1d4 S | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, finesse, trip | 
| Spear | 1 sp  | 1d6 P | 1 | 1 | Spear | Monk, thrown 20 ft. | 
| Staff | 0  | 1d4 B | 1 | 1 | Club | Monk, two-hand d8 |

| Uncommon Simple Weapons | Price | Damage | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Singing Sticks | 1 sp  | 1d4 B | L | 1 | Brawling | Agile, finesse, gladiator, monk, parry, twin | 
| Talid | 3 sp | 1d4 P | L | 1 | Brawling | Agile, free-hand, gladiator, versatile S |
| Tonfa | 5 sp | 1d4 B | L | 1 | Club | Agile, finesse, nonlethal, parry |
| Widow's Knife | 4 sp | 1d4 S | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, finesse, injection |

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Worked metal is even more expensive, as craftsmen who actually know how to craft metal items are rare at best. Most metal weapons are items dating back to the Green Age or have been crafted from the meager resources of Tyr’s iron mines.

Due to the rarity of metal, weapons and other items constructed primarily from must be crafted using the Crafting with Precious Materials rules. Low-grade metal costs 100 gp per Bulk.

For example, 10 low-grade metal‐tip arrows cost 10 gp. Due to the extremely high cost of metal weaponry, most weapons from the <i>Core Rulebook</i> are constructed from inferior, but functional, materials instead on Athas. Most common are bone and stone such as flint or obsidian, but treated wood is sometimes used as well. Weapons constructed from inferior materials, such as bone longsword or an axe with a head made from stone, suffer a –1 penalty to attack and damage rolls and gain additional traits based on the material type. This penalty cannot reduce damage dealt below 1. These weapons cost the normal listed price in the <i>Core Rulebook</i>.

The following weapon groups can be constructed from non‐metal materials without penalty: bows (and arrows), clubs, darts, flails, knifes, shields, slings (and bullets), spears, and whips.

Furthermore, due to the rarity of metal, Athas has its share of unique weapons designed to be constructed from non–metal materials;
as such, they do not suffer from the inferior materials penalties but gain the weapon traits for the material used. <br><br>

#### Table 6-6: Damaging Weapons
| Material | Hardness | HP | BT | Weapons Allowed | Traits |
|:---|:----:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Wood | 3 | 12 | 6 | Bows, Clubs, Flails, Knifes, Spears | flaw, lightweight |  
| Bone | 4 | 16 | 8 | All | flaw, lightweight  | 
| Stone  | 4 | 16 | 8 | All | deadly, flaw, weighty |  
<div class="tablefooter rule">Your weapon’s statistics are based on the material it’s predominantly made from. </div>

## Weapon Traits
These weapons include the following traits, in addition to any described in the Core Rulebook.

**Deadly:** All Stone weapons include the deadly trait with a die size one higher than the base weapon to a maximum of d12. If the weapon already includes the deadly trait, increase the die size by one to a maximum of d12. If the weapon has fatal, increase the die size by one to a maximum of d12.

**Flaw:** A player can choose to reroll a critical miss or on a critical hit can choose to do max damage, if a player chooses this effect the weapon takes 1d6 damage and reduces max hitpoints by 1.

**Inferior:** Weapons constructed from inferior materials, such as bone longsword or an axe with a head made from stone, suffer a –1 penalty to attack and damage rolls.

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#### Table 6-7: ATHASIAN MELEE WEAPONS
| Martial Weapons | Price | Damage | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Alak | 9 sp  | 1d6 P | 1 | 1 | Flail | Disarm, grapple, trip | 
| Bastard Sword | 4 gp  | 1d8 S | 1 | 1 | Sword | Inferior, two-hand d12 | 
| Battle axe | 1 gp  | 1d8 S | 1 | 1 | Axe | Inferior, sweep | 
| Bo Staff | 2 sp  | 1d8 B | 2 | 2 | Club | Monk, parry, reach, trip | 
| Datchi Club | 1 gp  | 1d10 B | 2 | 2 | Club | Backswing, reach, shove |
| Forearm Axe | 1 gp  | 1d8 S | 1 | 1 | Axe | Free-hand, gladiator, sweep |  
| Falchion | 3 gp  | 1d10 S | 2 | 2 | Sword | Forceful, inferior, sweep | 
| Flail | 8 sp  | 1d6 B | 1 | 1 | Flail | Disarm, sweep, trip | 
| Glaive | 1 gp  | 1d8 S | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Deadly d8, forceful, inferior, reach |
| Gouge | 8 sp  | 1d10 P | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Reach, shove | 
| Greataxe | 2 gp  | 1d12 S | 2 | 2 | Axe | Inferior, sweep | 
| Greatclub | 1 gp  | 1d10 B | 2 | 2 | Club | Backswing, shove | 
| Greatpick | 1 gp  | 1d10 P | 2 | 2 | Pick | Fatal d12, inferior | 
| Greatsword | 2 gp | 1d12 S | 2 | 2 | Sword | Inferior, versatile P |
| Guisarme | 2 gp  | 1d10 S | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Inferior, reach, trip | 
| Halberd | 2 gp  | 1d10 P | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Inferior, reach, versatile S | 
| Hatchet | 4 sp | 1d6 S | L | 1 | Axe | Agile, inferior, sweep, thrown 10 ft. |
| Impaler | 1 gp  | 1d6 P | 1 | 1 | Pick | Fatal d10, sweep | 
| Lance | 1 gp | 1d8 P | 2 | 2 | Spear | Deadly d8, jousting d6, reach |
| Light hammer | 3 sp | 1d6 B | L | 1 | Hammer | Agile, inferior, thrown 20 ft. |
| Light pick | 4 sp | 1d4 P | L | 1 | Pick | Agile, fatal d8, inferior |
| Longsword | 1 gp | 1d8 S | 1 | 1 | Sword | Inferior, versatile P |
| Main-gauche | 5 sp | 1d4 P | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, disarm, finesse, parry, versatile S |
| Maul | 3 gp | 1d12 B | 2 | 2  | Hammer | Inferior, shove |
| Pick | 7 sp | 1d6 P | 1 | 1 | Pick | Fatal d10, inferior |
| Ranseur | 2 gp | 1d10 P | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Disarm, inferior, reach |
| Sabre | 2 gp | 1d6 S | 1 | 1 | Sword | Deadly d8, disarm, finesse, inferior |
| Sap | 1 sp | 1d6 B | L | 1 | Club | Agile, nonlethal |
| Scimitar | 1 gp | 1d6 S | 1 | 1 | Sword | Forceful, inferior, sweep |
| Scythe | 2 gp | 1d10 S | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Deadly d10, inferior, trip |
| Shield bash | — | 1d4 B | — | 1 | Shield | — |
| Shield boss | 5 sp | 1d6 B | — | 1 | Shield | Attached to shield |
| Shield spikes | 5 sp | 1d6 P | — | 1 | Shield | Attached to shield |
| Shortsword | 9 sp | 1d6 P | L | 1 | Sword | Agile, finesse, inferior, versatile S |
| Trident | 1 gp | 1d8 P | 1 | 1 | Spear | Thrown 20 ft. |
| War flail | 2 gp | 1d10 B | 2 | 2 | Flail | Disarm, sweep, trip |
| Warhammer | 1 gp | 1d8 B | 1 | 1 | Hammer | Inferior, shove |
| Whip | 1 sp | 1d4 S | 1 | 1 | Flail | Disarm, finesse, nonlethal, reach, trip |

</div>

**Lightweight:** These weapon’s Bulk is reduced by 1 (or to light Bulk if its normal Bulk is 1, with no effect on an 
item that normally has light Bulk). This trait does not apply to bows or clubs.

**Weighty:** These weapon's Bulk is increased by 1 (or to 1 Bulk if its normal Bulk is L).

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#### Table 6-8: ATHASIAN MELEE WEAPONS
| Uncommon Martial Weapons | Price | Damage | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Bard's friend | 9 sp  | 1d4 P | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, backstabber, deadly d8, finesse | 
| Carrikal | 2 gp  | 1d8 S | 1 | 1 | Axe | Forceful, gladiator, sweep |
| Elven curve blade | 4 gp | 1d8 S | 2 | 2 | Sword | Elf, finesse, forceful, inferior |
| Garrote, bard's | 4 gp  | 1d4 S | L | 1 | Brawling | Agile, backstabber, deadly d8, finesse, grapple |
| Handfork | 7 sp  | 1d6 P | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, disarm, tarek |
| Heartpick | 1 gp  | 1d8 P | 1 | 1 | Pick | Fatal 1d10, tarek, trip |
| Kama | 1 gp | 1d6 S | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, monk, trip |
| Khakkara | 2 gp | 1d6 B | 1 | 1 | Club | Monk, shove, two-hand d10, versatile P |
| Khopesh | 2 gp  | 1d8 S | 1 | 1 | Sword | Inferior, trip |
| Ko• | 5 sp  | 1d4 S | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, deadly d8, finesse, kreen, versatile P |
| Kukri | 6 sp | 1d6 S | L | 1 | Knife | Agile, finesse, trip |
| Lotulis | 3 gp  | 1d8 S | 2 | 2 | Spear | Agile, backswing, finesse, gladiator, sweep  |
| Macuahuitl, small | 1 gp  | 1d4 B | L | 1 | Club | Draji, fatal d8, versatile S | 
| Macuahuitl | 2 gp  | 1d6 B | 1 | 1 | Club | Draji, fatal d10, versatile S | 
| Macuahuitl, great | 5 gp  | 1d8 B | 2 | 2 | Club | Draji, fatal d12, versatile S | 
| Master's whip | 5 sp  | 1d4 S | L | 1 | Flail | Disarm, finesse, reach, trip | 
| Mekillot sap | 5 sp  | 1d6 B | 1 | 2 | Club | Backswing, nonlethal, reach, trip | 
| Nunchaku | 2 sp | 1d6 B | L | 1 | Club | Backswing, disarm, finesse, monk |
| Sai | 6 sp | 1d4 P|  L | 1 | Knife | Agile, disarm, finesse, monk, versatile B |
| Skyhammer | 3 gp  | 1d8 B | 2 | 2 | Flail | Backswing, disarm, reach, trip | 
| Slodak | 5 sp  | 1d6 P | L | 1 | Sword | Agile, finesse, lizardfolk, versatile S | 
| Spear, double-tipped | 3 gp  | 1d6 P | 1 | 2 | Spear | Agile, finesse, gladiator, thrown 20 ft. | 
| Spiked chain | 3 gp | 1d8 S | 1 | 2 | Flail | Disarm, finesse, trip |
| Temple sword | 2 gp | 1d8 S | 1 | 1 | Sword | Inferior, monk, trip |
| Thanak | 1 gp | 1d6 S | 1 | 1 | Sword | Agile, finesse, lizardfolk |
| Tkaesali | 1 gp  | 1d8 S | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Deadly d8, lizardfolk, reach, sweep, trip |
| Weighted pike | 4 gp  | 1d8 P | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Reach, shove, versatile B |
| Wrist razor | 2 sp  | 1d4 S | L | 1 | Brawling | Agile, deadly d8, disarm, finesse, free-hand, monk|

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## Melee Weapon<br> Descriptions

Each of the weapons listed in Table 6–5 and 6-6 are detailed below.

**Alak:** An alak consists of a 2‐foot long shaft of bone or wood, with four serrated bones tied to the sharp end, like the four prongs of a grappling hook.

**Alhulak:** The alhulak consists of an alak tied to a 5‐foot long leather cord, which wraps around your wrist at the other end.

**Bard's Friend:** This weapon is crafted with several<br> obsidian blades and wooden prongs, which are fastened to a handle. Several small spikes jut out from where the knuckles hold the weapon.

**Cahulak:** A cahulak consists of two alaks (see above)<br> joined by a 5‐foot rope.

**Carrikal:** The sharpened jawbone of a large creature is <br>lashed to a haft. The jagged edges are sharpened, forming a sort of battleaxe with two forward‐facing heads.

**Chatkcha:** This thri-kreen throwing weapon is used primarily for hunting small game. It is a lightweight, three bladed weapon.

**Crusher:** The crusher is made from a large stone or metal weight, mounted at the end of a 15‐foot long shaft of springy wood. The weight is whipped back and forth.

**Datchi Club:** This weapon, generally found in the arenas, is made by affixing a 4‐5 foot length of dried insect hive or roots to a three‐foot long shaft. Teeth, claws, or obsidian shards are embedded into the head of the weapon.

**Dragon's Paw:** Popular in the arenas, the dragon’s paw consists of a five or six‐foot long pole, with a blade on either end. A basket guards your hands from attack.

**Forearm Axe:** Strapped to the forearm like a buckler, the forearm axe resembles a double‐headed battleaxe, with the wearer’s arm serving as the haft of the axe.

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#### Table 6-9: ATHASIAN MELEE WEAPONS
| Uncommon Advanced Weapons | Price | Damage | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Alhulak | 1 gp  | 1d6 P | 1 | 2 | Flail  | Finesse, gladiator, grapple, reach, sweep, trip | 
| Cahulaks | 2 gp  | 1d6 P | 2 | 2 | Flail | Agile, finesse, gladiator, grapple, reach, sweep, trip | 
| Chatkcha | 5 sp | 1d4 S | L | 1 | Knife | Finesse, kreen, recovery, thrown 30 feet |
| Crusher | 2 gp | 1d10 B | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Deadly d10, forceful, reach | 
| Dragon's paw | 2 gp | 1d8 P | 2 | 2 | Spear | Agile, backswing, gladiator, parry, sweep | 
| Dwarven war axe | 3 gp | 1d8 S | 2 | 1 | Axe | Dwarf, inferior, sweep, two-hand d12 |
| Gythka | 1 gp | 1d8 S | 2 | 2 | Spear | Agile, backswing, finesse, kreen, sweep | 
| Kyorkcha | 8 sp | 1d6 S | L | 1 | Knife | Finesse, kreen, rare, recovery, thrown 30 feet |
| Lajav | 2 gp | 1d6 B | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Grapple, kreen, reach | 
| Trikal | 2 gp  | 1d8 P | 2 | 2 | Polearm | Deadly d8, gladiator, reach, trip, versatile S |

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**Garrote, Bard's:** This giant hair is thin and hard to see, making it perfect for an ambush. The wielder wraps the giant hair around a vulnerable spot, such as the neck, and twists it to inflict potentially fatal lacerations.

**Gouge:** Worn in an over‐the‐shoulder harness, the gouge is commonly found in the Nibenese infantry. A wide blade of bone, obsidian or chitin is mounted to a three‐foot long shaft of wood.

**Gythka:** This thri-kreen polearm has wicked, curved blades at either end. The weapon's thick shaft allows it to be wielded similarly to a quarterstaff.

**Handfork:** The handfork, most popular among tareks, is a slicing weapon with a handle‐grip and obsidian blades that join above the knuckles in an “M” shape.

**Heartpick:** The name of this weapon expresses its simple intent. Usually made of bone, the heartpick is a hammer like weapon with a serrated pick on the front, and a heavy, flat head on the back.

**Impaler:** Like many Athasian weapons, the impaler was developed for the arenas. Two blades are mounted parallel to the end of a four‐foot long shaft, forming a bladed ‘T’. The impaler is swung horizontally or vertically with great force.

**Khopesh:** This curved sickle sword has a pointed tip, allowing it to be swung like a handaxe or thrust like a short sword. The tip of a khopesh is usually hooked so it can be used to disarm an opponent's shield or weapon.

**Ko•:** The Ko• combines a jagged blade that has been carved from a roughly oval stone. This exotic weapon of kreen manufacture is typically used in matching pairs. The ko• is designed to pierce chitin, shells, and tough skin.

**Kyorkcha:** The kyorkcha is a more dangerous variant of the chatkcha. This tohr‐kreen weapon consists of a curved blade, much like a boomerang, with several protrusions along the edge, as well as jutting spikes near each end.

**Lajav:** The lajav is a kreen weapon designed to capture opponents. It incorporates two flattened bones, joined in a hinge about two feet from the end. The result looks something like a nutcracker and is used roughly in the same crushing way.

**Lotulis:** Two barbed, crescent shaped blades adorn either end of the lotulis, a double weapon once popular in the arena of Tyr.

**Macahuitl:** A macahuitl is a sword painstakingly crafted using a core of solid wood, with small, sharp shards of obsidian embedded into the wood to form an edge on two opposite sides of the weapon. These weapons are swung like the scimitar, though macahuitls tend to require more maintenance.

The macahuitl is especially popular among the Draji, who seem to be the only ones who can easily pronounce this weapon’s Draji name (“ma‐ka‐wheet‐luh”). Non‐Draji simply refer to it as the “obsidian sword” or the “Draji sword.”

**Master's Whip:** The master’s whip is usually braided from giant hair or leather, and has shards of chitin, obsidian or bone braided into the end of the whip.

**Mekillot Sap:** The mekillot sap is a soft but tough large leather bag filled with fine gravel or sand, stitched together with giant’s hair, and tied to the end of a five‐foot rope. The throwing sap is swung overhead with both hands.

**Puchik:** A bone or obsidian punching dagger.

**Quabone:** Four jawbones are fastened around a central haft, at right angles to one another. The quabone is often used in the arenas.

**Singing Stick:** A singing stick is a carefully crafted and polished club, often used in pairs. Singing sticks draw
their name from the characteristic whistling sound they make when used.

**Skyhammer:** The sky hammer consists of a 10‐foot length of rope with a large hammer‐like object at one end. Its rope is coiled and swung around the body two‐handedly until enough momentum is gained to hurl the hammer at a target.

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#### Table 6-10: ATHASIAN RANGED  WEAPONS
| Simple Weapons | Price | Damage | Range | Reload | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Atlatl | 2 sp | 1d6 P | 60 ft. | 1 | 1 | 1 | Dart | Propulsive | 
| Blowgun | 1 sp | 1 P | 20 ft. | 1 | L | 1 | Dart | Agile, nonlethal |
|   10   blowgun   darts | 5 cp | | | | L |
| Bola | 5 sp | 1d6 B | 20 ft. | — | L | 1 | Sling | Nonlethal, ranged trip, thrown |
| Crossbow | 3 gp | 1d8 P | 120 ft. | 1 | 1 | 2 | Crossbow | — |
|   10 bolts | 1 sp | | | | L |
| Dart | 1 cp | 1d4 P | 20 ft.|  — | L | 1 | Dart | Agile, thrown | 
| Hand crossbow | 3 gp | 1d6 P | 60 ft. | 1 | L | 1 | Crossbow | — |
|   10 bolts | 1 sp | | | | L |
| Heavy crossbow | 4 gp | 1d10 P | 120 ft. | 2 | 2 | 2 | Crossbow | — |
|   10 bolts | 1 sp | | | | L |
| Javelin | 1 sp | 1d6 P | 30 ft. | — | L | 1 | Dart | Thrown | 
| Sling | 0 | 1d6 B | 50 ft. | 1 | L | 1 | Sling | Propulsive | 
|   10 sling bullets | 1 cp | | | | L |

| Uncommon Simple Weapons | Price | Damage | Range | Reload | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Pelota | 2 sp | 1d4 P| 10 ft. | 0 | L | 1 | Sling | Propulsive, thrown | 
| Pelota, Hinged | 4 sp | 1d4 P | 10 ft. | 0 | L | 1 | Sling | Propulsive, thrown, varies |

| Martial Weapons | Price | Damage | Range | Reload | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Alchemical bomb | Varies | Varies | 20 ft. | — | L | 1 | Bomb | Varies |
| Arbalest | 12 gp | 1d10 P | 110 ft. | 1 | 2 | 2 | Crossbow | Backstabber |
|   10 bolts | 1 sp | | | | L |
| Bola | 5 sp | 1d6 B | 20 ft. | — | L | 1 | Sling | Nonlethal, ranged trip, thrown | 
| Composite longbow | 20 gp | 1d8 P | 100 ft. | 0 | 2 | 1+ | Bow | Deadly d10, propulsive, volley 30 ft. | 
|   10 arrows | 1 sp | | | | L |
| Composite shortbow | 14 gp | 1d6 P | 60 ft. | 0 | 1 |1+ | Bow | Deadly d10, propulsive | 
|   10 arrows | 1 sp | | | | L |
| Longbow | 6 gp | 1d8 P | 100 ft. | 0 | 2 | 1+ | Bow | Deadly d10, volley 30 ft. |
|   10 arrows | 1 sp | | | | L |
| Shortbow | 3 gp | 1d6 P | 60 ft. | 0 | 1 | 1+ | Bow | Deadly d10 |
|   10 arrows | 1 sp | | | | L |

| Uncommon Martial Weapons | Price | Damage | Range | Reload | Bulk | Hands | Group | Weapon Traits |
|:---|:-----------:| :----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| Dejada | 3 gp | 1d8 P | 30 ft. | 1 | L | 1+ | Sling | Gladiator, propulsive | 
| Splashbow | 5 gp | 1d8 P | 60 ft. | 2 | 2 | 2 | Bow |  | 
| Shuriken | 1 cp | 1d4 P | 20 ft. | 0 | — | 1 | Dart | Agile, monk, thrown |

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**Slodak:** The slodak is a wooden short sword, carved from young hardwood trees and treated with a mixture of tree sap and id fiend blood. This treatment renders the blade of the weapon extremely strong, making it a deadly weapon.

**Spear, Double-Tipped:** A long shaft ending with a metal spike on both ends and can be thrown.

**Talid:** The talid, also known as the gladiator’s gauntlet, is made of stiff leather with metal, chitin, or bone plating on the hand cover and all along the forearm. Spikes protrude from each of the knuckles and along the back of the hand. A sharp blade runs along the thumb and there is a 6‐inch spike on the elbow.

**Thanak:** The thanak is a chopping weapon of pterran manufacture resembling a jagged sword or sawblade. It consists of a pair of hardwood strips bound together, with a row of pterrax teeth protruding from between them along one edge of the weapon particularly capable of slicing through muscle and sinew.

**Tkaesali:** This polearm, commonly used by the nikaal, consists of long wooden haft topped with a circular, jagged blade.

**Tonfa:** The tonfa is a stick with a short handle and is popular among street‐patrolling Nibenese templars and their guards.

**Trikal:** Three blades project radially from the business end of a six‐foot long haft. A series of sharp serrated edges line the shaft below the foot‐long blades, while the far end of the weapon is weighted, in order to balance the weapon.

**Weighted Pike:** A solid head, generally stone or baked ceramic, is mounted on the end of a spear or a pike.

**Widow's Knife:** Named for a similar-looking harvesting tool used in the verdant belts, this weapon has a wide blade on one end of a wood or an ivory handle. Hidden within the handle are two spring-loaded prongs. A thumb latch on the handle releases the prongs.

**Wrist Razor:** Several shards of obsidian or bone are fastened to a strip of leather or other binding material or are lashed onto the forearm of the wielder.

## Ranged Weapon<br> Descriptions

Each of the weapons listed in Table 6–7 is detailed below.

**Atlatl:** The atlatl, sometimes called a “staff‐sling,” is a javelin‐throwing device that is swung over the shoulder, using both hands.

**Dejada:** The dejada allows the wielder to throw pelota (see the pelota description for details).

**Pelota:** Popular in arena games and increasingly popular in the street games of some city‐states, pelota are hollow leaden spheres with small holes that cause the sphere to whistle as it flies through the air. The surface of most pelota is studded with obsidian shards.

**Pelota, Hinged:** To the careless eye a hinged pelota looks like an ordinary pelota without obsidian spikes. Hinged pelota can be twisted open like a small jar. Bards and assassins often use this feature to insert a splash‐globe—a thin crystal sphere that contains acid, injury poison, contact poison, alchemical fire, or some other liquid. When the pelota strikes, the globe breaks, spilling the liquid through the holes of the pelota. Like pelota, hinged pelota can be thrown with a dejada. Hinged pelotas are also used as ammunition for the splashbow.

**Splashbow:** This exotic weapon looks like a misshapen crossbow, only three feet long from bow to handle, but with a horizontal bow nearly five feet wide. Rather than bolts, the splashbow fires hinged pelotas, which can be filled with splash–globes of alchemical fire, contact poison, acids, or other interesting liquids. Splash–globes burst on impact, spraying their contents like a
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# Spells

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
To make your mark on the world, you’ll need to have the right equipment, including armor, weapons, and other gear. This chapter presents the various equipment that you can purchase during character creation. You can usually find these items for sale in most cities and other large settlements.<br>
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## Spell Descriptions

#### Ancient Dust {2A}<div class="label">Cantrip 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cantrip">CANTRIP</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag silt">SILT</div>
<div class="tag void">void</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">divine, primal</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule area">15-foot cone</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">Fortitude</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You cough up a cloud of silt, echoing the dust from the sea of silt. Each creature in the area takes 1d6 void damage and 1 persistent void damage depending on its Fortitude save.</div>

<div class="rule result r4">The creature is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The creature takes half damage and no persistent damage.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature takes full damage and persistent damage.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature takes double damage and double the persistent damage.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp2">The initial negative damage increases by 1d6, and<br>     the persistent damage increases by 1.</div><br>

#### Conductive Weapon {2A}<div class="label">Spell 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag electricity">ELECTRICITY</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag rain">RAIN</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">arcane, divine, primal</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch; </span><span class="rule targets">1 weapon that is unattended or is wielded by you or a willing ally</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">
You channel powerful electric current through a weapon, zapping anyone the item hits. The target becomes a +1 shock weapon. If any target of an attack with the weapon is wearing metal armor or is primarily made of metal, the electricity damage die from the shock rune is 1d12.</div><br>

#### Gray Plague {2A}<div class="label">SPELL 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag disease">DISEASE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag void">VOID</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">divine, occult</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch; </span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">Fortitude</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">Your touch afflicts the target with Gray plague, which siphons fragments of their soul away to empower the Gray. The effect is based on the target's Fortitude save.

<b>Gray Plague</b> (disease) <b>Level</b> 9; The target can’t recover from the drained condition from Gray plague until the disease is cured; <b>Stage</b> 1 drained 1 (1 day); <b>Stage</b> 2 drained increases by 2 (1 day).</div>

<div class="rule result r4">The target is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The target takes 2 void damage per spell rank, and 
takes a –2 status penalty to saves against Gray plague for 1 day or until the target contracts it, whichever comes first</div>
<div class="rule result r2"> The target is afflicted with Gray plague at stage 1.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The target is afflicted with Gray plague at stage 2.</div><br>

#### Magma Shield {1A}<div class="label">Cantrip 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cantrip">CANTRIP</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag magma">MAGMA</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">divine, primal</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">until the start of your next turn</span><br>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">basic Reflex</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You summon a layer of magma to keep you from harm. This cantrip functions as the shield spell, except it has Hardness 2 and 4 Hit Points. If this shield breaks, provided the breaker is within 5 feet, they must succeed at a basic Reflex save or take 1d4 fire damage from the magma pieces.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightened3">The shield has Hardness 4 and 8 Hit Points, and<br>    the damage increases to 1d4 + your spellcasting attribute<br>    modifier.</div>
<div class="rule heightened5">The shield has Hardness 7 and 16 Hit Points, and    the damage increases to 2d4 + your spellcasting attribute<br>    modifier.</div>
<div class="rule heightened7">The shield has Hardness 10 and 24 Hit Points, and    the damage increases to 3d4 + your spellcasting attribute<br>    modifier.</div>
<div class="rule heightened9">The shield has Hardness 12 and 32 Hit Points, and    the damage increases to 4d4 + your spellcasting attribute<br>    modifier.</div><br>

#### Obsidian Shards {2A}<div class="label">Cantrip 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag attack">ATTACK</div>
<div class="tag cantrip">CANTRIP</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">arcane, divine, occult, primal</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">60 feet</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">AC</span>
</div></div>

<div class="rule"> You shape three shards out of a piece of obsidian in your possession and send them flying in a tight group toward one target. Make a spell attack roll against your target’s AC. The shards deal 3d4 piercing damage and might cause bleeding. The obsidian returns to you after the attack.</div>

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<div class="box">
<div class="rule result r4">The target takes double damage and 1 persistent bleed damage.</div>
<div class="rule result r3"> The target takes full damage.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1">You send one additional shard, increasing the regular damage by 1d4 and increasing the persistent 
bleed damage on a critical hit by 1.</div><br>

#### Ray of Sunlight {2A}<div class="label">Cantrip 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag attack">ATTACK</div>
<div class="tag cantrip">CANTRIP</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag sun">SUN</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">divine, primal</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">120 feet</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You blast a ray of sunlight. Make a spell attack roll. The ray deals fire damage equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier.

<div class="rule result r4">The target takes double damage and is Dazzled for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">the target takes normal damage.</div></div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1">The damage increases by 1d4.</div><br>

#### Rousing Splash {2A}<div class="label">Cantrip 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cantrip">CANTRIP</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag rain">RAIN</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">divine, primal</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">60 feet</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You cause a splash of cold water to descend on an ally’s head, granting some temporary vigor. The target gains 1d4 temporary Hit Points, which last for 1 minute. The target is then temporarily immune to the temporary Hit Points from rousing splash for 10 minutes. The target can also attempt an immediate flat check to recover from a single source of persistent acid or fire damage, with the DC reduction from appropriate assistance.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1">The amount of temporary Hit Points granted increases by 1d4.</div><br>

#### Wall of Magma {3A}<div class="label">SPELL 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag magma">MAGMA</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule traditions">arcane, primal</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">120 feet</span><br>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">You raise a wall of magma that burns creatures passing through it. You create either a 5-foot-thick wall of magma in a straight line up to 60 feet long and 10 feet high, or a 5-foot-thick, 10-foot-radius ring of magma with the same height. The wall stands vertically in either form; if you wish, the wall can be of a shorter length or height. Everything on each side of the wall is concealed from creatures on the opposite side. The wall is greater difficult terrain and any creature that crosses the wall or is occupying the wall's area at the start of its turn takes 5d6 fire damage.</div>

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# Focus Spells

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Some classes gain special spells that they cast using Focus Points instead of spell slots. These focus spells are listed below, organized by class.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

## Champion

#### Litany against evil {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag align">HOLY</div>
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">LITANY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">30 feet;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature that isn't holy</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 round</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">
Your litany rails against evil, interfering with the target's ability to react. The target must attempt a Will save. The target becomes temporarily immune to all of your litanies for 1 minute.
</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The target is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The target can't use reactions.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The target can't use reactions and is slowed 1.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The target can't use reactions and is slowed 2.
</div>

<br>

#### Litany of Righteousness {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">LITANY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">30 feet;</span><span class="rule targets">1 enemy creature</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 round</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">Your litany denounces an opponent, rendering it susceptible to the powers of your cause. The target gains weakness 7 to spirit damage. The target then becomes temporarily immune to all of your litanies for 1 minute.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1">The weakness increases by 1.</div><br>

#### Litany of Self-Interest {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag align">UNHOLY</div>
<div class="tag champion">CHAMPION</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">LITANY</div>
<div class="tag">MENTAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">30 feet;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">Will </span><span class="rule duration">1 round</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You give a speech that fills your target with a drive to improve themself to the exclusion of assisting others. A creature that wants to gain the benefit of this spell and doesn't care about its limitations can voluntarily fail the save. The target then becomes temporarily immune to all your litanies for 1 minute.
</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The target is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The target gains a +2 status bonus to attack rolls, Perception checks, saving throws, and skill checks. The target can't Aid other creatures, consider any creature an ally, or use spells or abilities that directly benefit another creature (as determined by the GM), even if they also benefit the target. Other creatures allied with the spell's target can still consider the target an ally and affect it accordingly.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightened8">The status bonus increases to +3.</div><br>

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## Druid

#### Apex Companion {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag druid">DRUID</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">30 feet;</span><span class="rule targets">1 animal companion in your service</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">You focus on the energies of all members of your animal companion’s species, transforming your animal companion into its apex battle form. Your animal companion gains the following statistics and abilities while in its apex form.

- Your animal companion becomes Huge, and its attacks have 15-foot reach. It must have enough space to expand into or the spell is lost.
- 30 temporary Hit Points.
- Darkvision.
- Your animal companion’s attack’s damage dice increase by one step, and its attack gains the deadly d12 trait.
- +10-foot status bonus to its Speeds.
- Ignores difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain.</div>

<br>

## Elemental

#### Lightning Form {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag electricity">ELECTRICITY</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag rain">RAIN</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule area">line up to 120 feet</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">basic reflex</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You transform into a bolt of lightning and move up to 120 feet in a line.  The lightning deals 18d6 electricity damage to all foes, with a basic Reflex save, but the lightning flows harmlessly around your allies. The movement prevents any reactions, except those that would counteract the spell's magic.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1">The electricity damage increases by 1d6.</div><br>

#### Magma Field {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag magma">MAGMA</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule area">ground within a 60-foot emanation</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">sustained up to 1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">The ground within the area transforms into a field of magma that assault and impede your foes. Enemies in the area when you Cast the Spell take 6d8 fire damage, with a basic Reflex save and deals 3d8 fire damage to any enemy that ends its turn in the area while the spell is sustained. The first time each round you Sustain the Spell, you can select one of the following effects to occur in the area.

- <b>Ensnare</b> The magma clumps around your foes, attempting to hold them in place. A foe within the area (or flying at most 20 feet above the area) must attempt a Reflex save. On a failure, it takes a –10-foot circumstance penalty to all Speeds for 1 round, and on a critical failure, it is immobilized for 1 round unless it Escapes.
- <b>Impede</b> The magma twists and writhes, making the entire area difficult terrain.
- <b>Wall</b> A <i>wall of magma</i> appears in the area, lasting for 1 round.

</div>

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<div class="rule">
In addition, once per round you can direct the magma to grab any target in the area (or flying up to 20 feet above the area) that you can see by using a single action, which has the concentrate and manipulate traits. Make a spell attack roll. On a success, the target takes 4d6 fire damage, 3d12 bludgeoning damage and takes a –10-foot circumstance penalty to all Speeds for 1 round; on a critical success, the target is immobilized for 1 round unless it Escapes.</div><br>

#### Silt Web {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag silt">SILT</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">30-foot burst;</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">Fortitude</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">Grasping tendrils of silt surges from you, dealing 14d4 void damage. Each creature in the area must attempt a Fortitude save.</div>

<div class="rule result r4">The creature is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The creature takes half damage and is enfeebled 1 for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature takes full damage and is enfeebled 2 for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature takes double damage and is stunned 1, enfeebled 2 for 1 round, and immobilized for 1 round or until it Escapes, whichever comes first.
</div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1">The void damage increases by 2d4</div><br>

#### Sunlight Burst {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag light">LIGHT</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag sun">SUN</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">500 feet;</span><span class="rule area">60-foot burst</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">Reflex</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">A globe of burning daylight explodes in the area, dealing 8d10 fire damage to creatures in the area, plus 8d4 additional spirit damage to unholy creatures. Each creature in the area must attempt a Reflex save.

If the globe overlaps with an area of magical darkness or affects a creature affected by magical darkness, sunlight burst attempts to counteract the darkness effect.</div>

<div class="rule result r4">The creature is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The creature takes half damage.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature takes full damage.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature takes double damage and becomes blinded by the daylight for an unlimited duration.
</div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1">The fire damage increases by 1d10 and the spirit damage against unholy creatures increases by 1d4.</div><br>

#### Unblinking Flame Emblem {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule trigger">Your last action was a successful Strike against an enemy. </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">3 rounds</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You emblazon the target with a fiery sigil that projects your sight and your flame onto them, allowing you and your allies to track their movements and making it easier to hit them. Attack rolls against the target gain a +1 status bonus, and successful Strikes against the target deal 1d6 fire damage, and 1d10 persistent fire damage on a critical hit. However, you're off-guard against other enemies, as the information from the emblem distracts you. The emblem takes your full attention; if you use unblinking flame emblem again before the original duration expires, the new casting replaces the previous casting.
</div></div>
<div class="rule heightened9">The fire damage increases to 1d8, and the persistent fire damage on a critical hit increases to 1d12.</div>

#### Unbreaking Wave Barrier {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag water">WATER</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule area">5-foot emanation</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">Fortitude;</span><span class="rule duration">sustained up to 1 minute</span>
</div></div>

<div class="rule">You create a protective circle around yourself that repels your foes. You gain a +1 status bonus to AC. Any creature other than you within the area, or attempting to move into the area, must attempt a Fortitude saving throw; a creature needs to attempt the Fortitude saving throw only once each round. If a creature pushed by unbreaking wave barrier would be pushed into a solid barrier or another creature, it stops at that point and takes 2d6 bludgeoning damage for every additional 5 feet it would've been pushed. On subsequent rounds, the first time you Sustain this Spell each round, you can increase the radius of the barrier by 5 feet.</div>

<div class="rule result r4">The creature is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The creature isn't pushed, but the space within the barrier is difficult terrain for it.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature is pushed 10 feet, and the space within the barrier is difficult terrain for it.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature is pushed 20 feet and knocked prone, and the space within the barrier is difficult terrain for it.
</div><br>

#### Unfolding Wind Blitz {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag air">AIR</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
</div>
<div class="rule">You move so quickly that you soar through the air, and nothing can react to you. Fly up to twice your Speed. This movement doesn't trigger reactions. At any point along the way, you can make Strikes against up to three different targets within range. You increase your multiple attack penalty for these attacks only after completing all of the attacks.</div><br>

#### Untwisting Iron Augmentation {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag earth">EARTH</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">Your attacks are treated as cold iron and silver, they gain the earth trait, and they gain a +1 status bonus to damage rolls per damage die.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightened9">Your attacks are also treated as adamantine.</div><br>

## Oracle

#### Flash of Brilliance {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">LIGHT</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
<div class="tag">VISUAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">30 feet;</span><span class="rule targets">1 object exuding light</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">Fortitude</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">You cause a light source within range, such as an object imbued with the light spell, a torch, or a sunrod, to burst with light. All creatures within a 20-foot burst of the target must attempt a Fortitude save. After the spell is cast, the spell extinguishes non-magical light automatically and attempts to counteract magical light.
</div>

<div class="rule result r4">The target is unaffected.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The creature is dazzled for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature is blinded for 1 round and dazzled for 1 minute. The creature can spend an Interact action rubbing its eyes to end the blinded condition.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">As failure, except the target is also off-guard as long as it is dazzled.
</div><br>

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#### Fractal Frosting {3A}<div class="label">FOCUS 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cold">COLD</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">
The frost lives on the fringe of your fingertips, splitting into tiny fractures of freezing rays. You cast <i>frostbite</i> as part of casting <i>fractal frosting</i>. </div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
For the duration of <i>fractal frosting</i>, you can cast <i>frostbite</i> with a range of 30 feet, but you create up to three orbs which must target three different targets.</div>
</div>

<div class="rule heightened9">For the duration, when you cast <i>frostbite</i>, the target takes a -5-foot status penalty to its speed for 1 round on a success or a -15-foot status penalty to its speed on a critical success.
</div><br>

#### Ice Shield {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 3</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cold">COLD</div>
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule duration">Sustain up to 1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You surround yourself with ice crystal shards. As long as the shield persists, its cold grants you fire resistance 5 and makes you immune to mild and severe environmental fire. When you sustain the spell it acts as the Raise a Shield action as a normal shield and gives a +1 circumstance bonus to AC. You can use the Shield Block reaction with the ice shield, which has Hardness 10, is immune to cold, and has 40 HP (with no Broken Threshold), and its Hardness is ignored against effects that have the fire trait.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule heightenedp2">The fire resistance increases by 5 and the HP increase by 10.</div><br>

#### Juggernaut of Jagged Stone {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You call upon the mountain within, and you become its avatar as rock formations form on your skin, giving you the appearance of a living mountain. You gain resistance 10 to physical damage and become immune to precision damage. You grow Large in
size and don't need to breathe. You can't cast spells, activate items, or use actions that have the attack or manipulate trait,
except those granted by this spell. You gain the following actions:

**Fist** {1A} +22 fist, **Damage** 3d12 bludgeoning

**Trample** {3A} Your size or smaller, fist, spell DC. If you move in a straight line, you can Stride up to triple your speed.

</div></div>

<div class="rule heightened8">Your grow Huge in size, and your fists have 10-foot reach with an attack modifier of +28 and deal an
additional damage die. </div>

<div class="rule heightened10">Your grow Gargantuan in size, and your fists
have 15-foot reach with an attack modifier of +33.
</div><br>

#### Light Prison {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">LIGHT</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
<div class="tag">VISUAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">30 feet;</span><span class="rule area">a cube up to 15 feet wide</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>

<div class="rule">You create prison of light in usually in the shape of a cube. Creatures on either side of the cube’s walls cannot see creatures on the other side. Creatures adjacent to the cube are dazzled and creatures that attempt to pass through the cube must attempt a Fortitude save to break through the panel of light.
</div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule result r4">The creature breaks through the panels which shatters the cube and ends the spell.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, except only the side they passed through is destroyed and the creature is dazzled for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature is blinded for 1 round and dazzled for 1 minute and it fails to move through the panel of light. The next time the creature attempts to pass through the cube it treats its degree of success as one better.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">As failure, except the creature does not treat their degree of success as one better the next time they pass through the cube. </div></div>

<div class="rule heightenedp2">You increase the size of the cube by 5 feet.</div><br>

#### Rainbow Blade {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 3</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">LIGHT</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
<div class="tag">VISUAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute;</span><span class="rule targets">1 weapon that has your active light spell as the target
</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">The target weapon’s bright light shimmers with all colors across the spectrum of light. The weapon deals additional fire damage equal to the weapon damage die and on a critical hit causes the target of the Strike to be dazzled for 1 round. Once during the duration, the wielder can choose to empower a single Strike, giving it additional effects. After this Strike is made, the light spell is extinguished and this spell ends.

</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The target is blinded for 1 round and dazzled for 1 minute.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The target is blinded for 1 round.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You are blinded for 1 round.
</div><br>

#### Raise Mountain {2A}<div class="label">FOCUS 3</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule area">15-foot cone</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>

<div class="rule">You stomp with all the weight of your mystery and the mountain rises from your stomp. Each square in the area raises 5 feet higher than the previous square, creating a rocky and uneven stair step formation with a height equal to the length of the cone. The area becomes difficult terrain and uneven ground.

If a creature occupies the space where you cast this spell, it is carried upward atop the formation. The creature can attempt a Reflex save (DC equal to the caster's spell DC); on a success, the creature can either attempt to Grab an Edge or move into an adjacent unoccupied square. If the rocky formations would rise higher than the ceiling, it firmly abuts the ceiling but does not rise any higher. </div>

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<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
A creature caught between the formation and a ceiling takes no damage (subject to GM discretion, such as is in the case of stalactites or other hazards) but becomes immobilized. The creature can attempt an Escape check to free itself, but it must thereafter Grab an Edge, Climb down, or fall from the top of the pillar. The Grab an Edge and Escape DCs are the same as the Reflex save.
</div></div>

<div class="rule heightenedp2">The cone length increases by 5 feet.
</div><br>

#### Rolling Rubble {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag">EARTH</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag">MOVE</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">20 feet</span>
</div></div>

<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You bring the rocky mountain beneath your feet to propel you forward. You move up to 20 feet, the rubble moving beneath your feet as it propels you to your destination, avoiding difficult terrain. You must end your movement on an unoccupied space where you have solid footing.<br> 
   Every square you pass through becomes difficult terrain. This movement isn't a Stride, but you
measure the distance in a similar way, and it still triggers reactions caused by movement. You can't transport anyone else with you. </div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp2">Increase the distance you move by 5 feet.
</div><br>

#### Sheets of Ice {2A} To {3A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cold">COLD</div>
<div class="tag">ORACLE</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule area">10-foot cone or longer</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule savingthrow">basic Reflex</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You throw a sheet of ice that stretches from your fingers. You deal 1d8 cold damage in a 10-foot cone. Creatures in the area must attempt a basic Reflex save. The ground in the area is covered in ice for 1 round, becoming difficult terrain and
uneven ground.<br>
   {2A} (somatic, verbal) The cone is 10 feet long<br>
   {3A} (material, somatic, verbal) The cone is 20 feet long.<br>
   <b>Two Rounds</b>  The cone is 30 feet long. If you spend 3 actions casting the spell, you can avoid finishing the spell and spend another 3 actions on your next turn to empower the spell even further. If you choose to do so, the damage dealt by this spell increases by 1d8, and the ice in the area lasts an additional round.</div></div>
<div class="rule heightenedp2">The initial damage, as well as the additional damage for the 2-round casting time, each increase by 1d8, and the number of rounds the ice lasts increases by 1 for the initial and the 2-round casting.</div><br>

## Psychic Warrior

#### Cascade Countermeasure {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 3</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule req">You're benefiting from Psionic Cascade</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">until the Psionic Cascade stance ends</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You quickly adjust your Arcane Cascade to offer magical protection. You gain resistance 5 against damage from 
spells. As normal, using Psionic Cascade again means you’ve ended the stance, and the spell ends.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule heightenedp3">The resistance increases by 5.</div><br>

#### Dimensional Assault {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
<div class="tag teleportation">TELEPORTATION</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">half your Speed</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">You tumble through space, making a short dimensional hop to better position yourself for an attack. Teleport to 
any square in range that’s within reach of a creature, and then make a melee Strike against one creature within your reach.
</div><br>

#### Force Fang {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag force">FORCE</div>
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">varies;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You briefly turn your attack into pure force to bypass your opponent’s defenses. Choose a target within your reach, or within the reach of a melee weapon you’re wielding. If you can use Psystrike with a ranged weapon (with the starlit span hybrid study, for example), you can target a creature in the first range increment of your ranged weapon. For an instant, you transform your weapon or unarmed attack into a spike of pure force, replacing all its normal statistics and abilities. The force fang automatically deals 1d4+1 force damage to the target.</div>
</div>
<div class="rule heightenedp2"> The damage increases by 1d4+1.</div><br>

#### Hasted Assault {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 7</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">You call upon your magic to speed up your attacks. You gain the quickened condition and can use the extra action 
each round for only Strike actions.
</div><br>

#### Runic Impression {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag manipulate">MANIPULATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">you or one weapon you're wielding</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule duration">1 minute</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">Your unarmed attacks or weapon gain the benefits of a weapon rune you choose when you cast this spell: <i>corrosive, flaming, frost, ghost touch, returning, shock, or thundering</i>. If you cast runic impression on a weapon, this spell ends if you cease holding the weapon.<br>
   If this spell would give a weapon more property runes than its normal maximum, one of the existing property runes (you choose) is suppressed until the spell ends. For unarmed attacks, if this spell would give you more property runes than you could have from handwraps of mighty blows, one of the existing property runes is similarly suppressed.</div></div>

<div class="rule heightened8">Add <i>keen</i> to the list of runes you can choose as well as the greater types of <i>corrosive, flaming, frost, shock</i>, and <i>thundering</i>.</div><br>

#### Shielding Strike {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>

<div class="rule">As you attack a foe, warding magic transforms your momentum into action and lifts your shield. Make a melee 
Strike. You can then either Raise your Shield if you’re wielding one or cast shield if you have the spell.
</div><br>

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#### Shooting Star {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule req">You’re wielding a ranged weapon or a thrown weapon.</span>
</div></div>

<div class="rule">
You let loose a projectile that flies true and leaves the blazing trail of a meteor behind it. Make a ranged Strike, ignoring the target’s concealment and reducing the target’s cover by one degree for this Strike only (greater to standard, standard to lesser, and lesser to none). </div>

<div class="rule">
If the Strike hits, the meteor trail hangs in the air. This gives the benefits of concealment negation and cover reduction to any attacks made against the creature (by anyone) until the start of your next turn.</div><br>

#### Spinning Staff {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule req">You’re wielding a staff.</span>
</div></div>

<div class="rule">You spin your staff with a twirling flourish, attacking two foes and transforming the momentum into psychic 
energy to charge for your next Psystrike. Make a melee Strike with your staff against one foe and then a second melee Strike with your staff against a different foe. Your multiple attack penalty applies to both of these attacks as normal.</div><br>

#### Thunderous Strike {1A}<div class="label">FOCUS 1</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag concentrate">CONCENTRATE</div>
<div class="tag psychicwarrior">PSYCHIC WARRIOR</div>
<div class="tag sonic">SONIC</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule req">You’re wielding a melee weapon in two hands.</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">You swing your massive weapon, creating a wave of sonic vibrations that topples creatures. Make a melee Strike with your two-handed weapon. Each creature in a 15-foot cone from you must attempt a basic Fortitude save against your spell DC or take 2 sonic damage. On a critical failure, the creature is knocked prone. The target of your Strike must be within the cone, or the effect fails.</div></div>

<div class="rule heightenedp1">The damage increases by 1.</div><br>

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# Ritual Spells

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
A ritual is an esoteric and complex spell that anyone can cast. It takes much longer to cast 
a ritual than a normal spell, but rituals can have more powerful effects.<br>
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

#### Atonement<div class="label">RITUAL 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">uncommon</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost"> rare incense and offerings worth a total value of 
20 gp × the target’s level; </span><span class="rule secondary">1, must be the ritual’s target </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck"> Nature or Religion (expert); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Nature or Religion (whichever is used for the primary check)</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">10 feet;</span><span class="rule targets"> another creature of up to 8th level who is a defiler</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">
You attempt to help a truly penitent defiler atone for its misdeeds, typically an action that is anathema to the prime elements or spirits of the land. If the creature isn’t truly penitent, the outcome is always a critical failure. This ritual uses Nature if the target is a druid, and Religion in all other cases.
</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The creature receives absolution for its misdeeds, allowing it to remove the defiling taint it currently has. Before the atonement is complete, the creature must perform a special quest or other task chosen by your element or spirit of the land, typically planting new vegetation. If completed during downtime, this task should take no less than 1 month. The caster resets the DC modifier to 0 due to previous defiling. </div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but the creature does not reset the DC modifier.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The creature does not receive absolution and must continue to meditate and redress its misdeeds. Any 
future atonement rituals for defiling cost half as much and gain a +4 circumstance bonus to primary and secondary checks.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The creature offends your element or spirit of the land and is permanently unable to atone for defiling. The creature will always be fealt as a defiler even if it's addiction level is 0. </div></div>
<div class="abilbox"><div>
<div class="rule heightenedp1"> Increase the maximum target level by 2 and the 
base cost by 20 gp. 
</div></div></div><br>

#### Defiler Metamorphosis<div class="label">RITUAL 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
<div class="tag unholy">UNHOLY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost">a specially constructed ziggurat costing no less than 50,0000 gp; </span><span class="rule secondary">1 </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck"> Arcana (master), Crafting (master); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Crafting</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">This spell transforms an arcane caster into the first stage of the Athasian Dragon species. The
caster’s type becomes dragon; he loses all previous types, and gains all advantages of the new type. The caster no longer can die of old age, and no longer suffers penalties to attributes for aging. The caster gains the ability to comprehend and speak any language of creatures that he interacts with, as the spell <i>truespeech</i>. This spell must be cast as a defiler spell and is a prerequisite for Dragon Dedication and the additional Dragon Metamorphosis feats.
</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The metamorphosis succeeds and you become clumsy 1, drained 1, doomed 1, and enfeebled 1 for 1 week; these conditions can't be removed or reduced by any means until the week has passed.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but each condition value is 2.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The metamorphosis fails.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You die. Casters killed this way frequently return as undead. </div></div>
<div class="abilbox"><div>
<div class="rule heightened7">In addition to the constructed ziggurat, 100 sentient creatures must be sacrificed using dragon magic. </div>
<div class="rule heightened8">The ziggurat must cost no less than 100,000 gp, 500 sentient creatures must be sacrificed using dragon magic. </div>
<div class="rule heightened9">In addition to the constructed ziggurat, 1000 sentient creatures must be sacrificed using dragon magic. The ritual requires Aracana (legendary) and Crafting (legendary).</div></div></div><br>

#### Elemental Metamorphosis<div class="label">RITUAL 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost">stones and gems worth 2,000 gp; a bound elemental of at least 9th level; </span><span class="rule secondary">3 </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck"> Nature or Religion (master); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Diplomacy, Occultism, Religion</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">This spell transforms a divine or primal caster into an elemental character. The caster’s type becomes elemental, and gains all advantages of the new type. The caster can no longer die of old age, and no longer suffers penalties to attributes for aging. This spell is a prerequisite for Elemental Dedication.

The character spends the day conversing with the bound elemental in primordial learning its name, history, and motivations.  At the end of the ritual the elemental transfers its primordial spark to the character completing the transformation.
</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The metamorphosis succeeds and you become clumsy 1, drained 1, doomed 1, and enfeebled 1 for 1 week; these conditions can't be removed or reduced by any means until the week has passed.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but each condition value is 2.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The metamorphosis fails to bind your spirit to the elemental.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You die along with the bound elemental. Casters killed this way frequently return as undead. </div><br>

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#### Kaisharga Creation<div class="label">RITUAL 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
<div class="tag unholy">UNHOLY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost">a living sapling less than one year old watered for 101 days with the ashes of a preserver, the casters own blood, and a perfect obsidian orb crushed into powder worth 2000 gp; </span><span class="rule secondary">0 or 1 </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck">  Arcana (master), Occultism (master), or Religion 
(master); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Nature</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>

<div class="rule">The ritual requires a sapling no more than one year old when the wizard begins preparing it, and the wizard should take care to protect the tree from extraneous spellcasting, for it is vulnerable to defiling. The tree must receive eight hours of sunlight per day, so the wizard’s chamber must permit the sun’s rays to enter. Finally, the tree must be tended for 101 days and watered with a special mixture. The mixture contains the prospective kaisharga’s blood, a flawless obsidian orb crushed into powder, and the ashes of a powerful preserver of at least 10th level.

The ritual requires the caster to open a gate to the gray providing the tree a steady supply of void energy. This influx of void energy causes the tree to grow a single beautiful jet-black fruit.  While the pear-shaped fruit looks and smells very appetizing before its skin has been broken, it is beyond terrible in taste and smell once bitten into.

When the fruit is plucked from the tree the gate to the gray is rent open, flooding the area with a tremendous amount of void energy.  When the prospective kaisharga eats the fruit, he becomes the focus of this energy, drawing in such power as to nearly defy the mind.  If any of the requirements are not met, or improperly performed, it reduces the degree of success for the primary caster's skill check to complete the ritual by one level for each missing requirement. Each of these should be difficult to obtain, requiring a significant quest or great personal sacrifice.
</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The transformation succeeds and you become clumsy 1, drained 1, doomed 1, and enfeebled 1 for 1 week; these conditions can't be removed or reduced by any means until the week has passed.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but each condition value is 2.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">You die.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You die and your soul is consumed by the grey. </div><br>

#### Morg Creation<div class="label">RITUAL 4</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
<div class="tag unholy">UNHOLY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost">A birth chamber built of stone, its interior walls faced with obsidiean at least an inch thick, costing no less than 3500gp. Special Morg Wrappings costing 1000gp. </span><span class="rule secondary">0 or 1 </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck">  Arcana (master), Nature (expert); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Medicine</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule"> During the ritual, the morg candidate is bound tightly in the morg wrapping, and swiftly—it takes only moments for the foul balm to begin eating into the candidate’s flesh. Before this happens, the mentor straps the candidate to the stone table, ensuring that the subject is positioned over the inscriptions carved into the underside of the table. For the next hour, the mentor focuses on ensuring that his wards are complete; beyond that, he watches the candidate struggle against his bonds as the poisonous unguent consumes the last fluids from his body. These fluids boil off, creating a hideous stench, and the candidate dies in excruciating pain from massive system shock as the deadly unguent settles into the body.

Once the candidate has died and his spirit has gone to the gray. The caster opens a gate to the gray. The caster then concentrates, forcing the gray energy into the corpse while the gate remains open.

As the mentor concentrates, the flood of negative energy soon fills the room to the ceiling. Motion becomes difficult as the Gray energy forms an ever-thickening fog, blinding the caster and forcing him to plant his hands on the morg’s corpse to complete the ritual.

When the gate is sealed, the mentor uses the last and freshest of the morg candidate’s blood to bathe the revivifying corpse. At the touch of the blood, the unguent laden linens age in an instant into mere tatters which are easily removed, and the morg, born in a bath of his own blood, rises from morgbirth to meet his maker.

</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The transformation succeeds and you become clumsy 1, drained 1, doomed 1, and enfeebled 1 for 1 week; these conditions can't be removed or reduced by any means until the week has passed.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but each condition value is 2.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">You die.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You die and your soul is consumed by the grey. </div><br>

#### Preserver Metamorphosis<div class="label">RITUAL 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag polymorph">POLYMORPH</div>
<div class="tag holy">HOLY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost">a specially constructed structure costing no less than 50,0000 gp that has been untouched by defiling and includes ashes from enemies of life; </span><span class="rule secondary">3 </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck"> Arcana (master), Crafting (master); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Arcana, Crafting</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">This spell transforms an arcane caster into the first stage of an Avangion. The caster’s type becomes celestial; he loses all previous types, and gains all advantages of the new type. The caster no longer can die of old age, and no longer suffers penalties to attributes for aging. The caster gains the ability to comprehend and speak any language of creatures that he interacts with, as the spell <i>truespeech</i>. This spell must be cast as a preserver spell and is a prerequisite for Avangion Dedication and the additional Avangion Metamorphosis feats.
</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The metamorphosis succeeds and you become clumsy 1, drained 1, doomed 1, and enfeebled 1 for 1 week; these conditions can't be removed or reduced by any means until the week has passed.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but each condition value is 2.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The metamorphosis fails.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You die. Casters killed this way frequently return as undead. </div></div>
<div class="abilbox"><div>
<div class="rule heightened7">In addition to the constructed structure, a tree of life must be included and personally crafted by the avangion. </div>
<div class="rule heightened8">In addition to the constructed structure and tree of life, the land within a mile of the structure must be untouched by defiling. </div>
<div class="rule heightened9">The structure must cost no less than 100,000 gp, and the ritual requires 8 secondary casters. The ritual requires Aracana (legendary) and Crafting (legendary).</div></div></div><br>

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#### T'liz transformation<div class="label">RITUAL 6</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag unholy">Unholy</div>
<div class="tag void">VOID</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost">a planar bound dishonored spirit. T'liz oil worth 2000gp; </span><span class="rule secondary">1 </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck"> Arcana (master); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Crafting</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">1 creature</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">By means of this ritual, a caster must create a pact with a dishonored spirit. This process is dangerous, for most spirits refuse to aid the supplicant until he answers its challenge to single combat.

The pact stipulates that the wizard gives up his soul, which is sucked into the Gray and added to the spirit’s, allowing it to grow stronger. The spirit gains influence in the Gray, remains separate and more powerful than its neighbors, and fends off dissolution longer.

Once the pact is agreed upon, the caster must open a portal to the gray to connect the patron spirit's void energy to Athas. Once connected the caster must die from void damage.  This can occur from spells such as <i>enervation</i>. This would normally prove fatal to the target, but the transformation ritual leaves the casters body animated by energy supplied by the spirit from the gray, combined with his own force of identity. The caster expels his soul to the Gray and becomes a t'liz.</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The transformation succeeds and you become clumsy 1, drained 1, doomed 1, and enfeebled 1 for 1 week; these conditions can't be removed or reduced by any means until the week has passed.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">As critical success, but each condition value is 2.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">You die.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">You die and your soul is consumed by the grey. </div><br>

#### Tree of Life<div class="label">RITUAL 5</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag plant">PLANT</div>
<div class="tag primal">PRIMAL</div>
<div class="tag vitality">VITALITY</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule cast">1 day; </span><span class="rule cost">a living sapling less than one year old effected by a successful <i>Plant Growth</i>, 10000 gp of gold wire wrapped around the sappling; </span><span class="rule secondary">1 </span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule primarycheck"> Nature (master); </span><span class="rule secondarychecks">Farming Lore or Survival</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule range">touch;</span><span class="rule targets">1 living sapling</span>
</div></div>
<div class="rule">By means of this ritual, a caster can enchant a living sapling to become a magical tree of life. The sapling must have already sprouted from the ground, though the caster can transplant such a sapling before starting the ritual. Any tree less than one year old will suffice; this spell cannot be cast on an older tree.
</div>
<div class="rule result r4">The sappling grows into a full size tree and resists defiling once the ritual is completed.</div>
<div class="rule result r3">The ritual creates a tree of life and the sappling grows to full size in a week. Any defiling during this time destorys the tree of life.</div>
<div class="rule result r2">The ritual has no effect.</div>
<div class="rule result r1">The sappling is destroyed along with the gold wire. </div><br>

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# Treasure

<div class="wide flavor subtitle"> 
Characters acquire treasure from the glittering hordes of their foes, as rewards for defending the innocent, and as favors from the grand personalities they treat with. As they progress through their adventures and improve their station in the world, characters collect ever more fabulous items from enchanted armor and weapons to spell-infused staves. 
<img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/5uPOPvf.png1' class='image-location-top-right-bottom-left; width:100%'></div>

## Materials

Most items are made from readily available materials—usually leather, bone, wood, or stone—but some weapons and armor are made from more exotic materials, giving them unique properties and other advantages. Weapons made from precious materials are better able to harm certain creatures, and armor of these materials provides enhanced protection.

Most materials are metals; they can be used to make metal weapons and armor. The GM is the final arbiter of what items can be made using a material. An item can be made with no more than one precious material, and only an expert in Crafting can create it. Some rare and exotic materials require master or even legendary proficiency.

A material’s Price depends on how hard it is to work, its scarcity, and its purity; most items made with precious materials use an alloy, blend, or coating rather than using the material in its purest form. The three grades of purity for precious materials are low-grade, standard-grade, and high-grade. Regardless of a precious material’s purity, an item made from it gains the full effects of the precious material but creating higher-level items and more powerful magic runes with precious material requires greater purity.

Some precious materials are available only at certain grades. For instance, dwarf metal and agafari wood can’t be low-grade. Items made of materials with a lower grade than expected for the item’s level, or of a higher grade than necessary, will mention the precious material’s grade.

### Crafting with Precious Materials

Only an expert crafter can create a low-grade item, only a master can create a standard-grade item, and only a legendary crafter can create a high-grade item. In addition, to Craft with a precious material, your character level must be equal to or greater than that of the material.

Low-grade items can be used in the creation of magic items of up to 8th level, and they can hold runes of up to 8th level. Standard-grade items can be used to create magic items of up to 15th level and can hold runes of up to 15th level.

High-grade items use the purest form of the precious material and can be used to Craft magic items of any level holding any runes. Using purer forms of common materials is so relatively inexpensive that the Price is included in any magic item.

When you Craft an item that incorporates a precious material, your initial raw materials for the item must include that material; at least 10% of the investment must be of the material for low-grade, at least 25% for standard-grade, and all of it for high-grade. For instance, a low-grade silver object of 1 Bulk costs 20 gp. Of the 10 gp of raw materials you provide when you start to Craft the item, at least 1 gp must be silver. The raw materials you spend to complete the item don’t have to consist of the precious material, though the GM might rule otherwise in certain cases.

After creating an item with a precious material, you can use Craft to improve its grade, paying the Price difference and providing a sufficient amount of the precious material.

#### Agafari Wood<div class="label">MATERIAL 8+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag precious">PRECIOUS</div>
</div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">A tree of the Crescent Forest, agafari wood is extremely hard and is the next best thing to metal. The wood is used to make weapons and shields and is a major trade good of Nibenay. The tree's bark has a bluish tint. At the top of the tree, which can be over 100 feet tall, the boughs spread out in great, sweeping fans. The enormous heart-shaped leaves are the color of turquoise. These large trees can actually be hollowed out without killing the tree. </div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">agafari branch</span>
<span class="rule price">50 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">L</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">agafari lumber</span>
<span class="rule price">500 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">1</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">standard-grade agafari object</span>
<span class="rule level">8</span>
<span class="rule price">35 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">high-grade agafari object</span>
<span class="rule level">16</span>
<span class="rule price">6,000 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>

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| Agafari Wood Items  | Hardness | HP | BT |
|:---|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|
|  <b>Thin Items</b>  | 
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 7 | 28 | 14
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 10 | 40 | 20 
|  <b>Items</b> |
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 11 | 44 | 22
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 14 | 56 | 28 
|  <b>Structures</b> |
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 18 | 72 | 36
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 28 | 112 | 56

<br>

#### Dasl<div class="label">MATERIAL 2+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag uncommon">UNCOMMON</div>
<div class="tag precious">PRECIOUS</div>
</div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">Dasl is a special kind of crystalline material created by thri-kreen and often used to manufacture their weapons. An item made from dasl is treated as if it was made from iron and is not considered to be made from inferior materials. However, for purposes of harming creatures with damage reduction, a dasl weapon is not treated as being made from metal.</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">dasl chunk</span>
<span class="rule price">10 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">L</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">dasl ingot</span>
<span class="rule price">100 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">1</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">low-grade dasl object</span>
<span class="rule level">2</span>
<span class="rule price">20 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">standard-grade dasl object</span>
<span class="rule level">7</span>
<span class="rule price">250 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">high-grade dasl object</span>
<span class="rule level">15</span>
<span class="rule price">4,500 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>

<br>

| Dasl Items  | Hardness | HP | BT |
|:---|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|
|  <b>Thin Items</b>  | 
|  <div style="text-align: center">Low-grade</div>  | 5 | 20 | 10
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 7 | 28 | 14
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 10 | 40 | 20

<br>

#### Dwarf Steel<div class="label">MATERIAL 8+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag precious">PRECIOUS</div>
</div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">Mined from rocks that fell from the heavens, dwarf steel is one of the hardest metals known. It has a shiny, black appearance, and it is prized for its amazing resiliency and ability to hold an incredibly sharp edge.</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">dwarf steel chunk</span>
<span class="rule price">1,000 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">L</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">dwarf steel ingot</span>
<span class="rule price">10,000 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">1</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">standard-grade dwarf steel object</span>
<span class="rule level">8</span>
<span class="rule price">700 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">high-grade dwarf steel object</span>
<span class="rule level">16</span>
<span class="rule price">12,000 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div><br>

| Dwarf Metal Items  | Hardness | HP | BT |
|:---|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|
|  <b>Thin Items</b>  | 
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 10 | 40 | 20
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 13 | 52 | 26 
|  <b>Items</b> |
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 14 | 56 | 28
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 17 | 68 | 34 
|  <b>Structures</b> |
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 28 | 112 | 56
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 34 | 136 | 68

<br>

#### Metal<div class="label">MATERIAL 2+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag rare">RARE</div>
<div class="tag precious">PRECIOUS</div>
</div>
<div class="box">
<div class="rule">Athas is metal scarce. Most metal items have been recovered from ancient ruins. Currently the main iron mine is located in Tyr with iron being shipped across the tablelands.</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">metal chunk</span>
<span class="rule price">50 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">L</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">metal ingot</span>
<span class="rule price">500 gp</span>
<span class="rule bulk">1</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">low-grade metal object</span>
<span class="rule level">2</span>
<span class="rule price">100 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">standard-grade metal object</span>
<span class="rule level">7</span>
<span class="rule price">1,250 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">high-grade metal object</span>
<span class="rule level">15</span>
<span class="rule price">22,500 gp per Bulk</span>
</div></div><br>

| Metal Items  | Hardness | HP | BT |
|:---|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|
|  <b>Thin Items</b>  | 
|  <div style="text-align: center">Low-grade</div>  | 5 | 20 | 10
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 7 | 28 | 14
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 10 | 40 | 20 
|  <b>Items</b> |
|  <div style="text-align: center">Low-grade</div>  | 9 | 36 | 18
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 11 | 44 | 22
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 14 | 56 | 28 
|  <b>Structures</b> |
|  <div style="text-align: center">Low-grade</div>  | 18 | 72 | 36
|  <div style="text-align: center">Standard-grade</div>  | 22 | 88 | 44
|  <div style="text-align: center">High-grade</div>  | 28 | 112 | 56 
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## Runes

Most magic weapons and armor gain their enhancements from potent eldritch runes etched into them. These runes allow for in-depth customization of items.

Runes must be physically engraved on items through a special process to convey their effects. Property runes grant more varied effects—typically powers that are constant while the armor is worn or that take effect each time the weapon is used, such as a rune that grants energy resistance or one that adds fire damage to a weapon’s attacks.

The number of property runes a weapon or armor can have is equal to the value of its quality. An expert weapon can have one property rune, but it could hold another if the weapon was upgraded to master quality.

#### Corrode <div class="label">Rune 3+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag acid">ACID</div>
<div class="tag magical">MAGICAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule usage">etched onto a weapon</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule">This weapon is empowered by flickering flame. The weapon deals an additional 1d4 acid damage on a successful Strike.</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">corrode</span>
<span class="rule level">3</span>
<span class="rule price">50 gp</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule">This item has +1 item bonus.</span>
</div></div><br>

#### Flame <div class="label">Rune 3+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag fire">FIRE</div>
<div class="tag magical">MAGICAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule usage">etched onto a weapon</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule">This weapon is empowered by flickering flame. The weapon deals an additional 1d4 fire damage on a successful Strike.</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">flame</span>
<span class="rule level">3</span>
<span class="rule price">50 gp</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule">This item has +1 item bonus.</span>
</div></div><br>

#### Ice <div class="label">Rune 3+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag cold">COLD</div>
<div class="tag magical">MAGICAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule usage">etched onto a weapon</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule">This weapon is empowered by freezing ice. The weapon deals an additional 1d4 cold damage on a successful Strike.</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">cold</span>
<span class="rule level">3</span>
<span class="rule price">50 gp</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule">This item has +1 item bonus.</span>
</div></div><br>

#### Jolt <div class="label">Rune 3+</div>
<div class="taglist">
<div class="tag electricity">ELECTRICITY</div>
<div class="tag magical">MAGICAL</div>
</div>
<div class="reqbox"><div>
<span class="rule usage">etched onto a weapon</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule">This weapon is empowered by flickering flame. The weapon deals an additional 1d4 electricity damage on a successful Strike.</span>
</div></div>
<div class="box"><div>
<span class="rule type">electricity</span>
<span class="rule level">3</span>
<span class="rule price">50 gp</span>
</div><div>
<span class="rule">This item has +1 item bonus.</span>
</div></div><br>

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