Becoming an Angel?


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In 3.5 I had a character (well, a cohort, but thats not important) that for story reasons was a half-angel. Not an Aasimar, but a first generation half-angel that was slowly awakening to their true nature.

Mechanically, they were a Favored Soul. They got spontaneous divine casting, energy resistance, damage reduction, and wings.

I'm wanting to convert this character over to Pathfinder, but I'm running into some problems with the angelic powers portion, which I consider to be one of if not the most important parts of the character.

Best fit that I've found so far is an Oracle with the Life mystery, and taking the Eldritch Heritage feat chain to grab pieces from the Sorcerer's Celestial bloodline. Namely Angelic Attack, Celestial Resistance, and Wings of Heaven.

(Not sure thats a 100% legal use of Eldritch Heritage since technically its a Bloodrager bloodline and not a Sorcerer bloodline, but Bloodrager has Sorcerer as a parent class, so close enough.)

Mechanically, that gets me pretty darned close to the concept. Counts as Good aligned, lots of healing powers, has wings, and can even turn into a golden white energy being.

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Alternatively, I could ditch the Heritage feats and deviate from concept a bit by taking Aasimar as the race, and swapping out for the alternate racial ability Scion of Humanity so that they look Human, and then go for the Angel Wings feat.

I think I like this approach better, as its far less feat intensive, and I can get the wings much earlier.

Can also still pick up Eldritch Heritage for the lower level stuff like Angelic Attack.

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Anyone with suggestions for things I may have missed for a character that seems normal but slowly evolves into an angel over time?


In my opinion the real deal would be the "Ascension" from the celestial bloodline.

Maybe when you convince your GM to acccept the extra arcanist exploit feat for the requirements you can mix the Blood Arcanist with the White Mage to have full access to the bloodline and can use cure spells.


Celestial is a Sorcerer bloodline, but it has different abilities than the bloodrager version. RAW, you would be getting the sorcerer version, but if it isn't for PFS, you might be able to convince your GM.

That being said, making it an Aasimar seems like a better option to me. Not having your Wings being limited by rounds/day is much more useful.

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Aasimar + Life Oracle would be better in my opinion as energy resistance, meh, you have access to cleric spells anyway, Resist Energy spell or Protection from Energy spells will cover most of your needs easily for any combat. Wings you will get from the race and that's pretty much it. Also, later on you can pick the spell Angelic Aspect Greater or whichever you prefer.

Other possibilities:

-Spirit Guide (Archetype) Life Oracle, gain powers from spirits and even hexes, might consider picking up the flight hex and just fluff it as being your angel wings.

-Synthesist Summoner with an angel looking eidolon is also a possibility, if you want to go with the half-angel motif. Guess your main issue would be that it is an arcane class, but you will indeed look like an angel and hit hard like one too. Also possibility to get various abilities close to an angel. It's an arcane caster but if your main objective is to be an angel its pretty darn close.

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