DM Frightmare's Carrion Crown

Game Master CyberMephit

CR 1/2

Female Half-Orc psychic 1

LG medium humanoid (orc, human)

Init +2; Senses Perception +6,
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Giant, Gnoll, Goblin, Orc
AC 12, touch 12, flat-footed 10

hp 9 (1HD)

Fort +2, Ref +2, Will +4
Speed 30 ft. (6 squares)

Face 5 ft. Reach 5 ft.

Base Atk +0; CMB -1; CMD 11

Abilities Str 8, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 18, Wis 14, Cha 12

Special Qualities Deity, Divine Energy, Faith, Intimidating, Knacks, Orc Blood, Orc Ferocity, Phrenic Amplifications, Phrenic Pool, Psychic Discipline (Ex or Sp), Repressed Memories, Skilled, Spell Recollection, Spells, Spells, Weapon and Armor Proficiency, Weapon Familiarity, Will of the Dead,

Feats Expanded Phrenic Pool

Skills Acrobatics +2, Appraise +4, Bluff +1, Climb -1, Craft (Untrained) +4, Diplomacy +5, Disguise +1, Escape Artist +2, Fly +2, Heal +2, Intimidate +7, Knowledge (Planes) +8, Knowledge (Religion) +8, Linguistics(Abyssal) +8, Perception +6, Perform (Untrained) +1, Ride +2, Sense Motive +2, Spellcraft +8, Stealth +2, Survival +2, Swim -1,

Possessions

Bonus Spells

Deity (Ex) At 1st level, choose a deity to worship. Your alignment must remain within one step of your deity's or you lose access to all this discipline's bonus spells and discipline powers.

Divine Energy You can channel spell energy into cure or inf lict spells. This ability functions similarly to the cleric's ability to spontaneously cast cure or inf lict spells, and the type of spells you can convert depends on your alignment in the same way. The cure or inf lict spells don't count as being on your psychic spell list for the purposes of any other effects. Each day, you can convert up to one spell from each spell level you can cast. Each time you use this ability to convert a spell, you regain 1 point in your phrenic pool. The maximum number of points you can regain in this way per day is equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Faith Your belief in a higher power fuels your psychic abilities. Whether your mental abilities truly come to you as a divine gift or are simply enhanced by the power of your belief, none can say. In many ways, you resemble a divine caster, and prayers often factor into your casting of psychic spells. Phrenic Pool Ability: Wisdom. Discipline Powers: Your powers serve to protect or cure you and your allies.

Fate's Favored The fates watch over you. Whenever you are under the effect of a luck bonus of any kind, that bonus increases by 1.

Intimidating (Ex) Half-orc receive a +2 racial bonus on Intimidate skill checks due to their fearsome nature.
Knacks Psychics learn a number of knacks, or 0-level spells, as noted on Table 1-8. These spells are cast like any other spell, but they don't consume any slots and can be used again. Knacks cast using other spell slots (due to metamagic feats, for example) consume spell slots as normal.

Orc Blood (Ex) Half-orc count as both humans and orcs for any effect related to race.

Orc Ferocity (Ex) 1/day, when a half-orc is brought below 0 hit points, but not killed, he can fight on for one more round as if disabled. At the end of his next turn, unless brought to above 0 hit points, he immediately falls unconscious and begins dying.

Phrenic Amplifications A psychic develops particular techniques to empower her spellcasting, called phrenic amplifications. The psychic can activate a phrenic amplification only while casting a spell using psychic magic, and the amplification modifies either the spell's effects or the process of casting it. The spell being cast is called the linked spell. The psychic can activate only one amplification each time she casts a spell, and doing so is part of the action used to cast the spell. She can use any amplification she knows with any psychic spell, unless the amplification's description states that it can be linked only to certain types of spells. A psychic learns one phrenic amplification at 1st level, selected from the list below. At 3rd level and every 4 levels thereafter, the psychic learns a new phrenic amplification. A phrenic amplification can't be selected more than once. Once a phrenic amplification has been selected, it can't be changed. Phrenic amplifications require the psychic to expend 1 or more points from her phrenic pool to function.

Phrenic Pool (Su) A psychic has a pool of supernatural mental energy that she can draw upon to manipulate psychic spells as she casts them. The maximum number of points in a psychic's phrenic pool is 2. The phrenic pool is replenished each morning after 8 hours of rest or meditation; these hours don't need to be consecutive. The psychic might be able to recharge points in her phrenic pool in additional circumstances dictated by her psychic discipline. Points gained in excess of the pool's maximum are lost.

Psychic Discipline (Ex or Sp) Each psychic accesses and improves her mental powers through a particular method, such as rigorous study or attaining a particular mental state. This is called her psychic discipline. She gains additional spells known based on her selected discipline. The choice of discipline must be made at 1st level; once made, it can't be changed. Each psychic discipline gives the psychic a number of discipline powers (at 1st, 5th, and 13th levels), and grants her additional spells known. In addition, the discipline determines which ability score the psychic uses for her phrenic pool and phrenic amplifications abilities. The DC of a saving throw against a psychic discipline ability equals 10 + 1/2 the psychic's level + the psychic's Intelligence modifier. At 1st level, a psychic learns an additional spell determined by her discipline. She learns another additional spell at 4th level and every 2 levels thereafter, until learning the final one at 18th level. These spells are in addition to the number of spells given on Table 1-8. Spells learned from a discipline can't be exchanged for different spells at higher levels. Specific psychic disciplines are further described starting on page 64.

Repressed Memories All the amnesiac's older memories have been deeply hidden, as though she had been affected by multiple repress memory* spells. She isn't prevented from remembering things that happen over the course of a game, but might be forgetful. If the amnesiac's memories are ever restored, she loses this archetype and reverts to a standard psychic.

Skilled Second- and third-generation half-orcs often favor their human heritage more than their orc heritage. Half-orcs with this trait gain 1 additional skill rank per level.

Spell Recollection (Ex) Once per hour as a swift action, an amnesiac can attempt to remember any spell from the psychic spell list of her choice from either of the 2 highest spell levels she can cast. When she does, she rolls on Table 2-1: Spell Recollection to determine the result. Because the mental stress of combat brings memories to the surface more easily, the amnesiac adds 1d10 to this roll's result if she's in combat when she attempts to recall a spell. Regardless of the result, the amnesiac expends an amnesia slot of the appropriate level for the spell she is attempting to remember; she must cast the spell remembered (if any) using that amnesia slot during the same round, or the spell slot is lost without effect. Once a spell has been remembered in this way, the amnesiac can cast it as one of her spells known for the rest of the day (even if she failed to cast the spell during the round in which she remembered it), unless spell recollection allowed her to cast a spell of a higher level than she would normally be able to cast.

Spells An amnesiac's ability to cast psychic spells is the same as that of the psychic class, with the following exceptions. An amnesiac's faulty memory makes remembering and casting spells difficult, but the increased flexibility can be a great benefit. Instead of choosing a number of spells known from Table 1-8: Psychic Spells Known, an amnesiac accesses spells she knew the previous day from the recesses of her mind. This requires 1 hour of meditation. Each day, for each spell level the amnesiac can cast, she retains a number of spells known equal to half the number listed on Table 1-8, rounded up. These spells must be selected from spells the amnesiac knew the previous day (including any spells she remembered using spell recollection; see below). The remainder of her spells known (half the number on Table 1-8, rounded down) become amnesia slots, which the amnesiac can use with her spell recollection ability (see below). To determine the spells she knows on the day when she first takes this archetype, the amnesiac picks any one 1st-level spell from the psychic spell list. This change to spells doesn't apply to knacks (0-level spells) or discipline spells, which function the same way they do for a normal psychic. When the amnesiac gains access to 3rd-level spells, she gains full recall of her 1st-level spells and no longer gains 1st-level amnesia slots, instead gaining the full number of 1st-level spells known from Table 1-8 and casting them as a normal psychic. When this happens, the amnesiac can select any level-appropriate spells from the psychic spell list as her spells known, even if they were never among the spells she prepared or recalled; once selected, these spells can no longer be changed, as with a normal psychic. Each time the psychic gains access to a new level of spells, she gains full memory of spells 2 levels lower in the same way (gaining full memory and permanently selecting her 2nd-level spells when she gains access to 4thlevel spells, and so on). This ability alters spellcasting.

Spells A psychic casts psychic spells drawn from the psychic class's spell list (see page 69). She can cast any spell she knows without preparing it ahead of time. To learn or cast a spell, a psychic must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a psychic's spell is equal to 10 + the spell's level + the psychic's Intelligence modifier. A psychic can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table 1-7: Psychic. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Intelligence score (see Table 1-3 on page 17 of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook). The psychic's selection of spells is limited. A psychic begins play knowing four 0-level spells and two 1st-level spells of the psychic's choice. At each new psychic level, she learns one or more new spells, as indicated on Table 1-8: Psychic Spells Known. Unlike a psychic's spells per day, the number of spells a psychic knows isn't affected by her Intelligence score; the numbers on Table 1-8 are fixed. At 4th level and every even-numbered level thereafter (6th, 8th, and so on), a psychic can choose to learn a single new spell in place of one she already knows. In effect, the psychic loses the old spell in exchange for the new one. The new spell's level must be the same as that of the spell being exchanged, and it must be at least 1 level lower than the highest-level spell from the psychic's class list that the psychic can cast. A psychic can swap only a single spell at any given level, and must choose whether or not to swap the spell at the same time that she gains new spells known for the level. A psychic need not prepare her spells in advance. She can cast any psychic spell she knows at any time, assuming she has not yet used up her allotment of spells per day for the spell's level.

Subject of Study (Demon) Professor Lorrimor approached you as part of his studies, as he had heard that you had survived a recent encounter with a strange monster or had another fateful encounter. Interested in the conditions of the run-in and the means by which you avoided death or injury, he met with you and maintained frequent correspondence until several months ago. The scars of your experience and his continual reminders of the encounter prompted you to hone your skills lest you someday face the same type of creature again. The professor assisted you in this endeavor, providing you with insight into the anatomy and defenses of the creature that attacked you. Years of study have improved your combat effectiveness against your chosen foe. Choose a non-humanoid creature type (and subtype if outsider). You gain a +1 bonus on damage rolls against creatures of this type.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency A psychic is proficient with all simple weapons, but not with any type of armor or shield.
Weapon Familiarity (Ex) Half-orcs are proficient with greataxes and falchions, and treat any weapon with the word "orc" in its name as a martial weapon.

Will of the Dead (Su) Even undead creatures can be affected by the psychic's mind-affecting spells. The psychic can spend 2 points from her phrenic pool to overcome an undead creature's immunity to mind-affecting effects for the purposes of the linked spell. This ability functions even on mindless undead, but has no effect on creatures that aren't undead. This amplification can be linked only to spells that have the mind-affecting descriptor.

Malakos had a rather nice upbringing, the bastard to an Taldor nobleman, one that wished to keep his rather fiendish affair a secret. Malakos had most of his life provided to him, albeit kept from the public eye. He never knew his mother and his father couldn’t stand the sight of him.

A prisoner in all but name for the first 17 years of his life, he was locked away with all his needs attended to despite one. His desire to go outside and see the world. With little else to do he developed a thirst for knowledge that translated into a thirst for magic. Bored with his solitary life he begin to grow restless and through restlessness destructive. It was no surprise that lighting stuff on fire, destroy things with magical darts and otherwise causing havoc became second nature. Especially when he realized the more commotion he created the more his father would come around, even if only to berate and scold him. Any attention was better than none. The more of a nuisance Malakos became the more his father grew to hate him and what he represented. His father spent an exorbitant sum to send Malakos away to the University in Caliphas.

At the University, studying to be a full-blown wizard, he met Professor Lorrimor and fell in love. Or what Malakos assumes is love because he’s never felt so impressed and in-awe by the Professor's tales of adventures and his knowledge of the Inner Sea. He’s returned for the funeral and to understand how his hero could die and if possible bring his killers to justice. It’ll be an adventure just like the Professor’s stories.

Rye is neither as bright nor a graceful the elves and half-elves of his conclave he is a lumbering oddity. His fate was sealed the day he was born, which was the day his great-grandfather, the previous lorekeeper, died.

The elves say that when his grandfather died his spirit and the spirit of the past lorekeepers were bound to him. This event altered the course of his like in several ways. First, Ryn was plagued by spirits beyond his control. This made studying magic and history very difficult for him. The strange occurrences that followed him we unlike those of his predecessors and pushed him towards the outskirts of society. As Ryn grew he found a second well off spiritual energy within himself. It was the will of battle itself. Again, this was unlike the previous five lorekeepers. There had not been a warrior guardian of knowledge in centuries. The last was an ancient elf Glynis who served to inspired Ryn to take control of his power. He did his best to fill the role of seer and protector of tradition. At best he performed adequately. His mother was smart and his father graceful, and they provided as much guidance as they could.

Half-elves live in a small community that can protect themselves, but the lorekeeper’s job is to keep the stories for all of them. His job is also to remind the elves and half-elves of the elder’s tales like those of their parents’ parents’ who joined the ranks of the Shining Crusade to drive Tar-Baphon’s armies from the banks of Lake Encarthan. The lorekeepers often travel between Ardis, Caliphas, and Karcau, to collect tales from these places. From there they move on to broader regions looking for isolated individuals that are scattered throughout the nation. On these travels Ryn’s grandfather met and worked with Professor Lorrimor, Ryn had met the man many times in his youth and seeks his aid now.

As a half-elf lorekeeper Ryn has far fewer years to accomplish his goals and has thus set out to complete his work hoping that Professor Lorrimor can help him.

DEFENSE
AC: 12 Touch: 12 Flat-Footed: 10
HP:11
Fort: +2 Ref: 0 Will: +4

OFFENSE
Longspear +4(1d8+6 20/x3)
Ranged:

Oracle spells known:
1st 4/4 Cure Light Wounds, Divine Favor, Shield of Faith (CL 1; concentration +3)
0 Detect Magic, Guidance, Read Magic, Stabilize,

STATISTICS
Str 18 Dex 14 Con14 Int10 Wis10 Cha14
Base Atk:0 CMB +4 CMD 16
Skills: Diplomacy +6; Knowledge (arcana) +4; Knowledge (history) +4; Spirit Lore +4; Perception +5; Spellcraft +4;

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Feats: Combat Reflexes;
Specials: Martial Flexibility; Curse: Haunted; Mystery: Battle; Dual minded, Flexible half breed, Mismatched, Elf blood, Elven immunities,
Language: Common, Elven,
Traits: Seeker, Fate’s Favored, Subject of Study, Family Ties (Drawback made extra bad: all half elves)
Equipment: Longspear