How my Shield Sparkles so

Game Master TheNine

Doran was once a vigorous young man making his way in Macridi as a logger. He made his way felling the trees designated by the fey and the leadership of the town. This lead to somewhat of a relationship with some of the forest creatures who liked to tease him with riddles and word games. He eventually met his love in town and they married but had no children. As he grew older his strength waned as did his suitability to chop down trees. He still went into the forest on occasion to spar with his fey friends until one trip they all seemed apologetic for reasons he couldn't understand. Upon his return home he found his wife had fallen ill. Unfortunately the wealth he had accumulated couldn't buy the healing needed to cure her and she eventually passed away.
Doran became depressed for a while before turning to the church of Abadar in town. There he talked with the priests and reflected on their teachings in order to deal with his wife's death. His talks with the priests sometimes turned to debating law and different interpretations. He found his early games with the fey had trained him for such discussions. This realization put a spring in his step he hadn't experienced since his youth. Unbeknownst to him, this was actually Abadar smiling down on him. He stayed with the lawyers and the judges listening and learning and developing his appreciation of Abadar. He eventually heard the call of Abadar to become a full fledged cleric but his gifts seemed to be influenced by his experiences early in life with the fey. He was happy enough being a lawyer but his fey influences gave his a wanderlust that was not sated in town. He was referred to the Silver Shields as a way to get out town while not having to travel alone. It helped that Colewin Binderbook was still a friend through Abadar.

During his childhood, Fryd Tar Macridi listened to the tales that his father told him about the great dwarven empire, Tar Taargadth. His father pointed to the vast mountain ranges visible to the east, south, and west, and told him that he was descended from greatness. And if he worked hard, he, too, could accomplish great things when he got older.

But why, Fryd asked, were he and his family here in these fields instead of up there in the mountains? And why were they named for the town they lived in instead of one of the dwarven clans father talked about in the stories?

Well...that was complicated.

Druma’s history with the dwarves of the Five Kings Mountains was complicated, and the dwarves came out of it all looking neither like heroes nor villains. They were just people, as flawed as any other race above or below the surface of Golarion. It might be easy to paint the Kalistocrats as the villains, but Fryd’s father didn’t want him to be angry with their benefactors. Instead, Fryd’s father burned with resentment towards the tyrant Ordrik Talhirk and his dreadful Forge War as the reason why Fryd’s once-proud clan had fled to Druma. Fryd’s father had been just a wee lad, then, making the original trek. They had settled in Macridi and taken on a new name, seeking to be proud surface dwarves working in the region that ancient Tar Taargadth had transformed into the empire’s breadbasket. There was no shame in working the land as their ancestors had worked the mines. The time for heroism was past. There was now a need for stability in the face of the eons of fractures. (And the patriarch had to give the Kalistocrats at least one thing: their strict dietary needs at least made farming more interesting. Millet, vetch, tubers, and even pitted fruits all grew on the Tar Macridi farm.)

Fryd’s father had abandoned the old dwarven gods, but he could not bring himself to follow the Prophecies of Kalistrade and could not in good conscience encourage his children to follow the prophecies either. Even though this would forever make them second-class citizens in Druma, the strictness of the Kalistocrats’ beliefs and practices was too much. And so Fryd’s family were strong Erastilians. This was a god as stubborn as Torag, but one more suited to a life in the fields. From his parents, Fryd learned all of the important skills of farming. And when his parents became too old to tend their fields themselves, Fryd took ownership of the farm. He plowed the fields, he scattered the seed, and he prayed for Erastil to send the gift of rain. He met a good dwarven girl, got married, and settled down, raising seven children to carry on the Tar Macridi line and tradition. He lived the right kind of life: the life he was raised to believe he was supposed to lead.

But he was deeply unhappy and could not understand why.

He kept all this from his wife and children, even after the children were all grown. Three had left home to pursue their own lives, but four had stayed to learn farming. Two of them were even married, but there were not yet any granddwarves to grace the Tar Macridi fields. Fryd was still strong, or at least strong enough. He was not wealthy, nor was he destitute, but he was comfortable. There had not been a major famine in Druma in many years. On paper, everything was fine. Fryd prayed and prayed for insight into this deep depression, but never received an answer.

One harvest season, Fryd found that nearly all of his crops had been decimated. He pulled up little but diseased rot in field after field. But he had been so careful! He had rotated his fields, let some lie fallow, judiciously used alchemical remedies, and followed all of the other methods he had learned as a boy. And yet the ground had failed him. Nevertheless, Fryd prayed.

Then some of his cattle began to grow ill. This wasn’t entirely unusual—diseases spread across fields now and then, and a farmer had to be a veterinarian as much as anything else. What was unusual was the scale of the spread and the speed of the devastation. Entire herds were collapsing without warning, and few recovered in spite of how many resources Fryd poured into trying to help them. One of the few animals to make it through the devastation was his favorite old sow, Mora. Nevertheless, Fryd prayed.

And then the worst happened. While caring for the animals, one of Fryd’s sons and one of his daughters both took ill with fever. Fryd traveled to Kerse and pleaded with the Prophets to please send healers. The Tar Macridi farm had served Druma loyally for years! He was soon to be destitute because of this unforeseen, unpredictable failures, and his family was to be fractured. Anything that they could do, anything that he could offer, he would do! But the land his farm was on was poisoned and worth mere coppers on the acre according to the Prophets’ equations. He could sell off his remaining assets to afford healing services, and it would still not be enough. He could indenture himself, though, and this would be sufficient for the Prophets to send healers to his farm. And so Fryd agreed.

But he no longer prayed. He would not pray again until pigs flew.

Despite the efforts of the clerics that came to his farm, his two children still died. Of course, the contract that he had signed made no exit clause for the failure of the bought services to work. And so, Fryd entered a year of servitude, separated from his wife and his five remaining children. With their farm destroyed, the two living children who had stayed took their mother and migrated back to the Five Kings Mountains: to Highhelm, where their clan had originally dwelt. After a year of servitude to the Kalistocrats, Fryd went to the mountains to meet his family. But he was not the same. He had become embittered. He felt useless in his ancestral homeland, not truly belonging there and having few skills to provide for his family. Under the stress of the collapse of his life and the year of indentured servitude, his beard had become patchy and eventually stopped growing in altogether. He was no longer certain what it meant to be himself.

Fryd met with some elders in Highhelm, seeking aid. Most of them started going on and on with religious parables or lessons of dwarven history. Few had any actual counsel or bothered to help him understand the depths of his pain. But then one asked if Fryd had ever undertaken the gladdringgar. As a surface dwarf, he never had—he had never been under the mountain! This wise elder encouraged Fryd to undertake this rite of passage—that it would help him to find out who he was. And so Fryd embarked on a journey to the Darklands: something no member of his family had done for at least two generations.

When Fryd returned, they were changed. They had not been gone more than a couple of months at the most, but looked as though they had aged years. The hair on their head, formerly brown and wispy, was now thick and silver, while the hair on their face was gone. Yet though they appeared older, they seemed to glow with some energy, simultaneously youthful and ancient. It wasn’t just their physical appearance either: they still recognized their pain and the bad things that had happened to them, but their bitterness was dulled. They could not explain everything that they had experienced on the gladdringgar, but they now asked to be called Frydda. They had met with their ancestors below the mountain and felt as though their spirits still lingered with them. One such spirit flowed from them into the (by now very old) sow, Mora, the last tie that the Tar Macridi family had to their agrarian life. As this spirit entered Mora, the old sow lifted up into the air, looked at Frydda, and said: "Ready to pray yet?"

The Elder that had sent Frydda on this journey recognized the change that had come over them. They were a Rivethun: one cultivating strength and empathy through knowledge, self-control, and willpower. They could, if they wanted to, learn to invest their pain and discord into a spiritual companion and take on the spirit’s burden in exchange. Their ancestors could speak through them, bringing ancient wisdom to bear wherever Frydda directed them. The journey would be a difficult one, for few records of the Rivethun still existed in the libraries of the Five Kings Mountains. But if Frydda trusted Mora on this journey, they could accomplish great things. Frydda’s father had been right. They would prove him right.

Communing with their ancestors, Frydda divined that the first step in this journey would be to return to Macridi. It might not be possible to regain their old farmland—old Drumish law required a grace period for farm soil to remain undisturbed—but something or someone might await them there. Their wife and children were just happy to see life in the dwarf’s cheeks again. They wanted to stay in Highhelm, but would always welcome Frydda if they decided to return, and—more importantly—would consider returning to Druma if greener pastures could be found. With their family’s blessing, Frydda left the Five Kings Mountains once more.

Sure enough, Frydda found an old family friend in the local Macridi tavern: Braendar Stoneshield. And they did mean old: Braendar was nearly twice Frydda’s age! At first, Braendar didn’t recognize Frydda. Why should he? But Frydda offered to buy him a drink and reminisce about old times. By the end of the evening, the two very drunk dwarves were leading the entire tavern in a jolly sing-along.

Come the next morning, nursing mutual hangovers, Braendar asked Frydda if they were looking for any work. He remembered well the hard times that their family had fallen in in the last few years. Frydda said they they weren’t sure, but that they would probably need to earn some coin while in Macridi learning what was next for them. And the spirits whispered yes. So Braendar introduced Frydda to Colewin Binderbook and the Silver Shields. And the rest, as they say, is the future.

Frydda Tar Macridi
Dwarf shaman 2
LG genderfluid medium humanoid (dwarf)
Init +2; Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +8

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Defense
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AC 20, touch 12, flat-footed 18 (+6 armor, +2 shield, +2 Dex)
hp 19 (2d8+6)
Fort +3, Ref +2, Will +7; +3 vs poison, spells, and spell-like abilities; +2 to remove negative levels
Defensive Abilities defensive training (+4 dodge bonus to AC vs. giants)

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Offense
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Speed: 20 ft.
Melee: mwk clan dagger +4 (1d4+1/19-20)
Ranged: mwk clan dagger +4 (1d4+1/19-20)
Special Attacks: ancestor’s council (+2, 4/day), hexes (evil eye [-2, 7 rounds, DC 15]) shadowhunter (50% weapon damage vs. incorporeal creatures); shadowplay (CL +1 for darkness, light, and shadow spells)
Shaman Spells Prepared (CL 2nd; concentration +6)
1st unseen servant (S) (DC 15)
0 (at will) spell (DC 14)
S Spirit spell; Spirit Ancestors

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Statistics
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Str 12, Dex 14, Con 16, Int 12, Wis19, Cha 12
Base Atk +1; CMB +3; CMD 14

Feats: Breadth of Experience, Medium Armor Proficiency, Simple Weapon Proficiency; Elephant in the Room feats: Agile Maneuvers, Combat Expertise, Deadly Aim, Power Attack, Weapon Finesse
Traits: Glory of Old
Skills: Craft (carpentry) +5, Diplomacy +11, Handle Animal +5, Heal +8, Knowledge (nature) +7, Knowledge (planes) +7, Knowledge (religion) +8 [+10 for undead], Perception +8, Profession (farmer) +11, Ride +6, Sense Motive +10, Spellcraft +5, Survival +8; Other Knowledge +3 (can be rolled untrained); Other Profession +6 (can be rolled untrained)
Languages: Common, Dwarven, Gnome
SQ: barrow scholar, defensive training, fey thoughts (perception, sense motive), hardy, hexes (evil eye), iron citizen, orisons, shadowhunter, shadowplay, spirit (ancestors), spirit animal (pig), spirit magic (unseen servant)
Gear: masterwork clan dagger, masterwork steel lamellar, heavy paueliel shield

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Special Abilities
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Race Traits

Barrow Scholar: Dwarves with this racial trait gain a +2 racial bonus on Knowledge (religion) checks to identify undead and can attempt them untrained. This racial trait replaces stonecunning.

Darkvision: Dwarves can see in the dark up to 60 feet.

Defensive Training: Dwarves get a +4 dodge bonus to their AC against monsters of the giant subtype.

Fey Thoughts: The character sees the world more like a native of the First World. Select two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Bluff, Climb, Diplomacy, Disguise, Escape Artist, Fly, Knowledge (nature), Perception, Perform, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Swim, or Use Magic Device. The selected skills are always class skills for the character. A dwarf can take this trait in place of hatred.

Hardy: Dwarves receive a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison, spells, and spell-like abilities.

Iron Citizen: Dwarves with this racial trait gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Sense Motive checks, and Diplomacy is a class skill for such dwarves. This replaces stability.

Shadowhunter: Those who understand the connection between shadows and the Negative Energy Plane know how to fight the spirits of darkness. Characters with this trait deal 50% weapon damage to incorporeal creatures when using nonmagical weapons (including natural and unarmed attacks), as if using magic weapons. They also gain a +2 bonus on saving throws to remove negative levels, and recover physical ability damage from attacks by undead creatures at a rate of 2 points per ability score per day (rather than the normal 1 point per ability score per day). Dwarves can take this trait in place of weapon familiarity.

Shadowplay: Some illusionists are experts in manipulating light and darkness. Characters with this trait cast spells with the darkness, light, or shadow descriptor at +1 caster level. Dwarves can take this trait in place of greed.

Slow and Steady: Dwarves have a base speed of 20 feet, but their speed is never modified by armor or encumbrance.

Breadth of Experience: Although still young for your kind, you have a lifetime of knowledge and training. You get a +2 bonus on all Knowledge and Profession skill checks, and can make checks with those skills untrained.
Glory of Old: In your veins flows the blood of dwarven heroes from Tar Taargadth. You receive a +1 trait bonus on saving throws against spells, spell-like abilities, and poison.

Spirit (Su): A shaman forms a mystical bond with the spirits of the world. She forms a lasting bond with a single spirit, which grants a number of abilities and defines many of her other class features. At 1st level, a shaman gains the spirit ability granted by her chosen spirit. She adds the spells granted by that spirit to the list of spells that she can cast using spirit magic. She also adds the hexes possessed by that spirit to the list of hexes that she can use with the hex and wandering hex class features.

Ancestors Spirit: A shaman that selects the ancestors spirit has wise eyes and thick white or silver hair. Fine wrinkles line the shaman’s face, becoming more obvious when she smiles or glowers. When she calls upon one of this spirit’s abilities, her hair glows as though lit from within, rustling of its own accord.

Ancestor's Council (Su): As a standard action the shaman can call upon her ancestors to provide advice and assistance to one ally within 30 feet. The ally gains a +2 bonus on any attack roll, saving throw, ability check, or skill check made before the beginning of the shaman’s next turn. The shaman can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma bonus.

Spirit Animal (Ex): At 1st level, a shaman forms a close bond with a spirit animal tied to her chosen spirit. This animal is her conduit to the spirit world, guiding her along the path to enlightenment. The animal also aids a shaman by granting her a special ability. A shaman must commune with her spirit animal each day to prepare her spells. While the spirit animal does not store the spells like a witch’s familiar does, the spirit animal serves as her conduit to divine power. If a shaman’s spirit animal is slain, she cannot prepare new spells or use her spirit magic class feature until the spirit animal is replaced.

Spirit Magic: A shaman can spontaneously cast a limited number of spells per day beyond those she prepared ahead of time. She has one spell slot per day of each shaman spell level she can cast, not including orisons. She can choose these spells from the list of spells granted by her spirits at the time she casts them. She can enhance these spells using any metamagic feat that she knows, using up a higher-level spell slot as required by the feat and increasing the time to cast the spell.

Hex: A shaman learns a number of magical tricks, called hexes, which grant her powers or weaken foes. At 2nd level, a shaman learns one hex. A shaman can select from any of the shaman hexes or from any of the hexes listed in the description of her chosen spirit. A shaman cannot select a hex more than once unless noted otherwise. Using a hex is a standard action that doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity unless otherwise noted. The saving throw DC to resist a hex is equal to 10 + 1/2 the shaman’s level + the shaman’s Wisdom modifier.

Evil Eye (Su): The shaman causes doubt to creep into the mind of a foe within 30 feet that she can see. The target takes a –2 penalty on one of the following (shaman’s choice): ability checks, AC, attack rolls, saving throws, or skill checks. This hex lasts a number of rounds equal to 3 + the shaman’s Wisdom modifier. A successful Will saving throw reduces this to just 1 round. This is a mind-affecting effect.

Mora
Pig air elemental sage familiar
N female small magical beast (air)
Init +1; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +5

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Defense
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AC 14, touch 12, flat-footed 13 (+1 Dex, +2 natural, +1 size)
hp 9 (2d8)
Fort +6, Ref +3, Will +4

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Offense
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Speed: 30 ft.; fly 20 ft. (good)
Melee: Bite +3 (1d4/x2)
Special Abilities: empathic link

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Statistics
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Str 11, Dex 12, Con 15, Int 7, Wis 13, Cha 4
Base Atk +1; CMB +1; CMD 11 (+4 vs trip)

Feats: Great Fortitude; Elephant in the Room feats: Agile Maneuvers, Combat Expertise, Deadly Aim, Power Attack, Weapon Finesse
Skills: Fly +6, Knowledge (arcana, dungoneering, history, local) +3, Knowledge (engineering, geography, nature, nobility, planes, religion) -1, Stealth +5
Languages: Auran, Common
SQ: dazzling intellect, elemental manifestation, elemental speech, elemental type, empathic link, sage’s knowledge
Gear: none

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Special Abilities
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The raw power of an elemental plane suffuses the body of an elemental familiar.

Elemental Type (Ex): An elemental familiar gains a subtype that matches its element: air, earth, fire, or water.

Elemental Manifestation (Ex): An elemental familiar gains one or more special abilities based on its element. An air familiar gains a fly speed of 20 feet (good maneuverability); an air familiar that already has a fly speed instead improves its maneuverability by one category or increases its fly speed by 10 feet. An air familiar is considered three size categories larger than its actual size when calculating whether it can be moved by wind. This replaces improved evasion.

Elemental Speech (Ex): An elemental familiar gains the ability to speak and understand a language based on its element: Aquan (water), Auran (air), Ignan (fire), or Terran (earth). This ability replaces speak with animals of its kind.

Sages are masters of useful facts, able to recall them for their masters’ benefit, though this leads many to become haughty and proud.

Sage Skills: A sage treats all Knowledge skills as class skills.

Dazzling Intellect (Ex): A sage’s Intelligence score is always equal to 5 + its master’s class level, but it gains natural armor increases as if its master’s class level were half what of the actual class level. This alters the familiar’s Intelligence score and natural armor adjustment.

Sage’s Knowledge (Ex): A sage stores information on every topic and is happy to lecture its master on the finer points of a subject. A sage can attempt all Knowledge checks untrained and gains a bonus on Knowledge checks equal to half its master’s class level. Additionally, a sage gains 2 skill ranks each time its master gains a class level. Its maximum number of ranks in any given skill is equal to its master’s class level. This replaces alertness and the familiar’s ability to share its master’s skill ranks.

Share Spells: The shaman may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself. A shaman may cast spells on his familiar even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the familiar's type (magical beast).

Empathic Link (Su): The master has an empathic link with his familiar to a 1 mile distance. The master can communicate empathically with the familiar, but cannot see through its eyes. Because of the link's limited nature, only general emotions can be shared. The master has the same connection to an item or place that his familiar does.

Spirit Animal (Ex): At 1st level, a shaman’s spirit animal gains specific abilities, depending upon the type of spirit selected by the shaman using her spirit class feature. These abilities affect the animal’s appearance and grant it special abilities that can aid it in serving the shaman and the spirit it represents and is connected to. These abilities are described in the spirit animal section of each individual spirit description.

The shaman’s spirit animal has streaks of gray or silver hide, hair, or fur, and long facial hair that appears similar to a wispy mustache or bushy eyebrows. The spirit animal can speak and understand a number of bonus languages equal to the shaman’s Charisma bonus.

I suspect, and maybe Frydda does as well, that the failure of their farm was supernatural. The Rivethun Emissary prestige class eventually enables the rivethun to detect and parley with undead, fey, and outsiders. The Spirit Beacon feat required also grants bonuses (and a penalty) versus these types of creatures (but just one). Since Macridi is in the middle of the fey-infested Palakar Forest, I have an inkling that it was fey meddling. But that's why I chose several of the dwarven alternate racial traits like fey thoughts, shadowhunter, shadowplay, and barrow scholar. Everything about Frydda is built to understand and deal with the spiritual realm, but they'll be more than capable of dealing with natural threats as well.

Elin never knew his father. He was raised with his three half-siblings by his mother and grandfather. Growing up, Elin's grandfather taught him how to track, hunt, and other lessons for surviving the woods.

At the age of 16, Elin's grandfather died, and it devastated the young man. Instead of dealing with his grief, he took to the road, traveling from village to village, town to town. He joined up with a mercenary group that primarily took jobs attacking orcs. He became real good at killing orcs. Spurred on by the group's leader, Elin also became cruel in his killing, drawing on the anger and grief of his childhood.

This continued for a few years and Elin fell into a deep depression. Frequenting pubs became a daily occurrence. It was in one of these pubs that providence put Colewin Binderbook in Elin's path. He listened to the halfling, to his trials, and how different his life seemed to Elin's. It made him think, and think for the first time in years, that his life could be different. He wanted to know what this halfling knew, what moved him to live a valiant life.

Wis: 10 + 2d4
Cha: 10 + 2d4
Str: 10 + 1 = 11
Con: 10 + 1 = 11
Dex: 14 - 3 = 11
Int: 14 - 6 = 8

Wis: 10 + 2d4
Cha: 10 + 2d4
Str: 10 + 1 = 11
Con: 10 + 6 = 16
Dex: 14 - 4 = 10
Int: 14 - 6 = 8

Torgald was born in the Five King Mountains, just one dwarf amongst many. A solitary soul who should have followed in the footsteps of his father, his father’s father, and his…etc. This would be the case if it were not for his great, great, great grandfather, a druid of some notoriety in his time. A druid whose powers came from a connection opened up between his own soul and the elemental planes. A connection which remained dormant in the family line all the way until young Torgald inherited it. As a youth he knew not what it was that made him different, only that he was. From as early as he could remember he recoiled at the touch of metal, a sure sign that there was something fundamentally wrong with him. Stricken by a sense of not belonging and a burning desire to see the world he left home, not knowing what it was that he was seeking.

It was while traveling that he found himself working in a town’s brewery when he met a halfling by the name of Colewin Binderbook. The two drank together, with the dwarf impressed by how the Paladin could handle his drink. As time went on the dwarf confided his deep dissatisfaction in his current life. He was wandering without a purpose, looking for something which he could not define. He wanted to do something important. To make a difference. To be more than the disappoint that he had been seen as his entire life. Seeing the size of the dwarf, and the halfling took a chance on him, and offered a chance to join the Silver Shields. It was, afterall, a chance to both travel and to do something worthwhile. The dwarf accepted, not seeing what he had to lose….

She was supposed to marry the son of a thane, but all to often her heart yearned to be elsewhere than upon her expected duties of learning how to run a royal household. i know, cliche She knew dwarven custom and tradition forbade her from being set free from this obligation as her father had held her oathbound by proxy when she was just a mere welp of a toddler.
She knew she needed to break the oath, to be free of not only the oath, but her family, and her clan. She researched clan law, and discovered that forcible banishment was the only way for herself to be free. and such a banishment could only be granted by both clan thane, and head of household.
She plumbed the depths of the great libraries, seeking the forbidden, and secured the name of a devil. She bled herself and summoned the creature to her room, and bequeathed her life into its service, so that it could force her to be banished.
however, her race's innate resistance was found to be too strong within her, so the devil told her only a moral injury can allow this change to destiny. A dagger was presented, simple of handle, yet of layered steel. Go. consume the change you desire.
and so she went out... she stalked the halls quietly, steeling pass any who would interrupt her. Finally, she stole upon her parents bedroom, where she slipped inside. She found it to be rather easy to slice her mothers throat, to drive the blade into her fathers liver.
as he bled out, he witnessed in horror as his own daughter sliced out her own mothers heart, and ate it, before walking slowly around the bed. His wife had the joy of being dead as her daughter performed the ritual. He watched in horror as not only his heart, but also his lungs and kidneys were consumed, and with his last dying gaze he witnessed his daughter transform from insane orphan into vile sorceress.
The next morning, the guards found her, her and her parents, well, what was left of her parents. she stared in horror as comprehension wracked her mind, the guilt twisted her soul. However, she was most pleased with what she had done, for tradition stated that she was now head of household.
The case was quick. The thane, horrified that his son could have married such a creature, moved immediately to banish her, and with her ability granted by custom, agreed.

A lot changes:

--Bloodragers are con casters, and have spells at level 1
--Bloodline DCs are based of class level and con
--Bloodragers now have a blood pool they need to enter rages, a bit like grit but not really
--Bloodrages last a lot shorter
--bloodline selection is a lot more import
--several bloodlines can range pretty well

Blizzard
Your heritage stems from a tribe, clan, or wanderer of the frozen
wastes, surviving harsh blizzards, and leaving your bloodline
stronger for it.
Class Skill: Knowledge (Nature)
Bloodline Spells: chill metal (5th), vengeful cometsPCS:ISG (8th),
creeping iceACG (11th), freezing sphere (14th)
Blood Source: When you deal or take cold damage, you gain
1 blood point.
Bloodline Apotheosis: You count as being the outsider type
and cold subtype when it would be beneficial to you.
You gain immunity to bleed, paralysis, poison, and sleep
effects. You also become immune to cold and precisionbased attacks, such as sneak attack, although if you would
take cold damage, you may choose to gain a blood point
as normal. Finally, you gain a fly speed equal to your land
speed.
Bloodline Powers
Icicle Javelin (Su): You gain Point Blank Shot and Precise
Shot as bonus feats, even if you don’t meet the prerequisites.
You may use your Constitution instead of Dexterity for
the purpose of qualifying for feats with either of these as
prerequisites.

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You may form an icicle as a free action, even if it isn’t
your turn. You may use it as a thrown weapon, using your
Constitution modifier instead of your Dexterity modifier on
the attack roll. It deals damage equal to 1d8 + your Strength
modifier and has a range increment of 30 feet. The icicle
dissolves immediately upon striking your target, missing, or
if you drop it. Half the damage it deals is cold damage and
the other half piercing. It has an enhancement bonus equal
to +1 plus +1 per five levels. You may spend a blood point as a
swift action to resolve your next attack with an icicle javelin
as a touch attack. You do not gain blood points for damaging
a creature with this touch attack. While in a bloodrage your
javelin ignores ice resistance and immunity.

Leaving Glimmerhold, Boram headed east to Tamran, where he spent some time with family that lived there. Visiting from house to house, not so long as to become burdensome, but long enough to reacquaint himself with family. Eventually spending a week or so with his third Cousin Miro Fleefoot. One evening Miro was telling a story about his half-sister Marra Fleabottom, who for a time had dated a young halfling, who eventually became a paladin and started a group of mercenaries in Kerse. Wanting to learn more Boram found Marra and asked her to tell him the whole story. After she'd described the wonderful 'Captain' Colewin, Boram decided Kerse might be a good place to start and asked his third cousin's half-sister to write him a letter of introduction.

Sailing from Tamran to Kerse, with his letter of recommendation in his pocket, Boram found the Silver Shields offices. Presenting the letter to Colewin Bindergok, the Paladin of Abadar decided to hire Boram as a 'freelance' operative working with the 'Silver Shields' until he decided if the burglar was an honest man Halfling.

After seven jobs he decided that Boram was trustworthy and honored the spirit, if not the letter, of the contracts they took. Soon after he promoted Boram to the title of 'mercenary junior member of the Silver Shields.'

Born in a travelling caravan of Varisian pilgrims, Trelsong’s childhood was spent wandering over much of central Avistan. He was raised a faithful Desnan of course, and learned the ways of the spirit dance from elder matriach Zeldana Maraica. A beautiful and skilled dancer, he was a poorer student at intellectual pursuits. From the less reputable members of the caravan, he learned to be a halfway decent card sharp and con artist...

Trelsong’s became a Silver Shield in the aftermath of one of their jobs. The mercenaries had been hired to protect the caravan from bandits on the road between Daggermark and Caliphas. The bandits, supplemented by Razmirans, attacked in more force than the Silver Shields had expected. Still, the defenders prevailed, under the able leadership of Colewin Binderbook. Trelsong was impressed with Colewin, and Colewin had also noticed Trelsong and his multifaceted abilities. When they reached Caliphas, Colewin offered Trelsong a trial contract. Trelsong accepted and has come to Kerse with Colewin.

A young (19 years old) man. 5’10 and Skin and bones (159 lbs). There’s a gleam in his eye that speaks to a wicked sense of humour. Black hair and startling green eyes. Skin is a weathered bronze. Prominent cheekbones and heavy eyebrows.

Happy go lucky and energetic. Not much of one for sitting, is always on his feet. Tries to be funny. Friendly and thinks the best of people.

CG Male Human (Varisian)

Legendary Medium 2 (Spirit Dancer)

Init +6 = +2 (Dex) +4 Improved Initiative
Speed 30 ft

Defense
AC: 18 = 10 + 4 armor + 2 Dex +2 Shield
HP 19 = 8 + (1d8 => 7)+2*2 Con
Fort + 3 =+0 Medium +2 Con +1 trait
Ref + 2 =+0 Medium +2 Dex
Will + 4 =+3 Medium +1 wis
Cha (+4) instead of Wis (+1) for Charms and Compulsions (Irrepressible Trait)

CMD : 12 = 10 +0 bab+2 dex
Offense
Melee: Spirit dependent
Ranged: Spirit Dependent
BAB : +0
CMB : +2 = +0 +2 str

Medium Spells Prepared
L0 (3,*) DC 14 : Guidance, Detect Magic, Message
L1 ( 0 +Spirit Spells , 0(+2)+1cha/day) DC 15 : None (+ Spirit Spells)

Stats
Str 11= 11(rolled)
Dex 15= 15 (rolled)
Con 15 =15(rolled)
Int 8 = 8 (rolled)
Wis 12 = 12 (rolled)
Cha 18 = 16 (rolled)+2 racial

Feats: Divine Fighting Technique - Desna’s Shooting Star (1st), Improved Initiative(Human Bonus)

Free (equivalents) from EITR: Power attack, Deadly Aim, Weapon finesse, Combat Expertise

Traits: Life of Toil (Social), Irrepressible (Faith), Naïve (-2 vs Dirty Trick and Improvised Weapons) (Drawback)

FCB: Spirit Bonus +1/6*2

Skills 2*(6+ 1 (skilled) – 1 (int) /lvl) (Ranks, skill roll. NOT INCLUDING ACP)
Perception (2 rank +3 trained+1 wis)
Use Magic Device (2 rank +3 trained+4 Cha)
Diplomacy (2 rank +3 trained+4 Cha)
Bluff (2 rank +3 trained+4 Cha)
Sense Motive (2rank +3 trained+1 wis)
Spellcraft (1 rank +3 trained -1 int)
K Arcana (1 rank +3 trained -1 int)

Background Skills
Perform (Dance) (2 rank +3 trained+3 Cha)
Sleight of Hand (2 rank +3 trained+2 Dex)

Languages: Varisian, Taldane

Assertion Pool (Su) (5 points): At 1st level, the legendary medium gains a reservoir of psychic willpower that he can draw upon to assert influence over his spirits. This assertion pool has a number of points equal to 1/2 his legendary medium level + his Charisma modifier (minimum 1). The pool refreshes once per day when the legendary medium prepares his spells.

Spirit (Su): A legendary medium serves as a vessel to channel spirits—powerful entities which may be the souls of bygone heroes, vestiges of forgotten gods, fragments of powerful outsiders, manifestations of the local environment, or any number of other mysterious and powerful entities.
A legendary medium can channel a spirit through a ritual known as a seance. Seances take 10 minutes to perform and require the legendary medium’s concentration. At the end of a seance, the legendary medium invokes a spirit of his choice to inhabit him until he chooses to release the spirit or invokes a new spirit. Each spirit arises from one of several legends, which are described further later in. The legendary medium gains the spirit’s listed seance boon and base spirit power for as long as they continue to channel the spirit. The legendary medium also gains the spirit’s intermediate spirit power at 6th level, its greater spirit power at 11th level, and its supreme spirit power at 17th level.
A legendary medium can invite his allies to participate in his seance, performing a shared seance which can grant several benefits. A character counts as participating so long as they maintain physical contact with another participating character and willfully opens themself to the spirit; unlike the legendary medium, other participating characters can take other actions during this time. Only creatures with an Intelligence score of at least 3 can participate in a seance.

Spirit Bonus (Su): When a legendary medium channels a spirit, he gains a bonus on certain checks and to certain statistics, depending on the spirit. A 1st-level legendary medium’s spirit bonus is +1; it increases by 1 at 4th level and every 4 levels thereafter. Certain other abilities may increase this bonus further.

Spirit Surge (Su): When making a d20 roll that is increased by the legendary medium’s spirit bonus, the legendary medium can spend an assertion point as a free action to add 1d6 to the roll. This action may be taken even when it is not your turn. By spending 2 points of assertion, the legendary medium may instead do this after learning of the success or failure of the roll. This can cause the check to succeed instead of fail. The legendary medium must be conscious and aware to use this ability, and he can use this ability at most once per round. At 10th level, the legendary medium’s spirit surge die increases to 1d8, to 1d10 at 14th level, and to 1d12 at 18th level.

Spirit Dance (Su) Each day when he prepares his spells, a spirit dancer makes all his spirit power choices as if he were channeling one spirit of each of the legends. He does not always possess the seance boon, spirit bonus, spirit powers, or spirit surge ability from any of these spirits. Instead, he can enter a spirit dance as a free action to gain the aforementioned abilities from one of the spirits he prepared during his seance for the duration of his spirit dance. He can end his spirit dance or change which spirit he is utilizing with spirit dance as a free action. A spirit dancer continues to track daily uses of abilities from each of his spirits even while he is not in a spirit dance. This ability alters spirit and spirit bonus and replaces spirit feats.

Spirit Aura (Su) At 2nd level, a spirit dancer’s weaving forms create an aura that grants his current seance boon to all allies within 30 feet. When he grants a seance boon that requires a decision, each ally makes the appropriate decision the first time that ally receives that spirit’s aura each day. That decision remains in effect if the ally is affected by that spirit’s aura again later that day. This ability replaces shared seance

+2 to One Ability Score: Human characters get a +2 bonus to one ability score of their choice at creation to represent their varied nature.
Medium: Humans are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Humans have a base speed of 30 feet.
Bonus Feat: Humans select one extra feat at 1st level.
Skilled: Humans gain 1 additional skill rank at 1st level and 1 additional rank whenever they gain a level.
Languages: Humans begin play speaking Common and their ethnic language. Humans whose ethnic language is Common (or Taldane, in the case of Chelaxians or Taldans) do not receive an additional ethnic language. Humans with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic).

Weapons (132 gp):
Starknife X2 (48 gp), longbow (75 gp), dagger (2 gp), Cestus (5 gp), Quiver of 20 arrows X2 (2 gp),

Armor (467 gp)
MW Leather Lamellar (210 gp), Darkwood Heavy Shield (257 GP)

Equipment (216 gp)
Explorer’s outfit, heavy cloak (1 sp), wide brim hat (2 sp), MW backpack (50 gp), bedroll (1sp), blanket(5sp), hammock (1sp), 50 ft hemp rope (1gp), , trail rations 10 days (5gp), belt pouch(1 gp), flint and steel (1 gp), waterskin (1 gp), 3 Sunrods (6 gp), MW Thieves Tools (100gp), Healer’s kit (50 gp)

75 gp