 About AnpetuAnpetu
Oath of Honor (Tribal; 2 Oath Points): You have sworn to uphold your good name and maintain an air of dignity in your actions. You must select a code of honor and maintain an honor score (see Ultimate Campaign) of at least 3 x your character level at all times. When you first swear this Oath or when you level up, your honor score is increased to 3 x your character level if it is lower. Enhanced Abilities (Su): Your Oath grants you strength and acuity beyond that of your kin. At 4th level and every even-numbered level thereafter, you gain a +2 enhancement bonus to one of your ability scores. These bonuses do not stack with each other until you are at least 10th level, at which point they may stack up to a maximum of +4. This improves to a maximum of +6 at 13th level. From level 13 onwards, you gain two +2 ability score bonuses at every level rather than just one at even-numbered levels. Inhuman Resilience (Su): Your Oath insulates your body and mind against harm. You gain a +1 resistance bonus to all saving throws at 3rd level, which increases by 1 at 6th level and every 3 levels thereafter (to a maximum of +5 at 15th level). You also gain a +1 enhancement bonus to natural armor at 5th level which increases by 1 at 8th level and every 3 levels thereafter (to a maximum of +5 at 17th level). Bonus Feats: At 1st level, a psychic warrior gets a bonus combat-oriented feat in addition to the feat that any 1st level character gets and the bonus feat granted to a human character. The psychic warrior gains an additional bonus feat at 2nd level and every three levels thereafter (5th, 8th, etc.). These bonus feats must be drawn from the feats noted as combat feats or psionic feats. The psychic warrior must still meet all prerequisites for the bonus feat, including ability score and base attack bonus minimums as well as class requirements (like levels in another specific class). These bonus feats are in addition to the feats that a character of any class gains every two levels. Psionic Proficiency (Ex): A psychic warrior treats his base attack bonus as equal to his psychic warrior level for the purposes of requirements for psionic feats. Base attack bonuses granted from other classes are unaffected and are added normally. Warrior's Path (Ex): At 1st level, a psychic warrior chooses a path to adhere to (listed below). When first taking a path, the psychic warrior gains one of the two powers associated with that path. Powers gained from a path do not count against his number of powers known. When manifesting this power, called a path power, the psychic warrior can either choose to manifest it for no cost by expending his psionic focus, in which case it cannot be augmented, or he can choose to manifest it normally, in which case his effective manifester level for this power is treated as one higher than normal. At 3rd level, the psychic warrior gains the second power from his path. All of the above benefits apply to this additional path power. In addition, the psychic warrior gains one additional class skill, as noted in the path description.
-Trance: Beginning at 3rd level, while maintaining psionic focus, you gain DR 2/-. This damage reduction improves by 1 evey four psychic warrior levels thereafter. In addition, you suffer no harm from being in a hot or cold environment. You can exist comfortably in conditions between -50 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit without having to make Fortitude saves. Your equipment is likewise protected. This doesn’t provide any protection from fire or cold damage, nor does it protect against other environmental hazards such as smoke, lack of air, and so forth. -Maneuver: Beginning at 3rd level, you can expend your psionic focus as an immediate action to be treated as having the Mettle ability until the beginning of your next turn. At 7th level and every four psychic warrior levels beyond, you gain a +1 competence bonus to Will saves when using this maneuver. In addition, at 11th level, when using this maneuver, you are treated as having the Improved Mettle ability. Quickened Strides (Su): As long as you maintain psionic focus, you gain a +5 ft. enhancement bonus to base speed. This ability only works if you are carrying a light load and not wearing any armor. At 5th level and every four psychic warrior levels thereafter, the bonus to base speed improves by +5 ft. This replaces all armor proficiencies normally gained as a 1st level psychic warrior. Psionic Weapon: At 1st level, the thunderjarl gains Psionic Weapon as a bonus feat. In addition, if the thunderjarl is wielding a weapon with two hands, the damage dealt when expending psionic focus for Psionic Weapon is increased by 1d6 points of damage. Intimidate: A thunderjarl adds Intimidate to his list of class skills. Stomp: At 1st level, the thunderjarl gains the stomp power as a power known. When manifesting stomp, the thunderjarl can expend a daily use of his stomp psi-like ability to manifest the power augmented to his full manifester level without paying any power point cost, although such a manifestation is not eligible to be affected by metapsionic feats or similar effects that would normally increase the cost of manifesting the power. In addition, when manifesting stomp, the thunderjarl can choose for the power to deal lethal instead of nonlethal damage and gains the additional augment options below. This functions in all other ways as manifesting a power normally.
Background:
Anpetu was born to one of the Sommaran tribes that thrive within the Endless Desert, though one of the ones closest towards the Ophid Protectorate. As a child, he would travel with his father and mother towards the lone trading post to look for essentials that the Flow in the endless dunes could not provide. With curious eyes, he watched the interactions between his kin and the reptilian race, watched them trade their goods for devices and things he had never seen before heading once more into the deep deserts to survive. Like all of his kind, he had the natural gift for psionics but his family found his power more brightly than some. Recognizing his talent, he was brought into the training to become a warrior.
Anpetu excelled in his training, masterfully wielding a massive blade while still showing speed and purpose in his steps. While some of his kind preferred the benefit of armor, he forwent it and trusted in his own power. What his elders found was not just a powerful warrior but something more lurking within the boy. It was the beginnings of a thunderjarl, the most powerful of their warriors. From then on, his training grew more severe, more draining. He was tested constantly underneath the brutal sun and joined hunts with his fellows to ensure that the tribe survived. Happy with his life, he couldn't stop the feeling that there was something more waiting for him. The sands forever seemed to blow back to that lonely little outpost, back to the Protectorate. When he was no longer a boy and finally recognized as a man of the tribe, Anpetu made his wish known. He wanted to see more of the patterns that the Flow had for him, see it in more than just sandstorms and rainfall, sandworms and dances. He yearned to go where the flow wished him to go. Unable to prevent him from such a travel, he went with the tribe's reluctant blessing and made his way to the Ophid Protectorate. He knew not why it called to him, why he needed to go there, but he knew that he was needed nonetheless. In his travels, he would find his purpose. |
