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Solo Tactics (Ex): At 3rd level, all of the inquisitor’s allies are treated as if they possessed the same teamwork feats as the inquisitor for the purpose of determining whether the inquisitor receives a bonus from her teamwork feats. Her allies do not receive any bonuses from these feats unless they actually possess the feats themselves. The allies’ positioning and actions must still meet the prerequisites listed in the teamwork feat for the inquisitor to receive the listed bonus.

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Shifter Claws (Su): At will, a shifter in her natural form can extend her claws as a swift action to use as a weapon. This magical transformation is fueled as much by the shifter's faith in the natural world as it is by inborn talent. The claws on each hand can be used as a primary natural attack, dealing 1d4 points of piercing and slashing damage (1d3 if she is Small). If she uses one of her claw attacks in concert with a weapon held in the other hand, the claw acts as a secondary natural attack instead.

As the shifter gains levels, the power of her claws increases. At 3rd level, her claws ignore DR/cold iron, DR/magic, and DR/silver. At 7th level, her claw damage increases to 1d6 (1d4 if Small). At 11th level, her claw damage increases to 1d8 (1d6 if Small). At 13th level, her claw damage increases to 1d10 (1d8 if Small). At 17th level, the damage die does not increase, but the critical multiplier becomes ×3. Lastly, at 19th level, the claws ignore DR/adamantine and DR/—.

While a shifter uses wild shape to assume her aspect's major form, her natural attacks gain the same benefits granted by her shifter claws ability. If the form she takes has claw attacks, she can use either the base damage of her shifter claws or the damage of the form's claws, whichever is greater. If the form does not have claw attacks, she can choose up to two natural attacks that would deal less damage than her shifter claw damage and have those attacks instead deal the same damage as her shifter claws.

Alternate Natural Attacks

A shifter can draw on her chosen animal aspect to transform her hands into deadly weapons, as represented by the shifter’s claws class feature, but not every animal has prominent claws. The following list provides alternate natural attacks for the shifter claws class feature. Each time the shifter activates her shifter’s claws ability in her natural form, she can manifest one of the alternate natural attacks listed below for any of her chosen aspects, or those that relate to her archetype. Each alternate natural attack replaces one of the shifter’s claw attacks. The shifter can gain up to two different alternate natural attacks with this method. These alternate natural attacks modify only the damage type of the shifter’s natural attacks and otherwise function exactly as the shifter claws class feature.

Dragon (Dragonblood Shifter Archetype): Bite (B, P, S), tail slap (B), wing (B).

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Legendary Item (Ex): You gain a legendary item (see page i69). This item grants a number of abilities equal to your tier (maximum 3). At 3rd tier, you can select this ability again, increasing the maximum to six abilities and causing the item to become a lesser artifact. At 6th tier, you can select this ability again, increasing the maximum to 10 abilities; the item then becomes a greater artifact.

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Legendary Item (Ex): You gain a legendary item (see page i69). This item grants a number of abilities equal to your tier (maximum 3). At 3rd tier, you can select this ability again, increasing the maximum to six abilities and causing the item to become a lesser artifact. At 6th tier, you can select this ability again, increasing the maximum to 10 abilities; the item then becomes a greater artifact.

Sleepless (Su): You no longer require sleep, don't become fatigued or exhausted from lack of sleep, and are immune to sleep effects. If you have abilities or class features that require rest before they can be regained, you can choose to regain them once per day by spending 1
hour in uninterrupted meditation.

Pure Body (Su): Your body is so pure that you're immune to all non-mythic diseases and poisons. Diseases and poisons from mythic sources count as mythic for the purposes of this ability.

Legendary Item (Ex): You gain a legendary item (see page i69). This item grants a number of abilities equal to your tier (maximum 3). At 3rd tier, you can select this ability again, increasing the maximum to six abilities and causing the item to become a lesser artifact. At 6th tier, you can select this ability again, increasing the maximum to 10 abilities; the item then becomes a greater artifact.

Pure Senses (Su): Your senses are extraordinarily keen. You're immune to blindness and deafness caused by nonmythic sources. Such effects from mythic sources count as mythic for the purposes of this ability.

Fearless (Su): Few things in the world still inspire fear in you. You are immune to all fear effects from nonmythic sources. Fear effects from mythic sources count as mythic for the purposes of this ability.

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1) Character (homebrewed race) concept: A member of normally pacifist race (skavenger) that survives by seeking out the animal carcasses that have been slain by natural predators.
2) Character (homebrewed race) concept: Skavengers eke out survival in the sewers and outskirts of cities.
3) Character (homebrewed race) concept: Skavengers are halfling anorexic humanoids who gain nourishment mainly by eating animal carcasses (with the dead animal having been slain by natural predators).
4) Character (homebrewed race) concept: More often than not, when other civilized species come across a skavenger feasting on an animal carcass they mistake the skavenger for a ghoul, leading to an 'active purge' to rid their community of the 'undead scourge' in the sewers/outskirts of their community.

1) Character (personal) concept: Born to a community of skavengers eking out an existence below the surface in the Precipice Quarter of Absalom.

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2) Character (personal) concept: When Catador was six and his parents took him out for his first 'hunt' to find an animal carcass, a group of four youths from the surface came across them, unbeknownst to the skavenger family.

Conversation of the surface youths seeing the two halfling-sized 'ghouls' and one tiny-sized 'ghoul' feasting on the carcass of a cave gecko...

"Those are ghouls, guys."

"How can you be sure, Dustin?" Mike asks.

"Mike, they are feasting on the dead with their mouths." Dustin answers.

"Guys, we should leave before they spot us." Will advises his friends.

"I can take them out with my wrist rocket." Lucas says confidently.

"Not now, Lucas. Will's right, we need to get out of here before they see us."

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3) Character concept (personal concept): A few months later, while Catador and his father were feasting on an animal carcass (the animal carcass was intentionally placed there as a trap by Lucas).when Catador's father was hit hard in the head by a fist-sized stone (sling glove)

"You got him, Lucas!" Dustin shouts excitedly.

"You didn't really expect I would miss, did you?"

"Mike isn't going to be happy. He said we should only scout to get more information, guys." Will says.

"Mike's too much of a pacifist, Will. We need to protect the city from threats. They are threats." Lucas replies.

Catador's father, recovering from being temporarily stunned as the human youths talk amongst themselves, tells his son, "Run! Get to safety!"

Catador does as his father commands him and flees.

Catador's father then approaches the children, his arms raised in the air, "We mean you no harm. We scavenge dead animal carcasses to survive."

Lucas, not registered that the humanoid approaching them is speaking to them, reactively reloads and fires another stone towards what he still thinks is a ghoul, scoring a critical hit, dropping the humanoid to the ground.

"Lucas, why did you do that? They're not ghouls!" Will asks, shocked that his friend just killed someone who is not a monster.

"We can figure it out later, guys. We need to get back to the surface now, before the small one comes back with more to avenge the one Lucas just killed!"

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4) Character (personal concept): Catador, his mother and the rest of their community became nomads underneath Absalom over the next decade, thanks to the rumour grapevine started from the tales the surface heard about the day Lucas killed a 'ghoul' underneath the city.

Lucas, remorseful that his actions that day not only killed an innocent, but the rumours of that day caused several in the city to go on 'ghoul-hunting' excursions of the sewers and caverns beneath the surface of Absalom.

Lucas, Dustin, Will and Mike had spent a good chunk of their time over the past decade looking for other of the ghoul-like non-ghouls, tying to establish friendly relations with the roaming underground-dwelling peoples their actions has resulted in many of their number being killed by zealous residents of Absalom who do not listen to them whenever they try to educate them that the skavenger people are not a threat to them.

While Mike and the others refer to the underground-dwelling race as skavengers, the residents of Absalom who hunt them refer to them with a factually incorrect acronym: C.H.U.D. (cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers) after they discovered they were not undead after their first successful hunting trips beneath the surface of Absalom.

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5) Character (personal concept): Catador, now 18, was with some of his fellow skavengers scouting for another place for their community to move to (due to their ever-present need to not stay too long in one specific 'home' for long because of the frequent 'hunting trips' the surface-dwellers take to hunt them down.

They came across three groups of surface-dwellers: two hunting parties, and the group of four friends that started the chain of events a dozen years ago.

As Mike and his friends attempt to make the hunters realize they have been killing innocents for the past decade, the hunters quickly dispatch half of the skavengers of the group.

Catador then recognizes the human that killed his father and something within Catador snapped, and he started to charge at Lucas, his hands shifting into deadly claws for the first time in his life....

"I'm sorry. I didn't know!" Lucas calls out, his hands to his sides, not resisting the charge. "I'm sorry..." Lucas shouts then whispers, accepting the just judgement of 'a death for a death'.

Before Catador reached Lucas, six of the hunters shot him through with crossbow bolts...killing Catador...

"NOOOO!!!!" Lucas yells as he sees the innocent he made a half-orphan when he was just a child gets killed for trying to avenge his father.

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Goal 1: Make surface dwellers become aware that his people are NOT threats to them and simply want to be left alone as they eke out surviving by feeding on animals that other animals have killed.

Goal 2: Avenge his father's death. (Personal conflict: He wants to avenge his father's death but his father told him (in the afterlife realm) to forgive the human that killed him (Catador's father). How will he honor his father: by avenging his death or by honouring his father's wishes and forgiving the human that killed his father?

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1st secret: (known to Catador): While Catador was in the afterlife, his father appeared to him and told him, for their people to gain peaceful coexistence with the surface dwellers, he must forgive the human who killed him (Catador's father) and work with that human and his friends to form an everlasting peace between the skavengers and the surface dwellers. It was his time in the afterlife that his father taught him the ways of the dragonblood shifter.

2nd secret (unknown to Catador): There is a subset of his people that has formed over the past twelve years, who intentionally hunt the hunters hunting their own people.

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Linked through honour: Lucas (the human that killed Catador's father, Tacador) Lucas, was robbed from regaining his honour by not resisting Catador's charge to slay him, when surface-dweller hunters killed Catador before he reached Lucas.

Linked through blood: Catador's mother, Doralee.

Enemies: the six hunters that killed Catador with crossbow bolts, and still vehemently believe that skavengers are monsters that need to be 'put down'.

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See the above spoilers for the events that are Catador's memories.

A dragonblood shifter can temporarily imbue her body with draconic majesty as a swift action. When activating this ability, the shifter must select one of the chromatic or metallic dragon types from the table below. Her draconic aspect abilities grant resistances and deal a type of damage based on the chosen dragon type. While shifted into this form, she gains the scent ability and energy resistance 5 against the energy type that corresponds to her selected dragon type. She can maintain this form for a number of minutes per day equal to 3 + her shifter level. The duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be spent in 1-minute increments. The shifter can select a different dragon type every time she uses this ability, but she must end her current draconic aspect and activate this ability again in order to change her chosen dragon type.

Dragon Type...Energy Type

Black..................Acid
Blue...................Electricity
Green.................Acid
Red.....................Fire
White..................Cold
Brass..................Fire
Bronze...............Electricity
Copper..............Acid
Gold...................Fire
Silver..................Cold

At 5th level, the energy resistance granted by the dragonblood shifter’s draconic aspect increases to 10.

At 10th level, the energy resistance granted by the dragonblood shifter’s draconic aspect increases to 15, and she gains a breath weapon of her energy type that deals 1d6 points of damage per shifter level within a 30-foot cone. A target can attempt a Reflex save (DC = 10 + half the dragonblood shifter’s level + her Charisma modifier) to reduce damage by half. The dragonblood shifter can use her breath weapon once per day.

At 15th level, the energy resistance granted by the dragonblood shifter’s draconic aspect increases to 20, and she can use her breath weapon twice per day.

At 20th level, the dragonblood shifter becomes immune to the energy type that corresponds to her selected dragon type while in her draconic aspect. In addition, she gains spell resistance equal to 10 + her shifter level, and she can use her breath weapon three times per day.

This replaces shifter aspect and all improvements to shifter aspect.

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