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Elsabeth Hempstock
Female Tiefling Witch (Hedge Witch)
(Looks like and uses mini that matches avatar)
Elsabeth is inspired by the strong females Neil Gaimen portrays in his novels who are all members of or descendants of the Hempstock family (Ocean at the End of the Lane being their most major appearance) she also has a dapper sage archetype skunk familiar named Phineas, who she calls Fnunk.
I left a pretty blank slate from her youth/loss of mentor, to the AP, probably 5-10 years, I like the idea of the last thing you remember being traumatic, instead of mundane, even if distant.
Female tiefling witch (hedge witch) 1 (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide 65, Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 264, Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Magic 84)
CG Medium outsider (native)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +0
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Defense
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AC 12, touch 12, flat-footed 10 (+2 Dex)
hp 8 (1d6+2)
Fort +3, Ref +2, Will +2; +1 trait bonus vs. charm and compulsion
Resist cold 5, electricity 5, fire 5
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee dagger +0 (1d4/19-20) or
. . starknife +0 (1d4/×3) or
. . 2 claws +0 (1d4)
Special Attacks hexes (evil eye[APG], healing[APG])
Witch (Hedge Witch) Spells Prepared (CL 1st; concentration +7)
. . 1st—burning hands (DC 15), lucky number
. . 0 (at will)—detect magic, read magic, stabilize
. . Patron Healing
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Statistics
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Str 10, Dex 15, Con 12, Int 18, Wis 10, Cha 8
Base Atk +0; CMB +0; CMD 12
Feats Extra Hex[APG]
Traits desperate focus, methodical mind (arcana, history, planes; arcana, history, planes, planes), varisian tattoo
Skills Craft (alchemy) +8, Fly +6, Heal +6, Knowledge (arcana) +9, Knowledge (history) +9, Spellcraft +8, Use Magic Device +3; Racial Modifiers +4 Fly
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Varisian
SQ prehensile tail, warded against nature, witch's familiar (skunk (sage) named Fnunk)
Combat Gear alchemist's fire, healer's kit; Other Gear dagger, starknife, backpack, bandolier[UE], bedroll, belt pouch, fishhook (2), flint and steel, mug/tankard, sewing needle, signal whistle, silver holy symbol of Desna, spell component pouch, string or twine[APG], thread (50 ft.), trail rations (7), waterskin, whetstone, 13 gp, 5 sp
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Special Abilities
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Darkvision (60 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white only).
Empathic Link with Familiar (Su) You have an empathic link with your Arcane Familiar.
Energy Resistance, Cold (5) You have the specified Energy Resistance against Cold attacks.
Energy Resistance, Electricity (5) You have the specified Energy Resistance against Electricity attacks.
Energy Resistance, Fire (5) You have the specified Energy Resistance against Fire attacks.
Evil Eye -2 (7 rounds, DC 14) (Su) Foe in 30 ft takes penalty to your choice of AC, attacks, saves, ability or skill checks (Will part).
Familiar Bonus: +2 to Fortitude saves You gain the Alertness feat while your familiar is within arm's reach.
Healing (1d8+1) (Su) Heal touched creature, but each target can only benefit once per 24 hrs.
Prehensile Tail Your tail can retrieve small objects on your person as a swift action.
Share Spells with Familiar Can cast spells with a target of "You" on the familiar with a range of touch.
Warded Against Nature Animals will not willingly approach within 30 ft.
Witch's Familiar (Ex) Gain the services of a special familiar that stores spells.
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The coal mine, once the heart of a thriving community, now a long black scar, between the abandon industry, lasting ill health of the former miners, and the feeling of ill omen that radiates from its shaft, which was the final resting place of the burned and dismembered witch Black Aggis some 40 years gone by.
Certain her problems were done, her mother fled the town, to settle in Carrion Hill, where she met her untimely end in an incident few from the town remember, or are willing to remember.
Elsabeth’s fate was not sealed to death by exposure, little to the knowledge of her birth mother, or the townsfolk, the mine was site of power for Black Aggis’s old coven. Often communing with her spirit in their ritual casting at the site of her interment. The coven, which included the local herb woman, found Elsabeth, and she was taken in by them.
Raised within their protective circle, she came to know them collectively as her mothers, she trained with each of them, learning their trades of herb craft, alchemy, healing, and the occult. She was known to the townsfolk, despised and mistreated by their tongues, but kept safe by the towns respect for her mothers, who were not known to be witches, but each a widow, or spinster, whom the town would turn to for wisdom and remedies.
As Elsabeth matured, more supernatural aspects of her nature became manifest. Animals would avoid her, cows would go dry, and finally the mayors horse became so unnerved he bolted, throwing the mayor, killing him.
The town in an uproar demanded vengeance on the unnatural creature, her mothers came to her aid. Unfortunately their gifts, in spite of their supernatural source, were of a helpful nature not a harmful. Their defence of Elsabeth only indicted them, and before the torch wielding mob, they found themselves and Elsabeth tied together at the stake.
When the fires first licked at their heels, Elsabeth weeped, and as the scourging flames consumed her mothers, her tears evaporated in the heat. As each one died, their merciful souls were unleashed as vengeful spirits. They brought their undead fury to bare on the townsfolk, while their daughter, unburned by the fire, had no more tears left to cry.
This final memory is the last one Elsabeth can remember, and it haunts her dreams every night.