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Calm Spirits: One incorporeal undead within 40 feet of Estra will not take any hostile actions for 7 minutes, or one haunt within 40 feet will not trigger for 7 rounds.

Cure Serious Wounds: Estra’s touch heals 3d8+7 points of damage.

Daze: Estra dazes one humanoid creature within 40 feet, causing it to lose its next turn (Will DC 14 negates). Once a creature is dazed by this spell, it is immune to it for 1 minute.

Detect Undead: Estra can detect undead creatures in a 60-foot cone. If she concentrates, she can find out the number of undead and the strength of the strongest undead aura. On the round after that, she can determine the strength and location of each undead aura.

Expeditious Retreat: Estra’s speed increases to 60 feet for 7 minutes.

Ghoul Touch: Estra touches and paralyzes a humanoid for 1d6+2 rounds. All creatures vulnerable to poison within 10 feet of the target are sickened. Fortitude DC 16 negates for both.

Grave Words: Estra can cause a touched corpse to begin babbling for 1 round. There is a 10% chance the corpse’s ramblings are useful in some way (determined by the GM). Once a corpse has been targeted by this spell, it is immune to it forever.

Guidance: Estra can give a touched target a +1 competence bonus on any attack roll, saving throw, or skill check in the next minute.Heroism: Estra can grant a touched creature a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks for 70 minutes.

Invisibility Alarm: Estra wards a 20-foot-radius area within 40 feet. If an invisible creature enters this ward, an alarm sounds or Estra receives a silent notification. The ward lasts 8 hours.

Lesser Restoration: After 3 full rounds of casting, a touched target heals 1d4 points of damage to any ability score or loses most magical effects reducing ability scores. The target is no longer fatigued, and reduces exhausted to fatigued.

Light: An object Estra touches sheds light for 70 minutes. She can’t have more than one copy of this spell active at a time.

Mage Hand: Estra can point at one object up to 40 feet away that weighs up to 5 pounds and move it as far as 15 feet in any direction. The spell ends if the object travels more than 25 feet away from her.

Message: Estra can whisper messages to the target for 70 minutes as long as it is within 170 feet and isn’t obstructed, and the target can respond each time Estra sends a whisper. Nearby creatures might be able to overhear the messages (Perception DC 25).

Mindlink: Estra can communicate large amounts of information to a touched creature, as if she’d spent 10 minutes in discussion. She and her target do not need to share a language.

Remove Fear: Estra selects two creatures within 40 feet of herself and within 30 feet of each other. Estra suppresses all current fear effects on those creatures for 10 minutes. During that time, the creatures gain a +4 morale bonus against fear effects.

Resist Energy: For 70 minutes, a target Estra touches gains resistance 20 to her choice of acid, cold, electricity, fre, or sonic damage.

Shield: Estra gains a +4 shield bonus to AC for 7 minutes and becomes immune to magic missile.

Spirit-Bound Blade: Estra can touch a weapon to grant it the ghost touch special quality and one of the following special abilities for 7 minutes: cruel, cunning, keen, menacing, mimetic, returning, or vicious.

Spiritual Weapon: Estra creates a floating longsword of pure force anywhere within 170 feet that lasts for 7 rounds. It attacks on its own each round with a +9 bonus, dealing 1d8+2 force damage.

Scroll of Fly: A touched target gains a 60-foot fy speed and a +3 bonus to Fly checks (+2 total if Estra targets herself) for 7 minutes.

Scroll of Gaseous Form: A touched creature becomes misty and insubstantial for 10 minutes. Its material armor becomes worthless, but it gains DR 10/magic and a fy speed of 10 feet, and can move through small holes or narrow openings.

Scroll of See Invisibility: Estra gains the ability to see invisible and ethereal creatures normally for 30 minutes.

Wand of Cure Moderate Wounds: A touched target regains 2d8+3 hit points.

Wand of Dispel Magic: Estra can attempt to end a magical effect within 170 feet. She rolls 1d20+7, and the result must equal or exceed 11 plus the target effect’s caster level to end the magical effect. Alternatively, Estra can ready an action to counter an enemy spellcaster’s spellcasting. This works in much the same way, but if successful, she causes the enemy’s spell to fail.

Born the daughter of a poor miner in Isger, Estra fell in with a small gang of faux spiritualists who needed a convincing actress to play the role of their spirit-channeling medium. The group engaged in fraudulent seances targeting grieving mourners, who paid dearly for confirmation of the smooth passing of their loved ones into the hereafter.

Within darkened chambers and ramshackle theaters, Estra and her confederates spent nearly 10 years bilking the grief-stricken. Estra proved a talented actress, falling into convincing trances to channel the dead and dispense the carefully gathered information her associates had gleaned on their targets. Sessions typically culminated with the full-form “manifestation” of a bereaved subject’s lost relative: actually a confederate dressed in luminous robes and clumsy disguises.

The arrival of a handsome knight named Honaire changed all that. Stationed in Elidir, Honaire had left behind an ailing mother, and in his absence she had passed. Honaire sought some comfort in his loss, and turned toward the seances of Estra’s troupe for assurance that his mother rested in peace. Relieved of his grief by the assurances of the spirit-seer, the young knight became smitten with Estra’s quick wit and streetwise charm. Estra, for her part, found the knight’s combination of physical strength and gentle courtesy enchanting, even as his strict code of honor made her regret her own life of lies. When at last she confessed the truth—that she’d never contacted Honaire’s mother at all—she expected him to fly into a rage. Instead, he thanked her for her courage and proposed marriage. Accepting his proposal, Estra left behind the life of a charlatan, and the two spent several happy decades together.

Yet this life, too, came to an abrupt end when rumors of a rising alliance of goblin tribes reached the capital. Seeing her husband’s frustration at the government’s slow response, Estra urged him to volunteer to investigate, with no way of knowing that the goblin assemblies were the precursor to the deadly Goblinblood Wars. There in the dark expanse of the Chitterwood, Honaire and his unit were unexpectedly ambushed by a horde of maniacal goblins and their green dragon ally. Though he fought bravely and saved the lives of many comrades in their retreat, Honaire was bathed in the dragon’s toxic breath.

Wracked by guilt and loss, Estra turned to her old means of supporting herself, training several new associates in the tricks of the faux spiritualist trade. Yet during the group’s first performance, Estra’s fake trance became something more. A wispy, greenish vapor coalesced from her mouth, eyes, and nostrils. To the wonderment of those assembled, a spectral figure emerged through the curtain of ectoplasmic mists. The ghostly apparition was not a confederate but rather the very real specter of her fallen husband. Comforted and shamed, the burgeoning spiritualist pledged again to never allow deceit to rule her life.

Though age stoops her body, Estra has learned to strengthen her spiritual bond with Honaire so that his ectoplasmic form might walk the world again. She uses her strange powers to provide comfort and consolation—for real this time—to those who’ve lost loved ones to the ceaseless violence of the world. Yet all the while, doubt plagues her. She wonders if her phantom husband’s presence is the result of the depth of their love, some god’s attempt to shepherd her toward righteousness, or a manifestation of her own guilty conscience.