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Marcus has traveled all over, leading teams into some of the most dangerous yet most rewarding situations.

The cleanout: hired by a rich merchant to clear out a newly purchased castle that had been occupied by a small tribe of goblins.

The cleric of Hom: Cleric of Ba’al raised an army of humanoids with the intent of taking over a local barony. We infiltrated his training facility, burned the supplies, and killed the cleric before escaping with three hostages. One of the hostages was the daughter of the Baron. Joined his bodyguard and worked for him for a year.

Assault of the humanoids: a large band of humanoids raided the barony. Marcus and his companions were forced to defend the castle and eventually snuck out to assassinate the chief holding the group together. Marcus and team were awarded with knighthood by the baron.

Uncharted island: Leaving the service of the baron Marcus and companions set out to explore an uncharted island in the southern sea. They encountered a tribe of catfolk. One of the catfolk was able to speak common and the team was welcomed as guests. While there, one of the higher ranking warriors attempted a coup. Marcus and friends supported the chief and protected his children during the battle.

Off world: The catfolk had a legend about an entrance into the land of the gods at the top of the central mountain. Marcus and team headed to the top to check it out. They found an old temple. After searching it out they triggered a magic circle that took them to another world where they encountered numerous planar creatures.

Wormhole travel: found a way off the plane via a “wormhole”. This wormhole was a magic tunnel moving through the ethereal plane to other planes. We encountered numerous worlds and beings on our way back to the prime material plane.

Evil Count: an evil count was raising an army of humanoids to make a coup attempt against the grand duke. Marcus and team initially began killing the members of the army eventually sneaking into the castle to face off with the Count and his bodyguard. After defeating him the team discovered the count had a powerful wizard backing him who was conspicuously absent from the battle and was hold up in his tower.

The Wizard’s tower: Entering the tower was entering another world. Travel to the location of the wizard was dangerous and difficult. Finally, the team tracked down the wizard and managed to destroy him after an extreme battle in which one of their members was disintegrated.

Hgt: 6’6” Wgt 180# Hair White, Eyes Green
Tall and lean with snow white hair and striking green eyes, Marcus is noticeable in most any crowd.

Initiative +7 (Dex 3, Feat 4)
AC 34, touch 18, Flat Footed 31 (11 armor, 3 Dex, 5 deflect, 5 nat armor)
HP 189 (17d10 (106) + 68 con* + 15 FCB)
Fort +19* Ref +18* Will +14*
+1 bonus on Will saves against compulsion spells and effects
+2 to saving throws vs divination effects

Speed 40ft*
Melee
Holy Adamantine Falchion +28/23/18/13 (2d4+13+2d6/15 x2)
w/ power attack +28/18/13/8 (2d4+28+2d6/15 x2)
Unarmed strike +24/+19/+14/+9 (1d6+7/20 x2)
w/ power attack +24/+14/+9/+4 (1d6+17/20 x2)
w/ flurry +22/+22/+17/+12/+7
w/ PA & flurry +22/+17/+12/+7/+2

Ranged
MW cold iron Dagger +21/+16/+11/+6 (1d4+7/19 x2, 10’ range)
Holy CLB (STR +5) +23/+18/+13/+8 (1d8+8+2d6/20 x3, 110’)
w/ deadly aim +18/+13/+8/+3 (1d8+18+2d6/20 x3, 110’)
w/ rapid shot +21/+21/+16/+11/+6
w/ DA & RS +16/+16/+11/+6/+1
PBS +1 to hit and damage within 30’

Str 24* Dex 17* Con 18* Int 12 Wis 14 Cha 10
BAB +17, CMB +24, CMD 37

Stat Building
Init Str 15 Dex 13 Con 13 Int 12 Wis 14 Cha 10
Cost 7 3 3 2 5
Race Str +2
Level Str +3 Con +1
Total Str 20 Dex 13 Con 14 Int 12 Wis 14 Cha 10

1. Power attack
1HE. Skill focus perception
2R. Point blank shot
1B. Improved unarmed strike
3. Furious Focus
2B. WF: Falchion
3R. Endurance
5. Cleave
6R. Precise Shot
7. Improved Initiative
9. Iron Will
10R. Rapid Shot
11. Improved Critical falchion
13. Great cleave
14R. Point Blank Master
15. Deadly aim
17. Improved grapple

Skill Points = 115 (90 ranger + 8 brawler + 17 Int) *means class skill

Acrobatics* 5 (1 rank, 3 class, 1 dex) +5 to jump
Climb* 20 (7 rank, 3 class, 5 Str, 5 gloves)
Craft* Fletcher 6 (1 rank, 3 class, 2 Wis)
Escape Artist* 3 (0 rank, 3 class, 3 Dex)
Handle Animal* 13 (8 rank, 3 class, 2 Wis)
Heal* 18 (13 rank, 3 class, 2 Wis)
Intimidate* 8 (5 rank, 3 class, 0 cha)
Know (Dungeoneering)* 10 (6 rank, 3 class, 1 Int)
Know (Geography)* 10 (6 rank, 3 class, 1 Int)
Know (Engineering)* 5 (1 rank, 3 class, 1 Int)
Know (Local)* 5 (1 rank, 3 class, 1 Int)
Know (Nature)* 10 (5 rank, 3 class, 1 Int, 1 trait)
Know (Planes)* 10 (5 ranks, 3 class, 1 Int, 1 Trait)
Perception* 30 (17 ranks, 3 class, 2 Wis, 2 Race, 6 feat)
Profession*
Ride* 16 (12 ranks, 3 class, 3 Dex*)
Sense motive* 8 (3 ranks, 3 class, 2 Wis)
Spellcraft* 5 (1 ranks, 3 class, 1 Int)
Stealth* 28 (12 rank, 3 class, 3 Dex*, 10 ring)
Survival 15 (10 rank, 3 class, 2 Wis) +8 to follow tracks
Swim 14 (1 rank, 3 class, 5 Str, 5 gloves)

Common, Elven

Armor proficiency: medium armor, shields

Weapon proficiency: Martial weapons and close weapon fighter group

Brawler’s cunning: Intelligence counts as 13 for feats

Martial flexibility: can take a move action to gain the benefit of a combat feat he does not know. The effect lasts for 1 minute. He must meet prereqs. May use this ability 3+½ brawler level per day (4).

Martial training: Brawler levels count as fighter and monk levels.

Unarmed strike: 1d6 dmg

Brawler’s Flurry: counts as two weapon fighting for unarmed strikes and using brawler weapons.

Favored Weapon: At 1st level, a divine tracker becomes proficient with the favored weapon of his deity. If his deity’s favored weapon is unarmed strike, he instead gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. This ability replaces wild empathy.

Blessings: Good and Healing

Good
Holy Strike (minor): At 1st level, you can touch one weapon and bless it with the power of purity and goodness. For 1 minute, this weapon glows green, white, or yellow-gold and deals an additional 1d6 points of damage against evil creatures. During this time, it’s treated as good for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction. This additional damage doesn’t stack with the additional damage from the holy weapon special ability.
Battle Companion (major): At 10th level, you can summon a battle companion. This ability functions as summon monster IV with a duration of 1 minute, but for only a good outsider or an animal with the celestial creature simple template. This ability can summon only one creature, regardless of the list used. For every 2 levels beyond 10th, the level of the summon monster spell increases by 1 (to a maximum of summon monster IX at 20th level).
Healing
Powerful Healer (minor): At 1st level, you can add power to a cure spell as you cast it. As a swift action, you can treat any cure spell as if it were empowered (as the Empower Spell feat), causing it to heal 50% more damage (or deal 50% more damage if used against undead). This ability doesn’t stack with itself or the Empower Spell feat.
Fast Healing (major): At 10th level, you can touch an ally and grant it fast healing 3 for 1 minute.
Favored Enemy: At 1st level, a ranger selects a creature type from the ranger favored enemies table. He gains a +2 bonus on Bluff, Knowledge, Perception, Sense Motive, and Survival checks against creatures of his selected type. Likewise, he gets a +2 bonus on weapon attack and damage rolls against them. A ranger may make Knowledge skill checks untrained when attempting to identify these creatures.
Outsider (Evil) +8, Outsider (Earth) +6, Outsider (Air) +4, Humanoid (Human) +2

Track: A ranger adds half his level (minimum 1) to Survival skill checks made to follow tracks.

Combat Style: Archery

Favored terrain: At 3rd level, a ranger may select a type of terrain from Table: Ranger Favored Terrains. The ranger gains a +2 bonus on initiative checks and Knowledge (geography), Perception, Stealth, and Survival skill checks when he is in this terrain. A ranger traveling through his favored terrain normally leaves no trail and cannot be tracked (though he may leave a trail if he so chooses).
Elemental Plane of Earth +6, elemental Plane of Fire +4, Forests +2

Woodland stride: a ranger may move through any sort of undergrowth (such as natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain) at his normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment.

Swift tracker: a ranger can move at his normal speed while using Survival to follow tracks without taking the normal –5 penalty. He takes only a –10 penalty (instead of the normal –20) when moving at up to twice normal speed while tracking.

Evasion: When he reaches 9th level, a ranger can avoid even magical and unusual attacks with great agility. If he makes a successful Reflex saving throw against an attack that normally deals half damage on a successful save, he instead takes no damage. Evasion can be used only if the ranger is wearing light armor, medium armor, or no armor. A helpless ranger does not gain the benefit of evasion.

Quarry: At 11th level, a ranger can, as a standard action, denote one target within his line of sight as his quarry. Whenever he is following the tracks of his quarry, a ranger can take 10 on his Survival skill checks while moving at normal speed, without penalty. In addition, he receives a +2 insight bonus on attack rolls made against his quarry, and all critical threats are automatically confirmed. A ranger can have no more than one quarry at a time and the creature’s type must correspond to one of his favored enemy types. He can dismiss this effect at any time as a free action, but he cannot select a new quarry for 24 hours. If the ranger sees proof that his quarry is dead, he can select a new quarry after waiting 1 hour.

Camouflage: A ranger of 12th level or higher can use the Stealth skill to hide in any of his favored terrains, even if the terrain doesn’t grant cover or concealment.

Attributes: +2 to one score of choice
Size: Medium
Speed: 30 ft
Elven immunities: immune to magic sleep effects and gain a +2 racial saving throw bonus against enchantment spells and effects.
Keen senses: receive a +2 racial bonus on Perception checks
Adaptability: Half-elves receive Skill Focus as a bonus feat at 1st level. (Perception)
Lowlight vision
Blended view: Blended View (2 RP): Prerequisite(s): low-light vision. Half-drow whose non-drow parent had low-light vision might be blessed with a legacy of versatile senses. Characters with this trait keep their low-light vision but also gain darkvision to a distance of 60 feet. Half-elves can take this trait in place of multitalented.

Carefully Hidden +1 to Will saves and +2 to saving throws vs divination effects.

Scholar of the great beyond: +1 to Know (history) and Know (planes) one is a class skill (planes)

Belt Pouch (whetstone, flint and steel, chalk x5, signal whistle, small steel mirror, campfire bead) 2.5#

Handy Haversack (Caltrops, chalk x5, candles x10, pitons x3, fish hooks x5, string 50', sewing kit, water skin, thread 50’, soap, rations x2, loose change, hooded lantern, 2 flasks of oil, bedroll, clay mug, cooking set, healer’s kit x6, signal horn, everburning torch, alchemist’s fire x10, rope of climbing, iron spike of safe passage, bottle of air, decanter of endless water, wand of cure light wounds 50chgs x2, sustaining spoon, potion of cure serious wounds x3, potion of cure moderate wounds x4) 5#

Adamantine Holy Falchion +3 8#
MW Dagger
Mithral Breastplate +5 20#
Holy Composite Longbow (STR +5) +3
Cloak of resistance +5
Ring of protection +5
Amulet of natural armor +5
Belt of physical perfection +4
Ring of Chameleon power (+10 to stealth and disguise self)
Boots of striding and springing (+10’ move, +5 to jump)
Gloves of swimming and climbing (+5 climb and swim)
Efficient quiver (durable arrows x32, smoke arrow x3, tanglefoot x5, barbed arrows x20, 10’ pole)
Ioun torch
Easternstar ioun stone (comprehend languages)

Exotic Riding Saddle, bit and bridle
Hippogriff combat trained
>Bag of holding III (sledge hammer, mattock, wood axe, shovel, large tent, durable arrows x32, smoke arrow x3, tanglefoot x5, barbed arrows x20)

Light Load 233, Medium Load 466, Heavy Load 700
Total Gear Weight: app 50 pounds, Light Load

PP 900 GP 200 SP 0 CP 0

1st Level (4)
1. Lead blades
2. Endure elements
3. Abundant ammunition
4. Air bubble

2nd Level (4)
1. Cure light wounds
2. Iron skin
3. Aquatic cavalry
4. Carry companion

3rd Level (2)
1. Cure moderate wounds
2. Instant Enemy

4th Level (1)
1. Cure serious wounds