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Naira, the Woman of the Waters
Sorcereress 2 (Elemental (Water Bloodline)), Expert 1
NN Medium humanoid (human), Outsider (Native)
Init + 6 (+4 Improved Initiative, +2 Dex) Senses: Darkvison 60ft. Perception +6
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Defense
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AC 12, touch 12, flat-footed 10
HP 26
Fort +1, Ref +2, Will +6
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft land, 30 swim
Melee Dagger (1d20 for 1d4-1)
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Statistics
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Str 8, Dex 15, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 16
Base Atk +1 (.75); CMB +0; CMD 12
Feats:
Improved Initiative, Extra Spell Points
Traits:
Whiteout (racial), Grove Neophyte (Faith)

Skills: 19 Skill Points (6 expert+ (2 sorcerer *2 )+ INT*3 + 1 FCB *3)) Skills marked with “*” are class skills granted by Expert NPC class. Swim is a class skill via racial trait.

*Acrobatics: +6(1 Rank, 2 Ability, 3 class)
Bluff: 7 (1 Ranks, +3 Ability, +3 Class)
*Diplomacy: +9 (3 ranks, 3 CHA, 3 class)
Knowledge (Arcana): +6 (1 Rank, +2 Ability +3 Class)
*Knowledge (Engineering): +7 (2 Rank, +2 Ability +3 Class)
*Knowledge (Local: +6 (1 Rank, +2 Ability +3 Class)
*Knowledge (Nature): +6 (1 Rank, +2 Ability +3 Class)
Knowledge (Planes): +6 (1 Rank, +2 Ability +3 Class)
*Knowledge (Religous): +6 (1 Rank, +2 Ability +3 Class)
*Linguistics: 6 (+1 rank, +2 INT, +3 Class)
*Perception: 6 (+2 Rank, +1 Wis, +3 Class)
Profession (Engineer): + 5 (+1 rank, +1 Wis, +3 Class)
*Sense Motive: +5 (+1 Ranks, +1 Wis, +3 Class)
*Survival: + 5/10 (+1 Ranks, +1 Wis, +3 Class)
Swim: 11 (1 Rank, -1 STR, +3 class, +8 racial)

Extra Magic Talent
Gain an additional sphere or a talent from a sphere you possess. You may gain this feat multiple times. The effects stack.

Improved Initiative
You get a +4 bonus on initiative checks.

Whiteout (racial):
Naira’s elemental heritage, slight as it may be, allows her to elude her foes when the elements are at her side, be it by an almost unnoticeable slipperiness to her skin or inspired by a jubilation around water. In areas of non-magical fog, rain, snow, or similar conditions (such as the spray of a waterfall), Naira gain the effects of concealment, but with a miss chance of 10%. If the precipitation would already grant her concealment, the miss chances stack.

Grove Neophyte (Regional):
Naira holds water itself to be a sacred force, largely due to the influence of the Father of Waters and his children. She gains a +1 trait bonus to her caster level when using talents and abilities from the Nature, Weather, or Alteration spheres. This increase in caster level may not raise her caster level over her hit dice.

In addition, she may attend, if not participate in, rituals and incantations performed inside hallowed druid stone circles.

Water Sense: Undines with this racial trait can sense vibrations in water, granting them blindsense 30 feet against creatures in contact with the same body of water. This racial trait replaces energy resistance.

Poncho
Chronicler's Kit
Fishing Kit
Map Maker's Kit
Map of Baunti Valley
Scroll Box
Backpack, Masterwork
Buoy
Canoe
Diver's Kit
Signal Whistle
Abacus
Chain Belt (Twine, not metal)
Engineer's Tools (Masterwork)
Traveller's Outfit
Engineer's Gloves

Casting: The sphere sorcerer may combine spheres and talents to create magical effects. The sphere sorcerer is considered a High-Caster and uses Charisma as his casting ability modifier. (Note: All casters gain 2 bonus talents and may select a casting tradition the first time they gain the casting class feature). This replaces the spells class feature, and the Eschew Materials bonus feat.

Spell Points: The sphere sorcerer gains a small reservoir of energy he can call on to create truly wondrous effects, called a spell pool. This pool contains a number of spell points equal to his level + his Charisma modifier (minimum: 1). This pool replenishes once per day after roughly 8 hours of rest.

Sorcerous Blood: The sphere sorcerer gains 1 additional spell point for every sorcerer level gained. This replaces all bloodline spells.

Magic Talents: A sphere sorcerer gains one magic talent every level.

Focus Sphere: Many bloodline arcanas do not function correctly when using the Spheres of Power system. As such, a sphere sorcerer may always choose to replace his bloodline arcana with a focus sphere. The sphere sorcerer gains one sphere of his choice as a bonus magic talent and treats his caster level as being one higher when using that sphere.

Nature(Water Package). Obtained via Focus Sphere. Sphere’s effective CL is regular CL+2 (+1 Grove Neophyte, +1 Focus Sphere).

As a standard action, you may command terrain and natural effects to act on your behalf. The effect produced depends on the environmental aspect targeted. Each effect must be centered or targeted within Close range.

Geomancing effects come in two forms: instantaneous and concentration. Instantaneous effects have no duration, while concentration effects persist as long as the caster concentrates. The caster may always spend a spell point as a free action to allow the effect to continue for 1 round per caster level without the need for concentration.

When a caster gains the nature sphere, he chooses and gains one of the following geomancing packages, with its included abilities. A caster may gain the Expanded Geomancing talent to gain additional packages.[i]

Vortex, (Concentration, requires a large body of liquid). Reflex DC 16, 1d8+2 Bludgeoning.

[i]You may create a spinning vortex in a body of liquid that sucks creatures and objects to its center. This vortex is 5 ft wide at its base, is 10 ft high + 5 ft per 5 caster levels, and is half as wide at the top as it is high. Any creature entering this area must pass a Reflex save or suffer bludgeoning damage equal to 1d8 + 1/2 your caster level (minimum: 0). If the creature is smaller than the vortex, they must pass a second Reflex save or be pulled into the middle of the vortex. Creatures in the middle of the vortex suffer bludgeoning damage once per round with no save, and must pass a Reflex save each round or be unable to move, and on a success may only move at half their swim speed. A vortex cannot contain more creatures than would exceed its volume.

You may move the vortex up to 30 ft per round as part of the concentration check required to maintain it. If maintaining the effect through a spell point, you may designate a simple pattern for it to move, which you may alter as a move action. Creatures in the middle of the vortex are carried along with it as it moves.

[Fog, (Concentration, requires rain, mist, or at least 5 cubic feet of water). 10ft radius.

You call up a rolling fog, cutting off people’s vision within a 10 ft + 5 ft per 5 caster levels radius area centered within range. The fog obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet. A creature within 5 feet has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance and the attacker can’t use sight to locate the target). The ability does not function underwater. If using a body of water, the fog must be at least partially over the water itself.

If you spend a spell point to maintain this effect without concentration, a moderate wind (11+ mph) will disperse it within 4 rounds. In the presence of a strong wind (21+ mph), you cannot use this ability.

Freeze, (Instantaneous, requires water). Four inches thick on one creature, 2” on two, or 1” on three. Four 5ft ice squares.

You may spend a spell point to flash freeze water, turning it into ice. You may freeze a 1 inch thick, 5 ft by 5 ft square of water per caster level. Alternately, you may cover a wet medium-sized creature with 1 inch of ice per caster level. You may increase the size of the frozen area or size/number of the frozen creatures, but every extra medium-sized creature or extra 5 ft square divides the ice’s thickness in half.

Creatures smaller than medium count as medium-sized creatures for this effect, with the exception of multiple creatures occupying the same space. Add the sizes of multiple creatures occupying the same space together when determining their size for this purpose. For swarms, count each 5 ft square as being 2 medium-sized creatures occupying the same space. You may affect both squares and creatures, but all affected targets and spaces must be contiguous and must have the same thickness of ice.

Create Water (water, geomancing), obtained via Bonus Talent (1/2) gained from “Casting.” Two 5ft cubes of clean water.

As an instantaneous effect, you may spend a spell point to create water anywhere within range. This creates one 5 ft cube per 2 caster levels (minimum: 1 cube) of clean water. While this is its own geomancing ability, you may combine this effect with another water package geomancing ability as part of the same standard action, in which case the second geomancing ability comes into effect immediately. You must pay any costs associated with both abilities to combine them in this manner. This can allow you to even create vortexes that can move over land.

Destruction Sphere, bonus talent (2/2) obtained via “Casting.” 1d6 damage.

Speak with Water

You may spend a spell point to speak with water for 1 minute per caster level. This is not truly accomplished through speech, but rather by dipping a limb into the water you may learn what else has touched it, passed by it, what is hidden underneath it, etc. You can tell depth, weight, size, and number of passers by, but not more detailed information (the names or conversations of passers by, for instance). Because water is constantly moving, you can only receive information on things that have occurred less than 1 day per caster level ago. You can speak with both fresh or salt bodies of water. If attempting to converse with particularly large bodies of water, such as oceans, you can only aquire information from a portion of the body of water, to a maximum distance of 1000 ft +100 ft per caster level.

As a standard action, you may deliver a burst of blunt magical force as a melee touch attack or a ranged touch attack within Close range. A destructive blast deals bludgeoning damage as indicated on the table below [see destruction page]. This damage bypasses DR/magic, but being bludgeoning in nature, does not automatically bypass other forms of damage resistance. A ranged destructive blast counts as a ray attack.

Numbing Blast (Destruction Blast Type), gained via Energy Focus Drawback [see Casting Traditions].

Your destructive blast deals cold damage. Any creature damaged by the attack suffers a -2 penalty on Reflex saves for 1d4 rounds.

Weather Sphere, obtained via Sorcerous Blood (Level 1). Effective CL is CL+1 (+1 Grove Neophyte). Severity level 4 for precipitation, 3 for all other effects. Can be increased by 1 additional Severity Level with Severe Weather.

As a standard action, you may control all weather within Medium range, adjusting either the wind, temperature, or precipitation levels. If you are in a confined area such as inside a building, your control only extends to the edge of that space. This change in weather lasts as long as you concentrate, but you may always spend a spell point as a free action to allow this change to continue for 1 minute per caster level without concentration. When using control weather to change the weather’s severity, the change happens 1 level change per category per round until the desired severity is reached. When the effect ends, the severity of the altered weather categories returns to normal by 1 step per round. If you are maintaining the effect through concentration, the effect moves with you. If it is being maintained through a spell point, it remains stationary.

Precipitation and wind have 7 steps of severity, while temperature has 13. Temperature is divided between ‘heat’ and ‘cold’, each with 7 steps of severity. (If the temperature is lowered below step 1 of cold, it becomes step 2 of heat. If the temperature is lowered below step 1 of heat, it becomes step 2 of cold). An average day of no wind, no rain, and unremarkable temperature is assumed to be at severity level 1 for all categories.

At 1st caster level, you may create weather of severity level 1, 2 or 3. This improves to severity level 4 at 7th caster level and severity level 5 at 14th caster level. You may create weather up to this severity, or lower the severity of pre-existing weather if it is within this limit. If the natural weather is of a higher severity level than you can affect, you cannot use control weather to alter that aspect of the weather.[i]

See Weather Sphere for additional information.

Rain Lord, obtained via Sorcerous Blood (Level 2).

Rain Lord wrote:

[i]When using control weather to create or alter precipitation, increase the highest severity level you may create or alter by 1. In addition, when using your control weather to affect precipitation, you may choose to create an area up to 80 ft in diameter at the center of the affected area that is not subject to the precipitation. Rain, snow, and storm does not gather over that area.

Severe Weather, obtained via Extra Magical Talent.

When you control weather, you may spend an extra spell point to raise the severity you can create or alter with your control weather by 1 level, to a maximum of severity level 7.

Energy Focus, (Drawback)

You may only make a destructive blast of a single energy type. You may not gain any blast type talents, except with the bonus talent gained from this drawback [Numbing Blast].

Somatic Casting, (Drawback, II)

You must gesture to cast spells—a process that requires you to have at least 1 hand unoccupied. When using magic, you cannot wear armor heavier than light without incurring a chance of arcane spell failure. You may select this drawback twice. If taken a second time, you cannot wear any armor or use a shield without incurring a chance of arcane spell failure.

Easy Focus, (Boon)

When maintaining a sphere ability through concentration, you only need to spend a move action to maintain concentration instead of a standard action. This does not decrease the sphere ability’s casting time, only the action used to maintain concentration.

Naira stands little over five feet tall, with a thinness bordering on frailty. Her skin is a bronzed-brown color, and she has brilliant blues eyes like twin whirlpools. Her hair is mostly gone, shaven away at the head.

Her dress is composed of two, long sheets of decorated teal fabrics that hang loosely over her chest, held up by a string around her neck. One sheet sways betweens her legs, while the other twists under a cloth belt and trails behind her. White, ribbon-like cloth wraps around her chest and upper-legs, covering what her outfit might reveal.

Despite the rigorous teachings on discipline and order at the College, Naira managed to maintain her aloof confidence. Much of her charms comes from this nature, a certain carefreeness that doesn’t come across as apathetic or disinterest. She is the first to start a conversation, and usually is the last to end it.

Despite some cockiness to her skills and talents, Naira is largely approachable. She recognizes the time to be serious and the time to joke, though oftentimes tries to hide her more sobering emotions under gleeful guises. While somewhat intelligent and wise, she often hides these attributes in order to seem more fun and lively.

Naira has a deep love for the water and rain, and sometimes brings showers to herself when she is feeling low. She sometimes references this sacred element in little phrases or idioms, not wanting to let one forget her elemental heritage. She has a deep pride for her abilities as a sorcerer and her water-touched ancestry, and is quick to show off her powers to those doubtful.

Despite working for the crown as an engineer, Naira thinks little of order and hierarchy. She is more motivated to do good than to follow the wills of others, though currently sees the Engineers to be a means to that end. She always attempts to do what is right, even if there is risk or if it might not be wise.

Naira’s elemental heritage wasn’t hidden from her so much as it was unknown. Her parents, Tooyah farmers from a small village West-North-West of Te Moak, weren’t sure what to make of their daughter’s traits.

The child had shining cerulean eyes, though no neither parent could trace Tkoyah blood on their sides. They could lie to the neighbors about some distance heritage, but the child’s dark hair was more akin to the Tsinyah than any other. They became comfortable shrugging when asked about their daughter traits.

Naira’s talents manifested weakly at first, almost unnoticeably. When the clouds gathered above their home and Naira followed her father to the field, the rain would fall. Their crops would always be bountiful, never again would they dry up. The nearby farmers started a rumor that the land was blessed by Damballah himself. Their young sons, however, passed around their own rumor, the story of the farmer-girl who danced in the rain.

When she was thirteen, Naira garnered the suspicions of those outside her village. Architects couldn’t explain the rainfall, though they looked in the clouds, creeks and mountains for their answer. After months of their investigation, one engineer, a sorcerer, visited Naira’s family, believing that the rain could not be mundane in nature. While the people of the village did not identify Naira as an Undine, it took a Cornucopian engineer mere moments to identify her ancestry.

The village never had one of their own become an engineer before, far too small for one to learn such a profession. Naira could hardly read when she was sent off to become an engineer, her parents given a sizeable (for the village) payment. Naira wasn’t happy to leave, but was promised by her parents that this is the life she was destined for, the one they couldn’t provide. Naira left in tears, as a rain fell over the entire village.

Naira’s teaching at Cornucopia’s Engineers’ Collge quickly overwhelmed her. She was years behind those her age, already many children were well versed in mathematics and structural engineering. While her peers looked at maps and determined the most efficient canals and structures for the nearby residents, Naira struggled with arithmetic.

In time, she developed her mundane talents, though still remained far behind her peers in terms of skill. While her general aloofness gathered the annoyance of her professors, it made her especially approachable to her peers. They’d flock to her, asking questions about her elemental heritage despite knowing far more about the topic than she had. When they had to assemble projects, mock proposal for changes within the canals and aqueducts, everyone wanted the Undine on their side.

Despite almost flooding the halls of the College on several occasions, and developing a tendency to get into trouble with anyone who insulted her home or heritage, Naira became one of the more well known and well liked students. Following her commencement, she was assigned to the city of Te-Moak.

Seldom did Naira work on the land routes in and around Te-Moak, her superiors frequently assigned her to managing the canals that trickled out from the eastern river. She found the work more mundane than she thought it would be, and though her magical talents were often asked of her, too frequently for the Undine did her work involve complex mathematics, and gods forgives, politics. While friendly among her peers, the Chief Engineer was more than happy to send Naira off on geological surveys to keep the others more serious.

Among the bends of the water, the sorceress would calculate locations where litter and animal dams would gather, and propose small missions to cleanse the waters. Naira developed a compulsion to accumulate and hoard items that she found amongst the trash, anything from trinkets and tortoise shells, to animal bones and spearheads.

Among the engineers and those who saw the undine swim among the waters, Naira earned the attention of several crushes. While not a simple girl, their attention and presents were quick to excite the Undine. Gifts of freshwater pearls and sea shells were given by those more privy to her interests, and Maesters learned quick to spin tales of endless lakes and stories of the exploits of Mami Wati in order to keep her around for a bit longer.

Though the engineer life brings her joy, it occasionally presents her with moments that test her resolve. When mountain bandits threw fallen village soldiers into the waters, it was Naira who struggled to remove their bloated bodies from a beaver dam. When a child fell into the river, it was Naira who vainly fought the rapids only to recover their drowned corpse. When word arrived of a distant village’s drought but the Chief Engineer’s orders demanded that she stay, Naira ponders if her powers are best with the engineers.

The attack on Harper’s Pond had many consequences, even so far from the settlement. By orders of the King, the surrounding engineers were to evaluate points of attack among the land and river routes. Te-Moak’s chief engineer assigned Naira to help answer the call, though many suspect she wanted the Undine gone as well. Naira left many of her belongings with the engineers of Te-Moak, and promised to return safe.

Tetchuix: Twenty-five year old male human engineer. Born and raised in Te-Moak, Tetchuix took on the profession of his father, though it was quickly establish that the son was the better engineer. While originally keen on ignoring Naira for being trained in Cornucopia, he softened after Naira saved a farmer from drowning in turbulous rapids. Blunt to a fault, Tetchuix can count his friends on a single hand, though is well-regarded for his brilliant mind.

Queho Forty-five year old human male maester. While originally meeting Naira at a Way Point north of Te-Moak, Queho seems to have a penchant for finding the Undine during her surveying missions. Though their meetings were always fleeting and coincidental, Naira always gives a quick scan of a crowd or inn to see if she can hear just one more of his marvelous stories.

Apachana: Twenty-two year old Oread woman. Blessed with the talent to bend stone to her will, Apachana’s story at the Engineers’ College mirrored the Undine. A rival engineer, the two could create wonders if only they could work together. When trying to one-up the other when assigned to the same task, the earths and heavens literally move before the two elementals, providing them the means to create their own canals and waterways without a single laborer.