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{A} Channel Elements – activate kinetic aura (5-20ft emanation). Also get a {A} KB or stance.

{A} Stance: Thermal Nimbus – Cold/Fire, Allies and I gain resist = lvl, any character in aura takes damage from element = ½ lvl.

{AA} Flying Flame – 30ft line drawn as I choose. Enemies take 6d6 fire/cold, basic ref vs. class DC.
{AA} Four Winds - Target up to four willing creatures within 30 feet of you. Each of those creatures can Stride up to its Speed. If it has a fly Speed, it can instead Fly up to its fly Speed.
{AA} Lightning Dash - Propel yourself forward in a 40-foot line. You can move through creatures during this movement, doesn't trigger reactions that are triggered by movement. Each creature you move through takes 4d12 electricity damage, basic Reflex save vs. class DC.
Return to your normal form in the final square. If in the air, fall unless you have a fly Speed.
{AA} Clear As Air - Become invisible until the end of your next turn. Can Sustain. If you use a hostile action, become concealed instead of invisible. If you activate your kinetic aura, the impulse conceals its elements, though any special effects of your aura might give away your location.
This impulse weakens if you use it too frequently. Using it again within 10 minutes makes you concealed instead of invisible.
{AA} Cyclonic Ascent - Gain a fly Speed equal to your land Speed or 30 feet, whichever is greater, for 10 minutes. Can move upward without treating it as difficult terrain. Can remain in the air at the end of your turn if used an air impulse during that turn, even if you didn't use a Fly action that turn.

{AAA} Solar Detonation – Detonation fills a 20-foot burst within 60 feet of you. Each creature in the area takes 6d6 fire damage, plus 2d6 vitality damage if it has void healing, and can become dazzled or blinded depending on the result of its Reflex save. The light from Solar Detonation is sunlight for creatures with a particular vulnerability to sunlight. Each creature that attempts a save becomes temporarily immune to being dazzled or blinded by Solar Detonation for 10 minutes, but not the impulse's other effects.
Unaffected//half damage and dazzled until start of my next turn// full damage and blinded until start of my next turn// double damage and is blinded for 1 minute.

{R} Air Cushion - Slow up to five target's fall to 120 feet per round. Ends when targets reach the ground, and targets take no damage from the fall. The cushion expires if the creature doesn't reach the ground within 1 minute, but any distance doesn't count for any damage the creature would take from the fall. You can't use Air Cushion again while you have one in effect.
{R} Deflect Arrows - You gain a +4 circumstance bonus to AC against the triggering attack. If the attack misses, you have deflected it. You cannot use this feat to deflect unusually massive ranged projectiles.

Monk Dedication, Monk Resiliency, Ki Rush, Wholeness of Body, Deflect Arrows

I hope you're doing well and you've arrived in Lastwall without any trouble. I can't decide if I'm more envious of you going on a real adventure or that you got to miss the rest of the Season. Duke Malwan is still making a nuisance of himself and being far too forward at every ball. I've turned him down six times now but he just won't take no for an answer. Do you have any suggestions? I remember you dealt with the Mayor of Greywood wonderfully at the last Hellfire ball, I think even the Infernal Consort was amused.

That's the most exciting thing that's happened since you left. There's still the usual round of polite parties, chaperones taking tea and young peacocks swanning around trying to put on mating displays. Cecelia Aulamaxa has concluded a betrothal but there wasn't even a hint of a scandal - all very proper and boring. They had a contract devil witness it apparently so I hope her father negotiated well. Anyway, there's only two more weeks and then I'll be heading to Ravounel to stay with my aunt there for a few weeks. I'm under orders to encourage her to see the error of her ways and return to the true family allegiance. I'm not sure what I'll do after that, but if you write to me, send it to me care of Lady Jhaltero in Kintargo.

Stay safe,
Your best friend.

Isabel.

I arrived in Lastwall without incident and have spent the last few months learning how to turn interest into practice. I can't say I am good at being a doctor, but I can say with so many injured arriving every day, no one cares if I am good or not. They just care that I am trying. Not a rousing banner to my greatness, but it is nice to be appreciated.

I am tired. There is too much, too often. And we lose too many.

Still, it is better than sitting at 'home' and brooding. Or worse having to go anywhere near the insipid and the inane like Greywood's finest.

I do miss you. Terribly. I may come visit as soon as my training is over. My aunts, the one's with all the cats, have sent correspondence reminding me that I am not alone and will always have a place in their house. A situation I'd not wish on anyone, but since they are in Kintargo, it would mean being able to see you.

Stay sensible
Your best friend,
Charlotte

I hope you're still managing in Lastwall. The work that you're doing is so important and it must be so difficult for you. Stick it out, what you're doing is more valuable than anything I've ever done. I'm proud of you.

That said, I think I can save you from aunts, cats and aunts with cats. I've left Kintargo and headed to Magniamr with Guillem Argyle. Do you remember him? A bit provincial, convinced that Thassilon was inspired by some sort of divine race called the 'Isu'? Well he was in Kintargo looking for funds for an archaeological dig so I staked him in return for a place on the expedition.

We actually found some stuff Lottie! Most of it was bit crap honestly, but I found a particular vault and the body there had some really cool stuff - there was a little crown and kind of golden orb. It was the strangest thing, I picked it up and it... changed me. I could feel the magic flowing through me and I'm so much more... I don't know how to describe it, but I'm much more confident, much happier in myself. I think my appearance might have changed too – Guillem gaped when I came out of the vault and the entire team asked me out for drinks, individually.

Anyway I took my finds to the Pathfinder Lodge in Magnimar and they said it was an 'Orb of Rulership', some sort of Thassilonian artefact that has been written about but never seen before! I let them keep the crown and study the orb and in exchange I'm now officially a pathfinder! The Lodge Commander said 'this kind of luck is better on our side than anyone else's' which I think is a compliment.

Anyway, when you're done, come to Magnimar! I've got a nice place of my own with plenty of space for a friend and I promise it'll be more fun than your aunts and the cats!

See you soon, and stay safe.
Your best friend,

Isabel.