 About Netherian StargazerPasha Netherian Stargazer CR 15
Male Elf Magus 15
DEFENSE Armor Class 41, touch 23, flat-footed 31
OFFENSE Speed 30 Feet
STATISTICS Str 7, Dex 26, Con 16, Int 20, Wis 10, Cha 7
SPECIAL ABILITIES Arcane Pool (Su) - Netherian has a reservoir of mystical arcane energy that he can draw upon to fuel his powers and enhance his weapon. This arcane pool has 11 points. The pool refreshes once per day when Netherian prepares his spells. Netherian can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as a swift action to grant any weapon he is holding a +4 enhancement bonus for 1 minute. These bonuses can be added to the weapon, stacking with existing weapon enhancement to a maximum of +5. Multiple uses of this ability do not stack with themselves. These bonuses can also be used to add any of the following weapon properties: dancing, flaming, flaming burst, frost, icy burst, keen, shock, shocking burst, speed, or vorpal. Adding these properties consumes an amount of bonus equal to the property’s base price modifier. These properties are added to any the weapon already has, but duplicates do not stack. If the weapon is not magical, at least a +1 enhancement bonus must be added before any other properties can be added. These bonuses and properties are decided when the arcane pool point is spent and cannot be changed until the next time the magus uses this ability. These bonuses do not function if the weapon is wielded by anyone other than the magus. Netherian can only enhance one weapon in this way at one time. If he uses this ability again, the first use immediately ends. Knowledge Pool (Su) - When Netherian prepares his magus spells, he can decide to expend 1 or more points from his arcane pool, up to his Intelligence bonus. For each point he expends, he can treat any one spell from the magus spell list as if it were in his spellbook and can prepare that spell as normal that day. If he does not cast spells prepared in this way before the next time he prepares spells, he loses those spells. He can also cast spells added in this way using his spell recall ability, but only until he prepares spells again. Fighter Training (Ex) - Netherian counts as a 7th level fighter for the purpose of qualifying for feats. Medium and Heavy Armor (Ex) - Netherian has proficiency with medium and heavy armor. He can cast magus spells while wearing these armors without incurring the normal arcane spell failure chance. Like any other arcane spellcaster, if Netherian uses a shield he incurs a chance of arcane spell failure if the spell in question has a somatic component. Greater Spell Combat (Ex) - Netherian knows how to cast spells and wield his weapons at the same time. This functions much like two-weapon fighting, but the off-hand weapon is a spell that is being cast. To use this ability, Netherian must have one hand free (even if the spell being cast does not have somatic components), while wielding a light or one-handed melee weapon in the other hand. As a full-round action, he can make all of his attacks with his melee weapon at a –2 penalty and can also cast any spell from the magus spell list with a casting time of 1 standard action (any attack roll made as part of this spell also takes this penalty). If he casts this spell defensively, he can decide to take an additional penalty on his attack rolls, up to his Intelligence bonus, and add the double the amount plus two as a circumstance bonus on his concentration check. If the check fails, the spell is wasted, but the attacks still take the penalty. A magus can choose to cast the spell first or make the weapon attacks first, but if he has more than one attack, he cannot cast the spell between weapon attacks. Improved Spell Recall (Su) - Netherian can use his arcane pool to recall spells he has already cast. With a swift action he can recall any single magus spell that he has already prepared and cast that day by expending a number of points from his arcane pool equal to 1/2 the spell’s level (minimum 1). The spell is prepared again, just as if it had not been cast. Furthermore, instead of recalling a used spell, as a swift action Netherian can prepare a spell of the same level that he has in his spellbook. He does so by expending a number of points from his arcane pool equal to the spell’s level (minimum 1). The magus cannot apply metamagic feats to a spell prepared in this way. The magus does not need to reference his spellbook to prepare a spell in this way. Magus Arcana - Netherian has learned arcane secrets tailored to his specific way of blending martial puissance and magical skill. He knows 7 of these arcane secrets, listed below. Familiar -
Spellstrike (Su) - Whenever Netherian casts a spell with a range of “touch” from the magus spell list, he can deliver the spell through any weapon he is wielding as part of a melee attack. Instead of the free melee touch attack normally allowed to deliver the spell, a magus can make one free melee attack with his weapon (at his highest base attack bonus) as part of casting this spell. If successful, this melee attack deals its normal damage as well as the effects of the spell. If Netherian makes this attack in concert with spell combat, this melee attack takes all the penalties accrued by spell combat melee attacks. This attack uses the weapon’s critical range (20, 19–20, or 18–20 and modified by the keen weapon property or similar effects), but the spell effect only deals ×2 damage on a successful critical hit, while the weapon damage uses its own critical modifier. Note: Part 5 of Shattered Star is here. |
