Rhami Phaethor's page

A vigilante relies on his insight to aid him in his mission, using his cunning to augment skill checks and ability checks. The vigilante has an inspiration pool equal to 1/2 his class level + his vigilante initiation modifier (minimum 1). An vigilante’s inspiration pool refreshes each day, typically after he gets a restful night’s sleep. As a free action, he can expend one use of inspiration from his pool to add 1d6 to the result of that check, including any on which he takes 10 or 20. This choice is made after the check is rolled and before the results are revealed. An vigilante can only use inspiration once per check or roll. The vigilante can use inspiration on any Knowledge, Perception, or Sense Motive skill checks without expending a use of inspiration, provided he’s trained in the skill.

Inspiration can also be used on attack rolls and saving throws, although it costs two points of inspiration rather than one. Using inspiration while making a saving throw is an immediate action, rather than a free action.

Killer's Implements (Ex) Pick a weapon group (EitR update on par with Unchained Rogue) and gain the benefits of Weapon Finesse and Deadly Agility with it, even if those feats could normally not be used with it. At level 6, 11 and 16 pick another group.

Mithral Current

Flowing Creek (counter)

Swift Current (strike)

Riven Hourglass

Minute Hand (boost)

Scarlet Throne

Red Zephyr Strike (strike)

Steel Serpent

Body of the Night (stance)

Thrashing Dragon

Offensive Roll (strike)

Veiled Moon

Dimensional Strike (strike)

This kit includes an alchemy crafting kit, a backpack, a bedroll, a belt pouch, a flint and steel, ink, an inkpen, an iron pot, a mess kit, soap, torches (10), trail rations (5 days), and a waterskin.

Rhami was born in an island nation situated beyond the lands of Maquoran Fleet. Life in his home country was centred around the worship of the Feathered Serpent, a warlike deity who had, according to legend, helped the people conquer their island nation and repel invasion from barbaric outsiders. In a form of everlasting gratitude regular sacrifices would be brought to what supposedly was the god's living embodiment on the material plane. These sacrifices were brought in the form of those psionically gifted from among their own population, as this talent was believed to be a remnant of the corruption of the outsiders.
Like his father before him, Rhami joined the elite unit that was trained to find and capture the so-called 'tainted ones' for sacrifice.
After all, his people had not been attacked ever since the sacrifices started so it was for the good of society.
Yet the belief that what he did was for the good of all did not cause him to like what he did.

When, after a series of earthquakes and increasing amounts of smoke from a nearby volcano, the priests started demanding more sacrifices only caused his discomfort to grow. The Winged Serpent had never protected them against these natural events, that was one of the other gods. One that demanded fruit and not blood. However shortly the other priests said as much they were proclaimed tainted and end up tossed to the snake in the temple.

It was then, when his doubts where deepest, that Rhami came into contact with an underground resistance movement that helped smuggle supposed tainted people off the island and into the lands of the Maquoran Fleet. Initially he ignored them, unwilling to report them as they clearly did what they believed was best he kept their existence a secret. Then, when the priests started demanding that even newly hatched chicks would be tested for 'the taint' Rhami shifted gears and instead started to help people reach the smugglers so they could be taken off the island.

Then the unthinkable happened. At first both Rhami and his father suspected it was a malfunction in their testing equipment. Yet when they swapped out their testing rods for those of others the result remained the same: Rhami was 'tainted'.
While his father was still debating whether he should hand in his own son for sacrifice Rhami did not wait. Within the hour he had packed his things, said his goodbyes and left, using his contacts with the underground to make his escape.
Yet where others were content to live among the Maquoran, Rhami was not. Afraid that he was discovered anyway and what that would mean for his family drove him to flee further away from his home.

Last month he arrived in a city called Arbil. A city populated by psionically gifted, humanoid snakes. While he picked up their language very quickly it took him almost a full month to get over the initial shock. Here were people who almost all carried that supposed 'taint', yet they thrived! His life up to his flight had been one, massive lie. But now he was here and everything would improve.