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About Rizu the Warcat

Qiola Faireye's Animal Companion

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This cat-like creature has the lithe grace of a feline despite a shell-like armour of segmented plates.

Warcat (Male, named Rizu) CR 3
N Medium animal
Init +3; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +8

DEFENSE
AC 19/*23, touch 13, flat-footed 16/*20 (+3 Dex, +4 natural, +2 natural armour bonus, *+4 with Mage Armor Potion)
hp 26 (4d8+8)
Fort +6, Ref +7, Will +1

OFFENSE
Speed 40 ft., climb 20 ft.
Melee bite +6/+5* (1d6+3/+5*), 2 claws +6/+5* (1d4+3/+5* plus rake)
Special Attacks Rake (2 claws +6/+5*, 1d4+3/+5*) (*with Power Attack)
Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.

STATISTICS
Str 16, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 3, Wis 11, Cha 5 (+1 to INT score at 4th)
Base Atk +3; CMB +6; CMD 19

Feats Power Attack, Improved Drag

Skills Acrobatics +9(3 ranks), Climb +8(2 ranks), Linguistics -3(1 rank, cannot speak but can understand basic Common), Perception +8(4 ranks), Stealth +10(4 ranks), Survival +3(2 ranks)

Languages Can understand basic Common but cannot speak it

SQ
Low-light Vision (Ex): A creature with low-light vision can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of dim light. It retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
Scent (Ex): A creature with the Survival skill and the scent ability can follow tracks by smell, making a Survival check to find or follow a track. A creature with the scent ability can attempt to follow tracks using Survival untrained. The typical DC for a fresh trail is 10. The DC increases or decreases depending on how strong the quarry's odour is, the number of creatures, and the age of the trail. For each hour that the trail is cold, the DC increases by 2. The ability otherwise follows the rules for the Survival skill in regards to tracking. Creatures tracking by scent ignore the effects of surface conditions and poor visibility.
Link (Ex): A hunter can handle her animal companion as a free action, or push it as a move action, even if she doesn’t have any ranks in the Handle Animal skill. The hunter gains a +4 circumstance bonus on all wild empathy checks and Handle Animal checks made regarding an animal companion.
Share Spells (Ex): The hunterd may cast a spell with a target of “You” on her animal companion (as a touch range spell) instead of on herself. A hunter may cast spells on her animal companion even if the spells normally do not affect creatures of the companion's type (animal). Spells cast in this way must come from a class that grants an animal companion. This ability does not allow the animal to share abilities that are not spells, even if they function like spells.
Evasion (Ex): If an animal companion is subjected to an attack that normally allows a Reflex saving throw for half damage, it takes no damage if it makes a successful saving throw.

Tricks (6+2 bonus = 8): (A hunter may teach her companion hunter's tricks from the skirmisher ranger archetype instead of standard tricks. The animal companion can use skirmisher tricks when commanded, a number of times per day equal to half its Hit Dice plus its Wisdom modifier (2 times/day)

Combat Training/Riding Tricks:
1. Attack (DC 20): The animal attacks apparent enemies. You may point to a particular creature that you wish the animal to attack, and it will comply if able. Normally, an animal will attack only humanoids, monstrous humanoids, giants, or other animals.
2. Come (DC 15): The animal comes to you, even if it normally would not do so.
3. Defend (DC 20): The animal defends you (or is ready to defend you if no threat is present), even without any command being given. Alternatively, you can command the animal to defend a specific other character.
4. Down (DC 15): The animal breaks off from combat or otherwise backs down. An animal that doesn’t know this trick continues to fight until it must flee (due to injury, a fear effect, or the like) or its opponent is defeated.
5. Guard (DC 20): The animal stays in place and prevents others from approaching.
6. Skirmisher trick: Heel (Ex) 2 times/day: The Hunter can use this trick as an immediate action when her animal companion moves. When the companion moves, the square it starts out in is not considered threatened by any opponent it can see, and therefore visible enemies do not get attacks of opportunity against it when it moves from that square. The companion must end this movement in a square adjacent to the Hunter. The animal companion must be able to see and hear the Hunter to take this movement.
7. Sneak (DC 15): The animal can be ordered to make Stealth checks in order to stay hidden and to continue using Stealth even when circumstances or its natural instincts would normally cause it to abandon secrecy.
8. Track (DC 20): The animal tracks the scent presented to it. (This requires the animal to have the scent ability)