Class Features
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Aspirant's Bond
Nature Bond (Scalykind domain)
*Venomous Stare 6/day DC 15
*Serpent Companion
Nature Sense
Wild Empathy +4
Woodland Stride
Trackless Step
Aspirant's Enlightenment
Wild Shape 6 hours 2/day
Naga Shape
Naga Form:
Size Large;
Speed 40 ft.
Str 20 Dex 12 Con 18
AC 15 F +10 R +4 W +10
Bite +8 1d6+5
Rasthiss:
Size Large;
HP 30/30
Speed 20 ft., climb 20 ft., swim 20 ft.;
AC 10 + 6 natural armor + 4 Dex + 1 Dodge - 1 Size = 20, CMD 22;
Fort +7 Ref +7 Will +2
Attack: bite +9 (1d6 +3 plus grab and poison), CMB +9
Poison: Frequency 1 round (6), effect 1 Con damage, cure 1 save, DC 15
Ability Scores Str 24, Dex 16, Con 17, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 2;
Special Qualities low-light vision, scent, Link, Share Spells, Evasion
Skills: Stealth +6
Feats: Dodge, Improved Natural Attack (bite)
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Personality
Sevak is earnest and serious. He also has a love for the wild places and creatures of the world, though his heart is now troubled and confused after the shattering of his faith in the naga. Beneath all of his uncertainty he has a kind heart, though troubled by his own feelings of worthlessness, convinced he is a fool whose best intentions often go awry.
Background
Sevak's birth house served the naga Kassalash, a well-established and powerful Guardian Naga who had long protected a site of great importance to Nagajor. From a young age Sevak proved keen-eyed and observant, and loved to ramble about the jungles with the older members of his house when they went out to gather fruits or herbs. As he grew, he proved adept at not just harvesting but also planting and caring for the jungle's many plants, and when the time came for him to join a profession, he became one of the gardeners who cared for the beautiful gardens surrounding Kassalash's temple.
This put him in a position to see the naga who visited his master. He would always bow low and look up into their eyes when they passed, as was their due--bowing low to show he knew they were above him, looking up that their piercing gazes might look into his heart if they desired. None ever did, however... save one.
She was an imposing sight, a Royal Naga, with her five regal heads. He had been working near the path through the gardens when she came, and so made certain to bow particularly low. He was surprised to find one of her heads looking back at him when he looked up, but she said nothing, merely passing by, her single head watching him until she had passed.
He saw her again several times in the next several months, until at last she did him the great honor of speaking to him. Sevak found her full five-headed gaze frightening, but he answered the questions she put to him--what did he do here? Had he gone out into the jungles? What did he think of them? She seemed satisfied with his answers, and he breathed a sigh of relief when at last she turned her gaze from him and continued on her way to his master.
This in no way prepared him for the news the next day that Kassalash had agreed to a trade in which he, Sevak, would join the service of this other naga, whose name he learned was Iskassala. To draw such attention from a naga was a tremendous honor, and his friends rejoiced for him, even as they said their goodbyes.
Iskassala did not speak with him when she departed Kassalash's temple that afternoon. Instead, one of her train of servants came and fetched him, and he joined with them as she traveled back to her home. Nor did she speak to them after they arrived. The day after, however, he was called into her presence, and again he found himself transfixed by her ten-eyed gaze.
"You have potential," she said to him, "But it must be trained."
Nothing more did she say to him, instead ordering one of her trusted servants to take him to be trained by the Living Eyes, one of the orders of Druids and Rangers that patrolled the jungles of Nagajor. But she needed say nothing more. For a naga to say such words of a nagaji was an honor higher than Sevak had ever dreamed, and he threw himself into his training with a fervor that even the years of hard work could hardly dim.
Nor was his enthusiasm dimmed when Iskassala did not meet him when he at last returned from his training. It was enough for her servant to tell him that she had a mission for him. And so it has been for years, and each time Sevak has served well in all that he was asked to do.
This lasted until Sissek, a traitorous courtier in Iskassala's court, told him his mistress wanted him to go to an ancient shrine and take the trial there. He first faced a mind-reader, who for several hours tore down his beliefs. Sevak was left with the realization that his service to the naga, which he had built his entire life around, was based on nothing more than tradition, with no true foundation to it.
And then, when he drew near the end of the trial, and was faced with the choice between what he thought was death and the touch of a spirit naga... he chose the spirit naga.
Blinded and banished by Iskassala for his betrayal, Sevak lost his house name, and instead took the name Paradesee--"Wanderer". In time he was healed of his blindness, and now travels the world, seeking wisdom, seeking purpose, seeking the truth of life.
Appearance
Sevak is obviously fit and strong, well-muscled and agile, and about 6'9" tall. His scales are patterned like those of a reticulated python. He usually dresses in light, practical clothing, often little more than his armor.
