"Let me tell you a tale about Kiri-Onna, the bride of rivers..."
Background:
Ever since she was young, Sharistan was enchanted by stories of Tian Xia. Her father, an uncanny businessman, dealt in antiques and cultural objects from the mysterious continent. While not at home often, between his travels he would tell his daughter stories of Tian Xia he heard along the way. For a girl who always felt out of place, Sharistan embraced these tales, imagining herself as a character from that land.
During her adolescence, her father put her in schools with the idea she would train to take over his business someday. While following the strict regimen of her studies, Sharistan incorporated ideas and values from Tian Xia culture into her learning. As she revered the geisha, she made sure to learn many of the skills a woman of that profession would have.
Pretending: emulating others and being deceitful comes naturally to Sharistan. She often enjoys dressing up attire of a geisha and walking around her home town of Absalom, pretending to be an exotic visitor. Finishing school recently, Sharistan has been spending time with her mother's side of the family in Sandpoint. She worries about future responsibilities, daydreaming of excuses to skirt them.
Description:
Sharistan is a slim, graceful woman slightly below average height, with the dark features of a half-Varisian. Her eyes, ears, and nose are dainty, almost feline, giving her an exotic look she uses to appear as a foreigner.
Often wearing a kimono, Sharistan always carries her backpack filled to the brim with books on Tian Xia.
Statistics:
SHARISTAN CR 1/2
Female Human Bard (Geisha) 1
NG Medium Humanoid (Human)
Init +3; Senses Perception +6
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DEFENSE
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AC 13, touch 13, flat-footed 10. (+3 Dex)
hp 11 (1d8+3)
Fort +3, Ref +5, Will +4
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OFFENSE
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Spd 30 ft.
Melee Dagger +1 (1d4+1/19-20/x2)
Ranged Shruiken +3 (1d2+1/19-20/x2)
Spells (CL 1st, DC 15 + Spell Level): 1st (3/day)--Cure Light Wounds, Sleep
0th--Dancing Lights, Daze, Detect Magic, Mending, Prestidigitation
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STATISTICS
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Str 13, Dex 17, Con 17, Int 15, Wis 14, Cha 20
Base Atk +0; CMB +1; CMD 14
Feats: Skill Focus (Disguise), Scribe Scroll, Spellsong
Traits: Inner Beauty +1 Campaign Trait
Skills: Bluff +9, Craft (Calligraphy) +3, Diplomacy +6, Disguise +12, Knowledge (History) +6, Knowledge (Local) +6, Knowledge (Nobility) +3,
Perception +6, Perform (Oratory) +10, Perform (Percussion) +9, Spellcraft +6, Use Magic Device +9.
Languages Common, Tien
SQ Bardic Performance (9 rds./day), Cantrips, Favored Class (Bard, +1 0th Spell Known), Geisha Knowledge, Tea Ceremony.
Combat Gear: Dagger, Shruiken (10), Scrolls (Cure Light Wounds, Sleep);
Other: Backpack, Ink, Ink Pen, Outfits (Courtier's, Traveler's), Scroll Case, Small Hand Drum, Soap, Spell Component Pouch.
Money: 20 gp, 34 sp.
Inner Beauty (Shelyn)
Benefit: Once per day, you can manifest your faith in your goddess and gain a +4 trait bonus to a single Bluff, Craft, Diplomacy, or Perform skill check. You can choose to use this trait immediately after making the skill check.
Spellsong You can blend the power of your performance and spellcasting.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bardic performance class ability, able to cast 1st-level spells.
Benefit: You can combine your bardic performance and your spellcasting in two ways. First, you can conceal the activity of casting a bard spell by masking it in a performance. As a swift action, you may combine your casting time of a spell with a Perform check. Observers must make a Perception or Sense Motive check opposed by your Perform check to realize you are also casting a spell. This uses 1 round of your bardic performance ability, regardless of the spell's casting time.
Second, as a move action, you can use 1 round of bardic performance to maintain a bard spell with a duration of concentration. You can cast another spell in the same round you are using bardic magic to maintain concentration; if you do this, your concentration on the maintained spell ends when you end the bardic performance the spell is part of.
Geisha Archetype Features: Geisha Knowledge: A geisha adds half her class level (minimum 1) on Craft (calligraphy) checks, Diplomacy checks, Knowledge (nobility) checks, and one type of Perform check (act, dance, oratory, percussion, string instruments, or sing); she may make checks with these skills untrained. This replaces bardic knowledge.
Scribe Scroll: A geisha gains Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat.
Tea Ceremony (Su): By spending 10 minutes preparing an elaborate tea ceremony, a geisha may affect her allies with inspire courage, inspire competence, inspire greatness, or inspire heroics. The ceremony’s effects last 10 minutes. The geisha must spend 4 rounds of bardic performance for each creature to be affected.
