About Sithar HareenSithar's unshifted Hero Forge mini Sithar Hareen
Sylvan to Common translation of his name:
cat-friend free-of-shackles Character Build Ability Scores:
Shifter Racial adjustment:: +2 Dex, -2 Int, -2 Cha 25 Point-Buy: Str 14 (5), Dex 14 (5), Con 14 (5), Int 14 (5), Wis 14 (5), Cha 10 (0) Str 14 (+2)
Race (Cliffwalk Shifter):
Type: Humanoid
Weretouched Shifter:
Class: Shifter
Alignment: Any neutral ==> Neutral
Weretouch Archetype Lycanthrope Aspect (Su): At 1st level, a weretouched gains the shifter aspect ability, except the animal aspect chosen is the only animal aspect the weretouched can gain. This alters her other class features, as detailed in each relevant class feature. Otherwise, this ability functions identically to shifter aspect. At 5th level, a weretouched gains DR/silver equal to half her shifter level, to a maximum of DR 10/silver at 20th level. Additionally, a weretouched shifter becomes immune to a lycanthrope’s curse of lycanthropy. This alters shifter aspect and all of its improvements.
Languages: Common, Druidic, Halfling, Sylvan Traits:
Basic (social): Beastkin (tigers): Select one specific type of animal (such as wolves or apes). You were raised from infancy by an animal or pack of animals of that type. You learned their ways and have more in common with your beastly kin than members of any humanoid race. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Survival checks and can use speak with animals as a spell-like ability at will to communicate with the type of animal that raised you. Basic (magic): Hex-Proof: You’ve dealt too often with cruel fey magic, and so gain a +2 bonus on Will saves against hexes and fey creatures’ spells and spell-like abilities. Sithar's backstory incorporates both the above traits and following drawbakc and bonus trait. How the dark fey punished him when he did not do what they told him to In addition to whipping both the boy and tiger when they did not do as they were told, the dark fey would sometimes lather one of the boy's limbs in honey, then release a jar of bullet ants onto the honey-lathered limb. The dark fey did not gather the ants back up until they had consumed all the honey on the boy's limb or the boy had passed out from the pain. The dark fey theatened that the tiger would have honey poured on it if the boy attempted to swipe the honey or ants from himself. The child, not wanting his tiger friend to experience the agonizing pain, always endured the pain for as long as he could before passing out from the pain. Drawback: Entomophobe Extra trait gained from drawback: Sithar, with a powerful drive to never be taken by the dark fey again, is quick to use any advantage to prevent that from ever happening again. Basic (combat): Sworn Enemy (fey) Feats:
1st level feat: Weapon Finesse (CRB) Feat Plan: 3rd level feat: Healing Factor (Eberron Campaign Setting, page 55)
Skills:
Background Skills (2): Knowledge (geography +2 (1 rank, +1 Int)
Adventuring Skills (6) (4 from class, 1 from Int bonus, 1 from Favored Class bonus) Acrobatics +9 (+11 while racially shifted or minor form shifted) (+13 while both are in effect) (1 rank, +3 class skill, +3 Dex, +2 racial)
Alignment: Neutral Gear:
Starting Shifter Wealth is 3d6 x 10 gp (average 105 gp). I used the average wealth. traveler's outfit (-) (5 lbs)
common cat (0.03 gp) (8 lbs, only applies if in satchel of adventurer's sash or otherwise being carried by Sithar)
Total coins spent: 82 gp, 5 sp, 3 cp.
Light encumbrance threshold: 58 lbs Six pouches of adventurer's sash:
Age, height, weight, etc.:
Will have Hero Forge mini made up this week.
How my character is a 'black panther' weretiger descendant:
Melanism (what makes certain big cats 'black panthers') is either a dominant gene trait or a recessive gene trait, depending on the cat - dominant for jaguars and recessive for leopards. I am working with it being a recessive trait for tigers in-game (if that is okay), and my character's parents both passed on the recessive trait of the 'black panther' dire tiger lycanthropes that were progenitors of shifter ancestors of my both his parents' family bloodlines. The Story of Sithar, Part 1: The Beginning:
None of the shifters of Sithar's tribe had any shifters that manifested black panther tiger stripes for over a century. The tribe views such shifters born with the rare appearance both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because of the rarity of it occurring. A curse because without fail, dark fey from The Twilight Demesne attempt to capture such rare shifter children for nefarious purposes. Such shifters that are captured and raised in captivity by the dark fey become changed by the dark fey influence to become fearsome dark champions that the dark fey enjoy using to slay members of the shifter tribe they stole the shifter. Such rare shifter children who are not captured and taken by the dark fey grow up with the usual shifter racial abilities as well as the ability to speak with tigers, and are usually inducted into the Wardens of the Wood druidic order.
The Story of Sithar, Part 2: Captured and Caged by Dark Fey:
The dark fey who captured him, kept him in a cage that was next to a caged male tiger cub. The dark fey only spoke to him in Sylvan, and called him ith'reen (shacked child) and called the caged tiger rah'reen (shackled beast). The dark fey would sometimes move their ith'reen and rah'reen from one location to another part of the Faerie Court and back to different regions of Khorvaire. They would whip both the shifter child and the tiger cub when they failed to respond to the commands the dark fey told them, speaking only Sylvan. In time, the shifter child learned enough of the Sylvan tongue to prevent getting whipped for failing to respond when spoken to. The young tiger was not so lucky. The shifter child developed a rudimentary language he could use with the young tiger that allowed him to translate the Sylvan words the dark fey spoke to the tiger. Each time he did so, both the shifter child and the tiger were rewarded with meat as part of their diet. Five years after originally being taken, the caged tiger had finished growing. The dark fey decided it was time to test how well the ith'reen and rah'reen worked together. They travelled to the surface of Khorvaire, in The Talenta Plains, and commanded the beastkin child (now 7 years old) to climb onto the tiger's back and to hunt some of the nearby grazing herd animals. During the next several months the dark fey would bring their slaves back to the surface of The Talenta Plains to practice their stalking and hunting. The Story of Sithar, Part 3: Rescued by House Jorasco in the Talenta Plains:
Rumours spread of a naked child riding a tiger that would sometimes be glimpsed about once a month. Holy Uldra tasked some of the halflings of her tribes to seek out and find the child and bring him to her. Before the halflings of Holy Uldra found the child, halflings of House Jorasco found the child (now 8 years old). They fought and scattered the dark fey that appeared when they rode near to the child. The shifter child told his tiger friend not to attack. Fortunately one of the halflings in the group is fluent in Sylvan and could communicate with the child. A few of the halflings decided to escort the child to the Eldeen Reaches, to find out if any of the shifter tribes there had a child matching the child's unusual skin and fur pattern that was taken by dark fey. During the time it took them to travel to The Eldeen Reaches, the halflings taught the child Common and their own Halfling tongue. Before they left the Talenta Plains, the child insisted the tiger stay with him. When the group were getting close to the large town of Vulyar in southern Karrnath, the tiger told his shifter friend he wanted to stay in the Plains where there was plenty of game and to find a mate. Saddened to part ways with the only friend he has known during his life, he told his tiger friend he had chosen a name for himself, Kithar Hareen (cat-friend free-of-shackles) and the tiger liked the free-of-shackles name and told Kithar he could call him Hareen. The Story of Sithar, Part 4: A Year in Wolf's Paw:
Sithar and the halflings traveled to The Eldeen Reaches, and the halflings brought young Sithar (now 9 years old) to Wolf's Paw, a small community of shifters. The leader of the thorp, Slara, thanked the halflings of House Jorasco for returning the child to them. Slara sent out word throughout the Eldeen Reaches for any parents who had a child taken who would be eight years old now. The local druid of Wolf's Paw, Lorgan, who has ties with the Wardens of the Wood druidic order, having discovering Sithar's talent to communicate with tigers, attempted to train him in the ways of druid. As much as Sithar tried, he could not tap into tapping the magic of the natural world to cast spells, though had the ability to shift his hands into claws as often as he wanted, something that is rare among their race. Another unusual trait of Sithar's was that when shifted more of his body he could easily climb trees (and the sides of the buildings of the farming community). With such abilities Sithar possessed, Lorgan knew that Sithar was not just of the shifter race, but also had the abilities of a shifter, and with making sure Sithar understood the ramifications of not keeping the secrets of the druidic language to himself, taught Sithar the language of the druids. Sithar had lived in Wolf's Paw for a year when news of him had reached his parents, who had traveled to Wolf's Paw to bring their son home. Sitthar (now 10 years old) wanted to stay in Wolf's Paw and to continue his training with Lorgan. Lorgan told him Sithar that he had taught him all he could. After saying his farewells to the friends he had made in Wolf's Paw, Sithar went home to join his tribe in the southwestern plains of The Eldeen Reaches. The Story of Sithar, Part 5: Finally back home with her tribe:
Sithar lived a relatively peaceful life with his tribe for five years, earning to one day travel back to the Talenta Plains to find Hareen.He had decided to keep the name he kept for himself instead of going by the name his parents named him. His parents understood how important this was to him and did as he wished. Sometimes others of the tribe would call him by his birth name, Caldair (a Halfling name that means 'curious playful one'). Sithar (now 15) told his parents he wanted to travel to the Taletha Plains to look for his tiger friend. His parents, knowing their son was determined, asked him to first travel to Varna to buy weapons that will make him more capable of dealing with any dark fey that might try to recapture him and his tiger friend. Sithar, with his traveling gear, said his farewells to his parents, made his way first to Wolf's Paw to visit his friends there, then made his way to Varna and with the coin his parents had given him, purchased his cold iron weapons and wrist sheaths for the daggers. Before he left Varna, he befriended an alley cat, which followed him out the city and continued to follow him. Unlike with his tiger friend, Hareen, and other tigers that Lorgan had him test his speak with animals with, he could not communicate as easily with the alley cat. Sithar decided that part of his journey to The Talentha Plains he would visit some of the interesting sites that were along the way, or would not be much of a detour to visit. From Varna he travelled along the shoreline of Lake Gailfor and stopped in Passage to check out the lightning rail station. While there a stray tiger-striped cat started following him around. After securing his lodging for the day and enjoying a hot meal, he takes a walk around Passage with his tiny feline companion. As Sithar walks by a cafe he recognizes one of the halflings that rescued him from the spriggans and brought him to Wolf's close to a decade ago. He walks into the cafe and calls out to the halfing. The cat, still outside, stalks a mouse it sees in the shrubbery along the side of the cafe. Timeline of Sithar's Life:
958 YK: The Eldeen Reaches declares itself an independent nation under the protection of the Wardens of the Wood and the guidance of the Great Druid Oalian. 980 YK: Queen Aurala's reign of Aundair begins. 982 YK: Caldair (Sithar) is born into a nomadic shifter tribe that roams the western plains of the Eldeen Reaches. 984 YK: During the week of the year Lammania (The Twilight Forest) becomes coterminous with Eberron, dark fey kidnap Caldair and a tiger cub and bring both of them to Lammania, where they keep the child and cub caged beside each other for the next five years. 986 YK: A trio of hags known as the Daughters of Sora Kell invade western Breland with an army of trolls, ogres, and gnolls. 987 YK: Unable to confront both the monsters and fight its opponents in the Last War, King Boranel pulls settlers back and seals off the land west of the Graywall Mountains. The Daughters of Sora Kell declare the sovereignty of the nation of Droaam. 989 YK: With the tiger fully-grown and bonded with the shifter child (now 7 years old), during the week of the year that Lammania is coterminous with Eberron, the dark fey take their magically-bounded minions to the Talenta Plains, where they command the child to ride the tiger and hunt some of the smaller grazing dinosaurs of the plains. They travel back and forth from Lammania and the Talentha Plains for the week. The dark fey return with the child and tiger to Lammania before the coterminous week ends. The start of the rumours of a naked child riding a tiger starts to spread throughout the land, coming to the attention of Holy Uldra, who tasks some of the halflings of her tribe to find the child and bring him to her. After six months of no sightings of the child and the tiger Holy Uldra ceases her search to find the child and tiger. 990 YK: During the week that Lammania is coterminous with Eberron, the dark fey once again bring the child (now 8 years old) and tiger to the Talenta Plains to practice their tandem combat skills against grazing dinosaur herds. House Jorasco halflings travelling north from Gatherhold encounter the child, tiger and the dark fey controlling them. The halflings slay the dark fey, which frees the child and tiger from their malevolent control. A few of the halflings are tasked with bringing the child and his animal friend to the Eldeen Reaches. The small group veers westward to travel through Cyre. While travelling through Cyre, they see tigers in the northern plains of Cyre. The tiger lets his shifter friend know he wants to stay and be with the tigers (of the northern plains of Cyre). The child chooses his name, Sithar Hareen (cat-friend free-of-chains), and the cat takes the name Hareen. The halflings witness the child and tiger hug each other, before continuing on their journey. 990-991 YK: The halflings House of Jorasco standing lets them travel through the nations still embroiled in the Last War without being harassed. As the halflings did not want to risk taking the shifter through Thrane, where The Silver Flame's power is the greatest, who were responsible for the Silver Crusade that attempted to genocide the child's race, they traveled through Breland to Lake Galifar and hired Captain Notak Ninefinger to give them passage across Lake Galifar to Cree. From Cree they traveled north to Wolf's Paw. The route they take to get Sithar to Wolf's Paw is as follows: Metrol (Cyre), Starilaskur (Breland), Xandrar (Breland), passage across Lake Galifar on the ship Smooth Sailing to Cree, than traveled north to Wolf's Paw. 991 YK: Sithar (age 9) arrives in Wolf's Paw. He lives there for a year, training under Lorgan. 992 YK: Sithar's parents, after hearing about the return of a child who could be their son, travel to Wolf's Paw and are reunited with their lost child. They bring Sithar (now 10) back home to their their nomadic shifter tribe that roams the western plains of the Eldeen Reaches. 992 to 997: Sithar is back home with his nomadic shifter tribe of the western plains of the Eldeen Reaches, kept safe with the other children during the occasional skirmishes the shifter tribe has with the occasional demons that come eastward out of the Demon Wastes or the gnolls, ogres and trolls that ventured northwards from Droaam into the western plains of the Eldeen Reaches. 993 YK: Jaela Daran (age 6) assumes the power of the Keeper of the Silver Flame. 994 YK: Cyre is destroyed and becomes The Mournland. 994 or 995 YK: Upon hearing about the destruction of Cyre, Sithar becomes worried about the fate of his tiger friend, Hareen. He told his parents he had to make sure his friend was safe. His parents forbade him from leaving the tribe, as well as pointing out the dangers of travelling throughout the human lands with the Last War still going on. 996 YK: The Treaty of Thronehold officially ends the Last War. The treaty officially recognizes the nations of Aundair, Breland, Thrane, Karrnath, the Talenta Plains, Zilargo, Q'barra, the Lhazaar Principalities, the Mror Holds, the Eldeen Reaches, Darguun, and Valenar. 996 YK: The treaty further commands House Cannith to destroy the creation forges (the devices used to create warforged). Remaining warforged are granted the rights of sentient beings. 996 YK: The Tribunal of Thronehold is established by the treaty with jurisdiction over prosecuting war crimes conducted during the worst offenses of the Last War—including ten magistrates from all signatory nations save Q'barra and Valenar. 996 or 997: Upon hearing the Last War had ended, Sithar asked his parents for their blessing for him to travel to look for his tiger friend. They refused, telling him he was still a child and it was unsafe for him to travel alone. 998: A raiding party of gnolls from Droaam came across the shifter tribe. A wounded gnoll got past the defensive circle the shifter warriors had formed around their young, and Sithar (now 16) used his innate racial and class shifter abilities to slay the gnoll before it could harm any of the children. This earned Sithar warrior status in the tribe, meaning he was no longer bound by his parent's orders. Knowling they could not prevent their son from leaving to search for his friend, they equipped him and gave him coin to purchase cold iron weapons in Varna. combat summary:
wip perception +6, low-light vision
bab +1
+1 trait bonus on attacks rolls for AoO against fey creatures. non-finesse melee +3
-1 penalty to attack rolls with sling using normal stones (not sling bullets) class shifter claws damage 1d4+2 (piercing & slashing) sling stone damage 1d3+2 (bludgeoning) |