About V'Thamuus DiwanimiV'Thamuus, Thim to his friends and companions, is a talented young wizard determined to prove himself to his people. He was born in the Expanse to a Mwangi mother and quickly absent Chelaxian father. (Mother does not speak of him, but she smiles then scowls each time the subject is broached.) Magic was banned to him by his family, so much of his training comes from the single spell book he stole from deep storage in his uncle's house. He believes it belonged to his missing father; it's cover and several marginal notes are inscribed in Chelexian, though the book itself is a handwritten modern copy of an ancient Thassalonian wizard primer. He doesn't understand why he was forbidden magical study because his homeland is usually comfortable with the Arcane arts, so when caught and beaten for using his favorite spell (Magic Missile) against monkeys attacking his female cousins, he left to follow in his (imagined) father's footsteps far to the north to Varisa. Save for this one rebellion, V'Thamuus was an obedient son, but the pull of adventure was too great. The long journey is at an end. During his travels, he studied his primer and with a few helpful fellow travelers added a few additional magical techniques into the spell book. He was especially grateful to a Taldoran pathfinder - Balwin Lackhand, who allowed Thim to read a few chronicles and marvel at some ancient scrolls he was transporting. As he steps off the ship to the shores of Varisa for the first time, his thoughts turn to the secrets under the hills and monuments dotting the still savage land. As my father before me, I will share your mysteries within me. Mother and Uncle forgive me; I must now and forever be a man. Thim is a young wizard searching for a place. He is following in the completely imagined steps of a father who left before he was born. He is bold and a bit reckless. I see him as a swashbuckling wizard, specializing in blasting magic, and dancing across the battlefield as he casts. ----
Moninga is a tiny bipedal dinosaur about two feet high and three feet long including tail. It is covered in pebbly scales primarily in green, with a bright pattern of red and orange across his back and head. Colorful frills on each side of its head spread out when Moninga is agitated or cries out making him look something like a flower with sharp teeth. Male Human Gestalt Wizard (Thassalonian Evoker)/Investigator 1/1
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Arcane Bond - Familiar: Dinosaur, Compsognathus - Valet template (Moninga) +4 initiative Arcane School: Thassalonian Evoker - 2 addition evoker spells per spell level (must be the same spell). Prohibited schools - conjuration and abjuration (these spells are not considered part of Thim's spell list.) Intense Spells (Su): Whenever you cast an evocation spell that deals hit point damage, add 1 to the damage. This bonus only applies once to a spell, not once per missile or ray, and cannot be split between multiple missiles or rays. This damage is of the same type as the spell. Force Missile (Sp): As a standard action you can unleash a force missile that automatically strikes a foe, as magic missile. The force missile deals 1d4+1 points of damage. This is a force effect. You can use this ability 8 times per day. Alchemy (Ex): When using Craft (alchemy) to create an alchemical item, you gain a +1 competence bonus on the skill check. In addition, you can use Craft (alchemy) to identify potions as if using detect magic. You must hold the potion for 1 round to make such a check. Inspiration (Ex): You can augment skill checks and ability checks through inspiration. You have an inspiration pool of 5 points. As a free action, you can expend one use of inspiration from his pool to add 1d6 to the result of that check (including any you take 10 or 20 on). This choice is made after the check is rolled and before the results are revealed. You can only use inspiration once per check or roll. You can use inspiration on any Knowledge, Linguistics, or Spellcraft skill checks without spending a use of inspiration, provided you're trained in that skill. Your inspiration pool refreshes each day, typically after a restful night’s sleep. Inspiration can also be used on attack rolls and saving throws at a cost of expending two uses of inspiration from your pool. In the case of saving throws, using inspiration is an immediate action rather than a free action. Trapfinding: You add +1 to Perception skill checks made to locate traps and to Disable Device checks (minimum 1). You can use Disable Device to disarm magical traps. Prepared Spells: 0th - 3, 1st - 3+2
Prepared Extracts: 1st - 3
Spellbook/Formula book:
Wizard spells 0th - detect magic, detect poison, read magic, daze, dancing lights, flare, light, ray of frost, ghost sound, bleed, disrupt undead, touch of fatigue, mage hand, mending, message, open/close, arcane mark, prestidigitation, spark 1st - disguise self, ear-splitting scream, enlarge person, hydrolic push, magic missile, snapdragon fireworks, vanish, windy escape Investigator extracts
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spell focus (evocation) - 1st level spell specialization (magic missile) - human bonus toppling spell - wizard bonus toughness - campaign bonus Skills:
(rank/class/mod): Acrobatics [+1+3+3] +7 Appraise [+1+3+5] +9 Craft (Alchemy) [+1+3+5(+1 to create)] +9(+10) Disable Device [+1+3+3+1 trapfinding] +8 Intimidation [+1+3+3] +7 Knowledge (Arcane) [+1+3+5+1 trait] +10 +1d6(insp) Knowledge (Engineering) [+1+3+5] +9 +1d6(insp) Knowledge (History) [+1+3+5] +9 +1d6(insp) Knowledge (Nature) [+1+3+5] +9 +1d6(insp) Linguistics [+1+3+5] +9 +1d6(insp) Perception [+1+3+0(+1 to locate traps)] +4(+5) Spellcraft [+1+3+5] +9 +1d6(insp) Traits:
Magical Lineage: One of your parents was a gifted spellcaster who not only used metamagic often, but also developed many magical items and perhaps even a new spell or two—and you have inherited a fragment of this greatness. Pick one spell (magic missile) when you choose this trait. When you apply metamagic feats to this spell, treat its actual level as 1 lower for determining the spell's final adjusted level. Lore Seeker: The secrets of the ancient fallen civilization of Thassilon intrigue you, particularly the magical traditions of its highly mystical culture. You've studied magic intensely, and hope to increase that knowledge by adding Thassilonian lore. You've come to Varisia to pursue that study. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Knowledge (arcana) checks, and Knowledge (arcana) is a class skill for you. If you cast arcane spells, pick three spells on your spell list (magic missile, ear-splitting scream, hydrolic push). You are particularly adept at casting these spells, so they function at +1 caster level when you cast them, and their save DCs (if any) gain a +1 bonus. Gear:
Haramaki (1lb)
Backpack, masterwork (5 lbs/?? lbs total)
Ioun torch orbiting head
82gp 8 sp 5cp Moninga:
Compsognathus
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Poison (Ex):Bite—injury; save Fort DC 12; frequency 1/round for 4 rounds; effect 1d2 Str; cure 1 save. Improved Evasion (Ex): When subjected to an attack that normally allows a Ref lex saving throw for half damage, a familiar takes no damage if it makes a successful saving throw and half damage even if the saving throw fails. Share Spells: The wizard may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself. A wizard may cast spells on his familiar even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the familiar's type (magical beast). Empathic Link (Su): The master has an empathic link with his familiar to a 1 mile distance. The master can communicate emphatically with the familiar, but cannot see through its eyes. Because of the link's limited nature, only general emotions can be shared. The master has the same connection to an item or place that his familiar does. Class Skills: A valet treats Craft, Perform, and Profession as class skills. Able Assistant (Ex): A valet's master treats the valet as if it possessed the Cooperative Crafting (APG) feat and shared all Craft skills and item creation feats he possesses. Prestidigitation (Sp): A valet can use prestidigitation once per hour. Teammate (Ex): A valet is considered to have all the teamwork feats its master has. Force Missile Mage:
Mages of this class focus on magic missile to push that spell beyond its normal limits.
Requirements
Hit die: d6 Skill points: 2 + Int Class skills: Craft, Knowledge (Arcana), Profession, Spellcraft, Perception Class Features
Spells: A force missile mage continues training in magic as he gains levels. At each level after 1st, the force missile mage gains new spells per day (and spells known, if applicable) as if he had also gained a level in an spellcasting class he belonged to before he added the prestige class. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If the character has levels in more than one spellcasting class before becoming a force missile mage, he must decide to which class he adds each level of force missile mage for the purposes of determining spells per day. Bonus Missile: At 1st level, a force missile mage gains increased mastery over his spell of choice. Every time he casts magic missile he creates an addition missile, even if this extra missile exceeds the normal maximum of five missiles that the spell normally allows. Thus, a 1st-levelforce missile mage/6th-level wizard creates five magic missiles, while a 1st-level force missile mage/8th- level wizard produces six missiles. At 5th level, the force missile mage benefits from an additional bonus missile. This means that a high-level force missile mage can create up to seven missiles with a single casting of magic missile. Still Missile (Ex): All of the force missile mage's magic missile spells lack a somatic component. He casts magic missile as if using the Still Spell feat but without an increase in spell level. Energy Missile (Ex): A force missile mage becomes intimately attuned to the energies that compose the spell magic missile and may alter them in significant ways. Starting at 2nd level, a force missile mage may add either the acid, cold, electricity, or fire descriptor to any magic missile he casts. The type of energy added to the spell is chosen at the time of casting, and you can choose a different type of energy each time you cast magic missile. This altered descriptor affects all missiles created by a single casting of magic missile. Although still a force spell, any magic missile altered in this way deals additional damage against vulnerable creatures and less damage against creatures with related resistances and immunities. Swift Shield (Sp): A force missile mage realizes the need to defend himself against the magic missiles of other spell casters. A 2nd-level force missle mage can cast Shield once per day as an immediate action. (An immediate action is like a free action, but only once can be made per round.) This spell is cast in addition to the force missile mage's usual number of spells per day and at the force missile mage's highest caster level. Overpowering Missle: At third level, the force missile mage's magic missile spells become especially potent, breaking through spell resistance more readily than normal. She gains a +2 bonus on caster level checks to overcome a creature's sell resistance with the spell magic missile. This benefit only applies to magic missile spells she casts. In addition, a force missile mage's magic missiles penetrate shield spells, brooches of shielding, and other magic that specifically targets magic missile as if they didn't offer protection from the spell. Reflective Shield (Sp): At 4th level, a force missile mage can reflect the spell Magic Missile. For the purposes of being affected by Magic Missile, a force missile mage is constantly treated as being under the effect of the spell Spell Turning, thus reflecting offensive Magic missiles back at the caster. If that caster is protected by a Shield spell or a Brooches of Shielding, these reflected Magic Missiles are negated as normal. Missiles reflected back against a caster who also has Spell Turning in effect require the force missile mage to roll on the Spell Turning mishap chart. (Pathfinder Core pg. 347) Adaptive Missile: All class effects that would alter magic missile take effect as if your class level were equal to your magic missile caster level. In addition, a number of times per day equal to your Int mod/2 you are treated as if you possess any one metamagic feat for which you meet the requirements. This feat may only be applied to magic missile and increases the spell level slot and/or casting time as usual for that feat. Each time you use this ability you may choose a different metamagic feat to apply. This ability can modify any single casting of magic missile only once. Advancement
Arcanists' Circle of Kaer Maga:
Description from City of Strangers and mechanical write up based on the Magic Schools chapter of Inner Sea Magic The circle has always been the most powerful shape. Endless, eternal, without corners to focus strain and with every point equal and carrying a matched burden, it is the shape of the world and the wheel upon which civilization turns. Or so goes the rhetoric of the Arcanists’ Circle, Kaer Maga’s foremost guild of magic-users. Established centuries ago, the power of the Circle has waxed and waned with its membership, but the current guild is strong and vibrant, with over a dozen full members and at least as many apprentices swelling its ranks. The Arcanists’ Circle is an elite group of wizards and sorcerers who band together in support of a common idea: that shared knowledge benefits all involved. Within their guildhall in Tarheel Promenade the scholars meet to debate, compare notes, and share expensive equipment. The results are twofold: in addition to vastly accelerating their individual research projects, this approach has made them a formidable mercantile power. By sharing duties and workspaces, the wizards have been able to streamline and standardize many time-consuming aspects of item creation, and the first floor of their establishment sells enough of these mass-produced charms and potions to fund whatever research its members can imagine. What’s more, the vast amounts of experience represented by the guild as a whole means that those seeking unique or untested magical items can often commission them directly from the Circle. For the most part the members of the Arcanists’ Circle maintain their own residences elsewhere, some not necessarily within the city walls. The day-to-day business is delegated to the members’ apprentices, often young but sometimes respectable magic users in their own right, hoping to earn their entry into the guild. While not expressly limited to arcane spellcasters, membership in the guild tends not to favor clerics or mystic theurges, as each member’s first priority (after himself, of course) must be the advancement of the guild, something few church hierarchies are willing to condone. An elite group of wizards and sorcerers who band together in support of a common idea: that shared knowledge benefits all.
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