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Vexelune Whisperbranch
Gathlain mesmerist (vexing trickster) 7 (Pathfinder Player Companion: Psychic Anthology 19, Pathfinder RPG Occult Adventures 38, Ultimate Wilderness 122)
CN Small fey
Init +6; Senses low-light vision; Perception +0
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Defense
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AC 22, touch 16, flat-footed 18 (+4 armor, +1 deflection, +4 Dex, +2 natural, +1 size)
hp 57 (7d8+14)
Fort +7, Ref +12, Will +8
DR 2/cold iron
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Offense
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Speed 20 ft., fly 30 ft. (clumsy)
Melee mwk dagger +7 (1d3/19-20)
Ranged mwk light crossbow +11 (1d6/19-20)
Special Attacks bold stares (disorientation[OA], psychic inception[OA]), hypnotic stare (-2), manifold tricks (2 tricks), mental potency (+1), mesmerist tricks 10/day (compel alactrity, mask misery, mesmeric mirror, slip bonds), painful stare (+3 or +2d6+3)
Mesmerist (Vexing Trickster) Spells Known (CL 7th; concentration +13)
. . 3rd (2/day)—conditional curse[UI] (DC 18), overwhelming grief[UM] (DC 18)
. . 2nd (4/day)—aversion[OA] (DC 17), mirror image, phantasmal affliction[UI] (DC 17), placebo effect[OA] (DC 17)
. . 1st (6/day)—grease, hermean potential, ill omen[APG], ray of enfeeblement (DC 16), silent image (DC 16)
. . 0 (at will)—detect magic, light, mage hand, message, prestidigitation, read magic
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Statistics
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Str 10, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 21
Base Atk +5; CMB +4; CMD 19
Feats Blinding Stare, Combat Casting, Combat Expertise, Intimidating Glance[OA], Manifold Stare, Split Trick
Traits arcane temper, scholar of the great beyond
Skills Acrobatics +2 (-2 to jump), Bluff +16, Disguise +8, Escape Artist +9, Fly +8, Intimidate +16, Knowledge (planes) +11, Linguistics +10, Sleight of Hand +15, Spellcraft +7, Stealth +13, Use Magic Device +15
Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Daemonic, First Speech, Gnome, Infernal, Sylvan, Terran
SQ consummate trickster +3, manifold hijinks (2 tricks), tree-born[UW]
Combat Gear potion of cure light wounds (3), scroll of blindness/deafness, scroll of haste, scroll of invisibility, scroll of tongues; Other Gear calamitous mail, crossbow bolts (50), mwk dagger, mwk light crossbow, amulet of natural armor +1, belt of incredible dexterity +2, cloak of resistance +2, cracked dusty rose prism ioun stone, cracked magenta prism ioun stone, cracked pink and green sphere ioun stone, headband of alluring charisma +2, ioun torch ioun stone[APG], ring of protection +1, sleeves of many garments[UE], bandolier[UE], scroll case, 131 gp, 5 sp
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Special Abilities
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Blinding Stare (DC 18) When trig painful stare target must make Will Save or be blind for 1 rd.
Combat Casting +4 to Concentration checks to cast while on the defensive.
Combat Expertise +/-2 Bonus to AC in exchange for an equal penalty to attack.
Consummate Trickster +3 Bonus on Bluff, Disguise, Sleight off Hand, and Stealth Checks.
Damage Reduction (2/cold iron) You have Damage Reduction against all except Cold Iron attacks.
Disorientation (Su) Hypnotic stare penalty applies on attack rolls.
Fly (30 feet, Clumsy) You can fly!
Hypnotic Stare (-2, 30 feet) (Su) As swift action, target creature takes penalty on Will saves.
Intimidating Glance You can attempt to demoralize the target of your hypnotic stare as a swift action.
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in dim light, distinguishing color and detail.
Manifold Hijinks (2 tricks) (Su) Implant multiple modified tricks into the mind of a target simultaneously.
Manifold Tricks (Su) You can have mulitple tricks implanted at once.
Mental Potency (+1) (Ex) Increase HD limit and total HD of enchantment or illusion spells by 1.
Mesmerist Tricks (170 feet, 10/day) (Su) Implant hypnotic bond with allies. granting edge vs. foes.
Painful Stare (+3 or +2d6+3, 2/round) (Su) As a free action, hyp. stare target takes extra precision dam from a hit.
Psychic Inception (Su) Hypnotic stare can affect creatures that are mindless or immune to mind-affecting effects.
Split Trick When implant trick, choose 2 targets. On trigger, choose one to benefit.
Tree-Born Loose racial Constitution penalty but move slower.
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Vexelune Whisperbranch's seed sprouted from Glimmerbough, the most ancient mothertree in the Evergrove. While her innumerable siblings escaped on the wind to spread far and wide, Lune's seed lodged itself in one of Glimmerbough's knots, and she grew stouter than her lithe brethren, with stunted wings that were all but vestigial.

While Glimmerbough seemed to sense Lune's constant presence, she wasn't much of a conversationalist. Lune had resigned herself to a long, _boring_ life stuck in her mother's side. (I swear I didn't set out to copy Della Narn's backstory, but here we are.) Fortunately, the Traveling Academy of Cobyslarni, led by Headmistress Bofika Nemesan, happened upon Lune while on a field study of the Evergrove. Bofika herself freed Lune from her predicament and Lune agreed to travel with the Academy. What began as an adoptive mother-daughter relationship grew into a genuine friendship as Lune matured. Bofika, as one of the rare humans in the First World, fascinated Lune's developing mind; she developed a life-long obsession with the planar realms and meeting every possible sentient species she could.

Eventually, Lune's insatiable curiosity outgrew Bofika and the Traveling Academy's capacity to teach. Bofika, though reluctant to part with the creature that she had grown so fond of, made contact with her scholarly colleagues in Iadara and arranged for Vexelune to study among them. At this time, Kyonin was still strictly isolationist, so Lune was barred from moving about freely within the city; the scholarly types were very nice to her, and there was much to learn in the extensive libraries, but, after the freedom of the Traveling Academy, she couldn't help but feel like she had returned to confinement.

During her time in Iadara, she began to discover something unusual about herself: she could get people to do what she wanted. She had always thought she was just gregarious, but she had witnessed acolyte after acolyte denied access to the restricted areas of the libraries, while all she had to do to gain admittance was give the guards a look. She spent the next few months seeing how far she could push the ability, until one day she found herself loose on the streets of Iadara. She is certain the town guards--who seemed strangely resistant to her charms--would have killed her on the spot as a trespasser had another scholar not happened by at that moment, vouched for her, and escorted her back to her dormitory.

Her single terrible experience in the city proper cowed her, and so she stayed where she was supposed to, and she studied. She could have spent ten lifetimes in those libraries and not learned all they had to teach, but over time her wanderlust and desire to actually _meet_ and _experience_ these alien creatures and cultures became too much to bear. She had learned so many of the languages of the planes; she wanted to speak with actual oreads and psychopomps and daemons and archons, not dusty old (OLD) elves!

She didn't realize that she could probably just _ask_ to leave and would be escorted out of the city. And so she planned her escape. Over several months, she snuck or social engineeringed her way into various vaults to steal gear, scrolls, and magical items (and, of course, her favorite books). Then, on a moonless night, she gathered her things, snuck out to an alley between two dormitories, and willed her frail wings to take her up and out of the city. It took several attempts to get airborne, but she found that, once she got above the buildings, even her meager wingspan was able to catch the wind and carry her over the walls and into the wilderness beyond.

She didn't have a destination in mind, though she had overheard two acolytes talking about some Acadamae (they pronounced it subtly differently from the Academy she grew up with) in a city called Korvosa to the west. That sounded like as good a place to start as any, so she headed in that direction. Along the way, she made friends with those that were nice to her and fought or scared away those that were mean to her. She used her size to great advantage, stowing away on westward-bound caravans and sleeping in tree branches and barn roofs. After several long months on the road, she finally spotted the Korvosan walls in the distance. An excited pep entered her step as they slowly (_very_ slowly; her stride length was barely 12 inches) grew larger in her view.

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