About ZhandarA strange part-devil, part-human woman from the wilds of Ustalav must leave her home to fulfill a promise she made to a dead man thirty years ago. Background:
Zhandar grew up in the county of Tamrivena, in a small farmstead north of the town and close to the edge of the Shudderwood forest. Her family were once Varisians, and her mother was an adventurous spirit who left home when she came of age and infamously returned with a newborn tiefling babe. Zhandar's father is a topic that her relatives do not like to discuss, but Zhandar suspects he charmed her mother with infernal magic. Zhandar's mother claimed that her faith in Cayden Cailean gave her the power to escape his wiles, and she taught her daughter to follow the Accidental God's teachings.
For all of her youth, Zhandar felt like an outcast in her extended family. They allowed her to live with them in their community as long as she earned her keep, but she was always treated like she was different. She became most comfortable ranging in the forest and the steppes surrounding the community, finding herbs and berries for her mother's family's tavern. On one of these hikes, she encountered a young human man who had gotten his leg caught in a bear trap. Though wary, her mother had instilled in her the necessity of always helping those who are bound in fetters. So, she came forward from the brush and broke the mechanism to release the jaws and free the man. The man's name was Petros Lorrimor, and he said he was searching for evidence of standing stones in the area. Grateful to her for saving his life, he instructed Zhandar to visit him in Lepidstadt, where he would reward her properly for her aid. He was apprenticed to a powerful wizard, he said, and wielded deep and subtle magic that he would be pleased to share with her. She tried to dissuade him, but he made her promise that she would come before he would leave. Afterward, she wrote him a letter asking about his health and inviting him to visit if he should ever find himself in the area. They corresponded back and forth a few times, and though he might not have known it, his answers about his career inspired her latent interest in the secrets of the arcane, which she subsequently began to pursue on her own. Thirty years later, her wanderlust began to gain the better of her, and she decided it was time to look him up. She wrote to ask if his offer to visit was still valid, but she got no response for several months before receiving a notice that he had moved away without instructions for forwarding her message. She had an odd sense of foreboding, encouraged by unusual dreams she began to experience where Petros was walking ahead of her on a long road. She consulted her grandmother, who often read Harrow cards for her relatives, and she said that the omens indicated Lorrimor was dead or soon would be. Over the next few months she began to ask the traveling heralds and bards for any news about the man's death, and eventually she traveled to Lepidstadt to discover that until recently he had lived in Ravengro (where there was a strange event at his funeral), and that he has a daughter who still lives there. Feeling that she must discharge her promise to Professor Lorrimor, and curious about the circumstances of his death, Zhandar decides to travel to Ravengro and look up Kendra Lorrimor. She feels a bit guilty she didn't seek him out before he died, and she wonders if she could have prevented his death if she had kept in touch. Description:
Zhandar is short for a human, with long dark hair and visible horns. Her face is plain, and her teeth are obviously pointed-- this slurs her words and makes her difficult to understand. Her skin is scaly and reddish, and appears to be weathered by either age or hard living. She also has a tail. Her muscles look weak, though she is not especially scrawny, and she leans on a long walking staff. She wears leather armor and carries a spell components pouch, and her chest is crisscrossed by two bandoliers stuffed haphazardly with various flasks and potions of earthy-looking liquids.
She is curious, irritable, and very self-critical. For this reason, she drinks a lot of alcohol, to try and calm her nerves. Race: Tiefling Alignment: Neutral Good Deity: Cayden Cailean Classes: Druid (Skinshaper) 3 // Magus (Eldritch Archer / Hexcrafter / Staff Magus) 3 Abilities: Str 9 (-1), Dex 14 (+2), Con 12+2[race] (+2), Int 16 (+3), Wis 17+2[race] (+4), Cha 7-2[race] (-3) HP: 27/27 (3d8[8+5+5]+6[CON]+3[FCB]) AC: 17 (10 base, +4 armor, +2 Dex, +1 natural armor)
Initiative: +6 (+2 Dex, +2 race, +2 trait) Speed: 30'* (light armor, medium load reduces speed to 20') Saves:
Energy Resistance: fire 5 BAB: +2 Weapons:
Armor: masterwork leather lamellar (light armor, +4 armor bonus, +3 max Dex, -1 ACP) Tiefling (Devilspawn): Darklands Guide, Darkvision, Prehensile Tail, Scaled Skin, Vestigial Wings Favored Class Bonus (Druid): +3 hp Traits: Accelerated Drinker, Chance Savior, Rough and Ready, Warded Against Nature (drawback) Feats: Brew Potion* [druid 1], Combat Expertise* [EitR], Deadly Aim* [EitR], Power Attack* [EitR], Quarterstaff Master* [magus 1], Weapon Finesse* [EitR], Weapon Proficiency (thrown weapons) [level 1]; Vaporous Potion [level 3] Skills: Acrobatics 0+5*, Climb 1+2*, Craft (alchemy) 3+6*, Fly 0+6*, Heal 3+7, Knowledge (arcana) 1+6, Knowledge (dungeoneering) 1+6, Knowledge (local) 3+3, Knowledge (nature) 1+8, Knowledge (planes) 1+6, Knowledge (religion) 3+3, Perception 3+7*, Profession (herbalist) 3+7*, Sense Motive 0+4*, Spellcraft 3+6, Survival 1+9, Swim 1+2*; ACP -1 Languages: Abyssal, Common*, Hallit, Infernal*, Varisian Druid (Skinshaper) 3: nature bond (modified Druidic Herbalism), nature sense, spontaneous casting, wild empathy; woodland stride; trackless step Druidic Herbalism:
1. The druid gets a number of bonus spell slots of the highest spell level she can cast equal to her Wisdom modifier, in which she can prepare concoctions that function like infused extracts and are treated as potions. She regains these spell slots each day like other spell slots, but once prepared the druid can choose to let a concoction persist, continuing to take up the spell slot just like an infused extract until it is used. It takes one minute to prepare a concoction into an empty spell slot. Concoctions must be made of spells on the druid list and must meet the requirements for potions. At 4th level, the druid can make concoctions of any spell she can cast, not just spells on the druid list, as long as they are valid potion spells. At 7th level, she can prepare concoctions of any spell she can cast, even spells that can't normally be made into potions (spell level 4th or greater, Personal range, or Area/Effect spells).
2. Concoctions can be made using any of the character's druid spell slots, not just the bonus spell slots, as long as the spell level of the concoction is less than or equal to the spell level of the slot. All the other restrictions on concoctions apply. At 4th level, she can prepare concoctions in spell slots of other classes. Concoctions prepared in spell slots belonging to another class use the casting modifier and caster level of that class instead of the druid's. 3. The druid receives Brew Potion as a bonus feat, and she can use Profession (herbalist) as the associated crafting skill. At 7th level she can craft potions of any spells that she can prepare as concoctions. Druid concoctions (CL 3):
Druid spells (CL 3):
Magus (Eldritch Archer / Hexcrafter / Staff Magus) 3: arcane pool (+1), quarterstaff master, ranged spell combat, ranged weapon bond (flask thrower), spell combat; ranged spellstrike, spellstrike; magus arcana (Familiar) Magus spells (CL 3*):
Equipment: acid flask 6/6 (20 gp), alchemist's fire 3/3 (20 gp), alchemist's lab (200 gp), bandolier x2 (1 gp), bedroll (.1 gp), belt pouch (1 gp), blanket (.5 gp), canteen (2 gp), cooking pot (.8 gp), handy haversack (2,000 gp), maps (from survival kit), masterwork crossbow, masterwork flask thrower (ranged weapon bond, free), masterwork herbalist's tools (55 gp), masterwork leather lamellar armor (210 gp), mess kit (from survival kit), potion of cure light wounds (vaporous) 5/7 (175 gp), potion of cure moderate wounds (vaporous) 0/1, potion of ill omen (vaporous) 5/5 (125 gp), rope (100', 2 gp), scroll of heightened awareness 3/3 (75 gp), scroll of magic stone 3/3 (75 gp), spellbook (free), spell components pouch (5 gp), survival kit (5 gp), trail rations 5/5 (2.5 gp), traveler's outfit (free), wandermeal 10/10 (.1 gp), waterskin x2 (from survival kit) Carrying capacity: 30 (light), 60 (medium), 90 (heavy)
Typical actions:
Full round: • spell combat (cast spell, full attack) • withdraw Standard:
Move:
Swift:
Build plan:
1. druid 1//magus 1, Brew Potion*, Quarterstaff Master*, ranged weapon bond (flask thrower), Weapon Proficiency (throwing weapons) 2. druid 2//magus 2 3. druid 3//magus 3, magus arcana (Familiar), Vaporous Potion 4. druid 4//magus 4, hex magus (Flight) 5. druid 5//magus 5, Craft Wondrous Item*, Skill Focus: Knowledge (religion) 6. druid 6//magus 6, magus arcana (Broad Study: druid) 7. druid 7//magus 7, Dazing Spell 8. loremaster 1//magus 8, secret (The lore of true stamina) 9. druid 8//magus 9, magus arcana (Reach Spellstrike), Secret of Magical Discipline 10. druid 9//magus 10 11. druid 10//magus 11, Persistent Spell*, Secret of Magical Discipline x2 12. druid 11//magus 12, magus arcana (Throwing Magus) 13. druid 12//magus 13, Secret of Magical Discipline x3 14. druid 13//magus 14 15. druid 14//magus 15, magus arcana (Bane Blade), Secret of Magical Discipline x4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Familiar
Abilities: Str 3 (-4), Dex 16 (+3), Con 10 (+0), Int 7 (-2), Wis 13 (+1), Cha 7 (-2) HP: 13/13 (3d8+0 HD, half master's hp) AC: 19 (+3 Dex, +2 natural armor, +4 size)
Speed: 20' move, 20' climb Fort save: +3 (base +3)
BAB: +2
Weapons:
Feats: Combat Expertise* [EitR], Deadly Aim* [EitR], Grasping Tail [level 1], Power Attack* [EitR], Weapon Finesse* [EitR] Skills: Climb 1+14, Craft (alchemy) 3-2, Fly 0+7, Knowledge (arcana) 2-2, Knowledge (dungeoneering) 2-2, Knowledge (local) 3-2, Knowledge (nature) 2-2, Knowledge (planes) 1-2, Knowledge (religion) 3-2, Perception 3+4, Profession (herbalist) 3+1, Sense Motive 0+1, Spellcraft 3-2, Survival 1+1, Swim 1+6 Familiar: alertness, deliver touch spells, empathic link, familiar ability (+3 Acrobatics), improved evasion, natural armor adj +2, share spells Typical actions:
Standard: • ranged attack (throw potion) Move:
Swift:
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