Inside the dark, silent reaches of the Uskwood Forest in Nidal, a group of albino druids watch for intruders and enforce their view of the natural order. These "pale ones" all serve the majesty of the midnight lord, Zon-Kuthon. These pale druids are sworn and bonded to the Uskwood's bleak power, they celebrate the inevitable pain and death inherent to the natural order. To live is to know suffering, and these druids ensure that intruders will know the full measure of pain.
While the Shades are dedicated to the natural power of the dark wood, they also revere Zon-Kuthon. This reverence is symbolized by the wearing of an Umbrae-Token, a fetish of hair, twigs and blood. For this worship, these dark druids are rewarded with some powers over necromancy and undeath.
Now that you know a good deal of information about this characters roots, we can begin fleshing out his build. I would like to start by saying the most important feat for this character is the Shade of the Uskwood, shown below.
Ordained as one of the sinister albino druids, you carry with you into the wider world a powerful effigy of hair, twigs, and blood that crawls with the deepening cold of the hallowed hunting grounds.
Prerequisite: Neutral evil, patron deity is Zon-Kuthon.
Benefit: Add the following spells to your druid spell list.
0—disrupt undead, ray of frost;
1st—ghost sound, touch of fatigue;
2nd—chill touch, spectral hand;
3rd—ghoul touch, invisibility;
4th—displacement, ray of exhaustion;
5th—animate dead, phantasmal killer;
6th—nightmare, waves of fatigue;
7th—circle of death, shadow walk;
8th—mass invisibility, waves of exhaustion;
9th—horrid wilting, weird.
Remove all spells with the [fire] descriptor from all your spell lists (not just your druid spell list). You cannot cast any spells with the fire descriptor, nor activate them off scrolls, wands, or any other magic devices. In addition, you may not use wild shape to take the form of any creature with the fire subtype.
Special: As part of this feat, you create a personal token that ties your soul and your doings to the fell power of the dark forest. This potent object is treated as a wooden unholy symbol that radiates faint necromancy magic. If your token is ever destroyed, your connection to the shadowy heart of the forest is severed and all benefits of this feat are lost until another is created. This process requires a journey to the same forest and an atonement spell cast by a fellow worshiper of your dark god.
My problem is that I don't know what direction I really want to go with the character. I was thinking something like Male [Race] lich druid 5/necromancer 5/mystic theurge 10
NE Medium undead (augmented humanoid) but I'm not sure how optimal that would be, compared to going full druid. But I do like the Idea of having a domain/animal companion along with a familiar/bonded item. Also I need help choosing my opposing schools of magic.
Here is a list of potential feats
-Scribe Scroll (Bonus)
-Command Undead (Bonus)
-Shade of the Uskwood [Mandatory]
-Ability Focus [Fear Aura, Paralyzing Touch]
-Craft Staff
-Craft Wondrous Item
-Spell Focus (necromancy)
-Spell Mastery (ray of enfeeblement*,blindness/deafness*, see invisibility*, fly*, vampiric touch*; bestow curse*, charm monster*, enervation*, greater invisibility*, magic jar*, teleport*)
-Undead Master
-Toughness
Someone please help me get on my feet so I can stat this out.
I think the Siabrae is a ok idea for a undead Druid. Find it on the PFSRD.
I think the Siabrae is a ok idea for a undead Druid. Find it on the PFSRD.
Wow thanks I never even knew that existed, I could even take the Blight druid archetype too.
Okay so I should drop the Mystic theurge idea and go straight druid for atleast 11 levels so I can take the Siabrae template. Are there any druid archetypes I should possibly consider? I also still need help choosing a race. Thematically I think Menhir Savant would match perfectly for this because the whole ritual in becoming a Siabrae involves standing stones. It also adds Spirit Sense (Sp), Place Magic (Su), Walk the Lines (Su), Empty Body (Su)
menhir: literally means standing stone
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