A vermin-based Druid might also work, with bugs everywhere.
Shaman or witch sounds like this for the familiar aspect.
If you want to de-buff people, oracle might also work. Is there a god that fits your concept?
And sorcerer could be good as well. Maybe the Faustian bargain is how you GOT sorcerer powers in the first place. Take the arcane bloodline, and grab a familiar.
Wizard or witch then?
Or, possibly alchemist if you want to work the poison angle.
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My only issue with Oracle and Sorcerer is that they require a large charisma score, and Sasha is decidedly uncharismatic, choosing to be quiet and in the back, generally distrusting of other people. She'll work with them to get a job done, but she isn't a particularly sociable person.
There's also the mater that she's atheist, so Oracle doesn't really work.
Oracles do not require a god in pfs
remember charisma does not necessarily indicate how social you are in this case it may represent your strong will or driving force.
have you considered alchemist? (edit ninjad)
another thing this may not be the best background for public play (may be a little too dark and the such)
You could work toward the nauseating cloud discovery, and also poison folks.
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Haven't looked into Alchemist, though seems a little too "studied" for this character. I'll check it out, though.
And fair call on the background being too dark. I have a penchant for the penny dreadful, I'm afraid. Any suggestions on how to clean it up but still keep the flavor?
for character IDK change brothel to slavery change uncle to Chelish master and make "blue eyes" an Andorian sailor and say hello to the liberties edge faction :P
for the alchemist I've seen everything from studied scholar to pyromaniac Gnome and it is a really good class.
as far as witch I have not really seen too many people happy with their witch after a few lvls having never played one or desired to I can not tell you much more.
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It may or may not be helpful to you as you said Sasha was/is an atheist and that she's used to being quiet and in the background. As someone else pointed out your Charisma score can be your "will or driving force" but in Pathfinder Charisma indicates your looks as well (unlike DnD 3.5 where looks were separate from Charisma score). Sasha's mother must have been attractive to be worth something in a brothel and maybe Sasha has inherited some of that beauty.
Now, Sasha is an atheist but you have an opportunity here with this sentient scorpion that speaks to her. Maybe this creature is a servant of a Deity? Maybe its master is said Deity?
You have an interesting concept here that would fit well with a negative channeling Cleric that serves either Urgathoa or Norgorber (due to the Scorpion's persuasion to serve said deity). You'd want at least a 16 or 18 Charisma, and remember that would indicate her attractiveness and her will and drive to complete her tasks (which she already displayed said strong will by killing her uncle and burning the brothel down.)
Maybe she decided to serve Urgathoa in hopes of one day resurrecting her dead mother to be reunited with her?
Maybe she decided to serve Norgorber in hopes that she would someday learn the secrets that he knows about her mother? (or maybe her father)
With negative channeling you can variant channel (You roll your channel dice and deal 1/2 damage instead of full damage but you select 1 portfolio when creating your character and that portfolio matches a variant channel that adds an additional effect).
Below is why I think these two deities would be great options for Sasha's background:
The goddess of disease, allows you to channel negative energy to make all creatures you harmed sickened for 1 round + a number of rounds equal to your channel penalty (+1 at lvl 1-4, +2 at lvl 5-9, +3 at lvl 10-14). At cleric level 10, you may select one creature as the target of a contagion in addition to the effects of the channeled energy. You'd also want a good Wisdom score since the target would get a save vs the Contagion spell.
Known as a deity of thievery and assassination, as well as a keeper of secrets. He is called the 'Reaper of the Reputation' by some, but he has more insidious titles among his other worshipers. He remains an enigma to most, and his true motives are unknown. Many of his own followers remain ignorant of his plans and designs. Norgorber is the only evil aligned god amongst the "Ascended."
Maybe Sasha was persuaded to worship Norgorber in hopes that she would one day know the secrets of her mother's death and what went on between her mother and uncle? Maybe there's more, like who her father was (or is).
You can select the Poison variant channel ability with Norgorber which makes the affected creatures take 1 point of Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution damage (your choice) as a poison effect. Or maybe, taking Norgorber's Murder variant channel which gives the affected creatures a bleed effect equal to your channel penalty.
I'll admit though, Norgorber's variant channels aren't as strong as Urgathoa's. But maybe thematically Norgorber fits Sasha's backstory?
Just my thoughts but I think Sasha getting tricked into worshiping one of these two deities would fit your style. It has a Russian Fairytale, or Sweeny Todd, story potential to it. Norgorber using her to carry out murder, keeping secrets hidden from her intentionally, and promising that he'll soon reveal the secrets that she's had all her life.
Urgathoa on the other hand allows that "disease carrier" idea to become a reality. Her mind driven to irrationality as she becomes determined to raise her mother as an undead just so she can be reunited with her and have the time with her mother that was denied in her childhood. Or maybe she wants to raise her to get the answers to her questions and exact revenge to anyone else that harmed her family. Urgathoa has a powerful negative channeling feat that would stack with the sickness effect, called Shatter Resolve, that makes the affected creatures in the negative channel shaken for a while.[/spoiler]
Either way you can play her being attractive on the outside but reclusive, deceptive (using that high Charisma to good use with Bluffing), and murderous (due to her distrust and suffering through her childhood) on the inside.
Hopefully this gave you some food for thought. As a cleric you could pick two domains which gave access or domain abilities to disease or poison effects. Or abilities that would raise or control undead if her focus was to raise her dead mother in the future.
Let me know if this was of any help. I love Clerics and there's just so much fun you can have with them. :)
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You could do a Negative Channel Cleric of Calistra and gain Whip proficiency that way.
Ahriman, Dahak, Lissala, Moloch, Abraxas, Gogunta, and Ragadahn all give whip proficiency also. For any of these deities you'd just want to standard negative channel, as Calistra's variant channels aren't that good and the others don't have variant channels unfortunately.
The whip would be more of a last resort and for looks deal though as actually being effective with a whip requires like 3-4 feats (depending if you have to take Whip Proficiency). The plus side is you can always cast Inflict Light Wounds (or a stronger version) and then deliver it via a touch attach with a Conductive Whip anywhere from 5-15ft away. I'd suggest something around a 16charisma (+2 racial added), 16wis, 14str, 12con, 12dex, 7int. You'll gain 1 skill point a level, an additional skill point being human, and you can choose to gain +1hp or +1 skill point from your favored class bonus.
The lower Charisma isn't that big of a deal. You can cast Eagle's Splendor prior to combat or first thing and you'll be bumped up to 20Charisma, then you can use the Selective Channel feat to remove 5 allies from getting hurt from your point blank area of effect negative channel blast.
Hope this helped some.
Don't worry yourself about achieving your character concept right away. The game has many choices, but is not 100% customizable. Basically, if you can't find a character combo that has everything in your back story, then you should make some little alterations to your story. You might also find a close fit and find out that you don't like the character.
The scorpion appears in the turning point of the story, but does the character absolutely need a pet animal at 1st level? Maybe it was sent to her but does not belong to her. Maybe it will at a later point.
The want a disease theme, but disease does not play a large part in pathfinder. I used to play a cleric of a non-evil death god. Any time he cast a fear spell, I said that the target caught a flimpse of the moment of their own death. Perhaps when your character casts a de-buff spells, such as doom or bane or slow, the targets start coughing and are temporarily covered in sores.
One other point is that disease doesn't actually appear to play into your back story, but due to the scorpion you might switch to poison.
Plan ahead (like you're doing now), but also think about how to create a capable level 1 character. Don't use all of your resources attempting to achieve a concept immediately. Give sasha time to grow into it. You say she is beginning as one of bill's bodyguards. How about ranger? You get a pet at 4th level.
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I am intrigued by this "Conductive Whip." How might I go about getting one of those in PFS? From what I understand it would cost around 2k gold (which I certainly don't have!), and one is only allowed to buy magic items after character creation if they are on the approved list for a particular adventure. Please correct me if I'm wrong, though.
You're looking at an 8,001 gold whip. The whip has to be a +1 before adding an enchantment quality to it like Conductive. Conductive is a +1 enchantment, so you'd be paying a 8,001 fee total (CBR says that all magic weapons are also masterwork weapons and it shows 3,000 to make it +1 and an additional 5k to add another +1 bonus onto it (being the Conductive Property.)
You could instead (or also) add the Grayflame property to it which causes it to shed light as a torch, increases the weapon's enhancement bonus by +1, and deals +1d6 damage (as the divine power from flame strike) to creatures struck by the weapon. This flame lasts for 1 round for every d6 damage or healing the channeling normally provides.
PFS allows you to buy items listed on the chronicle sheet "early". The total Fame you have actually dictates what the max price of gear you can buy. So if you had 22 total fame you could buy something up to 8,000gp (Which I'd assume you'd be fine adding a +2 to your existing 1gp whip.)
You can see the Fame & Item Purchase list on page 25 of the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play guide.
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Also, I just found this.
It's a Pestilence Bloodline for Sorcerer which seems to fit perfectly! My only question is: Is it legal?
nope :(
Archives of Nethys it does not have the glyph of the open road
also always good to check the additional resources page
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Also, I just found this.
It's a Pestilence Bloodline for Sorcerer which seems to fit perfectly! My only question is: Is it legal?
Sorry but that is not legal.
Here's the Additional Resources page that says what is and isn't legal Additional Resources
The page you linked, this page says at the very bottom that it's from the "Pathfinder 29: Mother of Flies" splatbook.
I honestly dislike d20pfsrd.com for researching things. I used the PRD here on Paizo's site and I use Archive of Nethys which has a ton of information on it and has the PFS symbol next to things that are legal in Society play. (Sometimes it has some typos and may be missing some of the latest stuff but generally it's spot on and it has everything organized in an easy to find manner.)
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I checked the additional resources document already and it has Mother of Flies listed, but says nothing about the bloodline. I was under the assumption that if it doesn't say anything that it's legal.Also, I just found this.
It's a Pestilence Bloodline for Sorcerer which seems to fit perfectly! My only question is: Is it legal?
nope :(
Archives of Nethys it does not have the glyph of the open road
also always good to check the additional resources page
Other way around unless it specifically list some stuff and at the end says "are not legal for PFS play." There's a few times where it has that appended to the end but for the most part it just lists what is legal out of said book.
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If any of you like the "dark fairytale" stories / concepts then you should check out The West Marches. One of my favorite series on Youtube and new episodes still being released. The morale of the story in that sandbox adventure is "Don't go out into the wild, because bad things happen to people that do."
I kinda need to ask.... In a multi-theistic setting where gods continue to speak directly with mortals, make their presence known, and even show up in person from time to time.... How is Sasha an Aetheist?
How can she believe there are no gods?
Does she think none of this (what she experienced in life) is real? Is this a result of some trauma from her childhood? A psychological rift in how she perceives reality?
If so... Interesting....
How would she react to being paired up with clerics? Does she ignore them (this isn't even real)? Does their presence anger her (why is my subconscious toying and teasing with me?) or does she think they are simply lying about the sources of their power - some corrupt ruse to recruit acolytes to their churches?
To your actual post... I am surprised you weren't able to find what you wanted through the Witch or the shaman.... I'm running a level 5 version of both of those classes right now and I am loving it - prior to this I have only really played martial classes (barbarians, fighters, slayers, rangers).
But between the shaman's lore spirit (even if just via wandering hex) you have SO MANY spells to choose from you can really make exactly what you want.
In the last game I started evil eye-ing foes - making their saves drop, misfortuned them so they rarely succeeded on attacks before flying up into the air, while chanting and then created a storm burst around a particularly large and beastly monster - causing it to treat all my allies as if they had concealment - before dropping a stinking cloud of nauseating fumes on the band of reinforcements that was getting sent in when the original group realize they were in it deep!
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and your enemies will cower and beg for mercy when they get a taste of the pain and suffering you can lay out before them.
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On a side note, I remember someone posting a cool concept of their character, a First World Summoner. The boy had a close friend which they were both playing near the river on a cold winter day and, as they were crossing the frozen river, his friend fell through the ice and died. The fey thought that they would play tricks on him and on that day he saw his best friend get out of the water after shortly falling through, thinking that his best friend was ok and never died that day. His friend was his Eidolon unbeknownst to him and in his mind he would see his friend the same as the day that he died, but others saw a sickly human who quite frequently threw up lots of water. He applied the undead and water/amphibian eidolon traits to his eidolon and as a First Worlder it serves as more of a skill monkey than a combat pet.
Was it optimal or even as good as a standard Summoner? No, but the story he created around the character was pretty interesting.