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I cooked a new ranger archetype with an outrageous name. This is not akashic but uses the primordial dancer's that one of the akashic archetypes in my future book.
Dhaval Taru, NG human Bollywoodsman ranger.
A famous forest guide and the bridge between the forest villages and the bustling city next to the forest, Dhaval greets people with a very amicable bow and a perpetual smile. He doesn’t like fighting, but when forced to do so, he prefers his hand axe, moving around the battlefield using precises strikes. When things get dire, he uses the secret dances of his people, using the land itself as his weapon.
The Bollywoodsman is a ranger archetype that uses primordial dancer’s dances instead of spells. It is a very simple but flavorful one.
I got inspired by Studio M’s latest book on a new discipline, and came up with a couple of character ideas. All of them know and use the new discipline, and some include some future stuff from me ;) All of them are female for a change. An well, at least Oleander has an unpublished akashic race, so this post counts as kind of in-topic for this thread LMAO
Shuilian, TN female naiad mystic
Born to a caring naiad mother and an unnamed human fisherman, Shuilian’s abilities came naturally to her. Quick to learn, she mastered the cold of the waters around her and the power of the water lilies. She dresses as a mage and travels the land in search of martial knowledge, wielding a deceptively powerful 9 section whip, which she uses with the two disciplines she knows: Elemental Flux and Intoxicating Petal. While she has not joined any faction, she hopes to meet a master worthy of such a title. Her sprouts manifest as frozen water lilies. She has a distaste for users of the Surging Shark discipline, since to her they represent the raging seas, completely different from the calm waters of the water pond she calls home. She is currently trying to merge the power of her two chosen disciplines, without success.
Oleander, LE female antholaos harbinger.
Oleander is one of the previously jailed plant creatures known as antholaos. Hailing from the inner recess of the feylands, the antholaos look like wooden version of elves with petals instead of hairs, and have a military matriarchy for government. Oleander is a bounty hunter in the service of her queen, and is currently on the hunt of a reckless fire sorcerer that destroyed a part of her people’s land by misusing his fire magic. She hopes to bring him back alive to her queen. Her sprouts manifest as pink-petaled flowers with an intoxicating aroma. Speaking of which, as an antholaos, Oleander secretes a magical aroma that can stun foes.
NEW STUFF: Antholaos race
Du Lianhua, NE female guren vishkanya soul hunter stalker.
Coming from a land surrounded by miasma, Du is a pretty sight. Dressing in the empire’s latest fashion but adorned with bronze tribal jewelry, her light green hair and eyes are more striking than her dazzling dress. While she is known as a favored courtesan in the red light district, Du in fact is an infiltrated assassin for her people, eliminating key political targets that impede the negotiations of the empire with her land. She uses her fighting fan to kill targets unaware, using a combination of Steel Serpent and Intoxicating petal maneuvers, enhanced with her poisonous ki.
NEW STUFF: Guren vishkanya variant
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I don't know if I asked before but why isn't there an Akashic bestiary? I have a book with akashic kaiju. It's the only example I've seen of such stats.
I don't know if I asked before but why isn't there an Akashic bestiary? I have a book with akashic kaiju. It's the only example I've seen of such stats.
Making monsters is the most time-consuming aspect of Pathfinder design (the Kundalini dragon alone took me around 16 hours over several days). I have made a couple and plan to do more in the future, and at least in my next akashic book there is going to appear a new akashic celestial race with it's corresponding akashic aasimar. I will see if I can squeeze another akashic monster in there. There is also a minor akashic fey and IIRC an akashic magical beast.
By the way, what kind of monsters would you like to see?
I would like to see some races. As far as anything else I'm just wanting new material based on Akashic Mysteries. Some really nice stuff was in City of 7 seraphs. Also Arcforge had a suggestion of making veils technological.
I would like to see some races. As far as anything else I'm just wanting new material based on Akashic Mysteries. Some really nice stuff was in City of 7 seraphs. Also Arcforge had a suggestion of making veils technological.
Did you check the Astradhari book? We put like 4 akashic races in there.
Got it! I am going to have to reread it again.I guess what I'm looking for is more akashic stat blocks. I don't have any idea of what could go in a akashic bestiary.
As is my tradition when reviewing new akashic content, I made a couple of characters with the toys found in Azoth Games’ newest books, the Aghori and the Umbra cosmology.
Karanka, CN old male human aghori (jyotisa cosmollogy)
Karanka looks like a deranged old man who wears only a loincloth and is covered in ash. He lives near a river where people send their dead to the next life. He calmly and inconspicuously collects some of them and burns them to ash in a special akashic fire. He then sells the ashes at a good price to a female merchant from the empire on the east. What the merchant does with the ashes, or what Karanka does with the money is anyone’s guess. Word on the village say that the ashes carry mystical proprieties, and that Karanka can be convinced to sell them for the right price. He is always accompanied by the sign of the guardian beast, but unlike other creatures of its ilk, this one has white, dead eyes and smells of ash.
Lorcan, NG “male” changeling belchild aghori (fey cosmology)
The boy named Lorcan was changed at birth… for a girl. The mother, fearing the ire of her husband, hid that fact and raised the changeling as a boy. When the charade couldn’t continue, Lorcan’s mother begged the changeling to escape and find a home in the forest. There she met many creatures, and one of them taught her the healing arts. Lorcan still dresses and cuts her hair like a man, and is well-known as a healer to the nearby towns. (note: the fey cosmology will appear in a future product)
Madeleine, LN female twilight walker mortician aghori
The twilight walker known as Méi Lìng didn’t really fit within the lands between, so she got into the first trading boat she could find and traveled abroad. On the ship, she was found by the crew, and were going to take advantage of her if not for one of the old sailors, one who could recognize Méi Lìng as what she was. The old sailor tutored her in the arts of preserving the dead, an art that Méi Lìng mastered quickly. When they arrived to their destination after a couple of weeks of traveling, Méi Lìng had already got the basics of the native language, and took the name “Madeleine” to try to fit in. She found work with an acquaintance of the sailor that worked in a mortuary. There, Madeleine could refine her art. Madeleine sleeps during the morning, and in the afternoon wears a big, foppish black dress and wears make-up and a top hat, doing her best to fit in this strange land, using her foreign looks and accent to play the role of an exotic beauty. During the night, however, she works in the mortuary, animating the freshest of corpses to help her with the grunt work.
XIV, CE male restless soul binder of the damned pale theologian
The spectral creature known as XIV, mainly because it is engraved in his forehead, is not a name, but a number in an old, mostly unused numeral system. The cause of his death (or ghostliness) is unknown, but one thing is sure, he knows how to call upon more of his kin. As a binder of the damned, he has built a suite of powerful spirits, among them Baron Cemetery, the Pale Rider, the Tumult, Uncle Ruin and the War Maiden. XIV haunts the streets at night, summoning champions recklessly and leaving them to wreak havoc on the population he once called neighbors. Divination magic ties his past with that of the Umbra cosmology, but little more.