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Ecclesiast

"Do you have as much faith in your gods as I do in mine?"
– Relak Traven, Human Ecclesiast

Ecclesiasts are, as the name suggest, the religious leaders of Arhosan communities, blessed with the direct touch of the gods. Of course, many, including arcanists, would argue that the direct touch of the gods is a curse, not a blessing, but such has not yet served to stop all types from pledging their service to the gods. For in return, the blessings are immense.


Making an Ecclesiast
Ecclesiasts are often pledged at the youngest of ages, usually by their parents. Other times, they are picked out by the existing priesthood, able to detect those who would be most suited to a new role as a religious servant. But most come to the religions because they offer some stability in a world that has fallen into ruin. However, what stability a war-ravaged, decrepit priesthood can offer is uncertain, at best.

Abilities: An Ecclesiast uses Wisdom to determine what level of spell the Ecclesiast can cast. If he has less than 11 Wisdom, he cannot cast any spells.

Races: Ecclesiasts can be found among any race, although the proportion varies depending on the depth of belief in the gods.

Alignment: Ecclesiasts fall in line with whatever alignment their deity of choice follows. If they move more than one step away from that alignment, they lose all class features and spellcasting.

Starting Gold: As Cleric.

Starting Age: As Cleric.


Table 1: The Ecclesiast
Hit Die: d6

Level  BAB   Ref   Fort  Will  Abilities                           Spell Seeds  Spell Points  Maximum Points Per Spell
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1      +0    +0    +0    +2    Forte                               1            2             1   
2      +1    +0    +0    +3                                        1            6             2   
3      +1    +1    +1    +3    Sacred Gift                         2            11            3   
4      +2    +1    +1    +4    Bonus Feat                          2            17            4   
5      +2    +1    +1    +4    Forte                               3            25            5   
6      +3    +2    +2    +5    Sacred Gift                         3            35            6   
7      +3    +2    +2    +5                                        4            46            7   
8      +4    +2    +2    +6    Bonus Feat                          4            58            8   
9      +4    +3    +3    +6    Sacred Gift                         5            72            9   
10     +5    +3    +3    +7    Forte                               5            88            10   
11     +5    +3    +3    +7                                        6            106           11   
12     +6    +4    +4    +8    Sacred Gift, Bonus Feat             6            126           12   
13     +6    +4    +4    +8                                        7            147           13   
14     +7    +4    +4    +9                                        7            170           14   
15     +7    +5    +5    +9    Forte, Sacred Gift                  8            195           15   
16     +8    +5    +5    +10   Bonus Feat                          8            221           16   
17     +8    +5    +5    +10                                       9            250           17   
18     +9    +6    +6    +11   Sacred Gift                         9            280           18   
19     +9    +6    +6    +11                                       10           311           19   
20     +10   +6    +6    +12   Ascension                           10           343           20
Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level, x4 at first level): Autohypnosis (Int), Concentration (Con), Craft (alchemy) (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (all skills taken individually) (Int), Profession (Wis), Speak Language, Spellbond, Spellcraft (Int)
             
Class Features
Your spells are the centre of your being and the focus of your character.

• Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Ecclesiasts are proficient with all simple weapons, light, and medium armours.
  
• Ecclesiast Casting: Ecclesiasts are gifted magic straight from the gods, who choose to let their servants determine the final outcome of their gifts. He must choose a deity to worship in order to be granted divine spellcasting. His caster level is equal to his class level, and he uses Seedcasting with Wisdom as his casting stat and with access to the Divine list.
  
• Forte: At 1st, 5th, 10th, and 15th level, the Ecclesiast chooses a aspect of his god's boon magic that he has spent the last time studying, and gains the benefits thereof. Once made, this choice is permanent. The list of available fortes is here. He may choose any forte from either the Prayer or Wizardry lists. Ignore knowledge check requirements and penalties but not the prerequisites.
  
• Bonus Feat: The Ecclesiast, at 4th, 8th, 12h, and 16th level, gains a single bonus feat, chosen from list presented here. He must still meet the prerequisites of the feat chosen.
  
• Sacred Gift: At 3rd level, and every 3 levels thereafter, the Ecclesiast is granted a permanent bequest from his patron diety. Choose from the list here. Once made, the choices are permanent.
  
• Ascension (Su): Upon reaching his last level in the class, the Ecclesiast becomes an angel, able to sit at the right hand of his god when he so chooses. His hit points change to the maximum per hit dice, he gains a deflection bonus to AC equal to his Charisma modifier, his type changes to Outsider (Native), and he gains the ability to cast spells from his deity's domains, at a cost of 2 spell points per spell level. Finally, he may use the domain powers of the five domains at will as cleric of his Ecclesiast level.
  

This is a work in progress system that's under live development. However, most of the material is complete and playable, primarily around the Necromancer and Overlord base classes. That being said, there are still some balance issues that are likely to arise, because the system is based around a week long spellcasting cycle, as well as the permanent existence of one or more cohort style undead.

Begun work on transferring all of the Necromancy content into Vivisection and Resurrection. Very slight updates to base classes and races. As per usual, PDF version trumps forum version.

Rules
Necromantic Rules

Base Classes
Necromancer
Overlord
Vivisector

Prestige Classes
Bombardier
Boncyff Elite
Casglwyr Abomination
Chirurgeon
Deathwaker
Flesh Brute
Gollwyd Suzerain
Hegni Inheritor
Hexer
Mad Scientist
Multifarious
Necrotic Scholar
Numberless
Osseus Legionnaire
Ossified Warrior
Poisoner
Soulwalker
Spiritwalker
Swollen Grotesque
True True Necromancer

Necros
Vein of Bone
Vein of Curses
Vein of Flesh
Vein of Poison
Vein of Spirit

Feats
Feats

Skills
None

Races - Created by VennDygrem
Boncyff
Casglwyr
Gollwyd
Hegni

Magic Items & Artefacts
None

Monsters & Templates
Frozen One
Hailstone Magus

Other
Soothsayer
Alternate Class Features

Runecarving
Relak watched as the member of the dwarven mercenaries, presumably a preacher, went to those five soldiers of the unit who had been chosen to lead the charge, and drew geometric designs upon their armor. Each bowed towards the priest, thanking him for his gifts that day.

Then they charged down the narrow corridor, the whistle of orcish arrows flying all around them.

As the distance closed, the accuracy of the orcs improved and one after another, the dwarves were struck, often squarely, and Relak felt the melancholy of the soldier, watching his comrades die in his stead.

But die they did not, for each hit was met with a flare of magic from the runic script painted upon the mercenaries, and although it did not seem to prevent the direst of strikes, piercing impacts that should have been crippling did little more than slide away.

Only then did Relak see that the priest wore signs of allegiance to no god, and was currently adorning his own gear in the runic script.

Whatever magic this was, the dwarves were its masters.

Rune magic is a hidden form of magic, carved into the foundations of structures and secreted amongst creations of an artistic nature, worked into armor and splashed across a page. Formed of many ancient glyphs drawn and redrawn, creating patterns and histories within themselves, runic magic is as much about creating a story as it is magic, for each of the glyphs and runes has a special meaning, a core part of the universe that it describes in great and exquisite detail. Combine that word with another, and the runes form phrases, written in a language lost long ago, and perhaps never capable of being spoken in the first place. Today, runes are not described by their proper names, for it is feared that even that to spread such information is dangerous, and it is better for the power of the runes to be in the hands of those who see the great task of the runes as their holy duty. The runecarvers have read the ancient texts, and know of what the runes tell.

Throughout Stone and Symbol is found the idea of carving, of creation, and of combination, a three-part ideal that holds the very core of runic magics, for no one rune will function upon its own. Each is a building block that must be combined with others to reach the potential within, much as the same way a single world can never provide the scope and meaning of an idea, for without context, there is nothing to be heard or learned. Context is important in the art of runic magic too, for place a rune of water upon a rune of cold, and ice forms. Yet, place that same rune of water upon a rune of air, and gentle clouds that nourish the land form. One will destroy the crop, another save it, and yet each is based around the same principle. Only when that principle is placed into context is the true meaning known. The strength of the context may vary, depending upon the wielder's skill, but it will always be there, defining what one rune does with another.

For Stone and Symbol, the classes and runes presented herein focus on the strengthening of living creatures, imbuing both them and their items with vigor and vim. The runecarver can see the precise strokes and cuts he must make upon the stone and the steel, empowering the flesh beneath. The runeborn is runic magic made flesh, his very soul carved with a graven ideal. Finally, there is the unlettered. Absent any formal training in the runic ways, he scrawls quick and shoddy imitations of what he desires, sometimes receiving his wants, other times something new.

Taken together, their deep skill with the ancient and profound dialect of glyphs and runes allows them to see the world through the eyes of a geometric strength. As they grow in stature, the various forms of runecarver can understand new and deeper meanings for the runes, finding nuances and hidden connotations in each one as they progress further down their path towards true knowledge. Be it as friend or foe, runes opens a new horizon, a style of magic very different than anything yet seen.

Like the Expanded Psionics Handbook, this book presents a new system of magic, a novel way of looking at characters who deal with life and death. The heart of this system is the engraving of runes, the rules for which will presented in full in Chapter 4.

Runes
The language of runes is the source of power to those who wield the chisel and hammer, but despite the sense of runes as timeless, immortal, creations that are written into stone and never changed, that is not so. Runes as seen in magic are carved onto arms, armor, or other item, and do not live to see the passing of the days, let alone weeks. And some, such as those of the unlettered, are little more than a barely legible scrawl and a wish.

As a source of energy, there is no limit to the potential of runes, for they drain their strength from the deep places of the world, the solid core of all things. Talented users of runic magic recognize the vast reserves at their beck and call, and apply themselves to learning the ancient and difficult runic skills.

Carved Runes
The characters who make use of the options in this book— new classes, prestige classes, feats, and other options—gain the ability to transform runes into ongoing supernatural effects called carved runes. Characters who can carve or engrave runes are called runecarvers.

A carved rune is the combination of several rune effects, written together, that forms a combined meaning, granting those powers to whomever wields the item upon which the carved rune exists. Unlike spells the duration of carved runes is generally one day, although some are dismissed sooner than that, and certain classes carve runes that last a much shorter time.

Character and Campaign Options
Central to the concept behind this book is the idea that you can use as much or as little of it as you want to in your game. Much of the material can be used by characters from existing classes, although runic magic does perform best when utilized by a specialist character.

A player who is very excited about runic magic might choose a new race from Chapter 1, one of the runecarving classes from Chapter 2, and feats from the new feats presented in Chapter 3. His character can engrave runes drawn from Chapter 4 and wield magic items from Chapter 6. When he’s ready, he might adopt a prestige class from Chapter 5. For such a player, this book can almost replace the Player’s Handbook — in much the same way that the Expanded Psionics Handbook can for a psionic character. Others might prefer to simply dabble in runic magic. A player can choose a race and a class from the Player’s Handbook, then choose feats and prestige classes from Chapters 3 & 5 to enhance his character. He can make extensive use of the items in Chapter 6, even if he can’t unlock all the potential of those items. A player who wants his character to dabble in runic magic can use this book as an additional resource at the table, without having runic magic dominate the character’s capabilities.

A campaign might introduce runic magic in tiny fragments: a single villain with a runecarving class from Chapter 2, an encounter with members of a new race from Chapter 1 or monsters from Chapter 7, or a strange item from Chapter 6 that holds the promise of more abilities than it immediately reveals—if a character can learn the language of the runes. The player characters might explore an ancient ruin strangely carved with runic symbols, learning new capabilities themselves as they progress through the ruins and uncover their secrets. Like Canere in the vignette at the start of this introduction, the PCs in your campaign might stumble upon a dwarven enclave that utilizes this strange magic, and choose whether to learn it, or judge the users of it. Whatever options you choose, you’ll ?nd runic magic injecting a unique flavor and never-before-seen effects into your campaign. Whether you’re as new to the game as runecarvers and Tokunnir or you’ve been playing since psionics made their first appearance, we trust that the arrival of runic magic will spark your imagination and give new life to your campaigns and adventures to come.

Download Stone and Symbol

Magic is a strange thing in the lands of Arhosa. Once, it would have been considered all of a piece, a single whole of slightly disparate but otherwise homogeneous behaviour. Now, it has broken apart into tens of competing factions, if not hundreds. Now, when one meets a man on the street who says he is a mage, the next question one must ask him is what tenets he follows, and, if he answers wrong, slay him. For that is how the talented of Arhosa greet one another in this day and age: with curses, anger, hatred, and violence.

Arhosa has always been a violent place, a land where might most certainly has made right. But it has also been a land where the violent used their skills in that direction to promote unity, to promote the growth and prospering of riches and wealth. Foremost amongst those was the Llethu, a race of near-giants who, although lacking in the traditional graces of magic, more than made up for their untalented children with brilliant strategists, silver-tongued diplomats, and warriors of unsurpassed skill. But above all, it was their alliance with the Enayinbo that secured for them the means of power, for the Enayinbo are truly gifted in the realm of teleportation and transmutation. Thus were Arhosa's greatest strategists granted access to unbelievable feats of logistics, a capability that they were to abuse time and again as they conquered their empire.

What resulted, after the bloodshed and the dying had time to fade into the distant past, was a flowering of civilization the likes of which had never before been seen upon this dreary continent. Cities all across the land, linked by all-but-free teleportation and run by administrators trained in the most admirable of styles, flourished as never before. And with the free exchange of people and goods came the free exchange of ideas, and no guild took more advantage of that than the wizards, for they wished to delve deep into the secrets of magic, to use their freedom and wealth to find such powers as had never before been dreamed. And in the security of their rich existence, the Llethu gave to them that freedom.

Much to the disappoint of the wizards, who had believed that magic flourished in the world all around them, and could be drawn from it at will, they found that magic was granted by but a single god: Lledrith. To the arcanes, this was the greatest of errors, for the world could simply not work in such a way. Lledrith, passive god that he was, smiled and laughed at the error of his children, but left them to their own petty researches.

What occurred to wizards and priests alike was that in a world where there was one god who could be named and discovered, there were likely more, and so, as the empire of Arhosa flourished, the wisest of the scholars poured over ancient texts, hidden archives, and cast a great many spells, all in search of knowledge. And, eventually, that was what they found, for Lledrith was no solitary creator. Rather, he was not even the greatest of the gods.

At that revelation, the clerics and priests and other assorted believers splintered into various factions, each one holding their own tenants highest. The arcanes laughed at their petty politics, so childish and foolish did it seem. But to a number of the wisest scholars, there had occurred another thought – that if one god was able to grant magics to those who begged for his assistance, perhaps the others were capable of such acts as well.

And so was born in secret dungeons, hidden laboratories, distant towers, and concealed caverns a race amongst the learned, each one seeking a way to propitiate a different god. The first to be approached in this manner was Drancedigaeth, god of death, for to please him simply required the slaying of an appropriate creature, no doubt. What the mages had not counted on was the sheer indifference Drancedigaeth gave to the insignificant mortals who died and filled his realms. Compared to the span of time and space that was his to oversee, the death of a single creature was not even worth a glance.

But eventually, enough sacrificed to him to attract his notice. And when Drancedigaeth noticed, he felt his power increase, for the lands of his kingdom swelled as life, precious life, flowed through the gates of death and was locked away there. And so he began to parcel out minuscule helpings of magic in return, appropriate to the measure of what was granted him. Thus was ritual magic born.

Other gods granted to their worshippers powers befitting their station upon seeing the example that Drancedigaeth had wrought, and thus were born the magics of chronomancy, runecarving, osteomancy and others.

And for years, all of the gods were content with such an arrangement. Until Lledrith felt weakened, and looked again in detail at the world, and realized that what had once been his and his alone was now the plaything of all the gods, but Drancedigaeth most of all. He grew vengeful, and approached his compatriot to ask for recompense, only to be rebuffed by a god already his superior in power. In spite and malice, Lledrith turned the tables about, and invented the realm of the undead. No longer would all souls pass into the kingdom of Drancedigaeth. Some, now, would come to Lledrith. And those that did, why, when they slew the living they would gift those souls to Lledrith once more. The last of the great magics, necromancy, had come into being.

This war amongst the gods soon became a war upon the fields of Arhosa, for Lledrith and Drancedigaeth influenced their clerics and priests one against the other, and from that diplomacy of daggers and lies came outright warfare. Other gods and kingdoms were dragged into the conflict, and soon a land that had once been a great, rich, empire broke apart, a hundred warring kingdoms becoming a thousand, and then ten thousand.

And magic, once a single, beautiful, whole, was now a disparate ruin of factionalism, brutal demands, and internecine conflict. Thus were born the scrolls of Arhosa. Today, they are all but vanished, for although the gods would dearly love each of their powers to be considered foremost, all but a few kingdoms have lost the knowledge, ideas and wisdom buried beneath centuries of hatred, bigotry, and murder.

But that does not stop each of the gods plotting the return of their own power, seeding the knowledge to the best of their abilities amongst those most amenable to their craft. And one day, knowledge long thought lost might burst into the harsh light of day once more.

Dire Maggot



A four-foot-long dead-white segmented worm heaves into view. Eyeless, drooling stinking ichor from its clacking mandibles, the monstrosity resembles nothing so much as a maggot grown orders of magnitude too large.

A maggot is the worm-shaped larva of a fly, but a dire maggot is the larva of similarly monstrous flying vermin. While regular maggots are found in decaying matter, dire maggots are large, quick, and aggressive enough to seek out living prey for nourishment.


Table 1: The Dire Maggot
Hit Die: d12
Level  BAB    Ref   Fort  Will  Dex  Special Abilities   
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  1    +1     +2    +2    +0    +3   Dire Maggot Body, Reach
  2    +2     +3    +3    +0    +3   Paralytic Saliva   
               
Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level):  Climb, Craft, Hide, Move Silently, Profession, Spot

Requirements:
None
             
Class Features
Dire maggots seek to paralyze their prey, though still-squirming prey is just as good to the maggot.

Dire Maggot Body
The Dire Maggot loses all other racial bonuses, and becomes a small sized vermin with one bite dealing 1d8 + 1.5 Strength modifier damage with a base speed of 40 feet and a climb speed of 40 feet. It gains vermin traits, except it retains its Intelligence score.

Reach
A Dire Maggot has a 5 foot racial bonus to reach.

Natural Armour Increase
At each level, the Dire Maggot gains a +3 bonus to its natural armour.

Vermin Traits
A dire maggot is immune to all mind-affecting spells and abili- ties (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects). It also has darkvision out to 60 feet.

Paralytic Saliva (Ex)
A creature bitten by a dire maggot must make a DC 13 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 1 round. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Cinderspawn



This tall, gaunt, coal-black humanoid flickers with a blue-white flame. Its bright yellow eyes gleam with menace.

Cinderspawn are burnt-out undead remnants of creatures of elemental fire. They hate living creatures for their warmth and seek to destroy all such beings.


Table 1: The Cinderspawn
Hit Die: d12
Level  BAB    Ref   Fort  Will   Dex   Special Abilities   
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  1    +0     +0    +0    +2     +1    Cinderspawn Body, Skills
  2    +1     +0    +0    +3     +2    Charisma Drain
  3    +1     +1    +1    +3     +3    Frostfire Shield
  4    +2     +1    +1    +4     +4    Immunity to Fire, Size Increase   

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level):  Craft, Jump, Listen, Move Silently, Profession, Spot

Requirements:
None
             
Class Features
A cinderspawn chooses targets carefully, using its mobility to reach vulnerable opponents that might otherwise be protected by comrades.

Cinderspawn Body
The Cinderspawn loses all other racial bonuses, and gains the following Undead traits.

It is a medium sized undead with a touch attack dealing 2d6 cold damage and a base speed of 50 feet. It gains a natural armour bonus of +3. It has a -2 penalty to its turn resistance against any creature that can also turn or rebuke elemental creatures.

Ability Score Increase
At each level, the Cinderspawn gains a +1 bonus to its Dexterity score.

Skills
A Cinderspawn has a +8 racial bonus on Jump checks.

Charisma Drain (Su)
Living creatures hit by a cinderspawn’s touch attack must make a DC 15 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of Charisma drain. (Creatures with the fire subtype take a –4 penalty on this save.) When a  cinderspawn drains a victim’s Charisma, it gains 5 temporary hit points, no matter how many points it drains.  These temporary hit points last for up to 1 hour. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Frostfire Shield (Su):
Any creature striking a cinderspawn with a natural attack or a melee weapon (except for reach weapons) takes 1d6 points of cold damage as the cinderspawn drains its body heat.

Immunity to Fire
The Cinderspawn gains the fire subtype, and becomes immune to all fire damage. However, it becomes vulnerable to cold damage, and takes an extra 50% damage from all cold effects.

Size Increase
The Cinderspawn permanently increases its size category to Large, and gains all benefits and penalties thereof.

Voidwraith



This creature appears to be a formless cloud of darkness, broken only by two pinpoints of glowing red. A breeze blows toward it, as if it were drawing air into its body.

A voidwraith is an undead manifestation of elemental air. It hungers for the breath of the living.

Voidwraiths vaguely resemble wraiths in their appearance, but are more amorphous and cloudlike. Still, they share the wraith’s hatred for all living things.


Table 1: The Voidwraith
Hit Die: d12
Level  BAB    Ref   Fort  Will   Dex   Special Abilities   
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  1    +0     +0    +0    +2     +2    Voidwraith Body, Skills
  2    +1     +0    +0    +3     +4    Steal Breath
  3    +1     +1    +1    +3     +6    Airless Aura   

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level):  Craft, Hide, Listen, Profession, Spot

Requirements:
None
             
Class Features
A voidwraith lurks in dark places until it can sweep out and attack a living victim. Thanks to its stealth and speed, it often surprises targets.

Voidwraith Body
The Voidwraith loses all other racial bonuses, and gains the following Undead traits.

It is an incorporeal medium sized undead with an incorporeal touch attack dealing 1d4 damage with a fly speed of 60 feet (perfect). It gains a natural armour bonus of +5. It has a -2 penalty to its turn resistance against any creature that can also turn or rebuke elemental creatures.

Ability Score Increase
At each level, the Voidwraith gains a +2 bonus to its Dexterity score.

Incorporeal
At 1st hit dice, the Voidwraith can be harmed by all forms of attack, and can attack others as if it was corporeal. it can interact with unattended corporeal objects for one round three times per day and cannot fly higher than 5 feet off the ground, plus an additional 5 feet per 2 hit dice. It cannot completely hide within objects and interacts with water as if it had a swim speed equal to its fly speed. It cannot chose not to be heard by Listen checks though she does receive a +5 circumstance bonus to Move Silently.

Upon gaining its 5th hit dice, the Voidwraith loses the ability to interact with corporal objects, but can now fly and interact with water as per the incorporeal subtype and receive a +10 circumstance bonus to Move Silently. Nonmagical attacks made by corporeal creatures against the Voidwraith, and melee attacks made by the Voidwraith against corporeal targets, are now ineffective. Magical weapons and spells used by corporeal creatures against the Voidwraith have a 10% chance miss chance, increasing by 10% at 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th hit dice. There is a maximum of a 50% miss chance. Positive energy, negative energy, force effects such as magic missile, and attacks made with ghost touch weapons ignore this miss chance. Magical weapons used by the Voidwraith against corporeal targets have the same miss chance if they aren't ghost touch weapons.

Upon gaining its 10th hit dice, the Voidwraith is fully affected by the incorporeal subtype as normal.

Skills
A voidwraith has a +4 racial bonus on Hide checks.

Steal Breath (Su)
Living creatures hit by a voidwraith’s touch attack must succeed on a DC 13 Fortitude save or take 1d2 points of Constitution drain. (Creatures with the air subtype take a –4 penalty on this save.) When a voidwraith drains a victim’s Constitution, it gains 5 temporary hit points, no matter how many points it drains. Temporary hit points gained in this way last for 1 up to hour. The save DC is Charisma-based. If the target creature is holding its breath and fails the save, the number of rounds of remaining breath is reduced by 2 per point of Constitution drained. If this reduction exhausts all of the target’s remaining breath, it creature must begin making Constitution checks or start to suffocate (see Suffocation, page 304 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide).

Airless Aura (Su)
A voidwraith’s body is surrounded by an aura of near vacuum at all times. This means that any creatures adjacent to the voidwraith have no air to breathe and must hold their breath (see Suffocation, page 304 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide).

Wheep



The empty orbs of this wizened corpse leak a vile, black ichor that streaks the creature’s face and body, coating its clawed limbs. As the ichor runs into the creature’s mouth, it bubbles and pops, so that its constant wailing emerges as a gurgling keen.

Wheeps are undead servants of more powerful unliving lords, usually serving as bodyguards but sometimes sent on missions to procure from guarded cemeteries the remains of particularly powerful and trusted figures. Their average size belies a powerful undead strength, fueled by their undying sorrow.

Eyeless, a wheep is in constant pain, sniffiing and crying aloud unless it is trying to hide or move silently. From its hollow eye sockets, a wheep continuously produces a poison with the appearance of black bile. It is easy to track wheeps that have passed through an area in the last hour, because they leave behind a trail of their poisonous tears.


Table 1: The Wheep
Hit Die: d12
Level  BAB    Ref   Fort  Will   Str   NA     Special Abilities   
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  1    +0     +0    +0    +2     +3    +2     Wheep Body
  2    +1     +0    +0    +3     +6    +4     Poison Tears
  3    +1     +1    +1    +3     +9    +6     Damage Reduction
  4    +2     +1    +1    +4     +12   +8     Unholy Grace
  5    +2     +1    +1    +4     +15   +10    Fast Healing
  6    +3     +2    +2    +5     +18   +12    Weeping Dirge   

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level):  Craft, Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Profession, Spot

Requirements:
None
             
Class Features
Those close enough to hear a wheep’s cries may be taken aback, but they are likely to be far more threatened by the creature’s poison-coated claws and maw.

Wheep Body
The Wheep loses all other racial bonuses, and gains the following Undead traits.

It is a medium sized undead with two claws dealing 1d8 + Strength modifier damage, and one bite deal 1d6 + Strength modifier damage with a base speed of 30 feet. It gains turn resistance of +4, and blindsight out to 60 feet.

Ability Score Increase
At each level, the Wheep gains a +3 bonus to its Strength score.

Natural Armour Increase
At each level, the Wheep gains a +2 bonus to its natural armour.

Poison Tears (Ex)
The poison tears that continually pour from a wheep’s empty eyes are actually an injury poison that coats the creature’s claws and fills its mouth. Whenever a wheep succeeds on a claw or bite attack, its foe is subject to the poison—injury, Fortitude DC 14, initial and secondary damage 1d6 Con. The save DC is Charisma-based. After an hour, the poisonous bile decomposes and evaporates, losing all efficacy.

Damage Reduction
The wheep gains damage reduction 5/magic and piercing

Unholy Grace (Su)
A wheep adds its Charisma modifier as a bonus on all its saving throws and as a deflection bonus to its Armor Class.
 
Fast Healing
A wheep gains fast healing +10.

Weeping Dirge (Su)
When it chooses (which is almost always, unless moving silently), a wheep can spend a free action each round crying and blubbering. All who hear the wheep’s awful, grave-born sorrow must make DC 14 Will saves or be shaken for the duration of the encounter. Once a particular creature saves against a wheep’s dirge, that creature cannot be affected again by the same wheep for 24 hours. This is a sonic effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Slaymate



This pale creature resembles a human child with slug-white skin. Its black eyes are too knowing for their size, and its too-wide mouth is home to rot and ruin.

Slaymates are undead creatures given a semblance of life when a guardian’s betrayal, either outright or through negligence, leads to death. A slaymate’s appearance is a weird and twisted re? ec- tion of the form it had in life.

Slaymates are highly prized by necromancers, and thus are rarely encountered alone, but instead are found in the presence of evil spellcasters and others who dabble in necromancy. Many a slaymate can be found riding, papoose style, on the back of a necromancer who values the slaymate’s special abilities.


Table 1: The Slaymate
Hit Die: d12
Level  BAB    Ref   Fort  Will   Special Abilities   
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  1    +0     +0    +0    +2     Slaymate Body, Pale Wasting
  2    +1     +0    +0    +3     Pale Aura   

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level):  Craft, Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Profession, Spot

Requirements:
None
             
Class Features
Slaymates, when forced to fight, have a disease-laden bite.

Slaymate Body
The Slaymate loses all other racial bonuses, and gains the following Undead traits.

It is a small sized undead with one bite natural attack dealing 1d3 + Strength modifier damage with a base speed of 20 feet. It gains a +4 bonus on natural armour.

Pale Wasting (Su)
Supernatural disease — bite, Fortitude DC 12, incubation period 1 day; damage 1d6 Con and 1d6 Str. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Pale Aura (Su)
A slaymate produces an invisible aura in a 10-foot radius around itself. Any creature within the aura that uses a metamagic feat on a spell from the school of necromancy can prepare or use the spell as if it took up a spell slot one level lower than what the metamagic necromancy spell would normally require.

Skin Kite



A knot of flaccidly flapping membranes kites through the air, now drifting with the currents, now stooping swiftly through the air toward you.

Skin kites are undead creatures made up of the stolen skin of past victims. They feed on the skin of living beings, replenishing their own constantly rotting skin, as well as using new skin as spawning material for new skin kites.

No two skin kites appear the same. They display a range of different colors, depending on the creatures from which they were harvested. Many skin kites have rotting clumps of hair or fur, unintended additional trophies from past victims.


Table 1: The Skin Kite
Hit Die: d12
Level  BAB    Ref   Fort  Will   Special Abilities   
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  1    +0     +0    +0    +2     Skin Kite Body, Ability Score Increase, Meld
  2    +1     +0    +0    +3     Ability Score Increase, Steal Skin, Launch Kite   

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level): Craft, Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Spot, Profession

Requirements:
None
             
Class Features
A skin kite attacks by landing on a victim and melding a portion of its undead membrane with its victim’s skin.

Skin Kite Body
The Skin Kite loses all other racial bonuses, and gains the following Undead traits.

It is a small sized undead with one touch natural attack dealing 1d4 + Strength modifier damage with a base speed of 10 feet and a fly speed of 40 feet (average).

Ability Score Increase
At each level, the Skin Kite gains a +2 bonus to its Dexterity score.

Meld (Ex)
If a skin kite hits a Small or larger creature with a melee touch attack, it melds with the opponent’s body. An attached skin kite is effectively grappling its prey. The skin kite loses its Dexterity bonus to AC, but while melded, it is hard to remove. Skin kites have a +12 racial bonus on grapple checks. A melded skin kite can be struck with a weapon or grappled itself. To remove a melded skin kite by grappling, the opponent must achieve a pin against the skin kite, which forcefully peels the creature off and also deals 1d6 points of damage to the opponent.

Steal Skin (Ex)
A skin kite steals portions of its foe’s skin, absorbing them directly into itself, dealing 1d6 damage and 1d4 points of Charisma damage in each round when it remains melded.

Launch Kite (Ex)
When a skin kite has absorbed 4 points of Charisma (through its steal skin ability), it attempts to retreat to a safe place where it can take a full-round action to spawn a new skin kite with the stolen skin. A freshly launched skin kite has a number of hit points equal to the original’s current total (its full normal hit points are equal to the original’s full normal total, even if its current hit points are lower than that). Skin kites created in this way are under the control of the creator. This uses the normal 2 HD per character level limit for controlling undead. Any skin kites that cannot be controlled are free willed.