[3.5] [Base Class] [Mythos] Philothusia/Phileotheysia Legendary Mythoi

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I am uploading these because my hard-drive may or MAY NOT be crashing. They are more up-to-date than what is on GitP, but are unfinished, and may contain outright errors, especially in terms of omissions in the "Sequel(s)" portions. Balance may also be ill-considered due to lack of rereading.

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Canny Chronos-Bartering Technique[Sacrifice]
Prerequisite: Gift of Time
When using the non-move-action activation version of Gift of Time the phileotheysia may instead chose to grant an additional swift or standard action (or they may grant an additional move action, as before). Regardless, the target may choose to trade in the extra action for an additional attack when full-attacking, just as before with the same restrictions on stacking.
 
At 18th level the Phileotheysia may grant a move action AND a standard action when using the non-move-action activation version of Gift of Time. These may be granted to a single target, or to two separate targets. Especially note that these may be combined into a Full-Round action by the target if both are given to the same target.
 
Regardless of how many actions are granted, this requires either all your actions for the round, or a full-round action depending on if you have the Sleight of Time Proficiency advanced manifestation of Gift of Time.



Defying the Hated Enemy[Sacrifice]
Prerequisites:

• Alignment not True Neutral
• Knowledge [The Planes] 16 ranks (13 PF)
• Knowledge [Religion] 16 ranks (13 PF)
• The Divine-Right Denying Stroke advanced manifestation of the Defensive Strike Exceptional Mythos. (Nota Bene: Unlike its pre-requisite, this requirement is not conditional and must be met in all cases!)
  
• My Heart, Your Sword(Fantastic Mythos)
  

The save bonuses and armor class bonuses provided by My Heart, Your Sword (Fantastic Mythos) are doubled to +4 and allies affected by it gain Spell Resistance 25 against spells/powers cast by attackers or spell opposed to you on the ethical axis. They also gain an equivalent separate spell/power resistance against spells opposed to you on the moral axis, which must be checked against for each spell it applies to seperately with success against both resistances being required to penetrate.
 
Advanced
Driving Back the Invaders from Beyond
Pre-Requisite: The Best Defense Is A Good Offense AND A Good Defense (Advanced Manifestation of My Heart, Your Sword Fantastic Mythos)
 
Your allies targeted by My Heart, Your Sword gain the following abilities:
On making a successful melee touch attack against an creature from another plane whose alignment is opposed to the Phileotheysia’s on at least one axis, they can choose to drive that creature back to its home plane. The creature can negate the effects with a successful Will save (spell resistance applies).
 
With a touch you can automatically dispel any one enchantment spell cast by a creature whose alignment is opposed to the Phileotheysia’s on at least one axis or any one spell with similar alignment. Exception: Spells that can’t be dispelled by Dispel Magic also can’t be dispelled by this effect. Saving throws and spell resistance do not apply to this effect.
 
Any successful use of either of these two abilities causes the ally making the attack to immediately lose all benefits from this mythos and become incapable of being benefitted by it for 2 rounds.
(Compare Dispel Evil.)
 
Rebuff the Far Realms ((Author's note to self: Consider changing this to match the way Shield of the Soul works.))
Prerequesite: Psicraft 16 Ranks (13 PF)
Whenever this mythos grants spell resistance, it also grants an equal amount of psionic resistance.

 

Holding the Battlefield [Sacrifice]
Prerequisite: Phileotheysia Level 16, Spellcraft 19 Ranks (16 PF) , Shield of the Soul (Fantastic Mythos, see that mythos itself for its further prerequisites)
 
What use to defend the bodies of your comrades if the very air around them can be replaced with barriers that impede them from rallying together to defend themselves?! This shall not stand!
 
As a Swift action you may transfer the spell resistance granted by Shield of the Soul to everything and everyone within 30’ that is not yourself, an non-corpse object you are carrying*, or an enemy. This spell resistance gains a +5 bonus when so transferred.
 
There are several further exceptions to the normal rules for spell resistance:
 
This applies against supernatural abilities. If no clear way of determining the effective caster level for such abilities exists, use the class levels or hit-dice of the class or race that grants that ability.
 
It does not apply to spells, abilities, etc. by your allies or you.
 
It applies only to spells that grant their caster meaningful information (including all divinations), or materially affect the object or creature in question. See end of following paragraph for one example of a case where this spell resistance does not apply.
 
It applies even to spells that do not normally allow spell resistance, but in such cases ONLY affects the part of the spell that is within that radius. For instance a Wall of Stone would appear with the part that would lay within the area of this mythos excised out of it, and Twinned Acid Orb could have one one of its orbs vanish without effect upon upon striking an ally within the radius of this effect (assuming the caster failed the SR roll), while the other, which might or might not enter this radius, but whose target is outside it would strike its target without impediment. Both orbs would wink out upon entering the radius except that they are not materially affecting the air in any meaningful way, unlike the aforementioned Wall of Stone which replaces said air more than just by flying through it leaving turbulence in its wake. This also means that a Fireball could damage a particular ally regardless of what else made its saving throw (except for a barrier that would block the Fireball if it had been destroyed). In other words, no, the air doesn’t provide total cover just because the air made its spell-resistance roll to not be fractionally heated as the flames passed through it.
 
Note that if a spell has an area defined spatially, but effectively targets your enemies, then this mythos does nothing to stop that. For one example of this see Invisibility Sphere]http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/invisibilitySphere.htm”]Invisibility Sphere.
 
*Jerky, and leather don’t count, a dead familiar does. I’m sure you can work out the distinction from there...

 



Mighty-Souled Invulnerability[Sacrifice]
Prerequisite: -
For purposes of harmful effects that reference hitdice, you gain an additional number of 'virtual' hitdice equal to your charisma modifier. These hitdice do not provide hitpoints, BAB, skill-points, base save advancement, caster levels, class levels, or any other benefit other than resistance to effects based on hitdice.
 
As a swift action you may forgo the above benefits to distribute a number of virtual hit-dice equal up to charisma score among any number of allies within Close range (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) that you have line of effect to. Line of sight is not required, but if you do not have line of sight you must specify the allies by identity and/or position without reference to their current circumstances. Thus "all dwarves who have dedicated themselves to the destruction of Margoth the Lich-King" would be acceptable, as would "all allies to my north", but "all allies with less than half their hitpoints remaining" would not.
 
Advanced:
Phalanx-Protecting Palisade
The range of this ability increases to 50 ft. + 5 ft./level, and you gain the option to grant your charisma score divided by four virtual levels to up to three times your charisma score allies within range, rather than simply dividing your charisma score among them.
 
Vampire-Spurning Fluidity
These extra virtual hit-dice count can be affected by negative levels and level loss (except that for spells that return a creature to life/animation such as Raise Dead, Reincarnate, and Clone). They can be treated just like any other negative level or level loss. When transferring benefits to allies using this ability, your effective charisma score is reduced by twice the number of negative levels plus level loss that you are suffering to your own virtual hit-dice.
 
If you fail to continue transferring the benefits of this ability each round to a creature with virtual levels who is suffering negative levels or level loss to these virtual levels, then the negative effects of all such conditions transfer to their actual hitdice except if they were gained a number of minutes ago equal to the caster level (or, failing that, hit-dice) of the inflicting creature minus your Phileotheysia class level (minimum 1 minute), in which case they simply vanish without further effect.

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I am uploading these because my hard-drive may or MAY NOT be crashing. They are more up-to-date than what is on GitP, but are unfinished, and may contain outright errors, especially in terms of omissions in the "Sequel(s)" portions. Balance may also be ill-considered due to lack of rereading.

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Misfortune-Refusing Resistance-Granting Methodology
Prerequisite: Gnat-Scorning Defense Gift, AND Gift of Resistance able to grant at least +8 to at least one type of saving throw.
When you would otherwise grant an ally at least +8 to a given type of saving throw with Gift of Resistance, regardless of if this protection is overlapped by a greater bonus of the same type, you may, at the time the bonus is initially granted, reduce the amount of the bonus by 4 for that specific ally to allow them to take 10 on that type of saving throw for as long as the bonus lasts.
If you grant a bonus to more than one type of save, then you decide separately for each type of save, (in addition to separately for each ally).
All these decisions are made at the time you use  Gift of Resistance, even for allies that at that moment would not be receiving at least a +8 bonus, but who might before the start of your next turn.
 


Protector’s Reward
Prerequisite: Defensive Strike (Exceptional Mythos)
The reward for taking enduring pain in the place of your allies is the chance to continue to do so.
If you do not have the Mob-Halting Readiness basic manifestation of Defensive Strike you gain it. If already have it, you instead gain any other basic manifestation of that mythos.

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You gain the Combat Reflexes feat, and may substitute your charisma score for your dexterity score whenever it is higher for the purposes of how many AoOs you may make per round.

Whenever you hit with a Defensive Strike you regain a number of hitpoints equal to ⅓ the damage actually inflicted (after DR etc). This can not raise your hitpoints above their normal maximum.
 
In addition you gain an additional option whenever you hit with a defensive strike based on your moral alignment:
Good:
Mercy’s Reward
If a given defensive strike inherently (rather than due to DR or whatever) can’t inflict damage, you roll damage anyway if you did not* and regain ⅓ that amount. Damage in excess of what would be needed to kill/destroy your target is not counted.
*See the Stand Still feat from the psionics section of the SRD for one possible explanation for why an AoO that is incapable of inflicting damage would still have damage rolled.
 
Morally Neutral (AKA neither Good nor Evil):
Bridge-holding Resilience
You may instead of healing add the amount of damage you deal with any given defensive strike** to a separate Defensive Resilience pool. You gain DR X/- equal to one fifth of the damage in this pool. This stacks with all other DR. The pool resets to zero at the END of each your turns.
**BEFORE DR etc, but NOT with Stand Still, defensive trip, etc).
 
Evil:
Crescendoing Ire
You may forgo any given instance of healing from a defensive strike to gain a stacking bonus to damage on defensives strikes equal to ⅓ of your Phileotheysia level (NOT damage dealt) rounded up until the start of your next turn. The defensive strikes that trigger this ability need not be able to actually  heal you (such as if you are at full hitpoints), but must have dealt at least 1 point of damage.

 

Unceasing Rapid-Rescue Shintai
Prerequisite: -
Every moment that you are idle is a moment when someone or something you care about is in jeopardy. Your soul refuses the necessity of travel, meaningless socialization, and the basic activities necessary to sustain life. You simply are wherever you are most needed.
 
Whenever you are not engaged in some activity that materially advances the protection of a cause or one or more persons that you value strongly you are simultaneously restored as if by a Greater Restoration spell followed by a Heal spell and transported as per a Wish to wherever the GM decides that the most desperate need of your aid may be.  Noting that any situation extreme enough you can not contribute to it materially obviously requires the aid of someone other than yourself. Thus, you might find yourself appearing near a wyrm gold dragon fighting his archnemisis, a Red Dragon who is a great wyrm, but not if the battle was happening below the surface of a lake of lava where you would almost certainly burn to death before you could even locate the combatants by sound and touch, let alone figure out what was going on.
 
Note also that this is not always a matter of violent situations. You might equally easily find yourself in the middle of a city wracked with plague, or just outside the council-chambers where the course of a nation is being debated (thus to probably attempt to talk your way in and join the debate).
 
You no longer require food, drink, or sleep, and are immune to fatigue, exhaustion, and subdual damage that results from cold, heat, or continued exertion. You become amphibious, able to breathe water and air equally easily. The lower of your swim and land speeds increases to be equal to the higher of the two, including gaining an additional mode if you lack it. See the PHB and/or MM for the effects of having a swim speed.
 
If you do not have a fly speed you gain a fly speed of 30’ with Poor maneuverability. While using this fly speed (but not when using another fly speed) you also gain the benefits of the Hover feat. This does not allow you to qualify for pre-requisites that require that feat.
 
You also gain the ability to speak a number of additional languages equal to your charisma score or your number of ranks (ranks+3 PF) in diplomacy, whichever is less.
 
You grown ever stronger, tested in the crucible of adversity. You no longer need to train to gain levels or to purchase mythos, excellencies, and/or manifestations, even if that is the norm for the campaign.
 
Basic
Airless Rescue Flexibility
You no longer need to breath.
 
Household Welcomeness Stature Adjustment
Whenever you teleport via this Shintai your size (before all adjustments from other sources other than race and templates) is whatever it would otherwise be, one size larger, or one size smaller, whichever will make it most easy for you to navigate your new location. If multiple sizes are equally capable (such as in a wide open plain) you may select between them. This adjustment stacks with all other effects, including ones that state they don’t stack with anything.
 
Example: A human with this manifestation would always arrive as small, medium, or large. If they also had Reduce Person as a permanent effect, they would instead arrive as Tiny, Small, or Medium.
 
 
Advanced
”But Now I Must Go”
Ironically enough, this manifestation delays your departure.
You may delay your departure by a number of rounds up to one half your charisma bonus (provided you have a charisma bonus), allowing you to wrap things up more neatly. GMs should feel free to change destinations as a result of this delay as conditions across the multiverse change in this time-period.
 
Resilient Regeneration Necessity
Whenever you are teleported by this Mythos, you also gain the benefits of a Regeneration spell, and always count as being on ground sacred to your deity for the purposes of your ability to recover from injuries, curses, etc.
 
Single-Minded Resolution of Purpose
You gain the effect of a Mind Blank spell, and add twice your Phileotheysia level to all Sense Motive checks that would alter aims, or misdirect your overall actions towards those aims. Thus this bonus would not apply against feinting in combat, but would apply against an attempt for an infiltrator of a resistance movement you have joined for the moment to convince you that he is sincere in his support for the cause.
 
As long as there is <your cause, or opposite of your cause>...
Whenever you are slain, your body and all your equipment vanish within 1d3 rounds. 2d6 weeks later, you appear, returned to life as if by a Resurrection spell. The location is as per usual for the transportation effect of this mythos.
 
If you have at least one Exalted Mythos (regardless of if it is a Phileotheysia Mythos) then this effect instead duplicates True Resurrection.
 

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