Illurien

[oslecamo]

Illurien



HD:d8

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+1	+0	+2	+2	Illurien body, Tempest Lash, Telepathy, +1 Int
2	+2	+0	+3	+3	Living Mystery, Tempest Technique
3	+3	+1	+3	+3	Droplet Shield, Fast Healing, +1 Int
4	+4	+1	+4	+4	Watery Composition, Tempest Technique
5	+5	+1	+4	+4	Walking is Bothersome, Arcane Sight, +1 Int
6	+6	+2	+5	+5	Pointed Knowledge, Tempest Technique
7	+7	+2	+5	+5	Cloud of Foresight , Uncanny Dodge, +1 Int
8	+8	+2	+6	+6	Tempest Technique,  Knowledge Feed
9	+9	+3	+6	+6	Plane Wander, Storm of Visions, +1 int
10	+10	+3	+7	+7	Growth, Tempest Technique
11	+11	+3	+7	+7	Analyze Dweomer, Cold Logic, +1 Int
12	+12	+4	+8	+8	Hidden Library, Tempest Technique, +1 Int
13	+13	+4	+8	+8	Rain Essence, Collector of Memories, +1 Int
14	+14	+4	+9	+9	Tempest Technique, Blindsight, +1 Int
15	+15	+5	+9	+9	Rejuvenation, Ancient Rain,+1 Int

Skills:8+int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level,  all skills are class Skills for the Illurien

Proficiencies: The Illurien is proficient with simple weapons, one martial weapon of its Choice and the Tempest Lash.


Features:
Illurien Body: The Illurien loses all other racial bonus and gains outsider traits (basicaly darkvision 60 foot). She's a medium sized outsider with a base speed of 30 feet. She doesn't need to breath but also cannot speak.

In adition she gains a bonus to natural armor equal to her Int modifier.

Tempest Lash: An Illurien attacks by lashing her foes with a knife-like weapon formed from the droplets that surround her. It counts as a normal dagger for all purposes, except it dissolves into water after a few seconds of leaving the Illurien's hands, after which the Illurien can instantly make a new one from her body (or was it the same one that somehow returned to her hands? None can tell). Thus it can perform iterative attacks (including iterative thrown attacks) and cannot be disarmed or sundered. It cannot be enchanted as a normal weapon, but it can be boosted by other Illurien abilities.

Anyone struck by the tempest lash must succeed on a DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod Will save ot take 1d4 points of Intelligence damage, that is multiplied on a critical hit. At 8 HD this can affect even creatures normally immune to it, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves (except if they have an Int Score of -).

Telepathy: The Illurien has telepathy with a range of 40 feet plus 10 feet per HD.

Ability Score Increase: The Illurien gains +1 Int at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, for a total of +10 Int at 15th level.

Living Mystery: Nobody knows where Illuriens come from, or even if there's more than one Illurien, but either way she's clearly up to no good. At 2nd level the Illurien gains the [Evil] subtype and her attacks count as Evil and Magic for bypassing DR, plus resistance to Acid  and Electricity each equal to her HD.

Tempest Technique: Despite being a creature of knowledge, the Illurien seems to revel in close combat, and has actually developed an peculiar fighting style to take advantage of her own unique abilities. At 2nd level and every 2 other levels thereafter, picking one of the following options. Several of those mention your ranks in Knowledge, which correspond to the ranks in your highest Knowledge skill.  For every other maxed Knowledge skill you have, you can count your number of ranks as 1 higher for Tempest Technique purposes. Each can be used every 1d4 rounds, and they're all supernatural abilities.

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First Current: As a standard action make a normal attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit your opponent is surrounded by countless tears and raindrops, that leave him entangled and unable to move from its position for 1 round, even by magic means.  For every 5 ranks you have in Knowledge, the duration of this effect lasts one extra round.

Painful Lesson: As a standard action make a normal attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit you overload your opponent's mind with a myriad of memories, dealing extra damage equal to the number of ranks you have in Knowledge, and your opponent receives a penalty on all skill checks of -1 for every 2 ranks you have in Knowledge for 1 round. 

Origin Focus: As a standard action make an attack with your Tempest Lash. Instead of the normal base damage, roll a knowledge check whitout any other combat modifiers. The target takes damage equal to the check and you learn one of the following things about them for every 4 ranks you have in Knowledge.
-Creature Type (including subtypes).
-AC.
-Their current HP.
-One of their save bonus.
-One of their ability scores.
-Their bonus on two skills of your choice.
-How many spells/powers they have on them at the moment.
-Their CR (if they're bigger CR than you then it just reveals that they're bigger CR than you).

You must have at least 4 HD to learn this tecnique.

Seek the Brightest Mind: the Illurien has little interest in those who can't provide her with an unique experience. As a swift action choose another creature within your sight. Until the end of your turn, you cannot attack any other target, and no other creature may take any reactions to you, including attacks of opportunity and immediate/free actions. You must have at least 4 HD to learn this tecnique

Sacred Planar Lash: As a standard action, the Illurien infuses her Tempest Lash with power drawn from ancient pacts she uncovered trough her existence. The Tempest Lash gains an enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to 1/4 the ranks you have in knowledge. For every +1 to attack and damage rolls the Tempest Lash has, you gain another point of enhancement bonus that you can spend on special abilities like Holy and Keen. You may also trade one of those extra enhancement bonus to make the Tempest Lash count as a special material of your choice like silver or adamantine. This effect demands your extreme concentration to hold, so if you use any other Tempest Technique that demands a standard action or higher it automatically ends (instantly after said Tempest Technique is finished).  You must have at least 6 HD to learn this technique.

Neverending Search: The Illurien has a bottomless thirst for knowledge, and her body has adapted to slip trough any physical or magic bonds that may prevent her from sating it. As a swift action, this technique removes all fatigue and exhaustion effects from you, and you also gain a Freedom of Movement effect for 1 round. You can use this technique even if normally unable to take actions, and must have at least 6 HD to learn it.

Knowledge Treason: As a standard action make a basic attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit you either promise great rewards or instill great doubt to your enemy against one of its allies. If the target fails a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod, then it gains a fullround action that must be spent attacking another enemy of your choice whitin view to the best of its ability, but without spending any XP or using any single-use items (like scrolls) worth more than 5% its total wealth. You must have at least 8 HD to learn this technique.

Repository Orb: As she gathers knowledge, the Illurien cannot stop herself from catching all kinds of minor tricks and rituals. As a swift action you conjure a small ball of water from your body which doesn't take any equipment slot and floats around you. It duplicates the effect of any wizard/cleric spell with a range of personal of lv 2 or lower with a CL equal to the ranks you have in knowledge. This includes the duration of the effect. If it demanded any expensive material component or XP cost, you must supply it as well. You can only have one such orb at a time. Trying to create a new one automatically dissolves the other. Any save DCs become 10 +1/2 HD+Int mod. You must have at least 8 HD to learn this tecnique.

Knowledge Corruption: Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Absolute knowledge thus corrupts absolutely. As a standard action make a basic attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit your target must succeed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod or fall under your control as a Dominate Monster effect for 1 rounds for every 4 ranks you have in Knowledge. This is a mind-affecting effect. You must have at least 10 HD to learn this tecnique.

If you have 16 or more ranks in Knowledge, you may affect targets immune to mind-affecting, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. 

Rain Mirror: The Illurien's body is both unstable and smooth, calm and impetuous. Whenever the Illurien would be affected by any status effect with a duration bigger than 1 round other than damage or death she may use this technique as an immediate action; the effect is prevented. You must have at least 10 HD to learn this technique.

Punish the Ignorant: Illurien travels the planes in search of knowledge and mysteries to steal and keep for herself. Why? Because, yes. And any who stand on her way will feel her wrath. As a standard action make a basic attack with the Tempest Lash. If you hit you deal 1d6 extra damage per rank you have in Knowledge plus x1,5 Str modifier and the target must succeed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod or be stunned for 1 round (dazed if they're immune to stun). Regardless of hit or miss you automatically recover one Tempest Technique of your choice that was in “cooldown” (which may even be this one). You need at least 12 HD to learn this tecnique.

Rain over the Land: Although the Illurien normally has to keep an humanoid form and even internal organs, she can still momentarily divide herself in a storm of tears and water droplets. Choose one other Tempest Technique that demanded you to make a basic Tempest Lash attack (the other technique cannot be in “cooldown”). You use that technique against every enemy inside a radius of 30 feet centered on you as a fullround action. Roll to hit normally against each target as a melee or thrown attack (your choice), cover/concealment and line of sight/effect apply normally. You must have at least 12 HD to learn this technique.

Drown the Lost: There's no favorable currents for those who don't know where they're headed. As a standard action make a basic Tempest Lash attack. If you hit your opponent is assaulted by its worst fears and doubts, needing to make a Fort, Reflex and Will saves (each DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod).
-If the Fort save is failed they take extra damage equal to a knowledge check and can only take one standard or move action on their next 2 rounds.
-If the Reflex save is failed they take extra damage equal to a knowledge check and are entangled for 2 rounds.
-If the Will save is failed they take damage equal to a knowledge check and are affected by a Bestow Curse effect for 2 rounds.

You must have at least 14 HD to learn this technique.

Unclear History: The Illurien is a being of mysteries, even faced directly. Her blows shift at the last moment and she easily recovers from what seemed clearly fatal blows. As a swift action, for 1 round, you can re-roll any 1d20s and miss chance you roll, but not more than one re-roll per check. You need at least 14 HD to learn this tecnique.

In addition, now Illurien levels grant full Initiator Level if she multiclasses to a martial class (or picks Martial Study).

Droplet Shield: At 3rd level the Illurien gains DR/good equal to ½ her HD and SR=11+HD. She may lower or raise her SR at any time as a free action.

Fast Healing: At 3rd level the Illurien gains fast healing equal to 1/3 her HD.

Watery Composition: At 4th level the Illurien becomes Immune to Disease and Poison.

Walking is Bothersome: At 5th level the Illurien becomes able to fly at twice her base Speed with perfect maneuverability.

Arcane Sight: At 5th level the Illurien is permanently under an Arcane Sight effect.

Pointed Knowledge: At 6th level the Illurien understands all languages, and she instantly knows facts about creatures she speaks to telepathically, such as their age, where they were born, and the important events of their life.

This also allows the Illurien, as an Immediate action, to add her Int mod to any single Save, attack roll, damage roll, ability check or skill check against any creature inside her telepathy range. The decision to use this ability must be made before the roll.

Cloud of Foresight: At 7th level drawing on her boundless lore, Illurien uses opponent's tendencies and desires against them. This causes her opponents to have a 20% miss chance that can't be overcome in any known way. Plus once per round, as an immediate action, the Illurien can impose a penalty equal to - (1+1 per 2 HD) on a single roll, check or saving throw made by an opponent whitin 60 feet.

Uncanny Dodge: At 7th level the Illurien gains Uncanny Dodge as the Barbarian ability. If she would gain Uncanny Dodge again from other class, she gains Improved Uncanny dodge instead.

Knowledge Feed: At 8th level The Illurien heals 5 HP for every point of Int damage her Tempest Lash deals.

Plane Wander: At 9th level the Illurien can use Plane Shift as a SLA 1/day per 8 HD, except she can enter inside extradimensional spaces and private dimensions as long as she somehow learns of them. Save DC is 10+1/2 HD+Int mod.

Storm of Visions: At 9th level the watery drops that surround Illurien are the collected fragments of the knowledge she has accumulated. As a swift action, enemies whitin 30 feet of her must succeed on a DC 10+1/2HD+Int mod Will save or be dazed for 1 round, as visions of xotic truths captivate their minds. This is a mind-affecting effect, and cannot be used more than 1/round.

At 10 HD even oponents immune to mindaffecting can be affected by this, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves.

At 13 HD this ability may be used as a free action.


Growth: At 10th level the Illurien grows one size category. On top of all other usual changes her Tempest Lash now deals 1d8+Str mod damage.

Analyze Dweomer: At 11th level the the Illurien can use Analyze Dweomer as a SLA 1/day per 3 HD. Save DC is 10+1/2 HD+Int mod.

Cold Logic: At 11th level, the Illurien may add her Int mod to an attack roll, a damage roll, an ability check and a save as a free action every round even if it isn't her turn. She must decide to use this ability before doing the respective roll, and each kind of action may only be freely boosted 1/round.

Hidden Library: At 12th level the Illurien has dreams of an extraplanar repository, hidden in some mysterious planar wilderness. From now on she may use Plane Shift to arrive precisely within the center of her Hidden Library, which is stashed with ancient tomes, scrolls and plenty of other reading material accumulated by an unknown hand. Those provide a +10 competence bonus to all knowledge checks made by the Illurien while inside it, but the tomes are mystically bound and cannot be removed from the Hidden Library. For every twelve new books the Illurien brings and binds to the Hidden Library, the competence bonus increases by 1, up to a total no bigger than the Illurien's HD (so at 12th level 24 books would maximize the bonus untill other level up).

The Hidden Library is filled with traps and guardians that make it immune to all divination effects and others teleporting in. The Illurien instinctively knows how to avoid the dangers and how to guide others in and out, but she would be wise to decide with who she shares her special place.


Rain Essence: At 13th level the Illurien becomes immune to electricity, polymorph effects against her will, sleep, paralysis and stunning, and her base speed increases by 10 feet.

Collector of Memories: At 13th level whenever the Illurien deals Int damage with her Tempest Lash, she can choose to steal 1 skill rank the victim had, which results in the victim forgetting a part of his memories related to the skill. This doesn't allow the Illurien to go over her normal skill ranks limits (she can still remove the skill rank and steal the memories anyway), and she cannot gain more extra skill points total with this ability than 10xHD. You automatically learn all the skills on which an enemy has ranks when you hit them with Tempest Lash.

Defeating the Illurien in a combat (or other kind of agreed challenge) allows one to recover their lost skill points and memories.


Blindsight: At 14th level the Illurien gains Blindsight with a range of 60 feet.

Rejuvenation: At 15th level, if killed, the Illurien reappears in her Secret Library two days later with full gear and no XP loss (her old body and gear automatically dissolve into normal water when she's killed). The one who killed her however starts geting dreams about the Hidden library. If not killed within 1 month, he'll be able to find a safe way into the Illurien's haven, both reaching it trough planar travel and evading the traps and guardians. If they die, they forget this info even if somehow brought back to life (or unlife), thinking it all a crazed dream.

Ancient Rain: The ultimate Tempest Technique, combining a myriad of different martial arts to deliver a devastating blow customized to the enemy.
1/day as a standard action make a basic attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit you deal additional damage equal to 3 times a knowledge check from you (following the same knowledge rules of Tempest Technique) and your opponent must succeed on a save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod (you pick what kind of save they make) or be rendered permanently dazed, stunned, paralyzed, dead, blinded, fatigued, disabled, exhausted or deafened (pick two). You may end any of those conditions other that dead as a move action while adjacent to the target. Even if your opponent saves, they still take Int damage from Tempest Lash (no save) and they're sickened, shaken and dazzled for 1 round.

Ancient Rain cannot be recovered by Punish the Ignorant.

New Feats
Expanded Tempest Tecnique [Racial]
Prerequisites: Illurien, Tempest Tecnique
Benefit:You learn one extra Tempest Tecnique you qualify for.
Special:You can gain this feat multiple times, each time learning a new Tempest Tecnique you qualify for.

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Well this was an interesting challenge. At first I really didn't know much what to do. The Illurien is an "unique" monster with just a few abilities to fill 15 levels, and a quite interesting fluff. One may have been tempted to go caster route for a "smart" monster, but honestly the Illurien didn't strike me like that. She's just got three SLAs, none of which is really that useful in combat, and then her abilities are all relatively short ranged. And just look at her picture, she seems more in some exotic kung-fu stance than anything else!

Hmm, kung-fu? What if the Illurien is a smart martial artist? Slicing people's memories with special hand-gestures, dancing between attacks, striking at weak points... I liked it.

And thus was born Tempest Tecnique, drawing heavy inspiration from other work of mine. Then the Illurien is backed up by its original abilities and some extra custom abilities to round it up, ending up with an interesting frontline sage-warrior with butloads of skill points.

So if you want to play a knowledge thief collector, the Illurien's for you!

[Anomander]

Illurien of Myriad Glimpses

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Prerequisites: Illurien level 15.

Hit Die: d8

Level	BAB	Fort	Ref	Will	Maneuvers Known	Stances Known	Special
1st	1	0	2	2	1	0	Planar Pact, Obscure Huntress, Rebuses, +1 Int
2nd	2	0	3	3	1	1	Tempest Lash, Greater Pointed Knowledge, +1 Int
3rd	3	1	3	3	1	0	Fog of Foresight, +1 Int
4th	4	1	4	4	1	1	Primal Mystery, +1 Int
5th	5	1	4	4	1	0	Eternal Enigma, +1 Int

Skills: 8+int modifier per level, all skills are class skills for the Illurien of Myriad Glimpses.

Proficiencies: The Illurien of Myriad Glimpses gains no proficiency with any weapon or armor.

Features:

Maneuvers: The Illurien of Myriad Glimpses must choose three martial disciplines among all those available in the campaign to which it will have access. At every level she gains a new maneuver known of that discipline or a new Tempest Technique of her choice. She adds her full Illurien of Myriad Glimpses level (and Illurien levels, if she did not multiclass) to her initiator level and her Tempest Techniques qualify as maneuvers known for the purpose of fulfilling maneuver prerequisites for a single martial discipline. These new maneuvers are readied and recovered using the usual 1d4 round cooldown used by her Tempest Techniques.

Stances Known: At 2nd and 4th level, the Illurien of Myriad Glimpses gains a new martial stance from one of her three chosen martial disciplines. She must meet a stance's prerequisites to learn it.

Ability Score Increase: The Illurien of Myriad Glimpses gains +1 to Int at every level.

Planar Pact: Illurien's knowledge is so vast that creatures from all over the multiverse may seek her counsel despite the price, and her long experience with ancient rituals granted her means to insure that she gets her due.
She may now create watery one-way portals in her Hidden Library leading to each plane she has previously visited, to a limit of one per HD, at no cost.
Once a year she may create a special portal gate that emanates her Telepathy ability, allowing her to interact with its surroundings as if she was there. Creatures within 5 feet of it may try to summon her as a Calling effect, if she is willing, as if it was a Gate. Illurien can planeshift from this portal gate to her Hidden Library and vice-versa at will but cannot bring others with her. Creating any of these portals takes 1 hour.
Only one such portal beacon may exist at one time. A newly created portal beacon automatically destroys the previous one.

Additionally, Illurien may now offer binding verbal contracts. She must communicate the terms of the bargain and it must be mutually agreed upon. Such pacts must be done willingly by both parties, and neither may be under the effect of a compulsion effect. Illurien knows when a pact is successfully forged. Immediately upon fulfilling her part, the subject she had a deal with is irrevocably bound to pay the price agreed upon. Such prices can be anything the subject possesses, even metaphysical possessions such as a friendship, the ability to love or musical talents. Once lost, such payments convert into liquid knowledge that merges with Illurien, and can only be restored by her.

Obscure Huntress: Illurien's knowledge hunt has removed many secrets from the worlds, including those regarding her. She acquires a Mindblank effect that can be activated and deactivated as a free action and may, once a day, attune herself to a specific piece of knowledge to know the direction, distance and plane of anything and everything holding it (books, people, etc - but does not know what they are until she finds them).
Illurien can pierce Mindblank effects and counter Mindblank-piercing effects against herself by winning an opposed intelligence check against their user. A successful counter submits the user of that effect to her Pointed Knowledge ability and becomes attuned to her as if he was a bonus piece of knowledge for the next 24 hours. The result of the first roll of the day to pierce or counter applies against every opposed checks against this ability until the next day.

Rebuses: Illurien's telepathy reached new heights, and may now give her emitted thoughts a visual form. Instead of mentally hearing her message, creatures spoken to can see Illurien's communicated thoughts floating around her. Either as moving images or actual written words. They work as Silent Images that are always disbelieved. Speaking in rebuses does not trigger Pointed Knowledge.

Tempest Lash: Illurien's Tempest Lash improves further, dealing a base damage of 2d6 + Str at Large size and dealing 2d4 Intelligence damage on a failed save. Additionally, she may now conjure one in each of her hands simultaneously instead of a single one.

Greater Pointed Knowledge: In addition to the effects of Pointed Knowledge, whenever Illurien speaks to a creature telepathically, she also hears its thoughts for as long as it remains within her telepathy range. Creatures immune to mind-affecting effects are granted a Will Save with a DC equal to 10 + 1/2 HD + Int modifier. On a successful save, the creature's thoughts are unheard for as long as it remains within her telepathy range.

Fog of Foresight: The miss chance of Illurien's Cloud of Foresight improves to 50% and now inflicts the same penalty to every opponent within 60 ft instead of a single one. This miss chance allows her to hide in plain sight.

Primal Mystery: Illurien grows an affinity to the Unknown beyond time and before matter, learning a secret that transcends her. Illurien, her Hidden Library, special portal gate and any magical gear worn or wielded by her are now unaffected by effects that suppress or otherwise remove supernatural, magical/psionic and divine effects (such as dispels, antimagic fields and dead magic areas).

Eternal Enigma: While it is rumored that Illurien can be summoned to negotiate rare and lost knowledge, her very existence is a myth. Written records, memory and all documentation on her have a tendency to disappear on their own.
By concentrating for 10 minutes without interruption, Illurien may withdraw herself from history and be forgotten by it. As long as she does not attack or communicate with a creature her presence is impossible to discern. As far as the world is concerned, she does not exist and never existed. She may allow specific records and people to perceive and remember her normally but those who killed her are immune to this ability until the next time they are slain.
Illurien is otherwise impossible to find; all abilities, magic, epic magic, divine salient abilities and effects have no hope of locating her against her will.

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Making Illurien a full level 20 progression. I tried to give her abilities that fitted her Ecology description. Some abilities like Planar Pact and Rebuses are meant to offer more roleplay/fluff appeal than actual battle power advantage and should give rise to interesting opportunities for Illurien players to interact and support their party in unique ways.
Obscure Huntress allows her to hunt the knowledge she seeks without going through all the hassle of using divinations, asking around or building a spy network, making her more self-reliant for a character that probably isn't very sociable and gave her a Mindblank effect I felt mandatory given what she is.
I'm particularly fond of her capstone. In battle, it practically guarantees a surprise round, but doesn't help as soon as combat begins unless the Illurien somehow hides for 10 minutes to recharges it. It otherwise allows her to avoid fighting and scout much more easily, but is not impervious to traps and other elements that could affect her without the need to know she is there.

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Tempest Lash: Its knife-like and deals damage like a dagger. Can it be thrown like one or is it somehow attached to Illurien?
Is counting as both a natural weapon and as a manufactured weapon, like fists? (mostly for the weapon rules and to know if it can be upgraded with items like the Amulet of Mighty Fists or get enchanted with Craft Weapon feats normally)

Good questions, I'll be making it count as a non-enchantable dagger. You can always pick Sacred Planar Lash to give it boosts.

Telepathy: I think the range is very short. Especially considering it is its method of communication.

Well, why would she want to communicate at big ranges anyway? The Illurien's a solo thief after all.

Tempest Technique: The maneuver-like approach is interesting. I'll admit that your Scholar's Plain History maneuvers made me think of Illurien. Had you considered making her a maneuver user?

Actualy I did, but basing it on warblade progression didn't feel right, swordsage and crusader aren't OGL, the scholar was kinda too focused on range and the Illurien still had a significant amount of other powerful abilities. In the end I ended up just making 14 tecniques instead of a making up a whole new martial school and a new recovery method.

Are they supernatural abilities or extraordinary ones? Putting the (Ex) and (Su) tags after the name of each ability would help determine that so DMs and Players know what stays and what drops within AMFs.

Fine, put in clause that all tempest tecniques are supernatural abilities.

Knowledge Corruption feels like an upgraded Knowledge Treason. Being able to get both seems a bit redundant.

It's however not a complete upgrade, because the treason will have a better chance against oponents immune to mindaffecting, and also saves you the trouble of making a Cha check to force a dominated person attack an ally.

Rain over the Land allows Illurien to turn a Tempest Tech into an area effect. Is working like an area effect or must she make attack rolls against every enemies within the radius? (Does it need LoE or is it working like a spread effect, is it attacking creature regardless of the creature being seen or Illurien even knowing it is there, etc?)

Clarified those.

What I feel is lacking is any fullattack maneuver-like ability (ei: Flashing Sun, Time Stands Still). Illurien has full BAB but is built to use mostly single attacks for its Tempest Techs.

Intended. Fullattack maneuvers are relatively rare, and this way you have to choose before unleashing a full attack or striking just once. Mind you the swift-action techs and Sacred Planar Lash have good sinergies with full attacks.

Some ability that removes memories, or otherwise actually removes knowledge from the enemy as a debuff, seems to be missing.

Improved Collector of Information so it explicitly steals memories/skill ranks from the target.

Pointed Knowledge: I think it is gained a bit early. Tongue itself is a 3rd level spell and learning so much is quite powerful.

Droplet Shield: Acquired a bit late. Maybe swapping it with Pointed Knowledge.

Sounds good, done.

Cold Logic: Just to make sure something was intended... Since it can apply to ability checks, and that Initiative is a dexterity check, Cold Logic thus grants Int modifier to Initiative.

I'll admit I didn't notice it right away, but Int to Iniative at 11th level doesn't sound too bad.

Hidden Library: Something unique about Illurien, is that she has two domains in the Outlands. The hidden Athenaeum Nefarious and the Shrouded Dispensary, which is located by the central spire. Illurien is one of the only creatures immune to the spire's anti-magic/supernatural effect. Now, Hidden Library is described as an extrapalanar repository, hidden in some mysterious planar wilderness. Is this saying that it is some kind of private plane?

Who knows? That's the point, it's a mysterious place and it's not very clear how you can get in or out from it.

(plus I wanted to make the Illurien non-depedant on any particular cosmology)

Collector of Information: Its a cool ability. When used to its fullest it pretty much grants a busy Illurien the ability to almost max around 1/5 of all relatively useful skills with this ability alone. If I'm reading this right, Illurien is not stealing the rank, just gaining it.

Changed to stealing now so there's also a "steal knowlede" ability. Also changed the name to Collector of Memories because it sounds better.

Rejuvenation: I find the wording a little confusing. Does it mean that people killing Illurien learns the Hidden Library's location after a year or only how to move within it and avoid the traps like she does? If the creature is killed then resurrected, does it keep that knowledge or must it kill Illurien again?

Just as I posted the class I had the suspicion that doubt may arrive but was too tired to clear it up. Should be clarified now. Also yes if the Illurien kills them they're suposed to forget even if ressurected (added). Also changed the time to 1 month since by then the campaign would probably be over or the Illurien at least have doubled in level.

Ancient Rain: The ability states that it is a Tempest Technique. Does that mean it can be combined with Rain over the Land?

Yes.

All in all: Marvelous work. I sweet take on one of my favorite monsters. Thank you.

You're welcome.

[Anomander]

That clarified a lot, but gave birth to new questions.

Tempest Lash: Since it works like a dagger and can be thrown in combat, and that Tempest Techniques just need a hit, does that mean they can be initiated at range with a thrown Tempest Lash?

Rain Mirror: Does it take any action to activate?

Telepathy: Unless its in a party. Party members using long mid range spells/effects won't be able to communicate. I compared it to the telepathy range of other creatures with it and its about the shortest. The starting range is okay but its range increases per HD is very bad. IE: The original Illurien monster has a better telepathy range than Balors and Pit Fiends but it has been granted one much shorter than the telepathy given to devils and demons.

Collector of Memories: What happens when Illurien has maxed her stolen rank gains? Can she still, say, damage the Int of a creature to remove Knowledge (the planes) ranks to make it forget what an Illurien is, even though she cannot gain the removed ranks anymore?

About maneuver use, perhaps giving synergy to multiclass into martial classes could be good. Like make her levels count as their full initiator level for one martial class. Like the pseudo casting thing.

About (Su) and (Ex) tags, I meant that it might be a good idea to put them on every monster class abilities. (Sometimes it's obvious, but not always)

[oslecamo]

Tempest Lash: Since it works like a dagger and can be thrown in combat, and that Tempest Techniques just need a hit, does that mean they can be initiated at range with a thrown Tempest Lash?

Yes to both.

Rain Mirror: Does it take any action to activate?

Immediate action, added.

Telepathy: Unless its in a party. Party members using long mid range spells/effects won't be able to communicate. I compared it to the telepathy range of other creatures with it and its about the shortest. The starting range is okay but its range increases per HD is very bad. IE: The original Illurien monster has a better telepathy range than Balors and Pit Fiends but it has been granted one much shorter than the telepathy given to devils and demons.

Fair enough, increased the speed at which it grows. Since she gains it right at first level, it'll pull ahead of all the infernals.

Collector of Memories: What happens when Illurien has maxed her stolen rank gains? Can she still, say, damage the Int of a creature to remove Knowledge (the planes) ranks to make it forget what an Illurien is, even though she cannot gain the removed ranks anymore?

Yes.

About maneuver use, perhaps giving synergy to multiclass into martial classes could be good. Like make her levels count as their full initiator level for one martial class. Like the pseudo casting thing.

Sounds good, added.

About (Su) and (Ex) tags, I meant that it might be a good idea to put them on every monster class abilities. (Sometimes it's obvious, but not always)

Here are you being funny again. I already explained that's something I don't do because D&D is quite crazy about what's extraordinary and what's supernatural (again, singing well is Su, shattering the magic around you by flexing your muscles is Ex, go figure). I'll let the players and DM decide about that, in particular when the only thing in the whole game that truly cares about that is AMF, and that's really a not very common effect.

[Anomander]

Tempest Lash: It requires a saving throw to avoid Int damage but does not specify which kind. (Most likely a Will save). Also, is the Tempest Lash "drawn" as free action or as a move action, like an actual dagger. Could Iaijutsu Focus skill checks even work with a Tempest Lash? (that could result in a nasty Gnome Quick-Razorish combo).

Illurien Body: Perhaps Int to AC should be more like a monk or a swordsage/scholar rather than a natural armor bonus. Fluent water over rock-hard water feels like a better fit for the kungfu theme.

Tempest Tecnique: Please fix the typos. 
Since Ancient Rain is a Tempest Technique, it seems like it could be interpreted that Punish the Ignorant can also recover it.
Repository Orb; as written it allows an Illurian to cast True Strike as a swift action every 1d4 round, among other things. That sounds a bit heavy at HD8.

If you're fine with the PrC, I'll put it in my first post of this thread. Comments/Suggestions/Corrections welcomed, as always.

[oslecamo]

Illurien of Myriad Glimpses:
-Clarify from which schools the IoMG can pick. Even if you intended for all of the "base" ones, homebrew Tob schools are extremely common out there (I myself did four so far after all)

Planar Pact- What's the actions to create the "lesser" portals? Can you replace old ones with news once you reach the cap? What's the limitations on picking the exit point?

Acorn of Harvest alert! Basically, when you say "allowing her to interact with its surroundings as if she was there". Does it mean she benefits from benefical planar effects from a plane of her choice?

What's the action to make the verbal pacts? It it valid if the enemy was mind controled/compulsed?

-Everything else looks fine and spiffy.

Tempest Lash: It requires a saving throw to avoid Int damage but does not specify which kind. (Most likely a Will save). Also, is the Tempest Lash "drawn" as free action or as a move action, like an actual dagger. Could Iaijutsu Focus skill checks even work with a Tempest Lash? (that could result in a nasty Gnome Quick-Razorish combo).

Drawn like an actual dagger, thus can be combined with Iaijutsu focus, but it won't count as a gnome razor.

Illurien Body: Perhaps Int to AC should be more like a monk or a swordsage/scholar rather than a natural armor bonus. Fluent water over rock-hard water feels like a better fit for the kungfu theme.

The original monster has nat armor, that stays (and still fits the kungfu theme of hardening one's body)

Tempest Tecnique: Please fix the typos. 

Grammar isn't my strong point and I'm not exactly swimming in free time. By all means fix them yourself and I'll edit them in.

Since Ancient Rain is a Tempest Technique, it seems like it could be interpreted that Punish the Ignorant can also recover it.

You're right, clarified that it can't.

Repository Orb; as written it allows an Illurian to cast True Strike as a swift action every 1d4 round, among other things. That sounds a bit heavy at HD8.

I don't really believe so, in particular because the Illurien has plenty of other things to do with her swift actions, so she'll want a more lasting effect.

If you're fine with the PrC, I'll put it in my first post of this thread. Comments/Suggestions/Corrections welcomed, as always.

I like where it's going, but still needs some polishing.

Which reminds me, the joystealer still needs some polishing as well, need to find some time to properly check on that one.

[Anomander]

-Clarify from which schools the IoMG can pick. Even if you intended for all of the "base" ones, homebrew Tob schools are extremely common out there (I myself did four so far after all)

I worded it that way to include homebrew, but will be more clear.

Planar Pact- What's the actions to create the "lesser" portals? Can you replace old ones with news once you reach the cap? What's the limitations on picking the exit point?

8 hours. I tried to imply that both portal types were included by "any of these portals"

Basically, when you say "allowing her to interact with its surroundings as if she was there". Does it mean she benefits from benefical planar effects from a plane of her choice?

It is for the purpose of her Telepathy ability only. She can communicate telepathically with people around the gate and whatever else telepathy can do.

What's the action to make the verbal pacts? It it valid if the enemy was mind controled/compulsed?

Speech is a free action; so a free action. But mind control won't do. I'll put a clause on it.


I'll post a spoiler button with the corrections and delete it after you edit it in.
Gotta check back on the joystealer, coulda sworn I had finished it.

[Anomander]

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Illurien Body: The Illurien loses all other racial bonus and gains outsider traits (basicaly darkvision 60 foot). She's a medium sized outsider with a base speed of 30 feet. She doesn't need to breath but also cannot speak.

In adition she gains a bonus to natural armor equal to her Int modifier.

Tempest Lash: An Illurien attacks by lashing her foes with a knife-like weapon formed from the droplets that surround her. It counts as a normal dagger for all purposes, except it dissolves into water after a few seconds of leaving the Illurien's hands, after which the Illurien can instantly make a new one from her body (or was it the same one that somehow returned to her hands? None can tell). Thus it can perform iterative attacks (including iterative thrown attacks) and cannot be disarmed or sundered. It cannot be enchanted as a normal weapon, but it can be boosted by other Illurien abilities.

Anyone struck by the tempest lash must succeed on a DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod ot take 1d4 points of Intelligence damage. At 8 HD this can affect even creatures normally immune to it, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves (except if they have an Int Score of -).

Telepathy: The Illurien has telepathy with a range of 40 feet plus 10 feet per HD.

Ability Score Increase: The Illurien gains +1 Int at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, for a total of +10 Int at 15th level.

Living Mystery: Nobody knows where Illuriens come from, or even if there's more than one Illurien, but either way she's clearly up to no good. At 2nd level the Illurien gains the [Evil] subtype and her attacks count as Evil and Magic for bypassing DR, plus resistance to Acid  and Electricity each equal to her HD.

Tempest Technique: Despite being a creature of knowledge, the Illurien seems to revel in close combat, and has actually developed an peculiar fighting style to take advantage of her own unique abilities. At 2nd level and every 2 other levels thereafter, picking one of the following options. Several of those mention your ranks in Knowledge, which correspond to the ranks in your highest Knowledge skill.  For every other maxed Knowledge skill you have, you can count your number of ranks as 1 higher for Tempest Technique purposes. Each can be used every 1d4 rounds, and they're all supernatural abilities.

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First Current: As a standard action make a normal attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit your opponent is surrounded by countless tears and raindrops, that leave him entangled and unable to move from its position for 1 round, even by magic means.  For every 5 ranks you have in Knowledge, the duration of this effect lasts one extra round.

Painful Lesson: As a standard action make a normal attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit you overload your opponent's mind with a myriad of memories, dealing extra damage equal to the number of ranks you have in Knowledge, and your opponent receives a penalty on all skill checks of -1 for every 2 ranks you have in Knowledge for 1 round. 

Origin Focus: As a standard action make an attack with your Tempest Lash. Instead of the normal base damage, roll a knowledge check whitout any other combat modifiers. The target takes damage equal to the check and you learn one of the following things about them for every 4 ranks you have in Knowledge.
-Creature Type (including subtypes).
-AC.
-Their current HP.
-One of their save bonus.
-One of their ability scores.
-Their bonus on two skills of your choice.
-How many spells/powers they have on them at the moment.
-Their CR (if they're bigger CR than you then it just reveals that they're bigger CR than you).

You must have at least 4 HD to learn this tecnique.

Seek the Brightest Mind: the Illurien has little interest in those who can't provide her with an unique experience. As a swift action choose another creature within your sight. Until the end of your turn, you cannot attack any other target, and no other creature may take any reactions to you, including attacks of opportunity and immediate/free actions. You must have at least 4 HD to learn this tecnique

Sacred Planar Lash: As a standard action, the Illurien infuses her Tempest Lash with power drawn from ancient pacts she uncovered trough her existence. The Tempest Lash gains an enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to 1/4 the ranks you have in knowledge. For every +1 to attack and damage rolls the Tempest Lash has, you gain another point of enhancement bonus that you can spend on special abilities like Holy and Keen. You may also trade one of those extra enhancement bonus to make the Tempest Lash count as a special material of your choice like silver or adamantine. This effect demands you complete concentration to hold, so if you use any other Tempest Technique it automatically ends.  You must have at least 6 HD to learn this technique.

Neverending Search: The Illurien has a bottomless thirst for knowledge, and her body has adapted to slip trough any physical or magic bonds that may prevent her from sating it. As a swift action, this technique removes all fatigue and exhaustion effects from you, and you also gain a Freedom of Movement effect for 1 round. You can use this technique even if normally unable to take actions, and must have at least 6 HD to learn it.

Knowledge Treason: As a standard action make a basic attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit you either promise great rewards or instill great doubt to your enemy against one of its allies. If the target fails a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod, then it gains a fullround action that must be spent attacking another enemy of your choice whitin view to the best of its ability, but without spending any XP or using any single-use items (like scrolls) worth more than 5% its total wealth. You must have at least 8 HD to learn this technique.

Repository Orb: As she gathers knowledge, the Illurien cannot stop herself from catching all kinds of minor tricks and rituals. As a swift action you conjure a small ball of water from your body which doesn't take any equipment slot and floats around you. It duplicates the effect of any wizard/cleric spell with a range of personal of lv 2 or lower with a CL equal to the ranks you have in knowledge. This includes the duration of the effect. If it demanded any expensive material component or XP cost, you must supply it as well. You can only have one such orb at a time. Trying to create a new one automatically dissolves the other. Any save DCs become 10 +1/2 HD+Int mod. You must have at least 8 HD to learn this tecnique.

Knowledge Corruption: Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Absolute knowledge thus corrupts absolutely. As a standard action make a basic attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit your target must succeed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod or fall under your control as a Dominate Monster effect for 1 rounds for every 4 ranks you have in Knowledge. This is a mind-affecting effect. You must have at least 10 HD to learn this tecnique.

If you have 16 or more ranks in Knowledge, you may affect targets immune to mind-affecting, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. 

Rain Mirror: The Illurien's body is both unstable and smooth, calm and impetuous. Whenever the Illurien would be affected by any status effect with a duration bigger than 1 round other than damage or death she may use this technique as an immediate action; the effect is prevented. You must have at least 10 HD to learn this technique.

Punish the Ignorant: Illurien travels the planes in search of knowledge and mysteries to steal and keep for herself. Why? Because, yes. And any who stand on her way will feel her wrath. As a standard action make a basic attack with the Tempest Lash. If you hit you deal 1d6 extra damage per rank you have in Knowledge plus x1,5 Str modifier and the target must succeed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod or be stunned for 1 round (dazed if they're immune to stun). Regardless of hit or miss you automatically recover one Tempest Technique of your choice that was in “cooldown” (which may even be this one). You need at least 12 HD to learn this tecnique.

Rain over the Land: Although the Illurien normally has to keep an humanoid form and even internal organs, she can still momentarily divide herself in a storm of tears and water droplets. Choose one other Tempest Technique that demanded you to make a basic Tempest Lash attack (the other technique cannot be in “cooldown”). You use that technique against every enemy inside a radius of 30 feet centered on you as a fullround action. Roll to hit normally against each target as a melee or thrown attack (your choice), cover/concealment and line of sight/effect apply normally. You must have at least 12 HD to learn this technique.

Drown the Lost: There's no favorable currents for those who don't know where they're headed. As a standard action make a basic Tempest Lash attack. If you hit your opponent is assaulted by its worst fears and doubts, needing to make a Fort, Reflex and Will saves (each DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod).
-If the Fort save is failed they take extra damage equal to a knowledge check and can only take one standard or move action on their next round.
-If the Reflex save is failed they take extra damage equal to a knowledge check and are entangled for 1 round.
-If the Will save is failed they take damage equal to a knowledge check and are affected by a Bestow Curse effect for 1 round.

You must have at least 14 HD to learn this technique.

Unclear History: The Illurien is a being of mysteries, even faced directly. Her blows shift at the last moment and she easily recovers from what seemed clearly fatal blows. As a swift action, for 1 round, you can re-roll any 1d20s and miss chance you roll, but not more than one re-roll per check. You need at least 14 HD to learn this tecnique.

In addition, now Illurien levels grant full Initiator Level if she multiclasses to a martial class (or picks Martial Study).

Droplet Shield: At 3rd level the Illurien gains DR/good equal to ½ her HD and SR=11+HD. She may lower or raise her SR at any time as a free action.

Fast Healing: At 3rd level the Illurien gains fast healing equal to 1/3 her HD.

Watery Composition: At 4th level the Illurien becomes Immune to Disease and Poison.

Walking is Bothersome: At 5th level the Illurien becomes able to fly at twice her base Speed with perfect maneuverability.

Arcane Sight: At 5th level the Illurien is permanently under an Arcane Sight effect.

Pointed Knowledge: At 6th level the Illurien understands all languages, and she instantly knows facts about creatures she speaks to telepathically, such as their age, where they were born, and the important events of their life.

This also allows the Illurien, as an Immediate action, to add her Int mod to any single Save, attack roll, damage roll, ability check or skill check against any creature inside her telepathy range. The decision to use this ability must be made before the roll.

Cloud of Foresight: At 7th level drawing on her boundless lore, Illurien uses opponent's tendencies and desires against them. This causes her opponents to have a 20% miss chance that can't be overcome in any known way. Plus once per round, as an immediate action, the Illurien can impose a penalty equal to - (1+1 per 2 HD) on a single roll, check or saving throw made by an opponent whitin 60 feet.

Uncanny Dodge: At 7th level the Illurien gains Uncanny Dodge as the Barbarian ability. If she would gain Uncanny Dodge again from other class, she gains Improved Uncanny dodge instead.

Knowledge Feed: At 8th level The Illurien heals 5 HP for every point of Int damage her Tempest Lash deals.

Plane Wander: At 9th level the Illurien can use Plane Shift as a SLA 1/day per 8 HD, except she can enter inside extradimensional spaces and private dimensions as long as she somehow learns of them. Save DC is 10+1/2 HD+Int mod.

Storm of Visions: At 9th level the watery drops that surround Illurien are the collected fragments of the knowledge she has accumulated. As a swift action, enemies whitin 30 feet of her must succeed on a DC 10+1/2HD+Int mod Will save or be dazed for 1 round, as visions of xotic truths captivate their minds. This is a mind-affecting effect, and cannot be used more than 1/round.

At 10 HD even oponents immune to mindaffecting can be affected by this, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves.

At 13 HD this ability may be used as a free action.


Growth: At 10th level the Illurien grows one size category. On top of all other usual changes her Tempest Lash now deals 1d8+Str mod damage.

Analyze Dweomer: At 11th level the the Illurien can use Analyze Dweomer as a SLA 1/day per 3 HD. Save DC is 10+1/2 HD+Int mod.

Cold Logic: At 11th level, the Illurien may add her Int mod to an attack roll, a damage roll, an ability check and a save as a free action every round even if it isn't her turn. She must decide to use this ability before doing the respective roll, and each kind of action may only be freely boosted 1/round.

Hidden Library: At 12th level the Illurien has dreams of an extraplanar repository, hidden in some mysterious planar wilderness. From now on she may use Plane Shift to arrive precisely within the center of her Hidden Library, which is stashed with ancient tomes, scrolls and plenty of other reading material accumulated by an unknown hand. Those provide a +10 competence bonus to all knowledge checks made by the Illurien while inside it, but the tomes are mystically bound and cannot be removed from the Hidden Library. For every twelve new books the Illurien brings and binds to the Hidden Library, the competence bonus increases by 1, up to a total no bigger than the Illurien's HD (so at 12th level 24 books would maximize the bonus untill other level up).

The Hidden Library is filled with traps and guardians that make it immune to all divination effects and others teleporting in. The Illurien instinctively knows how to avoid the dangers and how to guide others in and out, but she would be wise to decide with who she shares her special place.


Rain Essence: At 13th level the Illurien becomes immune to electricity, polymorph effects against her will, sleep, paralysis and stunning, and her base speed increases by 10 feet.

Collector of Memories: At 13th level whenever the Illurien deals Int damage with her Tempest Lash, she can choose to steal 1 skill rank the victim had, which results in the victim forgetting a part of his memories related to the skill. This doesn't allow the Illurien to go over her normal skill ranks limits (she can still remove the skill rank and steal the memories anyway), and she cannot gain more extra skill points total with this ability than 10xHD. You automatically learn all the skills on which an enemy has ranks when you hit them with Tempest Lash.

Defeating the Illurien in a combat (or other kind of agreed challenge) allows one to recover their lost skill points and memories.


Blindsight: At 14th level the Illurien gains Blindsight with a range of 60 feet.

Rejuvenation: At 15th level, if killed, the Illurien reappears in her Secret Library two days later with full gear and no XP loss (her old body and gear automatically dissolve into normal water when she's killed). The one who killed her however starts geting dreams about the Hidden library. If not killed within 1 month, he'll be able to find a safe way into the Illurien's haven, both reaching it trough planar travel and evading the traps and guardians. If the Illurien successfully slays them, they forget this info even if somehow brought back to life (or unlife), thinking it all a crazed dream.

Ancient Rain: The ultimate Tempest Technique, combining a myriad of different martial arts to deliver a devastating blow customized to the enemy.
1/day as a standard action make a basic attack with your Tempest Lash. If you hit you deal additional damage equal to 3 times a knowledge check from you (following the same knowledge rules of Tempest Technique) and your opponent must succeed on a save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod (you pick what kind of save they make) or be rendered permanently dazed, stunned, paralyzed, dead, blinded, fatigued, disabled, exhausted or deafened (pick two). You may end any of those conditions other that dead as a move action while adjacent to the target. Even if your opponent saves, they still take Int damage from Tempest Lash (no save) and they're sickened, shaken and dazzled for 1 round.

Ancient Rain cannot be recovered by Punish the Ignorant.

All that's left is replacing Tecnique by Technique in the table.

[oslecamo]

Applied the corrections, and I can't see anything else wrong with your prc.

[Anomander]

I've seen the Illurien come up in the build section and after looking at it again there are a few things I've been wondering.

The requirements to get Tempest Techniques are based on HD rather than Illurien levels, so perhaps it would be a better idea to turn Ancient Rain into a normal Tempest Technique by removing the permanent effect and maybe the auto-int damage and adding another level 8 conversion and at least the level 9 strike.
Reasoning being that the Illurien rewards straying off its monster class by multiclassing into a martial class so it may well gain access to the higher level Tempest Techniques before it finishes the base monster class.
Even if it sticks with it and doesn't enter the PrC, it could still get the higher Tempest Techniques after meeting their HD requirement via the Expanded Tempest Tec(h)nique feat.

The HD 16 ones could be Ancient Rain and Glimpses of the Far Away Land (The Legend of the Far Away Land, doing the very same thing but maybe without imitating Tempest Technique buffs)
THe HD 18 one (if the stance isn't converted) could be Total Absorption/Total Collection/Total Extraction  (Total Purification). It would do the same but take a standard action instead of fullround action. Affect a single target within dagger range. It would pull the hit target to the new location and make it a comatose being at 0 Int as if the tempest lash fully drained it on a failed save or if slain by the technique instead of petrifying it.
If the stance is converted, the adaption on the mechanism could be that after leaving it all technique recovery, its own included, are maximized. So 4 rounds of cooldown instead of 1d4.

To get an idea of how the conversion would be done (a simpler process than I imagined), I compared all techniques to the maneuver they are based on to get a feel of how you made them.
Two felt like inferior versions of their maneuver counterpart.

Sacred Planar Lash: While it limits you to the upgrade of the tempest lash and doesn't let you change it's shape to another weapon, it doesn't let you use Boost and Counter-like techniques. What I find strange with the original maneuver though is that it is a stance that requires a standard action instead of the usual swift action (which would allow you to summon the weapon and actually use it in the same round).
It would actually be convenient to have it be swift because of the downtime it would create between the change in style. The Illurien has a high BAB and can make iterative attacks and can use it to get better attacks but to be able to make good fullattacks, it must waste a round's standard to get into 'fullattack mode', and then lose it as soon as it decides to use any other technique for any reason, and so needing to spend another round going back to 'fullattack' mode (and maybe not even get to use it if you need to use a counter technique before then). Also, if it ends upon using another technique, do you still get the benefit from the tempest lash's enhancement bonus to attack/damage on the hit of the technique that ends it?

Drown the Lost: It follows the same pattern as the others, being done as a standard action instead of a fullround action with dagger range instead of insane scaling range, but requires a hit as well as saves to get through. However, unlike the maneuver it does not offer an alternate use, the original's being a heal and curing of ailments.


Also, I was wondering if those Tempest Technique would count as Plain History maneuvers/stances for the purpose of meeting the requirements of the Plain History feats. They seem to fit the creature perfectly.
If a particular distinction must be done for what works as a stance, perhaps Sacred Planar Lash and Rain over the Land could work as stances like techs with stance durations that do not stack with stance maneuvers. The former enhancing tempest lash attacks and the later allowing techniques to have more than one 'point-blank' range target.

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On another topic, I've been thinking that perhaps it would be a good idea to make Pointed Knowledge optional people communicated by telepathy. I believe that it might get bothersome for the DM to give all those details to the player every time he has the character mindspeak something to a new npc, especially if he doesn't care to learn the stuff.

[oslecamo]

I've seen the Illurien come up in the build section and after looking at it again there are a few things I've been wondering.

The requirements to get Tempest Techniques are based on HD rather than Illurien levels, so perhaps it would be a better idea to turn Ancient Rain into a normal Tempest Technique by removing the permanent effect and maybe the auto-int damage and adding another level 8 conversion and at least the level 9 strike.
Reasoning being that the Illurien rewards straying off its monster class by multiclassing into a martial class so it may well gain access to the higher level Tempest Techniques before it finishes the base monster class.
Even if it sticks with it and doesn't enter the PrC, it could still get the higher Tempest Techniques after meeting their HD requirement via the Expanded Tempest Tec(h)nique feat.

The HD 16 ones could be Ancient Rain and Glimpses of the Far Away Land (The Legend of the Far Away Land, doing the very same thing but maybe without imitating Tempest Technique buffs)
THe HD 18 one (if the stance isn't converted) could be Total Absorption/Total Collection/Total Extraction  (Total Purification). It would do the same but take a standard action instead of fullround action. Affect a single target within dagger range. It would pull the hit target to the new location and make it a comatose being at 0 Int as if the tempest lash fully drained it on a failed save or if slain by the technique instead of petrifying it.
If the stance is converted, the adaption on the mechanism could be that after leaving it all technique recovery, its own included, are maximized. So 4 rounds of cooldown instead of 1d4.

I'll consider that. Right now I find it somewhat strange to include options that cannot be taken whitin the normal monster advancment.

To get an idea of how the conversion would be done (a simpler process than I imagined), I compared all techniques to the maneuver they are based on to get a feel of how you made them.
Two felt like inferior versions of their maneuver counterpart.

Sacred Planar Lash: While it limits you to the upgrade of the tempest lash and doesn't let you change it's shape to another weapon, it doesn't let you use Boost and Counter-like techniques. What I find strange with the original maneuver though is that it is a stance that requires a standard action instead of the usual swift action (which would allow you to summon the weapon and actually use it in the same round).
It would actually be convenient to have it be swift because of the downtime it would create between the change in style. The Illurien has a high BAB and can make iterative attacks and can use it to get better attacks but to be able to make good fullattacks, it must waste a round's standard to get into 'fullattack mode', and then lose it as soon as it decides to use any other technique for any reason, and so needing to spend another round going back to 'fullattack' mode (and maybe not even get to use it if you need to use a counter technique before then). Also, if it ends upon using another technique, do you still get the benefit from the tempest lash's enhancement bonus to attack/damage on the hit of the technique that ends it?

Actually, that's a leftover from the original Sacred Treasure Sword. Lessened the restriction so that it only ends when you use standard action or higher tempest tecnique. Also that it still applies for that attack.

Drown the Lost: It follows the same pattern as the others, being done as a standard action instead of a fullround action with dagger range instead of insane scaling range, but requires a hit as well as saves to get through. However, unlike the maneuver it does not offer an alternate use, the original's being a heal and curing of ailments.

Healing isn't exactly the Illurien's style. Also since you're hiting them with the lash you're dealing basic lash damage.  But you're right it still seemed a tad weak so increased the duration of the status ailments to 2 rounds.

Also, I was wondering if those Tempest Technique would count as Plain History maneuvers/stances for the purpose of meeting the requirements of the Plain History feats. They seem to fit the creature perfectly.
If a particular distinction must be done for what works as a stance, perhaps Sacred Planar Lash and Rain over the Land could work as stances like techs with stance durations that do not stack with stance maneuvers. The former enhancing tempest lash attacks and the later allowing techniques to have more than one 'point-blank' range target.

Or simply just grab an actual Plain History stance with either feats or a dip in Scholar?

On another topic, I've been thinking that perhaps it would be a good idea to make Pointed Knowledge optional people communicated by telepathy. I believe that it might get bothersome for the DM to give all those details to the player every time he has the character mindspeak something to a new npc, especially if he doesn't care to learn the stuff.

It seems you misread it. Pointed Knowledge gives you facts. Not all facts.

[Anomander]

Aye. If you do elect to complete the Tempest Techniques up to level 9, there might be a need to replace Ancient Rain for something else, if anything.
Perhaps an upgrade to an ability already in its kit or something new, like having her deal ability drain instead of damage. Maybe a passive bonus against enemies whom had their Int damaged by her.

Looking again, two more minor details caught my attention.

Rejuvenation states that the Illurien must slay those whom slayed her to remove their knowledge of how to find her, but if the monster class is taken by a PC within a party, odds are that she won't be the one inflicting the killing blow. Or enemies might suicide or die as part of some death throes to later maybe return to life with the knowledge intact. Perhaps requiring instead that they perish by Illurien's hand or while having at least some of their Int score damaged by her.

Upon gaining Growth, her Tempest Lash damage goes from 1d4 to 1d8. Seeing how it gets two size increases instead of one even though it is meant to behave as a dagger in every way, I wonder if the damage is supposed to be altered whenever the size changes. It seems that the damage jumps to 1d8 even if she choses not to grow since it gets a seperate note instead of just increasing as part of all the normal size increase effects.
Unless there was meant to be a rise to 1d6 first somewhere in between or to begin with.

Your fix on the planar lash should spell; "This effect demands your extreme concentration"

[oslecamo]

Enemies now forget hidden library if they die in any way. So the Illurien can finish them trough a 3rd party or whatnot. More simple that way as well.

1d8 tempest lash is because that's what the original monster damage is. That's what the sacred planar lash damage becomes, regardless of actual size.

Extra tempest techniques will have to wait, since I'm seeing if I can finish some of my actual ToBhou school drafts this August (which reminds me Septette for the Dead still doesn't have finished feats). And keep updating campaigns when I can. And advancing the request list. And beach sessions tiring me out.

[Anomander]

Alrighty, and I agree.

For the tempest lash damage being 1d8, I know that's the damage of their stat block but it was featured as a dagger with natural weapon undertones in its inability to be permanently enchanted. I was mostly pointing it out because it jumps from 1d4 to 1d8 instead of progressing it in die size with 1d6 somewhere in the middle.

[VennDygrem]

For Collector of Memories, does Illurien steal ranks on a 1-to-1 basis with points of int damage, or simply 1 rank each time she deals int damage, regardless of the damage? The way it's worded reads like the latter. It's quite potent so I suppose that even though it's likely to be a fairly slow process getting up to max stolen ranks, it'd still be difficult to make it up to 130 successful attacks at 13th level before maxing out or even gaining a level. Illurien would probably never conceivably gain max ranks that way, I think.

[oslecamo]

The idea is that if you want to maximize the extra skill ranks at high level, you go out there and whip some low level people, which won't be giving you any exp at all.

[VennDygrem]

Gotcha, just wanted the clarification. It definitely makes sense, and Illurien is technically evil. Though at a high level, I'm not sure what useful information she could steal from a low-level mook that would improve her skill in something. Definitely good for shoring up more obscure skills, I'd imagine.

[Raineh Daze]

The idea is that if you want to maximize the extra skill ranks at high level, you go out there and whip some low level people, which won't be giving you any exp at all.

You seem to like making classes go around beating the crap out of nobodies.

[Anomander]

It certainly makes the Illurien one of the monster PCs would hate the most. They come out of nowhere, permasteal you a rank or two and then vanish, forcing you to abandon your quest for a while to hunt them down and get your skill points back. Must be very annoying.