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Dhampir Soulweaver, Skelemaster, Baker

"Uh... Let me check my notes!"

Quite a few dhampirs are born of rape. The other common occurrence is when a vampire and a human, usually male and female respectively, love each other very much and can pull the mechanics off, often just before the human's turning. Valeria is the product of one such union, and was raised in a pretty peculiar household because of this -- the expectation was that she would seamlessly transition into undeath after she'd grown. It's hard to develop an interest in cooking when most of your family is on a liquid diet, but Valeria did. So's to want to learn to swim when everyone else is more interested in turning into mist.

Valeria's mother wanted to retain her good looks in undeath, and had her first and necessarily only child very early; shortly after Valeria hit puberty, it became apparent to her just how damn vapid her parents were, and how immortality had turned the elder vampires she knew into creatures of ennui and inertia, playing the same political games over and over, learning nothing. Understanding that "a mockery of life" could have a non-literal meaning, Valeria theatrically opened the curtains (which didn't do much, in fairness), flipped everyone the bird, and left.

Valeria tried many times to make her mark in the world, with mixed (read: low) success, partly due to her peculiar upbringing (her understanding of what is macabre or gross tends to be fairly backwards) and partly because she's objectively a bit of a spaz. Growing up in a household of idle rich with not even aging to worry about, she tried her hand at nearly everything, without much commitment, which did not prepare her very much for life outside a silver cage.

For example, her attempt to open a bakery failed because as much as having skeletal hands do the kneading and furnace operating is hygienic, people were grossed out and too many questions happened about whose bones were those anyway; she's since stuck to animals mostly. She joined a peasant revolt once, resulting in accidentally creating a zombie due to excess of medical care on one unfortunate guerrilla fighter, leading her to the knowledge that, well, that was not medicine. During this last incident she also learned to handle a voulge with reasonable competence. Or is that a ranseur. Big pole thing with hooky blade at the end.

As it often happens after an attempt to settle down goes sour, Valeria is now taking roaming jobs to finance her next venture. Most recently, she's made her way into the mountains, betting that the folk living there will appreciate her skills if not her mannerisms. She genuinely wants to learn to be a healer, but hasn't quite understood that this does not really go along with the sort of bonecrafting that she does.

True Name: Valeria

Racial Abilities (Dhampir): Darkvision 60ft, Lowlight Vision, 30ft speed
Resist Level Drain: Valeria takes no penalties from energy drain effects, though she can still be killed if she accrues more negative levels then she has Hit Dice. After 24 hours, any negative levels Valeria takes are removed without the need for an additional saving throw.
Spell-like Abilities: 3/day detect undead (CL 13th)
Defenses

Attacks

• aeouoaoeu
• aoeuaoeua

Skills: Influence 5 (+10), Perception 8 (+10), Religion 8 (+14), Society 5 (+10), Spellcraft 13 (+19), Survival 13 (+17)

Traits and Feats

• Dangerously Curious (Magic)
• Patient Optimist (Religion; Erastil)
• Student of Giantkind(Campaign)

Arcane Strike (+3), Channeled Detonation, Charnel Soldiers, Command Undead, Cunning, Dodge, Extra Talent (Greater Healing), Extra Talent (Greater Invigorate), Extra Talent (Healthy Invigorate), Extra Talent (Vampiric Disruption, Open-Minded, Outflank, Superior Reanimate, Toughness

Special Abilities:

• Channel Energy (Su): [3+CHA] 7/day, (7d6 Negative Energy, Will DC20 halves) Can Heal Undead and Self or Harm Living creatures.
  • Command Undead: (Will Save DC20) Caster may command up to 52 HD worth of undead through this ability. Requires a standard action and expends a use of channel energy, and affects all undead within 30 feet. Unintelligent undead are permanently controlled (until released), while intelligent undead may save against this ability each day.
• Bound Nexus (Su): [3+CHA] 7/day; DC 20
  • Nexus Powers:
  • Aid the Dead - Undead gains +3 profane to attack saves, and turn resistance, plus 13 temp HP; lasts 1 hour.
  • Lovelorn Soul - Ally at negative HP, but not dead, becomes stable and gains 26 temporary hit points for 1 minute.
  • Siphon Health - Deals 6d6 (fortitude half) damage to a living creature; soul weaver gains temp HP equal to damage for 1 hour.
  • Curious Spirit – You may expend a soul from your nexus to attempt a knowledge check with an insight bonus equal to your soul weaver level + your charisma modifier. Alternatively, you may speak with the spirit of a creature than has been dead no longer than 1 day per level, however the creature is not obligated to answer (you must attempt diplomacy as normal).
  • Incarnate Spirit III – You may expend a soul from your nexus to create spiritual creatures that remain for a number of rounds equal to your charisma modifier. These spirits cannot create spawn, and may be of the following: 1 wraith, or 2 shadows, or 4 poltergeists.
  • Channel Mastery – When using channel energy, you may expend a soul from your nexus to apply any channel feat you otherwise qualify for to that use of channel energy.
  • Divine Soul – When using channel energy, you may expend a soul from your nexus to increase the die size to d10s instead of d6s.
  • Blessed Soul – When an ally fails a saving throw, you may expend a soul from your nexus as an immediate action, allowing them to reroll that saving throw.
  • Ghostpoint – When using a spell, spell-like ability, sphere ability, or soul weaver ability, you may treat one of your souls as the origin point for that effect. Afterward, that soul is expended.

Sphere Casting: Caster possesses strange talents unlike the common slot-based spell preparation of most magic users. She was still brought up in the traditions of old, and has some of the same restrictions, such as specific movements and chants to use her magic, but she also requires her spell book, or spell-slate in this case, in order to fully focus on what she is doing.

Caster Level: 13, charisma-based

Spell Points: 24 = (+13 class +4 charisma +7 traditions)

Tradition (Traditional Caster): Focus Casting (Workbook), Somatic Casting (Cannot cast in armor heavier than light; suffers arcane spell failure), Verbal Casting (all casting requires verbal components)

• Balm of False Life: Caster may touch a creature and grant them up to 26 temporary hit points that persist for 13 hours. These temporary hit points do not stack with other uses of balm of false life.
• Healing Touch (Strange): Caster may heal creatures with her touch by spending 1 spell point, curing any creature for 4d8+26 hit points, and always brings the affected creature to at least 1 hit point. She may use this ability on constructs, living creatures, and undead equally, and if used on a creature that has died within 1 round, that creature is brought back to life with 1 hit point and 1 temporary negative level.
• Magical Panacea: Caster is able to restore the health, mind, and even soul to creatures. By spending a spell point and touching a creature, the target receives all of the following benefits.
  Cures 1d4 points of ability damage, all ability drain and temporary negative levels
  Clears diseases and poisons with a successful caster skill check
  Reduce fatigue, fear, or sickened conditions by one stage
  Remove battered, confused, dazed, dazzled, and staggered conditions
• Necromantic Disruption: Caster may attempt to disrupt the life energy of a creature with a touch (or through her athame), spending a spell point and making a melee touch attack against her target. This touch deals 13d6 points of nonlethal, untyped damage, and on a critical strike the damage is not multiplied but instead the target is dazed for 1 turn with no save. As a swift action after a successful attack, she may use balm of false life, healing touch (strange), or magical panacea, paying the spell point cost as normal (if any).
• Reanimation: Caster may reanimate dead bodies by touching a dead body and expending a spell point, or by spending 2 spell points and affecting any number of bodies within 55 feet. The affected creature(s) reanimate(s) as a skeleton, bloody skeleton, or burning skeleton, gaining a +6 enhancement bonus to STR and DEX, and persists for 13 hours (spending 25gp worth of reagents per HD of the animated undead causes it to become permanent).
  • Caster's undead are strangely more intelligent than normal, and know up to 4 tricks similar to trained animals. She may also imbue them with proficiency in a single skill, which does not count as a trick.
  • While reanimating multiple creatures, she may fuse them into a single, chimeric skeleton, combining all the hit dice of the base undead into the final product. A chimeric skeleton gains 2 construction points (CP), and may gain 1 additional CP per 4 HD it possesses. Each CP added to a chimeric skeleton is also added to its hit dice for purposes of the total amount of HD Caster may keep animated. Chimeric skeletons cannot gain the metal or stone construction abilities.
  • Caster may animate up to 52 HD worth of undead animated through this method; bloody and burning skeletons count double against this limit.

Equipment

• Deboning Svardstav; +2 blood-iron swardstav

• Jaw of Mars (Partial); +1 adamantine-lined red dragon bone macahuitl

• Athame of Forced Vampirism; +1 hurtful blood crystal athame

• Always on Time (Mystic Code); +2 aranea silk buffering dodging protective bodysuit

• Ghost Trap
• Belt of Strange Vials: This curious belt has several pouches designed to hold vials of various fluids, each vial holding roughly 4 ounces of liquid. The vials themselves disappear 1 round after their contents are emptied. At will, Caster may draw a vial of pure water, lamp or cooking oil, or smelling salts from the belt as a move action. When drawing a vial, she may spend a number of the belt's 5 charges to draw a vial of a different substance. The belt's charges are restored each day at dawn.
  • 1 charge: Garlic-infused olive oil
  • 1 charge: Alchemical grenade (2d6+2 energy damage, 10ft burst; acid, cold, fire, holy, unholy)
  • 2 charges: A solution of 95% Ethyl Alcohol and water
  • 2 charges: Healing elixir (2d4+2 HP healed), Anti-disease, or Anti-toxin
  • 3 charges: Improved alchemical grenade (4d6+4 energy damage, 10ft burst; acid, cold, fire, holy, unholy)
  • 5 charges: Greater alchemical grenade (6d6+6 energy damage, 10ft burst; acid, cold, fire, holy, unholy)
• Crystal Spell-slate: This crystalline slate measures 2x3 hands on its flat surface, while being thinner than Caster's pinky finger. One side of this slate is its active side, which Caster interacts with to access its many features. The slate has effectively limitless storage of simple text, and can store up to 200 images that it is capable of capturing if pointed at a subject. It can also record up to 5 minutes of video with audio, or 30 minutes of audio alone. It can also store and cast scrolls and magical text, which count as images for its storage ability. It also comes with an interactive game, which Caster can often get distracted by, and refuses to remove even if it would increase its storage 10 times over.

Ginny, companion

• Master's Bond – Ginny gains the following abilities while within 60 feet of Caster.
  • Familiar – Ginny may deliver melee touch spells and effects in place of Caster.
  • Fast Healing 5 – Ginny heals 5 HP each round.
  • Necrotic Attacks – Ginny's attacks deal an additional +1d6 points of negative energy damage.
  • Necrotic Breath – Ginny may perform a breath attack (6d6 negative energy damage in a 15ft cone, fortitude DC 18 for half) once every 1d4 rounds. This increases to once per minute if outside of the area of Master's Bond.