Forsetilafom's character sheet (Fantasy Friday #14)

Forsetilafom
Genderqueer AL aasimar (Nosilebo) ranger (dandy) 3
Medium-size outsider (native)/humanoid (human)
Aura: ; Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.

Strength 8
Dexterity 14
Constitution 15
Intelligence 13
Wisdom 17
Charisma 16

Hit Points: 26
Init: +2 or +4*
Saves: Fort +5 or +7 or +9 (+3 class + 2 Con)**, Ref +5 or +7 (+3 class + 2 Dex)***, Will +4 or +5 or +6 or +7 (+1 class + 3 Wis)****
Base Attack Bonus: +3
Base Speed: 30 feet
Special Qualities: Combat style (fencing/Cayden Cailean), favored nation (Natsiyaasim)*****, favored terrain (urban)*, rumor empathy******
Special Defenses: Deathless spirit (negative energy resistance 5)***
Spell-Like Abilities: 1/day ~ detect desires (CL 3rd, DC 15)
Skills*******: Bluff +9 or +11 (3 ranks + 3 Cha + 3 class)*****, Craft (clothier) +5 (1 rank + 1 Int + 3 class), Diplomacy +11 or +13 (3 ranks + 3 Cha + 2 race + 3 class)*****, Disguise +4 (0 ranks + 3 Cha + 1 Wary), Heal +7 (1 rank + 3 Wis + 3 class), Intimidate +8 (2 ranks + 3 Cha + 3 class), Knowledge (geography) impossible or +3 or +5 (untrained + 1 Int)********, Knowledge (local ~ Nosleborre) +9 or +11 (3 ranks + 1 Int + 3 class + 2 Street Smarts)*****, Knowledge (nobility) +7 or +9 (3 ranks + 1 Int + 3 class)*****, Knowledge (others) impossible or +3 (untrained + 1 Int)*****, Perception +10 or +12 or +14 (3 ranks + 3 Wis + 3 class + 1 ioun)*********, Perform (erotic arts) +5 (0 ranks + 3 Cha + 2 race), Sense Motive +12 or +14 (3 ranks + 3 Wis + 3 class + 2 Street Smarts + 1 ioun)*****, Spellcraft +5 (1 rank + 1 Int + 3 class), Stealth +6 or +8 (1 rank + 2 Dex + 3 class)*, Survival +3 or +4 or +5 or +6 or +7 or +8 (0 ranks + 3 Wis + 0 or 1 track)**********
Feats: Combat Reflexes (B), Endurance (B), Light Armor Proficiency (B), Martial Weapon Proficiency (all) (B), Medium Armor Proficiency (B), Sense Relationships***********, Shield Proficiency (B), Simple Weapon Proficiency (B), Street Smarts
Traits: Adrift, Debauchery Defier************, Wary
Drawbacks: Dependent (shaken after failing Diplomacy check)
Languages:
Equipment: Masterwork rapier, reinforced tunic, cracked blue rhomboid ioun stone, cracked magenta prism ioun stone mounted in a wayfinder*******, noble’s vigilant pillbox (white pearl only)*************

* Favored Terrain (Ex): At 3rd level, a dandy ranger gains a +2 bonus on initiative checks and Knowledge (geography), Perception, Stealth, and Survival skill checks when he is in a city. A dandy ranger traveling through a city normally leaves no trail and cannot be tracked (though he may leave a trail if he so chooses). At 8th level and every five levels thereafter, the skill bonus and initiative bonus in the city increases by +2.
** Deathless Spirit: Asimar possess celestial spirits capable of resisting the powers of death. They gain resistance 5 against negative energy damage. They do not lose hit points when they gain a negative level, and they gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against death effects, energy drain, negative energy, and spells or spell-like abilities of the necromancy school. In addition, the magenta ioun prism stone adds +1 to a single save not affected by the ability score affecting the skill it boosts, chosen at sunset.
*** In addition to benefiting from deathless spirit and the magenta prism ioun stone, Fortitude benefits from Endurance. You gain a +4 bonus on the following checks and saves: Swim checks made to resist nonlethal damage from exhaustion; Constitution checks made to continue running; Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from a forced march; Constitution checks made to hold your breath; Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from starvation or thirst; Fortitude saves made to avoid nonlethal damage from hot or cold environments; and Fortitude saves made to resist damage from suffocation. You may sleep in light or medium armor without becoming fatigued.
**** In addition to benefiting from deathless spirit and the magenta ioun prism stone, Will benefits from Adrift. The four bonus represent (a) normal, (b) versus compulsion and charm effects, (c) versus the various types of effects listed in deathless spirit, (d) versus effects listed in deathless spirits that also happen to be charm or compulsion effects, if that ever happens.
***** Favored Nation (Ex): Each time he would select a favored enemy, a dandy instead selects a country with whose courtly graces he is wholly versed and studied. He gains a +2 bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, Knowledge, Perception, Sense Motive, and Survival checks against courtiers, officials, nobles, and gentry from that nation. Likewise, he gains a +2 bonus on weapon attack and damage rolls against them. A dandy can attempt the appropriate Knowledge checks untrained to identify such people from the selected country. A dandy gains additional favored nations, and can increase the bonuses of one of his current favored nations, in the same way he would with a normal ranger’s favored enemy.
****** Rumor Empathy (Ex): A dandy can alter the flow and spread of rumors in his favor. This functions similarly to wild empathy, except that it takes 1 day (8 hours of work), instead of 1 minute, and it affects the general tenor of a rumor instead of a wild animal. A successful rumor empathy check (using Diplomacy) allows the dandy to increase or decrease the rumor’s tone by one step. For example, he could make an indifferent rumor friendly and thus positive toward its target, or an unfriendly rumor hostile and thus even more negative toward its target than it was originally. The difficulty of influencing a rumor depends on the size of the community in which it is spreading. The DC of the check is 15 in a village or smaller settlement. This DC increases by 5 and the number of days required to attempt the check increases by 2 for every settlement size category larger than a village—to a maximum of DC 40 and 11 days to affect a rumor spreading through an entire metropolis. If the rumor is only spreading through a smaller segment of the population, such as the elven district in a larger metropolis, use the population of that smaller segment to determine the DC and number of days of work required to use rumor empathy. The DC also increases by 10 if the rumor is about the dandy himself, since the dandy is obviously a biased source with respects to rumors about his own person.
******* A magenta ioun stone gives a +2 competence bonus to one skill and a +1 competence bonus to one save affected by a different ability score, both chosen at sunset. That second effect suppresses the usual effects of the wayfinder.
******** Knowledge (geography) benefits from both favored nation and favored terrain. The three bonuses, in order, are (a) normal, (b) when involving someone from Natsiyaasim, (c) when involving a city in Natsiyaasim.
********* Perception benefits from both favored nation and favored terrain. The three bonuses, in order, are (a) normal, (b) when involving someone from Natsiyaasim or in a city, (c) when involving a person from Natsiyaasim in a city.
********** Survival benefits from both favored nation, track, and favored terrain, all class features of the dandy ranger. The six bonuses, in order, are (a) normal, (b) to follow tracks, (c) when rolled against someone from Natsiyaasim or when rolled in a city, (d) to follow the tracks of someone from Natsiyaasim, (e) when rolled against someone from Natsiyaasim in a city, (f) to follow the tracks of someone from Natsiyaasim in a city
*********** Sense Relationships: You can quickly sense relationships between others and use that knowledge to manipulate them. Prerequisite: Street Smarts. Benefit: After 1 minute or more of interaction or observation, you can attempt a DC 20 Sense Motive check to get a hunch in order to intuit the relationship between any two creatures interacting with one another. If you don’t understand the language they are speaking, you take a –5 penalty on the check, and if the creatures are a different type than you, you take an additional –5 penalty on the check. If you succeed at this check by 5 or more, for the next hour, you gain a +2 bonus on Bluff checks to lie about one of the creatures to the other and on Diplomacy checks to request that one act against the other. If you fail the check, you cannot attempt this ability on the same creatures again until you gain an additional rank in Sense Motive.
************ Debauchery Defier (Social): You are particularly adept at resisting addiction. You must fail two saving throws in a row to become addicted to a drug.
************* Noble’s Vigilant Pillbox: Aura: faint divination; CL: 5th; Weight: —; Slot: none; Price: 3,600 gp. This heart-shaped charm is set with three pearls: one white, one silver, and one black. Inside, a tiny compartment usually contains smelling salts or alchemist’s kindness. Each pearl has a primary, passive ability and a secondary, active ability that activates if it is removed from the setting and swallowed (a standard action, as if drinking a potion). Swallowing a pearl destroys it. A command word activates the primary abilities of all three pearls for 1 round. When activated, the white pearl detects poison in a 10-foot radius around the wearer, dulling to a dark gray if poison is within range. If swallowed, it grants the benefit of a delay poison spell. The silver pearl detects diseases in a 10-foot radius, turning bright blue on discovery. If swallowed, it grants the benefit of a remove disease spell. The black pearl turns white if any invisible creature is within 10 feet of the wearer. If swallowed, it grants the benefits of see invisibility for 1 minute. A pillbox found with missing pearls has its price reduced appropriately; a white pearl is worth 750 gp, a silver pearl is worth 1,150 gp, and a black pearl is worth 1,700 gp.

Introducing Forsetilafom (Fantasy Friday #11)

In time, even this character’s watchfulness couldn’t see every gradual corruption. As questionable magical activities came into vogue amongst this character’s peers, they almost fell to the same subtle spiritual disease as everyone else, almost found themself transformed into a wrathful brute. The nobility of their spirit wouldn’t allow them to trip over the line, however, and that drove them back into study. The loremaster’s smug grin as this character sheepishly came to the library after some years of frippery and social engineering was a bother, but a small price to pay as the pair’s research unearthed ancient secrets and a creeping spiritual rot. Strengthening all the spiritual purity they had, this character managed to throw off the effect and once more act as the Bulwark of Courtly Virtue to exorcise it, finally. The old Gold Dragon in Strength gives two tokens it doesn’t actually have to Intelligence.

This character’s incipient devotion to study was somewhat cut short as they were given an actual position, with power as well as honor, within the court. As High-Reeve, this character served to decide cases brought to the court in their host’s stead. Though young, they served well, with justice and supreme judgment as such until they decided to go adventuring. Despite some grumbling at their age, the sheer force and easy joy of their presence prevented anyone from moving against them. Nonetheless, they felt the need to prove themself and that was what brought them to travel the realm as High-Reeve Adventurer. The Silver Dragon in Intelligence gives one of its tokens to Charisma.

This character’s final ability score array thus comes out as:
Strength 8 [-2 points]
Dexterity 14 [5 points]
Constitution 15 [7 points]
Intelligence 13 [3 points]
Wisdom 15 [7 points]
Charisma 14 [5 points]
Constitution missed a 16 by one point, giving one point to Wisdom and one to Charisma. Similarly, Dexterity has one extra point, which trickles down to Intelligence.

We seem to have already determined a race and a homeland for this character ~ they are an asimar (yes, it’s spelt that way in my world) from Natsiyaasim. We should probably name them; I rather like the idea of naming them Forseti, after the most just of the Aesir. One’s noble house is important to most of Natisyaasim’s populace. Each raskokabajho who settled there with Blessed Imye gave rise to several such noble houses, each descended from that raskokabajho. Looking over my notes, I determine that Forseti is a scion of the raskokabajho Nosilebo, patron of Natsiyaasim’s various houses of carnal love. Taking a peek over at a Kushiel’s Legacy series wiki, I see that Namarrese houses include L’Envers, Fhirze, Le Blanc, Le Doux, and Lafons. (Namarre is the region of Terre d’Ange settled by Naamah, the equivalent to Nosilebo; the equivalent region of Natsiyaasim is called Nosleborre). Looking at the meanings of these names, I decide Lafons (http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Lafond) is the most appropriate for Forseti and remove the end to make the name work better with Natsiyaasim’s langauge.

In English/D’Angeline, their name would thus be “Forseti Lafo”, but in the language of Natsiyaasim, such a name would be constructed as a genitive phrase (Forseti of Lafo). I based the genitive construction in this language on that of Sumerian, so they are expressed as a single word constructed as follows: OWNED.OWNER.m. In this case, Forseti is the “owned” and Lafo the “owner”, so their name comes out as Forsetilafom, the asimar (a word that means “pertaining to that which is of the angel”, much like D’Angeline is an adjectival form of the prepositional phrase “d’Ange”).

As an aasimar descended from Nosilebo, Forsetilafonsom gains +2 Wisdom and +2 Charisma, some protection against negative energy, a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Perform (erotic arts), the ability to cast detect desires once per day, and darkvision. As to Forsetilafonsom’s class, well, that’s not nearly as obvious (this is an interesting inversion of Boanerges’s process!) I think looking through the book Heroes of the High Court might be a good place to start . . . . The biggest things that jump out at me from that book are a couple of spells (one far in the future, as its 6th or 7th level) that would seem to entice Forsetilafonsom into becoming a cleric, inquisitor, sorcerer, witch, or wizard. And the silksworn occultist. At first, I was ready to pass on the silksworn, as psychic powers are a Scarhasi thing, but the silksworn occultist’s spells are arcane! For the moment, that puts occultist in the front running.

Heroes of the High Court also reminded me of Ultimate Intrigue, so I’ll check that out now. And the dandy archetype for rangers wins the day! It’s absolutely perfect! Forsetilafom is officially a ranger (dandy). 6d6 roll a dead average 21, making them 41 years old (significantly younger than Boanerges). I’ve been thinking about Forsetilafom’s gender, and I think I really like the idea of them being genderqueer. I often feel myself as an inside-outsider in a society so heavily binarily-gendered and have found that such a position can be both quite revealing and very powerful. Perfect for Forsetilafom. So I’ll average the heights and weights listed for male and female aasimar. Again, the dice come out right in the average; in this case, it’s 2d8 and that gives Forsetilafom 5’10” of height. They’re just a tiny bit skinny, at 140 pounds.