Glaring blast is similar to the 3rd-level lumin paragon encounter power dazzling blast, but with a defender-ish slant because it protects you and your allies instead of making your enemies more vulnerable.

Glaring Blast
Lumin Paragon Attack 7
A brilliant wave of light obscures your enemies' vision.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Close blast 3
Targets: All enemies in blast
Attack: Wisdom + 2 vs. Will, Charisma + 2 vs. Will, or other ability score vs. Will
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for Wisdom and Charisma to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st level.
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for other ability scores to +2 at 11th level and +4 at 21st level.
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier radiant damage, and you and your allies gain concealment against all attacks from the target until the end of your next turn.
Healing Surge: Increase damage to 2d6 + Charisma modifier.
At 11th level, increase damage to 3d6 + Charisma modifier, and you may increase the size of the blast to 4.
At 21st level, increase damage to 4d6 + Charisma modifier, and you may increase the size of the blast to 5.

Healing flare is primarily a healing power with a secondary attack, unlike the 1st-level lumin paragon encounter power ray of searing vigor, which is primarily an attack power with a secondary healing function.

Healing Flare
Lumin Paragon Attack 7
Radiant energy surrounds an ally, healing him and damaging his closest opponents.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Area burst 1 within 5 squares centered on an ally
Targets: All enemies in burst
Attack: Wisdom + 2 vs. Reflex, Charisma + 2 vs. Reflex, or other ability score vs. Reflex
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for Wisdom and Charisma to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st level.
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for other ability scores to +2 at 11th level and +4 at 21st level.
Hit: 1d6 + Wisdom modifier radiant damage.
Effect: The ally may spend a healing surge.
Healing Surge: Increase damage to 2d6 + Wisdom modifier, and your ally regains additional hit points equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier if he spends a healing surge.
At 11th level, increase damage to 3d6 + Wisdom modifier, and your ally regains additional hit points equal to 6 + your Wisdom modifier if he spends a healing surge.
At 21st level, increase damage to 4d6 + Wisdom modifier, and your ally regains additional hit points equal to 9 + your Wisdom modifier if he spends a healing surge.

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Dazzling blast is a controller-ish close blast power. It's deliberately pegged to be not as good as the 3rd-level wizard encounter power color spray, although it's more selective with respect to its targets.

Dazzling Blast
Lumin Paragon Attack 3
A blast of light momentarily disorients your foes.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Close blast 3
Target: All enemies in blast
Attack: Wisdom + 2 vs. Will, Charisma + 2 vs. Will, or other ability score vs. Will
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for Wisdom and Charisma to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st level.
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for other ability scores to +2 at 11th level and +4 at 21st level.
Hit: 1d6 + Wisdom modifier radiant damage, and the target grants combat advantage to you and your allies until the end of your next turn.
Healing Surge: Increase damage to 2d6 + Wisdom modifier.
At 11th level, increase damage to 3d6 + Wisdom modifier, and you may increase the size of the blast to 4.
At 21st level, increase damage to 4d6 + Wisdom modifier, and you may increase the size of the blast to 5.

Radiant bolts is a striker-ish ranged attack that focuses on dealing damage. Since the healing surge augmentation increases the damage dealt to each target instead of the damage dealt by each attack, it moderates the amount of damage that this power can deal to a single target.

Radiant Bolts
Lumin Paragon Attack 3
You unleash multiple bolts of radiant energy.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Ranged 5
Targets: One or more creatures
Attack: Wisdom + 2 vs. Reflex, Charisma + 2 vs. Reflex, or other ability score vs. Reflex, two attacks
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for Wisdom and Charisma to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st level.
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for other ability scores to +2 at 11th level and +4 at 21st level.
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier radiant damage.
Healing Surge: You deal an additional 1d6 + 2 radiant damage to each target you hit.
At 11th level, you gain a third attack and deal an additional 2d6 + 4 radiant damage to each target you hit.
At 21st level, you gain two additional attacks (total four attacks) and deal an additional 3d6 + 6 radiant damage to each target you hit.

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A lumin paragon may use any of his ability scores to modify the attack rolls (but not the damage rolls) of his powers. However, the other ability scores will usually be at a disadvantage compared to Wisdom or Charisma (see individual powers for details). This enables lumin paragon powers to remain competitive (if not optimal) for characters that do not have high scores in either Wisdom or Charisma, while rewarding characters that do.

A key feature of most lumin paragon powers is that they can be augmented by spending a healing surge as a free action when they are used. See the individual power descriptions for the increased effect of spending a healing surge.

Ray of searing vigor fills what I see as a gap in the current line-up of clerical powers: a way for a ranged cleric to trigger a healing surge similar to the melee cleric's healing strike. Other ranged characters can also take this power to give themselves a small amount of healing ability.

Ray of Searing Vigor
Lumin Paragon Attack 1
A ray of radiant energy sears an enemy and heals an ally.
Encounter * Healing, Radiant
Standard Action
Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom + 2 vs. Reflex, Charisma + 2 vs. Reflex, or other ability score vs. Reflex
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for Wisdom and Charisma to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st level.
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for other ability scores to +2 at 11th level and +4 at 21st level.
Hit: 2d6 + Wisdom modifier radiant damage. In addition, an ally adjacent to the target may spend a healing surge.
Healing Surge: Increase damage to 3d6 + Wisdom modifier, and your ally regains additional hit points equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier if he spends a healing surge.
At 11th level, increase damage to 4d6 + Wisdom modifier, and your ally regains additional hit points equal to 6 + your Wisdom modifier if he spends a healing surge.
At 21st level, increase damage to 5d6 + Wisdom modifier, and your ally regains additional hit points equal to 9 + your Wisdom modifier if he spends a healing surge.

Veil of light gives melee-oriented characters a Close attack. However, ranged characters may also find it that it helps them slip away if they find themselves unexpectedly in melee.

Veil of Light
Lumin Paragon Attack 1
Dazzling beams of light hide you from your enemies.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Close burst 1
Target: Each enemy in burst that you can see
Attack: Wisdom + 2 vs. Reflex, Charisma + 2 vs. Reflex, or other ability score vs. Reflex
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for Wisdom and Charisma to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st level.
Increase the bonus to attack rolls for other ability scores to +2 at 11th level and +4 at 21st level.
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier radiant damage, and you are invisible to the target until the end of your turn.
Healing Surge: Increase damage to 2d6 + Charisma modifier.
At 11th level, increase damage to 3d6 + Charisma modifier.
At 21st level, increase damage to 4d6 + Charisma modifier.

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It occured to me today that you could use multiclass-only classes (such as the Spellscarred, from the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide) to model the racial paragon classes introduced in 3e's Unearthed Arcana. Since there is a small chance that WotC might come up with racial paragon multiclass-only classes for the core races, I'll develop this idea using my homebrew lumin race instead.

A lumin paragon is an exemplar of his race. He gains access to powers that emphasize his racial affinity for healing and light, and which are particularly effective against demons and undead creatures. (Yes, that last bit was pretty much lifted from the lumin paladin specialized class. I will probably absorb the powers from that class into the lumin paragon class.)

Legacy of Light (Multiclass Lumin Paragon)
Prerequisite: Lumin
Benefit: You qualify for the Novice Power, Acolyte Power, and Adept Power feats, treating lumin paragon as the class into which you have multiclassed. You also choose one blessing from the following list:

* Blessed Durability: You may use your Charisma modifier instead of your Constitution modifier to determine your number of healing surges per day.

* Blessed Skill: You may use your Charisma modifier instead of your Wisdom modifier to make Heal checks, and your Wisdom modifier instead of your Intelligence modifier to make Religion checks.

* Blessed Toughness: You may add your Wisdom score to your starting hit points instead of your Constitution score. Your number of healing surges is still based on your Constitution score.

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This is a feat that basically gives a lumin paladin access to holy strike as a third at-will attack prayer. Flavor-wise, since lumin were descended from humans and have a special affinity for radiant energy, it I think seems reasonable to allow a lumin to have a third at-will attack, as long as it's related to radiant energy. Mechanics-wise, since there is a feat that gives warlocks access to a third at-will attack power (it's paragon tier, but it also gives access to a second pact boon), I don't think it's unbalanced either.

Holy Strike Training (Lumin, Paladin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, paladin
Benefit: You know the holy strike power as an additional at-will power.

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Here's another idea for a lumin racial feat. It effectively gives lumin PCs an at-will radiant attack if they do not already have one. It's more situationally useful, when the PC is fighting undead or other creatures vulnerable to radiant damage, or creatures resistant to his normal attacks (but not radiant damage).

Enduring Radiance (Lumin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, channel radiance racial power, paragon tier
Benefit: When you use your channel radiance racial power, your ranged and melee basic attacks gain the radiant keyword and deal radiant damage until the end of the encounter. You may end this effect as a free action.

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I generally like the flavor that powers related to light (or radiance in 4e) are difficult to escape from completely. This feat gives a lumin PC an advantage when using radiant powers against an opponent in his aura of light.

Aura of Inescapable Radiance (Lumin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, Wis 15, Cha 17, aura of light racial power, paragon tier
Benefit: If you miss with a radiant power against an opponent in a square affected by your aura of light and you wouldn't otherwise deal damage on the miss, you deal damage to that opponent equal to your Charisma modifier. This damage receives no modifiers or other benefits you normally gain on damage rolls, e.g. from the Focused Radiance racial feat.

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Some of a lumin PC's racial abilities, feats and powers can be thematically tied to his aura of light racial power, and a DM who wants to make this link explicit could rule that these abilities, feats and powers only function when the lumin's aura of light is active.

While this could add an occasional complication to the use of these abilities (the PC may not be able to use them when he wants to be stealthy, for example), it is not meant to be a significant restriction and is thus intended to be more of a flavor rule. In order to prevent it from becoming an actual hindrance to lumin PCs that are supposed to be stealthy (e.g. lumin rogues and rangers) it can be assumed that a lumin trained in Stealth has learned techniques that allow him to access these abilities without activating his aura of light.

The racial abilities, feats and powers can be tied to a lumin's aura of light are as follows:

Aura of Vigor (Lumin racial ability)
Aura of Life (Lumin racial feat)
Channel Divinity: Fiendsmite (Lumin Paladin feat)
Aura of Channeled Healing (Lumin Paladin feat)
Celestial Brilliance (Lumin Paladin daily attack power)

Note: Aura of Revelation is not included as it specifically requires aura of light to be active when used.

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Racial specialized classes are another possible application of the general concept of specialized classes. Here's an example using the lumin race. The lumin paladin gains access to feats and powers that emphasize his racial affinity for healing and light, and which are particularly effective against demons and undead creatures.

Lumin Paladin (Lumin, Paladin Specialization)
Prerequisites: Lumin, paladin, lay on hands power, Good or Lawful Good alignment, no other multiclass or class specialization feat
Benefit: You may use your Charisma modifier instead of your Constitution modifier to determine your number of healing surges per day. You may also use lay on hands a number of times per day equal to your Wisdom modifier plus half your Charisma modifier.
You also gain access to Lumin Paladin powers, which you may select in place of a paladin power of the same level.
In addition, this feat qualifies you to take the Radiant Servant cleric paragon path.

The following feats may be taken by a character with the Lumin Paladin feat:

Fiendslayer (Lumin Paladin)
Prerequisites: Lumin Paladin, divine challenge power
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls against demons and undead creatures that are marked by your divine challenge.

Channel Divinity: Fiendsmite (Lumin Paladin, Divinity)
Prerequisites: Lumin Paladin, Channel Divinity class feature, paragon tier
Benefit: You can invoke the power of your deity to use fiendsmite.

Channel Divinity: Fiendsmite
Racial Class Feat Power
You invoke the wrath of the gods on your sworn foes.
Encounter * Divine, Implement, Radiant
Standard Action
Close burst 5
Target: Each demon and undead creature in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 3d8 + Charisma modifier radiant damage, and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn.
Increase to 4d8 + Charisma modifier radiant damage at 15th level, 5d8 + Charisma modifier radiant damage at 21st level, and 6d8 + Charisma modifier radiant damage at 25th level.

Aura of Channeled Healing (Lumin Paladin)
Prerequisites: Lumin Paladin, aura of light racial power, paragon tier
Benefit: You may use lay on hands as a Close burst 5 power instead of a Melee touch power. You may still only target one creature per use of the power.

The following is an incomplete list of Lumin Paladin powers. Additional powers may be added subsequently.

Radiant Sacrifice
Lumin Paladin Utility 2
You draw on your own reserves of energy to power a radiant attack.
Encounter * Divine
Minor Action
Personal
Effect: You spend a healing surge but do not regain any hit points. The next attack power with the radiant keyword that you use before the end of your turn gains a +1 power bonus to the attack roll and a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

Breaching Smite
Lumin Paladin Attack 7
Your weapon weakens your enemy's defences as it strikes.
Encounter * Divine, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma damage, and the target's resistances are reduced by 5. A target with variable resistance has its variable resistance reduced by 10 instead.

Celestial Brilliance
Lumin Paladin Attack 19
You channel the holy light of the celestial realms into the area around you.
Daily * Divine, Radiant, Implment, Zone
Standard Action
Close burst 5
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 3d10 + Charisma modifier radiant damage. If the target is either a demon or an undead creature, it also grants combat advantage to you and your allies until the end of your next turn.
Miss: Half damage, and the target does not grant combat advantage if it is either a demon or an undead creature.
Effect: The burst creates a zone of radiance which is centered on you and moves with you. Enemies that enter the zone or start their turns there take 1d10 radiant damage. Demons and undead creatures that enter the zone or start their turns in the zone also grant combat advantage to you and your allies until the end of your next turn.
Sustain Minor: The zone persists.

Greater Breaching Smite
Lumin Paladin Attack 23
Your weapon greatly weakens your enemy's defences as it strikes.
Encounter * Divine, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Charisma damage, and the target's resistances are reduced by 10. A target with variable resistance has its variable resistance reduced by 20 instead.

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Here are some additional racial feats for the lumin race. They may not be attractive to characters that already have access to good ranged or area attacks, but they may be situationally useful for characters that are primarily melee focused.

Radiant Ray (Lumin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, channel radiance racial power
Benefit: You may expend the channel radiance power to use radiant ray. This counts as a use of the channel radiance power.

Radiant Ray
Lumin Racial Feat Power
You channel radiant energy and focus it into a deadly beam.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma +2 vs. Reflex
Damage: 2d6 + Charisma modifier radiant damage.
Increase to +4 bonus and 3d6 + Charisma modifier damage at 11th level, and to +6 bonus and 4d6 + Charisma modifier damage at 21st level.

Radiant Blast (Lumin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, channel radiance racial power, paragon tier
Benefit: You may expend the channel radiance power to use radiant blast. This counts as a use of the channel radiance power.

Radiant Blast
Lumin Racial Feat Power
You channel radiant energy into a powerful wave that targets nearby enemies.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Close blast 3
Targets: Each enemy in blast
Attack: Charisma +4 vs. Reflex
Damage: 2d6 + Charisma modifier radiant damage.
Increase to +6 bonus and 3d6 + Charisma modifier damage at 21st level.

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Here are some racial feats for the lumin race. The following are Heroic tier feats:

Aura of Life (Lumin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, aura of light racial power
Benefit: You grant allies within 5 squares of you a +1 racial bonus to Heal checks and death saving throws.

Focused Radiance (Lumin)
Prerequisite: Lumin
Benefit: You gain a +2 feat bonus to damage rolls when you use a power that has the radiant keyword.
At 11th level, this bonus increases to +3. At 21st level, it increases to +4.

Guided Radiance (Lumin)
Prerequisite: Lumin
Benefit: You gain a +1 feat bonus to attack rolls when you use a power that has the radiant keyword.

Lumin Healer (Lumin)
Prerequisite: Lumin, trained in Heal
Benefit: You may make a Heal check to administer first aid as a move action if you take a -2 penalty to your skill check, or as a minor action if you take a -5 penalty to your skill check. You also gain a +2 feat bonus to Heal checks.

Radiant Infusion (Lumin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, channel radiance racial power
Benefit: When you use the channel radiance power, you may use an at-will, encounter or daily attack power instead of making a melee or ranged basic attack (an encounter or daily power is expended as normal). If the power you use has the radiant keyword, you gain an additional +1d6 to your damage roll.

The following are Paragon tier feats:

Aura of Revelation (Lumin)
Prerequisites: Lumin, aura of light racial power
Benefit: You and your allies in squares affected by your aura of light racial power gain a +2 power bonus to Insight and Perception checks.
Special: A lumin cleric may select this feat at 6th level.

Radiant Healing (Lumin)
Prerequisite: Lumin, channel radiance racial power
Benefit: When you use your channel radiance racial power, you or an adjacent ally may spend a healing surge.

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Protectors of the weak and crusaders against evil, with strong ties to the powers of light and life

RACIAL TRAITS
Average Height: 5' 6"-6' 2"
Average Weight: 135-220 lb.

Ability Scores: +2 Wisdom, +2 Charisma
Size: Medium
Speed: 6 squares
Vision: Normal

Languages: Common, Supernal
Skill Bonuses: +2 Heal, +2 Religion
Lumin Fortitude: You gain a +1 racial bonus to your Fortitude defence. In addition, you gain a +2 racial bonus to death saving throws.
Aura Of Vigor: When you use your second wind, allies within 5 squares of you gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Aura Of Light: You can use aura of light as an at-will power.
Channel Radiance: You can use channel radiance as an encounter power.

Aura of Light
Lumin Racial Power
A moment of concentration is all you need to surround yourself with pure white light.
At-Will
Minor Action
Personal
Effect: You surround yourself with a halo of bright light. The light fills your square and all squares within 5 squares of you. The light lasts five minutes. Putting out the light is a free action.

Channel Radiance
Lumin Racial Power
You infuse your attack with radiant energy.
Encounter * Radiant
Standard Action
Personal
Effect: Make a melee or ranged basic attack. The attack deals radiant damage instead of its normal damage type. In addition, you gain a bonus to your damage roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

Lumin are the descendants of a small army of humans who volunteered to hold a narrow mountain pass against a horde of demons and undead monsters and delayed them long enough for the inhabitants of their city to evacuate. Some say that the gods blessed this act of courage and heroism. Others say that the powerful divine artifacts wielded by the city's defenders somehow changed them and their descendants. Whatever the reason for their existence as a race, many lumin seek to emulate the example of their ancestors and use their talents to help and protect others.

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