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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2899980" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>Ssiran Zan'sil</p><p>Male Yuan-ti Thinblood Telepath 5</p><p>Medium Humanoid</p><p>Alignment: Neutral Good</p><p>Patron Spirits: </p><p>Region: Originally Zangala, Currently Ambria </p><p></p><p>Height: 5' 9'' </p><p>Weight: 161 lbs </p><p>Skin: Light Tan</p><p>Hair: Blond</p><p>Eyes: Green</p><p>Age: 24</p><p></p><p>Str: 6 (-2) [0 points, -2 racial] </p><p>Dex: 12 (+1) [4 points]</p><p>Con: 14 (+2) [4 points, +2 racial] </p><p>Int: 22 (+5) [16 point, +2 racial, +1 legendary, +1 stat raise] </p><p>Wis: 14 (+2) [2 points, +4 racial] </p><p>Cha: 16 (+3) [10 points] </p><p></p><p>Racial Abilities:</p><p>+2 Int, +2Con, +4 Wis, -2 Str, low light vision, +2 Diplomacy and Sense Motive.</p><p></p><p>Racial Talents:</p><p>3 bonus Psionic feats--yay!</p><p></p><p>Racial Transformations:</p><p>Improved Initiative</p><p>Becoming the Taint (Only intense magical scrutiny reveals that he is not a Trueborn human)</p><p></p><p>Legendary Path:</p><p></p><p>1st Circle Path of the Learned</p><p></p><p>Class Abilities:</p><p>40 PP / day</p><p>Powers Known-</p><p>1-Attraction, Charm, Inertial Armour, Mindlink, Telempathic Projection, Vigour</p><p>2-Concealing Amorpha, Suggestion, Swarm of Crystals</p><p>3-Body Adjustment, Dispel Psionics</p><p></p><p></p><p>Hit Dice: 5d4 + 10 (Con) + 14 (Psionic Body)</p><p>HP: 40</p><p>AC: 16 [+3 Shield, +1 enhancement to Natural, +1 Deflection, +1 Dex] (AC 20 or higher with Inertial Armour)</p><p>Armor Check Penalty: 0</p><p>Init: +5 (+1 Dex, +4 Improved Init)</p><p>Speed: 30ft </p><p></p><p>Saves</p><p>Fortitude +4 [+1 base, +2 Con, +1 Cloak]</p><p>Reflex +3 [+1 base, +1 Dex, +1 Cloak]</p><p>Will +7 [+4 base, +2 Wis, +1 Cloak]</p><p></p><p>BAB: +2 </p><p>Melee Atk: +0 (melee weapon)</p><p></p><p>Ranged Atk: +3 (as per power)</p><p></p><p>Skills</p><p>Autohypnosis +5 (1 cc rank, 2 Wis, 2 synergy)</p><p>Bluff +11 (8 ranks, 3 Cha)</p><p>Concentration +10 (8 ranks, 2 Con)</p><p>Diplomacy +22 (8 ranks, 3 Cha, 2 Racial, 6 Synergy, 3 Psicrystal) </p><p>Knowledge (Arcana) +11 (5 ranks, 6 Int)</p><p>Knowledge (Nobility) +14 (8 ranks, 6 Int)</p><p>Knowledge (Psionics) +7 (1 rank, 6 Int)</p><p>Listen +4 (2 Wis, 2 Alertness)</p><p>Psicraft +14 [+16 Telepathy effects] (8 ranks, 6 Int, [+2 Telepathy effects])</p><p>Sense Motive +12 (8 ranks, 2 Wis, 2 Racial)</p><p>Spot +4 (2 Wis, 2 Alertness)</p><p></p><p>Feats:</p><p>Overchannel (1st level)</p><p>Talented (Telepath 1)</p><p>Psicrystal Affinity [Friendly](Talent 1)</p><p>Alertness (Psicrystal)</p><p>Improved Initiative (Transformation 2)</p><p>Psicrystal Containment (3rd level)</p><p>Psionic Body (Talent 3)</p><p>Psionic Meditation(Telepath 5)</p><p>Expanded Knowledge[Astral Construct] (Talent 5)</p><p></p><p>Languages: Common, Yuan-ti, Valhedrin, Anderlar, Draconic, Celestial, King's Tongue</p><p></p><p>Equipment:</p><p>+1 Mithral Heavy Shield (2,020 gp)</p><p>+1 Ring of Protection (2,000 gp)</p><p>+1 Bracers of Natural Armour (2,000 gp)</p><p>+1 Cloak of Resistance (1,000 gp)</p><p>Handy Haversack (2,000 gp)</p><p>Legendary Talisman (free--necklace slot)</p><p></p><p>Current load: 12.5 lbs</p><p></p><p>Carrying Capacity light – lbs or less, medium – lbs, heavy – lbs. Lift lbs, Lift and Stagger lbs, Push/Drag lbs</p><p></p><p>Money</p><p>0 gp</p><p></p><p>Appearance: Ssiran appears as a slight and slender Trueborn human, with somewhat unusual light-green eyes and angular features. He carries a gleaming shield of mithral silver with the symbol of a Trueborn noble family, and he sometimes looks upon the shield with equal parts pride, affection, and wistful nostalgia. He keeps it meticulously, and foes who mar the shield incite his wrath. Ssiran's embrace of his taint has allowed him to appear as a Trueborn to all but magical inspection, and he travels under the pseudonym Raynard.</p><p></p><p>Personality: Ssiran is kind-hearted, generous, and particularly sympathetic to outcasts, but he is new to being so, and he sometimes has to meditate to sort out the new feelings coursing through him. Evil beings who perform a great wrong to Ssiran or his friends, including damaging his shield, may yet rouse the wrathful ire bubbling within him, in which case he strikes for vengeance before he can stop himself. </p><p></p><p>Background: Although his mind is among the keenest of his people, Ssiran's Yuan-ti blood is weak, even for a thinblood. As such, he was constantly ostracised and tormented in Zangala, and his significant psionic achievements were ignored with racist disdain, even by his own family. Dejected and pettily jealous and angry, Ssiran decided he would teach them all by setting out on his own, but the road to a new life was not kind to the young Yuan-ti. Nearly slain by dark beasts along the way, Ssiran managed to reach civilised lands, only to be turned away by those who recognised his thick Zangalan accent and clothing, and the subtle hints of his yuan-ti heritage. This stirred Ssiran's ire, and he was quick to add the humans of these new lands to his list of those against whom he would one day wreak vengeance. </p><p></p><p>One day, Ssiran was being harassed by a militia of frightened villagers with torches and simple weapons, including stones that they threw at his exposed skin, raising nasty bruises, when a knight in shining armour descended into the midst, riding upon a beautiful horse of purest white. Ssiran was sure that this newest opponent would spell his doom, and he prepared to take as many of the villagers with him as possible, when a startling thing happened--the knight brought down a shining shield of pure mithral silver and deflected the rocks being thrown at him. Removing the helmet and calling out to the villagers to halt, the knight was revealed to be a stunningly beautiful Trueborn lady with kind blue eyes that seemed like gates to a celestial ocean. She calmed down the villagers and then bade Ssiran ride with her in a commanding voice he could not refuse. She introduced herself as Rayne Liore, a paladin and champion of virtue. Ssiran shook his head and told her that she was a fool to save him from the villagers' stones, for he would one day have his vengeance upon them. Didn't she know that he was yuan-ti. She replied that while she recognised him for what he was, she could see that though his heart had grown callous from the hatred and suspicion of others planted within him since his youngest days in the Machiavellian world of Zangala, there was good within him that was seeking to express itself. She told him that she believed in him. He scoffed at her words--what foolishness the altruism she described!--but he allowed her to bring him to stay at an inn, since her company seemed to either dissuade the humans from attacking him or perhaps convince them that he was not a danger to them. Finally able to mingle among humans, he immediately took this opportunity to learn more of their ways so he could fit in among them as if he weren't Yuan-ti at all, something with which his weak blood was finally an aid. </p><p></p><p>But his peaceful travels with the charismatic Trueblood could not last forever. In a ploy to cement the perceived threat of Ssiran's vengeance from afar, his own sister Lass'riza sent a dangerous pyrokineticist killer for hire to eliminate her brother in the foreign lands. As the pyrokineticist crept upon the sleeping Ssiran, the young Telepath would surely have perished to the assassin's flames, but with a cry of alarm, Rayne bolted through the door and brought her shining shield to bear directly in the path of the flame, leaving both of them unscathed. Handing him the shield she held, Rayne looked deeply into Ssiran's eyes and spoke two simple words "Ssiran, run!" Such was the commanding voice in her words and her powerful presence, as well as the immediateness and fear of the moment, that Ssiran had already lept from the window and run a fair distance before he turned to look back for Rayne and realised that he had seen her charge towards the pyrokineticist with her lone sword glowing with holy light. At that moment, the cold reptilian logic that held sway over Ssiran's mind snapped, as the full realisation of Rayne's sacrifice, her belief in him, sunk in. His heart, a little-used organ in the past, twinged with some unknown feeling, and before he knew it, he had turned about and was running back towards the inn. It was at that moment that the inn exploded into a roiling firestorm. Uncharacteristic tears flowed from Ssiran's eyes, and he couldn't explain why, but he was overcome with a sense of loss. He called out to alert the town of the fire and helped carry water to put it out with the energy of a much stronger man, but by the time it was safe to check amidst the smoldering ruins of the inn, there was no sign of Rayne or the pyrokineticist, not even recognisable bodies...only ashes. </p><p></p><p>Ssiran meditated for a full week on the revelations of that fateful night, and he realised that he had discovered something pure and powerful, something that even the greatest masterminds of Zangala didn't understand. He had discovered love, and he had begun to understand the meaning of altruism, of sacrifice for others. And he decided that Rayne's sacrifice could not be in vain. He devoted himself to a new goal to go along with his studies in psionics. Instead of vengeance upon those who had wronged him, Ssiran decided that he must aid all those who are wrongfully ostracised, like he had been, especially those who did not have the chance Rayne gave him, helping them find a place to join society among friends and loved ones as best they can. To that end, Ssiran first realised that he must successfully establish himself among the humans, which he did with startling ease now that he had perfected his ability to blend in. Some day, he hopes all those in Ambria can live in peace, without hating their neighbours for being different. When that day comes, perhaps he can turn his sight to a place where his new way of thinking is needed even more...Zangala...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 2899980, member: 29014"] Ssiran Zan'sil Male Yuan-ti Thinblood Telepath 5 Medium Humanoid Alignment: Neutral Good Patron Spirits: Region: Originally Zangala, Currently Ambria Height: 5' 9'' Weight: 161 lbs Skin: Light Tan Hair: Blond Eyes: Green Age: 24 Str: 6 (-2) [0 points, -2 racial] Dex: 12 (+1) [4 points] Con: 14 (+2) [4 points, +2 racial] Int: 22 (+5) [16 point, +2 racial, +1 legendary, +1 stat raise] Wis: 14 (+2) [2 points, +4 racial] Cha: 16 (+3) [10 points] Racial Abilities: +2 Int, +2Con, +4 Wis, -2 Str, low light vision, +2 Diplomacy and Sense Motive. Racial Talents: 3 bonus Psionic feats--yay! Racial Transformations: Improved Initiative Becoming the Taint (Only intense magical scrutiny reveals that he is not a Trueborn human) Legendary Path: 1st Circle Path of the Learned Class Abilities: 40 PP / day Powers Known- 1-Attraction, Charm, Inertial Armour, Mindlink, Telempathic Projection, Vigour 2-Concealing Amorpha, Suggestion, Swarm of Crystals 3-Body Adjustment, Dispel Psionics Hit Dice: 5d4 + 10 (Con) + 14 (Psionic Body) HP: 40 AC: 16 [+3 Shield, +1 enhancement to Natural, +1 Deflection, +1 Dex] (AC 20 or higher with Inertial Armour) Armor Check Penalty: 0 Init: +5 (+1 Dex, +4 Improved Init) Speed: 30ft Saves Fortitude +4 [+1 base, +2 Con, +1 Cloak] Reflex +3 [+1 base, +1 Dex, +1 Cloak] Will +7 [+4 base, +2 Wis, +1 Cloak] BAB: +2 Melee Atk: +0 (melee weapon) Ranged Atk: +3 (as per power) Skills Autohypnosis +5 (1 cc rank, 2 Wis, 2 synergy) Bluff +11 (8 ranks, 3 Cha) Concentration +10 (8 ranks, 2 Con) Diplomacy +22 (8 ranks, 3 Cha, 2 Racial, 6 Synergy, 3 Psicrystal) Knowledge (Arcana) +11 (5 ranks, 6 Int) Knowledge (Nobility) +14 (8 ranks, 6 Int) Knowledge (Psionics) +7 (1 rank, 6 Int) Listen +4 (2 Wis, 2 Alertness) Psicraft +14 [+16 Telepathy effects] (8 ranks, 6 Int, [+2 Telepathy effects]) Sense Motive +12 (8 ranks, 2 Wis, 2 Racial) Spot +4 (2 Wis, 2 Alertness) Feats: Overchannel (1st level) Talented (Telepath 1) Psicrystal Affinity [Friendly](Talent 1) Alertness (Psicrystal) Improved Initiative (Transformation 2) Psicrystal Containment (3rd level) Psionic Body (Talent 3) Psionic Meditation(Telepath 5) Expanded Knowledge[Astral Construct] (Talent 5) Languages: Common, Yuan-ti, Valhedrin, Anderlar, Draconic, Celestial, King's Tongue Equipment: +1 Mithral Heavy Shield (2,020 gp) +1 Ring of Protection (2,000 gp) +1 Bracers of Natural Armour (2,000 gp) +1 Cloak of Resistance (1,000 gp) Handy Haversack (2,000 gp) Legendary Talisman (free--necklace slot) Current load: 12.5 lbs Carrying Capacity light – lbs or less, medium – lbs, heavy – lbs. Lift lbs, Lift and Stagger lbs, Push/Drag lbs Money 0 gp Appearance: Ssiran appears as a slight and slender Trueborn human, with somewhat unusual light-green eyes and angular features. He carries a gleaming shield of mithral silver with the symbol of a Trueborn noble family, and he sometimes looks upon the shield with equal parts pride, affection, and wistful nostalgia. He keeps it meticulously, and foes who mar the shield incite his wrath. Ssiran's embrace of his taint has allowed him to appear as a Trueborn to all but magical inspection, and he travels under the pseudonym Raynard. Personality: Ssiran is kind-hearted, generous, and particularly sympathetic to outcasts, but he is new to being so, and he sometimes has to meditate to sort out the new feelings coursing through him. Evil beings who perform a great wrong to Ssiran or his friends, including damaging his shield, may yet rouse the wrathful ire bubbling within him, in which case he strikes for vengeance before he can stop himself. Background: Although his mind is among the keenest of his people, Ssiran's Yuan-ti blood is weak, even for a thinblood. As such, he was constantly ostracised and tormented in Zangala, and his significant psionic achievements were ignored with racist disdain, even by his own family. Dejected and pettily jealous and angry, Ssiran decided he would teach them all by setting out on his own, but the road to a new life was not kind to the young Yuan-ti. Nearly slain by dark beasts along the way, Ssiran managed to reach civilised lands, only to be turned away by those who recognised his thick Zangalan accent and clothing, and the subtle hints of his yuan-ti heritage. This stirred Ssiran's ire, and he was quick to add the humans of these new lands to his list of those against whom he would one day wreak vengeance. One day, Ssiran was being harassed by a militia of frightened villagers with torches and simple weapons, including stones that they threw at his exposed skin, raising nasty bruises, when a knight in shining armour descended into the midst, riding upon a beautiful horse of purest white. Ssiran was sure that this newest opponent would spell his doom, and he prepared to take as many of the villagers with him as possible, when a startling thing happened--the knight brought down a shining shield of pure mithral silver and deflected the rocks being thrown at him. Removing the helmet and calling out to the villagers to halt, the knight was revealed to be a stunningly beautiful Trueborn lady with kind blue eyes that seemed like gates to a celestial ocean. She calmed down the villagers and then bade Ssiran ride with her in a commanding voice he could not refuse. She introduced herself as Rayne Liore, a paladin and champion of virtue. Ssiran shook his head and told her that she was a fool to save him from the villagers' stones, for he would one day have his vengeance upon them. Didn't she know that he was yuan-ti. She replied that while she recognised him for what he was, she could see that though his heart had grown callous from the hatred and suspicion of others planted within him since his youngest days in the Machiavellian world of Zangala, there was good within him that was seeking to express itself. She told him that she believed in him. He scoffed at her words--what foolishness the altruism she described!--but he allowed her to bring him to stay at an inn, since her company seemed to either dissuade the humans from attacking him or perhaps convince them that he was not a danger to them. Finally able to mingle among humans, he immediately took this opportunity to learn more of their ways so he could fit in among them as if he weren't Yuan-ti at all, something with which his weak blood was finally an aid. But his peaceful travels with the charismatic Trueblood could not last forever. In a ploy to cement the perceived threat of Ssiran's vengeance from afar, his own sister Lass'riza sent a dangerous pyrokineticist killer for hire to eliminate her brother in the foreign lands. As the pyrokineticist crept upon the sleeping Ssiran, the young Telepath would surely have perished to the assassin's flames, but with a cry of alarm, Rayne bolted through the door and brought her shining shield to bear directly in the path of the flame, leaving both of them unscathed. Handing him the shield she held, Rayne looked deeply into Ssiran's eyes and spoke two simple words "Ssiran, run!" Such was the commanding voice in her words and her powerful presence, as well as the immediateness and fear of the moment, that Ssiran had already lept from the window and run a fair distance before he turned to look back for Rayne and realised that he had seen her charge towards the pyrokineticist with her lone sword glowing with holy light. At that moment, the cold reptilian logic that held sway over Ssiran's mind snapped, as the full realisation of Rayne's sacrifice, her belief in him, sunk in. His heart, a little-used organ in the past, twinged with some unknown feeling, and before he knew it, he had turned about and was running back towards the inn. It was at that moment that the inn exploded into a roiling firestorm. Uncharacteristic tears flowed from Ssiran's eyes, and he couldn't explain why, but he was overcome with a sense of loss. He called out to alert the town of the fire and helped carry water to put it out with the energy of a much stronger man, but by the time it was safe to check amidst the smoldering ruins of the inn, there was no sign of Rayne or the pyrokineticist, not even recognisable bodies...only ashes. Ssiran meditated for a full week on the revelations of that fateful night, and he realised that he had discovered something pure and powerful, something that even the greatest masterminds of Zangala didn't understand. He had discovered love, and he had begun to understand the meaning of altruism, of sacrifice for others. And he decided that Rayne's sacrifice could not be in vain. He devoted himself to a new goal to go along with his studies in psionics. Instead of vengeance upon those who had wronged him, Ssiran decided that he must aid all those who are wrongfully ostracised, like he had been, especially those who did not have the chance Rayne gave him, helping them find a place to join society among friends and loved ones as best they can. To that end, Ssiran first realised that he must successfully establish himself among the humans, which he did with startling ease now that he had perfected his ability to blend in. Some day, he hopes all those in Ambria can live in peace, without hating their neighbours for being different. When that day comes, perhaps he can turn his sight to a place where his new way of thinking is needed even more...Zangala... [/QUOTE]
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