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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Hatter" data-source="post: 3045045" data-attributes="member: 23731">Lex StarwhisperFemale Gray Elf Ninja 9 [Race UA p, Class ComAdv]Small Humanoid (child -1 LA)Alignment: Chaotic NeutralHeight: 4'1"Weight:  57 lbsHair: SilverEyes: AmberAge: 20Str: 6  (-2) [2 points,-4 racial/child] Dex: 10 (0) [2 points, +/-2 racial/child]Con: 12 (+1) [6 points, -4 racial/child, +2 item] Int: 14 (+2) [4 points, +2 racial]Wis: 22 (+6) [16 points, +2 att +2 item]Cha: 10 (0) [2 points]Age: -2 to all physical stats, 20' movement, smallRacial Abilities: humanoid; +2 Dex, +2 Int, -2 Str, -2 Con; immunity to magical sleep; +2 racial bonus to listen, spot, and search; automatic search if Elf passes w/in 5' of a secret or concealed door; lowlight vision; +2 racial bonus to saves vs. enchantmentClass Abilities: ki power (10/day), daunting presence (save DC 20 will) [LM p25], augury, detect thoughts (save DC 18 will), River Eel Jutsu [Dragon 342 p85], Uncanny Knowledge +2 (know. history, local and planes), ki dodge, true strike, Shadow Puppet Jutsu (save DC 20 will) [Dragon 342 p85], Omniscient Whisper 1/wk [UA p94], sudden strike +5d6 Hit Dice: 9d6+9HP: 55AC: 19 (+6 class, +1 class bonus, deflection +1, +1 size); flat-footed 19; touch 18Init: +4 (+0 Dex, +4 feat)Speed: 20 ft Saves:Fortitude +5 [+3 base, +1 Con, +1 cloak of resistance]Reflex +7 [+6 base, +0 Dex, +1 cloak of resistance]Will +10 [+3 base, +6 Wis, +1 cloak of resistance] (+2 when ki pool isn't empty, +2 vs enchantment)BAB: +6/+1Melee Atk: +14/+9 [feat-intuitive strike] (1d3-1/19-20/x2/S, +1 dagger x2) Skills:Bluff +12 [12 ranks]Knowledge (arcana) +9 [7 ranks, +2 Int]Knowledge (history) +11 [7 ranks, +2 Int, +2 class] Knowledge (local) +12 [8 ranks, +2 Int, +2 class]Knowledge (nature) +9 [7 ranks, +2 Int]Knowledge (planes) +11 [7 ranks, +2 Int, +2 class]Listen +20 [12 ranks, +6 Wis, +2 racial]Search +16 [12 ranks, +2 Int, +2 racial]Sense Motive +18 [12 ranks, +6 Wis]Spot +20 [12 ranks, +6 Wis, +2 racial]Feats:-Intuitive Strike (1st level) [BoED] *this is an exalted feat but there isn't a real reason to keep it so*-Improved Initiative (3rd level)-Expert Tactician (6th level) [Song and Silence p38]-Chink in the armor (9th level) [Song and Silence p38]Languages: Common, Elven, Auran, Terran  The teachers who handled the fighting aspect of her training associate themselves with a particular element and learn a fighstyle similar to their element.  As such Lex identifies with the ponderous, slow moving earth elemental and the quick, sudden air elemental.  Since these are her martial forms, she learned their language.Equipment:(2) +1 Daggers (4604 gp)- Lex's daggers look like any other dagger, if a bit nicer and shinier.  These daggers were given to Lex by her teacher, San Rhong, who taught her the martial skills.  As he handed her his gift he told her three things: "Your strength lies in your sudden attack, thus look not for the flashy weapon; your arrogance will more than likely get you killed one day, so make it a good death; and the most important piece of advice I can give you is to always have a spare, you never know when one will be eaten."    Ring of Wei Zhou (Ring of Protection +1- 2000 gp):  This ring is blue and made to look like interwoven thread.  The monastery suffered through a period of time when Lex was both reckless and rebellious.  During this time, she ran to the forest.  When she returned, she had in her possession the Ring of Wei Zhou which provided her with a measure of protection.  When asked to explain how she knew where to look since no on else had any luck finding it, she replied:  "It found me."Amulet of Kun Ming (Amulet of Health +2- 4000 gp): This amulet is a dire boar's claw.  Kun Ming regularly tested the mettle of his body by venturing into the forest and antagonizing a worthy animal until it attempted to kill him.  He died in the process of killing a druid in the form of a dire bear.Insight of Bo Ning (+2 Circlet of WIS- 4000 gp):  The circlet is made of a delicate and thin filigree. Lex received this circlet after she attended the Festival of Renewal with her mentor Ping Zhu.  This circlet contains a very small fraction of Bo Ning, who was a founding member of the suborder Way of Peace.  Bo Ning was killed by treachery and to honor him, his pupils imbued items with portions of his essence.   Gift of Ping Zhu (Travel Cloak– 1200 gp (Magic of Faerun) and Cloak of Resistance +1-2000 gp shared body slot):  To receive a gift from a teacher is a great honor.  Lex received this impressive cloak when it became obvious to Ping Zhu that she would be leaving the monastery.  It also conicided with the 15th anniversary of her joining the monastery.  Knowing Lex's tendency to wear dark shades of blue, this cloak is midnight blue with silver trim that's slightly darker than normal.  It has a hood and almost swallows her form.Lex's Coin (Trick Coin- 350 gp):  Lex's coin is silver with runes along the edge.  Heads is a representation of Taala and tails has the image of the four classic elementals entwined around each other.  Lex was sifting and chronicling the more tame of the monastery's inventory as a lesson in meticulous organization when she happened upon this coin.  These items had been confiscated over time from troublesome travellers seeking sanctuary.  She bugged the quartermaster until he finally relented and gave her the coin to stop her from causing "accidents" to happen around him.  Her teachers didn't approve of her selfish desire of the coin, but they didn't reprimand her for using her talent since she utilized her lessons.Bag of Holding (Type 1)- 2500 gpQuall's Feather Token- Fan (2) 400 gpQuall's Feather Token- Anchor (4) 200 gpSunrod (2) - 4 gpScroll case- 1 gpInk, vial (2)- 16 gpInk pen (2)- 2 spBlank parchment (10 sheets)- 2 gp2 MW daggers– 604gpWaterskin- 1 gpBelt pouch- 1 gpFlint and steel– 1gpTankard– 2cpTraveler’s outfit (Free)Mirror, small steel- 10 gpAntitoxin (4)- 200 gpPotions- (4) cure light, (3) cure mod, (1) cure serious- 1750 gp 3155 gp~~~~~Appearance: Lex is short and particularly waifish looking.  She wears her silver hair spikey and short contrary to elven norms.  When Lex is pulled into a vision of the future, her eyes silver over and it's almost like they glow.  Her clothes are nondescript and tend to be in dark shades of blue with silver trim.  Contrary to her childish appearance she is obsessively neat about her clothes and thus will almost never appear unkempt unless she can't help it.  She has a tattoo of an open eye within a star on both of her wrists at the pulse point.Personality: Lex knows how creepy she comes off to people and she capitalizes on that fact by speaking cryptically often once they know her; although she will initially attempt to play the part of the child to relax the guard of others.  She exudes a quiet arrogance and sports a constant half smirk as if she knows something that you do not, which is often the case.  She speaks as though it's a great sacrifice on her part; in short, she speaks to others as if they were the child and not she.  Despite this, once you have earned her respect she is more willing to modulate her tones to reflect that you could in fact be of some use to her.  She is patient to a fault because she realizes that if she does not get her way now, all she has to do is wait and eventually she'll have what she wants.  She speaks seldom and chooses her words carefully, which can give the impression that she is slow. Lex is a manipulator and often time acts as an instigator to bring about the changes that she wants.  She also, has a nervous habit of flipping her coin and calling it in the air, which remarkably lands as she predicted.  She is still a child and will sometimes exhibit a child's natural inclination to be mercurial and petulant.  Background: Lex Starwhisper was born in a mountain citadel of a gray elf clan in the Ironguard mountain range.  Her parents basked in the joy that is having a child for a week before she was spirited away in the dead of night.  She didn't even keep the name that her parents gave her.  She was given the name of Starwhisper in light of the star shower that heralded her birth.  The only thing of her parents that she has is her features of her race.  Lex is a child of prophcey, born during a star shower.  It was from this spectacular display of the heavens that the Oracles read a prophecy.  Half of the prophecy was fulfilled simply by her being one of the few gifted with the isle-ship. A week after her birth, she was taken to a forested, treetop monastery to be trained in the use of her talent.  From the monks, she learned history and about the world she lives in but isn't a part of.  They also taugh her how to use her future sight to work in tandem with her body and thus become an effective fighter. She also learned from those Oracles that could be spared from their normal duties within the kingdom.  They taught her how she could use her future sight to affect fate itself.  Lex proved herself to be a most apt pupil.  Since she could see the future, she found no loneliness in her existance and learned to embrace her gift.  When she did lament her life of study and isolation from those her age, the monks were more than willing to be companions and offer the companionship that they could.  In an effort to acclimate Lex to the world that she would eventually rejoin, one of her favorite monks, Ping Zhu, took her to a festival a week's travel from the monastery.  Even on this excursion, she was being taught how to be around many people and not become overwhelmed by the sheer possibilties that each person's decisions represented.  It was here that she was thrust to the center of attention.  While the Oracles knew her potential, it was here that her potential was manifest.  This event led to other things which resulted in her being one of the people gifted with the an isle-ship.    The festival marked the arrival of spring so to reflect this a quartet of lesser elementals would bestow their blessing on both the land and people.  Lex and her mentor, Ping Zhu, were browsing the marketplace when Lex brushed against a man that felt like death.  It was in this brief contact that she saw that he planned to kill the elementals and those who attended them in an effort to spark tension in the region.  Lex chose not to alert Ping Zhu. Instead, over the next four days before the arrival of the elementals, Lex used the principle of the butterfly effect to manipulate events so that the guards and others of power could be in positions to stop the assassination.  Through her subtle efforts, the attempt was thwarted with none being the wiser.  She was merely an elven child that had attended that year's Festival of Renewal.  Of course one person did notice.  Ping Zhu acknowledged her deft skill with a raised eyebrow and a smirk of approval.It was after the Festival of Renewal when the gaurdians sent by the oracles came for her.  Lex's time at the monastery had ended and the Oracles wished to have a direct hand in her training.  As such she was taken to a conclave much closer to the court.  Lex wasn't particularly happy about having to leave the monastery, but the court posed new and fun possibilities.  Her abilities grew tremendously under their grueling tutelage.  While there were better seers, her youth gives her an advantage and it is apparent that this is only the beginning.  Tactics:  Lex hangs back in a fight so that she can assess the battlefield.  Her first inclination is not to directly engage the enemy first.Detect thoughts is not her readin minds so much as it is her seeing the person's course of action in the next moment.Daunting presence is the result of her eyes changing as well as her entire demeanor as she sees into the future.  In that moment, she calmly tells her engaged enemy his fate, which is usually his/her death by the hand of an elven child.  Used as a curse.  Since it is a used as a ninja class ability the save DC is WIS based.Omniscient whisper is when she must focus because an augury has implied something big is about to happen that she cannot see unless she focuses her entire being on that one outcome.Her sudden strike is not so much a testament to her sneakiness and dexterity, but to the fact that she sees an enemy in the split second of vulnerability and acts a hair faster.Shadow Puppet Jutsu is a reflection of her ability to see the future of a chosen person and move in such a way that confounds them.</blockquote>

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