Herald of the Lady

Prerequisites


Skills: Handle Animal 3 Ranks, Knowledge (Nature) 3 Ranks, Concentration 5 Ranks

Special: Religion must be Lady of the Frost, Must be able to cast 3rd level Divine Spells, must be indoctrinated by a daughter or son of Frost.


Class Skills: The Herald of the Lady class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), HandleAnimal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Hide (Dex), Knowledge (nature) (Int), Listen(Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Sense Motive(Wis), Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis), and Swim (Str).

Hit Die: d8.

Skill points at each level: 4+ Int modifier

Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Heralds of the Lady gain no new weapon or armour proficiencies.


Special: Levels of Herald of the Lady stack with Druid levels for determining Animal Companions and also stacks with levels of Druid who use the Shapeshifter variant for determining Shapeshifting.



Snow Touched (Ex): The Herald of the Lady receives cold resistance +2 for each level in this class. However all shapeshifting forms the character is able to manifest must now be snow-touched animals and creatures such as apolar bear a snow rabbit a white wolf or even a snow owl. Others may think the characters touch or body temperature is naturally very cold now. As soon as the character is able to wild shape or shapeshift into a large creature they may then change into the form of a Winter Wolf, taking on all of its special attacks, special qualities and abilities. Breath weapon save DC for the Winter Wolf form is 10 + one half character level + their Constitution modifier. The Winter Wolf form can be used for a Druid shape shifters Ferocious Slayer Form.


Wild Shape (Su): The Herald of the Lady gains the ability to use the Wild Shape ability, with an effective level equal to her caster level. Only small and medium animal sizes may be selected, though at third, large forms may be taken as well. Shapeshifter variants continue with their original progression instead of recieving the Wild Shape ability, and instead recieve the Toughness feats at 1st level, Endurance at 3rd and Die Hard at 5th.


Winter Hide (Ex): The Herald of the Lady gains the listed bonus to his natural armor in all forms. This bonus stacks with any other bonuses of Natural armor the character might have. The characters animal companion also receives this bonus if they have one.


Beauty of Winter (Su): The Herald of the Lady gains 1/day as a Spell Like Ability, the Character may use the Sleet Storm spell as a Druid of their current Character Level. After the spell is finished, the area in which the spell was used retains a wintery appearance.


Frozen Magic (Su): From this point forward due to the Herald of the Lady’s affinity towards their divine patron, all magical abilities, effects and spells they cast or wield that would have an elemental effect other than cold, ice or frost, instead become such. An example is if the herald casts a fire blade spell it instead acts as an ice blade dealing cold damage instead of fire damage. If the character wishes to attempt to use the spell as normally written, they must roll a D100. If they roll a 1-25, The spell fires as it's cold variant. If they roll a 26-50, the spell fires in a hybrid, dealing half cold and half of it's normal element in damage. If they roll a 51 or better, the spell fires as normal.


Ferocity of Winter (Su): The Herald of the Lady gains 1/day as a spell like ability the character may use the Ice Storm abliity as a druid of their character level - however, when the storm ends, evidence does not disappear like in the spell description: instead, most of the ground and nearby area are covered in snow and ice, and thaw naturally.


Gift of the Frost Lady (Ex): +2 Inherent bonus to Wisdom and Charisma as the Lady of Frost blesses her new son or daughter, imbuing them with greater wisdom and beauty. Additionally, when in winter wolf form, The Characters freezing bite and breath weapon deal an additional 1d6 damage.