PARAGON PATHS

Angelic Aspect

“I am one with the angels that serve my god.”

Prerequisite: Invoker

During the gods’ ancient war against the primordials, invokers were their most trusted mortal servants, allowed to wield the raw divine power typically reserved for the gods’ immortal agents, the angels. Over time, the distinction between the most favored mortal invokers and the angels themselves became hard to define. Some invokers drew so much divine energy into themselves that they took on angelic aspects. Some angels, conversely, emptied themselves of divine essence and clothed themselves in mortal flesh as invokers, voluntarily limiting their own power in order to serve as more effective divine agents in the world.

One of those paths is yours, and it has led you to this point: You are neither fully mortal nor fully angel, but some of both. As an angelic aspect, you

can channel divine energy through your mortal body to take on angelic characteristics: resistance to the forces of dark and light, an awesome presence that

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strikes fear into the hearts of those who try to strike you, wings to fly across the field of battle, and mighty attacks akin to those of angels.

If you were born mortal, your transformation is beginning; you are on the threshold of becoming something more, and immortality awaits. If you have always been an angelic being veiled in flesh, the veil is beginning to part and your true nature is being revealed. Either way, your enemies have much to fear.

Angelic Aspect Path Features

Wings of Action (11th level): When you spend an action point to take an extra action, you can fly

8 squares as a free action, and you gain a +2 bonus to AC until the start of your next turn.

Angelic Resistance (11th level): You gain resist 10 necrotic and resist 10 radiant. If you already have either resistance, that resistance increases by 5.

Angelic Emanation (16th level): While you aren’t bloodied, attackers take a –2 penalty to attack rolls against you.

Angelic Aspect Prayers

Angelic Blades

Angelic Aspect Attack 11

The metallic wings of an angel of battle sprout from your back

and shower your foes with razor-sharp blades.

Encounter Divine, Implement Standard Action Close burst 2

Target: Each enemy in burst Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex

Hit: 2d6 + Wisdom modifier damage, and the target is

slowed until the end of your next turn.

Effect: You gain a fly speed of 8 until the end of your next turn.

Shielding Nimbus

Angelic Aspect Utility 12

Divine power surges through you, giving you an angelic visage

and shielding you from damage.

Daily Divine

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Choose a damage type: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, or thunder. You gain resist 10 to that damage type until the end of the

encounter. If you already have resistance to that damage type, the resistance increases by 5 until the end of

the encounter.

Coldfire Pillar

Angelic Aspect Attack 20

You bond with an angel of vengeance, transforming yourself

into a raging pillar of cold fire.

Daily Cold, Divine, Fire, Implement Standard Action Close burst 3

Target: Each enemy in burst Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex

Hit: 4d8 + Wisdom modifier cold and fire damage. Miss: Half damage.

Effect: You are immune to cold damage and fire damage

until the start of your next turn.

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