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Chapter Two: Underwave 27 Turn Undead (Su): The lightning bearer stacks her levels in this class with her cleric levels, if any, when resolving attempts to turn undead or using any other special abilities that require her to expend one of her turn undead attempts. Empower Lightning Blade (Su): Starting at 2nd level, the lightning bearer learns to channel Dorana’s divine fury into her weapon. As a move action once per hour, she can use one of her turn undead attempts to imbue her lightning blade with electrical energy. The weapon gains the good alignment aura and inflicts 1d6 points of electricity damage on a successful hit. This ability lasts a number of rounds equal to 5 + the lightning bearer’s Charisma modifier. Thunderous Strike (Su): The lightning bearer can expend one of her daily turn undead attempts to make a single, devastating attack against an opponent. When using Power Attack, her Power Attack damage bonus increases by 50 percent. Lightning Blast (Su): By expending two of her turn undead attempts, the bearer can project a lightning bolt from her lightning blade. This spell counts as if the bearer’s caster level equaled her level in this prestige class + her highest divine caster level. The Reflex saving throw Difficulty Class is 13 + the lightning bearer’s Wisdom modifier. Dorana’s Blessing (Sp): Though the lightning bearer concentrates on Dorana’s aspect as a goddess of vengeance and lightning, the deity also allows her to survive in the sea. The bearer gains the ability to cast water breathing three times per day. Her caster level for this effect equals her level in this prestige class + her divine caster level. Aura of Energy (Su): The lightning bearer can surround herself with a crackling field of electrical energy by expending one of her turn undead attempts. Any evil creature that moves within 10 feet of her must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + lightning bearer’s class level + her Charisma modifier) or suffer 2d6 points of electricity damage. A successful saving throw halves this damage. An evil creature must attempt this save if it is within this area at any point during its action, though it saves only once even if it enters, leaves, and re-enters the area during the course of a single action. This ability persists for a number of rounds equal to 1 + bearer’s Charisma modifier. Lightning Blade Mastery (Ex): At 7th level and beyond, the lightning bearer becomes so intimately familiar with the design, balance, and use of the lightning blade that she fights as if it were an extension of her own body. She gains one of the following bonus feats when fighting with this weapon: Greater Weapon Focus, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting (Greater Two-Weapon Fighting), or Weapon Specialization (Greater Weapon Specialization). The bearer can acquire a feat listed in parenthesis only if she already has the prerequisite feat listed immediately before it; otherwise, ignore the feat’s listed prerequisites. Note that the benefits of this feat apply only when the character fights with a lightning blade. Hurricane of Vengeance (Su): By focusing the divine energy she channels from Dorana, the lightning bearer can attack in a burst of furious energy. She can make a melee attack at her highest base attack bonus against up to eight opponents within 20 feet of her. Roll separately for each opponent. Foes within her melee attack range whom she hits suffer a blow from her lightning blade; those outside of her melee attack range suffer an attack in the form of lightning bolts cast from her weapon. Against all those she strikes, she inflicts her weapon’s normal damage as electricity damage. The bearer must wield a lightning blade in order to use this ability. This ability can be used once per day; all attacks must be made in the same round as a full-round action. Retributive Strike (Su): By expending two turn undead attempts, the lightning bearer can cause an immediate retributive strike upon a foe who has just struck her. The bearer need not hold or use an action to activate this ability. She can use retributive strike once per round as soon as an opponent’s attack has struck her but before damage is rolled. Her foe suffers as electricity damage half the damage she endures from the attack—an arcing bolt surges from the heavens or from the bearer to strike her foe. This ability inflicts no special effects, such as paralysis, upon a target, aside from hit point damage.
Chapter Three 28 The Fallen City of Enderfel In the ancient days, the city of Enderfel was a gleaming jewel of civilization. Humans, dwarves, and elves came from far and wide to walk its broad streets. Merchants plied their trade here, offering exotic goods from across the world. The humblest peasant could enter the city with little more than two coppers to rub together but leave with a small fortune. Hard work, intelligence, and cunning in business were all rewarded here. The city’s prosperity was matched only by the ambition of its inhabitants. From artisan to cleric, archmage to thief, the greatest of the great came to Enderfel to secure their fortunes and prove that they could stand among the best. Gilded temple spires soared to the skies, the craftiest rogues plotted their heists in the city’s shadowy taverns, and eerie lights spilled forth from wizards’ towers. If it was worth doing, it was done in Enderfel—and with a skill that humbled the other cities of the world. Road to a Fall Yet all good things must come to an end, and so it was with Enderfel’s years of glory. Its wealth drew an influx of greedy newcomers who preferred to secure their fortunes with the axe and sword rather than business dealings and words. Meantime, a great horde of foul humanoids—orcs, gnolls, hobgoblins, and bugbears—arose in the north. They were led by a shadowy figure known only as the Master. Some said he was an archmage who wished to conquer the world. Others called him the prophet of a dark faith cast from Enderfel’s walls many years ago. But though his origin was in question, no one could argue his skill in binding together humanoid tribes that normally fought and bickered among themselves. The few scouts who returned from their missions to observe the horde’s progress reported that the normally quarrelsome humanoids marched south as if driven by the fires of Hell, their rivalries buried by dreams of gold, glory, and conquest. The lords of Enderfel faced a terrible dilemma. The horde appeared seemingly out of nowhere, leaving them precious little time to hire mercenaries. As it happened, a distant lord had hired the mightiest of the free companies to stave off an incursion of strange diabolic outsiders who fought with long, curved swords. Many of the city’s folk panicked and fled. All hope seemed lost when a handsome cloaked figure demanded an audience with the city council. He held the answer to the city’s problems, or so he claimed. Resigned to their fate and desperate for any hope, the lords admitted him to their chambers. What happened next, none can say. The scribes and record keepers were ordered to leave the city fathers alone with this mysterious man. What is known is that the councilors left their chambers seemingly relieved of the burden of the city’s encroaching doom. Within a few days, the terrible horde of monsters had devolved into a raucous melee: The Master disappeared, and without his influence the humanoids fell to warring among themselves. A few attempted to complete the journey to the city, but Enderfel’s cavalry cut them down in the fields outside its walls. The surviving monsters turned back north. In the wake of this stunning turn of events, the lords banished all priests of the city’s temples, claiming that the gods had attempted to loose upon Enderfel the city’s doom in a fit of jealousy. This rhetoric fired the commoners’ anger, turning fear of invasion into a simmering resentment toward the clerics whose deities hated them. The priests pleaded their innocence, but the crowds ignored their cries for justice, setting their inner sanctums ablaze in a single night of fury. Few clerics escaped and, while many folks fled the town in shame and fear, even more stayed. With the established churches out of the way, the councilors announced that a new god now watched over the city. Mallock, a young, handsome deity, appeared within the grand plaza and declared that he alone could keep Enderfel safe. It was revealed that his avatar had appeared before the council, and it was his divine power that smote the Master and sent the horde into chaos. While the other gods had conspired to destroy Enderfel, Mallock saw the evil in their intentions and stood against them. Of course, today’s folk know full well the extent of Mallock’s greed and deceit. But in the younger days he concealed his treachery. Even today, some who serve him turn a deaf ear to the lessons of history. In those days, Mallock’s treachery was unknown. Yet soon enough, Enderfel would demonstrate it for all the world to witness. With the other priests removed, there was no one to warn the populace of Mallock’s evil ways. He drew his newly christened clerics from among the greediest merchants, the most cutthroat rogues, and the most ambitious politicians. They gladly turned a blind eye to the loathsome aspects of Mallock’s teachings. The god personally told each of these scoundrels that he, and only he, was worthy of the true teachings. Too proud to confide in their fellows, they began plotting against each other for power. These newly anointed priests and the established local leaders encouraged all manner of vice and debauchery. When citizens complained, the authorities merely claimed they needed taxes from narcotics, prostitution, and gambling to fill the city’s coffers. After all, the temples no longer paid levies, and many people had fled in the face of an impending invasion. In time, Enderfel lost its former glory. Merchants avoided it, as wandering bands of thugs took what they wanted from their wares. Honest townsfolk could barely rouse the town guard to deal with such crimes, as they were too busy policing the brothels and gambling dens. A few wizards remained in the city, but many found the influx of the ragged, desperate,
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