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dailycharacteroption · 8 months

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Geomancer (Pathfinder Second Edition Archetype)

(art by Rafael Batista da Silva on Artstation)

And here we are following up with yet another geomancer in another edition of the game!

Like the previous subject, this mystic draws power from the terrain itself, but since it’s open to any spellcasting class, it does not automatically retain much of the esoteric aesthetic it had when it was part of the occultist class.

Additionally, this version is much more about enhancing the caster’s preexisting spells than it is about granting new spells or abilities based on terrain type, though there is a bit of the latter there too.

Indeed, whether they are primal casters tapping into the land, arcane or occult casters drawing upon ley lines, or divine casters asking their nature-themed deity to intervene in a thematic way, the power of these geomancers changes with the terrain they stride upon, though they can change things up as well in their own way, as we’ll see below.

The basic dedication to this archetype grants their iconic ability, allowing them to choose to attune to the terrain if it matches up with an aspect of a spell they are casting. By doing so, they gain additional effects, some which aid them, others which hinder foes they target with the spell or that are otherwise nearby. These include water spells granting enhanced movement in aquatic environs; icy spells using the arctic chill to coat foes in ice and slow them; fiery spells using the dry heat of the desert to dehydrate foes; plant spells conjuring vines and roots to hinder foes in the forest; earth spells drawing upon the might of the mountain to harden your flesh; plant spells in plains drawing upon nearby life to bolster your own vitality; air spells in the sky giving you a little push with the wind; plant spells in swamps venting toxic fumes on foes; and finally, earth spells in the underground enhancing your senses.

However, sometimes a geomancer’s spell selection or needed spells don’t match the terrain. As such, some learn to cheat the attunement by casting a spell of another aspect and using the residual spell energies to bolster spells of the same type as if they were in the correct terrain in the near future.

Not content to keep such power to themselves, some geomancers learn to grant the benefits of their magics to a nearby ally as well.

Just as they draw upon the landscape, they can also push back to manipulate it, setting up a stance which causes local terrain to become difficult for all others. Ice becomes slippery, undergrowth springs up, rocks become jagged, loose, and uneven, and so on.

Meanwhile, many can use their attunement to part and smooth terrain they themselves travel through, striding with confidence.

Some learn to draw vitality from the land itself, even more so if they are also tapping into the plains attunement at the same time!

Others learn to truly read the land, learning a great deal from it the magical energies coursing through it.

With a mighty blow to the ground, some geomancers can make the earth around them shift and upend, potentially sending foes stumbling.

Gaining protection from the terrain is another common ability, as the terrain shifts to block incoming blows on occasion.

Among the most powerful of these mystics can draw upon the power of the terrain to offload some of the burden of casting their next spell to the landscape itself, letting them cast their attuned spell faster than normal.

Depending on how far and wide your travels go in your campaign, this archetype can work well with either a focused sort of spellcaster or one that taps into a diverse array of elements and magics. With that in mind, you can tap very lightly into the archetype to just get the benefits of the dedication, or you can go whole hog for a caster that can control the battlefield while moving freely and even gain some healing and information utility as well. Much like 1E’s occultist geomancer, the more you invest in the archetype, the more you’ll get out of it. Of course, this archetype is only available to spellcasters, and arcane and primal seem to be the best choices for sheer variety of keywords associated with the different terrains, but I’m certain that an enterprising player can make it work with other sorts of casters.

I feel like these geomancers, regardless of discipline, have a lot to share with each other about the mysteries of the earth itself and the power it can offer. Perhaps there are symposiums about the subject, or maybe geomancy is relegated to esoteric texts rarely considered by the mainstream magical community?

The party has been seeking a confluence of ley lines to restore a magic artifact, but they are not the only ones seeking it. Indeed, they are currently being tailed by a zebub, and the accuser devil relays this information to it’s diabolic masters so that they might use it to open a stable portal to their foul realm.

Though his mastery of the wizardry arts is well-known, Vegizbar has long eluded witch hunters due to his atypical mastery of magic that manipulates and taps into the terrain. Indeed, some of his pursuers wonder if he has some sort of druidic accomplice.

Orcs have a long-standing shamanistic tradition known as Earthsinging, in which they invoke the secrets of the earth through their stories and songs, not only for the object lessons they convey, but also in the power they can draw from the landscape when needed. According to them, this power is a gift from the spirits of the world in exchange for letting their voices be heard.

#pathfinder second edition #archetype #geomancer #zebub #accuser devil #orc #Secrets of Magic

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thethirdtreeofvalinor · 7 months

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thorin to the company: which one of you dwarves, who i call kin, stole my fucking arkenstone?

thorin to his burglar for hire of a different race he’s known for a year that he’s distrusted for half the journey, in the same breath: it’s you and me against the world

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tricoufamily · 2 months

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idk how experimental you can say this really is for me but it's a new reshade and skin details so this counts <3 anyway yesterday i wrote down an idea for a short story and it's one bullet point and it says "a rockstar picks up a homeless hitchhiker in the 70s. something homosexual happens" and that's the whole thing. the rockstar 👨‍🎤

#finally. a successful sim attempt #ok maybe he kinda looks like frankie BUT #he's so pretty odd ryan ross coded.......#(now before you go making accusations against me......what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament)#he doesn't have a name honestly i don't think i was ever going to reveal it #it's a first person pov (his) and he uses a fake name #so idk. maybe he'll never have a name #unless it got fleshed out enough to be a novel idea instead of a short story like my short stories tend to do but whatever #ts4 #ts4 cas #the sims 4 #ts4 edit

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opens-up-4-nobody · 1 year

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This one goes out to those who accused me of stealing her big naturals here

#i think he might page this to scully rather than saying it. its so funny #he picks up this page than thinks: titties... what if its a lady #jesus christ mulder u r an Oxford trained psychologist and criminal profiler who in this episode accuses a #unhoused lady of being a missing link or something. like dude shes just a meth head or something #and a cannibal. its literally not supernatural but we get 2 gloryous big foot drawing lol. props Department was on fire #x files #the x files #fox mulder #agent mulder #the jersey devil

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notsurewhattocallmyselfyet · 28 days

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So Arthur is definitely going to be tried as a witch at some point right?

#someone accuses arthur of having the devil in his head telling him things #and arthur is like “no no that's... well actually kinda though”#and john is very offended #malevolent podcast #malevolent john doe #arthur lester #malevolent intermezzo #intermezzo spoilers

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daisies-on-a-cup · 21 days

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really interesting how no one is rlly accusing jojo siwa of satanism or "selling her soul" with this new edgy rebrand of hers, and yet allll of the past three years have been about demonizing artists like lil nas x and doja cat for their rebrands

#like. i think we know part of why that is. and i wont even get into sam smith #but like. im sure u guys are getting what im putting down #and maybe there are devil accusations being thrown at jojo #but i have not seen any and they are not nearly as pervasive as they have been for black artists

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hockeylovee12 · 3 months

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I can just imagine Luke and Cole sitting at a counter in Jack and Luke’s apartment waiting for Jack to feed them

#luke hughes #nj devils #jack hughes #cole caufield #he’s really trying to squash the broccoli accusations

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suncaptor · 2 years

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1x22 // 13x23

#.l #caps #13x23 #1x22 #devil's trap #let the good times roll #s1 #s13 #sam winchester #jack kline #john winchester #lucifer #sammy #jack #john #spn #supernatural #incoherents #sam and jack #okay. to be VERY clear. I am NOT accusing Sam of being John. he is parallelling John very clearly #but the situation is VERY different #I do in fact think it's possible he's MEANT to though #because obviously Lucifer Knows about this #but idk if Lucifer thought that far ahead. he definitely would think it watching it because I'm sure this is one of Sam's more traumatic #memories he'd peruse. plus Lucifer loves fucking with Sam's daddy issues #but like! anyways! Sam tries to get his son (Jack) to kill him (because of Lucifer forcing him where it's either that or kill Jack)#just like John tried to get Sam to kill him (to kill Azazel)#around around the trying to encourage patricide goes!#tw gs

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gorez · 7 months

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mangeretpain · 1 month

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This whole time I've been slightly put off by people thirsting over Luke Hughes because I'm like uh no that is a child only to now find out we're actually the same age....

#listen no one ever accused me of being smart #wdym this man is 20 I thought he was like 17 #nhl #hockey #luke hughes #new jersey devils

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syrips · 3 months

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terrified at the idea of strahd peeking into my village cottage home and instead of seeing just some basic peasant shet they also see a bunch of strahd portraits and sketches everywhere in my room

this is how my syrips art folder looks help me oh god im so glad its digital

#me and van richten have one thing in common #we have alot of strahd art on our walls #fdgfd-#also lower back pain probably #would i be executed if a baron/burgomaster/adventurers investigated my home #do any DMs/players have a campaign where if i lived in their barovia id be publicly executed for being accused of being the devil's whore??#oh god id have the cutest prisoner/execution outfit for myself #-sighs dreamily-#happy simping #using strahd as a model for all of my practice has improved my art by like 200%#i love art #syrips lore

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teatitty · 3 months

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Went back to episode 10 of the anime because does it ever fuck you up that Dante posed the brothers like this. As if they're just hanging out together. If Baul had a book he'd look like he was reading and Modeus looks like he's sleeping. As if Dante couldn't help posing them as if they were himself and Vergil - a little selfish dream he wanted to glimpse

#devil may cry #he's nice enough to do that but not nice enough to actually bury them #he leaves them like that so they can get taken by the elements or picked apart by animals and demons #I'm so insane whenever I think about this episode #on top of this there's also. baul and modeus both having a 'what the hell would you know about my brother?' moment #baul when a demon mocks modeus for being weak and modeus when dante accuses baul of wanting to rule hell #the parallels are crazy

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spotsupstuff · 10 months

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i ADORE yoyr skills in making characters with wildly complex personalities. how do you do it this well

THANK YOU!!! I HAVE NO FECKIN IDEA!!!

i usually just start with a concept (heehoo iterator who doesn't care for their puppet and the puppet has a blankie thrown over it and there's creepy peepy teefs under there) and then built off from that (the character now leads death itself to its family no matter how much it hurts and tears away at it because it recognizes this is ultimately the best thing that can happen to them and it Only wishes for the best for its family cuz it loves them a lot. no matter what it will take, its family will be alright.)- OH a VERY important thing for character making is interconnecting them with other characters!!! that is literally the Most important thing Ever imo. and then details. details are what build the complexity!

the more interactions with other characters and the world you put the peepo thru, the more shaped they will be, i suppose? while still keeping a core idea very clear

also taking inspirations from other characters and then remixing n combining these different inspirations is a valid thing to do. one of Notos' big inspirations is, for example, Wednesday Addams from that netflix show! sometimes the inspiration comes from a certain pack of feelings i get from a song/situation, like for example Zephyr and Johanka by Brotosauři/Joan of Arc in general. Johanka and where i first heard it, the way i first sung it, was already full of so many things that simply applying it to Zephyr gave her a complex personality

and as always -claps- don't forget to give your character low points and weaknesses. but ALSO don't forget to give them their shining moments and strengths

#Spot says stuff #i legit dont know how to explain my process- a lot of it legit comes from the feelings songs can make one feel #when i first sang Johanka....... it was also when i first heard it. my dad was playing it going for a solo cuz nobody else really knew the-#-song then. his voice carried a mix of softness and a fight. he sung the chorus once and on the second one i joined; feeling inspired by-#-the fight of it. the revolution the determination the... melancholic agony of Joans unjustly death #then i read her wikipage. n i read- at the end there when shes about to be burned she asked for a cross. she was accused of *so* much.#of being the messanger of the devil. of being so vile- and shes surrounded by these people that are supposed to think of her like that.#why ever would someone grant her last wish? give her a cross? let her love the God and angels that she says guided her?#a soldier took two sticks and tied them. he gave the makeshift cross to her. she smiled and gave it a kiss and hugged it close to her chest #just before being *burned alive* shes given such.. humane kindness from someone who should be her *enemy*#its so tiny. so small so remshackle so broken. its so little the eyes of royals but oh the world that it means to someone who Understands-#-the love it took to do something like that. such a little gesture... made out of humane kidness. so she doesnt have to be alone.#the Feelings of that. that means so much to me as a person and i want to put that into Zephyr out of love and appreciation

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anxiouspotatorants · 1 year

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In 1.02 Elliot warns Maura to be silent when Eyk knocks on the door. When she opens Eyk immediately goes for Elliot and shoves him against the wall with threats. At first I thought it was just creepy and confusing, but now that I’ve seen the whole season I know that the Kerberos is on a loop.

Did Elliot know Eyk was waiting on the other side to threaten him because he’d experienced it in a previous loop? How many times has he had to suffer threats and violence and death at the hands of the passengers and crew on the Kerberos?

#seriously if Elliot isn’t Ciaran but just himself he has gone through so much #all of these people accusing him of being the Devil’s work and dooming the ship #being tossed overboard and threatened by passengers and crew and captain alike #all while his parents can do little else but watch and in Maura’s case don’t even realize that she’s a parent #just… poor Elliot #Elliot 1899 #1899 spoilers #1899 #1899 netflix #cw child harm

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yugocar · 7 months

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time for more controversial statements. im starting to find spanish annoying

#the crowd goes boooo #but i am #not sure why #and i cant ever say it without being accused of playing some kind of devils advocate #sometimes people just dont like things that are well liked because it doesn't suit them!#logs

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send-me-a-puffalope · 5 months

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i mean i think its fucking impossible for the gays not to be one of katie mcgrath’s ducklings

you got me there

#this is like the girls in salem accusing each other of being at the the devil’s gathering #how do YOU know about katie mcgrath’s ducklings #ask!!!#anon

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