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By Jeremy Smit h a nd A nd reas Rönnqv ist

Psionics Embodied

Psionic NPCs

Lead Designers:

Jeremy Smith, Andreas Rönnqvist

Additional Design:

Matt Medeiros

Editing:

James Hill, Jake Rudd

Cover Artist:

Gordon Napier

Cover Design:

Erik Nowak

Interior Design:

Erik Nowak

Interior Layout:

Jeremy Smith

Interior Artwork:

Colby Stevenson, Nicole Cardiff, Dio Mahesa, Jesus Garcia, M.S Corley, Vincent Franky,

Georgi Mishkov, Dennis Saputra

Based on the original roleplaying game rules designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and inspired by the

third edition of the game designed by Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter

Adkison.

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Psionics Embodied

is published by Dreamscarred Press under the Open Game License version 1.0a Copyright

2000 Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

A Gallery of Characters

Character Creation

Sources Used

NPCs

Aladriel, Bowmaster of the Reaches

Alhandra the Unmaker

Armite, Arbiter of Justice

Bass Munroe

Count Malbor

Desh-Rae-Halra

Dr. Serasene Grym

Enull Battleborn

Erana, the Voice of Reason

Evan Serance

Li-andra the Whisper

Mayles Marther

Miraxan the Warforger

Nektok the Dominator

Garak-gro “The Ripper” Romak

Samazi Nuatl

Sarania the Lightfoot

Sumern, Walker of Worlds

Thum, Jarl of Shadows

Xander, the Invisible Blade

Xelara the Dreamcatcher

Psionics Embodied

Introduction

While the members of the adventuring party are

usually the heroes of the story, the cast of characters

involved in every campaign encompasses many more

individuals and personalities than the handful found

within the adventuring group.

Psionics Embodied

designed to give you ready-to-use psionic NPCs to help

fill in that cast of characters for your campaign without

needing to spend countless hours on character creation

or development.

These characters run the spectrum from friendly and

law-abiding like Miraxan the Warforger, to demented

psychopaths with no regard for society like Dr. Grym,

with all manner of variations in between. Whatever

your campaign, as long as pisonics exists, there are

characters in this book that can fit your world and help

flesh out the story you’re looking to tell. Whether your

campaign is a psionics-heavy world, or one where they

are only found rarely, these NPCs can help you introduce

some unique individuals who can serve as friends or

foes; allies or adversaries that can span the careers

of the player characters. Some could serve as life-long

mentors, teaching new techniques with the mind blade

or new psionic powers, while others could serve as the

primary villain the party must hunt down and destroy.

in level. These stat blocks include their typical combat

tactics, as well as any special abilities and equipment

they might use.

Character Creation

A Gallery of Characters

Contained in

Psionics Embodied

are over twenty

psionic NPCs. Each of the ten psionic classes has at

least two representatives, with one typically being

good-aligned and the other being evil-aligned. Each

entry contains the character’s history, description, and

personality.

Listed below are the NPCs for each of the ten psionic

classes:

Aegis:

Sarania the Lightfoot, Thum the Jarl of Shadows

Cryptic:

Alhandra the Unmaker, Count Malbor

Dread:

Samazi Nuatl, Xelara the Dreamcatcher

Marksman:

Aladriel the Bowmaster of the Reaches,

Garak-Gro “The Ripper” Romak

Psion:

Nektok the Dominator, Sumern the Walker of

Worlds

Psychic Warrior:

Bass Munroe, Desh-Rae-Halra,

Mayles Marther

Soulknife:

Li-andra the Whisper, Xander the Invisible

Blade

Tactician:

Enull Battleborn, Miraxan the Warforger

Vitalist:

Dr. Serasene Grym, Erana the Voice of Reason

Wilder:

Armite the Arbiter of Justice, Evan Serance

In addition, each NPC contains guidelines so that they

can either serve as an ally or an enemy to the players,

depending on what the game requires.

Each NPC is presented at character levels 5, 10, and 15,

so that they can remain relevant as the party advances

The individuals detailed in this book were created

using the rules found for NPC creation in the

Pathfinder

RPG Core Rulebook.

This includes using the heroic NPC

array to determine ability scores, as well as using the

heroic level to determine their equipment and combat

gear. This typically means their equipment and combat

gear is more oriented toward an encounter, rather than

long-term play, but is sufficient to keep them useful at

their particular character level.

Each NPC was given the standard level advancement

benefits, including ability score increases, which were

typically applied to either their primary manifesting

ability, or their most appropriate combat ability score

if they were not a manifester. Additionally, most of the

NPCs were granted favored class bonuses at each level,

which were typically used for either a skill point or hit

point. In some cases, the favored class bonus was used

for alternate favored class bonuses, like an extra insight

or additional power known, depending on the specific

character.

If a particular NPC is intended to be used as a member

of the party or evolves into another member of the

party through the course of the campaign, the character

wealth of the NPC should be adjusted to normal wealth

expectations of a player character instead of NPC wealth.

Otherwise, they will likely be significantly under-

equipped compared to the rest of the party and might

become a liability instead of an asset.

Sources Used

Character options for the different NPCs found in this

book come from either the

Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook

or from

Ultimate Psionics.

This includes feats, equipment,

archetypes, classes, races, and psionic powers. Use of

this book requires both of those books.

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Aladriel of the Reaches

BACKGROUND

As a girl, Aladriel loved to compete: the thrill of the

chase, the rush of the win. She would race her friends,

challenge older children, or try to outshoot the grown

archers. Her ambition placed has as the youngest archer

in training, yet many of the older boys treated her with

disdain because of her age and gender and refused to

take part in her challenges. Unrelenting, she created a

disguise with a green hood and cloak and when the boys

were out training, she ambushed them by pinning their

cloaks to the ground. Without a word, she jumped down

in front of them, pointed at each one in turn and then

challenged them with as deep a voice as she could.

To their surprise, the hooded stranger defeated them

and told them to train and return in a month to try again.

Flush with her victory, she returned to camp to hear the

boys discuss what had happened and see them train

harder than ever. Content, she too trained harder. Month

after month, she defeated them in the forest, becoming

something of a whispered legend amongst the archers.

A year after her first ambush, she revealed herself

to the boys. They were shocked not only because they

had been beaten, but that they had been deceived by

a girl. Amazingly, they saw the humor in it and for a

while, Aladriel was one of them. When the Skyarrow

Competition came to her town, she entered and managed

to beat each of her friends, then defeating the regional

champions from the other cities. She was crowned

Champion of Skyarrow, but she would hold that title for

only a few hours. A mage, father of one of the competitors,

had been studying the young elven archer and realized

she was supplementing her abilities with some form of

psychic power, and revealed this to the judges.

Aladriel was dishonored in front of her entire city,

forbidden to practice the art of archery in the elven

cities, and her bow taken from her for her deceit.

Aladriel, unaware that her abilities were anything but

natural, was devastated. So in the dead of night, she

stole back her bow and made to flee, when she faced the

boys whom she had beaten. Hungry for revenge, they

had planned to give her a fair thrashing, unaware that

she was armed. She drew her bow and arrows and, like

the well-trained archer she was, delivered a sequence

of killing shots. She fled the disaster, yet found that she

had a liking for the ultimate act of competition – kill or

be killed. Since then, she serves as an assassin for hire,

remembering her hard-learned lesson that looks can

be deceptive – thus she dresses as one would assume a

friendly elven archer should dress, a tactic that has let

her slip away from many hits in her career.

PERSONALITY

Aladriel is competitive to a fault, and she seeks the

ultimate challenge of one mortal against another. As

such, she does not take assassination contracts that are

easy, and has on occassion chosen to spare her enemies

so that they can grow and become a true challenge.

This competitive streak also shows up in her love for

contests of all kinds. She believes in pushing herself as

much as possible, and thus she finds herself competing

in areas she knows very little about. To her, this is a

fantastic joy, every punch to the face in a boxing game

teaches her more, every painful fall in the branch-

running contest another notch on her spiritual bow.

If she lays eyes on people she deems interesting, she

might challenge them, or let them challenge her in

turn, to see their worth. Aladriel plays hard, and many

challengers have faced death in a lethal game against

her. As a consummate hunter, she doesn’t blink to take a

life, as long as it was taken for a good reason.

DESCRIPTION

Aladriel dresses in a beautiful elven-made mithral

shirt for defense with green leather underneath,

wearing a red cloak, giving her an almost classical image

of the “elven archer”. Her large elven ears are notched,

one notch for every comrade fallen in battle, a painful

reminder to Aladriel that others have sacrificed their

lifes for her. She has large purple almond eyes and long

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