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Class Feature Friday: Chronomancy Anchor (Precog Anchor)

(art by Dominik Mayer on Artstation)

 Ah, the precog, the fourth spellcasting class in Starfinder, introduced in Galactic Magic. The precog class are individuals with magical power to see the flow of time, letting them potentially see possible futures and how to guide others to those outcomes, in addition to their other magical abilities.

While there are certainly many applications for just seeing the future, ranging from long-term prophecy to seeing attacks coming to help avoid them, the precog is not just a diviner. Their ability to perceive the flow of time lets them manipulate it as well, altering it’s flow on certain beings, speeding them up or slowing them down, or even using it to attack, accelerating the effects of time and entropy to age foes to dust, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

However, all precogs need an anchor, something that acts as the source of their power and how they focus themselves, which in turn helps indicate some of their abilities.

Our first anchor we’ll be covering is chronomancy, referring to those precogs that were blessed (or cursed) with their abilities by a powerful being with a connection to time and it’s manipulation. Beings like the fey Eldest Shykka the Many, one of the many strange entities that dwell in the Dimension of Time like Ilee and siktemporae.

This power might have been directly granted, or perhaps inherited. Either way, these chronomancers likely view their powers as a mystical art to master rather than some innate ability that they struggle to control, though obviously there are exceptions. Either way, they may find their greatest insights in hidden occult lore associated with past (or future) chronomancers and the like.

 One of the distinct abilities of the precog is their ability to look into the threads of fate each day and guide themselves to favorable outcomes. This is represented by their pool of paradox dice, that they roll and record at the beginning of each day, choosing to substitute those recorded numbers on certain rolls. As they grow in power, precogs can use paradoxes on more and more things, but their anchor adds to that list, and once per day when they use a paradox on one of those focused areas, they regain a new paradox afterwards. In the case of chronomancers, their focal paradox lies in controlling their own magic, as well as one skill of their choice, both of which reflect their focus on mastering the flow of time and other skills.

Over time, their mastery improves, and these prophets learn to slow down time in their immediate vicinity just enough to possibly prevent foes from reacting to their actions or those of their allies. This is useful for getting the precog out of tight spots surrounded by enemies.

True masters learn to accelerate their own actions, potentially casting two spells in the space of a few moments. However, doing so puts a strain on them that makes them slow to act moments later.

The anchors don’t provide too many abilities since they can be further customized by temporal anomaly abilities, but this is a fun option for a back line precog that focuses mostly on spellcasting, what with their ability to use paradoxes to help bypass spell resistance and having an ability to duck out of close combat and cast two spells once a day. With that in mind, I’d choose options based on staying out of direct combat and supporting allies with buffs, debuffing foes, and so on.

 In the far future, time manipulation and time travel are no doubt explored both with magic and with science, so I can imagine some of these chronomancers working with technomancers and engineers eager to test the limits of those fields. However, I can also see others resisting such efforts, having taken on a guardian role of the time stream against wanton intrusion.

  On a volcanic world like Aukon, there are very few “permanent” natural wonders, most lasting a century at most before new activity destroys them. It was that fleeting nature that drove Boco, a quorlu geologist, to study chronomancy, seeking a way to be able to see one of a kind wonders that long vanished from their worlds.

 They say that time is thin on the spire of Mt. Nobrac, a dizzyingly tall and narrow spike on a distant world. Those studying the flow of time sometimes travel there to study the effects of the anomalies. However, one must be aware of the blood-drinking winged horrors that dwell near it, similar to the Niaqs of Verces.

 The party is suddenly attacked out of the blue by a mysterious figure that seems to know them, shouting something about “getting it right this time”. However, they have no memory of this being, who vanishes again once he is driven off.

[yulen-the-ghost]

Tgcf au where... Jun Wu did NOT allow Hua Cheng to cast himself down.

He hates the ghost. No matter how much time passed, its loyalty was something he had never seen before, causing his plans to fail several times.

He died.

Again.

And again.

And with a broken soul he keeps on sacrificing himself for HIS god.

Why did he not have such a follower (he's so mad that he forgot Nei Niaqing was by his side) and the prince got to have him!!??

The god gaslights the ghost into thinking that all of the misfortune that Xie Lian had to endure was because of him. Since the moment he WILLINGLY jumpped from the wall and ruined the festival. Continued because of every moment he was next to the prince.

He already knew he was born under the cursed star of solitude.

And he didn't listen.

He didn't want to.

And now...

"Poor little thing. Such fate is so cruel. After all, being born to be a monster is so unfair. However, fate has been merciful on you and allowed you to come to heaven... where as a god, you can cleanse your sins."

[starstruckavenuewombat]

Taylor David Bob niaq e' fight name must return to Candace Marie Hughes. On. Paid. Memory on. On. Paid. Parked. Paid.

[impossiblyshamelessstrawberry]

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[dustinwhittle]

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[houppellande]

An attempt to deconstruct Inuktitut dialogue in The Terror (part 3)

(Part 1)  (Part 2)

Disclaimer: First of all, I want to state that I am in NO way an expert of the Inuit culture nor the Inuktitut language, I have merely an academic interest for knowing how languages work.

Blanky : Uqagaqtigiqattaqgajuk?                Do you often speak with it?

Uqagaqtigiqattaqgajuk [Uqaq - gaq - tigi - qattaq - gajuk] to_talk - smn_that_does_X - be_so - repeatedly - often

Silna : Uuktuqrinngittunga      I didn’t try much

Uuktuqrinngittunga [Uuk - tuq - ri - nngit - junga] to_try - repeatedly - smn/smth_that_does_X - not(negation) - I

Crozier comes menacingly closer

Silna (softly to Goodsir) : Annaumałuktunga                                           I really want to go

Annaumałuktunga [Annak - ma - łuk - tunga] to_escape/get_away - to_be_in_a_state_of - emphatic/wish/doubt - I

... (DIALOGUE IN ENGLISH)

Crozier : Qanuliq tuqusaniaqtuqut Tuurngaq?                 How do we kill Tuunbaq?

Qanuliq [Qanuq - liq] how(questioning) - to_do/to_begin_to_do

Tuqusaniaqtuqut [Tuqu  - saq - niaq - jugut] to_die - engage_smn/smth_in_the-process_of_X - near_future - we(3+)

Tuurngaq [Tuurngi - aq] spirit (literally: to_evoke - smth_that_is_Xed)

Silna : ...

Crozier : Tuurngaq taku akujuq!                Show us how to catch it!

Tuurngaq [Tuurngi - aq] spirit (literally: to_evoke - smth_that_is_Xed)

Taku [Taku] to_see

Akujuq [Akuq - juq] to_be_captured - he/she

3/?

[starr-masterr]

Just a quick conversion for the Niaq for a lower level party! These monsters usually have an immobilizing virus that I left out to not kill party members without a defense against it. Feel free to give them the virus at a lower save DC if you want to give your party a challenge!

Niaq Cub CR 2

XP 600

N Medium magical beast

Init +2; Senses  blindsight (heat) 360 ft., sightless; Perception +7

DEFENSE HP 25

EAC 13; KAC 15

Fort +4; Ref +6; Will +3

OFFENSE

Speed 15 ft, fly 20ft poor

Melee feeding lance +11 (1d6+6 P)

Ranged quill volley +8 (1d6+2 P)

STATISTICS

Str +4; Dex +2; Con +1; Int +0; Wis +0; Cha +0

Skills Acrobatics +7, Stealth +12, Survival +7

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[raudino]

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[entertainmentrave]

Miss Colombia, Paulina Vega Crowned Miss Universe 2014

Miss Colombia, Paulina Vega Crowned Miss Universe 2014

By Adeboye Talabi (www.eraveng.com)

Miss Colombia, Paulina Vega was crowned “Miss Universe” in a live show in Miami on Sunday night. Miss USA, Nia Sanchez from Las Vegas was runner-up with Miss Ukraine taking Third place. Miss Nigeria won “Miss Congeniality” at the event.

Full list of winners:

Miss Universe: Colombia 1st runner-up: USA 2nd runner-up: Ukraine 3rd runner-up: Netherlands 4th…