Philosopher Hypathia Goddess of Magic

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HypatiaGoddess of Magic, Grace of the Silver Nimbus, Primal Azure PhoenixIntermediate DeitySymbol: Golden BookHome Plane: BytopiaAlignment: Neutral goodPortfolio: Knowledge, MagicWorshipers: Arcane spellcastersCleric Alignments: LG, NG, CG, LN, TNDomains: Dweomer, Knowledge, Magic, RuneFavored Weapon: Quarterstaff

 

Hypatia is portrayed as a very beautiful woman with a cloak that is fashioned from peacock feathers. She is the daughter of Cerrydwen and is one of the most powerful spellcasters among the imperial pantheon. While a goddess of good alignment she does appreciate all spellcasters regardless of alignment. Those that have meet the goddess describe her as being very serious minded and not at all vain (she is rarely seen laughing or having an enjoyable time and those that compare their beauty to the goddess be they mortal or immortal have never been struck down). 

 

DogmaHypatia is the patron of those who work 'white' magic and those seekers of knowledge. She loves the creation of magic items and the researching of spells never seen before. One proverb among her followers is: 'It is a gift to be able to wield magic, but take wisdom to know when to use magic'. Some evil wizards that practice petty acts of evil (i.e., their actions do not result in destruction of countries or loss of innocent life) give homage to Hypatia in hopes that the magic items they create and new spells they research draw her attention.

 

Clergy and TemplesHypatia's temples are few; it is far more common to find a small shrine to her in a library that is open to the public, in a school of wizardry, or in an individual wizard's home. When one does find a temple dedicated to Hypatia it is a huge building with many books where not only priests reside within, but also wizards and experts that have taken many knowledge skills (better known as sages). Temples of Hypatia serve as a place where arcane spellcasters can receive healing spells, usually without too much scrutiny…for a donation of course. When a temple is established archmages of various backgrounds come from great distances bringing donations to help in its creation. As such, a temple is likely to have many golems, magical wards and the like. Priests dress in white clothing with trim of lavender and dark blue and adorn themselves with much silver jewelry. Many of the priests are cleric/wizards, with many of them becoming lore masters. A few select and very powerful become Azure Phoenixes. 

 

HypatiaMage 20/Azure Phoenix 25thMedium-Size OutsiderDivine Rank: 11Hit Dice: 20d8+200 (outsider) plus 20d4+200 (Wiz) plus 25d4+250 (Azr) (990hp)Initiative: +10 (+10 Dex)Speed: 60 Ft.AC: 87 (+10 Dex, +11 divine, +35 natural, +10 bracers of armor, +11 deflection)Attacks +10 ghost touched fiery blast quarterstaff +72/+67/+62/+57 melee, or spell +62 melee touch or +64 range touch.Damage: +10 ghost touched fiery blast quarterstaff 1d6+18/20, or spell.Face/Reach: 5ft by 5ft/5ftSpecial Attacks: Domain powers, salient divine abilities, spell-like abilitiesSpecial Qualities: Divine immunities, DR 46/+4 (11/—), sonic resistance 31, fast healing 31, fire immunity, understand, speak, and read all languages and speak directly to all beings within 11 miles, remote communication, godly realm,teleport without error at will, plane shift at will, SR 43, divine aura (1,100ft., DC 32)Saves: Fort +65, Ref +65, Will +64Abilities: Str 26 Dex 30 Con 30 Int 40 Wis 29 cha 32Skills: Alchemy +94, Appraise +48, Balance +43, Bluff +47, Climb +29, Concentration +89, Craft (calligraphy) +45, Diplomacy +55, Disguise +46, Escape Artist +31, Forgery +32, Gather Information +42, Handle Animal +32, Heal +40, Hide +43, Innuendo +31, Intimidate +32, Jump +39, Knowledge (arcana) +94, Knowledge (religion) +93, Knowledge (the planes) +94, Knowledge (wildspace) +93, Listen +54, Move Silently +43, Perform +41, Profession (scribe) +53, Profession (herbalist) +53, Ride +41, Scry +94, Search +46, Sense Motive +53, Spellcraft +94, Spot +69, Swim +39, Tumble +41, Wilderness Lore +40.Feats: Additional Magic Item Space [extra ring], Alertness, Brew Potion, Craft Arms and Armor, Craft Epic Arms and Armor, Craft Epic Wondrous Item, Craft Rod, Craft Staff, Craft Wand, Craft Wondrous Item, Eschew Materials, Efficient Item Creation, Enhance Spell, Epic Spell Penetration, Forge Epic Ring, Forge Ring, Greater Spell Penetration, Heighten Spell, Ignore Material Components, Improved Combat Casting, Improved Metamagic, Improved Spell Capacity (x3), Maximize Spell, Multispell, Quicken Spell, Scribe Scroll, Spell Mastery, Spell Penetration, Still Spell. 

 

Divine Immunities: Ability damage, ability drain, acid, cold, death effects, disease, disintegration, electricity, energy drain, mind affecting effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, stunning, transmutation, imprisonment, banishment.Salient Divine Abilities: Alter Form, Alter Reality, Alter Size, Arcane Mastery, Craft Artifact, Divine Blast, Divine Celerity, Divine Fast Healing (31 hit points per round), Extra Domain (rune), Increased Energy Resistance (sonic), Instant Counter Spell, Rejuvenation, See Magic, Silvery Nimbus †.Domain Powers: Gain 3 additional cantrips to cast per day beyond what is assigned by level of caster, Hypatia can also cast choose to cast orisons in place of cantrips.Spell-Like Abilities: Hypatia uses these abilities as a 21st level caster. The save DCs are 32 + spell level. Absorption, analyze dweomer, antimagic field, clairaudience/clairvoyance, detect secret doors, detect thoughts, discern location, dispel magic, divination, Drawmij's instant summons, dweomerdeny, erase, explosive runes, find the path, foresight, glyph of warding, greater glyph of warding, Hypatia's aura of protection, Hypatia's nimbus, Hypatia's silvery blast, identify, imbue with spell ability, legend lore, lesser planar binding, Mordenkainen's Disjunction, Nystul's undetectable aura, permanency, protection from spells, secret page, spell resistance, spell turning, spellstrike, symbol, teleportation circle, true seeing.Wizard Spells/Day: (Levels 0-12): 7/8/8/8/7/7/7/7/6/6/3/3/2Possessions: Hypatia's crystal staff is a +10 quarterstaff that combines a rod of absorption and rod of greater maximization. She also has in her possession the following: Epic Bracers of Armor +10, Epic Cloak of Resistance +10, and 8 rings (with her additional magic item space she will typically have the following rings: Djinni Calling, Epic Wizardry VIII, Epic Wizardry IX, Evasion, Sequestering, Spell Storing, Spell Turning, Telekinesis).Silvery Nimbus (unique salient divine ability): With but a thought Hypatia can choose to bring into existence as a free action a luminescent silvery nimbus that hovers slightly above the back of her head. While this silver nimbus floats above her head she is immune to vile and corrupt damage. The silvery nimbus remains till Hypatia dismisses it.

 

Other Divine PowersAs an intermediate deity, Hypatia automatically receives a die result of 20 on any check. She treats a 1 on a saving throw or attack roll normally and not as an automatic failure. She is immortal.Senses: Hypatia can see, hear, touch, and smell at a distance of eleven miles. As a stand action, she can perceive anything within eleven miles of her worshippers, holy sites, objects, or any locations where one of her titles or name was spoken in the last hour. She can extend her senses up to ten locations at once. She can block the sensing power of deities of her rank or lower at up to two remote locations at once for 11 hours.Portfolio Sense: Hypatia senses the casting of any spell, the creation of any magic item, and the researching of magical spell the instant it happens, and she retains the sensation for eleven weeks after the event occurs.Automatic Actions: Hypatia can use Alchemy, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (architecture and engineering), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (local), Knowledge (religion), Knowledge (the planes), Profession (herbalist), Scry or Spellcraft as a free action if the DC for the task is 25 or lower. Hypatia can perform up to ten such free actions each round.Create Magic Items: Hypatia can create any kind of magic item, as long as the item's market price does not exceed 200,000 gp. Where she has the item creation feat pertaining to the item she wishes to create, the cost (in gold and XP) and creation times are halved. 

 

AvatarsHypatia's avatars are predominately female, but one should never assume that the powerful male human archmage cannot be Hypatia in disguise. While she can wear a wide array of clothing and style (this includes hair color as well), in her most common attire is that of a white robe with lavender and dark blue trim, and wearing much silver jewelry with expensive gems. Above her head is a brightly luminescent silvery nimbus. {Avatar of Hypatia: As Hypatia except divine rank 5; AC 78 (touch 49, flat-footed 68); Atk +61/+56/+51/+46 (1d6+13/20 +5 ghost touched flaming crystal staff) or spell +56 melee touch or +58 ranged touch; SQ DR 38/+4 (11/—), sonic resistance 25, SR 37, divine aura (500 ft., DC 26); SV Fort +64, Ref +64, Will +63; all skill are reduced by 6.Salient Divine Abilities: Alter Form, Alter Size, Arcane Mastery, Divine Fast Healing (25 hit points per round), Instant Counter Spell, Silvery Nimbus †. † Unique ability, described above.Spell-Like Abilities: Caster level: 15th; saving throw DC 26 + spell level. 

 

Dweomer DomainDeities: HypatiaGranted Powers: The cleric may cast an additional three orisons per day, and she may select her orisons from the arcane cantrip lists in addition to her own orison list. 

 

Dweomer Domain Spells1st Hypatia's Aura of Protection. Aura grants +2 luck bonus to AC and saving throws. 2nd Identify. Determines single feature of magic item. 3rdHypatia's Silvery Blast 1d4 divine damage per level to single target. 4th Hypatia's Nimbus. Invoke a nimbus about a target's head; target can cast spells without somatic, verbal and possibly without material components for a few rounds. 5th Permanency.Makes certain spells permanent; costs XP. 6th Analyze Dweomer Reveals magical aspects of subject. 7th Dweomerdeny. Banishes a spell from a targets mind and comprehension of said spell forever. 8th Absorption. Spells (and spell-like effects) targeted against you are absorbed and their energy stored until you release this energy in spells of your own. 9th Spellstrike. Negate the effect of a spell cast in either the previous or current round.

 

Conversion of Old Spells and New Spells

 

 

DweomerdenyEnchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]Level: Dweomer 7, Sor/Wiz 8Components: V and SCasting Time: 1 actionRange: TouchTarget: One spellcasterDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: Will to negateSpell Resistance: Yes 

 

This spell banishes a particular spell forever from the mind and comprehension of a spellcasting being. To enact it, the caster touches the target creature while speaking an incantation. If the recipient is not a spellcaster, the spell is wasted.If the saving throw succeeds, the chosen spell vanished from the mind of the target if it currently memorized. The spell is lost, but the target takes no harm. If no such spell is in memory, the spell has no effect at all. The spell targeted may be specific, known, and named, or just whatever magic was used to produce a particular spell effect that the caster of the dweomerdeny has personally witnessed.If the saving throw fails, all memory of the spell is gone forever, both any currently memorized enchantments and all memories of learning them and using them. Moreover, the victim's mind is never able to comprehend the particular spell again. It cannot be learned, memorized, or even read from a scroll by the victim. Limited wish, restoration, and wish spells are the only known ways of reversing this loss.A dweomerdeny works only against a specific spell, not against all spells of a school or type. For instance, it could be cast so as to prevent a wizard from using fireball, but that prohibition would not extend to burning hands or meteor swarm. 

 

Hypatia's Aura of ProtectionAbjurationLevel: Dweomer 1Components: V, S and FCasting Time: 1 actionRange: PersonalTarget: YouDuration: 2 minute /levelSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: Yes

 

This spell is cast the priest is surrounded by a sparkling translucent aura of one of the following colors: dark blue, lavender, or silver. This aura grants the priest a +2 AC luck bonus and a +2 luck bonus to saving throws.Arcane Focus: A pair of silver bracelets each set with amethysts and sapphires valued at a minimum of 250 gp each. 

 

Hypatia's NimbusTransmutationLevel: Dweomer 4Components: NoneCasting Time: 1 actionRange: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)Target: One spellcasting creatureDuration: See textSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: Yes

 

By sheer willpower and faith the priest invokes this spell and forms a circular radiant aura about the head of the priest or chosen spellcasting creature at the beginning of the next round. The spellcasting creature that has Hypatia's Nimbus upon them may then invoke spells from their memory by sheer force of will, not requiring verbal, somatic or material components. Only the stipulation is that spells that normally require material components that exceed the value of 200-gp still require the material components in order to be invoked. The duration of Hypatia's Nimbus and the hue of light that radiates from the Nimbus varies by the moral outlook of the creature. 

 

 Moral Outlook    Hue of Of Creature Duration Nimbus Any Good 5 rounds Silver Any Neutral 2 rounds Lavender Any Evil 1 round Dark Blue Hypatia's Silvery BlastEvocation [Divine]Level: Dweomer 3Components: V, S and FCasting Time: 1 actionRange: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)Target: One creatureDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: Yes 

 

When the priest cast this spell she unleashes a blast of silvery energy that inflicts 1d4-hit points of damage per level of caster to a maximum of 10d4 points of damage. This energy is divine in origin and no known means to resist its effects.Arcane Focus: A platinum ring, minimum value of 300-gp 

 

SpellstrikeAbjurationLevel: Dweomer 9, Sor/Wiz 9Components: VCasting Time: 1 actionRange: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)Target: See textDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: No 

 

This extremely powerful spell represents the height of the Abjurer's craft; it permits the caster to negate the effect of a spell caster to negate the effect of a spell cast in either the previous round or the round that the spellstrike is cast.The caster of the spellstrike does not need to know the type of spell or magic cast the previous round, only some part of its effect. The spellstrike can be used against one particular spell per casting.Spellstrike does not cause a spell to be reflected, turned, trapped, or sent elsewhere. The spell merely ceases to exist, retroactively, though it is still lost to the original caster. Even spell-like abilities are affected by the spell, though magical items and artifacts are not. Permanency is affected by spellstrike, though contingency, limited wish, and wish is not. 

 

Goddess Hypatian Created by ©2003, Mark Doolan