Chapter Seven
Angelic and Fiendish Feats Angels are often described performing miracles or exhibiting strange supernatural powers. Bearing shining halos, smiting fiends with their bare hands, and repairing the most grievous wounds with a touch, angels can do things that even some spells cannot duplicate: angelic feats.
hese feats are available in addition to other feats of your campaign. When a feat has a prerequisite of “angel,” any angel as defined in the “Terminology: Angel and Fiend” section of Chapter Two: Angels meets that prerequisite. Likewise when a feat has a prerequisite of “fiend,” any fiend as defined in the same section meets the prerequisite. (See the feat list on the next page.)
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General Feats These new feats have no special general rules governing them as a group. Anyone who meets the prerequisites can take a general feat.
do not suffer the normal –4 penalty when using this ability on a celestial animal of the appropriate type. (In other words, a cherub using wild empathy does not have a –4 penalty to affect a celestial lion, even though it is a magical beast instead of an animal.) You gain a +4 bonus to Handle Animal checks regarding the appropriate kind of animal. See the table for a summary of angels and their favored animals. A half-celestial descended from one of these kinds of angels counts as that type of angel for the purpose of determining its animal affinity.
TABLE 7–1: FAVORED ANIMALS
Aligned Damage Reduction [General] You gain the ability to ignore or resist the effects of weapon damage that isn’t fundamentally opposed to your ethos. Prerequisites: Outsider with alignment subtype Benefit: Pick one of your alignment subtypes. You gain damage reduction 5, which can be negated by weapons of an opposite ethos of the chosen subtype (chaos and law oppose each other, as do good and evil). For example, a hound archon has the good and lawful subtypes. If he selected this feat, he would gain damage reduction 5/chaotic (as he already has damage reduction 10/evil). If you already have another form of damage reduction (whether alignment-bypassed or material-bypassed) from your race or as a natural ability, attacks against you must bypass both aspects of your damage reduction in order to harm you. For example, the above hound archon would have “damage reduction 5/chaotic and 10/evil” (rather than “damage reduction 5/chaotic or 10/evil”). However, if you have damage reduction granted from a magic item or spell, attacks against you can bypass either aspect of your damage reduction to harm you. Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you select this feat it must apply to a different alignment subtype.
Angelic Animal Affinity [General] You have a special affinity for a kind of animal associated with your angelic nature. Prerequisites: Angel Benefit: You can influence animals and celestial animals of a certain type as if you had the wild empathy ability of a druid. You
Angel Astral deva Avoral Bralani Cherub Couatl Dynama Ghaele Grigori Hashmalite Hound archon Kalkydrite Lantern archon Leonal Lillend Malakite
Memunite Ophanite Para Planetar Principality Seraph Solar Titan Trumpet archon
Animal Any* Birds Birds Felines Snakes Ursines Felines Apes Canines Canines Snakes or birds (depending upon angel’s current form) Birds Felines Snakes Mustelids (badgers, ermines, skunks, minks, polecats, weasels, and wolverines) Birds Birds Equines Any* Canines Snakes Any* Any* Birds
* The angel may choose one of the types of animal listed in the second column as her favored animal.
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