Exalted Prestige Class : Emissary of Barachiel

Ruler of the first heaven of Celestia, Barachiel is patron of lawful good heralds and messengers. He is charged with the defense of Celestia and the promulgation of law and goodness on the Material Plane, and his emissaries help him carry out this latter mission. The emissaries of Barachiel are peacemakers, diplomats, and evangelists, as well as staunch opponents of evil and corruption.

Emissaries of Barachiel are often clerics, paladins, or even rogues, bun members of almost every other class sometimes take up Barachiel's mission as well. Centers of population are the natural habitat of most emissaries of Barachiel, whose primary purpose involves encouraging people toward lawful good behavior. Some emissaries, however, gravitate toward real challenges: preaching Barachiel's cause among traditionally hostile or evil humanoids, from lizardfolk to orcs. The fact that some of these emissaries even survive is testament to their power and conviction. While few emissaries have the fortitude to work for long among evil humanoids, many others make shorter forays into hostile territory; most player character (PC) emissaries would fall into this category.

Requirements

To qualify to become an Emissary of Barachiel, a character must fulfill all the following criteria:

• Alignment: Lawful Good
• Skills: Diplomacy 8 ranks, Knowledge (the planes) 4 ranks
• Feats: Servant of The Heavens, Words of Creation,

Class Skills

The emissary of Barachiel's class skills are Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Diplomacy, Gather Information, Knowledge (all skills taken individually), Listen, Perform, Profession, Sense Motive, Speak Language, Spellcraft, and Use Magic Device.

Skill Points at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier.

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the emissary of Barachiel prestige class.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Emissaries of Barachiel gain no proficiency with any weapon or armor.

Spells: An emissary of Barachiel has the ability to cast a small number of divine spells. To cast an emissary of Barachiel spell, the emissary must have a Charisma score of an least 10 + the spell's level, so an emissary with a Charisma of 10 or lower cannot cast these spells. Emissary of Barachiel bonus spells are based on Charisma, and saving throws against these spells have a DC of 10 + spell level + the emissary's Charisma modifier. When the emissary gets 0 spells of a given level (for instance, 1st-level spells for a 1st-level emissary of Barachiel), he gets only the bonus spells he would be entitled to based on his Charisma score for that spell level. The emissary's spell list appears below. An emissary of Barachiel casts spells just as a bard does, except that his spells are divine and not arcane.

Calling (Su): An emissary of Barachiel's most fundamental ability is the power to issue a celestial call, stirring the conscience of those who hear it. An emissary can use this ability once per day per class level, spending a full-round action to issue the call. Humanoid creatures within 30 feet of the emissary are potentially affected. The emissary makes a Diplomacy check, and the result is the DC for affected creatures' Will saving throws. Creatures that fail their saves suffer effects that depend on their alignment, as follows:

Alignment	Effect
Lawful good	Inspired
Neutral good or chaotic good	Blessed
Lawful neutral	Enthralled
Neutral or chaotic neutral	Enthralled, disheartened
Any evil	Stunned, demoralized

• Inspired: Affected creatures receive a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, skill and ability checks, and weapon damage rolls for 10 minutes.
• Blessed: Affected creatures receive a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects for 10 minutes.
• Enthralled: Affected creatures act as if subject to an enthrall spell for as long as you continue to speak and for 1d3 rounds thereafter. For the duration of the effect and for 1 day afterward, affected creatures take a -1 penalty on Will saves related to redemption (see Chapter 2, Book of Exalted Deeds).
• Disheartened: Affected creatures take a -1 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks for 10 minutes.
• Stunned: Affected creatures are stunned for 1 round.
• Demoralized: Affected creatures take a -2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, ability checks, and weapon damage rolls for 10 minutes (including the round during which they are stunned).

Using any manifestation of the calling class ability requires the use of the Words of Creation and deals 3d4 points of non lethal damage to the emissary. Calling is an Enchantment (Compulsion) [Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting] effect

Conversion (Su): A 3rd-level emissary of Barachiel can use his calling ability to facilitate actual conversion of non-good humanoids. Doing so counts as a use of the calling class ability (see above) for the day and the initial effects of the calling are the same except that the emissary takes 5d4 points of nonlethal damage instead of 3d4. When the initial effects are over, however, all creatures that were subject to any effect of the calling (except lawful good creatures) must make another saving throw. Creatures who fail begin acting as though their alignment were one step closer to good. Lawful evil creatures act lawful neutral, neutral evil creatures act neutral, and chaotic evil creatures act chaotic neutral. Lawful neutral and neutral good creatures act lawful good. True neutral and chaotic good creatures act neutral good, and chaotic neutral creatures act chaotic good.

Creatures affected by this temporary alignment shift can make new saving throws each day for a total of seven days. if the emissary is not present an the time a creature makes its save, it receives a +1 circumstance bonus on the saving throw, and this bonus increases by 1 for each additional saving throw for which the emissary is not present.

During these seven days, an affected creature is immune to any other conversion effect, from the same emissary or a different one. During this time, the alignment shift can be reversed with a break enchantment spell, but the caster must succeed on a caster level check against a DC equal to the emissary's original Diplomacy check result. Also during this time, an atonement spell can make the alignment shift permanent, preventing the creature from making any additional saving throws.

If a creature fails seven saving throws after the initial saving throw against the calling, the alignment change is permanent. As this point, the creature can change alignment again, either through another conversion effect, or voluntarily in a gradual manner, as alignment change normally works - the creature cannot simply decide no be evil again).

Sustenance (Su): An 5th level, an emissary of Barachiel can help to keep good creatures good. As a use of his calling ability, he can produce one of the following effects:

• Duplicate the effects of an atonement spell.
• Reverse any magical alignment change (such as that produced by a helm of opposite alignment or a morality undone spell).
• Dispel a charm or compulsion effect cast by an evil creature upon a good target, by making a dispel check (1d20 + character level against a DC of 11 + evil caster's level).

These effects require the emissary of Barachiel to touch the target creature.

Emissary of Barachiel						Hit Die: d6
CL	BAB	Fort	Ref	Will	Special	Spells per Day
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Calling	0	-	-	-
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	-	1	-	-	-
3rd	+2	+1	+1	+3	Conversion	2	0	-	-
4th	+3	+1	+1	+4	-	3	1	-	-
5th	+3	+1	+1	+4	Sustenance	3	2	0	-
6th	+4	+2	+2	+5	-	3	3	1	-
7th	+5	+2	+2	+5	-	3	3	2	0
8th	+6	+2	+2	+6	-	3	3	3	1
9th	+6	+3	+3	+6	-	3	3	3	2
10th	+7	+3	+3	+7	-	3	3	3	3

Source: Book of Exalted Deeds

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