General Prestige Class : Rainbow Servant

Deep in the jungles lie magically hidden ziggurats where the winged serpents known is couatls teach their secrets to arcane spellcasters eager to gain a measure of divine power. Those who have learned what the couatl temples have to offer are known as rainbow servants, because they agree to further the couatl's agenda of virtue and hope no matter how far they stray from the jungle in exchange for the knowledge they've received.

Most rainbow servants are sorcerers and wizards, with the occasional bard making the jungle trek. More sorcerers than wizards take on the mantle of the rainbow servant, because access to cleric domains is a compelling goal when spells known are otherwise so limited. Rainbow servants spend much of their time traveling on quests to make right some wrong. The couatls have a potent information network, so when they appear to direct a rainbow servant, they often have information the forces of evil thought they kept secret. But rainbow servants don't spend every moment at the beck and call of their serpentine masters; the couatls recognize that their servants have agendas of their own. A rainbow servant needs only be mindful that at any time a couatl could suddenly appear in her life describing a terrible evil that must be thwarted.

NPC rainbow servants travel the world - not to mention most of the Outer Planes - fighting evildoers and inspiring hope and mercy wherever they go. Unless they're traveling incognito, rainbow servants identify themselves with a prominent feathered plume on their headgear. Rainbow servants who've completed several quests for their couatl benefactors receive a feathered cape of the couatls as a mark of distinction.

Adaptation: The couatl aspect of this prestige class is inextricable from the rest of it, but you could develop similar prestige classes with other good outsiders such as lammasus, eladrins, or archons. It's also easy to reverse the class's alignment and come up with a similar "striped servant" class connected to the rakshasa, for example. And the couatl's jungle temples are rich with possibilities for creating your own organization - anything from secretive monks to weird spellcasters to friendly barbarian tribes could be living in the temples or nearby.

Requirements

To qualify to become a Rainbow Servant, a character must fulfill all the following criteria:

Class Skills

The rainbow servant's class skills are Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (the planes), Profession, Sense Motive, and Spellcraft.

Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the rainbow servant prestige class.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Rainbow servants gain no proficiency in weapons or armor.

Detect Evil (Sp): At will, a rainbow servant can use detect evil, as the spell.

Extra Domain: A rainbow servant gains the granted power and spell access of the Good domain at 1st level, the Air domain at 4th level, and the law domain at 7th level. The rainbow servant generally uses a multicolored feather of a couatl as her divine focus. For an explanation of how non-clerics receive domain spells, see Extra Domains.

Spells per Day/Spells Known: When a new rainbow servant level is gained, the character gains new spells per day as if she had also gained a level in whatever spellcasting class in which she could cast 3rd-level arcane spells before she added the prestige class. She does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (improved chance of controlling or rebuking undead, wild shape ability, and so on). This essentially means that she adds the level of rainbow servant to the level of whatever other spellcasting class the character has, then determines spells per day accordingly.

If a character had more than one spellcasting class in which she could cast 3rd-level arcane spells before she became a rainbow servant, the player must decide which class to assign each level of rainbow servant for the purpose of determining spells per day and spells known.

Grow Wings (Su): Starting at 4th level, a rainbow servant can grow multicolored, feathered wings like that of a couatl. The wings, which allow flight at a speed of 60 feet with good maneuverability, have a daily duration of 1 minute per rainbow servant level, divided up however the rainbow servant wishes. It takes a standard action to grow or eliminate the feathered wings. Restrictive clothing and armor of any kind prevents the wings from growing, and a rainbow servant can't grow wings while grappling.

Detect Chaos (Sp): At will, a rainbow servant of 7th level or higher can use detect chaos, as the spell.

Cleric Spell Access: A 10th-level rainbow servant can learn and cast spells from the cleric list, even if they don't appear on the lists of any spellcasting class he has. Such spells are cast as divine spells if they don't appear on the sorcerer/wizard or bard spell lists. This class feature grants access to the spells, but not extra spells per day. The 10th-level rainbow servant can likewise read scrolls with cleric spells on them and use wands and staffs that contain cleric spells.

Detect Thoughts (Sp): At will, a 10th-level rainbow servant can use detect thoughts, as the spell. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Rainbow ServantHit Die: d4
CLBABFortRefWillSpecialSpells per Day
1st+0+0+0+2Detect evil, extra domain (Good)-
2nd+1+0+0+3-+1 level of arcane spellcasting class
3rd+1+1+1+3-+1 level of arcane spellcasting class
4th+2+1+1+4Extra domain (Air), grow wings-
5th+2+1+1+4-+1 level of arcane spellcasting class
6th+3+2+2+5-+1 level of arcane spellcasting class
7th+3+2+2+5Detect chaos, extra domain (Law)-
8th+4+2+2+6-+1 level of arcane spellcasting class
9th+4+3+3+6-+1 level of arcane spellcasting class
10th+5+3+3+7Cleric spell access, detect thoughts-

Source: Complete Divine

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