Wild:PC/Brilla/Vestiges/Agares

Agares was always interested in the properties of the Wilding. He believed that there was a hidden truth. He comissioned a small army to travel with him as he explored all of the islands he could. Eventually he came upon something called the UnderOcean. Sadly, his research only related to the air and earth that existed above in the Wilding that most know. His sudden loss of knowledge quickly led to a loss of morale in his crew which eventually committed mutiny. Little is known of what happened to his ship afterwards.

Sign: You gain a wracking cough that spews dust and small stones from your mouth. This coughing prevents you from casting any spells that have verbal components. While bound to Agares, you can resist the urge to cough for a number of rounds equal your Constitution score. Thereafter, you cough for a round and then can try to resist the urge again.

Influence: Agares’s loyalty in life and his anger at the betrayal perpetrated by his lieutenants has become a hatred of falsehood. When influenced by Agares, you speak forthrightly and with confidence. You cannot use the Bluff skill, and when asked a direct question, you must answer truthfully and directly.

Granted Abilities: Agares gives you the power to exalt yourself and your allies, to make the earth tremble beneath your feet, to render foes weak, and to speak the truth to all peoples.

Earth and Air Mastery: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and weapon damage rolls if both you and your foe are touching the ground. Any airborne foe takes a –1 penalty on attack rolls and weapon damage rolls against you.

Earthshaking Step: As a standard action, you can stomp on the ground, causing every creature within 10 feet of you that is either standing or climbing on a surface connected with the ground to make a Reflex save or fall prone. Once you have used this ability, you cannot do so again for 5 rounds. You and your summoned earth elemental (see below) are never knocked prone by the use of this ability.

Elemental Companion: You can summon an earth elemental to accompany you and fight for you. This creature obeys your commands to the best of its ability. If the elemental is more than 30 feet away from you at the end of your turn, it dissolves. If you lose your elemental to dissolution or destruction, you cannot summon it again for 1 hour.

The size of the earth elemental you can summon depends on your effective binder level, as given on the following table.

Effective Binder Level	Elemental Size
1st - 10th	Small
11th - 14th	Medium
15th - 18th	Large
19th or higher	Huge

Fear Immunity: You have immunity to fear from both magical and mundane sources.

True Speech: You can speak, understand, read, and write all languages spoken by creatures within 30 feet of you. To use an unfamiliar language, you must hear it spoken and see the speaker. Once you have used it, you can continue to do so for as long as your pact with Agares lasts. When speaking or writing in a language with which you are not familiar, you cannot lie.