There is a Legacy version
here.
Lion BladeSource Shining Kingdoms pg. 170Taldor’s official teeth in the shadows was founded in 1629 ar by Yanual and Izora, children of the late Goscelyn II and half-siblings to the Bastard Prince Penticus IV. Today, the shadow schools below Oppara, Cassomir, and other settlements teach a strict curriculum involving anatomy, politics, and even hypnotic meditation. This grueling program eliminates recruits until only the best remain. About one in ten students become fully recognized agents. The rest often become part of the supporting network as Lion Kiths, who retain a measure of their skills after leaving. Those who don’t become a Lion Kith leave to return to their bardic studies under vows of secrecy or cut off all ties.
Most agents require about five to ten years of active field service before they’re recognized as senior agents who can become an instructor at a shadow school. It is not unusual for masters of the shadow schools to poach one another’s graduates to exchange techniques and skills.
If you wish to play a PC who’s a Lion Kith, you can limit your feat selections from this archetype to that of level 6 and lower.
Additional Feats
Source Player Core pg. 215 2.0Some archetypes include a list of “Additional Feats” that appear in other sources. The list includes each feat’s level, which might be different than normal when gained from the archetype. You can take the feat as an archetype feat of that level, meaning it counts toward the number of feats required by the archetype’s dedication feat. When selected this way, a feat that normally has a class’s trait (such as the fighter trait) doesn’t have that class trait.
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Uncommon Archetype Dedication Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites member of the Lion Blades; trained in
PerformanceAccess You’re from Taldor.
Your Lion Blade spy training helps you conceal yourself and your identity. You become trained in your choice of
Deception or
Stealth; if you were already trained in that skill, you become an expert instead. You also gain the
Additional Lore skill feat for
Espionage Lore. If you were already trained in Espionage Lore, you also become trained in a Lore skill of your choice.
You never take circumstance penalties for attempting to take a disguise of a different ancestry, age, and so on, as long as the disguised form is appropriate for your size.
Swashbuckler Source Player Core 2 pg. 163 1.1Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Fascinating Performance* This version of the Focused Fascination feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the
original feat.
When you use Fascinating Performance in a combat encounter, you need only a success, rather than a critical success, to
fascinate your target. This works only if you're attempting to fascinate one target. For example, if you were an expert in
Performance, you could choose to target multiple creatures normally or target one creature and fascinate it on a success.
Archetype Concentrate Emotion Mental Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170Archetype Lion BladeFrequency once per hour
Prerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
You quietly speak or recall coded phrases and metaphors whose meanings inspire you to complete your mission. You gain a +1 status bonus to one skill of your choice until the beginning of your next turn. You can
Sustain this effect for up to 1 minute. If you’re an expert in
Performance, the bonus increases to +2. If you’re a master in Performance, the bonus is +3, and if you’re legendary, the bonus is +4.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
You’ve learned how to move as one with crowds and hide among them, vanishing into a busy street in the flicker of an eye. You move at full Speed in crowds and can use
cover from crowds to
Hide and
Sneak, gaining a +2 circumstance bonus to your
Stealth checks when in a crowd of at least 10 creatures and a +4 circumstance bonus to your Stealth checks when in a crowd of at least 100 creatures.
Archetype Source Player Core pg. 221 2.0Archetypes Rogue,
Assassin,
Lion Blade,
Verduran ShadowClass RoguePrerequisites Rogue Dedication
You gain the sneak attack class feature (page 167), except it deals 1d4 damage, increasing to 1d6 at 6th level. You don’t increase the number of dice as you gain levels.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lost in the Crowd
You use the crowd to your advantage, diverting your foes’ attention to potential hidden dangers in the crowd. When determining if your foe is
flanked, treat all squares occupied by a crowd as if they were occupied by an ally with a melee reach of 5 feet.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lion Blade DedicationRequirements You’re unarmored or wearing light armor.
You advance and retreat quickly. You gain a +10-foot status bonus to your Speed.
Investigator Source Player Core 2 pg. 108 1.1Archetypes Lion Blade,
Vindicator* This version of the Ongoing Investigation feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the
original feat.
You're always investigating what's around you, even as you perform other activities. You can move at full Speed while using the
Investigate exploration activity, and you can use another exploration activity while Investigating.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lost in the Crowd
Your enemies can’t stop you when there’s a host of people between you. Your movement actions don’t trigger reactions as long as you remain in a crowd for the entire duration of the action.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
Many Lion Blades enhance their words with a bit of magic. You can cast a 4th-rank
suggestion as an
occult innate spell once per day. At 12th level, you can also cast a 5th-rank
subconscious suggestion once per day.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lion Blade DedicationTrigger You succeed at a save against a
detection,
mental, or
scrying effect
You’ve learned how to analyze and fake your responses to the most common magic used against spies. You can attempt to identify the effect via
Identify Magic using the magical tradition skill of the effect or
Espionage Lore, even if you didn’t notice the spell being cast.
If you successfully identify the triggering effect, and it would normally fail or have no effect, you can make the caster of the triggering effect think the effect or spell succeeded. If they would obtain a result, such as receive a piece of information, you decide what that result is. If the effect would influence you to take certain actions, you can make it appear as if you were affected and attempt to play along; if the effect normally establishes a mental link, it functions normally, but you can disregard any commands you receive through the link.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
You use your movements and disguises to make yourself a flickering blur. You gain
concealment until the beginning of your next turn. As usual for concealment involving an obvious visual manifestation, you can’t use this concealment to
Hide.
Archetype Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171Archetype Lion BladeFrequency once per round
Prerequisites Lion Blade DedicationTrigger Your
Strike hits an
off-guard creature and deals damage.
You wound your enemy so they can’t move nimbly. The target must attempt a Fortitude save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds until the beginning of your next turn.
Failure As success, but the penalty lasts for 1 minute.
Archetype Incapacitation Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171Archetype Lion BladePrerequisites Lion Blade DedicationRequirements You must be
undetected by the target creature.
You quickly move in to bring your foe down with a single blow. You move up to your Speed then make a melee
Strike. If you hit and deal damage, your foe must attempt a Fortitude save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. Regardless of the save outcome, the creature then becomes immune to your Stunning Surprise for 24 hours.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature is
stunned 1 and can’t use reactions until its next turn.
Failure The creature is stunned 3 and can’t use reactions until its next turn.
Critical Failure The creature falls
unconscious for 1 minute.