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PFS StandardLion Blade

Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170
Taldor’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 2.0
Some 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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PFS StandardLion Blade Dedication Feat 2

Uncommon Archetype Dedication 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites member of the Lion Blades; trained in Performance
Access 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.

PFS StandardFocused Fascination Feat 4*

Swashbuckler 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 163 1.1
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites 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.

PFS StandardInspiring Recitation [one-action] Feat 4

Archetype Concentrate Emotion Mental 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170
Archetype Lion Blade
Frequency 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.

PFS StandardLost in the Crowd Feat 4

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites 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.

PFS StandardSneak Attacker Feat 4

Archetype 
Source Player Core pg. 221 2.0
Archetypes Rogue, Assassin, Lion Blade, Verduran Shadow
Class Rogue
Prerequisites 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.

PFS StandardCrowd Mastery Feat 6

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites 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.

PFS StandardExpeditious Advance Feat 6

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
Requirements You’re unarmored or wearing light armor.

You advance and retreat quickly. You gain a +10-foot status bonus to your Speed.

PFS StandardOngoing Investigation Feat 6*

Investigator 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 108 1.1
Archetypes 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.

PFS StandardInterposing Crowd Feat 8

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 170
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites 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.

PFS StandardLion's Magic Feat 8

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites 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.

PFS StandardSpy's Countermeasures [free-action] Feat 10

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
Trigger 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.

PFS StandardFlickering Twirl [one-action] Feat 12

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites 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.

PFS StandardSlowing Strike [free-action] Feat 12

Archetype 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171
Archetype Lion Blade
Frequency once per round
Prerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
Trigger 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.

PFS StandardStunning Surprise [two-actions] Feat 14

Archetype Incapacitation 
Source Shining Kingdoms pg. 171
Archetype Lion Blade
Prerequisites Lion Blade Dedication
Requirements 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.