Archives of Nethys
Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 32The Umbral Court of Pangolais has held Nidal as its unquestioning thrall for millennia. Zon-Kuthon is its one and only master, and to many of the country's citizens, it seems inconceivable that anyone could escape his chains. Most accept this fate as stoically as possible. But with Gorum's recent death, some have gained the strength to finally fight back. After all, if one god could perish, why not another?
Many riders of the Atteran Ranches have begun to gather under the banner of Horselord Iriatykis after she forged the spear known as Shadowpiercer from a fallen piece of Gorum. Iriatykis's crusade has brought hope to a place that never believed it possible. Now, war casts its own shadow over Nidal. The freedom of the riders and their horses is at stake, and perhaps even Zon-Kuthon's dominion may crumble.
You count yourself as one of the horselords who are ready to take up arms against the Midnight Lord and his Umbral Court. Whether you were born into one of the ancient, close-knit families of the Uthori Steppes and learned to sit in the saddle before you could walk or have spent years working for the stoic ranchers, you have formed a strong bond with one of the nation's breeds of horses. From the swift, stoic nidarrmar to the wild, gray-dappled chiardmar, these animals are considered by many to be the finest horses across Golarion. Their lineages are as familiar to you as your own blood kin and are equally dear.
Through your connection to a Nidalese horse, you understand the hardships suffered by the nation's people. You perhaps even survived them yourself. It is time to fight back against the darkness, so that all this suffering is not in vain.
Additional Feats
Source Player Core pg. 215Some 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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Nidalese Horselord Dedication Feat 2
Uncommon Archetype Dedication Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 120
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites trained in Nature; horse animal companion
Access You’re from Nidal.
Thanks to the deep bond you share with your Nidalese horse, the two of you gain remarkable abilities. You both gain darkvision and a +1 status bonus to saving throws against effects with the darkness or shadow trait. Your horse's Speed also increases by 5 feet. You gain the following edicts and anathema.
Edicts oppose the forces of the Umbral Court where possible, provide comfort to those who suffer in darkness
Anathema mistreat your horse, worship Zon-Kuthon or permanently ally with those who worship Zon-Kuthon
Special You can pledge yourself to the cause of the Nidalese horselords if you've already taken the Cavalier Dedication feat, allowing you to take this dedication feat even if you haven't taken two additional cavalier feats.
Face Your Fears [one-action] Feat 4
Archetype Emotion Mental Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 120
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Frequency once per hour
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
A lifetime of facing Nidal's terrors has taught you to fight through fear. Although you aren't immune to it, you can subdue the emotion to such an extent that many believe it doesn't affect you. Reduce the value of your frightened condition by 1. If this would reduce the value to 0, you are no longer frightened and gain a +1 circumstance bonus against fear effects for 1 minute.
Favored Terrain Feat 4
Ranger Source Player Core pg. 158
Archetypes Nidalese Horselord, Steel Falcon
You have studied a specific terrain to overcome its challenges. Choose aquatic, arctic, desert, forest, mountain, plains, sky, swamp, or underground as your favored terrain. When in that terrain, you can ignore the effects of non-magical difficult terrain. If you have the unimpeded journey class feature, you gain a second benefit while in your favored terrain, depending on your choice:
- Aquatic You gain a swim Speed equal to your Speed. If you already had a swim Speed, you instead gain a +10-foot status bonus to your swim Speed.
- Arctic You need to eat and drink only one-tenth as much as usual, you aren’t affected by severe or extreme cold, and you can walk across ice and snow at full Speed without needing to Balance.
- Desert You need to eat and drink only one-tenth as much as usual, you aren’t affected by severe or extreme heat, and you can walk along sand at full Speed without needing to Balance.
- Forest, Mountain, or Underground You gain a climb Speed equal to your Speed. If you already had a climb Speed, you instead gain a +10-foot status bonus to your climb Speed.
- Plains You gain a +10-foot status bonus to your land Speed.
- Sky You gain a +10-foot status bonus to your fly Speed, if you have one.
- Swamp You can move across bogs at full Speed, even if they are deep enough to be greater difficult terrain or to normally require you to Swim.
Repel Darkness [two-actions] Feat 4
Archetype Aura Concentrate Occult Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
Your stoicism and courage seem to drive off darkness and shadow. For 1 minute, you suppress magical darkness effects of a rank equal to or lower than half your level rounded up within a 10-foot emanation. This doesn't provide light, but merely restores the area to its natural illumination level. You can Dismiss this aura.
If your horse is at least a mature animal companion, you can use Repel Darkness to cause the aura to emanate from your horse instead of you, as long as your horse is within 100 feet.
Fear No Pain! [reaction] Feat 6
Archetype Auditory Fortune Linguistic Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Frequency once per hour
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
You have learned to endure pain without complaint and are capable of steeling your allies with similar resolve. When you give them a shout of encouragement, the triggering ally can reroll their failed save with a +2 circumstance bonus.
Mature Animal Companion (Druid) Feat 6
Druid Source Player Core pg. 130
Archetypes Nidalese Horselord, Rivethun Involutionist
Prerequisites Animal Companion
Your animal companion has grown up over the course of your adventures, becoming a mature animal companion and gaining additional capabilities.
Your animal companion has greater independence. During an encounter, even if you don't use the Command an Animal action, your animal companion can still use 1 action that round on your turn to Strike or Stride (or Burrow, Climb, Fly, or Swim if it has that Speed). It can do this at any point during your turn, as long as you aren’t currently taking an action. If it does, that’s all the actions it gets that round—you can’t Command it later.
Swift Support Feat 6
Archetype Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Frequency once per day
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
Trigger An ally within 30 feet fails a save against a mental effect.
Nidalese horses are known as some of the fastest across all Golarion, and your mount has trained to ride quickly into battle. When you command your horse to take the Support action, it gains a +5-foot circumstance bonus to its Speed until the start of your next turn.
Dismounting Strike [one-action] Feat 8
Archetype Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
Requirements You are mounted on your horse, and your last action was to Command an Animal to order your horse to Stride at least once.
You leap from your horse, using the momentum of its movement to deal a devastating blow with your melee weapon. You use the Mount action to dismount your horse but can move to any space within 10 feet of your mount, as long as your horse moved at least 15 feet. You then make a melee Strike. This counts as two attacks when calculating your multiple attack penalty. If this Strike hits, you deal an extra die of weapon damage. If you're at least 14th level, increase this to two extra dice.
Swallow Pain Feat 8
Archetype Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
You're capable of absorbing pain with less difficulty than others, and your bond with your horse helps it similarly ignore such suffering. You and your mount gain resistance to mental damage equal to half your level.
Horselord's Bond Feat 10
Archetype Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
Your bond with your horse becomes supernaturally strong as the two of you continue your crusade against Zon-Kuthon's dominion. You and your horse gain greater darkvision. In addition, when your horse succeeds at a save against effects that would cause the confused, controlled, or fascinated condition, it gets a critical success instead.
Incredible Companion (Druid) Feat 10
Druid Source Player Core pg. 132
Archetypes Nidalese Horselord, Rivethun Involutionist
Prerequisites Mature Animal Companion (Druid)
Your animal companion continues to grow and develop. It becomes either a nimble or savage animal companion, gaining additional capabilities determined by the type.
Penetrating Shot [two-actions] Feat 12
Ranger Source Player Core pg. 161
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Requirements You are wielding a ranged weapon
You shoot clear through an intervening creature to hit your prey. Choose a target that is giving lesser cover to your hunted prey. Make a single ranged Strike with the required weapon against the chosen target and your hunted prey. This attack ignores any lesser cover the chosen target provides your hunted prey. Roll damage only once, and apply it to each creature you hit. A Penetrating Shot counts as two attacks for your multiple attack penalty
Shadowpiercing Charge [three-actions] Feat 12
Archetype Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
Requirements You're riding your horse and wielding a melee weapon.
You charge into the fray on horseback, and those that lurk in the shadows will feel your wrath. You Command an Animal to have your mount Stride up to double its Speed. You can make a melee Strike at up to two enemies that are within your reach at any point during your mount's movement. Both attacks count toward your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn't increase until after you've made both of them.
Each Strike that hits a creature in dim light or darkness deals an additional 3d6 damage of the same type as the Strike. This additional damage increases to 4d6 at 15th level and to 5d6 at 18th level.
Defy Chains [reaction] Feat 14
Archetype Occult Sanctified Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
Trigger A fiend within 15 feet of you damages you with a Strike.
You turn to face a fiend that attacked you, looking them squarely in the eyes (if it has them) and showing no fear. You increase the amount of damage you take by 4d6, and deal 4d6 spirit damage to the triggering fiend. The damage you take and deal increases to 5d6 at 18th level.
In addition, if the fiend has an aura and you're in it, you can attempt an Intimidation check to counteract the aura's effect, using half your level rounded up as the counteract rank. If you succeed, the effects of the aura are suppressed until the end of the triggering fiend's next turn.
Gallop Across Shadow Feat 16
Archetype Occult Source Hellfire Dispatches pg. 121
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Nidalese Horselord Dedication
Though your enemy wields shadow and darkness as weapons, they are no impediment to you when you ride your trusted horse. To that end, your mount can step onto patches of darkness as if they were solid. When your horse moves through an area of darkness, it can treat empty spaces as solid ground. This allows your horse to move across gaps bridged by darkness or even into the air, ascending or descending at a maximum of a 45-degree angle. If your horse isn't on actual solid ground and the area your horse is in becomes dim light or brighter, your horse falls.
Sense the Unseen [reaction] Feat 16
Investigator Ranger Rogue Source Player Core pg. 162, Player Core 2 pg. 112
Archetypes Exorcist, Nidalese Horselord, Shadowdancer, Steel Falcon
Trigger You fail a check to Seek
When you look for foes, you can catch even the slightest cues, such as their minute movements or the shifting of air currents on your skin. Even though you failed at the triggering check, you automatically sense any undetected creatures in the area where you’re Seeking, making them merely hidden to you.
Specialized Companion (Druid) Feat 16
Druid Source Player Core pg. 135
Archetype Nidalese Horselord
Prerequisites Incredible Companion (Druid)
Your animal companion continues to grow in power and ability. It gains one specialization of your choice.
Special You can select this feat up to three times. Each time, add a different specialization to your companion.
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