Archives of Nethys
Those who gaze on a clear, starry sky often find themselves entranced, but the fey of the Starlit Crown find it beautiful beyond words. Some ancient dancers of the circle held it in such reverence that they felt the need to celebrate its beauty through movement. Predating even the Great Abandonment, the steps of the stellar dance have been passed from fey to fey for ages beyond mortal counting. Its beauty and refinement are such that it can produce effects far beyond simply celebrating the celestial bodies in the sky.
Only a handful of living mortals have ever mastered the steps of the dance. While there's no strict rule against sharing them, those close enough to the fey understand that, in doing so, they risk trespassing on unspoken boundaries.
Stellar Dancer Dedication Feat 2
Uncommon Archetype Dedication Source Feybound pg. 18
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites trained in Performance; trained in Nature or Fey Lore
Access You were granted permission to learn it by a member of the Starlit Crown.
You've begun learning the stellar dance, a storied fey art that celebrates the celestial bodies. You become an expert in Performance. If you were already an expert, you instead become trained in your choice of Nature or Fey Lore. You also gain the Stellar Dance Stance action.
Stellar Dance Stance [one-action] (primal, stance) Requirements You aren't encumbered or wearing medium or heavy armor; Effect You dance as freely as the stars above. While in this stance, you can attempt a Performance check instead of an Acrobatics check to Escape or Tumble Through. When you succeed at such a check, your stance reaches its zenith. While your dance is at its zenith, your Strikes with agile or finesse weapons and unarmed attacks deal additional force damage equal to the number of weapon damage dice.
Your stance stays at its zenith until the start of your next turn or until you leave the stance, whichever comes first, and you can't bring your stance to its zenith if it's already at its zenith. If you gain more ways to reach the zenith through other feats, these restrictions apply to those methods, too.
Dance Of The Guiding Lights Feat 4
Archetype Source Feybound pg. 18
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
You can channel the potency of the stars to mark your foes. You learn the zenith star domain spell. If you don't have one, you gain a focus pool of 1 Focus Point, and you can Refocus by carefully practicing the steps of the stellar dance. Your domain spells from the stellar dancer archetype are primal spells. You become trained in the spell attack modifier and spell DC statistics. Your spellcasting attribute is Charisma. In addition, when you Cast a Spell while you're in Stellar Dance Stance, your dance reaches its zenith, and you can choose for the additional damage dealt as a result of the stance to be of the same type as the damage dealt by the spell, if any.
Dance Of The Wanderers [one-action] Feat 4
Archetype Flourish Source Feybound pg. 18
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
Requirements You’re in Stellar Dance Stance, and your dance isn’t at its zenith.
Like those celestial wanderers who defiantly cross the sky in the opposite direction of the rest of the stars, you move gracefully across the battlefield. You Leap twice; neither action triggers reactions. At the end of this movement, your dance reaches its zenith, and you gain a +5-foot status bonus to your Speeds while your dance is at its zenith.
Dance Of The Galactic Whirl [one-action] Feat 6
Archetype Flourish Source Feybound pg. 19
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
Requirements You’re in Stellar Dance Stance, and your dance isn’t at its zenith.
The vast streak of light in the night sky is made of stars so numerous that it confounds the mind, and so too does your dance. You Feint and Stride in either order. You don’t need to be trained in Deception to Feint this way, and you can attempt a Performance check instead of a Deception check. Your dance then reaches its zenith.
Figure Of The Lunar Embrace [one-action] Feat 6
Archetype Source Feybound pg. 19
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
Requirements You’re in Stellar Dance Stance, and your dance isn’t at its zenith.
Like the moon drawing the ocean up the shore, you can draw your foes into danger. Attempt a Performance check against the Reflex DC of a creature in reach.
Critical SuccessYou Stride and move the target up to 10 feet in the direction of your movement. Your movement doesn’t trigger reactions from the target. Your dance also reaches its zenith, and you can choose for the additional damage to be cold instead of force.
SuccessAs critical success, but you move the target up to 5 feet in the direction of your movement.
FailureThe target doesn’t move. You can Stride if you choose, but your movement triggers reactions normally.
Critical FailureYou misstep. You don’t move, and you’re off-guard until the start of your next turn.
Special If you have the panache class feature and your Perform actions gain the bravado trait, Figure of the Lunar Embrace gains the bravado trait.
Figure Of The North Star Feat 8
Archetype Source Feybound pg. 19
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
Your dance is a beacon guiding your companions to success. You can cast guidance as a primal innate spell at will while in Stellar Dance Stance. While this spell is active on an ally, they gain the additional damage from your stance when your dance is at its zenith.
Figure Of Dawn's Respite [free-action] Feat 10
Archetype Source Feybound pg. 19
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Frequency once per minute
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
Requirements You’re in Stellar Dance Stance.
Like the dawn cuts through the night, your dance lances through distractions. If your next action has the manipulate or concentrate trait, it doesn’t trigger reactions due to those traits.
Figure Of The Burning Star Feat 12
Archetype Source Feybound pg. 19
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication; Dance Of The Guiding Lights
You draw your own constellation in fire across the battlefield. You learn the asterism domain spell and become an expert in spell attack modifier and spell DC.
Figure Of The Celestial Truth [reaction] Feat 12
Archetype Fortune Source Feybound pg. 19
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Frequency once per hour
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
Trigger You are in Stellar Dance Stance and fail or critically fail a Performance check.
You understand that as the moon guides the tides, so too do the stars guide fate itself. You reroll the triggering check but must take the new result.
Dance Of The Eclipse [one-action] Feat 18
Archetype Source Feybound pg. 19
Archetype Stellar Dancer
Prerequisites Stellar Dancer Dedication
Requirements You’re in Stellar Dance Stance, and your dance is at its zenith.
Just as the celestial bodies of the sun and moon align in perfect synchronicity, so too can you perform two steps of the stellar dance at once. You take any action you have from the stellar dancer archetype that requires your dance to not be at its zenith, ignoring that requirement. If that action would cause your dance to reach its zenith, your dance remains at its zenith until the end of your next turn or until you leave the stance, whichever comes first.
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