Prestige Class: Elemental Disciple

Apologizing for the wait... I continue my Bloodline Disciples prestige class series. However, the Elemental Disciple covers not one, but seven separate bloodlines, so you can forgive me!

Elemental Disciple

Those born with the blood or benediction of natural forces can end fusing themselves with the world’s energies, either on the mortal plane or beyond it.

Requirements

To qualify to become an elemental disciple, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.

Skills: 5 ranks in the related bloodline’s class skill (Knowledge- dungeoneering, Knowledge- nature, or Knowledge- planes).

Languages: Aquan, Auran, Ignan, or Terran (depending from the chosen element).

Feats: Elemental Focus, Elemental Spell (both with the chosen element).

Special: Cannot be an elemental creature or a creature with an elemental template (aerial, aqueous, chthonic, or fiery). A sorcerer or bloodrager with this prestige class must have the deep earth, elemental, djinni, efreeti, marid, shaitan, or stormborn bloodline.

Class Skills

The celestial disciple’s class skills are Climb (Str), Fly (Dex), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (nature, planes) (Int), Perception (Wis), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), and Use Magic Device (Cha)

Skill Ranks at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.

Hit Die: d10.

Table: Celestial Disciple

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spells per Day
1st	+0	+1	+0	+1	Blood of elements, natural armor increase +1	––
2nd	+1	+1	+1	+1	Ability boost (Str or Dex +2), bloodline feat, elemental assault	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
3rd	+2	+2	+1	+2	Elemental form (1/day)	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
4th	+3	+2	+1	+2	Ability boost (Str +2), natural armor increase +2	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
5th	+3	+3	+2	+3	Bloodline feat, darkvision 30 ft.	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
6th	+4	+3	+2	+3	Ability boost (Con +2)	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
7th	+5	+4	+2	+4	Elemental form (2/day), natural armor increase +3	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
8th	+6	+4	+3	+4	Ability boost (Cha +2), bloodline feat	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
9th	+6	+5	+3	+5	Elemental movement	+1 level of existing spellcasting class
10th	+7	+5	+3	+5	Elemental form (3/day), darkvision 60 ft.	+1 level of existing spellcasting class

Blood of the Elements: An elemental disciple adds her level to her sorcerer or bloodrager levels when determining the powers gained from her bloodline. If the elemental disciple does not have levels in sorcerer or bloodrager, she instead gains bloodline powers of a sorcerer bloodline chosen among deep earth, djinni, elemental, efreeti, marid, shaitan, or stormborn, using her elemental disciple level as her sorcerer level to determine the bonuses gained. Once made, the choice is set. This ability does not grant bonus spells to a sorcerer or bloodrager unless she possesses spell slots of an appropriate level. Such bonus spells are automatically granted if the sorcerer or bloodrager gains spell slots of the spell’s level.

Natural Armor Increase (Ex): At 1^st, 4^th, and 7^th level, an elemental disciple's skin toughens, causing a cumulative increase to her natural armor bonus of +1.

Spells per Day: At the indicated levels, an elemental disciple gains new spells per day as if she had also gained a level in a spellcasting class she belonged to before adding the prestige class. She does not, however, gain other benefits a character of that class would have gained, except for additional spells per day, spells known (if she is a spontaneous spellcaster), and an increased effective level of spellcasting. If a character had more than one spellcasting class before becoming a celestial disciple, she must decide to which class he adds the new level for purposes of determining spells per day.

Bloodline Feat: Upon reaching 2^nd level, and every three levels thereafter, an elemental disciple receives one bonus feat, chosen from her sorcerer bloodline’s bonus feat list, or from her bloodrager bloodline’s bonus feat list if she has levels in bloodrager. If the elemental disciple has level both in bloodrager and sorcerer, she must choose which list her bonus feats are chosen from.

Elemental Assault: At 3^rd level, an elemental disciple doubles her sorcerer or bloodrager level for the purpose of using her first-level bloodline power.

Ability Boost: As her body slowly fortifies through the connession with her element, an elemental disciple gains stat boosts. At 2^nd level, a disciple gains +2 to Str (for the deep earth, elemental earth, elemental fire, efreeti, or shaitan bloodline), or Dex (for the djinni, elemental air, elemental water, marid, or stormborn bloodline); at 4^th, +2 to Str; at 6^th, +2 to Con; and at 8^th, +2 to Cha.

Darkvision (Ex): At 5^th level, the elemental disciple gains darkvision with a range of 30 feet. If she already possessed darkvision, the ability range increases by 30 feet instead. At 10^th level, the celestial disciple adds another 30 feet to her darkvision range.

Elemental Form (Sp): At 3^rd level, a celestial disciple begins to transform in a true elemental. She can assume an elemental form corresponding to her elemental bloodline once per day. This ability works like elemental body II. At 7^th level, this ability functions as elemental body III and can be used twice per day; at 10^th level, it functions as elemental body III and the elemental disciple can use this ability three times per day. Her caster level for this effect is equal to her effective sorcerer or bloodrager levels for her bloodline. If the elemental disciple already has the elemental form ability (this applies to the efreeti bloodline’s efreeti form power), she can instead use it one more time per day. A deep earth disciple transforms into an earth elemental, while a stormborn disciple transforms into a lightning elemental.

Elemental Movement (Su): At 9th level, an elemental disciple gains the elemental movement bloodline power, even if her level does not yet grant that power. When she gains the power through her bloodline, the elemental disciple's speed when using her elemental movement form increases by 30 feet. A deep earth disciple applies this ability to her earth glide bloodline power, while a stormborn disciple applies it to her ride the lightning power.