Pathfinder Misplaced Omens Shining Kingdoms Overview

If you happen to like fantasy in your fantasy sport, that is the e-book for you. The Shining Kingdoms are a standard excessive fantasy setting, stuffed with knights, adventures, and historical evils. The e-book opens with a short historical past of the Shining Kingdoms, taking us from the Age of Serpents to the Age of Misplaced Omens. This features a conclusion to the dwarves of Highhelm’s constructing of Torag’s Defend. There’s additionally a brand new religion: The Tides of Chaos. Followers of this pantheon work to undermine the established order, sowing seeds of confusion and uncertainty. Every of the six nations has its personal part, stuffed with historical past, present occasions, notable figures, and new choices.

That is the youngest nation within the Kingdoms. If you’re searching for an idealistic, democratic republic, that is the nation for you. Whenever you consider Andoran, you assume the Eagle Knights. This archetype believes in its loyalty to the beliefs of the nation over all else. One among their feats is Interpose the place they will put themselves between an ally and hazard. If you happen to assume you’ve been listening to about this group so much these days, you wouldn’t be unsuitable. The upcoming Hellfire Disaster is an all out conflict between Andoran and the Cheliax.

Cash makes the world go round. Or not less than that’s what makes Druma work. They supply a powerful commerce community between the nations, even when their ways are doubtful. Do you want discovering intelligent loopholes and making good offers? Then the Prophet of Kalistrade is the archetype for you. They love nothing greater than turning one benefit into one other. Even having an unusual arcane college, Faculty of Kalistrade, the place considered one of their spells actually makes cash rain down on their foes. All of that wealth means that you could be want to rent a bodyguard. Don’t fear, there’s a second archetype known as Blackjackets. These are your mercenaries who act as private bodyguards. One among their feats is known as Nothing Private, the place they deal further harm to a single creature that they’ve designated as an obstacle to their job.

That is the dwarven seat of energy. You’ll have heard of it from Misplaced Omens Highhelm. Whereas the completely different city-states observe the Excessive King’s rule, it doesn’t imply that they’re unified in any respect. There are not any new archetypes for the 5 Kings Mountains, however the Stalwart Defender does get two new feats, Stalwart Tune and Stalwart Chant. And there are some new Rivethun spells, like Manifestation of Spirits that enables the goal to be menaced by spirits.

Would you like a revolution? How a few revolution after that revolution? What if these revolutions had a revolution? That is essentially the most haunted of the Kingdoms, largely due to using magical guillotines referred to as the ultimate blades. These guillotines stored the souls of the slain from passing over so now they only roam round, headless. There are new feats for the Ghost archetype, together with Headless Hang-out. This lets you take away your head and use it to go searching whereas staying in cowl. Heads can be thrown to frighten targets. As a result of, what if the enjoyable of eradicating your head if you happen to can’t scare somebody with it?

Elves and forests simply go collectively like peas and carrots. Till not too long ago, Kyonin was very remoted, solely permitting outsiders into one buying and selling publish. These aren’t your typical woodland elves, they used a robust gate to move themselves off planet, solely to return some millennia later. If you happen to don’t like demons, the archetype, Wylderheart, is for you. This archetype defends the world from the corrupting affect of demons. The Wyldsinger feat permits you to study Wylderheart focus spells. The Faculty of Gates is a brand new arcane college that focuses on the gates, permitting motion over nice distances and even planes. King’s Fort is a spell precisely just like the chess transfer: you and a keen goal swap locations.

Taldor is the oldest of the nations. As with all outdated and highly effective nations, it isn’t what it as soon as was and has crumbled beneath its personal weight. Their new chief, Eutropia Stavian, is working to repair it. Even when the the Aristocracy don’t need her to. The Lion Blade archetype are bard/ spy/ warriors. About one in ten college students turn into totally acknowledged brokers. Their feats permit them to cover and sneak in full crowds with out slowing their pace or use the gang as flanking. The Ulfen Guard are loyal to the Primogen Crown solely, defending the Grand Princess’s security and taking up missions for the crown. Most of their feats are designed to guard their allies, like Protecting Strike permitting you to strike in opposition to a creature making an attempt to hurt your ally.

There was so much to cowl that I didn’t even go over. I don’t wish to spoil an excessive amount of of the e-book, particularly as a result of there are storyline threads from Pathfinder Situations all through a number of the nations.

Clearly, there are cool magic objects all through the books, companions distinctive to every nation, capital cities that really feel completely different from each other, and spells and poisons with new and attention-grabbing makes use of. And naturally, new beasts and monsters to your gamers to battle. Initially, my favourite was the Beiran Frosthunt as a result of who doesn’t like a troop of winter fey, however I’ve fallen in love with the Bibliondaemon (the four-armed weasel-faced daemon above), the personification of dying by paperwork.

This e-book speaks to the little child in me that grew up on excessive fantasy and I like that there’s sufficient meat in every nation that it may be used even if you happen to aren’t working your sport in Golarian.