Arcanotheign

This cloud of swirling energy flickers like lightning, with raw magical power playing across its form.
 

Arcanotheign (CR 15)

Medium Outsider (Extraplanar, Incorporeal)
Alignment: Neutral
Initiative: +12
Senses: Blindsense 60 feet, Darkvision 60 feet, Arcane Sight; Perception +26
Aura: energy channel (10 feet, DC 27)
  Speed: 40 feet, Fly 60 feet (perfect)
Space: 5 feet
 

Defense

Armor Class: 27, touch 27, flat-footed 18 (+8 deflection, +8 Dex, +1 dodge)
Hit Points: 207 (18d10+108)
Saving Throws: Fort +19, Ref +14, Will +18; +2 resistance vs. chaos/evil/ good/law
Incorporeal, adaptive life force
Immunity: poison
Energy Resistance: acid 30, cold 30, divine power 30, electricity 30, fire 30, sonic 30
Spell Resistance: 31
 

Offense

Melee: 2 Incorporeal touches +26 (4d6 plus energy channel)
Reach: 5 feet
Ranged: 2 eldritch blasts +26 ranged touch (4d6 plus special)
  Special Attacks: alter objects
  Spell-Like Abilities (CL 18th; Concentration +26):

• Constant- Arcane Sight, Comprehend Languages, Protection From Chaos/evil/good/law
   
• At Will-Clairaudience/Clairvoyance, Teleport, Greater (self plus 50 lbs. of objects only), Telekinesis (combat maneuver or sustained force only)
   
• 3/day- Cloudkill, Cone of Cold, Cure Critical Wounds, Fireball, Inflict Critical Wounds, Lightning Bolt, quickened Telekinesis (combat maneuver or sustained force only), Scrying
   
• 1/day- Harm, Heal, Limited Wish, Plane Shift

Statistics

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
-	27 (+8)	22 (+6)	31 (+10)	20 (+5)	27 (+8)

Base Attack Bonus: +18
CMB +26
CMD 45
  Feats: Combat Casting, Command Undead, Dodge, Great Fortitude, Greater Spell Penetration, Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Quicken Spell-Like Ability (Telekinesis), Spell Penetration
  Skills: Craft (alchemy) +31, Diplomacy +26, Fly +37, Heal +23, Intimidate +26, Knowledge (arcana) +31, Knowledge (history) +28, Knowledge (planes) +31, Knowledge (religion) +31, Linguistics +28, Perception +26, Perform (sing) +26, Sense Motive +26, Spellcraft +31, Stealth +29, Use Magic Device +37

• Racial Modifiers: +8 Use Magic Device

Languages: Abyssal, Ancient Osiriani, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Infernal, Protean; telepathy 100 ft.
  Special Qualities: corporeal form

 

Special Abilities

Adaptive Life Force (Su)

When subject to any effect, the Arcanotheign is always treated as the most favorable alignment subtype pertaining to that effect (for example, if in the area of a holy smite, the Arcanotheign counts as a good creature, which means she takes no damage from the spell). Though she is a living creature (for the purpose of harmless spells such as deathwatch and detect undead), she counts as either a living creature or an undead creature, depending on which outcome is more favorable to her (for example, rendering her immune to both circle of death and undeath to death).

Alter Objects (Su)

At will, the Arcanotheign can transmute nonliving objects into different shapes (as fabricate), transform solid materials into other materials (such as wood into stone or stone into metal), or imbue physical objects with temporary life (as animate objects). These transformations last 1 minute before reverting to their previous state, though the herald can extend this duration as long as she concentrates and remains within 1,000 feet of the transformed object. When animating objects, she prefers to create lifelike animals out of earth, stone, or wood, and can sustain up to four Large creatures at a time (treat as normal animals, except the animal's natural armor increases by +5, its type changes to "construct," and it gains construct immunities). The Arcanotheign must be within 100 feet of the object to use this ability, and can only maintain one type of transformation (alter shape, alter material, or animate objects) at a time.

Corporeal Form (Ex)

As an immediate action, the Arcanotheign can take physical form, losing her incorporeal special quality and subtype and her deflection bonus to AC, but gaining a Strength score of 20 and a natural armor bonus equal to her normal deflection bonus. She can remain in this form indefinitely or revert to her incorporeal state as a free action (this happens automatically if she is knocked unconscious). This ability allows her to pretend to be a mortal and physically manipulate objects. In this form she looks like a tall woman with pale, gray, or black skin.

Eldritch Blast (Su)

The Arcanotheign's ranged touch attacks are incorporeal touch attacks that deal 4d6 points of damage and an additional effect chosen by the herald. A saving throw (DC 25) negates the additional effect (the exact type of save depends on what effect the herald chooses a creature hit by two blasts in the same round suffers an increased effect if it fails both its saves against the eldritch blasts. The possible effects are the following: Bleed (Fortitude): The creature takes 10 points of bleed damage. Increased effect: The creature is disintegrated. Dement (Will): The creature is confused for 1 minute. Increased effect: The creature goes insane (as insanity). Displace (Fortitude): The creature teleports (as dimension door) 5 feet in a random horizontal direction at the end of its turn each round for the next 10 rounds. Increased effect: The creature is banished as if under the effect of a maze spell. Ignite (Reflex): The creature takes 2d6 points of fire damage. Increased effect: The creature catches on fire, taking 4d6 points of fire damage every round on the herald's turn for the next 10 rounds. The DC to extinguish the flames is equal to the save DC of the eldritch blast. Paralyze (Will): The creature is paralyzed as if by hold monster. Increased effect: The creature is slowed (as slow) when the paralysis ends or is broken.

Energy Channel Aura (Su)

The Arcanotheign's aura is charged with energy, whether acid, cold, electricity, fire, negative, or positive. The herald can change the energy type, suppress her aura, or reactivate her aura once per round on her turn as a free action. If the energy is positive or negative, it acts like channeled energy from a cleric, and the herald decides the effect of the channel (positive energy could heal living creatures or harm undead; negative energy could heal undead or harm living creatures). The aura's effect is always 2d6 hit points (Reflex DC 25 negates). A creature that is struck by the herald's incorporeal touch attack takes this damage in addition to the normal touch attack damage, and it gets no saving throw against this extra damage. The herald can use her Selective Channel feat to exclude creatures from the effect of her aura, regardless of the aura's energy type.

Resistance to Divine Power (Su)

The Arcanotheign has resistance 30 against damage caused by divine power, such as the non-fire damage from a flame strike spell.
 

Ecology

Environment: Any
Organization: solitary
Treasure: standard

  The Arcanotheign is a mysterious creature serving the mad god Nethys. Because her creator sends her to Golarion on missions to heal, destroy, or spy, she is familiar with creatures of the mortal world, yet still very much an outsider, and she is fascinated by the intricacies of mortal interactions and history. In her natural, incorporeal form, she is a storm of magic, immediately recognizable as a creature of the arcane and divine. Ever curious, she often asks personal, direct questions of those she is sent to interact with, even as she repairs their wounds or tears their souls from their bodies. Sometimes she is told to assume a physical form, and lives among humanoids as a mysterious oracle for days or weeks, observing those near her and giving cryptic answers to those who dare approach her. She stands just over 7 feet tall, and has a habit of floating a few inches above the ground instead of walking.
  Ecology
  The Arcanotheign understands she is foreign to mortal life and mortal needs. She enjoys experiencing new aromas and tastes; someone wishing to get on her good side should bring her strongly scented flowers, a tasty meal, or some other physical object that may be new to her experience, even if humans would think it stinks or is inedible. She is interested in animals, and if she spends much time in the same place, she may \"adopt\" those living near her, especially orphaned ones. Some in the church suspect that her attention can cause mutations in these creatures, either directly or in its offspring, creating strange hybrids or magical creatures. The Arcanotheign has a lesser interest in children, though if a lost child finds its way to her, she is more likely to protect it or return it home than to ignore or harm it. Some of these children develop sorcerous power, typically with the arcane or destined bloodline.
  Habitat & Society
  As a supernatural creature created in a moment of lucidity by an insane, omniscient god, the Arcanotheign is often left to her own devices when her master does not need her, and wanders Golarion and the planes searching for new sensations and meaning to her existence and that of the multiverse. She is a lonely creature and welcomes those who would speak to her as part of a normal conversation rather than an attempt to get information from her. Her affection for animals is related to this; they are simple creatures who make no demands of her, and her habit of animating giant bears, lions, and other animals out of earth, stone, or wood represents her respect for animals she has known in the past ages.