YORIMOTO FIRE CLAN:
The Yorimoto Flame Clan possess powers over flame, they are often Wu Jen and are known as mercurial and aggressive casters reveling in destruction of their foes by flame. Their Samurai are quick to anger and often explode in rages over the least insult. However, they rarely hold grudges and often forget the incident the next day, offering their mortal enemy the night before a drink the next evening, no hard feelings included. Flame Kai Lin like making their homes near volcanoes, hot springs, and deserts where they can bask in natural heat. Their breath often trails steam even in normal weather and they often complain of being cold when others think it’s warm. They keep bonfires blazing in their homes throughout the night.
Aggressive and energetic, the Fire Kai Lin are tall and thin with angular features and spikey hair that trends towards yellow, orange and red. Their eyes favor metallic colors like bronze, gold and copper. They have tan skins and often have athletic builds. They prefer tribal tattoos. They are quick to anger but also quick to forgive. They are prone to violence and destruction and make great warriors.
SAMPLE DESCRIPTION: The lady before you is a Kai Lin of the Fire Clan. She is humanoid in shape but has skin colorations of copper, bronze, and gold tints. She looks alien in an Asian-Elvish way. She has shimmering eyes that alternatively blaze red, yellow, or orange as suits her mood. Her eyes glow in the dark. She is wearing voluminous robes that swirl about her in reds, oranges, and yellows and have a Chinese dragon emblazoned on them. Her hair is orange, red, and yellow in coloration and she sports a ragged haircut that looks like spikes rising upwards like flames. She is both exotic and beautiful with a thin and lithe body and delicate, nimble fingers. Her skin is very warm to the touch.
They often live in and around volcanoes.
STATS: +2 DEX, -2 WIS (Quick to React without considering all sides of an issue).
ECL +2
ABILITIES:
SIZEMedium: As Medium creatures, Kai Lin have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Fire Kai Lin base land speed is 30 feet.
Fire Domain: As a racial ability, they gain access to the Fire Domain as they grow in level as a Cleric of equal level. This extremely powerful and useful ability is native to all Fire Kai Lin regardless of Character Class. This includes the granted powers.
Automatic Languages: Kajimaran and Bandglan. Bonus Languages: Common, Auquan, Auran, Ignan, and Terran.
Favored Class: Wu Jen. A multiclass Fire Kai Lin' Wu Jen class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty for multiclassing.
CLAN WEAPON PROFICIENCY: All clan members are proficient in the use of the Shuriken.
CLAN DISPOSITION (how they treat other clans): Chaotic Neutral (rash and unpredictable, concerned with internal rather than external power, it’s best for the other clans to leave them to their own affairs unless it is time to fight an enemy.)
INTERNAL POLITICS (How they treat themselves): Lawful Evil (The flame clan nobility is very divisive, constantly plotting and taking positions of power and dominance over the others. They often murder each other over petty quarrels and struggle endlessly for dominance.)
CLAN WEAPONS, ARMORS, AND ITEMS:
FIRESTAR SHURIKEN: These Masterwork shuriken are forged by Kai Lin smiths in the forge of the Harigatsu Volcano where they are enchanted to hold flames when thrown. They come in packs of nine and do additional flame damage when thrown. The flames fizzle the round they strike an object. The shuriken are destroyed after their use but have a 50% recovery rate if the target is missed. Essentially, they have a +1 to Hit and do 1d2 +1d4 fire damage per shuriken. They cost a Fire Kai Lin 70 gp for 9 shuriken. They are often double the price for any non Yorimoto Kai Lin (140) and triple (210) for any other race.
FIRESTAR BRACERS: These Masterwork bracers absorb fire damage imparting a natural damage reduction to flame and heat, staying cool. This is another creation from the Harigatsu Forges. The bones that create the bracers are from Lava monsters that died long ago in the mountain. Cost 370, Armor Bonus: +1, Max Dex Bonus: -, Armor Check Penalty: 0, Arcane Spell Failure: 5%, Speed: ---, Weight: 3 lbs. DR: 3 versus Nonmagical Fire damage.
FIRESTAR AMULET: This appears to be a piece of red bone carved into a pretty design dangling from a red bone chain. In addition to this mundane task, it can absorb Fire and Heat of the sort generated by spell or spell-like ability. A Firestar Amulet can absorb up to 50 points of damage from Fire and Heat before it melts and becomes useless.
Faint abjuration; CL 1st; Craft Wondrous Item, shield; Price 750 gp.
ANCESTRAL YORIMOTO FEATS:
HANDS OF FLAME: (Su) One time a day, the Kai Lin can cast the spell Burning Hands as an Arcane Caster of Equal Level.
ONEWITH FLAME: (Su) The Kai Lin can activate innate Resist Elements (Fire and Heat only) reducing damage by 10, one time a day. The ability lasts CON +3 rounds.
FLICKER: (Su) A Flame Kai Lin gains the ability to warp his own form by bending the light around his form. The way his form flickers looks like a candle flame in the wind. He can Flicker for CON +1 number of rounds. This distortion grants the subject concealment (20% miss chance).
A see invisibility spell does not counteract the flicker effect, but a true seeing spell does.
Opponents that cannot see the subject ignore the spell’s effect (though fighting an unseen opponent carries penalties of its own). This can be done once a day.
FLAME AURA: (Su) Once a day, the Fire Kai Lin can coat his body in flames that make those grappling and making unarmed attacks against him take 1d4 magical fire damage. The ability lasts CON + 2 Rounds. The ability does no damage to the Kai Lin or any of his items. The flames cannot cause other items to burn.
FLAME SHEATHE: (Su) The Kai Lin can magically cause any one weapon he is holding to spontaneously burst into flame. The item held is not harmed, but those touching the object take 1d6 normal flame damage and Flame Kai Lin often use this on weapons to create extra damage. This feat cannot be taken multiple times, the flames created by the Kai Lin stack with other powers that may be in the weapon. The flames last CON +1 Rounds and can be activated one time a day.