Guard Beast

Your pet has been trained to stay near a target and defend it for any would-be attackers.
==Gift Effects==
* As a Rally action, you may exhaust this gift to command your pet to defend a person, object, or place. 
**Roll your Will and Leadership vs 3. If you are successful, your pet will follow the command and begin guarding the target. 
**The pet gains the Focused and Guarding statuses, and will refuse to go farther than Near range of the target. 
**Any time the pet notices anyone other than you approaching the thing they are guarding, the pet must roll their Species, Mind, and Observation vs the approaching target's Will and Deceit. 
**If the pet is successful, they will know if the target has hostile intent. 
**The guard command ends if you issue a new command that would counteract it, if the gift is refreshed, or after eight hours have passed. 
**If the pet has been Guarding for less than two hours when the command ends, you may refresh this gift immediately upon issuing a new command. 
* If the pet is Guarding and someone with hostile intent comes within Short Range of the thing the pet is guarding, the pet may attempt to Scare them as a reaction. This does expend the pet's chance to scare the target for the fight.
**Roll the pet's Body, Will, and Presence vs the target's Body, Will, Presence. If the target is at Short Range, the pet will also suffer the usual d8 penalty for range. 
**For each success the pet scores they may choose one of the following effects: 
***Remove the Enraged Condition on a Target 
***Add the Afraid Condition to the Target
***Add the Terrified condition to an Afraid target, or Sweep to another target within Short range and begin another scare contest.
*If the pet is Guarding and someone with hostile intent comes within Close Range of the thing the pet is guarding, as a reaction, the pet may attack them. 
**As long as the pet remains guarding, they will not become Afraid when entering the combat. 
**As long as they are guarding and under their own control, the pet will fight to defend the target they are guarding and will not flee unless they become Afraid, Maimed or Terrified, or you use the Rally action to command them to flee. 
==Notable Users of this Gift==
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