Shade (Cimmerian Stalker Archetype)

Shades are the warrior-spies who protect and carry out the will of Nyxos, secret enforcers of the shadow-nation's interests. While the techniques were originally developed by Nyxian martial artists, they have since escaped the secret halls of Nyxos, and any sufficiently clever Cimmerian can become an independent Shade, stalking through the dark for their own purposes.
*Prerequisite Race Cimmerian
==Class Features==
A Shade loses access to one discipline of their choice and adds Elemental Flux to their list of available disciplines. If they do not have a discipline's associated skill as a class skill, they gain it as a class skill. Their initiation modifier is Intelligence, and any stalker class features that previously used their Wisdom modifier now use their Intelligence modifier. They otherwise learn, ready, initiate, and recover maneuvers as a standard stalker.
At 1st level, a Shade gains the ability to change their active element to shadow, dealing shadow damage when an effect deals damage based on their active element, and using the water option when an effect changes based on their active element. Additionally, they gain Magical Flux as a bonus feat. They do not need to meet the prerequisites.
This ability alters Ki Pool. If a Shade does not have possess a ki pool, they may still take this archetype and gain this ability.
Whenever a Shade recovers maneuvers while in dim light or darkness, they recover an additional maneuver. If they recover maneuvers as a full-round action while in dim light or darkness, they may forgo the typical additional effects of doing so to instead use vanish on themselves as a spell-like ability and move up to their speed.
This ability replaces the Stalker Art gained at 1st level.
Category:Archetypes
Category:Combat Classes