Archetypes

Druids who are initiated into the magic of nature as strict students of the Green Faith's traditions sometimes demonstrate abilities unique to their organization.

ReplacesTrackless Step, Venom Immunity, A Thousand Faces

The fecund jungles of the equatorial regions are rich in life and ancient tradition; druidical guardians of sacred pools, elder trees, and trembling volcanoes watch over crumbling temples and the inevitable reclamation of lost civilizations by the beating heart of nature untamed.

ReplacesWoodland stride, Trackless step, Resist nature's lure +2

Some druids study the paths of nature's power through the nodes and ley lines that connect standing stones and megalithic circles, learning to tap into their energies.

ReplacesNature Sense, Wild Empathy, Woodland Stride +2

A mooncaller is bound to the subtle influences of the ever-changing moon and its endless cycles from light to dark and back again.

ReplacesWoodland stride, Resist nature's lure, Venom immunity +1

As more and more of the soft, easy lands become cultivated and civilized, many druids look for refuge and solitude among the eternal peaks of the highest mountains.

ReplacesWoodland stride, Trackless step, Resist nature's lure +3

Some druids bond with many animal companions rather than just one, achieving a level of communion rare even in druidic circles and leading their pack brothers and pack sisters with total authority.

ReplacesNature Bond, Wild Shape

Out upon the wide and rolling prairies and savannahs, plains druids stand guard over the grasslands.

ReplacesWoodland stride, Trackless step, Resist nature's lure +3

Spun off into the endless circle of life, an incarnate druid is an embodiment of nature's eternal renewal.

ReplacesWoodland stride, Resist nature's lure, Venom immunity +2

Guardians of rivers and the creatures that depend on them; river druids adapt to many environments and cultures as rivers pour from mountains to seas.

ReplacesNature Sense, Woodland Stride, Trackless Step +3

Guardians of the lonely paths between cities, road keepers protect the wild from travelers, and travelers from the wild.

ReplacesSpontaneous Casting, Wild Empathy, Woodland Stride +2

Harbingers of decay, rot wardens live in damp lands where insects and rot break down the dead to feed the living. They see in the process of rot the beauty of nature's capacity to recycle and repurpose material into something wondrous and new.

ReplacesSpontaneous Casting, Nature Bond, Wild Empathy +4

A shaman with this focus calls upon the primeval dinosaur, the archaic terror that lingers as a hungering, atavistic stranger at the fringes of the ecosystem, a destroyer and despoiler whose coming other animals dread.

ReplacesVenom immunity, Nature Bond, Wild Empathy +1

Season sages wander as the seasons change, turning the leaves and transforming nature as they pass and taking pleasure in the transition between seasons.

ReplacesWild Shape

Some druids emulate the deadly shark, a remorseless hunter that marine dwellers dread.

ReplacesVenom immunity, Nature Bond, Wild Empathy +1

While most druids focus their attention upon the rich earth and the bounty of nature that springs forth from it, the storm druid's eyes have ever been cast to the skies and the endless expanse of blue, channeling the most raw and untamed aspects of nature.

ReplacesSpontaneous casting, Woodland stride, Trackless step +4

Some druids eschew pleasant glades and groves and instead seek out dank marshes, misty bogs and heaths, and trackless swamps as the place they call home and watch over with care, finding beauty and life in abundance in places few others would willingly enter.

ReplacesWoodland stride, Trackless step, Resist nature's lure +2

While many druids keep to the wilderness, some make their way within settlements, communing with the animals and vermin who live there and speaking for the nature that runs rampant in civilization's very cradle.

ReplacesSpontaneous Casting, Woodland Stride, Trackless Step +5

While all druids traverse the wilderness with ease, the world walkers take it upon themselves to travel the entire world.

ReplacesTrackless Step, Resist Nature's Lure, Venom Immunity +1

Leaps to great heights to claim higher ground against foes, executing aerial dodges and devastating diving strikes.

ReplacesArmor Mastery, Bravery, Weapon Mastery

Masters movement and combat in aquatic environments, gaining underwater mobility and weapon techniques.

ReplacesArmor Mastery, Armor Training, Bravery +1