S
hrine Maiden

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Base Attack Bonus:Use Cleric Level 1-20.
Saves:Use Cleric Level 1-20.
LevelSpells/Day
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Special
12 1 - - - - - - - - Scribe Scroll, Turn Undead, Virgin Mind: 0
23 1 - - - - - - - - Virgin Mind: 1
33 2 1 - - - - - - - -
44 3 1 - - - - - - - Virgin Mind: 2
54 3 2 1 - - - - - - -
65 3 3 1 - - - - - - Virgin Mind: 3
75 4 3 2 1 - - - - - Sign of Virtue
86 4 3 3 1 - - - - - Virgin Mind: 4
96 4 4 3 2 1 - - - - -
106 4 4 3 3 1 - - - - Virgin Mind: 5
116 5 4 4 3 2 1 - - - -
126 5 4 4 3 3 1 - - - Virgin Mind: 6
136 5 5 4 4 3 2 1 - - Sign of Virtue
146 5 5 4 4 3 3 1 - - Virgin Mind: 7
156 5 5 5 4 4 3 2 1 - True Calligraphy
166 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 1 - Virgin Mind: 8
176 6 5 5 5 4 4 3 2 1 -
186 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 Virgin Mind: 9
196 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 Sign of Virtue
206 6 6 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 Positive Energy Storm 1/day

Description:
A deity calls out to a young girl... At an early age, that girl takes up vows of purity and chastity and dedicates herself to a life of service to her deity. That girl has adopted the life of a shrine maiden. A shrine maiden officiates over ceremonial dances and religious festivals. She is a chief performer of divinations and assists in many church ceremonies and rites. Other primary shrine maiden duties include addressing church concerns to the public, chronicling church history, and defending her church from attack.
Adventures:
Shrine maidens are often used an messengers. Also, shrine maidens are often included in military actions taken by her church, especially retaliatory actions after an attack on a shrine. Shrine maidens are often engaged in battles against lower planar creatures or undead. Shrine maidens are knowledgable on a variety of topics and are sometimes called upon for this reason.
Alignment:
Shrine maidens must be of good alignment.
Religion:
Shrine maidens, by definition, are a core part of a church's hierarchy. As a result, a shrine maiden must devote herself to a single deity. Futhermore, she is a shrine maiden of a specific shrine of that deity, as assigned by her church.
Race:
Shrine maidens are most common among humans, but can be of any race.
Interaction:
Shrine maidens typically get along well with others, although they will not tolerate evil acts by their companions. Shrine maidens also take great offense at unwanted advances and view them as insult to the beliefs they stand for.

Requirements (Base Class):
Alignment: Any good.
Special: Must be female virgin.

Hit Die: d6

Class Skills:
Concentration(Con), Craft(Int), Diplomacy(Cha), Heal(Wis), Knowledge: Any(Int), Listen(Wis), Profession(Wis), Scry(Int, Exclusive Skill), Sense Motive(Wis), Spellcraft(Int)
Skill Points at 1st Level: (4 + Int Mod) x 4
Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 4 + Int Mod.

Class Features:
Weapon Proficiencies: All Simple Weapons.
Armor Proficiencies: All Light & Medium Armors. All shields.

Spells: A shrine maiden is a divine spellcaster that prepares her spells from the shrine maiden spell list by the same method clerics use (she does not get domains). The number of spells she can cast per day is improved by her bonus spells (based on Wisdom). To cast a spell a shrine maiden must have a Wisdom score at least equal to 10 + the level of the spell. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a shrine maiden's spell is 10 + the spell's level + the shrine maiden's Wisdom modifier.

Spontaneous Casting: This ability works similarly to the spontaneous casting of clerics, except that instead of swapping for cure spells, a shrine maiden can swap for a good domain spell of the same level or lower than the spell being "lost". (For convience, these spells have been undelined in the list below.)

Scribe Scroll: At level 1, a shrine maiden gains the bonus feat Scribe Scroll.

Turn Undead: A shrine maiden can turn undead as a cleric of her level. She may turn undead a number of times per day equal to 3 + charisma modifier.

Virgin Mind: A shrine maiden becomes immune to mind-affecting spells of the listed level. She can, of course, choose to submit to a mind-affecting spell at anytime.

Sign of Virtue: At levels 7, 13, and 19, a shrine maiden chooses to gain the granted power listed for any one of the following domains: Animal, Charm, Fate, Good, Healing, Knowledge, Protection, Sun. She may not select the same Granted Power twice.

True Calligraphy: At level 15, a shrine maiden gains the ability True Calligraphy. This allows her to scribe a scroll in one day, regardless of the monetary cost.

Positive Energy Storm: At level 20, the shrine maiden can use the spell-like abilty Positive Energy Storm 1/day. Positive Energy Storm works as a Power Word: Kill, except that it can only target undead and that the maximums are changed to 150 hit points for a single target and 250 hit points (max 25 each) for the radius effect. It is cast at her level as a shrine maiden.

Vows of Purity: A Shrine maiden must be a female virgin. If she loses her viginity, she can no longer gain levels as a shrine maiden unless her virginity is restored through the direct intervention of her deity. A Shrine maiden seeks to embody the virtue of purity, and in keeping with this quest she must be of good alignment and worship a deity of good alignment. A shrine maiden can no longer gain levels as a shrine maiden if her alignment deviates from good. In this case, an atonement to 'Restore Class' cast by another member of her faith can restore her ability to gain levels. Shrine Maidens may freely take levels in other classes and return to the shrine maiden class or take levels in classes that continue her spell progression as a shrine maiden, provided she maintains the vows of purity.

Shrine Maiden Spells
0-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Clean*, Create Water, Cure Minor Wounds, Detect Magic, Flare, Guidance, Light, Mending, Read Magic, Virtue
1st-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Bane, Bless, Bless Water, Bless Weapon, Calm Animals, Color Spray, Command, Comprehend Languages, Cure Light Wounds, Detect Animals or Plants, Detect Poison, Detect Undead, Entrophic Shield, Invisibility to Undead, Minor Symbol of Divinity*, Obscuring Mist, Protection from Evil, Remove Fear, Sanctuary, Shield of Faith, Summon Monster I, Summon Nature's Ally I, Magic Weapon
2nd-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Aid, Augury, Calm Emotions, Cat's Grace, Consecreate, Cure Moderate Wounds, Endurance, Enthrall, Gentle Repose, Hold Person, Lesser Restoration, Make Whole, Purify Food and Drink, Remove Paralysis, Shatter, Sound Burst, Speak with Animals, Summon Monster II, Summon Nature's Ally II, Undetectable Alignment, Unseen Servent
3rd-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Animal Spy*, Banish Shadow*, Bestow Curse, Continual Flame, Create Food and Water, Cure Serious Wounds, Delay Poison, Dispel Magic, Glyph of Warding, Halt Undead, Helping Hand, Levitate, Magic Circle against Evil, Magic Vestment, Negative Energy Protection, Obscure Object, Prayer, Protection from Elements, Remove Blindness/Deafness, Remove Curse, Remove Disease, Searing Light, See Invisibility, Summon Monster III, Summon Nature's Ally III, Water Breathing, Water Walk, Wind Wall
4th-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Chains of Righteousness***, Contol Water, Cure Critical Wounds, Death Ward, Detect Scrying, Dimensional Anchor, Dismissal, Divination, Divine Power, Etherial Jaunt, Freedom of Movement, Greater Magic Weapon, Gust of Wind, Holy Channel*, Holy Smite, Ironheart*, Repel Vermin, Restoration, Sending, Spell Immunity, Status, Summon Monster IV, Summon Nature's Ally IV, Tongues
5th-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Atonement, Break Enchantment, Commune, Dispel Evil, Flame Strike, Greater Command, Hallow, Healing Circle, Neutralize Poison, Scrying**, Spell Resistance, Summon Monster V, Summon Nature's Ally V, True Seeing, Wall of Stone, Wall of Thorns
6th-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Animate Objects, Banishment, Blade Barrier, Fabricate, Find the Path, Forbiddance, Geas/Quest, Greater Dispelling, Greater Glyph of Warding, Heal, Hold Monster, Holy Condemnation***, Plane Shift, Raise Dead, Summon Monster VI, Summon Nature's Ally VI, Word of Recall
7th-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Awaken, Control Weather, Greater Healing Circle*, Greater Restoration, Greater Scrying, Holy Word, Regenerate, Repulsion, Summon Monster VII, Summon Nature's Ally VII, Teleport
8th-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Etherialness, Fire Storm, Holy Aura, Mass Heal, Pure Sight***, Ressurection, Sequester, Spellstaff, Summon Monster VIII, Summon Nature's Ally VIII
9th-Level Shrine Maiden Spells:
Astral Projection, Foresight, Gate, Miracle, Screen, Shatter Soul*, Soul Bind, Summon Monster IX, Summon Nature's Ally IX
* = located in Relics and Rituals
** = Shrine Maiden Focus: A religious painting or tapestry costing not less than 1,000gp. The painting/tapestry must be at least 2 feet by 4 feet.
*** = New Spell:
Chains of Righteousness
Level:Shrine Maiden 4 Components:V, S, DF
As per Evard's Black Tentacles, except with different components, appearance and damage. The appearance is silver chains glowing with holy light (rather than "waiving members"). The damage is 1d4 (rather than 1d6) and increases to 1d8 versus undead.
Holy Condemnation
Level:Shrine Maiden 6 Saving Throw:Will (negates)
As per Condemned*, except with a different material component and save type.
Material Component: A verse of damnation of evil written by a cleric of her faith.
Pure Sight
Level:Shrine Maiden 8 Components:V, S, DF
As per True Seeing, except with different components and a conferred range of only 40 feet.