The Alerion Ranger

Class Introduction -------------------------------------------------------3 Class Table ----------------------------------------------------------------4 Class Features ----------------------------------------------------------5-7 Ranger's Marks------------------------------------------------------------8 Optional Class features-------------------------------------------------9 Glossary of New Mechanics --------------------------------------------9

Ranger Companies

Ghost ---------------------------------------------------------------------10 Marksman ----------------------------------------------------------------11 Pathfinder ----------------------------------------------------------------12 Vanguard -----------------------------------------------------------------13

Setting Specific Companies

Greenwarden-------------------------------------------------------------14 Marshwalker--------------------------------------------------------------15 Talonguard-----------------------------------------------------------16-17 Torchbearer--------------------------------------------------------------18

Ranger Spell List

Ranger Spells --------------------------------------------------------19 New Spell Descriptions -------------------------------------------20-26

Appendices

Appendix A: Exploring the Wilderness -----------------------------21 Appendix B: New Weapons and Equipment ----------------------22

Adaptable Skirmishers

While the professional soldiers of the Kingsguard might consider asymmetrical warfare and guerrilla tactics to be uncivilized and even barbaric, most of the Realm's rangers hardly consider themselves bound to societal expectations of honor and decorum. To them, there is only one rule in a fight: Survive.

Most rangers are deft skirmishers, relying on speed, stealth, and surprise to overcome their enemies in combat. They are masters of cover and concealment, moving stealthily through any terrain and concealing themselves in the surrounding undergrowth. Rangers focus their combat training on techniques that are particularly useful against the enemies they are most likely to face in combat, be they bloodthirsty monsters, hordes of marauding goblins, or the organized forces of a hostile nation.

Thanks to the Realm's numerous magical leylines and other sources of supernatural energy, it is unsurprising that the realm's rangers have learned to harness these primal forces. Like their martial abilities, a ranger's spells tend to focus on mobility, scouting, and wilderness survival. This unique combination of martial prowess and highly adaptable spellcasting makes confronting a ranger a particularly deadly proposition, as they are incredibly mobile, unpredictable, and almost impossible to pin down.

Seasoned Survivors

The only thing more impressive than a ranger's combat prowess is their ability to survive and endure the harshness of the wilds. Fiercely independent, rangers are true trailblazers and explorers, venturing beyond the relative safety of civilization to expand the borders of the frontier.

Rangers are expert scouts and survivors, capable of spending days, weeks, or even months at a time away from civilization. They can navigate the wilds with relative ease, forage and gather supplies that less experienced travelers might be completely unaware of, and can endure the wilderness's harshest perils, from extreme temperatures and perilous pitfalls to poisonous foliage and hidden predators. These skills and experiences make rangers expert guides and pathfinders for those seeking passage through the perilous wilds that stretch between the realm's many cities and towns.

Creating a Ranger

As you create your ranger character, consider the nature of the training that gave you your particular capabilities. Did you train as a member of the Kingsguard's elite light-infantry companies, mastering the art of wilderness combat and escorting travelers from settlement to settlement? Are you a former Greenwarden of the House of Tynarath, hunted by Lord Kylan for remaining loyal to the old ways? Or perhaps you are an independent hunter or scout, self-taught in the art of wilderness fighting and survival.

What kind of enemies has your ranger made during their time on the frontier? Are you a defender of the borderlands, hunting down monsters before they can ravage the local population? Or are you a professional soldier, trained to harrass and outmaneuver hostile forces on the field of battle? The kind of enemies you've made will influence the combat tactics you use to fight your foes and the survival skills you've acquired during your adventures.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per ranger level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per ranger level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons, flintlock firearms
• Tools: Choose one from Cartographer's Tools, Fletching Kit, Herbalism Kit, Hunter's Tools, or Ordinance Kit
• Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose three from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor and a marksman’s cloak
• (a) a longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows or (b) an infantry musket, a socket bayonet, and a cartridge box containing 20 paper cartridges
• (a) a melee weapon and a shield or (b) two melee weapons
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• One set of tools with which you are proficient

The Alerion Ranger | Class Table

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Ranger table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your ranger spells. To cast one of your ranger spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of ranger spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the ranger spell list. When you do so, choose a number of ranger spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + half your ranger level, rounded down. The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level ranger, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell animal friendship, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of ranger spells requires time spent in meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws on your attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a ranger spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Instinctual Casting

You have a pool of Instinct Points equal to your proficiency bonus. Once on each of your turns, you can use these points to cast a ranger spell without a spell slot if that spell has the Instinct tag and you have the spell prepared.

You regain all expended Instinct Points when you finish a long rest.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a set of tools or a weapon that you are proficient with as a spellcasting focus for your Ranger spells.

Company Marks

When you join your company at 3rd level, you also learn a specialized Ranger's Mark unique to that company. Your company's mark is always prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of Marks you can prepare each day.

'Battle of the Monongahela, 1755'
by Manuel Krommenacker

The Alerion Ranger | Class Features

Blazing Mark

Using alchemical oils and primal magic, you coat your weapon with flame. The first time on each of your turns that you hit your quarry with a weapon attack, the attack deals additional Fire damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die.

In addition, at the start of each of the target’s turns, it must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 1d4 fire damage. The target can use its action to extinguish the flames.

Envenomed Mark

You coat your weapon with a deadly poison, weakening your quarry's defenses. The first time on each of your turns that you hit your quarry with a weapon attack, the attack deals additional poison damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die.

In addition, at the start of each of the target's turns, it must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 1d4 Poison damage and has disadvantage on the first d20 roll it makes during this turn that is an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.

Freezing Mark

You imbue your weapon with glacial cold, hindering your quarry’s ability to flee. Once on each of your turns when you hit your quarry with an attack, the attack deals additional cold damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die.

In addition, at the start of each of the target’s turns, it must make a Constitution saving throw against your Ranger Spell Save DC. On a failed save, the target’s speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of its next turn.

Hunter's Mark

You mystically mark your quarry, allowing you to pinpoint its location and study its movements. Until your mark ends, you can add your Quarry Die to any Intelligence or Wisdom check you make to track, locate, identify, or anticipate the actions of your quarry.

Shocking Mark

You fill your quarry with a tempest's fury. Once on each of your turns, when you hit your quarry with an attack, your quarry and up to two other creatures of your choice within 5 feet of it must each make a Dexterity saving throw.

On a failed save, a creature takes lightning damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die and can't take reactions until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Executioner's Mark

You sunder your quarry’s defenses, delivering a swift end to the hunt. Once on each of your turns, when you hit your quarry with an attack while it has half its hit points or fewer, the attack deals additional damage equal to two rolls of your Quarry Die.

This additional damage ignores resistance to the attack’s damage type. If the target is immune to that damage type, treat that immunity as resistance instead.

Huntmaster's Mark

You embody the final stage of the hunt, establishing dominion over your prey. Once on each of your turns when you hit your quarry with an attack, the attack deals additional force damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die.

In addition, until your mark ends, you know the exact location of your quarry as long as it is on the same plane of existence as you.

Relentless Mark

You hound your foe without mercy, denying it the chance to recover from your strikes. The first time on each of your turns that your quarry fails a saving throw caused by one of your Ranger's Marks, it takes psychic damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die.

If the creature succeeds on the saving throw instead, it takes half as much damage.

Stalker's Mark

You pursue your prey like an apex predator, ensuring it cannot flee. Once on each of your turns when your quarry moves more than 10 feet, it takes force damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die.

In addition, until your mark ends, your quarry cannot benefit from teleportation or planar travel effects unless it succeeds on a Charisma saving throw at the time of the effect. On a failed save, the effect is wasted.

Withering Mark

Your strikes sap the vitality of even the hardiest quarry.

Once on each of your turns when you hit your quarry with an attack, the attack deals additional necrotic damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target can’t regain hit points until the start of its next turn.

'Elf' by Wojtek Depczyński

The Alerion Ranger | Ranger's Marks

Studied Foe

(Optional 1st-Level Alerion Ranger feature, which replaces the Bushfighter feature)

Beginning at 1st level, you are particularly familiar with the characteristics, behaviors, and tactics of certain enemies. Choose two types of creatures as your Studied Foes (such as Beasts or Undead.) Alternatively, you can select the humanoid members of one organization known to you (such as the Alerion Kingsguard or the Tynarian Restoration) as your studied foes.

You add your Proficiency Bonus to weapon damage rolls you make against your studied foes. You also have advantage on any Intelligence and Wisdom checks to locate your studied foes or recall information about them, and you can communicate simple ideas to them in a language they speak, assuming they speak one at all.

You choose one additional studied foe at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. Furthermore, when you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of your studied foes with another enemy you've encountered during your adventures.

Wilderness Guide

(Optional 1st-Level Alerion Ranger feature, which replaces the Rules of Ranging feature)

You are particularly familiar with certain types of natural environment and are adept at traveling and surviving in such regions. Choose two types of favored terrain: arctic, cavern, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, or swamp.

When you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to your Favored terrain, your Proficiency Bonus is doubled if you are using a skill that you’re proficient in. You also gain the passive benefit associated with your chosen terrain, detailed below:

• Arctic. You are naturally adapted to cold climates and have resistance to cold damage.
• Cavern. You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, it instead increases by 60 feet.
• Coast. Your swimming speed increases by 10 feet, and you can hold your breath underwater twice as long as you normally would.
• Desert. You are naturally adapted to hot climates and have resistance to fire damage.
• Forest Your climbing speed increases by 10 feet, and you can track other creatures even while moving at a fast pace.
• Grassland. Your walking speed increases by 10 feet, and you can take the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn.
• Mountain. You are naturally adapted to extreme altitudes and have resistance to fall damage.
• Swamp. You gain resistance to poison damage and have advantage on saving throws against disease.

You choose additional favored terrain types at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. Further, whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of your known Favored Terrains with a different terrain you have traversed during your journeys.

Primal Bushcraft

(Optional 3rd-level Alerion Ranger feature, which replaces the Swift Alacrity feature)

You have learned to combine primal magic and woodcraft techniques to help you survive in the wilderness: you learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class if you don't already know them, as shown in the Primal Bushcraft Spells table. You always have these spells prepared, and they don't count against the number of ranger spells you can prepare each day.

Adaptive Camouflage

(Optional 1oth-level Alerion Ranger feature, which replaces the Fade from Sight feature.)

Beginning at 10th level, you can spend 1 minute creating camouflage for yourself and a number of allies equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of one ally.) The camouflage lasts for up to 1 hour, or until it is removed (either voluntarily or through some external effect.)

WHile camouflaged in this way, you can add your Quarry Die to your Dexterity (Stealth) checks, and you can't be tracked ny nonmagical means unless you choose to leave a trail.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Expanded Terrain Types (Pg. 5)

The Alerion campaign setting introduces three categories of terrain as a part of its exploration system:

• Natural Terrain is completely untouched by civilization or magical effects.
• Supernatural Terrain is currently being affected by magic or some other otherworldly effect (such as land near a magical leyline, a portal to the Veil, or an area under the influence of Wild Magic.)
• Urban Terrain has been significantly altered by the presence of humanoid races (such as cities, towns, ports, or military fortifications.)

New Action: Scout (Pg. 7)

When you take the Scout action on your turn, you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check (determined by the GM) to discern specific information about a particular location, object or enemy.

Depending on the type of information you wish to learn, you might roll a Wisdom (Perception) check to locate a source of cover or observe an enemy's physical traits, or a relevant Intelligence check to determine an enemy's current morale or a condition or spell that is affecting it.

Revised Cover Rules (Pg. 7)

The Alerion campaign setting introduces a new degree of cover (one-quarter) to make wilderness combat more dynamic. These revised cover rules are summarized below.

• A target with one-quarter cover has a +1 bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws. A target has one-quarter cover if an obstacle blocks at least one-fourth of its body, such as a thin pillar, a boulder, a fallen log, or a creature of one size category smaller.
• A target with half cover has a +2 bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws. A target has half cover if an obstacle blocks at least half of its body. The obstacle might be a low barricade, a large piece of furniture, a narrow tree trunk, or a creature of the same size category, whether that creature is an enemy or a friend.
• A target with three-quarters cover has a +5 bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws. A target has three-quarters cover if about three-quarters of it is obstructed by an obstacle. The obstacle might be a wooden pallisade, a gunport, a thick tree trunk, or a creature of one size category larger.
• A target with total cover can’t be targeted directly by an attack or a spell, although some spells can reach such a target by including it in an area of effect. A target has total cover if it is completely concealed by an obstacle.

New Condition: Suppressed (Pg.12)

A suppressed creature can move up to half its speed and take either an action or bonus action on its turn, but not both. Forced movement, teleportation, or planar travel are not restricted by this effect.

The Alerion Ranger |Class Features

'Prince of the Elves'
by Jack Wang

Ghost

The archetypal Ghost is an experienced guerrilla fighter who prefers to avoid direct confrontation in favor of ambush tactics and irregular warfare. Striking from the shadows, these rangers use a combination of stealth, surprise, and terror tactics to help turn the tide of battle in their favor.

Ghost rangers in the Realm of Alerion are most commonly associated with the Tynarian rebels of Wildthorne, Eyria, and Etienne, who use their knowledge of the surrounding terrain and their penchant for stealth and surprise to raid Kingsguard supply lines and ambush enemy patrols.

Silent but Deadly

Also at 3rd level, you have come to favor sudden ambushes and irregular tactics to direct confrontation. You can add your Quarry Die to your initiative rolls.

In addition, while you are lightly or heavily obscured by dim light or natural environmental conditions (such as foliage, mist, smoke, or similar terrain features), you gain a +10 bonus to your Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

The Alerion Ranger | Ranger Companies

Slip Away

By 7th level, your instincts don’t just warn you of danger—they guide your escape. When an enemy misses you with an attack as a result of you using your Instinctive Defense feature, you can immediately move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

If you end this movement in dim light, natural concealment, or total cover, you can attempt to Hide as part of the same reaction.

You can use this additional benefit a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Terror Tactics

By 11th level, your sudden and ruthless strikes sow panic among your enemies. When you deal the extra damage granted by your Mark of the Ghost feature, you can force your quarry and each other hostile creature of your choice within 5 feet of it to make a Wisdom saving throw against your Ranger Spell Save DC. On a failed save, a creature becomes frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Phantom of the Wilds

By the time you reach 15th level, you have learned to strike your foes with preternatural speed, denying them the chance to respond. Immediately after you roll initiative, you gain one additional action that occurs before other creatures can act. You can use this action to move up to your walking speed and take the Attack (one weapon attack only,) Dash, Disengage, Hide, Scout, or Use an Object action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

'Test' by Link Chen

Company Spells

You gain Company spells at the Ranger levels listed.

Marksman's Training

Beginning when you join this Company at 3rd level, you've learned to combine cover, concealment, and the deadly accuracy of rifled weaponry to turn you into a lethal battlefield sharpshooter. You gain proficiency with the hunting rifle, marksman's rifle, and rifled musket, as well as proficiency with Tinker's Tools.

In addition, while you are in natural terrain and benefit from at least half cover provided by natural features, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus increases to +2 at 7th level and to +3 at 15th level.

Further, while benefiting from this bonus, you do not suffer disadvantage on ranged weapon attacks made with firearms for attacking from a kneeling or prone position.

Mark of the Deadeye

Also at 3rd level, you begin to practice a style of combat that promotes precision over volume of attacks. The first time on each of your turns that you hit the target of your Marked for Death feature with a ranged weapon attack, you deal additional damage equal to one roll of your Quarry Die if you did not move during the turn before making the attack.

In addition, until the start of your next turn, your quarry gains no benefit from one-quarter, half, or three-quarters cover against your attacks, and you can see the target even if it becomes invisible to you.

The Alerion Ranger | Ranger Companies

Entrenched Position

Beginning at 7th level, your training as a sharpshooter allows you to hunker down when the pressure starts to mount. When you use your Instinctive Defense feature while you are benefiting from at least half cover, you have advantage on your Dexterity saving throws and attacks against you cannot be made with advantage.

These additional benefits last until the start of your next turn.

Pin Them Down

Beginning at 11th level, you can attempt to pin an enemy in place with your fire. When you deal the extra damage from your Mark of the Deadeye feature, you can force your quarry and one other hostile creature of your choice within 5 feet of it to make a Strength or Dexterity saving throw (the target's choice) against your Ranger Spell Save DC. On a failed save, a creature becomes suppressed until the end of its next turn.

Deadly Aim

By 15th level, you have mastered the art of identifying and eliminating enemies from across the battlefield. When a creature makes an attack roll against you while you are benefiting from your Entrenched Position feature, you immediately learn the creature’s exact location, ignoring cover, invisibility, and obscurement.

If the attack misses, you can use your reaction to make one ranged weapon attack against that creature. This attack ignores all cover and concealment bonuses granted to the target and does not suffer disadvantage due to long range.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

'Sharpe and Harper March Again' by Gabi Lorenz

Company Spells

You gain company spells at the Ranger levels listed.

Scout's Awareness

Beginning when you join this Company at 3rd level, you can add your Skirmish Die to your Intelligence (Investigation) and your Wisdom (Perception) checks.

In addition, your eyes are specially adapted to even the most adverse conditions. You can take the Search action as a bonus action on your turn.

Mark of the Pathfinder

Also at 3rd level, you have learned to patiently analyze your enemy's weaknesses before committing to the fight. Once on each of your turns, when you damage the target of your Marked for Death feature, you can increase that damage by one roll of your Quarry Die if you used the Scout action against the target since the end of your last turn.

When you deal this extra damage, you also learn one of the following about your quarry:

• Its current HP relative to its hit point maximum.
• Its highest or lowest saving throw.
• One damage resistance, immunity, or vulnerability it possesses.

This information remains accurate until the end of your next turn.

'Scouts' by Odobenus

Brace for Impact

Starting at 7th level, your observations of your enemy allow you to predict its attacks. When you use your Instinctive Defense feature against a creature, you gain insight into its attack patterns. The next time before the end of your next turn that you use Instinctive Defense against that same creature, you can roll your Quarry Die twice and use either result.

Heightened Precision

By 11th level, your observations allow you to guide your strikes to devastating effect.Once on each of your turns, when you hit your quarry with an attack, the target becomes vulnerable to that attack's damage type.

You must have successfully used the Scout action against the target since the start of your last turn to gain this benefit.

Supreme Awareness

By 15th level, your preternatural powers of observation ensure that nothing on the battlefield escapes your notice. As long as you are conscious, you can’t be surprised, and you have advantage on your initiative rolls.

Moreover, as an action on your turn, you can grant yourself Truesight with a range of 60 feet, which lasts until the end of your next turn. The first time you hit an invisible or otherwise unseen creature with an attack while benefitting from this truesight, the attack deals additional damage equal to two rolls of your Quarry Die.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

The Alerion Ranger | Ranger Companies

Company Spells

You gain company spells at the Ranger levels listed.

Tip of the Spear

Beginning at 3rd level, you have learned to use speed and positioning to break enemy lines and draw pressure away from your allies. You can add your Quarry Die to your Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.

In addition, at the start of your turn, if there are no allied creatures within 20 feet of you and you are not surprised, you can use your bonus action to move up to half your walking speed without provoking opportunity attacks. You must end this movement in a space you can see.

Mark of the Vanguard

Beginning at 3rd level, you've learned to combine mobility and concealment to give you an edge in combat. The first time on each of your turns that you hit your quarry with an attack, you can increase that damage by one roll of your Quarry Die if you moved at least 15 feet from your starting position prior to attacking. You can also deal this extra damage if you are hidden from your target or are receiving at least half cover against it.

Immediately after dealing this extra damage, you can use your reaction to take the Dash or Disengage action.

Nimble Step

Beginning at 7th level, your instinctive reactions allow you to evade sweeping blows and sudden dangers. When you use your Instinctive Defense feature, you can apply it to a Dexterity saving throw instead of an attack roll against you.

If you do so, roll your Quarry Die and add the result to the saving throw, potentially turning a failure into a success.

Linebreaker

Starting at 11th level, your mobility allows you to punch through enemy formations and leave them vulnerable.

When you deal the extra damage from your Mark of the Vanguard feature, the target must succeed on a Strength or Dexterity saving throw (target’s choice). On a failed save, choose one of the following effects:

• Drive Back. The target is pushed up to 10 feet in a direction of your choice.
• Disrupt Guard. The target has disadvantage on the next opportunity attack it makes before the start of its next turn.
• Open the Way. The next attack made against the target by a creature other than you before the start of your next turn has advantage.

A creature can be affected by only one of these options per turn.

Always Moving

Beginning at 15th level, you have mastered the art of controlling the momentum of the battlefield. While you are conscious, you can add your Quarry Die to any saving throw you make against a spell or effect that would restrain you, reduce your speed, knock you prone, or otherwise hinder your movement.

In addition, you ignore any movement penalties imposed by supernatural terrain.

'Shauna Leafstone' by Olie Boldador

The Alerion Ranger | Ranger Companies

Greenwarden

Often referred to as "Verdant Knights," the ancient and mystical order of the Greenwardens were among the first rangers formally organized under the rule of Tynar the Unifier. For generations, these noble rangers protected the sacred pact between nature and civilization, sheperding the wild places of the world and vanquishing poachers, land-hungry settlers, and others who sought to exploit the wilderness for their own gain.

Today, the Greenwarden order is more of a distant memory, having been declared outlaws by Lord Kylan shortly after the Lord Protector's ascension. Yet, in secluded parts of both Alerion and her colonies, there are small holdouts that still cling to the old ways, awaiting the day when a Tynarian heir will reemerge and allow them to step out of the shadows once more.

Avatar of the Hunt

By 15th level, you embody the unrelenting spirit of the hunt. While a creature is marked by your Marked for Death feature, you can’t be frightened or charmed, and your movement speed can’t be reduced below half your normal speed.

In addition, if your quarry drops to 0 hit points, you can immediately mark another creature you can see within 60 feet without expending a use of your Marked for Death feature.

'growing strong' by Ebbytree

The Alerion Ranger | Ranger Companies

Company Spells

You gain Company Spells at the Ranger levels listed:

Moorland Wanderer

When you join this company at 3rd level, you have learned to live, move, and fight where others flounder. You can add your Quarry Die to your Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Survival) checks, and you have a climbing speed and a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

In addition, you can attempt to Hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, mist, rain, smoke, shallow water, or other natural difficult terrain. If you are hidden at the start of your turn, your movement doesn’t reveal your position unless you make an attack or cast a spell.

Mark of the Marshwalker

Also at 3rd leve, you have learned to strike from concealment, dragging your quarry into the mire. Once on each of your turns, when you hit your quarry with an attack, the attack deals additional Necrotic or Poison damage (your choice) equal to one roll of your Quarry Die if you were hidden from the target at the start of your turn or if the target is standing in difficult terrain.

When you deal this extra damage, you can force the target to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target's speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn, and it has disadvantage on the next Perception check or opportunity attack it makes against you. On a successful save, the target's speed isn't reduced, but it still suffers from this disadvantage.

After dealing this extra damage, you can immediately attempt to Hide as a bonus action, even if you are only lightly obscured.

Shroud of Mist

At 7th level, you are surrounded by an aura of mist and fog that shrouds you from your foes. When you successfully cause an attack to miss you using your Instinctive Defense feature, you can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see that is not occupied by another creature.

If you end this movement in difficult terrain, you become heavily obscured until the start of your next turn.

The Alerion Ranger | Ranger Companies

Bog Down

Beginning at 11th level, your strikes bind your quarry to the swamp itself. When you deal the extra damage from your Mark of the Marshwalker feature, the target must make a Strength saving throw against your Ranger Spell Save DC. On a failed save, the creature becomes restrained until the start of your next turn. ERT.

A creature restrained or grappled by this feature can use its action to attempt a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against your Spell Save DC, ending the effect on a success.

While a creature is affected by this feature, it treats all terrain within 10 feet of you as difficult terrain.

Swamp Fox

By 15th level, you have mastered the art of striking unseen and vanishing without a trace. While you are hidden or heavily obscured, opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage, and you can move through hostile creatures’ spaces as if they were difficult terrain. You also don't reveal your position when you hit your marked quarry with an attack as long as you are hidden or obscured.

In addition, when you would be hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to trigger your Fade from Sight feature. You can then immediately move up to half your speed as part of this reaction without provoking opportunity attacks.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

'Character Concept for Pathfinder: Kingmaker' by Valeriy Vegera

Company Spells

You gain company spells at the Ranger levels listed:

Talonguard's Companion

At 3rd level, as an action, you can magically form a bond with a razorwing drake.This razorwing is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the accompanying Talonguard's Companion stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. When you first bond with your razorwing, choose its lineage from among those listed in the Draconic Lineage table.

In combat, the razorwing shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you verbally command it (no action required) to take an action from its stat block or another action available to it. While a creature is marked by your Marked for Death feature, the razorwing can instead take the Attack action against that quarry.

At 3rd level, you can use your razorwing as a mount if it is on the ground, but it can't use its flying speed while you are mounted on it. It is considered an independent mount, making its own decisions and choices in combat.

If your razorwing has died within the last hour, you can use your action to touch it and expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher. The razorwing returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

Mark of the Talonguard

Also at 3rd level, your bond allows you to coordinate your attacks with your razorwing ally. Once on each of your turns when you hit your quarry with an attack, you can increase that damage by one roll of your Quarry Die if your razorwing is within 10 feet of your target.

When you deal this extra damage, your razorwing deals additional damage of its breath type to your quarry equal to one roll of your Quarry Die. Alternatively, the target has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn.

Take to the Skies

7th level, you have mastered airborne maneuvers with your razorwing, allowing it to take to the air to elude danger. Your razorwing can use its flying speed when you ride it, but it must end its turn on the ground.

Moreover, you can use your Instinctive Defense feature against attacks that target either you or your companion. When you do so, your razorwing can use its reaction to impose disadvantage on the triggering attack if it is within 10 feet of you or your quarry.

Draconic Fury

Starting at 11th level, fighting alongside your companion unlocks more of the creature's potential. Your razorwing can utilize its Breath Weapon and Multiattack features. While attacking a creature marked by your Marked for Death feature, your razorwing has advantage on any bite and claw attacks it makes against that creature, and its breath weapon’s range or area increases by 15 feet.

In addition, your companion's flying speed increases to 60 feet, and it can remain airborne even while you are riding it.

Talonguard's Companion

Medium Dragon, shares your alignment

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• Armor Class 14+PB (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 5 + five times your ranger level (your dragon has a number of hit dice [d10s] equal to your ranger level)
• Speed 30 feet, fly 30 feet

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	12 (+1)	15 (+2)	8 (-1)	14 (+2)	8 (-1)

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• Saving Throws Dex +1 + PB, Wis +2 + PB
• Damage Resistances Determined by Draconic Lineage
• Skills Perception +2
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Draconic
• Proficiency Bonus equals your PB

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• Draconic Lineage. When you bond with your dragon, choose its scale color from among those listed in the Draconic Lineage table. Your dragon has resistance to the element associated with the chosen color.

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Actions

• Breath Weapon (Level 11+, Recharge 5-6.) The dragon exhales elemental power in the radius associated with its Draconic Lineage. Each creature within that range must make the associated saving throw against your Spell Save DC, taking 8d6 elemental damage on a failed save and half as much on a successful one.
• Multiattack (Level 11+.) The dragon makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
• Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 plus PB to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d6 plus PB piercing damage.
• Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d8 + PB slashing damage.

^APC : New spell from the Alerion Player's Compendium

⁺ : New addition to the Ranger spell list

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