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Wiki Note: This content is for Paizo's Shifter class (introduced in Ultimate Wilderness), not the Shifter introduced in Spheres of Power.
Mythic shifters are the mercurial incarnations of Nature itself, everchanging and evolving without a true form of their own.
Mythic Bonus Languages
The shifter can select a number of creature types equal to her Wisdom modifier. If she selects humanoids she must specify a subtype (elf, human, and so on). If she selects outsider, she must specify an alignment. The shifter can speak to and understand any creature of the selected types as if she was under the effects of a tongues spell.
Mythic Shifter Aspect, Power (Su)
The shifter adds her mythic tier to her level when determining the daily duration of her shifter aspect. The shifter also gains abilities from her aspect as if her shifter level were equal to her actual level plus her mythic tier.
Alternatively, when this mythic class feature is selected the shifter may choose to gain unique benefits from one of her aspects’ minor form in addition to those listed. The unique benefits for each aspect are outlined below. This mythic ability can be chosen more than once; each time, the shifter gains mythic benefits from a different aspect.
- Bat: The shifter gains a fly speed equal to its land speed (clumsy maneuverability).
- Bear: The shifter gains the grab ability until the end of her round when hitting at least 2 times in a round with an unarmed or natural attack.
- Bull: The shifter gains a secondary gore attack, with a damage determined by her size.
- Deinonychus: The shifter’s speed increases by 30 feet.
- Falcon: The shifter gains a fly speed equal to her land speed (average maneuverability).
- Frog: The shifter gains a secondary tongue attack, with damage and reach determined by her size.
- Lizard: The shifter gains a secondary tail attack, with damage and reach determined by her size.
- Monkey: The shifter gains a climb speed equal to her land speed.
- Mouse: The shifter can squeeze through narrow spaces at least half as wide as her normal space without slowing her movement.
- Owl: The shifter gains a rend special attack, adding her normal Strength bonus to it.
- Snake: The shifter gains the constrict monster special ability.
- Stag: The shifter gains a secondary gore attack, with a damage determined by her size.
- Tiger: The shifter gains the pounce monster special ability.
- Wolf: The shifter gains the trip special attack.
- Wolverine: The shifter can rage for 1d4 rounds each day after taking damage.
Mythic Shifter Aspect, Selection (Su)
Once per day as a full-round action, the shifter may change one shifter aspect she has selected. In essence, he loses one shifter aspect, and gains a new shifter aspect to replace it. This mythic class feature may be selected more than once, but no more often than the total number of shifter aspects the shifter has. Each time it is selected, it allows her to swap out a shifter aspect one additional time per day. She may swap out the same aspect multiple times, or swap out different shifter aspects.
Mythic Shifter Claws (Su)
The shifter’s claws deal damage as if she were one size category larger. She also adds her mythic tier to her level to calculate her claws’ special abilities.
Mythic Wild Empathy (Ex)
The shifter may use her wild empathy on animals, elementals, fey, humanoids, magical beasts, monstrous humanoids, and plants. If the creature affected does not have an Intelligence of 2 or more, she takes a -10 penalty to her wild empathy check. Creatures affected by the wild empathy with an Intelligence of 1 or no Intelligence score do not attack the shifter if friendly, and actively defend her if helpful, but cannot be given any directions.
Mythic Defensive Instinct (Ex)
The shifter adds her mythic tier to her shifter level for purposes of determining her AC bonus.
Mythic Track (Ex)
Whenever the shifter takes 10 on a Survival skill check to follow tracks, she gains a +10 bonus to the total.
Mythic Woodland Stride (Ex)
The shifter’s woodland stride allows her to move freely through any naturally occurring difficult terrain. Additionally, thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion have no affect on her unless they are from a mythic source.
Mythic Wild Shape (Su)
When the shifter uses wild shape, she may choose to gain any one feat available to the form she takes, if she meets its prerequisites. She retains use of this feat only while in the appropriate form. At mythic tier 3 or higher, she gains two feats, and may use one as a prerequisite for the other. At mythic tier 6 or higher, she gains three feats, and at mythic tier 9 or higher she gains four feats. If the shifter takes the form of a wolverine, she may select any feats that modify the rage class feature or Extra Rage Power with this ability.
Instead of a feat, a shifter may choose to gain a +2 inherent bonus to an ability score. She must select an ability score that is lower than that of the form she has taken. The bonus persists for the duration of the wild shape.
Mythic Trackless Step (Ex)
The shifter may choose to have up to one creature per mythic tier within 30 feet of her, not leave any trail.
Mythic Shifter’s Fury (Ex)
The shifter can attack with all her natural weapons and still gain the additional attacks granted by this ability with one of her natural weapons (her choice). When using this ability, the selected natural weapon counts as a primary weapon, and the others count as secondary. This mythic ability can be selected twice; the second time, the shifter counts all her natural weapons as primary, as with the Multiattack feat.
Mythic Chimeric Aspect (Su)
As a standard action, once for every time she uses the shifter aspect ability, the shifter can change one of the aspects she assumes for the remainder of the ability’s duration.
Mythic Greater Chimeric Aspect (Su)
The shifter can select an aspect she does not possess as one of her aspects when she uses the shifter aspect ability, and gains that aspect’s minor form as normal. The shifter may select a different aspect every time she uses this ability.
Mythic A Thousand Faces (Su)
A thousand faces now works regardless of what form the shifter is in.
Mythic Timeless Body (Ex)
Any penalties the shifter accrued from age are eliminated. The shifter’s maximum lifespan increases to 999 years or double the maximum lifespan of a creature of her race, whichever is longer.
Mythic Final Aspect (Su)
The shifter can use at will all available aspects, though no more than five at a time.