8th Church Knight

Eighth Church Knight

A Prestige Class

These knights subscribe to the 8th Church of Iomedae. They keep undead charges for which they try to find salvation. An 8th Church Knight must bind an undead of intelligence to them in a ritual. This is not an easy task and is part of the initiation of a new knight. At least one knight that has successfully bound one of these undead is usually present and guides new initiates when this happens.

Prerequisites:

Knowledge (Religion) 4 Ranks

Spellcasting Levels 1

Patronage of Iomedae

Acceptance into The 8th Church

Hit Die: 8th Church Knights get - D10

Class Skills: The 8th Church Knight’s class skills are Appraise (Int), Climb (Str), Knowledge (arcana),  Knowledge (history) (Int), Knowledge (nobility) (Int) (Int), Knowledge (planes) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Ride (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), and Swim (Str).

2 + Int Mod / LV

Table : 8th Church Knight

Undead Charge

The undead can be any humanoid undead of CR 3 (or less) with a single class level. It gains levels as the 8th Church Knight levels according to the table above. For story purposes, with the initial aid of an experienced 8th Church knight, the prospective 8th Church Knight could gain access to this just before leveling as a part of completion of the first binding ritual. An experienced 8th Church Knight can provide this service for other prospective knights.

Charge Protection

Outside of combat, as a minor ritual, an 8th Church Knight may spend any healing magic he would otherwise get to repair his undead charge.

Devotion

The devotion ability simply lets the 8th Church Knight gain their choice of either, one of the new devotion abilities yet to be created, or a class feature from the base class that would be available at any level below the total character level. Upon the second attainment of devotion the 8th Church Knight may select a custom ability or the class feature of any reasonable 8th Church Knight base class (some dm discretion is advised) that would be available at one less than the knights total class level. Upon 3rd attainment of devotion the 8th Church Knight may select an ability of custom origin or one class feature of any reasonable 8th Church Knight base class of the Knights total level.

Advanced Charge Protection (Su) - The 8th Church Knight can cast their healing spells on their charge at anytime they could use that healing magic normally.

Absolve Charge

The 8th Church knight at 4th Level gets the ability to absolve his undead charge through ritual. These rituals often culminate in the charge’s destruction in battle representing its final absolution. Sometimes it occurs outside of battle, but this is less frequent. After this is done an 8th Church Knight gains the ability to gain a new charge of any sensible humanoid intelligent undead CR 6 or lower with up to three class levels. This charge must be bound much as the first.

Passion of the Redeemer

The 8th Church knight gains the potential to bind any CR of intelligent humanoid undead with the DMs discretion.