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Edymnion
08-05-03, 03:00 AM Wizard wanted me to post up my final build and all that for my Storm Sorceress, so here it is, in case anyone else wanted to see it as well. (this was the best place I could think to put it)
The orcs were pilliaging. Homes were burning. The wind was whipping itself into a fury. The last thing the few surviving townsfolk needed was a storm, when they had no place to take shelter. A fork of lightning ripped across the sky, and thunder pealed loud enough to shake the burning tembers. It wasn't just a storm coming, it was a monster of a squall that would surely tear what was left of the villiage to the ground. Lightning flashed again, a child screamed, and pointed to the sky. There was suddenly someone there, floating in the air, that wasn't there a moment ago. A woman hung there, arms outstretched, heels together, like some kind of cross, eyes burning with an electric blue light, with crackling lightning sparking in her hair. Surely it must be some terrible goddess, come to laugh at their plight. Then, in a voice that echoed and gusted like the winds around her, the woman spoke.

"The storm is nature's fury. The storm is blind, it doesn't care who stands before it, the storm scours all from it's path. It rips trees from the ground, and shatters boulders with it's lightnings. Only a fool stands before the storm!"

As she speaks, the wind whips around her, and lightning flashes all the harder. Even the orcs tremble. The villiagers are sure their time on earth is at an end. But then, something happens. The womans voice seems to soften, but somehow also gains an edge even sharper than it had before.

"But I am not blind, I do not strike with impunity. As the lightning flashes in the midnight brings light unto the world for a brief instant, so do I bring the light! Those who take refuge in the shelter of a good heart, fear not, for the storm shall pass you over, and the morning shall be clear and bright. For the wicked that stand in my way, know that you do not face a mortal foe. I harness chaos, and shape it to my will. Know who you face, you face the fury of nature itself, for I am the Storm!"

From her outstretched hand, lightnings repeatedly struck forth. The commoners huddled in fear, but it wasn't they in whom this sorceress had given her attention to. The orc band that had stopped to listen to her speech were running now. Lightning exploding into the ground in their midst. Whirlwinds caught up those that tried to escape on their own, all the time with a burning rain falling that touched only the fleeing warband.

Most of the orcs lay dead, only a small handfull had escaped the storm. Still the villiagers were afraid, for the woman had not left. Again, she stretched out her arms, but this time the winds died, and the sun began to shine, then two suns. It was still the middle of the night, how could the sun be shining, much less two? It was the woman, the bands on her arms were shining like the noonday sun as the winds died, and the clouds receeded. As the last cloud rolled from the sky, the woman's bands faded back into darkness, and the moon and stars bathed the world in their silver light once again. The woman dipped down, and stood with her feet on the ground.

"They will not bother you again," she said in a voice, now gentle as a summer's breeze. With that, a small wind picked up the debris about her feet, and when it settled, she was gone. Come morning, the villiagefolk found the craters from where the lightnings struck, the trees splintered from the winds, but not a single home that had survived the orcish raid had been harmed. Easily overlooked in the confusion and fear of the night before, but the wind and rain had actually put out the fires that the orcs had set. Although they still did not know who or what the woman had been, she had told the truth. The morning came, and it was bright and clean. It was time to rebuild.

Amythest, Human Sorceress.
Sorcerer 10/Elemental Savant (Air) 10

Level 1-5: Sorcerer
Feats: Still Spell, Education, Energy Substitution (Electricity)

Level 6: Sorcerer
Feats: Improved Familiar

Level 7: Elemental Savant (Air)
Special: Uses begining of Elemental Transition to qualify for an Air Mephit familiar.

Level 8-16: Elemental Savant
Feats: Craft Wonderous Item, Empower Spell, Spell Penetration

Level 17-20: Sorcerer
Feats: Sculpt Spell

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Base Abilities

STR: 11
DEX: 14
CON: 10
INT: 14
WIS: 12
CHA: 17

All bonus ability increases go into CHA.

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Spell List:
0 - Arcane Mark, Dancing Lights, Horizikaul's Cough (thunderclap), Message (cantrip in 3.5, lvl 1 in 3.0), Prestidigitation, Ray of Frost, Read Magic

1st - Feather Fall, Lesser Electric Orb, Shield, Shocking Grasp, True Strike

2nd - Alter Self, Gust of Wind, Glitterdust (electrical motes), Melf's Acid Arrow (electric arrow instead of acid), Blur (encircled by whirling debris)

3rd - Lightning Bolt, Fly, Summon Monster III (small air elemental), Arcane Sight

4th - Sonic Orb (subbed with electric for ball lightning with deafening thunder), Ice Storm, Improved Invis, Solid Fog

5th - Teleport, Cone of Cold (cone of lightning), Control Winds (Druid/Cleric spell, get DM permission), Telekinesis (whirlwinds holding things up/moving them around)

6th - Greater Dispelling, Chain Lightning, Control Weather (no brainer there)

7th - Plane Shift, Spell turning, Finger of Death (intense lightning blast)

8th - Great Shout (crashing thunder), Whirlwind (Druid Spell, get DM permission), Incediary Cloud (broiling lightning instead of hot embers)

9th - Storm of Vengeance (arcane version of the Cleric/Druid spell), Gate, Summon Monster IX (Elder Air Elemental)

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Weapon: Shortspear, +1 Sure Striking, Thundering, Electric Burst, Returning, Throwing, Spell Storing (stick lightning bolt in there), and Spellblade (Greater Dispelling)

Armor: Mithril Shirt +5 (enchant to taste), Dastana +1 Acid Resistance, Daylight

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Base Skills:

Concentration: 4 ranks
Knowledge (Arcana): 4 ranks
Knowledge (The Planes): 4 ranks
Spellcraft: 4 ranks
Tumble: 2 ranks

Misc: 2 ranksI miss anything you wanted, Wizard?

Also, and interesting companion thread:
http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74153

Accourding to customer services, the Elemental Savant is immortal. As elemental creatures (which they become at ES lvl 10) are immune to aging and cannot die from old age. Of course, they can't be resurrected normally as they are no longer humanoid, but oh well. Thats what wish/miracle is for. And with this build, by the time she gets Elemental Perfection, a Wish/Miracle spell shouldn't be that hard to come by.
Trydan
08-05-03, 12:55 PM Hmm... I don't see chain lightning in the spell list.
Edymnion
08-05-03, 02:06 PM Oops, fixed.
I was going off an early copy of her spell list, and was updating it as I went. Guess I missed that one.
Wizard
08-11-03, 03:55 PM Simply beautiful. I'm not as imaginative in creating flavor substitution like many of your spells (telekinesis is an excellent example), but I like that she has a theme. Too many of my wizards, whiled RP'd well, have no specific theme other than a sort of Gandalf\\Merlin\Dumbledore archetype. While I don't think I'll go the elemental path as you have, I can see interesting ways to use one school of magic to achieve the flavor effect of another.

Thanks, Edyminion. And nice narrative, too.
Twilly
08-12-03, 07:09 AM That is great!

I've been thinking about a Storm Mage (sorceress) too. Ask your DM if you can choose from a few Druid Spells too. Spells like Control Wind would fit in perfectly.
Edymnion
08-13-03, 05:08 PM Originally posted by Twilly
That is great!

I've been thinking about a Storm Mage (sorceress) too. Ask your DM if you can choose from a few Druid Spells too. Spells like Control Wind would fit in perfectly. Actually, I did. She'll be taking Control Winds instead of Ghostform.

DM doesn't really care if I dip into the divine spells, as long as I stay away from healing (which I totally agree with).

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Edymnion 08-05-03, 03:00 AM	Wizard wanted me to post up my final build and all that for my Storm Sorceress, so here it is, in case anyone else wanted to see it as well. (this was the best place I could think to put it) The orcs were pilliaging. Homes were burning. The wind was whipping itself into a fury. The last thing the few surviving townsfolk needed was a storm, when they had no place to take shelter. A fork of lightning ripped across the sky, and thunder pealed loud enough to shake the burning tembers. It wasn't just a storm coming, it was a monster of a squall that would surely tear what was left of the villiage to the ground. Lightning flashed again, a child screamed, and pointed to the sky. There was suddenly someone there, floating in the air, that wasn't there a moment ago. A woman hung there, arms outstretched, heels together, like some kind of cross, eyes burning with an electric blue light, with crackling lightning sparking in her hair. Surely it must be some terrible goddess, come to laugh at their plight. Then, in a voice that echoed and gusted like the winds around her, the woman spoke. "The storm is nature's fury. The storm is blind, it doesn't care who stands before it, the storm scours all from it's path. It rips trees from the ground, and shatters boulders with it's lightnings. Only a fool stands before the storm!" As she speaks, the wind whips around her, and lightning flashes all the harder. Even the orcs tremble. The villiagers are sure their time on earth is at an end. But then, something happens. The womans voice seems to soften, but somehow also gains an edge even sharper than it had before. "But I am not blind, I do not strike with impunity. As the lightning flashes in the midnight brings light unto the world for a brief instant, so do I bring the light! Those who take refuge in the shelter of a good heart, fear not, for the storm shall pass you over, and the morning shall be clear and bright. For the wicked that stand in my way, know that you do not face a mortal foe. I harness chaos, and shape it to my will. Know who you face, you face the fury of nature itself, for I am the Storm!" From her outstretched hand, lightnings repeatedly struck forth. The commoners huddled in fear, but it wasn't they in whom this sorceress had given her attention to. The orc band that had stopped to listen to her speech were running now. Lightning exploding into the ground in their midst. Whirlwinds caught up those that tried to escape on their own, all the time with a burning rain falling that touched only the fleeing warband. Most of the orcs lay dead, only a small handfull had escaped the storm. Still the villiagers were afraid, for the woman had not left. Again, she stretched out her arms, but this time the winds died, and the sun began to shine, then two suns. It was still the middle of the night, how could the sun be shining, much less two? It was the woman, the bands on her arms were shining like the noonday sun as the winds died, and the clouds receeded. As the last cloud rolled from the sky, the woman's bands faded back into darkness, and the moon and stars bathed the world in their silver light once again. The woman dipped down, and stood with her feet on the ground. "They will not bother you again," she said in a voice, now gentle as a summer's breeze. With that, a small wind picked up the debris about her feet, and when it settled, she was gone. Come morning, the villiagefolk found the craters from where the lightnings struck, the trees splintered from the winds, but not a single home that had survived the orcish raid had been harmed. Easily overlooked in the confusion and fear of the night before, but the wind and rain had actually put out the fires that the orcs had set. Although they still did not know who or what the woman had been, she had told the truth. The morning came, and it was bright and clean. It was time to rebuild. Amythest, Human Sorceress. Sorcerer 10/Elemental Savant (Air) 10 Level 1-5: Sorcerer Feats: Still Spell, Education, Energy Substitution (Electricity) Level 6: Sorcerer Feats: Improved Familiar Level 7: Elemental Savant (Air) Special: Uses begining of Elemental Transition to qualify for an Air Mephit familiar. Level 8-16: Elemental Savant Feats: Craft Wonderous Item, Empower Spell, Spell Penetration Level 17-20: Sorcerer Feats: Sculpt Spell --------------------------------------------------------------------- Base Abilities STR: 11 DEX: 14 CON: 10 INT: 14 WIS: 12 CHA: 17 All bonus ability increases go into CHA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Spell List: 0 - Arcane Mark, Dancing Lights, Horizikaul's Cough (thunderclap), Message (cantrip in 3.5, lvl 1 in 3.0), Prestidigitation, Ray of Frost, Read Magic 1st - Feather Fall, Lesser Electric Orb, Shield, Shocking Grasp, True Strike 2nd - Alter Self, Gust of Wind, Glitterdust (electrical motes), Melf's Acid Arrow (electric arrow instead of acid), Blur (encircled by whirling debris) 3rd - Lightning Bolt, Fly, Summon Monster III (small air elemental), Arcane Sight 4th - Sonic Orb (subbed with electric for ball lightning with deafening thunder), Ice Storm, Improved Invis, Solid Fog 5th - Teleport, Cone of Cold (cone of lightning), Control Winds (Druid/Cleric spell, get DM permission), Telekinesis (whirlwinds holding things up/moving them around) 6th - Greater Dispelling, Chain Lightning, Control Weather (no brainer there) 7th - Plane Shift, Spell turning, Finger of Death (intense lightning blast) 8th - Great Shout (crashing thunder), Whirlwind (Druid Spell, get DM permission), Incediary Cloud (broiling lightning instead of hot embers) 9th - Storm of Vengeance (arcane version of the Cleric/Druid spell), Gate, Summon Monster IX (Elder Air Elemental) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Weapon: Shortspear, +1 Sure Striking, Thundering, Electric Burst, Returning, Throwing, Spell Storing (stick lightning bolt in there), and Spellblade (Greater Dispelling) Armor: Mithril Shirt +5 (enchant to taste), Dastana +1 Acid Resistance, Daylight ------------------------------------------------------------------- Base Skills: Concentration: 4 ranks Knowledge (Arcana): 4 ranks Knowledge (The Planes): 4 ranks Spellcraft: 4 ranks Tumble: 2 ranks Misc: 2 ranksI miss anything you wanted, Wizard? Also, and interesting companion thread: http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74153 Accourding to customer services, the Elemental Savant is immortal. As elemental creatures (which they become at ES lvl 10) are immune to aging and cannot die from old age. Of course, they can't be resurrected normally as they are no longer humanoid, but oh well. Thats what wish/miracle is for. And with this build, by the time she gets Elemental Perfection, a Wish/Miracle spell shouldn't be that hard to come by.
Trydan 08-05-03, 12:55 PM	Hmm... I don't see chain lightning in the spell list.
Edymnion 08-05-03, 02:06 PM	Oops, fixed. I was going off an early copy of her spell list, and was updating it as I went. Guess I missed that one.
Wizard 08-11-03, 03:55 PM	Simply beautiful. I'm not as imaginative in creating flavor substitution like many of your spells (telekinesis is an excellent example), but I like that she has a theme. Too many of my wizards, whiled RP'd well, have no specific theme other than a sort of Gandalf\\Merlin\Dumbledore archetype. While I don't think I'll go the elemental path as you have, I can see interesting ways to use one school of magic to achieve the flavor effect of another. Thanks, Edyminion. And nice narrative, too.
Twilly 08-12-03, 07:09 AM	That is great! I've been thinking about a Storm Mage (sorceress) too. Ask your DM if you can choose from a few Druid Spells too. Spells like Control Wind would fit in perfectly.
Edymnion 08-13-03, 05:08 PM	Originally posted by Twilly That is great! I've been thinking about a Storm Mage (sorceress) too. Ask your DM if you can choose from a few Druid Spells too. Spells like Control Wind would fit in perfectly. Actually, I did. She'll be taking Control Winds instead of Ghostform. DM doesn't really care if I dip into the divine spells, as long as I stay away from healing (which I totally agree with).