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Soul Eater

So, a certain archetype of the Medium is the Spirit Eater. It…pretty much does what it says on the tin. You eat Incorporeal creatures to fuel your abilities. You also consider all your attacks as if they had Ghost Touch. Now what if we were to combine that with, say, the Souldrinker Prestige Class?

Our leveling should look like the following:

Class

Medium (Spirit Eater) 7/Souldrinker 10/Medium (Spirit Eater)+3

Race

We are going for a Vishkanya, who are Pathfinder’s not Yuan-Ti we swear wink wink. They get a bunch of poison related stuff which is fun and will play into what we will try to achieve here.

Ability Scores

Increase Dex to 20, the rest goes into Charisma.

15Point-Buy

Str 10/Dex 16/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 8/Cha 16

20Point-Buy

Str 10/Dex 16/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 8/Cha 18

25Point-Buy

Str 10/Dex 18/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 8/Cha 18

Traits

We want Silent Hunter to get Stealth as a Class Skill, and Reactionary is always good.

Favored Class Bonus

We are going for Skills. Yeah, wack. I know.

Skills

So we will need Knowledge(Arcana and Planes), and Spellcraft. We also want Stealth. Lastly we need at least 3 ranks in Knowledge(Religion), but after that, take Bluff and max it out.

Feats by Level

1-Weapon Finesse

3-Fiendish Obedience

5-Piranha Strike

7-Great Fortitude

Bonus 8-Improved Familiar

9-Two-Weapons Fighting

11-Weapon Focus(Kukri)

13-Slashing Grace

15-Improved Critical(Kukri)

17-Improved Two-Weapons Fighting

19-Improved Initiative

We are using a pair of Kukris(which we are automatically proficient in as a Vishkanya) with actually great efficacy between Weapon Finesse, Slashing Grace, Piranha Strike and Improved Critical, for some surprising amounts of damage capability. We also get a Cacodaemon Familiar and of course, as usual, familiars are really, really good.

Spells Learned by Level

1-Detect Psychic Significance, Detect Magic
2-Dancing Lights
3-Stabilize
4-Psychic Readings, Wizened Appearance
5-Ghost Sounds, Ventriloquism
6-Silent Image
7-Prestidigitation, Augury, Bestow Curse
9-Detect Thoughts
10-Oneiric Horror, Eagle’s Splendor
11-Divination, Dream
12-Scrying
13-Object Reading, Haste, Fly
14-Invoke Deity, True Seeing
15-Thoughtsense
16-Invisibility, Glimpse of Truth, Dream Council
19-Hollow Heroism, Nightmare

Equipment

A Pair of Kukris and a Chain Shirt will do. You are proficient with Shurikens which can be great to apply poisons at a distance. Also, invest in poisons.

Final Thoughts on the Build

You can Enervation people a lot. Like. A lot. And Enervation kills creatures really, really fast. Add to that your Spirits which you still get access to, the fact that you can eat Incorporeal Creatures to boost your combat abilities even further. You are actually surprisingly terrifying in Combat. Of the four Horsemen, I highly recommend you pick Charon for its various soul eating abilities which are quite thematic.

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