ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 2
  con_mod: 1
  dex_mod: 2
  int_mod: 0
  str_mod: 3
  wis_mod: 4
ac: 17
ac_special: null
active_abilities:
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: '**Requirement** The target is fully submerged in water, within 30
    feet of the merfolk wavecaller, and holding its breath.'
  effect: The merfolk wavecaller commands the tides to crush their foe's throat, rooting
    the target in place and forcing it to choke up precious air. The target must succeed
    at a DC 18 Fortitude save or become immobilized for 1 round and immediately lose
    1d4 actions' worth of air (or twice that on a critical failure).
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Hydraulic Asphyxiation
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Hydraulic Asphyxiation** [One Action]  (__divine__, __evocation__,
    __water__) **Requirement** The target is fully submerged in water, within 30 feet
    of the merfolk wavecaller, and holding its breath. **Effect** The merfolk wavecaller
    commands the tides to crush their foe''s throat, rooting the target in place and
    forcing it to choke up precious air. The target must succeed at a DC 18 Fortitude
    save or become immobilized for 1 round and immediately lose 1d4 actions'' worth
    of air (or twice that on a critical failure).'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - divine
  - evocation
  - water
  trigger: null
alignment: N
automatic_abilities: null
description: 'Merfolk wavecallers use their primal power to call forth allies and
  defend their people with deadly magic.




  **__Recall Knowledge - Humanoid__ (__Society__)**: DC 16'
hp: 30
hp_misc: null
items:
- dagger
languages:
- Aquan
- Common
level: 2
melee_attacks:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
  - formula: 1d4+3
    type: piercing
  name: dagger
  to_hit: 9
  traits:
  - agile
  - versatile S
name: Merfolk Wavecaller
perception: 8
ranged_attacks:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
  - formula: 1d4+3
    type: piercing
  name: dagger
  to_hit: 9
  traits:
  - agile
  - thrown 10 feet
  - versatile S
saves:
  fort: 7
  fort_misc: null
  misc: null
  ref: 6
  ref_misc: null
  will: 10
  will_misc: null
senses:
- low-light vision
size: Medium
skills:
- bonus: 7
  misc: +9 to Swim
  name: Athletics
- bonus: 6
  misc: null
  name: Deception
- bonus: 8
  misc: null
  name: Nature
- bonus: 8
  misc: null
  name: Religion
sources:
- abbr: Bestiary
  page_start: '235'
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 5
  misc: null
  type: Land
- amount: 30
  misc: null
  type: swim
spell_lists:
- attack_bonus: 10
  cantrips:
  - level: 1
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: dancing lights
    - misc: null
      name: detect magic
    - misc: null
      name: electric arc
    - misc: null
      name: ray of frost
    - misc: null
      name: stabilize
  constants: null
  dc: 18
  focus_points: null
  misc: null
  spell_lists:
  - level: 1
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: charm
    - misc: null
      name: heal
    - misc: null
      name: hydraulic push
  spells_source: Primal Prepared Spells
traits:
- Aquatic
- Humanoid
- Merfolk