ability_mods: cha_mod: 6 con_mod: 6 dex_mod: 9 int_mod: 9 str_mod: 8 wis_mod: 9 ac: 43 ac_special: null alignment: LG automatic_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: Whenever the star archon takes slashing damage, bright light pours from their wounds. Non-archons within 10 feet must attempt a DC 38 Fortitude save. On a failure, a creature is __dazzled__ for 1 round. On a critical failure, the creature is __blinded__ for 1d4 rounds instead. The creature is then temporarily immune for 1 round. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Blinding Soul range: null raw_description: '**Blinding Soul** (__divine__, __evocation__, __light__, __visual__) Whenever the star archon takes slashing damage, bright light pours from their wounds. Non-archons within 10 feet must attempt a DC 38 Fortitude save. On a failure, a creature is __dazzled__ for 1 round. On a critical failure, the creature is __blinded__ for 1d4 rounds instead. The creature is then temporarily immune for 1 round.' requirements: null success: null traits: - divine - evocation - light - visual trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: When killed, the star archon explodes in a blinding flash of holy energy that deals 12d6 fire damage and 12d6 good damage to anything in a 100-foot emanation, with a DC 40 basic Reflex save. A non-archon creature that sees the explosion and critically fails its save is permanently __blinded__ as well. The slain star archon reincarnates 1d4 rounds later as a __shield archon__. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Explosive Rebirth range: null raw_description: '**Explosive Rebirth** (__death__, __divine__, __evocation__, __fire__, __good__) When killed, the star archon explodes in a blinding flash of holy energy that deals 12d6 fire damage and 12d6 good damage to anything in a 100-foot emanation, with a DC 40 basic Reflex save. A non-archon creature that sees the explosion and critically fails its save is permanently __blinded__ as well. The slain star archon reincarnates 1d4 rounds later as a __shield archon__.' requirements: null success: null traits: - death - divine - evocation - fire - good trigger: null - action_cost: Reaction critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: A star archon can also make a Retributive Strike by throwing its starknife, and the enemy and ally can be within 60 feet instead of 15 feet. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Retributive Strike range: null raw_description: '**__Retributive Strike__ [Reaction]** A star archon can also make a Retributive Strike by throwing its starknife, and the enemy and ally can be within 60 feet instead of 15 feet.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null description: 'Embodiments of the virtue of prudence, star archons serve as philosophers and administrators, and in times of war as the tacticians, strategists, and generals of archon armies. Star archons burn with the glory and intensity of a sun, and their sense of duty and desire to defeat evil are as indefatigable as the light of the stars. While their dazzling intellects and unmatched strategic cunning make them most useful in war rooms rather than on battlefields, star archons are fierce opponents when motivated to enter the fray. Those who witness the self-sacrifice of a star archon and live to tell the tale describe the experience in terms that might befit the sight of a supernova at the instant the star collapses in on itself. **__Recall Knowledge - Celestial__ (__Religion__)**: DC 39' hp: 400 hp_misc: null immunities: null items: - +2 greater striking returning starknife - +2 greater resilient full plate languages: - Celestial - Draconic - Infernal - tongues level: 19 melee: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 3d4+16 type: piercing name: returning starknife plus_damage: - formula: 2d6 type: good and 3d6 fire to_hit: 38 traits: - agile - deadly 1d8 - finesse - good - magical - reach 10 feet - versatile S name: Star Archon perception: 35 proactive_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: Once per day, if an archon sees another creature cast dimension door, the archon can use __dimension door__ (heightened to 5th level) within 1 round to attempt to follow that creature to the maximum distance of the archon's dimension door. If the archon's dimension door has enough distance, the archon appears the same distance and direction from the creature as before either creature used dimension door. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Archon's Door range: null raw_description: '**Archon''s Door** Once per day, if an archon sees another creature cast dimension door, the archon can use __dimension door__ (heightened to 5th level) within 1 round to attempt to follow that creature to the maximum distance of the archon''s dimension door. If the archon''s dimension door has enough distance, the archon appears the same distance and direction from the creature as before either creature used dimension door.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: Two Actions critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The star archon calculates a celestial constellation and sends their starknife flying along that path from one foe to the next. It makes a starknife Strike against a target within 60 feet. If the Strike hits, it can make another Strike at a different target within 60 feet of the first target, and so on, until it misses with a Strike or runs out of targets it hasn't attacked within range of the most recent target. The star archon can attack a given target only once per use of this ability. These attacks don't apply any range increment penalty, and the star archon resolves all the attacks before increasing the multiple attack penalty. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Prudent Asterism range: null raw_description: '**Prudent Asterism** [Two Actions] The star archon calculates a celestial constellation and sends their starknife flying along that path from one foe to the next. It makes a starknife Strike against a target within 60 feet. If the Strike hits, it can make another Strike at a different target within 60 feet of the first target, and so on, until it misses with a Strike or runs out of targets it hasn''t attacked within range of the most recent target. The star archon can attack a given target only once per use of this ability. These attacks don''t apply any range increment penalty, and the star archon resolves all the attacks before increasing the multiple attack penalty.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null ranged: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 3d4+16 type: piercing name: starknife plus_damage: - formula: 2d6 type: good and 3d6 fire to_hit: 38 traits: - agile - deadly 1d8 - good - magical - thrown 60 feet - versatile S rarity: Common resistances: - amount: 15 type: fire ritual_lists: null saves: fort: 31 fort_misc: null misc: +1 status to all saves vs. magic ref: 34 ref_misc: null will: 34 will_misc: null sense_abilities: null senses: - Perception +35 - darkvision - true seeing size: Medium skills: - bonus: 31 misc: null name: 'Acrobatics ' - bonus: 33 misc: null name: 'Arcana ' - bonus: 37 misc: null name: 'Athletics ' - bonus: 33 misc: null name: 'Diplomacy ' - bonus: 33 misc: null name: 'Intimidation ' - bonus: 33 misc: null name: 'Occultism ' - bonus: 37 misc: null name: 'Religion ' - bonus: 33 misc: null name: 'Society ' - bonus: 39 misc: null name: 'Warfare Lore ' source: - abbr: Bestiary 2 page_start: 23 page_stop: null speed: - amount: 35 type: Land - amount: 75 type: fly spell_lists: - dc: 43 misc: null name: Divine Innate Spells spell_groups: - heightened_level: null level: 9 spells: - frequency: null name: blindness requirement: null - frequency: null name: implosion requirement: null - frequency: null name: sunburst requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 7 spells: - frequency: null name: heal requirement: null - frequency: null name: prismatic spray requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 5 spells: - frequency: null name: sending requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 4 spells: - frequency: at will name: dimension door requirement: null - heightened_level: 6 level: -1 spells: - frequency: null name: true seeing requirement: null - heightened_level: 5 level: -1 spells: - frequency: null name: tongues requirement: null to_hit: null traits: - LG - Medium - Archon - Celestial type: Creature weaknesses: - amount: 15 type: evil