Aspect of Ruun
Level 5Abilities
A constant spell affects the monster without the monster needing to cast it, and its duration is unlimited. If a constant spell gets counteracted, the monster can reactivate it by spending the normal spellcasting actions the spell requires.
Trigger The stone-breasted owl is about to roll a Perception or Survival check to determine initiative Effect The stone-breasted owl lets out a hoot to warn allies, granting each ally a +1 circumstance bonus to their initiative roll. Effect: Warning Hoot
Frequency once per day Effect The spirit guide forms a bond with a mortal creature. While the bond exists, the spirit guide's current and maximum Hit Points increase by 14, the spirit guide gains a +2 status bonus to attack and damage rolls, and the spirit guide and bonded mortal can communicate telepathically as long as they're on the same plane. The spirit guide can be bonded with only one mortal at a time, and can take this action again to end the bond or to form a new bond (which also ends the old bond). The bond ends if the spirit guide or the mortal dies. This bond strengthens the spirit guide's connection to the Material Plane. While bonded, the spirit guide loses the incorporeal and spirit traits, loses their immunities and resistances, and changes their Strikes to deal the appropriate physical damage (typically piercing or slashing) instead of force damage.
Requirements The spirit guide is currently Bonded with a Mortal
The spirit guide makes a talon Strike. If this attack hits, the bonded mortal can spend their reaction to Strike the same target.
When the stone-breasted owl casts heal, it rolls d10s instead of d8s.
Description
Sage spirit guides are among the wisest spirits. They often take the forms of raptors such as owls, using their keen senses to evaluate situations from high above before swooping in to aid imperiled mortals.
Adventurers who befriend a sage guide are fortunate indeed; in addition to providing sage counsel before conflict begins, sage guides can restore and tend to their allies in the aftermath of a violent dispute.
In many stories, the sage guide assumes the form of a large owl whose proud breast is composed of hard stone. This depiction combines the wisdom commonly attributed to the owl with the strength and fortitude of the earth.
Spirit guides are ghostly creatures that manifest as primordial animals on the Material Plane. Many Sarkorian cultures believe that spirit guides came into being at the same time as the first mortal hunting bands. In this time before time, spirit guides took on the most elemental shapes of animals, and they taught humanoid communities about important aspects of nature. As they imparted their wisdom, these spirit guides took physical forms, becoming the wild animals that exist today. Though spirit guides bestowed most of their gifts unto mortals in ancient times, a rare few continue to lurk in forgotten or as-of-yet-undiscovered corners of the physical world.