Despairing Pall
Level 1Attacks
Abilities
Trigger The despairing pall is damaged by a melee Strike
Effect Darkness billows out from the despairing pall, covering its attacker in inky shadow. The despairing pall immediately Steps up to 15 feet in any direction. If the despairing pall took the triggering damage due to a reaction it provoked by moving, it can then finish the movement. For one round, the triggering attacker is cloaked in darkness and perceives light as one step lower (bright light becomes dim light, for example), aff
The despairing pall Flies up to its Speed, then rains gloom and despair in a 15-foot area straight down. Creatures in the area must succeed at a DC 16 will save or take a –1 status penalty to attack rolls until the end of the despairing pall's next turn.
Effect: Downcast
Despairing palls are small, dark clouds that float aimlessly through the Plane of Air, casting literal and emotional shadows wherever they go. Pranksters and mischievous elementalists often summon them to rain on a rival's parade.
Many elementals that roam the Plane of Air embody the mercurial formlessness and chaos of tumultuous storms.
Tempestuous Spirits
Air elementals are often flighty contrarians, often more concerned with bringing about change than with the specific changes they enact. Art and writing created by such elementals is exceptionally rare, as they usually destroy their projects once the challenge and excitement of completing them fades.
Invisible Courtiers
Formless and invisible elementals are the favored children of Hshurha, the air elementals' mother goddess. They receive favorable treatment in her realm, Verglas Precessional, where they serve as trusted advisors, emissaries to other planes, and members of her personal retinue, in addition to performing clandestine tasks the goddess wishes to keep hidden.