Xin Yue
Level 7Attacks
Abilities
Trigger A creature within 60 feet that Xin Yue can see casts a divine spell
Effect Xin Yue attempts to counteract the triggering spell using her spell attack modifier with a counteract rank of 4. If the spell is counteracted, the caster takes 1d10 persistent mental damage. If Xin Yue fails to counteract the spell, the caster is temporarily immune to further uses of this ability for 24 hours.
40 feet. All creatures within the aura who have at least one past life (including all PCs in the Adventure Path) recall failures in their past lives and are bolstered against repeating them, gaining a +1 status bonus to saving throws against mental effects. Living, non-nindoru creatures within the aura also feel the pain of all their past lives, as well as their own current pain when they endure mental attacks, and gain weakness 3 to mental damage.
Frequency once every 1,000 days
Trigger Xin Yue is reduced to 0 Hit Points
Effect Xin Yue utters a shriek as her undead body splits open and her shortsword becomes broken. She's instantly reincarnated as a Sojiruh nindoru with the elite creature adjustment.
Trigger Xin Yue reduces a creature to 0 Hit Points and causes it to gain the dying condition
Effect Time appears to slow down to the dying creature as the immense stress of its near-death experience pushes its brain into overdrive. The creature sees its life flash before its eyes, and the urge to resist death grows strong. The creature reduces the DC of its recovery checks by 2, but if it loses the dying condition, it must attempt a DC 25 will save.
Effect: Near-Death Experience
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Deathless acolytes typically arise when a deity or their herald expends a minor amount of power to return a low-ranking priest. Some priests are powerful enough in life to return, greatly lessened, of their own volition.
Deathless acolytes are an oddity among undead, neither willingly transformed nor, strictly speaking, transformed against their will. The creation of a deathless acolyte is an act of direct intervention by a deity, typically as a double-edged reward and curse granted to a faithful priest who failed in completing a divine mandate due to circumstances beyond their control.