Fantasy NPC: Colors-Of-Seasons

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Colors-Of-Seasons

A tall and slender figure with butterfly wings, hair and robes matching the surrounding vegetation in hue and spread.

CR 2; 600 XP

CN Medium Fey

Init +4; Senses low-light vision; Perception +10

Defense
AC 14, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+4 Dex)

hp 21 (6d6)
Fort +2, Ref +9, Will +6

Defensive Abilities seasonal adaptation; DR 5/cold iron

Offense
Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (good)

Melee sharpening knife or brush +8 (1d4+5, 19–20/×2)

Special Attacks broad strokes

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 6th; concentration +9)

At Will—mage hand (used almost exclusively to grab the right brush or dip it in paint without having to approach the supplies), mending, open/close, prestidigitation

Statistics
Str 10, Dex 18, Con 10, Int 13, Wis 13, Cha 17

Base Atk +3; CMB +3; CMD 17
Feats Nimble Moves, Skill Focus (Profession [painter]), Weapon Finesse

Skills Craft (making pigments) +10, Fly +17, Knowledge (nature) +10, Perception +10, Profession (painter) +20, Use Magic Device +12; Racial Modifier +2 Profession (painter)

Language Aquan, Auran, Sylvan, Terran

SQ tools of trade

Broad Strokes (Su) Colors-Of-Seasons wields pencils, sharpened charcoals, and even brushes with perfect finesse, treating them as +1 daggers, and adding Dexterity bonus to damage inflicted. Colors-Of-Season also use Dexterity instead of Wisdom on Profession (painter) skill checks.

Seasonal Adaptation (Ex) Colors-Of-Seasons always finds natural weather of the current season, whatever it would be, pleasant and comfortable. Only really unusual temperatures, humidity, and air conditions might faze them.

Tools Of Trade (Su) After finding a suitable place for work, Colors-Of-Season can take 1 round to conjure 1d4+1 gremlins carrying masterwork tools and supplies necessary for artistic work—easels, charcoals, crayons, pencils, brushes, and paints (though about quarter the time they bring equipment for a wrong profession, leading to additional effort necessary to call more gremlins, while the wrongdoers disperse while giggling with glee). Aside of those who brought  wrong supplies, the gremlins called by Colors-Of-Seasons are uncharacteristically deferent, somewhat helpful, and might even occasionally be obedient of Colors, though if engaged in violence they flee and hide, only actually fighting back if there is absolutely no other option. This is a conjuration (calling) effect.

Colors-Of-Seasons is an otherworldly painter—both literally and figuratively: a renowned artist among Fey courts of the Otherworld, dedicated to creating fanciful paintings, portraits, and drawings, capricious, focused when creating, yet prone to unexpected distractions and making silly demands—such as an occasional venture into the world of mortals, to depict the mundane and prosaic scenes.

Being sort of pampered pet celebrity artist of otherworldly courts, Colors-Of-Seasons is not really prepared for unsupervised trips to the mortal world, or any world really, compelling various fey monarchs and nobles to pull the strings to arrange some sort of oversight for such endeavors. Depending on the individual patron approach and capabilities, it might take form of hired mundane bodyguards, charming the sapient monsters along the planned trip's path into harmlessness, or threatening the local mortal authorities with dreadful curses if anything wrong happens to the unwitting artist. Assuming the current patron was made aware of the impromptu expedition in the first place.

Colors-Of-Seasons very appearance, attitude, and mood changes from season to season, matching the state of the nature, or some Otherworldly approximation thereof.