Fantasy NPC: Lady Night Rose

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Lady Night Rose

A plump, pale halfling lady of indeterminate age. She wears an intricate lace dress made of opalescent green-black fabric, matching the greenish shine of her lustrous black hair. Very dark make up complements her appearance.

CR 10; 9,600 XP

A female halfling vampire

CE Small Undead (augmented humanoid)

Init +8; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +13

Defense
AC 24, touch 18, flat-footed 19 (+2 deflection, +4 Dex, +1 dodge, +6 natural, +1 size)
hp 126 (12d8+72); fast healing 5
Fort +12, Ref +13, Will +13

Defensive Abilities channel resistance +4, hide from plants; DR 10/magic and silver; Immune undead traits; Resist cold 10, electricity 10

Weakness vampire weaknesses

Offense
Speed 20 ft.

Melee 2 claws +17 (1d4+6 plus energy drain)

Special Attacks blood drain, children of the garden, energy drain (1 level, DC 21)

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 12th, concentration +17)

At Will—detect animals and plants

3/day—blight (DC 19), command plants (DC 19), diminish plants, harm (DC 21), plant growth

1/day—awaken, blood berries, commune with nature, wall of thorns

Statistics
Str 18, Dex 18, Con —, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 20

Base Atk +9; CMB +12; CMD 31
Feats Acrobatic Step, Alertness^B, Blind-Fight, Combat Reflexes^B, Defensive Combat Training, Dodge^B, Improved Initiative^B, Lightning Reflexes^B, Nimble Moves, Power Attack, Toughness^B, Weapon Focus (claws)

Skills Bluff + 25, Diplomacy +20, Knowledge (nature) +17, Knowledge (nobility) +17, Perception +17, Profession (gardening) +17, Sense Motive +15, Spellcraft +17, Stealth +28; Racial Modifiers +10 Perception, +8 Bluff, Sense Motive, and Stealth

Language Common, Duc, Halfling, Sylvan

SQ gaseous form, spider climb, transcendent magic

Blood Berries (Sp) Lady Night Rose can cause a bush to sprout on a patch of fertile soil touched. The bush fully grows within 1d4+1 rounds, bearing big, very juicy, dark crimson berries sufficient to feed up to twelve Medium-sized people. Anyone who partakes on the sweet, sour, and salty fruits (with metallic aftertaste), heals 2d4 points of damage and 1 point of ability damage. Interestingly, while the blood berries fail to provide substantial sustenance to vampires eating them, they help them stave pangs of hunger for the next hour or so. This is an equivalent to a 4th level spell. She might be able to teach this spell to druids and witches, if she would find them personally interesting enough.

Transcendent Magic (Sp) Lady Night Rose used to be a some sort of oracle, capable of casting spells related to life and plants. Over her long existence, they seem to have morphed into spell-like abilities, no longer requiring traditional words, gestures, and other components to cast. She can still activate spell-completion and spell-trigger items that contain cleric and druid spells.

Vampire Weaknesses Lady Night Rose is unaffected by garlic, mirrors, or any plant-based precautions against vampires. When given flowers, she becomes fascinated for at least 1 round (plus one additional round if the flower is of particularly exquisite quality, plus  one additional round if the flower is particularly rare).

Notable Gear cape of resistance (+2), ring of deflection (+2), amulet of mighty fists (+2)

Long ago, the halfling who became Lady Night Rose was a courtly socialite (and woe to anyone suggesting she might had been a lowly gardener of common birth!) with a penchant for exotic aesthetics, often risque, even shocking, and little regard for traditions and customary forms. Around her mortal time, the court was visited by a demigod of gardens, an ascended master of art of flower and leaf. She was less than impressed. She derided his creations as too bland, too tame and too uninspired, sticking to the most boring and repetitive designs, afraid of any suggestion of asymmetry or chaos. He did not take it well, cursing her to never enjoy the sunlight gardens again, with all the petty divine might he had. Hers is the last laugh, though, for she never bored with enjoying gardens by night, especially those that are half tamed and half wild, full of darker plants, thorny and twisted—and the demigod is long gone, failing to uphold his bid to full-scale divinity.

Now Lady Night Rose travels across the duchies, popping at various courts and various times, maintaining numerous graves and tombs, preferably hidden in less frequented parts of gardens surrounding manses and palaces—some of which she even owns. She bears many names and many titles, some of which might even be real. She uses her perceived position and accumulated wealth to prompt new artistic and aesthetic trends and fashions, or revive old ones as fancy strikes her, though she has notable weak spot for darker, grotesque and morbid styles.