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Shadow

Familiar: The witch's familiar is pitch black and nearly featureless. It increases the range of its darkvision (if any) by 60 feet.

Hexes

• Biting Shadows (Su): The witch can make a ranged touch attack against any creature within or adjacent to an area of dim or less illumination. This attack deals 3d4 cold damage, +1 per two witch levels. Biting shadows have a maximum range of 30 feet, and deal only half damage to objects.

• Nocturnal (Ex): While in any area that has only dim light or is darker you have fast healing 1. This ability can only heal you up to half your normal maximum hit points; any excess healing is lost. In addition, any melds you create work on yourself in the same areas without needing to be within an area of your darkness.

• Shadow Scout (Su): The witch touches a willing creature, tearing it apart from its shadow. The touched creature can control its shadow for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the witch’s Intelligence modifier, allowing it to scout ahead. The shadow has a fly speed equal to the the creature’s base land speed (with good maneuverability), has skills equal to the creature’s skills (with a +4 bonus to Stealth checks in dim light and a –4 penalty
  to such checks in bright light), has an Armor Class equal to the touched creature’s touch AC, is incorporeal, and can see just as the touched creature, but it cannot attack, speak, hear, cast spells, or otherwise interact with the environment. Meanwhile, the touched creature is unconscious until the shadow’s return. If either the touched creature or the creature’s shadow takes any damage or the shadow fails to make it back to the touched creature before the duration expires, the touched creature instantly wakes up without a shadow, suffering 1 negative level. At the next sunrise, this negative level disappears and the creature’s shadow reappears attached to the creature; the negative level cannot be removed any earlier. A shadow that returns to the creature before the duration expires suffers no negative effects. Whether the shadow returns to the creature or not, the creature remembers everything that the shadow saw. A creature without a shadow cannot be targeted by this hex.

• Steal Darkvision (Su): The witch targets a creature within 30 feet that possesses darkvision. That creature loses its darkvision for a number of rounds equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier, and the witch gains darkvision equal to the creature’s normal darkvision range. If the witch already has darkvision, the witch’s darkvision is extended by an amount equal to the creature’s normal darkvision range. This hex’s duration can be extended with the cackle hex. A creature affected by the steal darkvision hex cannot be affected by this hex again for 24 hours.

Major Hexes

• Animate Shadow (Su): The witch endows the shadow of a creature within 60 feet with fell power. A Will save negates this effect. On a failed save, the creature’s shadow animates into the incorporeal undead of the same name. The shadow automatically moves with the cursed creature to always remain adjacent, cannot create spawn, and attacks the creature each round on the witch’s turn until it is destroyed. The shadow is automatically destroyed if the creature enters an area of bright light, complete darkness, or its victim dies (from Strength damage or other means). At 16th level, this hex instead creates a greater shadow and it is not destroyed in bright light or complete darkness. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

• Cold Shadows (Su): The witch can choose a living creature within 30 feet. It takes 1d6 points of Strength damage + 1 per 2 witch levels (to a maximum of 1d6+10). A successful Fortitude save reduces this damage by half. Once a creature has been targeted by the cold shadows hex, it cannot be targeted by it again for 24 hours.

• Light Blindness (Su): The witch curses a creature within 60 feet with sensitivity to bright light. On a failed Fortitude save, the creature gains the light blindness flaw for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the witch’s Intelligence modifier. On a successful save, the creature gains the light sensitivity flaw for the duration. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

Grand Hex

• Shadow Tear (Su): The witch can rip away a touched creature’s shadow to create a simulacrum (as the spell). The witch must hit an unwilling target with a melee touch attack, and the creature is permitted a Will save to negate this effect. The simulacrum always appears in disturbing shades of black and gray, and so cannot be confused for the original creature. While the shadow is removed in this fashion, the creature it was created from casts no shadow and is affected by a bestow curse spell effect inflicting a –4 penalty on attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skill checks. The bestow curse effect can be removed by destroying the simulacrum (in addition to the normal methods of removing a bestow curse spell), and removing the bestow curse destroys the simulacrum. This effect is otherwise permanent. A creature may only ever have one simulacrum created from it in this manner. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

Spirits

Familiar: The witch’s familiar has streaks of gray or silver hide, hair, or fur, and long facial hair that appears similar to a wispy mustache or bushy eyebrows. It can speak and understand a number of bonus languages equal to the witch’s Intelligence bonus.

Hexes

• Ancestral Disapproval (Su): The witch chooses a target and causes the disapproving voices of her target’s ancestors to flood its mind. A living intelligent creature within 30 feet that the witch can see becomes shaken for a number of rounds equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier. This duration can be extended with the cackle hex. A successful Will save reduces this duration to 1 round. This is a mind-affecting fear effect. At 8th level the target becomes frightened instead of shaken.

• Ancestral Knowledge (Su): With a touch, the witch grants a creature the ability to commune with the wisdom of its ancestors. This allows the target to reroll one Knowledge skill it has failed in the past one minute, with a bonus equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier. Once a creature has benefited from this hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours.

• Reveal Hidden (Su): The witch holds her familiar in one hand and communes with the spirits of the area for 1 minute. Afterwards, the witch gains a bonus to Perception checks equal to her Intelligence modifier to reveal anything hidden within 30 feet, such as a secret door or a trap. When using this hex, the witch is considered to have the rogue trapfinding ability.

• Spirit Knife (Su): The witch can grant a creature within 30 feet the ability to deal unarmed, weapon, and natural weapon damage normally to incorporeal creatures for 1 round, as if the creature had a ghost touch weapon. At 8th level and 16th level, the duration of this hex is extended by 1 round. Once a creature has benefited from the spirit knife hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours.

Major Hexes

• Ancestral Hex (Su): When communing with her familiar to replenish her spell points, the witch spends 1 additional minute to talk to all the witches that came before her and learns one of their hexes. The witch gains the use of one of the hexes from any other witch patron. She has access to this hex until the next time the witch communes with her familiar.

• Spirit Guardian (Su): The witch summons spirits which prowl the area in a 15-foot radius from her. That same area is treated as a magic circle against evil, except that it provides the witch and all allies within the area protection from all alignments except true neutral. The witch can summon her spirit guardian for a number of hours equal to her Intelligence modifier. These hours do not need to be consecutive, but they must be spent in 1-hour increments.

Grand Hexes

• Soul Walker (Ex): The witch can drift into the spirit world, becoming incorporeal for 1 minute per class level. When she does so, the witch gains the incorporeal subtype, taking only half damage from corporeal magical attacks and no damage from non-magical weapons and objects. Her sphere abilities deal only half damage to corporeal creatures, but effects that do not deal damage function normally. The duration of this ability need not be continuous, but it must be used in 1-minute increments.

• Summon Spirit (Sp): The witch calls forth the ghost of a humanoid creature with no more than 18 Hit Dice. The ghost has a personality and individual desires, but is willing to bargain with the witch, as if she had cast greater planar ally. To seal an agreement with the witch, the ghost requires life energy equal to 1 temporary negative level (this is in addition to the standard payment for the ghost’s service). This negative level persists as long as the ghost remains in the service of the witch; the witch can end the agreement as a standard action, immediately removing the negative level.

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Strength

Familiar: The witch's familiar has a body that is rippling with muscles. It gains a +2 inherent bonus to its Strength score.

Hexes

• Knockback (Su): The witch points at a creature she can see within 30 feet and unleashes a blast of mental energy. The witch makes a bull rush attempt, using her witch level in place of her base attack bonus and her Intelligence modifier in place of her Strength modifier. Feats that affect a bull rush attempt also affect this ability.

• Mighty Thews (Su): A witch can infuse a creature she touches with great lifting power, doubling its carrying capacity. This does not stack with any other effect that increasing a creature’s carrying capacity without altering its Strength (such as ant haul). At 8th level the creature gains triple its carrying capacity, and at 16th level it gains quadruple its carrying capacity. A mighty thews hex lasts until the witch is killed or falls unconscious, but the witch may only have one such hex active at a time. If she grants the hex to a new creature, any previous mighty thews hex ends.

• Sap Strength (Su): The witch touches a creature and reduces its Strength by -2 for 1 round. This duration can be extended with the cackle hex. At 5th level, the creature’s Strength is reduced by -4.

• Weakening Hex (Su): You can touch a creature as a standard action in order to sap its strength. This touch attack deals 1 point of Strength damage, unless it succeeds on a Fortitude saving throw. If you also have the nails hex, you may deliver this effect with a successful attack from your nails. A creature that successfully saves may not be subject to your weakening hex again for 24 hours.

Major Hexes

• Jellied Bones (Su): The witch curses one creature within 60 feet, making their bones less solid with each passing moment. This causes the speed of all movement types possessed by the creature to be reduced by 10 feet, plus an additional 10 feet for each additional round the effect persists (minimum 0 ft.). A creature with all movement types reduced to a speed of 0 feet is considered helpless. A Fortitude save negates this effect. If the saving throw is failed, the target can attempt a new save each round to end the effect. A successful save in rounds following the first prevents any additional movement penalties from accruing, but does not remove penalties already gained. A creature with immunity to precision damage and critical hits is immune to this hex. This effect persists for 1 hour per witch level or until the creature is the target of a remove curse, heal, or regeneration spell or similar effect, using the using the save DC as the DC to remove the curse. This is a polymorph effect.

• Weakling (Su): The witch touches a creature and deals enough Strength damage to reduce the target’s Strength to 1. A successful Fortitude save reduces this Strength damage to 1d6 (reducing the creature’s Strength to a minimum of 1). A witch can use this hex a number of times per day equal to her Intelligence modifier but can only use it on any individual creature once every 24 hours.

Grand Hex

• Impregnable (Sp): The witch can erect a completely invulnerable wall of force (as the spell) as a spell-like ability using her witch level as her caster level. This effect persists for a number of minutes equal to 3 + the witch’s Intelligence modifier. Unlike an ordinary wall of force, this effect cannot be dispelled by even a mage’s disjunction, destroyed by disintegrate, or harmed by any non-artifact weapon or item (a sphere of annihilation still destroys the wall on contact). The witch can pass freely through the wall as if it did not exist, but cannot use ranged attacks, spells, or similar effects through it. A witch can only use this ability once per day.

• Rip in Two (Su): A witch summons all her power and focuses it on one creature she can see within 30 feet. The creature takes 10 points of damage per witch level. If reduced to 0 or fewer hit points by this hex, the creature’s body is ripped in two, and each half flies 30 feet in opposite directions. A successful Fortitude save reduces this the damage to 1d10 points of damage per witch level. This is a death effect. The witch can use this hex once per day.

Time

Familiar: The movement of the witch's familiar is jerky and semi-random, as if it's cycling through multiple timelines simultaneously. It is always able to act in the surprise round, even if the witch herself cannot.

Hexes

• Abeyance (Su): You can place a curse upon a location, causing an area with a radius equal to your class level x 10 feet to surrender prematurely to the influence of the ages. This hex takes 1 round to use. This affected area is initially centered on you, and reduces all unattended objects within to half hit points, causing each object to gain the broken condition. Normal plants wilt, and objects, surfaces, and structures within the area become pitted, weathered, and fragile, (though each may be repaired normally). Inanimate corpses within the area are stripped to the bone, and skeletal remains turn to dust. An attended object that later becomes unattended within the area is affected the moment it comes into contact with the ground, or with any other affected surface. Objects removed from the area are not restored. This is a curse effect, and it can be removed by a remove curse spell or some similar magic, using the save DC as the DC to remove the curse. You can only have one abeyance hex in effect at a time. If another abeyance hex is laid upon an area, the effects of the first immediately end and all affected items are restored to their former states. Otherwise, the effects of this hex persist indefinitely.

• Rapid Aging (Su): The witch touches a creature and it begins to age. The creature takes a –1 penalty to its Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores. At 5th level, the creature ages more rapidly, taking a –2 penalty to its Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution abilities. These effects end with the following sunrise. A creature targeted by the rapid aging hex cannot be targeted by it again for 24 hours.

• Spare Time (Su): A witch can give extra time to one creature within 30 feet, granting it an extra swift action on its next turn. At 8th level, this becomes an extra swift or move action. Once a creature has benefited from a spare time hex, it cannot be affected again for 24 hours.

• Steal Time (Su): A witch steals a moment of time from her opponent and gives a piece of it to an ally. The witch makes a touch attack. If the touched creature fails a Fortitude save, the creature loses its next standard action. As part of the same action, the witch touches an ally, and the ally receives an additional attack action. This additional action must be used before the start of the witch’s next turn. Once a creature has been targeted by the steal time hex, it cannot be targeted by it again for 24 hours.

Major Hexes

• Freeze Time (Su): The witch can use time stop for 1 round per day. At 15th level, the witch can use this for 2 rounds per day. These rounds need not be consecutive.

• Intolerable Delays (Su): The witch causes fate to conspire against a creature within 60 feet. Whenever the creature attempts any long-term action, unlucky coincidences continually cause frustrating interruptions. A Will save negates this effect. On a failed save, the creature doubles all travel times, and any action requiring more time than 1 full round requires double the normal time to complete. This includes (but is not limited to) using Disable Device on tricky devices, gathering information with Diplomacy, casting times for spells, preparing or regaining spells, and item crafting. This does not increase the time required to gain benefits from resting. This curse persists for 1 day per witch level, and can be ended with a remove curse or similar magic, using the using the save DC as the DC to remove the curse. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex  again for 1 day.

• Withering (Su): The witch causes a creature within 30 feet to age rapidly, empowering the witch in the process. The target ages to the next age category (adult to middle-aged, and so on). The witch gains a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d10 + her witch level and a +2 enhancement bonus to either Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution for a number of hours equal to her Intelligence modifier. These effects last for a number of hours equal to the witch’s level. A creature cannot be aged past venerable age by this hex, and it can attempt a Fortitude save to negate the effect altogether. Once a creature has successfully saved against the withering hex, it cannot be affected by it again.

Grand Hexes

• Elder’s Curse (Su): The witch curses a target creature within 60 feet with rapid onset aging. A Fortitude save negates this effect. On a failed save the witch can choose whether she would like the target to attempt an additional save each round or each day at dawn thereafter. If the target must save each day, he takes a –4 penalty to further saves. Each time a creature fails a save (including the initial save), his age category is increased by one step (adulthood to middle age, middle age to old, old to venerable). The creature gains all ability score penalties for aging, but no ability score bonuses. A venerable creature who fails a save dies from old age. Succeeding at any of the saves halts the effect, but does not reverse any aging. Reversing the effects requires a miracle, wish, or the youth’s curse hex. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

• Youth’s Curse (Su): The witch curses a target creature within 60 feet with youth. A Fortitude save negates this effect. On a failed save, the witch can choose whether she would like the target to attempt an additional save each round or each day at dawn thereafter. If the target must save each day, he takes a –4 penalty to further saves. Each time a creature fails a save (including the initial save), his age category is lowered by one step (venerable to old, old to middle age, middle age to adulthood). The creature does not gain any bonuses or penalties for reducing age to these categories. This may at first appear to be a blessing, but the aging doesn’t cease. A creature at adulthood failing a save becomes a child, gaining the young creature simple template. A child failing a save becomes a nearly helpless baby (Tiny sized, unable to talk, land speed 5 ft., and Strength and Dexterity ability scores at 2). A baby failing the save blinks out of existence, and cannot be returned to life by any means short of a miracle or wish. Succeeding at any of the saves halts the effect, but does not reverse any physical changes. Reversing the effects requires a miracle, wish, or the elder’s curse hex. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

Transformation

Familiar: The witch's familiar frequently changes its appearance. It can make itself look like any creature of its size and type as if using disguise self.

Hexes

• Alteration (Su): You can change your form for a number of minutes per day equal to your class level, as if using alter self. These minutes do not need to be consecutive, but they must be spent in 1-minute increments. If you also have the disguise hex, one minute of this hex can be expended to gain one hour’s use of your disguise hex.

• Boneless Form (Ex): The witch’s bones and flesh can become rubbery and flexible, allowing her to contort her form into impossibly tight spaces or escape from nearly any binding. She gains the compression ability and a bonus to all Escape Artist checks and combat maneuver checks to escape agrapple equal to 1/2 her witch level.

• Giant Ally (Su): The witch touches an ally and it increases in size, as if targeted by an enlarge person spell. This lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the witch’s Intelligence modifier. A creature targeted by this hex cannot be targeted by it again for 24 hours.

• Race Shift (Su): A witch can cause a creature she touches to shift in appearance to seem to be a member of a different race of the same type. The creature acts as if under the effects of a disguise self spell, only to appear to be a member of a different race. While so transformed, the creature gains one of the following abilities if the race it is shifted into gains that ability: elven immunities, intimidating, keen senses, stability, sure-footed. A GM may decide to grant other abilities of the same approximate power level if the creature shifts into a race with none of the abilities listed. A race shift hex lasts until the witch is killed or falls unconscious, but the witch may only have one such hex active at a time. If she grants the hex to a new creature, any previous race shift hex ends.

Major Hexes

• Polymorph Familiar (Su): Once per day the witch may polymorph her familiar into another familiar. The familiar can be transformed into any other familiar the witch meets the prerequisites for. This change is a permanent polymorph effect with a caster level equal to the witch’s class level. An altered familiar gains alternate abilities and provides different bonuses to the witch based on the type of familiar it becomes. If the witch has the Improved Familiar feat, she can transform an ordinary familiar into one of the improved familiar options or vice versa. However, the witch must still meet all prerequisites for the change based on her arcane caster level and alignment.

• Transformation (Su): The witch chooses a living creature within 30 feet. If the creature fails a Fortitude save, the creature is transformed into an animal of the witch’s choosing that normally has 1 hit die. The transformed creature retains its own hit dice and hit points but otherwise gains the statistics of the chosen animal. The transformation hex lasts a number of minutes equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier; it can be ended with break enchantment or a more powerful spell. Once a creature has been targeted by the transformation hex, it cannot be targeted by it again for 24 hours.

Grand Hex

• Forced Reincarnation (Su): The witch causes a creature within 30 feet to die and be immediately reincarnated into a new body. A Will save negates this effect. Those that fail are slain and immediately brought back to life with the spell reincarnate. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

Vengeance

Familiar: The witch’s familiar looks like a fiercer version of its species, with rippling muscles and a stockier frame. Its natural armor bonus to AC (if any) increases by +2.

Hexes

• Feel My Pain (Su): The witch instantly gets revenge on anything that attacks her. When the witch uses this hex, she fills her body with negative energy for a number of rounds equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier. Any creature that deals damage to the witch with a melee attack must succeed on a Fortitude save or take 1d4 points of negative energy damage. At 5th level and every 5 levels thereafter, this damage increases by 1d4 (to a maximum of 5d4 at 20th level).

• Retributive Strike (Su): When a creature strikes the witch in melee, it provokes an attack of opportunity from the witch. Once a creature has provoked an attack of opportunity as a result of this hex (regardless of whether the witch takes the attack of opportunity, or if the attack hits), the creature does not provoke as a result of this hex again until 24 hours have passed.

• Revenge (Su): The witch chooses a creature within 30 feet that has attacked her or an ally since the witch’s last turn and makes them feel pain. If the creature fails a Will save, the creature must attack an ally or itself on its next turn with the same melee or ranged attack used in the previous round. Once a creature has been targeted by the revenge hex, it cannot be targeted by it again for 24 hours.

• Scorn Scent (Su): The witch gains the scent ability, but can only use it against creatures that have attacked or harmed the witch within 7 days, or refused a request to perform a service for the witch in return for fair recompense within 24 hours.

Major Hexes

• Oath Binder (Su): The witch gains the power to enforce oaths. As a full-round action, the witch can sanctify an oath made to her by a willing creature touched. The target and the witch must be fully aware of the terms of the agreement, in both word and spirit. The witch is immediately aware of the creature breaking any terms of the oath, gaining a vague idea of the circumstances and severity of the betrayal. The witch may then cast any Death sphere ability or use any hex that allows a Will save on the target, ignoring any normal restrictions due to line of sight or range. If the witch forgoes using this ability for whatever reason, the creature continues to be bound by the oath and the witch is aware of future infractions with the option to then use a Death sphere ability or hex. If the witch chooses to do this, she is no longer aware of future oath breaking and cannot inflict additional reactionary effects. A creature may only have one oath made toward the witch at any one time, but the witch may have any number of creatures bound by oaths.

• Payback (Su): A witch can place a payback effect on a creature within 60 feet, causing terrible wounds to open across the flesh of any creature dealingdamage to it in melee. Immediately after the target creature suffers damage in melee, the attacker takes half that damage (round down). This damage bypasses any resistances, immunities, or damage reduction the creature possesses. This effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to the witch’s  Intelligence modifier. A Will save from the opponent attacking the target creature negates this effect.

• Retribution (Su): A witch can place a retribution effect on a creature within 60 feet, causing terrible wounds to open across the target’s flesh whenever it deals damage to another creature in melee. Immediately after the target creature deals damage in melee, it takes half that damage (round down). Thisdamage bypasses any resistances, immunities, or damage reduction the creature possesses. This effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to the  witch’s Intelligence modifier. A Will save negates this effect.

Grand Hexes

• Blood Curse (Su): The witch curses the entire family line of a creature within 60 feet. A Will save negates this effect. On a failed save, the creature is affected by a bestow curse effect. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day. The witch chooses the specifics of the curse when using this hex. In addition, all living immediate relations (parents or siblings) and adult descendants of the target must likewise succeed on a Will save or suffer the same effects. From that point onward, whenever any living sibling or descendant of the target reaches adulthood, they must succeed on a Will save or suffer the curse’s effects. The witch can voluntarily end the blood curse as a free action, or it ends with her death. Otherwise, only a miracle or wish spell can remove the curse, but it does so from the entire family line.

• Living Ghost (Su): The witch curses a target within 60 feet to be forever separated from friends and loved ones. The target becomes permanently
  invisible and silent (as the invisibility and silence spells, except only the target is affected, not an area) to any allied creature or creature with an attitude of indifferent or better (per the Diplomacy skill). These spells can be dispelled (caster level equals the witch’s level), but return 1 round later.
  A Will save negates this effect. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day. Attempting to communicate with a creature that cannot see or hear the cursed victim targets the witnessing creature with a modify memory spell (Will negates), eliminating all memory of the event. Likewise, if the cursed victim becomes visible by temporarily dispelling or ending the invisibility, any witnesses affected by the invisibility and silence have their memories of the event erased on a failed save. Slaying the witch ends the effect, but otherwise ending it requires a miracle or wish. Creatures may be targeted by the memory erasure aspect of this hex any number of times per day.

 

Waves

Familiar: The skin of the witch’s familiar continually distorts, much as a pond’s surface ripples when drops of water fall gently into it. It gains a swim speed equal to its base land speed (or increases its existing swim speed by 10 feet) and can breathe underwater.

Hexes

• Sea Creature Empathy (Ex): The witch can influence the attitude of water-dwelling animals and animals that live along coasts and shores, including birds, as if using wild empathy. using her witch level as her druid level for this ability. If the witch has wild empathy from another class, her witch levels stack with the other class’s levels to determine her wild empathy bonus for these kinds of creatures.

• Seawitch (Ex): The witch is beloved by the wind and waves. The witch grants a +2 morale bonus to the Profession (sailor) checks of all allies within 30 feet. This bonus increases to +4 at a range of 60 feet at 8th level and +6 at a range of 90 feet 16th level. In addition, any sailing ship the witch is on always moves as if it was moving with the air current (double base speed).

• Water Lung (Su): An air-breathing target can breathe water or an aquatic target can breathe air. This lasts 1 minute. If the witch uses this hex on herself, she can maintain it while she sleeps, allowing her to safely sleep underwater.

• Watery Body (Su): The witch touches an ally and the ally’s body becomes more fluid. The ally gains DR /bludgeoning equal to 1/2 the witch's level for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the witch’s Intelligence modifier. A creature affected by the watery body hex cannot be affected again for 24 hours.

Major Hexes

• Elemental Form (Su): The witch can assume the form of a Huge (or smaller) water elemental as if casting elemental body IV. The witch can remain in elemental form for a number of hours per day equal to her level. This duration doesn't need to be consecutive, but it must be used in 1-hour increments.

Grand Hex

• Maelstrom (Su): While in a large body of water, as a standard action, the witch can transform herself into a vortex (as the universal monster ability) for a number of minutes per day equal to her level. This duration need not be consecutive but must be used in 1-minute increments. As a swift action, the witch can change the depth of her vortex to a maximum of 60ft deep. Enemies caught in the vortex take 5d6 additional points of damage each round.

Wilds

Familiar: The witch’s familiar looks like a wooden figurine or a vaguely animal-shaped tree branch when it is motionless. It gains freeze as the universal monster rule.

Hexes

• Mother's Eye (Su): The witch can see through plant matter, as the greensight universal monster ability, for a number of minutes per day equal to her witch level. These minutes do not need to be consecutive, but must be spent in 1-minute increments.

• Swamp’s Grasp (Su): One 10-foot square per witch level within 90 feet becomes difficult terrain for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the witch’s Intelligence modifier. If the witch uses this hex again before the duration of the previous use has expired, the effects of the previous use of this hex end immediately.

• Whispers on the Wind (Su): The witch whispers a short message to a creature within 120 feet. Only the target of this hex hears the message. The target creature can immediately reply with a short message. At 5th level and every 5 levels thereafter, the witch can choose another creature who can hear and reply to the message.

• Woodwife (Su): You gain the ability to speak Sylvan. This ability confers a supernatural understanding of the language, and ceases to function in an area where magic does not function. In addition, you leave no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked if you so choose, and you gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against the spell-like and supernatural abilities of fey creatures. At 8th level, you gain the ability to move through up to 5 feet of undergrowth (natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and so on) per round at your normal speed without taking damage or suffering any other impairment. Thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion, however, still affect you.

Major Hexes

• Weather Control (Su): A witch with this hex can use control weather once per day, but creating the weather takes 1 full hour of chanting, dancing, and communing with mysterious forces that grant her power.

• Witch’s Bounty (Su): The witch may bless a bush, plant, or tree that is planted in the ground, so that it creates a plentiful harvest. Each day at dawn, this blessed bush grows a number of goodberries equal to twice her witch level. Berries on the tree remain until they are picked, but the tree can never manifest a number of berries greater than twice her witch level at one time. The witch may only have one witch’s bounty active at a time, but can shift her blessing to a new plant with a ritual requiring 1 hour.

Grand Hex

• Natural Disaster (Su): A witch using this talent calls down the forces of nature to wreak havoc on an area. This functions as a storm of vengeance combined with an earthquake that occurs on the second round of the effect (while acid is raining from the sky). A witch must concentrate for the duration of this effect. If disrupted, the effect immediately ends. A witch can only use this ability once per day.

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Winter

Familiar: The witch’s familiar radiates an aura of cold in a 5-foot radius. This aura doesn’t cause any damage. The familiar is immune to cold damage but vulnerable to fire.

Hexes

• Cold Flesh (Ex): The witch gains endure elements as a constant spell-like ability, but only against cold temperatures. At 4th level, she gains cold resistance 5, making her comfortable in near-freezing temperatures. At 9th-level, this increases to cold resistance 10, and at 14th level, it becomes immunity to cold.

• Frostfoot (Su): The witch gains spider climb (as the spell), but the surfaces the witch climbs must be icy. The witch can move across icy surfaces without penalty and does not need to make Acrobatics checks to run or charge on ice. She can move across regular snow without penalty, and heavy snow only costs her 2 squares of movement instead of 4.

• Hoar Blade (Su): The witch can grant a creature within 30 feet the ability to deal +1d6 cold damage with unarmed, weapon, and natural weapon attacks for 1 round. At 8th level and 16th level, the duration of this hex is extended by 1 round. Once a creature has benefited from the hoar blade hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours.

• Snow Blindness (Su): The witch’s eyes become as white as a blizzard, and a single creature within 30 feet is blinded for 1 round. This duration can be extended with the cackle hex. A creature affected by the snow blindness hex cannot be affected again for 24 hours.

Major Hexes

• Blizzard (Su): The witch picks a point within 60 feet of her and summons an instant blizzard. Snow and freezing wind materialize in a 10-foot radius area from that point, causing all creatures that start their turn in the area or pass through the area to be affected by a slow spell for a number of rounds equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier. This duration is reduced to 1 round with a successful Fortitude save. The witch can move the focal point of the blizzard up to 10 feet each round. The blizzard hex lasts a number of minutes equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier. These minutes need not be consecutive, but must be spent in 1-minute increments.

• Hoarfrost (Su): The target is rimed with a shell of frost needles that slowly work their way into its flesh (Fortitude negates). The target turns pale and blue, and takes 1 point of Constitution damage per minute until it dies, saves (once per minute), or is cured. Break enchantment, dispel magic, remove curse, and similar spells end the effect. If the target saves, it is immune to this hex for 1 day. This is a cold effect.

• Ice Tomb (Su): A storm of ice and freezing wind envelops the target, which takes 3d8 points of cold damage (Fortitude half). If the target fails its save, it is paralyzed and unconscious but does not need to eat or breathe while the ice lasts. The ice has 20 hit points; destroying the ice frees the creature, which is staggered for 1d4 rounds after being released. Whether or not the target’s saving throw is successful, it cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

Grand Hex

• Unearthly Cold (Su): Abilities the witch uses that deal cold damage become supernaturally frigid. Half of the daamge dealt comes directly from an otherworldly power and is not subject to resistance or immunity to cold-based  attacks.

• Winter's Curse (Su): The witch curses a creature within 60 feet with a vulnerability to cold. A Fortitude save negates this effect. If the creature naturally possesses a vulnerability to cold, then it takes double damage (+100%) from the cold. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.

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​Wisdom

Familiar: The witch’s familiar appears to be quiet and unassuming. It gains a +2 bonus on initiative checks and a +4 bonus on Stealth checks.

Hexes

• Calming Wisdom (Su): The witch chooses a living creature within 30 feet, and that creature is affected by a calm emotions spell for a round. The duration can be extended with the cackle hex.

• Imbecilic Touch (Su): The witch touches a creature, and the creature takes a -2 penalty to its Wisdom score for a number of rounds equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier. At 5th level, this penalty increases to -4. A creature affected by the imbecilic touch hex cannot be affected again for 24 hours.

• Insight (Su): The witch gains Perception as a class skill, and gains a competence bonus to Perception checks equal to half her witch level. This hex affects only the witch.

• Speak in Tongues (Su): The witch curses a creature within 30 feet to lose the ability to easily communicate. The target loses the ability to speak, except in a language the witch knows and selects when this talent is used. This hex lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the witch’s Intelligence modifier. A Will save negates this effect. A spellcaster can still cast spells with verbal components. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day. This is a mind-affecting language dependent effect.

Major Hexes

• Spell Resistance (Su): The witch touches a creature and it gains spell resistance equal to 12 + the witch’s level. The spell resistance hex lasts a number of minutes equal to the witch’s Intelligence modifier. These minutes need not be consecutive, but must be spent in 1-minute increments.

• Vision (Su): A witch with this hex can grant a glimpse of the future to a creature touched. Granting a vision takes 1 minute, during which time the witch and the target must remain in contact with one another. At the end of this time, the subject receives a brief image of the future, usually no more than 1 year from the time of the vision, subject to GM discretion. This is only one possible version of the future, making such visions unreliable at best. Most visions are slanted toward the alignment of the witch that granted them. For example, the visions granted by a chaotic evil witch often show scenes of death and destruction, while those of a neutral good witch tend to be of joyous events or occasions. A creature cannot be subject to another vision until the current vision has either come to pass or been prevented. A witch cannot use this ability on herself. Unwilling creatures receive a Will save to negate the vision.

Grand Hex

• Mind Thief (Su): The witch creates a mental conduit between herself and an intelligent (not mindless) living creature within 60 feet, allowing her to steal the victim’s psychic energy. The victim suffers from the effects of a feeblemind spell. A Will save negates this effect, and arcane casters do not suffer a penalty to their saves. The witch gains a +2 enhancement bonus to her Intelligence and Charisma for every 4 points of each ability score lost by the creature from the feeblemind effect for as long as the effect persists (round down). Temporary bonuses to the victim’s ability scores do not count toward this bonus. So, an affected creature with an Intelligence ability score of 12 and Charisma ability score of 17 grants the witch a +4 enhancement bonus to Intelligence and a +8 enhancement bonus to Charisma. After having this benefit for 24 hours, the witch gains a number of skill ranks in one skill possessed by the creature equal to the creature’s ranks for every +2 bonus to Intelligence gained. These skills are chosen by the witch from the list of skills possessed by the creature. The witch can only have one mind thief effect active at one time, but can dismiss it as a free action. Otherwise, the effect can be removed as the feeblemind spell or with the witch’s death. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.