Alter Ego Dedication Feat 2
Source Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered)
Prerequisites trained in Deception and Stealth
You make yourself into a living mirror, becoming a double of someone unremarkable, and you slip into exactly the role that can get you past security or into a sensitive facility. You become an expert in Deception. You gain the Assume a Role activity.
A highly guarded castle in the middle of an extravagant ball, the headquarters of a city's infamous thieves' guild, the locked room in the back of a cultist hideout—all perfect targets for you to use your expertise at blending in. Rather than skulking through the shadows, you use your training and latent supernatural abilities to become a mirror, playing on the perceptions of others and taking on whatever role necessary to get in and out of your destination before anyone has a chance to think something is amiss.
Performing as an alter ego means going unregarded. Passing as just a face in the crowd is crucial, and accolades come as the gratitude from your leaders or coin from your clients, rather than the awed adoration from a crowd. This arrangement might suit you fine, as you thrive in a job well done and subsist on the thrill of walking flagrantly past your duped adversaries. Or you might find your lack of acclaim festers, a knot of pent-up underappreciation that grows until you can't resist a dramatic reveal or a signature calling card that shows you were there. One final word before speeding away from the castle, a gloating message left behind, or some other sign reveals your skill—usually too late for your victims to do anything about it.
| Alter Egos in Golarion |
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| While some alter egos work independently as freelancers, they're especially popular in all sorts of espionage and intelligence agencies throughout the Inner Sea and beyond. The Lion Blades of Taldor, Twilight Talons of Andoran, Silver Ravens of Ravounel, and various Chelaxian secret police use alter egos to keep abreast of situations throughout the Shining Kingdoms and Old Cheliax. Meanwhile, powerful mercantile groups, like the Golden League in Tian Xia or the Aspis Consortium, employ alter egos for corporate espionage, making sure they always stay one step ahead of the competition. In Mzali in the Mwangi Expanse, the rebels known as the Bright Lions often seek the aid of alter egos to escape the notice of the mummified child god Walkena. |
Alter Ego Dedication Feat 2
Prerequisites trained in Deception and Stealth
You make yourself into a living mirror, becoming a double of someone unremarkable, and you slip into exactly the role that can get you past security or into a sensitive facility. You become an expert in Deception. You gain the Assume a Role activity.
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
We're on the List Feat 3
Source: Pathfinder Lost Omens Firebrands
Change of Face Feat 4
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
Fake It Till You Make It Feat 4
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
In Plain Sight Feat 4
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
Sound Mirror Feat 6
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
Muscle Mimicry Feat 7
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
Swap Reflections Feat 8
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
Illusory Identity Feat 12
Source: Pathfinder Lost Omens Firebrands
Borrow Memories Feat 14
Source: Pathfinder Dark Archive
It Was Me All Along! Feat 14
Source: Pathfinder Lost Omens Firebrands
Traits
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
ArchetypeThis feat belongs to an archetype.
DedicationEach archetype's dedication feat represents your character's dedicated effort learning a new set of abilities, making it impossible to split your focus and pursue another archetype at the same time. Once you take a dedication feat, you can't select a different dedication feat until you complete your dedication by taking two other feats from your current archetype. You can't retrain a dedication feat as long as you have any other feats from that archetype.