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Thanks for the advice! I've done my research, though, and concluded that Wishcrafter is 90% flavor, 10% substance, and doesn't give enough to justify what it sacrifices, so I'm just taking the flavor of it. As for not making every spell fire, I know that, but with the Efreeti bloodline arcana, ANY energy spell can be a fire spell if I want it to be, so I don't have to sacrifice flavor there. I haven't counted Wishcrafter out entirely, but I doubt I'll go for it. Unless of course, it would be especially useful in the party Malra finds herself in. I haven't found a group yet! (At least, one that's focused on text chat rather than voice, or would let me use text chat)

First, +1 Squee for doing the research!

(I wasn’t sure where you were in the character creation process.)

As for substance versus flavor...I have to agree with you on most of it. Not entirely, though.

Bloodline Arcana: Getting metamagic for free without a spell level increase is nice, but Silent Spell is already highly situational and the way this arcana works gets rid of much of that feat’s use. Not being able to target yourself is highly annoying. There are much less situational arcana out there. Pass.

Expanded Wishcraft: Swapping out bonus spells would be nice if that’s how it worked, but it’s worded to sound like you don’t get the option of your normal bonus spells. The downgraded level is just bad. Blech.

Heart’s Desire: You can do this with Bluff or Diplomacy, but hey, at least you don’t have to cast suggestion or command, right? Eh.

Twisted Wishcraft: This one isn’t bad in its benefits, but you have to get someone you don’t like to wish. That’s iffy, but doable. Eh.

Perfect Wishcraft: This is the carrot -- it’s better than wish (it can replicate any Sorcerer/Wizard spell, including wish), though you still have to abide by your arcana. By this level, you have ways of getting people to wish for things you want to them to wish for. Thus, this alone makes up for the rest of the archetype and then some.

Perfect Wishcraft is only worthwhile if you are guaranteed to get it, meaning the campaign will get to (or start at) level 19. If so, there’s no reason not to take this archetype if you’re able. It’s that good of an ability. However, less than 1% of the games I’ve heard of have ever made it that far, so by and large this is a dud archetype.

Basically, the archetype is just like a genie:

...except not all at once.

Now, compared to the Efreeti bloodline (which I admit I forgot existed), yeah, you should go with the Efreeti and maybe do crossblooded. After all, you still get wish as a bonus spell and you get limited wish as a spell-like ability (which is already really powerful); you’re not quite as powerful in your capstone ability, but the bloodline is better for most of your leveling.

Now, if you’re wanting to make heavy use of suggestion and similar to ensure that you’re casting the spells you want, you could really mine this archetype, but that’s like saying that so long as you take an action to do something, you’ll get a better action later.

Reek of Burning Hopes -- Pathfinder Feat

Some desires blaze so brightly -- ache so desperately, smolder so acutely -- that you can almost smell them, echoing out there on the cold & lonely wind. And a soul with the stain of such hopeless need dripping from its lips? It has a delicate aroma ... one that a creature like you cannot miss.

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Prerequisite: The ability to grant wishes, either as a spell-like ability (as per an efreet) or by use of the Wishcrafter archetype or by the Gifts of the Glabrezu or Twist of Deadly Wishes feats

Benefit: You gain the scent ability, but only with respect to sentient creatures who have spoken the phrase “I wish ...” aloud within the last 24 hours.

This must be the full, exact phrase “I wish ...”; singing the lyrics to ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ doesn’t count, for example.

For each additional time that a creature has spoken the phrase “I wish ...” aloud within the past 24 hours, their scent is increased by one step: if the phrase “I wish ...” is spoken a second time, they have a strong scent; if it is uttered a third time, they possess an overpowering scent.

Saying the full phrase “I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight” does count as three uses of the phrase.

If you have line of effect to a creature who possesses an overwhelming scent because of this feat and are within 30 ft. of them, you are also considered to have blindsight for that creature.

"Tell me - what do you wish for?"

Twist of Deadly Wishes -- Pathfinder Feat

... Glancing away, the mage visibly struggled with his emotions. “Any wish, then. Is mine.”

“Yes.”

“Mine to make as I see fit.”

The demon smiled. “Oh, indeed. Most certainly and truly, master.”

“Any ... any wish at all?”

Shadibriri shrugged. “Within ... ah, limited guidelines. Barring a wish for more wishes, there is little of which I am not capable. As I have said before, to other men in other places: I can call forth any spell, I can resurrect the dead, I can rewrite time and space. I can create from nothing, and make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams; I can open doors to other worlds, and cast you across the infinite pleasures of the planes as you desire. I can turn lead to gold, pig-farmers to pigs, and day to night. With but a word, I can unmake mountains, reshape flesh and topple kings ...”            

“Very well.”            

The demon smirked. “I was not done, master, and am still bound to speak the truth. The whole truth. I can also rewire your brain so that you think you’re a hummingbird, or set your bones on fire, or turn you into a pillar of salt and throw you into the ocean to dissolve, as a certain nameless sorceress once discovered. My abilities are not much limited; you drink from the very waterfall of creation’s torrent when you unleash my gifts. Be careful, I suppose they say, what you wish for.”            

“It is to you, then, to interpret the meaning of my wish?”

The demon shrugged again. “My powers are great, and call on majesties older that your species can fathom; even I do not truly comprehend the full scope of what I do, any more than you understand the mysteries of digesting a glass of warm milk and turning it into blood and flesh, nor how it is that you fall to sleep, and dream, and then wake again. I would be careful, were I you, to know exactly what you want, and to make it clear to me what you want, and to phrase what you want as precisely as possible. Barring that, you should also hope that I’m in a good mood, and that my values coincide rather perfectly with your own.”

The mage swallowed, hard. He then allowed himself a thin smile, but it was wry, and without much humor. “Heh. Yes.”

-- from Twisting Amongst Mages

You command the very waterfall of creation’s torrent.

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Prerequisite: Ability to use spells, spell-like abilities or supernatural abilities of any kind; non-good alignment; see Special, below

Benefit: When you gain this feat, roll three ten-sided dice and arrange them in order from highest to lowest; you will generate a three-digit or four-digit number from your result (somewhere between 111 and 1099). If your highest score is a ten, it represents 1,000; otherwise, tens always represent zero.

For Example: Mike rolls a 3, a 9 and a 10. His final result is 1093. Amber rolls two 3s and a 7. Her final result is 733. Kelsey rolls two 10s and a 1. Her final result is 1,001.

This is the total Twist Score you much reach to Cash-Out your wish. Each time you Cash-Out, you re-roll this 1d100 and once again begin the long climb to your new target score.

If any magical attack you make – or supernatural ability you use – would ever kill a living intelligent creature outright, you may choose to reduce your damage by any amount and thus leave the creature alive; if you choose to do so, you may demand that your victim make a wish.

If your target hears and understands you, and freely chooses to make this wish, you gain the ability to grant this wish (caster level 21st), much like an efreeti or glabrezu.

A wish made in this way must be a statement that can be uttered, in full, in six seconds or less.

Demanding that your target make a wish in this way ends your turn. On your opponent’s next turn, she may speak her wish as a free action. On your next turn, you may then grant this wish as a full-round action.

You may not grant more than three wishes per day. If you are a PC, you may not grant the wish of a fellow PC. Whether you are a PC or NPC, you may not grant a wish to an ally of any kind; if you attempt to do so, your attack’s damage is not reduced in any way and your ally is instead slain.

You may always freely choose to fulfill a wish of this type in a destructive or even deadly manner, although you must TECHNICALLY fulfill a mortal’s stated desires by use of this magic: if a target states that she wishes she could see in black-&-white, rather than in color, you could not, for example, just summon a horde of baboons to beat her to death and then say “your wish is granted.”

If your target says “I wish for limitless riches,” however, you are 100% percent within your rights to crush them beneath a tide of gold coins Plutokinesis-style or banish them to a section of the Elemental Plane of Earth composed entirely of diamonds ... but without a breathable atmosphere.

Your GM is the final arbiter of what are and are not legal responses to the granting of a wish; strong, open and above-all honest communication with your GM is not simply encouraged for this feat but is instead required.

If your GM cannot decide what a specific character would wish for, she may choose to roll 3d6 on the chart below (ignoring any result and rounding down if that option has already been used too many times) to determine the character’s wish; possible responses from you are also listed after each choice:

I wish I wasn’t here! / I wish I was somewhere else! [You may plane shift your target to the Abyss, to the City of Brass or to another location of your choice]

I wish I could escape / I wish there was something I could do to get away safely! [You may baleful polymorph your target into a rabbit or a frog]

I wish you weren’t here! / I wish you would just go away! [You may use greater teleport, moving to any location that is outside of your target’s immediate visual field]

I wish I was home! / back home! / at home! [You may teleport your target back to their home, bringing along yourself and your party or other combatants if you desire]

I wish this hadn’t happened! [Your target is teleported, unharmed and healed of all conditions & wounds, back to where they last awoke or to wherever they were 12 hours ago, whichever is greater]

I wish you would just let me go! [You and your target are both teleported 100 feet into the air, with you grappling your target. At the end of your action, you are teleported back to your previous location]

I wish you were on fire! [You gain the benefits of fire shield]

I wish you would leave me alone! [Your target is subject to a maze effect]

I wish I could kill you! [Your target is given one round to kill you. All other creatures in the area benefit from a sanctuary spell. If you are not dead at the end of the round, your target dies]

I wish you couldn’t see me! [Your target gains permanent natural invisibility, as per an invisible stalker. She also gains a permanent overwhelming scent of rot, death and the grave (or some other scent, as you choose); all opponents within 30 feet may freely detect her purely by sense of smell. If she is upwind, the range increases to 60 feet; if downwind, it drops to 15 feet. Her exact location is not revealed, only her presence within range and the general direction toward her. When she is within 5 feet of any creature with a sense of smell, that creature automatically pinpoints her location even if otherwise blinded to her. She may also be tracked by her smell: any creature may attempt to follow from where she has been by making a Wisdom (or Survival) check to trace her movements and current whereabouts, even if she possesses the trackless step ability. The typical DC for smelling her out is 10; this DC increases by 2 for each hour since she departed the area. This otherwise follows the rules for the Survival skill.

I wish I was immortal! / I wish I was undefeatable! [Your target gains the benefits of the Immortal Creature template and is subject to a baleful polymorph effect]

I wish I was invincible! [Your target is transformed to adamantine, as per a special flesh to stone spell]

I wish your magic would fail! [You may gain the benefits of transformation]

I wish there was another way we could settle this! [You and your target are both teleported to another location, as per a maze spell. You may challenge your opponent to any test of skill -- that is NOT combat! -- that you desire; if you opponent fails against you, she dies]

I wish you would face me alone! [You and your target are both teleported to a location of your choice]

I wish you were dead! [You instantly split yourself into a pair of creatures: your spectral true self and your corporeal false self. Your true self becomes both invisible and incorporeal, and must remain directly adjacent to your false self until this effect ends. You may take no actions while you are so disjointed, nor interact with your environment in any way except to observe. Your false self dies for one hour per character level you possess or until you choose to end the effect. At any time while this effect is active, you may choose to end the effect as a free action: thereby collapsing yourself back into a single creature under your full control. All reversible effects related to your death are undone instantly at this time, just as though you had not died; this includes any damage and/or all secondary effects that would have been avoided if your false self had not died. You are the beneficiary of a true resurrection effect.

I wish ... I wish ... uh ... (stuttering) [your target is forced to answer the following round]

I refuse! [you may not force the creature to make a wish]

You are not required to grant a wish made of you in this way. For example, if a victim says “I wish your bones were all broken,” you could offer to your GM the option “Very well ... I gain all the benefits of an elemental body (or fluid form) spell, and all of my ‘bones’ are ‘broken’”; if your GM doesn’t like that, however, you are within your rights to simply say “I will not grant such a wish.”

If you choose not to grant a wish, you lose one Twist Point from your current Twist Score. This does not count against the total number of wishes you can grant each day.

Each time that you grant a wish by use of this feat, you add a number of Twist Points to your Twist Score equal to your target’s Hit Dice. Once you have reached your goal, you may Cash-Out all of your Twist Points as a full-round action and immediately gain the benefits of a wish spell.

Special: This feat assumes that your GM will establish additional specific, in-universe backgrounds and requirements for gaining this ability; the prerequisites (above) for this feat are thus left intentionally vague, entirely up to the storyteller. In a traditional fantasy game, this power might be limited only to elves or to other creatures with ties to the First World, only to demons and their mortal kin, only to wishcrafters or witches with specific Patrons, only to members of a certain lineage or arcane tradition, only to mad chaos-gods and their spawn, to the seventh son of a seventh son, or to certain “chosen ones” who are born to fulfill a dark destiny.

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NOTE:

Something about genies has always fascinated me. The popular culture idea that a mystic race of beings existed that would hand out free revisions of reality to whoever found and freed them was a seductive idea, as all stories of nigh-infinite power with little to no price or consequences tend to be. Of course, for every story of magical wish fulfillment, there are two about twisted wishes, unforeseen consequences, and so on. Not to mention that in Pathfinder, and indeed in the very folklore these beings originate from, genies are rarely under your control. Today’s entry takes magic, another form of wish fulfillment, and puts it through the lens of genie-style wish fulfillment, granting the sorcerer in question the power to aid others, or torment their foes. Despite the genie-like nature of the archetype, however, the sorcerer in question need not be of any specific genie bloodline, or even of the elemental blood. After all, there is more than one way to grant wishes.

Every sorcerer can bend their spells in subtle ways, but for these mystics, others bend their spells for them. If anyone, friend or foe, wishes aloud for something that one of their spells can grant in some way, and then they cast that spell in fulfillment of that wish, the power of that spell is increased, making it more powerful as if a magical contract were enforcing it. Normally sorcerers learn extra spells associated with their bloodline, but these are at once less and more bound, using that impetus to learn a selection of extra spells of their choice, but only able to use them to grant wishes, rather than be cast on their own. Twisting wishes is what wicked and vengeful genies are known for, and these mages can emulate that. However, the trick is getting a foe to admit a wish in the first place. Thus, sorcerers of this variety learn a trick to compel a foe or friend to utter their hearts desire. With that, a dream of flying could mean being turned into a harmless bird, a dream of toughness might mean being turned to stone, and so on. Furthemore, the magical binds that empower their wish-magic seem to act most vigorously against those they trick with their granted spells, making them harder to resist and dispel. Finally, near their peak of ability, these sorcerers can draw upon a great reservoir once a day, allowing them to cast any sorcery spell to grant a wish, even those that are unknown to them. Want one of the biggest and most involved bloodline arcana replacements in the game? Consider this archetype, which begs for a combination buffing and debuffing build, aiding your allies, or tricking your foes into accepting negative effects. Thankfully, you can still cast the majority of you spells without wishes, so strong-willed foes still have to deal with them.

Ifrits, being often associated with the efreet, arguably the most devious and evil of the genie races, are most likely associated with this archetype due to the ability to twist the wishes of others. However, I seen no reason to limit it to only one genie-touched race. By all means, open it up to genie-blooded sylphs, oreads, undines, and even suli! I can see these sorcerers not only emulating the efreet in their mannerisms, but also perhaps other genie races, being less devious, but equally regal in bearing.

Barely surviving an encounter with an undine sorcerer, Gorna Red-Sky finds herself in a bit of a pickle. An idle wish to breath underwater has left her unable to breathe air, and now she is trapped underwater, with her wounds going untreated. Staying means immediate survival but the risk of infection, leaving means drowning on dry land.

Efreet despise having to grant wishes for mortals without any immediate reward, but they hate one thing more than that: wishcrafter impersonating them. It’s a matter of pride for them, and many efreet societies kill ifrit children the moment they begin expressing sorcerous talents. Thus, most wishcrafters trade minor wishes and spells just to keep ahead of their elemental ancestors.

Answer to Apocalyptic Desires

In response to the spoken supplications of those mortal souls under your sway, you can burn, char and warp the very living fabric of the universe as you choose. Few powers are outside your smoldering jurisdiction, and you command truly terrible might when begged upon bended knee to act. The ripe realms of humanity -- and their doom -- are your gift, your birthright, your scorched and soiled plaything.

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Prerequisite: Bright-Burning Tempter feat; Antipaladin level 2nd, Wishcrafter (Ifrit Sorcerer Archetype) level 1st

Benefit: You may spend one daily use of your touch of corruption as a free action or as an immediate action, as you see fit, to activate any one of the following abilities for one round:

gain the effects of air walk or water walk

bypass all fire resistance of one target, or deal half fire damage with a single attack or effect to one creature with immunity to fire

destroy any one unattended, non-magical object touched (up to 10 cubic feet of non-living matter) as per the spell disintegrate

gain the flaming burst quality on all attacks

use the effects of king's castle

take the form of a fire elemental, as per elemental body I or elemental body II

A supplicant must specifically state that he or she wishes for you to use some measure of power in this way, although you are free to interpret the request in a manner pleasing to you. For example, if a supplicant were to say "I wish that we knew what was going on inside this building," you would be within your rights to attempt to scry on the interior using a spell, as normal.

However, you might instead use your air walk ability to get on top of the building and then enter through a window, or you might simply destroy the door. Or a wall.

You may instead expend two daily uses of your touch of corruption to grant the benefits of this ability to a supplicant within 30 ft. until the end of your next turn; in this way, you could exchange the places of any two allies, grant an ally the flaming burst quality on all of her attacks or briefly give one ally the benefits of an elemental body spell.

DESIGNER’S COMMENTARY: a wishcrafter who serves Asmodeus or Moloch typically dual-classes with the Lord of Darkness antipaladin archetype, while a more chaotic fire-worshiper might serve Flauros, Socothbenoth, Szuriel, or even a nameless Outer God. Some might even serve Ia''Affrat the Insatiable, given that creature's far-ranging influence and deific goals.

This feat is available to humans and other non-ifrit by way of the Inhuman Inside feat; the Kohai of Blasphemy archetype is of especial use for a less-martial, casting-heavy antipaladin character.

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Bright-Burning Tempter

You have a rare gift for knowing the darkest desires which crawl, shriek, bubble and boil in the mortal heart; your incredible power comes -- in part -- from momentarily quenching the deepest and most forbidden of thirsts. With your formidable and potent presence at their side, heroes, rogues and villains alike might triumph over impossible odds ... only to lay the spoils of their victory at your feet, tears of gratitude choking back their quivering adulation of you.

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Prerequisites: Antipaladin level 2nd, Wishcrafter (Ifrit Sorcerer Archetype) level 1st

Benefit: Once you have used your Wishbound Arcana class ability to grant the wish of a creature, that creature is forever after considered a supplicant for purposes of this feat. You always apply your antipaladin levels to your sorcerer level for purposes of access to the Heart's Desire and Twisted Wish class features when addressing a supplicant.

You may choose to heal a living supplicant with your Touch of Corruption as if they were undead. You may spend two daily uses of that ability to additionally remove the effects of disease, exhaustion, fatigue, paralysis, poison, sleep effects and stunning when your touch is used upon a supplicant, as per a paladin’s mercy, although use of this ability never removes the disease of addiction. A supplicant must verbally request your touch before being healed in this way; if you choose to harm your supplicant rather than to heal them, the supplicant receives no save against your cruelty.

In addition, you may warp your touch of corruption to augment your Wishbound Arcana in either of two ways; when granting a wish to a supplicant, you may expend a number of daily uses of touch of corruption, up to your sorcerer level, as a free action to evoke one or both of the following effects:

you may apply any one metamagic feat you know to the spell as it is cast; the level increase upon the spell is reduced by 1 for every use of touch of corruption you expend in this way. You must reduce the spell’s final level increase to +0 when it is cast.

a living creature benefited by your spell can become addicted to the power, as per the disease of minor addiction; this costs one use of touch of corruption. For each additional daily use of touch of corruption your spend in this way, the intensity of the addiction increases by one level, from minor to moderate to severe. The DC to resist or overcome this addiction is equal to 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Charisma modifier.

DESIGNER’S COMMENTARY: a wishcrafter who serves Asmodeus or Moloch typically dual-classes with the Lord of Darkness antipaladin archetype, while a chaotic fire-worshiper might serve Flauros, Socothbenoth, Szuriel, or even a nameless Outer God.

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