You have formed a bond with a powerful spirit of the natural world, and can call it to your aid. Summoning this spirit can inflict a toll on your body, but grants you considerable advantage in combat.

When you select this feature, choose one of the following types of Avatar: Beast, Bird, Elemental or Plant. This influences the sort of damage your Avatar inflicts in battle, but it primarily determines its appearance and can limit its choices of upgrades in the future.

As a three-second action in battle, you may summon your Avatar. This requires that you spend one Recovery, but you gain 2d6 temporary stamina, plus an amount equal to your Foresight attribute. Your Avatar appears in a square adjacent to you. All of its defences are equal to your Foresight defence, and it uses your Nature skill to make attacks.

Avatar Unarmed Strike: Nature vs Agility

• Hit: 2[W] + Foresight damage. Increases to 3[W] at Level 3, and to 4[W] at Level 5.
• Miss: 1[W] + Foresight damage.

Its basic unarmed attack damage depends on its type. Beast Avatars inflict d8 of either either Slashing or Impaling damage. Bird Avatars inflict d10 Impaling damage. Elemental Avatars inflict d8 Blunt damage, or (for Fire Elementals) d6 Heat damage. Plant Avatars inflict d8 of either Blunt or Impaling damage. Any choices regarding damage are made when you select this feature, and cannot be changed.

Your Avatar shares your stamina pool; whenever it is struck for damage, you take the damage in its place! When your stamina is depleted, the Avatar vanishes. However, damage inflicted to your Avatar never becomes hit points of damage.

Each type of Avatar has additional statistics as listed below.

Beast: Speed of 6, +2 to Perception.

Bird: Speed of 3, Fly Speed of 8.

Air Elemental: Fly Speed of 4, Concealment 1.

Earth Elemental: Speed of 4, Resistance 1 Physical.

Fire Elemental: Speed of 8, Vulnerability 1 Cold.

Water Elemental: Speed of 4, Swim Speed of 6, has Concealment 1 when in water.

Plant: Speed of 5, grants ten additional temporary stamina when summoned.