The Silver Pegasus discipline is another unique discipline in that it focuses on mounted combat. It favors the lance, longsword, heavy mace, and bastard sword. It relies on mounted movement, charges, and similar direct combat maneuvers. It replaces the White Raven discipline, and its key skill is Ride. Unlike other disciplines, its maneuvers can only be used while mounted unless specifically noted otherwise. It can be learned by Warblades and Crusaders through Lesser Discipline.
A Marshal of the Sublime Way may take the Cavalry Warlord command style to gain access to Silver Pegasus. Cavalry Warlord grants Skill Focus (Ride) and Silver Pegasus Guidance as bonus feats.
A Ranger of the Sublime Way may follow the Far Rider tradition, giving access to the Silver Pegasus discipline. Either may gain access to Silver Pegasus through the Lesser Discipline feat.
Level 1
Gentle Spur Boost - Mount gains +10 feet to speed
Hanging Defense Stance - Attack while using mount as cover
Lancer's Charge Strike - Charge an enemy; inflict bonus damage
Rider's Heart Stance - Mount gains AC bonus.
Sudden Direction Counter - Direct an animal out-of-turn
Level 2
Noble Recovery Boost - Mount recovers some HP
Unhorse Strike - Attack knocks enemy from mount
Valiant Disarm Counter - Disarm an enemy that attempts to attack your mount
Level 3
Crushing Hooves Strike - Charge; mount gains pounce.
Grand Charge Stance - Inflict extra damage when charging; mount gains Trample
Horseman's Bond Stance - Share damage between self and mount
Unstoppable Riding Boost - Mount makes superior jump
Level 4
Furious Stallion Boost - Mount deals bonus damage
Knight's Slash Strike - Deal +8d6 damage
Overwhelming Charge Strike - Charge deals extra damage and denies standard action
Level 5
Everywhere and Nowhere Counter - Quickly reposition self and mount
Guardian Blade Stance - Make an attack of opportunity when your mount is attacked
Speed of Glory Boost - Mount gains +30 feet to speed
Two against Many Strike - Attack all enemies around you, do +2d6 damage
Level 6
Defiant Charge Strike - Charge for +10d6 damage, no attacks of opportunity if mounted
Glorious Recovery Boost - Mount heals 2 hp per initiator level
Level 7
River of Blades Strike - Attack enemies adjacent to trampling mount
Perfect Unified Defense Counter - Mount gains damage reduction 20/-
Level 8
Eternal Rider Stance - Mount gains miscelaneous immunities, Improved Evasion, Mettle, BAB increase
Valorous Charge Strike - Ignore AoOs when charging, inflict +15d6 damage, stun if mounted
Level 9
Charge of Honorable Glory Strike - Mounted charge inflicts 50 extra damage, mount makes full attack for 10 bonus damage per attack
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Charge of Honorable Glory
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 9
Prerequisite: Five Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Rushing forward in a perfect union, a silver blaze of armor and weapons streaking across the battlefield, you and your mount slam into an enemy, beating it to the ground.
The Silver Pegasus discipline focuses on combining the rider and mount's strength into a unified whole far greater than either individually, with the strengths of both and the weaknesses of neither. The Charge of Honorable Glory is the purest example of this, where the rider's expertise combines with the mount's strength to annihilate nearly all enemies.
When you initiate this maneuver, make a mounted charge against an enemy. You provoke no attacks of opportunity for moving as part of this charge. If your attack hits, it inflicts an extra 50 points of damage. Additionally, your mount may make a full attacks at the end of its charge; each attack made inflicts 10 points of bonus damage. All attacks made as part of this maneuver must be against a single target.
Crushing Hooves
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 3
Prerequisite: One Silver Pegasus maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
You charge an enemy, and your mount tramples it into the ground
When you initiate this maneuver, charge an enemy (as normal). Your mount may make a full attack at the end of the charge. You must make a ride check (as normal) to attack.
Defiant Charge
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 6
Prerequisite: Two Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
The sound of your mount's hooves pounding on the ground echoes across the battlefield as you charge, focusing the might that you gain fighting as one into a single, mighty strike.
As part of this maneuver, make a charge attack. If you are mounted, you provoke no attacks of opportunity for moving as part of it, nor do either you or your mount suffer an AC penalty for charging. If the attack hits, it inflicts 10d6 damage above and beyond normal melee damage.
Eternal Rider
Silver Pegasus (Stance)
Level: 8
Prerequisite: Three Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your Mount
Duration: Stance
Through a near-supernatural bond, you allow your mount to ignore attacks that would down lesser mounts, while pushing through your enemies' defenses with astounding ease.
While you are in this stance, your mount gains a number of assorted benefits. First, its base attack bonus improves to equal your initiator level, if it is worse. Second, it gains Improved Evasion and Mettle, if it does not already possess the abilities. Third, it gains immunities to paralysis, sleep, and mind-affecting effects. It also becomes immune to ability damage and drain to its mental stats, and energy drain. These latter immunities do not affect effects already in effect on the mount when this stance comes into effect. Additionally, any Stun effects on it have their durations halved; those with a 1-round duration expire just before its turn. Finally, it uses your saving throws when they would be better than its saving throws.
Everywhere and Nowhere
Silver Pegasus (Counter)
Level: 5
Prerequisite: Two Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Touch
Target: You or your mount
You see an opportunity to, and take it, immediately moving to a more advantageous position
Cavaliers of the Silver Pegasus discipline can be found not hesitating a moment before attacking an enemy's weaknesses as soon as they are exposed, and can quickly escape danger while mounted. When you initiate this counter, your mount can immediately move half its speed without provoking attacks of opportunity. If you are not mounted, you can move half of your own speed; this is, however, often slower.
Furious Stallion
Silver Pegasus (Boost)
Level: 4
Prerequisite: One Silver Pegasus maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your mount
Duration: End of turn
At your signal, your mount lashes out in a fury to defend itself
Your mount's natural weapon attacks inflict 1d8 points of bonus damage, plus a number of extra points of bonus damage equal to your initiator level, until the end of its turn (typically the same as yours).
Gentle Spur
Silver Pegasus (Boost)
Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your mount
Duration: End of turn
You spur your mount and nearly feel it yourself, pushing your own endurance as much as your mount's
Your mount gains a +10 foot enhancement bonus to speed. If your mount acts on a turn other than yours, this bonus lasts until the end of your mount's turn.
Glorious Recovery
Silver Pegasus (Boost)
Level: 6
Prerequisite: Three Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your mount
Your gentle nudges to direct your mount inspire it to ignore its wounds and continue to bear you into battle, even when it should be dead.
When you initiate this boost, you mount recovers two hit points per initiator level. This maneuver can only heal damage inflicted in the last three rounds.
Grand Charge
Silver Pegasus (Stance)
Level: 3
Prerequisite: One Silver Pegasus maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance
You and your mount present a mighty, intimidating front in the second before you charge
Your first attack after a charge inflicts an extra 1d6+initiator level damage. Additionally, your mount gains Trample, dealing damage according to its size, plus 1.5 times its strength modifier, plus your initiator level. You may make an attack as if charging after your mount tramples, provided it moves in a straight line.
Fine: 1
Diminutive: 1d2
Tiny: 1d4
Small: 1d6
Medium: 1d8
Large: 2d6
Huge: 3d6
Gargantuan: 4d6
Colossal: 6d6
Guardian Blade
Silver Pegasus (Stance)
Level: 5
Prerequisite: Three Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance
You keep your blade by the side of your mount, ready to punish any who would dare lay a finger on it
The most valuable possession most cavaliers have is their mount, and, even for those whose armor comes in first, losing a mount can easily cost a rider a battle, and many heroic riders are far stronger than their mounts. The Guardian Blade stance was developed by Silver Pegasus adepts to counter this weakness. While in this stance, you may take an attack of opportunity against any creature that attacks your mount.
Hanging Defense
Silver Pegasus (Stance)
Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance
You have mastered hanging from your mount as cover
You may use your mount as cover without a ride check (see the Ride skill), and may attack while doing so with any melee or ranged weapon you have, even two-handed weapons.
Horseman's Bond
Silver Pegasus (Stance)
Level: 3
Prerequisite: One Silver Pegasus maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance
You and your mount fight as one, deflecting attacks aimed for one to spare both
While in this stance, up to half of the damage that you take is instead taken by your mount, at your discretion; if your mount is attacked, you may choose to take up to half of the damage from that. Additionally, area-of-effect attacks only affect you or your mount (your choice; you may still redirect damage caused by area attacks).
Knight's Slash
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 4
Prerequisite: Two Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
You deliver a mighty blow downward, focusing your mount's strength into the blow as much as yours
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack that inflicts 8d6 extra damage. The target for this maneuver can be no larger than your mount, and cannot be mounted.
Lancer's Charge
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee Attack
Target: One Creature
You point your mount at a target, and charge as one with it
As part of this maneuver, move twice your speed in a straight line at your target, then make a single melee attack at +2 to hit, as per the normal rules for charging (inlcuding the penalty to AC that you and your mount take). Make a Ride check against the target's AC; if you succeed, your attack inflicts 1d6 extra damage and your mount may make an attack at an additional +2 to hit. Otherwise, your attack gains no bonus from the charge, and your mount may not attack.
Noble Recovery
Silver Pegasus (Boost)
Level: 2
Prerequsite: One Silver Pegasus maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your mount
You focus yourself, and your mount shrugs off some of its wounds.
When you initiate this maneuver, your mount recovers damage equal to 1 HP per initiator level, provided that it was inflicted in the last three rounds. You may initiate this maneuver while not mounted, but, in that case, it only heals damage that was taken while you were mounted on the target and that was inflicted in the last three rounds.
Overwhelming Charge
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 4
Prerequisite: One Silver Pegasus maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Your fearsome charge knocks your enemy back.
Make a charge attack as part of initiating this maneuver. If the attack hits, you inflict an extra 20 damage and the target must make a Fortitude save (DC 14 + your Strength modifier) or be unable to take a standard action on its next turn. You may initiate this maneuver while not mounted; if you are mounted, you may use your mount's strength modifier if it is better than yours to set the save DC.
Perfect Unified Defense
Silver Pegasus (Counter)
Level: 7
Prerequisite: Three Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Touch
Target: Your mount
Duration: See below
In a display of devotion not seen in lesser riders, you block every attack directed at your mount in a stunning series of parries, making it plainly obvious that your enemies cannot hope to hurt it.
When you initiate this counter, your mount gains damage reduction 20/- until the beginning of your next turn. Your enemies are aware of this defense, however, and will likely direct their attacks at you. If you use this maneuver to interrupt an attack, it cannot be redirected at you instead (but all subsequent attacks can). Additionally, during the duration of this maneuver, attacks that affect an area do not affect your mount.
Rider's Heart
Silver Pegasus (Stance)
Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your mount
Duration: Stance
Your defensive focus shields your mount from attack.
While you are in this stance, your mount gains a +2 dodge bonus to AC. Your mount loses this bonus against any attack you would lose your dexterity bonus to AC against, instead of those that it would lose the same bonus for. Your mount takes no AC penalty for charging.
River of Blades
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 7
Prerequisite: Three Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: One full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One or more creatures
Whirling your weapon in a series of carefully-practiced strikes, you cut down anything that you find close to you as your mount rushes forth, its hooves beating the ground and any unfortunate enough to stand in its way.
When you initiate this maneuver, you mount must Trample (inflicting damage equal to that of a longsword of its size); you may make one attack as part of this maneuver against each enemy that you pass and don't trample (although you may attack an enemy if you pass it once, then double back to trample it, or trample, then pass; likewise, you may attack the same enemy multiple times if passed twice). Enemies recieve attacks of opportunity if they have superior reach, or if they survive your attack; these may be directed at you or your mount, as you decide. Enemies who recieve multiple attacks of opportunity per round may only make one in response to this maneuver.
If you are not mounted, you may initiate this maneuver to move your speed and attack enemies alongside, but you cannot enter occupied spaces, you suffer a -2 penalty to hit with your attacks, and your enemies make their attacks of opportunity before you attack.
Speed of Glory
Silver Pegasus (Boost)
Level: 5
Prerequisite: Two Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your mount
Duration: End of turn
You call to your mount for greater speed, and it obliges with a sudden surge carrying you across the battlefield
A horse or other mount provides mobility to its rider first and foremost, and Silver Pegasus adepts are no exception. When you initiate this boost, your mount gains a +30 foot enhancement bonus to its speed for all movement types until the end of your turn (or its next turn, if it acts on a different turn).
Sudden Direction
Silver Pegasus (Counter)
Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: 30 feet
Target: One trained animal or your mount
Duration: 1 round
You see an opening, and immediately direct an animal to take advantage of it.
You may handle an animal (see the Handle Animal skill), or push it to perform a trick that it does not know, as an immediate action. The animal gains a +2 morale bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, armor class, or saving throws (your choice), should you successfully direct it. If you use this maneuver on an animal you are mounted on, you may use a Ride check instead of a Handle Animal check.
You may use this maneuver even while not mounted.
Two against Many
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 5
Prerequisite: Two Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Targets: Two or more creatures that you threaten
You and your mount attack in unison, unleashing a flurry of blades and hooves, striking faster than can be seen, a blur trailing blood, smashing armor, rending flesh, and pulverizing bone
You and your mount make one melee attack against each enemy that you threaten; you and your mount cannot attack the same target, but each must attack at least one target. This counts as a standard action on the part of your mount in addition to your own. Each attack that hits inflicts 2d6 bonus damage.
Unhorse
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 2
Initiation Action: 1 standard or full-round action (see below)
Range: Melee attack
Target: One mounted creature
You deliver a mighty blow to your target, knocking him clear from his mount.
When you initiate this maneuver, make a single melee attack (if initiating this maneuver as a standard action) or a charge (if initiating this maneuver as a full-round action, or if you can only take a standard or move action on your turn). Make a single attack against your target. If this attack hits, your target must make a Ride check, with a DC equal to your attack roll, plus your mount's strength modifier. If the target fails this ride check, it falls from its mount, falls prone, and takes 1d6 extra damage from your attack.
You may initiate this maneuver when not mounted; in that case, the DC for the Ride check to remain mounted is simply equal to your attack roll.
Unstoppable Riding
Silver Pegasus (Boost)
Level: 3
Prerequisite: One Silver Pegasus maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Touch
Target: Your Mount
Duration: 1 Round or until discharged
Your mount makes a graceful, soaring leap through the air.
Your mount's jumping distance is doubled for its next jump, and you gain a +5 bonus on the Ride check to stay in the saddle during this jump. Your mount must take this jump within one round, or it is wasted.
Valiant Disarm
Silver Pegasus (Counter)
Level: 2
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
You refuse to allow an enemy to harm your mount, knocking the weapon from their hand
You may initiate this counter in response to any attacks on your mount. If the attack is being made with a manufactured weapon, you may make an immediate disarm attempt against that weapon, without provoking an attack of opportunity from its wielder or giving its wielder a chance to disarm you. If the attack is being made with a natural weapon or unarmed strike, you instead may make a normal melee attack; if it hits, you deal normal melee damage and your mount gains +4 AC against the attack you counter.
Valorous Charge
Silver Pegasus (Strike)
Level: 8
Prerequisite: Three Silver Pegasus maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
By drawing on your mount's strength, you are able to crush an enemy beneath your trampling hooves.
As part of this maneuver, make a charge attack. You provoke no AoOs for movement as part of this charge. If it hits, you inflict 15d6 bonus damage. Additionally, your target must make a Fortitude save (DC 18 + your Strength modifier) or be stunned for one round. A successful save negates the stun, but neither the extra damage nor the basic damage. Your mount may attack as part of this charge, but gains no special benefit for doing so.
If you initiate this maneuver on foot, it functions normally, but your enemy cannot be stunned.
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