Knight of the Dragon or

Feat 4

Archetype Draconic Acolyte
Prerequisites Draconic Acolyte Dedication
Requirements Your spectral dragon is in your space.
Trigger You channel draconic essence.

You call your spectral dragon into yourself, channeling the power of a dragon directly. Your spectral dragon manifests protectively around you in the form of scales, armor, or spiritually overlapping your form. The spectral dragon occupies the same square as you at all times while in this stance. If you leave this stance while still Channeling Draconic Essence, your spectral dragon remains in the square it was occupying.

Regardless of how the spectral dragon manifests around you, while in this stance you are protected by draconic armor. The draconic armor is heavy armor but uses your highest armor proficiency. The draconic armor's statistics are: AC Bonus +5; Dex Cap +1; Check Penalty –2; Speed Penalty –10 feet; Strength +3; Bulk 1; Group plate; and it has the bulwark armor trait. You gain its armor specialization effect. Any bonuses, runes, and magical abilities of your actual armor are suppressed, but any runes that could apply to the draconic armor are replicated onto it.

While channeling their essence into yourself, your draconic benefactor's spirit blends with your own. You gain the following edict but only while in this stance.
Edicts Act as a paragon of your draconic benefactor's virtues and vices.

If you have Benefactor's Wings, you gain a fly speed of 30 feet while you maintain this stance.

You can use Knight of the Dragon as a reaction only when the trigger is met, but you can use it as a 1-action activity without the trigger being met.

Fangs and Claws of the Dragon

Feat 6

Archetype Draconic Acolyte
Prerequisites Knight of the Dragon

You coat your wielded weapon or limbs in draconic might. You gain the Fangs of the Dragon action. Additionally, you gain the Claws of the Dragon dragon magic spell. You can Refocus with physical exertion to reinvigorate the spirit, such as intense exercise or combat sparring. You become trained in the spell attack modifier and spell DC. You may choose Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma to be your spellcasting attribute for dragon magic spells.

Fangs of the Dragon (attack, flourish) Requirements You are in the Knight of the Dragon stance; Effect You channel your draconic benefactor's breath into your attacks. Make a Strike using a wielded weapon you are trained in or unarmed attack, such as a fist. This Strike deals 1d6 additional damage matching your draconic benefactor's breath damage type. At 12th level the damage increases by 1d6.

Dragon Magic

Feat 8

Archetype Draconic Acolyte
Prerequisites Draconic Acolyte Dedication

You learn one of the dragon magic spells that belongs to your draconic benefactor's tradition:

Arcane: Draconic Swoop, Draconic Ward
Divine: Healing Mist, Syphon Vitality
Occult: Draconic Ward, Syphon Vitality
Primal: Draconic Swoop, Healing Mist

You may use your spectral dragon as the origin point of any dragon magic spell. You can Refocus with physical exertion to reinvigorate the spirit, such as intense exercise or combat sparring. You become trained in the spell attack modifier and spell DC. You may choose Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma to be your spellcasting attribute for dragon magic spells.

Special You can select this feat twice, choosing the other spell from your draconic benefactor's tradition.

Scales of the Dragon

Feat 10

Archetype Draconic Acolyte
Prerequisites Draconic Resilience or Knight of the Dragon

Your draconic benefactor bestows a measure of protection upon you. While occupying the same space as your spectral dragon, you and any allies gain resistance equal to your level against your draconic benefactor's breath damage type.

Channel Greater Draconic Essence

Feat 12

Archetype Draconic Acolyte
Prerequisites Draconic Acolyte Dedication

When you Channel Draconic Essence, you may choose to make your spectral dragon Medium or Large, and you may choose to spend two actions when you Channel Draconic Essence to make your spectral dragon Huge. You cannot make your spectral dragon Huge when using Reflexive Devotion.

While in Knight of the Dragon stance, you may choose which corner of a Large spectral dragon's space you occupy at the end of any movement. If your spectral dragon is Huge, you always occupy its center square.

Essence Overload

Feat 14

Archetype Draconic Acolyte
Prerequisites Essence Overflow
Frequency Once per day
Requirements You are Channeling Draconic Essence

You channel the full might of your draconic benefactor into a single, massive explosion. Your Channel Draconic Essence ends, and all creatures (except you) in a 20-foot emanation from your spectral dragon take 10d12 damage with a basic Reflex save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. The damage’s type matches the breath of your draconic benefactor. You then can’t Channel Draconic Essence again for 1d4 hours as your draconic gift must recharge its power.

At 16th level and every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d12.

Claws of the Dragon

Focus 3

Requirements You are in the Knight of the Dragon stance
Targets 1 creature
Defense AC

You channel your draconic magic through your weaponry. You attack with a weapon you are wielding (or unarmed attack, such as a fist), making a spell attack roll using the weapon's normal range. On a success, you deal the weapon's damage as if you had hit with a Strike and 1d6 additional damage matching your draconic benefactor's breath damage type. If this attack would normally add your Strength attribute to the damage, add your spellcasting attribute instead. On a critical success, you deal double damage, and you add the weapon's critical specialization effect.

Heightened (7th) The additional damage is increased by 1d6.

Draconic Swoop

Focus 4

Requirements You are Channeling Draconic Essence
Defense basic Reflex

Magical energies fling you into the air before sending you soaring across the battlefield in an elemental explosion. You Fly 15 feet straight up into the air, then Fly in a straight line to an empty space of your choice on the ground within 30 feet. When you land, you explode in energy matching your draconic benefactor's breath weapon damage type, dealing 8d4 damage (basic Reflex save) to all creatures in a 15-foot emanation. This spell has the trait associated with the type of damage it deals. If you use your spectral dragon as this spell's origin, the spectral dragon moves instead of you.

Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 2d4.

Draconic Ward

Focus 4

Requirements You are Channeling Draconic Essence
Range 30 feet; Targets 1 creature
Duration sustained up to 1 minute

Draconic power surrounds and shields an ally from harm. Melee attacks against the target resolve as if the target was concealed, and ranged attacks against the target resolve as if the target was hidden. The swirling energies leave the target's location obvious, and so they cannot use this to Hide or Sneak. This spell has the trait associated with the damage type of your draconic benefactor's breath weapon.

Heightened (+2) You can target an additional creature.

Healing Mist

Focus 4

Requirements You are Channeling Draconic Essence
Area 20-foot emanation

You conjure a magical mist that soothes and heals those around you. All living creatures in a 20-foot emanation are healed for 3d8 Hit Points and automatically end one source of persistent damage afflicting them. If a creature is taking persistent damage from multiple sources, you select which is removed. Undead in the area take 3d8 vitality damage and get a basic Fortidue save. Any undead that fail the save also take 3 persistent vitality damage.

Heightened (+1) The amount of healing (or damage to an undead target) increases by 1d8, and the persistent vitality damage to an undead creature increases by 1

Syphon Vitality

Focus 4

Requirements You are Channeling Draconic Essence
Range 30 feet; Targets 2 creatures
Defense basic Fortitude

You draw the vital essence from a creature and empower another. You deal 6d6 void damage to one target with a basic Fortitude save. Your second target gains temporary Hit Points equal to half the void damage taken by the first target. These temporary Hit Points vanish after 1 minute.

Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 2d6