Moogles connected to the mognet often feel a powerful duty to deliver messages and packages for their brethren, no matter the distance or danger.
The mail knight is an archetype of the chemist class, available only to moogle chemists.
Archetype Main Ability Scores:
The mail knight mainly focuses on DEX/CHA for martial combat and CHA for their class features.
Archetype Feature Replacements:
1st – Alchemy, Bomb, Craft Alchemical Item. 3rd – Swift Alchemy. 4th – Alchemical Mixture. 5th – Alchemical Manipulation. 5th – Deft Hands. 6th – Alchemical Savant. 7th – Improved Quaff Potion. 9th – Alchemical Manipulation. 13th – Quaff Potion Mastery. 19th – Instant Alchemy.
Prerequisite
The mail knight must have the mognet racial trait for moogles.
Class Skills
The mail knight adds Diplomacy and Knowledge (local) to his list of class skills and removes Knowledge (arcana) and Spellcraft.
Superslick (Ex)
A mail knights use his connection to the mognet and his force of personality instead of a chemist’s analytical understanding of compounds and magic. He uses Charisma instead of Intelligence to determine the effects of chemist class features.
Express Mail (Ex)
A mail knight is trained to deliver mail efficiently and quickly. At 1st level, all forms of movement are increased by 5 feet. At 5th level, and every five levels thereafter, this movement speed increases by an additional 5 feet. If the mail knight has levels in messenger, they stack for the purposes of determining Express Mail’s level.
This ability replaces alchemy.
Courier Bag (Su)
The mail knight has requisitioned a special courier bag that enables him to make a large quantity of deliveries no matter the circumstance. This large magical bag weighs 10 lbs. and contains an extra dimensional space within. Regardless of what is put into the bag, it weighs a fixed amount. The courier bag can hold items with a total weight of 100 lbs. per mail knight level with a maximum volume of 10 cubic feet per mail knight level.
A mail knight does not provoke attacks of opportunity when retrieving or storing items from his own courier bag. Bombs and alchemical items created by chemist class features are always stored within the courier bag until they are ready to be used. Retrieving or storing a bomb from a courier bag is a free action, whereas retrieving or storing any other item takes a standard action.
If the courier bag is destroyed (it has 3 HP per mail knight level and 2 hardness), a new bag can be obtained through a process that takes 24 hours and 250 gil per mail knight level. When destroyed, items in the courier bag still exist safely within the extradimensional space but can no longer be accessed until a new courier bag is acquired.
This ability replaces craft alchemical item and alchemical manipulation.
Mailshot (Su)
The mail knight’s explosive packages are delivered to his courier bag directly through the mognet and aren’t traditional bombs created by alchemy. Mailshot deals wind damage instead of fire damage. Discoveries that alter bombs also alter mailshot. Mailshot deals fire damage if altered by the explosive bomb, hellfire bomb, or siege bomb discoveries.
This ability modifies bomb.
Mail Knight Discoveries
The following discoveries are available to the mail knight:
Holy Mail (Su)*: Whenever the mail knight uses mailshot, he may deliver holy mail, which deals half of its damage as holy damage and half as shadow damage. Creatures that take a direct hit from holy mail must make a Will save if they have a weakness to either holy or shadow. Creatures vulnerable to holy damage are afflicted with deprotect equal to half of his mail knight level for one round. Creatures vulnerable to shadow damage are afflicted with deshell instead.
Self-Delivery (Ex)*: Whenever the mail knight uses mailshot, he may target an unoccupied square, dealing splash damage to the radius as normal before teleporting to that square. He may target a space in the air with self-delivery, causing the package to explode on arrival. Prerequisite: The mail knight must be at least 8th level to select this discovery.
Enhanced Mognet (Su)
Starting at 3rd level, the mail knight’s mastery over the mognet is greatly enhanced. The mail knight can use his mognet racial ability once per day for every three mail knight levels instead of once per week (to a maximum of 6 times per day at 18th level). At 11th level, the mail knight’s mognet ability can send messages to members of any race.
This ability replaces swift alchemy, auto-potion, and instant alchemy.
Special Delivery (Ex)
Instead of creating temporary alchemical items with alchemical mixture, the mail knight delivers packages from his bag. The mail knight does not prepare these temporary alchemical items in advance and instead draws them in the same action used to retrieve an item from his courier bag. Temporary alchemical items drawn in this fashion are treated as being created by the mail knight for the purposes of chemist class features and must be used before the end of his next turn otherwise they become inert and useless.
This ability modifies alchemical mixture.
Handy Retrieval (Ex)
The mail knight may store or retrieve any item from his courier bag as a move action at 5th level, a swift action at 9th level, and a free action at 13th level.
This ability replaces deft hands, improved quaff potion, and quaff potion mastery.
Airborne Carrier (Ex)
A moogle who become a mail knight has more developed wings than others of his species. At 6th level, the mail knight is capable of flying for longer periods of time than typical moogles and no longer needs to make Constitution checks for continued flight.
This ability replaces alchemical savant.