Like the chimera, the N’ue Constellation is a form of martial arts that combines unique qualities of various other fighting styles to create a highly adaptable method of fighting. By shifting between the Celestial Kata, Kh’mirah is able to appropriately adjust to whatever challenges present themselves in combat. Whether she needs to be more offensive to take advantage of an opening, be more defensive to weather through an onslaught, create opportunities for her allies, or reinvigorate herself in the heat of battle, the option is always there.
When initiative is rolled, Kh’mirah freely chooses a Celestial Kata and gains its benefits and weaknesses. As a bonus action, Kh’mirah may adopt a new stance. She will remain in a stance until combat ends or until the bonus action is used again.
All stances can use the standard Ki and Monk abilities such as Stunning Strike or Flurry of Blows.
Celestial Katas:
- N'ue Constellation (Balanced Stance): The standard form of this fighting style that Kh’mirah generally uses. It’s a blend of all the other styles and makes use of the standard Martial Arts and Ki features.
- Mauling Bear Constellation (Offensive Stance): A style of fighting that focuses on overbearing offense and powerful strikes, but at the cost of defensive measures.
In this stance, Kh’mirah adds 1/2 her proficiency bonus (rounded up) to damage rolls made by her attacks. Once per turn, when dealing bludgeoning damage, she can move a creature up to 10 feet to an unoccupied location, assuming that it is no more than one size larger than her. This effect pairs with the Crusher feat, giving her the option to move a creature up to 15 feet in total or move a different creature 5 feet when she deals bludgeoning damage to it.
While using this stance, Kh'mirah's AC is reduced by 1/2 her proficiency bonus (rounded up).
- Stalking Panther Constellation (Defensive Stance): A style of fighting that focuses on unyielding defense and observation, but at the cost of movement and damage.
In this stance, Kh’mirah's AC is increased by 1/2 her proficiency bonus (rounded up). She can now make use of two reactions after her turn ends. Kh’mirah also gains the Cross Counter ability. As a reaction, when an attack is made with disadvantage within her reach, she may make an unarmed strike against the attacking creature. Alternatively, Kh'mirah may spend 1 Ki point to impose disadvantage on an attack roll made within her reach and activate Cross Counter.
The penalty of using this stance is a -30 to her movement speed and losing access to Extra Attack. - Wild Hunt Constellation (Swift Stance): A style of fighting that focuses on agile movements and swift strikes, but at the cost of raw power.
In this stance, when Kh'mirah makes a melee attack against a creature, she doesn't provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether she hits or not. As a bonus action, after making a melee attack or using the dash action, she can use the Half Step ability which grants her additional movement speed equal to 1/2 her movement speed (rounded down).
When using this stance, Kh'mirah's damage rolls are reduced by 1/2 her strength bonus (rounded up).
- N’ue Constellation: Blackhole (Utility Stance): A new technique developed by Kh’mirah in order to push beyond her physical limits but at great personal risk.
As an action, Kh'mirah goes prone as she enters a meditative stance and will channel her Ki to a centralized point in her body. This Ki acts as a blackhole of sorts, forcibly drawing in ambient Ki within the area to be absorbed into her body. Doing this will restore 1D4 of Ki per use.
The penalty to this technique is that Kh’mirah must devote her entire turn to doing this. Additionally, she will gain a level of exhaustion equal to the number of times this ability was used.