Demeter — Goddess of Grain, Harvest and Sacred Law

Demeter, Greater Deity — Medium Celestial, Lawful Neutral; suggested CR 32.

Saving Throws Con +19, Int +17, Wis +19, Cha +18. Damage Resistances cold, fire, radiant. Damage Immunities poison; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks. Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, poisoned. Senses truesight 300 ft., passive Perception 29. Languages all languages she chooses, telepathy 300 ft.

Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Demeter fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Lady of the Cultivated Earth. Natural plants within 300 feet grow or lie dormant according to Demeter’s will. She ignores plant-based difficult terrain, and hostile creatures treat natural vegetation in the aura as difficult terrain.

Gift of Grain. Allies of Demeter that begin their turn within 120 feet and have at least 1 hit point regain 10 hit points. This healing does not affect Constructs or Undead.

Multiattack. Demeter makes three Golden Sickle attacks: +18 to hit, reach 15 ft.; 29 (4d10 + 7) slashing plus 22 (4d10) radiant damage.

Famine’s Warning (Recharge 5–6). Demeter chooses a 60-foot-radius area within 180 feet. Hostile creatures there make a DC 26 Constitution saving throw, taking 55 (10d10) necrotic damage and gaining one level of Exhaustion on a failure, or half damage and no Exhaustion on a success. A creature cannot gain more than one level of Exhaustion from this feature per day.

Field of Plenty (1/Day). For 1 minute, a 120-foot-radius area blooms with grain and flowering plants. Allies have advantage on saving throws and regain 15 hit points at the start of each of their turns; hostile creatures have their Speed halved.

Mythic Trait — The Earth Refuses to Die. The first time Demeter is reduced to 0 hit points, she instead regains 325 hit points. All hostile plant effects end within 300 feet, dead vegetation erupts into life, and she immediately uses Field of Plenty.

Demeter, Lady of Grain and Harvest
Medium celestial (greater deity), lawful neutral

Armor Class 25 (divine protection); Hit Points 620 (40d10 + 400); Speed 50 ft.

Saving Throws Con +19, Int +17, Wis +19, Cha +18; Skills Insight +19, Nature +17, Perception +19; Damage Resistances cold, fire, radiant; Damage Immunities poison; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks; Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, poisoned; Senses truesight 300 ft., passive Perception 29; Languages all, telepathy 300 ft.; Challenge 32 (custom epic encounter, no official XP value); Proficiency Bonus +9 (epic extension).

Traits

Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Demeter fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. Demeter has advantage on saves against spells and other magical effects.

Lady of the Cultivated Earth. Demeter ignores plant-based difficult terrain. Hostile creatures entering natural vegetation within 120 feet of her treat it as difficult terrain.

Gift of Grain. Non-construct, non-undead allies who start their turns within 120 feet with at least 1 hit point regain 10 hit points.

Innate Spellcasting. Wisdom is Demeter’s spellcasting ability (save DC 27, +19 to hit with spell attacks). At will: plant growth, create food and water, detect magic; 3/day: wall of thorns, control weather, greater restoration; 1/day: earthquake, mass heal.

Actions

Multiattack. Demeter makes three Golden Sickle attacks.

Golden Sickle. Melee Weapon Attack: +18 to hit, reach 15 ft., one creature. Hit: 29 (4d10 + 7) slashing damage plus 22 (4d10) radiant damage.

Famine’s Warning (Recharge 5–6). Hostile creatures within a 60-foot-radius sphere centred on a point Demeter can see within 180 feet make a DC 27 Constitution saving throw, taking 55 (10d10) necrotic damage and suffering one level of exhaustion on a failure, or half as much damage with no exhaustion on a success. Each creature can gain only one exhaustion level per day from this ability.

Field of Plenty (1/Day). Demeter causes a 120-foot-radius area within 300 feet to flower for 1 minute. Allies there regain 15 hit points at the start of each of their turns and have advantage on saving throws; hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain.

Legendary Actions

Demeter takes 3 legendary actions, one at the end of another creature’s turn, regaining them at the start of hers. Harvest Step: Demeter moves up to half her speed without provoking opportunity attacks. Sickle (Costs 2 Actions): she makes a Golden Sickle attack. Restoration (Costs 3 Actions): allies within 60 feet regain 30 hit points.

Divine Estate

Within her sanctuary, on initiative count 20 (losing ties), Demeter may fill a 60-foot-radius area with heavy grain (difficult terrain), end an ordinary plant disease, or feed up to twenty willing creatures for one day. She cannot use the same effect in consecutive rounds.

Cleric Domains and Spells

Nature Domain (2014): 1st animal friendship, speak with animals; 3rd barkskin, spike growth; 5th plant growth, wind wall; 7th dominate beast, grasping vine; 9th insect plague, tree stride. Life is another published domain for Demeter’s rites of nourishment and recovery.

Demeter, Lady of the Grain CR 31/MR 10
XP custom divine encounter; LN Medium outsider (lawful, extraplanar, mythic)

Init +9; Senses truesight 300 ft., tremorsense 120 ft.; Perception +53; Aura Mother of Grain 60 ft.

Defence

AC 45, touch 25, flat-footed 40 (+5 Dex, +20 natural, +10 deflection); hp 620 (40d10 + 400); Fort +34, Ref +29, Will +34; Defensive Abilities mythic resilience; DR 20/epic; Immune poison, disease, fear; Resist fire 20, cold 20; SR 43.

Offence

Speed 50 ft.; Melee +5 golden sickle +52/+47/+42/+37 (1d6+12 slashing plus 6d8 force, divine reach 15 ft.); Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft. (15 ft. with golden sickle); Special Attacks Harvest Sovereignty, Withhold the Harvest, earth mastery, spell-like abilities.

Spell-Like Abilities CL 31st; concentration +41; save DC 20 + spell level. At will: create food and water, plant growth, remove disease; 3/day: wall of thorns, control weather, greater restoration; 1/day: earthquake, mass heal.

Statistics

Str 24, Dex 20, Con 30, Int 26, Wis 30, Cha 28; Base Atk +40; CMB +47; CMD 62; Skills Diplomacy +52, Knowledge (nature) +51, Knowledge (religion) +51, Perception +53, Profession (farmer) +53, Sense Motive +53; Feats Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Cleave, Greater Spell Focus (transmutation), Spell Focus (transmutation), Quicken Spell, Empower Spell, Extend Spell, Iron Will, Toughness, Great Fortitude, Lightning Reflexes, Spell Penetration, Greater Spell Penetration, Skill Focus (Knowledge [nature]), Skill Focus (Profession [farmer]), Skill Focus (Perception), Skill Focus (Sense Motive), Craft Wondrous Item; Languages all; SQ greater deity, cultivated-land sense.

Special Abilities

Mythic Power (Su). 10/day; surge +1d12. This is an original divine encounter exceeding the standard Pathfinder 1e encounter table.

Mother of Grain (Su). Living allies within 60 feet standing on natural or cultivated soil gain fast healing 5 and a +4 sacred bonus on saving throws against poison, disease and starvation effects.

Harvest Sovereignty (Su). Demeter may cause cultivated crops within 10 miles to ripen, become dormant or recover from ordinary blight within an hour. Opposing powers of equal or greater divine authority can prevent this effect.

Withhold the Harvest (Su; 3/Day). As a standard action, Demeter affects a 120-foot-radius area she sees within 300 feet for 10 rounds. Hostile creatures beginning turns inside must succeed on a DC 30 Will saving throw or become sickened until their next turn and be unable to recover hit points from non-divine magic until then. The save DC is Wisdom-based.

Domains and Spells

Plant: 1 entangle, 2 barkskin, 3 plant growth, 4 command plants, 5 wall of thorns, 6 repel wood, 7 animate plants, 8 control plants, 9 shambler. Earth: 1 magic stone, 2 soften earth and stone, 3 stone shape, 4 spike stones, 5 wall of stone, 6 stoneskin, 7 elemental body IV (earth), 8 earthquake, 9 elemental swarm (earth). Community and Protection use their published Pathfinder 1e spell lists.

Demeter, Lady of the Harvest
Medium outsider (lawful, extraplanar); greater deity, Divine Rank 16; lawful neutral

Hit Dice 20d8+20d8+400 (720 hp, divine maximum per die); Initiative +9 (+5 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative); Speed 80 ft.; Armor Class 69 (+5 Dex, +29 natural, +16 divine, +9 deflection), touch 40, flat-footed 64; Base Attack/Grapple +20 base, +10 epic attack / +53 grapple (including divine rank); Attack +5 divine golden sickle +58 melee (1d6+12 slashing plus 6d8 radiant); Full Attack golden sickle +58/+53/+48/+43 melee; Space/Reach 5 ft./5 ft.; Special Attacks divine earth mastery, withhold harvest, salient divine abilities, spell-like abilities; Special Qualities immortal, divine aura, portfolio sense, remote sensing, divine immunities, DR 30/epic, spell resistance 48, fire resistance 21, godly realm; Saves Fort +50, Ref +43, Will +50; Abilities Str 24, Dex 20, Con 30, Int 26, Wis 30, Cha 28; Skills Knowledge (nature) +67, Knowledge (religion) +67, Listen +69, Spot +69, Profession (farmer) +69; Alignment lawful neutral; Domains Earth, Plant, Protection; Favoured Weapon sickle.

Divine Powers

Greater Deity. Demeter receives the standard D&D 3.5e deity immunities, highest-possible d20 results, maximised divine Hit Dice, portfolio awareness and remote sensing. Other divine powers of equal or higher standing can contest the effects.

Harvest Dominion (Su). Within her own aura, Demeter knows the state of cultivated plants and stored grain. She may cause ordinary crops to ripen, lie dormant or recover from natural blight. This does not automatically overcome divine curses.

Withhold the Harvest (Su; 3/Day). Demeter causes famine dread within a 120-foot-radius area for 10 rounds. Enemies entering or starting there must make a Will save (DC 35) or become sickened for 1 round; the save DC is 10 + her Charisma modifier 9 + divine rank 16.

Salient Divine Abilities: Alter Reality, Divine Earth Mastery, Divine Fast Healing, Extra Domain, and Gift of Life, where prerequisites are satisfied.

Godly Realm. Demeter may shape her Outer Plane estate within a 100-mile radius and exercise ordinary environmental control within 1,600 feet when on the Material Plane. She can protect the agricultural heart of her estate from non-divine blight and close passages if her actual divine-realm powers permit.

Spell-Like Abilities

Caster level 26th, at will; saving throw DC 35 + spell level. Demeter can use spells granted by her domains as spell-like abilities in accordance with the 3.5e divine rules.

Cleric Domains and Spells

Earth: 1 magic stone, 2 soften earth and stone, 3 stone shape, 4 spike stones, 5 wall of stone, 6 stoneskin, 7 earthquake, 8 iron body, 9 elemental swarm (earth). Plant: 1 entangle, 2 barkskin, 3 plant growth, 4 command plants, 5 wall of thorns, 6 repel wood, 7 animate plants, 8 control plants, 9 shambler. Protection retains its published 3.5e spell list.

Epic Chassis: 20 outsider Hit Dice and 20 cleric levels with epic attack and saving throw progression. Feats: Combat Casting, Combat Reflexes, Craft Wondrous Item, Empower Spell, Extend Spell, Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Leadership, Quicken Spell, Skill Focus (Knowledge [nature]), Spell Focus (transmutation), Greater Spell Focus (transmutation), Toughness. Representative Cleric Spells Prepared: level 0—detect magic, guidance; 1—bless, sanctuary; 2—aid, lesser restoration; 3—prayer, dispel magic; 4—divine power, freedom of movement; 5—commune, righteous might; 6—heal, greater dispel magic; 7—greater restoration, resurrection; 8—mass cure critical wounds, shield of law; 9—mass heal, miracle. She prepares further spells using 20th-level cleric slots and Wisdom 30; her domain spell-like abilities are distinct.