You gain Infuse Vitality or Heal as an innate spell. This spell may be cast once per day, and is heightened by +1 for each Valkyrie ancestry feat of 5th level or higher you have, to a max of 3rd rank.

You gain Augury or Status as an innate spell. This spell may be cast once per day, and is heightened by +1 for each Valkyrie ancestry feat of 9th level or higher you have, to a max of 4th rank.

You are able to communicate with ravens. You also gain the service of a Raven familiar (see rules for familiars).

You gain Sanctified Ground or Wanderer's Guide as an innate spell. This spell may be cast once per day.

Trigger: An ally within 60' who isn't a construct or undead is reduced to 0 Hit Points and their dying value is 2 or less.

Instantly restore 5d8 hitpoints to the target.
Usable once per day.

You aim your weapon into the air, unleashing a massive storm in a 30' burst centered on you. Spears of energy rain down upon enemies in the area, dealing 1d12 electrical damage per 3 levels.

Enemies may attempt a basic Reflex save vs your Divine spellcasting DC. This ability does not affect allies or bystanders.

Your Gift of the Aesir now lasts 1 hour per use.
Your base movement speed increases by 5'.

Make a Strike with a weapon in your Signature Weapon group. This Strike has the Agile trait.

Exalted: This strike adds 1d6 precision damage.

With a weapon in your Signature Weapon group, make a melee Strike, or a ranged Strike at a target within your weapon's first range increment.

On a hit, you may immediately attempt a check to Recall Knowledge about the target. On a critical hit, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the check to Recall Knowledge. The target is temporarily immune to this ability for 1 day.

Trigger: While you have your shield raised, you would take damage from a physical attack.

Your shield prevents you from taking an amount of damage up to the shield’s Hardness. You and the shield each take any remaining damage, possibly breaking or destroying the shield.

When using a ranged volley weapon while you are in this stance, you don’t take the penalty to your attack rolls from the volley trait.

When using a ranged weapon that doesn’t have the volley trait, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to damage rolls on attacks against targets within the weapon’s first range increment.

Make a melee or ranged Strike. If it misses, this attack does not count towards your multiple attack penalty.

Trigger: An enemy hits you with a melee Strike, and you are wielding a shield.

You immediately use the Raise a Shield action and gain your shield’s bonus to AC. The circumstance bonus from the shield applies to your AC when you’re determining the outcome of the triggering attack.

Make a ranged Strike.

If the Strike hits, the next creature other than you to attack the same target before the start of your next turn gains a +1 circumstance bonus to their roll, or a +2 circumstance bonus if your Strike was a critical hit.

Make a Strike with a two-handed melee weapon.

If you hit a target that is your size or smaller, that creature is off-guard until the end of your current turn, and you can automatically Shove it, with the same benefits as the Shove action (including the critical success effect, if your Strike was a critical hit).

If you move to follow the target, your movement doesn’t trigger reactions.

Stride twice, then perform a melee Strike.
You enter a state of Grace, even if the Strike misses.

Make a melee or ranged Strike. If the Strike deals damage, the target becomes off-guard until the end of your next turn.

Exalted: The target is knocked Prone if this was a melee Strike. If this was a ranged strike, the target suffers a -10 penalty to their movement speed until the end of your next turn.

Make a melee or ranged Strike. If this Strike deals damage, the target is Frightened 1 (Frightened 2 on crit).

Exalted: The target cannot reduce their Frightened condition below 1 unless they succeed on a basic Will save vs your Class DC.

You may draw a weapon as a free action at the start of your turn.

Make a Strike with a melee weapon, increasing your reach by 5 feet for that Strike. If the weapon has the Disarm, Shove, or Trip trait, you can use the corresponding action instead of a Strike.

Make a melee Strike with Spear or Polearm.

If you hit a target that is your size or smaller, you can automatically Reposition it, with the same benefits as the Reposition action (including the critical success effect, if your Strike was a critical hit).

If you used a weapon with reach, use the weapon’s reach for this Reposition.

Trigger: An opponent targets an ally within 15' of you with a Strike or single-target spell.

You grant the targeted ally a +1 circumstance bonus to their AC or saving throw vs the triggering action. You may instead grant the targeted ally your shield's circumstance bonus if your shield is raised and you are adjacent to them.

The hand you use to wield a shield counts as a free hand for the purposes of the Interact action. You can also hold another object in this hand (but you still can't use it to wield a weapon). This benefit doesn't apply to tower shields.

When you have your shield raised, you can Stride to move half your Speed without triggering reactions that are triggered by your movement (such as Reactive Strikes).

You can use Shielded Stride while Flying or Swimming instead of Striding if you have the corresponding movement type.

Trigger: An opponent damages you or an ally within 15' of you with an attack or spell.

If the triggering opponent is within reach of your weapon, immediately make a melee Strike against them.

Requirements: You are wielding a melee weapon in two hands.

You attempt to Shove up to 3 creatures adjacent to you, rolling a separate Athletics check for each target.

You may then Stride up to half your movement speed.

Requires: Brutish Shove

You can use Brutish Shove against a creature up to two sizes larger than you.

When a creature you Shove or knock back with a weapon in your Signature Weapon has to stop moving because it would hit an object, it takes damage equal to your Strength modifier (minimum 1).

Trigger: An opponent within your weapon's first range increment targets you with an attack or single-target spell, and your weapon is loaded or has Reload 0.

Immediately attempt a ranged Strike against the triggering opponent. On success, the opponent takes no damage, but must make a basic Reflex save vs your Class DC or become Dazzled during that action.

Make two Strikes with a ranged weapon with Reload 0, each against a separate target and with a –2 penalty. Both attacks count toward your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn’t increase until after you’ve made both of them.

Stride, Step, or Sneak, then Interact to reload.

You recall some bits of memory from your former life, enabling you to access abilities you once posessed.

Choose a feat from the list of Valkyrie Ancestry feats of 5th level or lower.

You gain proficiency with all advanced weapons in your Signature Weapon group as if they were martial weapons of their weapon group.

Make a Strike against a creature which is currently affected by a status you inflicted.

You gain a circumstance bonus to damage on this Strike equal to the number of weapon damage dice, or that number + 2 if you’re wielding the weapon in two hands.

Exalted: If your Strike is successful, extend the duration of one status effect on that target by 1 turn (2 turns on a critical strike).

Requirements: You are wielding a weapon from your Signature Weapon group.

While you are in this stance, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks to Disarm, and a +2 circumstance bonus to your Reflex DC when defending against checks to Disarm you. In addition, you can attempt to Disarm creatures up to two sizes larger than you

Make a melee Strike against a Frightened creature.

If you hit and deal damage, the target becomes off-guard until its frightened condition ends. If the target was already off-guard to you when you damaged it with this Strike, it can’t reduce its frightened value below 1 until the start of your next turn.

Make a melee Strike with your shield.

If the Strike deals damage, the target must make a basic Fortitude save vs your Class DC, or they become Stunned 1 (Stunned 2 on a critical failure). This save has the Incapacitation trait.

Exalted: You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the DC of the save.

When you Raise your Shield, you gain your shield’s circumstance bonus to Reflex saves.

In addition, damage you take as a result of a Reflex save can trigger your Shield Block reaction, even if the damage isn’t physical damage.

When you have a shield raised, you can use your Shield Block reaction when an attack is made against an ally adjacent to you. If you do, the shield prevents that ally from taking damage instead of preventing you from taking damage, following the normal rules for Shield Block.

Stride, then make a melee Strike.

If the Strike damages your target, you and your allies within 60' who witnessed the Strike gain a +1 circumstance bonus to hit and Will saves (+2 on crit). The bonuses last until the end of your next turn.

Requires: You are wielding a weapon in 2 hands.

Make a melee Strike against two opponents within reach who are adjacent to each other.

This counts as 2 attacks towards your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty does not increase until after making both attacks.

Step, then make a ranged Strike with a Bow or Crossbow that is loaded or has Reload 0.

Requires: You have selected Crossbows as your Signature Weapon group.

Immediately following a critical strike with a crossbow, you may Interact to reload as a free action.

That target is off-guard against your next crossbow Strike made in the same turn.

Choose on the listed conditions below, then make a melee or ranged Strike. If it deals damage, you inflict the target with the chosen condition until the end of your next turn:

Enfeebled 1 (Enfeebled 2 on crit)
Stupified 1 (Stupified 2 on crit)
Clumsy 1 (Clumsy 2 on crit)

Exalted: The inflicted condition remains at 1 for 1 minute afterward.

Make a melee or ranged Strike.
If the strike deals damage, you unleash a bright flash of light against your target. They must make a Fortitude save vs your Divine spellcasting DC, or suffer the following effects:

Crit Success:	Unaffected.
Success:	Dazzled until the end of their turn.
Failure:	Blinded until the end of your next turn, and Dazzled for 1 minute.
Crit Fail:	Blinded for 1 minute.

This save has the Incapacitation trait, and the target becomes temporarily immune to this ability until the effects wear off.

Exalted: You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the DC.

Make a melee or ranged Strike at a flying target in range of your weapon.

If it hits and deals damage, the target falls up to 120 feet. The fall is gradual enough that if it causes the target to hit the ground, the target takes no damage from the fall.

If the attack is a critical hit, the target can’t Fly, Leap, levitate, or otherwise leave the ground until the end of your next turn.

Make a Leap, High Jump, or Long Jump and attempt one melee Strike at any point during your jump.

Immediately after the Strike, you fall to the ground if you’re in the air, even if you haven’t reached the maximum distance of your jump. If the distance you fall is no more than the height of your jump, you take no damage and land upright.

When attempting a High Jump or Long Jump during a Sudden Leap, determine the DC using the Long Jump DCs, and increase your maximum distance to double your Speed.

Special: If you have Felling Strike, this Strike gains the benefits listed in that feat. This doesn’t change the number of actions required for Sudden Leap.

When you Shield Block, you may choose to reduce the damage to yourself by twice the shield's Hardness. If you do, the shield takes double the normal amount of damage it would have taken (before applying its Hardness).

You can't use Destructive Block if your shield can't be broken or destroyed.

At the start of each of your turns, you gain an additional reaction that you can use only to Shield Block.

When you Shield Block a melee Strike made with a held weapon, you may attempt to Disarm that weapon. This action does not require a free hand.

Make a melee Strike. If it deals damage, rally one ally within 60' who has an available reaction. That ally may use their reaction to immediately Stride or Strike.

Exalted: Rally an additional ally within 60' who has an available reaction. They may use their reaction to immediately Stride.

Make a Strike with a 2-handed melee weapon. If you hit, you Reposition the target 5 feet.

When you successfully hit with the Retribution or Reprisal reactions, that creature becomes off-guard until the start of your next turn.

Make a ranged Strike. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the attack roll. This attack ignores the Concealed condition, and the flat check to hit a Hidden target is reduced to 5.

Requires: Double Shot

When you use Double Shot, you can make the attacks against the same target. You can add an additional action to Double Shot to make three ranged Strikes instead of two. If you do, the penalty is –4.

All attacks count toward your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn’t increase until after you’ve made all of them.

While you’re in this stance, your ranged Strikes don’t trigger reactions that are triggered by a ranged attack.

Special: If you have the Reprisal feat, it can now be triggered if an opponent targets an ally with an attack or spell.
Both the opponent and your ally must be within your weapon's first range increment.

When you trigger the extra effect on an Exalted ability, you gain the use of an additional reaction until the start of your next turn.

Make a Strike with a weapon in your Signature Weapon group. If the Strike misses, your attack deals any damage it would have dealt on a hit, excluding all damage dice. (This removes damage dice from weapon runes, spells, and other special abilities, in addition to weapon damage dice.)

Exalted: On a miss, your Strike instead deals half its normal weapon damage.

Make a Strike with a weapon in your Signature Weapon group. If the Strike deals damage, make a 2nd Strike against the same target. You apply your multiple attack penalty as normal to these Strikes.

Exalted: Add your CHA modifier as precision damage on each of these Strikes.

Requires: Expert in Intimidation

You perform a bewildering show of prowess, such as by whirling and flashing a weapon, that unnerves foes.

Attempt Intimidation checks to Demoralize each enemy within 30 feet. If your last action was a critical hit against an enemy or reduced an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your Intimidation checks.

Regardless of the results of your checks, each creature is then temporarily immune to this ability for 1 minute.

If a shield would be destroyed due to damage taken during your Shield Block, the shield remains intact at 1 Hit Point instead.

Its construction is weakened until you take the time to repair it, preventing you from using Shield Salvation to save the same shield until your next daily preparations.

Requires: You are flanked by at least two oponnents.

Make a melee Strike against one of the flanking opponents, then make a second Strike with the same weapon or unarmed attack against a different opponent that is flanking you.

This second Strike has the same multiple attack penalty of the initial attack and doesn’t count toward your multiple attack penalty.

As long as you are in this stance, you gain the following:

• Your Retribution reaction can now be triggered by actions with the Manipulate trait.
• Your Intervene can be used to perform a melee Strike with your shield. If you do, your ally does not receive the bonus to AC and saves.

If you score a critical hit with either reaction, and the triggering action had the Manipulate trait, you disrupt the triggering action.

Make a ranged weapon Strike. If it hits and deals damage, the target is Slowed 1 until the end of its next turn.

Exalted: The target is instead Slowed 1 for its next 2 turns.

Requires: Parting Shot Your Parting Shot now allows you to Step up to 10 feet.

You recall more bits of memory from your former life, enabling you to access abilities you once posessed.

Choose a feat from the list of Valkyrie Ancestry feats of 9th level or lower. You must meet the level requirements of the selected feat.

When you critically succeed at a Will save against an opponent’s ability, you gain a +1 status bonus to saves and a number of temporary Hit Points equal to half your level for 1 minute.

These benefits are doubled if you critically succeed against a fear effect.

Stride up to your Speed, then make a melee Strike against an enemy now within reach.

You can use this ability while Burrowing, Climbing, Flying, or Swimming instead of Striding if you have the corresponding movement type.

Exalted; You may choose one: Gain a +10 circumstance bonus to your speed for this movement, or this movement does not provoke reactions.

Requires: Lunge

While you are in this stance and wielding a melee weapon, you can use Intervene and Retribution reactions against a creature that is outside your reach, but within the reach you would have with a Lunge.

If you do, you increase your range with the Strike by 5 feet.

Trigger: An opponent critically fails a spell attack against you, and your shield is raised.

Make a ranged attack against the attacker using your highest proficiency with a ranged weapon. If you can cast spells, you can choose to make a spell attack roll instead.

If you succeed, your opponent takes the effects of a successful spell attack roll for their own spell (or the effects of a critical success if your attack roll was a critical success).

You unleash an attack that produces a concussive wave capable of knocking nearby enemies off their feet.

Strike an opponent within reach. Then attempt a Trip against that target and up to 2 additional opponents adjacent to your target. These attempts do not require a free hand.

This counts as three attacks toward your multiple attack penalty, but you do not apply the penalty until after completing all attempts.

Opponents larger than you can be affected, but gain a +2 circumstance bonus to their saves vs the Trip for each size category larger than you.

While in this stance and wielding a weapon from your Signature Weapon group, You may treat that weapon as having the Parry trait.

At the start of combat, you may use an action that has the Stance trait.

Trigger: You complete the last action on your turn, and your turn has not ended yet

You throw everything you have into one last, reckless press. Use a single action that you know with the Press trait. You forgo the ability to use reactions until the start of your next turn. This press uses your multiple attack penalty, as normal.

Choose a single nonpermanent condition, spell, or magical effect that is affecting you. If you chose a condition, its effect on you ends. If you chose a spell or other magical effect, attempt to counteract the spell (your counteract rank is equal to half your level, rounded up, and you attempt a Will save as your counteract check).

This doesn’t remove any Hit Point damage you already took from the spell or condition, and it removes the effect from only you, not from other creatures or the environment around you. It can’t remove an ongoing affliction or prevent such an affliction from inflicting conditions on you later. It can’t remove conditions occurring automatically due to your situation or positioning (such as prone or flanked).

Usable once per day.

Make a melee Strike against each enemy within your weapon's melee reach.

Each attack counts toward your multiple attack penalty, but you do not increase your penalty until you have made all your attacks.

While in this stance and wielding a shield, you constantly have your shield raised as if you’d used the Raise a Shield action.

Requires: Brutish Shove

Increase the distance you Shove your opponent with Brutish Shove to 10 feet on a success or 20 feet on a critical success. When you make a Brutish Shove, you also Shove the target 5 feet on a failure.

At the start of each of your turns, you may use an action that has the Stance trait.

Requires: Shield Warden.

Whenever you use the Shield Block reaction to prevent damage to an ally, you can evenly split the remaining damage after the Shield Block between the ally and yourself.

You throw your weight into a powerful attack that leaves you vulnerable.

Make a melee Strike. This counts as three attacks when calculating your multiple attack penalty.

If this Strike hits, you get a critical hit. If you roll a critical hit, your weapon or unarmed attack also gains the deadly d12 trait (this replaces any deadly trait it already has).

Whether or not you hit, you become stunned 1 and are off-guard until the start of your next turn.

Requires: Triple Shot; You are wielding a ranged weapon with reload 0

While you are in this stance, your penalty for Double Shot is reduced to –1. When you use Double Shot to make three Strikes, the penalty is –2.

If you move from your position, this stance ends.

Empower your attacks for 1 minute, granting weapons in your Signature Weapon group a status bonus to weapon damage equal to 2 plus 1/2 your CHA modifier (rounded up).
You may learn only 1 Awakening power.

Bolster your defenses for 1 minute, gaining physical damage resistance equal to 2 plus your CHA modifier.

You may learn only 1 Awakening power.

You recall the last bits of memory from your former life, enabling you to access the most powerful abilities you once posessed.

Choose a feat from the list of Valkyrie Ancestry feats of 17th level or lower.

Requires: You are wielding a shield.

You channel a part of your essence into your shield to brace it against the next incoming attack. You gain a circumstance bonus to the shield's Hardness equal to 2 plus 1/2 your CHA modifier (rounded up).

This effect ends after using a Shield Block, or if you are critically hit before using it.

While in this stance, your Strikes with a weapon in your Signature Weapon group critically succeed if you roll a 19 on the die as long as that result would be a success. This has no effect on a 19 if the result would be a failure.

This stance ends if you are knocked prone or stunned.

Requires: You are wielding a ranged weapon with the Volley trait and Reload 0.

Make a Strike with a –2 penalty against each enemy within a 10-foot-radius burst centered at or beyond your weapon’s volley range. Roll the damage only once for all targets.

Each attack counts toward your multiple attack penalty, but do not increase your penalty until you have made all your attacks.

Requires: You are wielding a loaded crossbow.

You channel your essence into a powerful shot capable of piecing straight through multiple enemies in a straight line.

Make a Strike at a target within your first range increment.

If it hits, make a Strike at a target that is no more than 30' away from and in a straight line behind the previous target, taking a cumulative -2 penalty to the attack roll. Repeat this for each succesful hit, ending at the first missed Strike, or when there are no more opponents in line.

This counts as 3 attacks toward your multiple attack penalty, but you do not increase this penalty until you have made all your attacks.

You embrace your role from your former life, serving as an emmisary between the living and dead, and helping to prepare for the war to come at the end of the Multiverse.

You can detect the souls of those recently slain in combat, and are able to transform them into Einherji.

You must spend 10 minutes praying over the body of a creature who has been dead for no more than 12 hours. The creature must have an alignment or ethos compatible with you or your deity, and cannot be opposed to your own alignment or ethos.

If that creature is willing and worthy (at the GM's discretion*), you reunite the creature's body with its soul, transforming it into an Einherji, and giving it outsider trait(s) as appropriate to its alignment, ethos, and/or deity. Creatures transformed this way retain the level, stats, and abilities they had in life.

If you immediately release the Einherji to the afterlife, you may be granted a Minor or Moderate Boon* of your (or the Einherji's) deity for up to one 1 day. You may only have one Boon granted by this ability at a time. If the Boon is an activated ability, you may only activate one such Boon in a single day.

Otherwise, at the GM's discretion*, you may retain the service of that Einherji for up to 1 day before they depart for the afterlife. You may have only 1 Einherji in your service at a time, and cannot retain the service of a creature of 18th level or higher. While in your service, the Einherji has the Minion trait. However, as it is still free-willed, it is free to refuse any command and can depart at any time of its choosing.

* Special Notes
This feat contains heavy role-playing themes and can be quite powerful. As such, the GM has final say over how to limit it, and you should talk to your GM beforehand if you want to take this feat.

NPCs and creatures that can be raised by this ability should be relevant to the adventure in some way. The GM can also treat it as a "One Last Mission" deal where the creature or npc temporarily joins the party (a common adventure element).

As an alternative, the GM could allow more frequent use of the ability, but the ability would grant a minor temporary bonus to a saving throw or skill instead of a Boon.

Remember, in mythology, Valkyries only raised the greatest warriors of any given battle. A random creature or adventurer who got themselves skewered in a dungeon isn't going to be worth the attention of a higher power.

Requires: Spirit of Wrath

You have chosen to forego the role you had in your former life, to instead focus on taking the battle to your enemies. This may be for the glory of your current deity, or to spite the ones who exiled you so long ago.

You are permanently Quickened. This extra action may be used Stride or Strike.

Requires: Protector of the Realm

You have chosen to become a living bulwark against those that would threaten the realms you serve; both in the land of the living, and in the planes of the higher powers you have allied with.

If Shields are your Signature Weapon group, your equipped shield's HP and BT are increased by 50% instead of 25%.

Otherwise, weapons in your Signature Weapon group gain the Parry trait. If the weapon already has the Parry trait, the bonus increases to +2.