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\begin{array}{l|l} \text{Level} & \text{Class} & \text{Special} & \text{Feat} \\ \hline 1^\text{st} & \text{Totemist} & & \text{Sacred Vow, Vow of Poverty}^B_h\text{,} \\ & & & \quad\text{Nymph's Kiss}^B_{ex}\text{, Azure Talent}^B_f \\ & & & \quad\text{Monastery Training}^B_f \\ & & & \qquad\text{(soul manifester)} \\ 2^\text{nd} & & \text{Totem chakra bind} & \text{Intuitive Attack}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(+1 capacity)} \\ \hline 3^\text{rd} & \text{Ardent} & \text{Assume psionic mantle (2)} & \text{Practiced Manifester (ardent)} \\ 4^\text{th} & & \text{Assume psionic mantle} & \text{Touch of Golden Ice}^B_{ex} \\ 5^\text{th} \\ \hline 6^\text{th} & \text{Soul Manifester} & \text{Psionic investment 1,} & \text{Tashalatora,} \\ & & \quad\text{AC bonus (Wisdom to AC),} & \quad\text{Knight of Tyr's Holy Judgment}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{flurry of blows −2,} \\ & & \quad\text{unarmed strike 1d6} \\ 7^\text{th} \\ 8^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(crown, feet, hands)} \\ 9^\text{th} & & \text{Unarmed strike 1d8} & \text{Bonus Essentia} \\ 10^\text{th} & & \text{AC bonus ($\text{Wisdom} + 1$),} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{flurry of blows −1} \\ 11^\text{th} \\ 12^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic investment 2} & \text{Double Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 13^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} \\ & & \quad\text{(arms, brow, shoulders),} \\ & & \quad\text{unarmed strike 1d10} \\ 14^\text{th} & & \text{Flurry of blows −0} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 15^\text{th} & & \text{AC bonus ($\text{Wisdom} + 2$),} & \text{Track} \\ & & \quad\text{psionic distillation} \\ \hline 16^\text{th} & \text{Slayer} & \text{Favored psionic enemy +2,} & \text{Nemesis}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{enemy sense} \\ 17^\text{th} & & \text{Brain nausea} \\ 18^\text{th} & & \text{Lucid buffer} & \text{Open Greater Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 19^\text{th} & & \text{Favored psionic enemy +4} \\ 20^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ \end{array}

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2. _{Bonus feat from flaw}
3. _{Bonus feat from Vow of Poverty}

\begin{array}{l|l} \text{Level} & \text{Class} & \text{Special} & \text{Feat} \\ \hline 1^\text{st} & \text{Totemist} & & \text{Sacred Vow, Vow of Poverty}^B_h\text{,} \\ & & & \quad\text{Nymph's Kiss}^B_{ex}\text{, Azure Talent}^B_f \\ & & & \quad\text{Monastery Training}^B_f \\ & & & \qquad\text{(soul manifester)} \\ 2^\text{nd} & & \text{Totem chakra bind} & \text{Intuitive Attack}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(+1 capacity)} \\ \hline 3^\text{rd} & \text{Ardent} & \text{Assume psionic mantle (2)} & \text{Practiced Manifester (ardent)} \\ 4^\text{th} & & \text{Assume psionic mantle} & \text{Touch of Golden Ice}^B_{ex} \\ 5^\text{th} \\ \hline 6^\text{th} & \text{Soul Manifester} & \text{Psionic investment 1} & \text{Tashalatora,} \\ & & & \quad\text{Knight of Tyr's Holy Judgment}^B_{ex} \\ 7^\text{th} \\ 8^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(crown, feet, hands)} \\ 9^\text{th} & & & \text{Bonus Essentia} \\ 10^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 11^\text{th} \\ 12^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic investment 2} & \text{Double Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 13^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} \\ & & \quad\text{(arms, brow, shoulders)} \\ 14^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 15^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic distillation} & \text{Track} \\ \hline 16^\text{th} & \text{Slayer} & \text{Favored psionic enemy +2,} & \text{Nemesis}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{enemy sense} \\ 17^\text{th} & & \text{Brain nausea} \\ 18^\text{th} & & \text{Lucid buffer} & \text{Open Greater Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 19^\text{th} & & \text{Favored psionic enemy +4} \\ 20^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ \end{array}

With this, at 15th you have the AC bonus, flurry of blows, and unarmed strike damage of a 10th-level monk, the meldshaping of a 12th-level totemist, and the manifesting of a 13th-level ardent (with manifester level 15th, allowing you to choose 8th-level powers). After 15th, things kind of drop off—you stop gaining monk or meldshaping features—but you can still take Open Greater Chakra at 18th to get your throat or waist. And you wind up with 19 psionic powers at manifester level 20th, including up to four 9th-level powers. That’s a pretty big win. I go with slayer over continued ardent levels since we already have Practiced Manifester and assuming a fourth mantle isn’t exactly incredible, but if you want to save the feat on Track and do something else, that’s valid. Slayers get favored enemy, which means you can actually do something useful with that bonus exalted feat and get Nemesis—but slayer favored enemies are pretty limited, unlike the stalker of Kharash’s phenomenal favored enemy—evil.

The drawback is that you lack the incredible detection abilities offered by Nemesis (or maybe have them but only for a single select psionic creature rather than all evil creatures ever), and you do not have thunderstep boots, Power Attack, and Favored Power Attackbut to really pile on the damage bonuses. You could swap Bonus Essentia—or Track and thus slayer—for Shape Soulmeld (thunderstep boots), but those are kind of late in the game for it, plus your essentia is rather tight since you only wind up with 12th-level totemist meldshaping.

\begin{array}{l|l} \text{Level} & \text{Class} & \text{Special} & \text{Feat} \\ \hline 1^\text{st} & \text{Totemist} & & \text{Sacred Vow, Vow of Poverty}^B_h\text{,} \\ & & & \quad\text{Nymph's Kiss}^B_{ex}\text{, Azure Talent}^B_f \\ & & & \quad\text{Monastery Training}^B_f \\ & & & \qquad\text{(soul manifester)} \\ 2^\text{nd} & & \text{Totem chakra bind} & \text{Intuitive Attack}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(+1 capacity)} \\ \hline 3^\text{rd} & \text{Ardent} & \text{Assume psionic mantle (2)} & \text{Practiced Manifester (ardent)} \\ 4^\text{th} & & \text{Assume psionic mantle} & \text{Touch of Golden Ice}^B_{ex} \\ 5^\text{th} \\ \hline 6^\text{th} & \text{Soul Manifester} & \text{Psionic investment 1,} & \text{Tashalatora,} \\ & & \quad\text{AC bonus (Wisdom to AC),} & \quad\text{Knight of Tyr's Holy Judgment}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{flurry of blows −2,} \\ & & \quad\text{unarmed strike 1d6} \\ 7^\text{th} \\ 8^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(crown, feet, hands)} \\ 9^\text{th} & & \text{Unarmed strike 1d8} & \text{Bonus Essentia} \\ 10^\text{th} & & \text{AC bonus ($\text{Wisdom} + 1$),} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{flurry of blows −1} \\ 11^\text{th} \\ 12^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic investment 2} & \text{Double Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 13^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} \\ & & \quad\text{(arms, brow, shoulders),} \\ & & \quad\text{unarmed strike 1d10} \\ 14^\text{th} & & \text{Flurry of blows −0} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 15^\text{th} & & \text{AC bonus ($\text{Wisdom} + 2$),} & \text{Track} \\ & & \quad\text{psionic distillation} \\ \hline 16^\text{th} & \text{Slayer} & \text{Favored psionic enemy +2,} & \text{Nemesis}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{enemy sense} \\ 17^\text{th} & & \text{Brain nausea} \\ 18^\text{th} & & \text{Lucid buffer} & \text{Open Greater Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 19^\text{th} & & \text{Favored psionic enemy +4} \\ 20^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ \end{array}

With this, at 15th you have the AC bonus, flurry of blows, and unarmed strike damage of a 10th-level monk, the meldshaping of a 12th-level totemist, and the manifesting of a 13th-level ardent (with manifester level 15th, allowing you to choose 8th-level powers). After 15th, things kind of drop off—you stop gaining monk or meldshaping features—but you can still take Open Greater Chakra at 18th to get your throat or waist. And you wind up with 19 psionic powers at manifester level 20th, including up to four 9th-level powers. That’s a pretty big win. I go with slayer over continued ardent levels since we already have Practiced Manifester and assuming a fourth mantle isn’t exactly incredible, but if you want to save the feat on Track and do something else, that’s valid. Slayers get favored enemy, which means you can actually do something useful with that bonus exalted feat and get Nemesis—but slayer favored enemies are pretty limited, unlike the stalker of Kharash’s phenomenal favored enemy—evil.

If you really really want to, you could take a single level of monk instead a third level of ardent. Practiced Manifester will allow you to choose 2nd-level powers as a 2nd-level ardent (as long as you have it before you take your second level of ardent). That monk level can get Monastic Training as a bonus feat, which means you can get Beast Strike. It also means you end up with the features of an 11th-level monk, i.e. greater flurry. This costs you a power known, which is a big deal, as well as 30 power points, which hurts as well. I don’t think it’s worth it—but it could be worth it if your DM doesn’t like a monk-less Tashalatora.

The drawback is that you lack the incredible detection abilities offered by Nemesis (or maybe have them but only for a single select psionic creature rather than all evil creatures ever), and you do not have thunderstep boots, Power Attack, and Favored Power Attackbut to really pile on the damage bonuses. You could swap Bonus Essentia—or Track and thus slayer—for Shape Soulmeld (thunderstep boots), but those are kind of late in the game for it, plus your essentia is rather tight since you only wind up with 12th-level totemist meldshaping. And slayer is pretty important after ten levels of poor BAB on soul manifester. You actually may end up wanting Multiattack to improve your attack bonuses more than you want Beast Strike.

\begin{array}{l|l} \text{Level} & \text{Class} & \text{Special} & \text{Feat} \\ \hline 1^\text{st} & \text{Totemist} & & \text{Sacred Vow, Vow of Poverty}^B_h\text{,} \\ & & & \quad\text{Nymph's Kiss}^B_{ex} \\ 2^\text{nd} & & \text{Totem chakra bind} & \text{Intuitive Attack}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(+1 capacity)} \\ \hline 3^\text{rd} & \text{Ardent} & \text{Assume psionic mantle (2)} & \text{Azure Talent} \\ 4^\text{th} & & \text{Assume psionic mantle} & \text{Touch of Golden Ice}^B_{ex} \\ 5^\text{th} \\ \hline 6^\text{th} & \text{Soul Manifester} & \text{Psionic investment 1} & \text{Monastic Training (soul manifester),} \\ & & & \quad\text{Knight of Tyr's Holy Judgment}^B_{ex} \\ 7^\text{th} \\ 8^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(crown, feet, hands)} \\ 9^\text{th} & & & \text{Tashalatora} \\ 10^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 11^\text{th} \\ 12^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic investment 2} & \text{Practiced Manifester (ardent),} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 13^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} \\ & & \quad\text{(arms, brow, shoulders)} \\ 14^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 15^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic distillation} & \text{Double Chakra} \\ \hline 16^\text{th} & \text{Ardent} & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 17^\text{th} & & \text{Assume psionic mantle} \\ 18^\text{th} & & & \text{Open Greater Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 19^\text{th} \\ 20^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ \end{array}

With this, at 15th you have the AC bonus, flurry of blows, and unarmed strike damage of a 10th-level monk, the meldshaping of a 12th-level totemist, and the manifesting of a 13th-level ardent (with manifester level 15th, allowing you to choose 8th-level powers). After 15th, things kind of drop off—you stop gaining monk or meldshaping features—but you can still take Open Greater Chakra at 18th to get your throat or waist. And you wind up with 19 psionic powers at manifester level 20th, including up to four 9th-level powers. That’s a pretty big win.

This approach plays pretty similarly to the stalker of Kharash monk version, but replaces Nemesis—evil with ardent manifesting. As shown here, lack of flaws isn’t as painful as it would be in that build, but you would still really like them—you could take Azure Talent and Monastic Training at 1st (yes, you can take it and choose soul manifester before you have levels in soul manifester), allowing your 3rd-level feat to be Practiced Manifester and your 6th-level feat to be Tashalatora, securing you monk class features much sooner (unfortunately, since you don’t have Monastic Training—ardent, Tashalatora before 6th does you no good). That allows you to take Bonus Essentia and perhaps Track to qualify for slayer when you finish soul manifester—that’ll help your BAB, anyway.

Fair warning, though: you will have basically zero combat ability at 1st level, since you’ll have BAB +0, only simple weapon proficiency, and don’t have Intuitive Attack yet. This is a problem with totemists generally, but dumping Strength and then not having Intuitive Attack until 2nd makes it a lot worse. Things get a lot better at 2nd, and then much better again at 6th with Tashalatora, but you should be aware.

\begin{array}{l|l} \text{Level} & \text{Class} & \text{Special} & \text{Feat} \\ \hline 1^\text{st} & \text{Totemist} & & \text{Sacred Vow, Vow of Poverty}^B_h\text{,} \\ & & & \quad\text{Nymph's Kiss}^B_{ex}\text{, Azure Talent}^B_f \\ & & & \quad\text{Monastery Training}^B_f \\ & & & \qquad\text{(soul manifester)} \\ 2^\text{nd} & & \text{Totem chakra bind} & \text{Intuitive Attack}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(+1 capacity)} \\ \hline 3^\text{rd} & \text{Ardent} & \text{Assume psionic mantle (2)} & \text{Practiced Manifester (ardent)} \\ 4^\text{th} & & \text{Assume psionic mantle} & \text{Touch of Golden Ice}^B_{ex} \\ 5^\text{th} \\ \hline 6^\text{th} & \text{Soul Manifester} & \text{Psionic investment 1} & \text{Tashalatora,} \\ & & & \quad\text{Knight of Tyr's Holy Judgment}^B_{ex} \\ 7^\text{th} \\ 8^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{(crown, feet, hands)} \\ 9^\text{th} & & & \text{Bonus Essentia} \\ 10^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 11^\text{th} \\ 12^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic investment 2} & \text{Double Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 13^\text{th} & & \text{Chakra binds} \\ & & \quad\text{(arms, brow, shoulders)} \\ 14^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 15^\text{th} & & \text{Psionic distillation} & \text{Track} \\ \hline 16^\text{th} & \text{Slayer} & \text{Favored psionic enemy +2,} & \text{Nemesis}^B_{ex} \\ & & \quad\text{enemy sense} \\ 17^\text{th} & & \text{Brain nausea} \\ 18^\text{th} & & \text{Lucid buffer} & \text{Open Greater Chakra,} \\ & & & \quad\textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ 19^\text{th} & & \text{Favored psionic enemy +4} \\ 20^\text{th} & & & \textit{any exalted feat}^B_{ex} \\ \end{array}

With this, at 15th you have the AC bonus, flurry of blows, and unarmed strike damage of a 10th-level monk, the meldshaping of a 12th-level totemist, and the manifesting of a 13th-level ardent (with manifester level 15th, allowing you to choose 8th-level powers). After 15th, things kind of drop off—you stop gaining monk or meldshaping features—but you can still take Open Greater Chakra at 18th to get your throat or waist. And you wind up with 19 psionic powers at manifester level 20th, including up to four 9th-level powers. That’s a pretty big win. I go with slayer over continued ardent levels since we already have Practiced Manifester and assuming a fourth mantle isn’t exactly incredible, but if you want to save the feat on Track and do something else, that’s valid. Slayers get favored enemy, which means you can actually do something useful with that bonus exalted feat and get Nemesis—but slayer favored enemies are pretty limited, unlike the stalker of Kharash’s phenomenal favored enemy—evil.

This approach probably plays pretty similarly to the stalker of Kharash monk version, in that it is still fundamentally an exotic übercharger. But psionic powers can be as good or better than totemist soulmelds for pulling out tons of natural attacks (see king of smack builds), plus they offer a great deal of utility—this is a far more well-rounded build.

The drawback is that you lack the incredible detection abilities offered by Nemesis (or maybe have them but only for a single select psionic creature rather than all evil creatures ever), and you do not have thunderstep boots, Power Attack, and Favored Power Attackbut to really pile on the damage bonuses. You could swap Bonus Essentia—or Track and thus slayer—for Shape Soulmeld (thunderstep boots), but those are kind of late in the game for it, plus your essentia is rather tight since you only wind up with 12th-level totemist meldshaping.

Fair warning, though: you will have basically zero combat ability at 1st level, since you’ll have BAB +0, only simple weapon proficiency, and don’t have any combat feats. This is a problem with totemists generally, but dumping Strength and then not having Intuitive Attack until 2nd makes it a lot worse because your accuracy will really suffer. Things get a lot better at 2nd, and then much better again at 6th with Tashalatora, but you should be aware.