Shadow Corruption

The chill of the deep shadows has inured you to cold.

You gain cold resistance 5. If you have three or more manifestations, this resistance increases to 10.

Your appearance becomes disturbing. Reduce your Charisma score by 1.

Your touch is infused with the life-sapping gloom of the Shadow Plane.

Coldblooded, one other manifestation.

As a standard action, you can make a melee attack against EAC that deals 2d4 cold damage for each manifestation you have. If you deal damage with this manifestation, the target must succeed at a Will saving throw or become unable to benefit from morale bonuses for 1 minute. You can use this manifestation a number of times per day equal to the number of manifestations you have.

Your body withers. Reduce your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores by 1 point each.

You are hollow inside.

You gain a +2 insight bonus to Bluff checks and saving throws against mind-affecting effects. If another creature attempts to read your mind (such as with detect thoughts) and you succeed at the saving throw, you can render that creature shaken for 1 round as a reaction. You can do the same to a creature that fails a Bluff, Diplomacy, or Intimidate check against you by directing your lifeless gaze at it. This is a mind-ffecting fear effect. A creature affected by your deadened emotions becomes immune to it for 24 hours.

Reduce any morale bonus you receive by 1.

Your eyes turn dull gray, milky white, or glossy black, and you become more accustomed to the dark.

You gain low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet instead. In addition, if you are aware of a creature’s location and that creature is hidden only due to dim light, darkness, or invisibility, you are considered to be observing that creature until it moves out of line of sight or successfully hides from you again.

You gain light blindness: you’re blinded for 1 round when first exposed to bright light, and you are dazzled for as long as you remain in an area of bright light.

Fear is another tool in your arsenal, and you use it skillfully.

You find joy in scaring others, and have a knack for knowing how to do so. You gain a +2 enhancement bonus to Intimidate checks, and the save DCs of your fear effects increase by 2. You can use Intimidate skill demoralize others as a move action.

Your mind is so focused on spreading fear that you are susceptible to mental manipulation. You take a –2 penalty to saving throws against mind-affecting effects that aren’t illusions or fear effects, and you lose any bonuses against or immunities to such effects. If you fail a saving throw against such an effect, it lasts 1d3 additional rounds.

You have learned how to hurt those who are afraid.

Frightful.

Once per round, if you damage a creature that is shaken, frightened, panicked, or cowering, you deal extra damage equal to half your level. If you damage multiple fearful creatures with one attack or effect, choose only one of them to take this bonus damage.

You are off your game in combat until you hurt or scare someone. Therefore, you take a –2 penalty to attack rolls and can’t gain morale bonuses on your attack rolls until you deal damage to a significant foe or render someone shaken, frightened, panicked, or cowering.

Your corporeal form can flicker into insubstantial shadow.

Two other manifestations.

You have a 20% chance to treat a critical hit as a normal hit, allowing you to ignore the critical hit’s extra damage and critical hit effect. If the attack affects incorporeal creatures normally, such as a weapon with the ghost killer fusion, you can’t ignore it in this way.

If an ally targets you with a beneficial spell that has a range of touch, you have a 20% chance to gain no benefit from it. The spell is still cast and expended.

The lines between pleasure and pain are blurred for you.

The first time you take Hit Point damage in a given combat, for 1 round you can roll attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks twice and take the better result. You can do so again the first time you drop below half your Hit Points in a given combat. During this time, however, you can’t benefit from morale bonuses.

Increase any damage you take by an amount equal to the number of manifestations you have, up to a maximum of double the original amount of damage.

Pain clears your mind.

Pain Refuge.

As a reaction when you fail a saving throw against a mind-affecting effect, you can use a weapon you’re wielding to deal yourself 4 damage, subtracted directly from your Hit Points. If you do so, you can reroll the saving throw. This benefit has no effect if you reduce the damage you inflict on yourself by any amount.

You thrive on pain, and thus you always have a number of self-inflicted wounds. Reduce your maximum Hit Points by a number equal to half your level.

You easily blend in with shadows.

Provided you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use Stealth to hide even while being observed.

Your muscles weaken. When you attempt any Strength-based check, roll twice and take the worse result.

You can jump from shadow to shadow with little effort.

One other manifestation.

As a full action, you can teleport, as if using a dimension door spell, from one area of dim light or darkness to another, transporting only yourself and objects you wear or carry. If you are overburdened, this teleportation fails. Further, you can teleport only up to 60 feet. Once you teleport, you can’t do so again until you take a 10-minute rest during which you could regain Stamina Points. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to the number of manifestations you have.

You are apathetic and difficult to stir into action. When you roll your initiative check, roll twice and take the worse result.

With a glance, you can fill your foes with regret for their wasted potential.

Frightful, one other manifestation.

You gain a gaze attack that causes foes within 30 feet of you to become shaken for 1d3 rounds unless they succeed at a Will saving throw. As a swift action, you can suppress or reactivate this ability, which is a mind-affecting fear effect. A creature that succeeds at the saving throw is immune to your unnerving gaze for 24 hours.

You have an unsettling aura. When you attempt a Bluff or Diplomacy check, roll twice and take the worse result. It also takes you twice as long to use the gather information task of the Diplomacy skill.

Infused with shadow, you take on a trait of the velstracs.

Pain Refuge, Painful Clarity.

You gain an amount of damage reduction equal to twice the number of manifestations you have. Good-aligned weapons and silver weapons overcome this DR.

If you touch a good-aligned item, a holy weapon fusion, or a silver item, including being struck by a good- aligned or silver weapon, you are sickened for 1 round. Your immunities don’t prevent this sickened condition, and you can’t remove it early by any means. You can hide your aversion with a Bluff check opposed by Sense Motive checks.

You exist in a state between mortal and velstrac, placing you at risk of becoming a velstrac when you die.

Pain Refuge, Painful Clarity, Velstrac Durability.

Twice per day, you can grant yourself fast healing 3 for 1 minute. Your fast healing functions only while you have 1 Hit Point or more.

Whenever you gain the dying condition, you lose 1 Resolve Point. In addition, it costs you 1 extra Resolve Point (maximum of 4 instead of 3) to stabilize yourself. If you die, you have a 50% chance to reincarnate as an NPC velstrac (an outsider) on the Shadow Plane. If you do, you can be raised from the dead only via miracle or wish along with a soul beacon as if casting raise dead on an undead target.

The darkness in your soul can draw on the life force of allies.

One other manifestation.

Once per day when you take ability damage, ability drain, or Hit Point damage, you can divide the damage or drain evenly between you and one ally within 30 feet of you. The ally knows what you’re trying to do and can attempt a Will saving throw to resist the link. This ability takes no action on your part, and you can use it even if it isn’t your turn.

You struggle to remember the meaning of friendly bonds. You can’t benefit from or use the aid another action.