About the Mun

Hi there! This blog is for EDITH PRISCILLA VALENTINA DUCCHUS, a Teifling Sorceress. I plan to run this blog as openly as possible, but I have the right to selectively follow people and even maintain exclusiveness with certain characters. I hope this does not discourage you from coming in contact with me, I hope we can get along and have fun! :D

Roleplay Preferences

I really don’t rp via reblogging asks all that much anymore. If you want to RP from an ask jsut put a (continued from HERE) with a link to the post.

Opens are for everyone to enjoy and answer, however I will place a (continued from here) link in a new post to your reply so that it will be easier to track threads. I’ll @ the person the thread is with and poke you via ask if no response within a week.

Rules

I ask that you please read as much of the About and Canon section of this blog as you can! Most of the time many questions you have can be answered with a little look up.

All Characters on this blog are Multi-Ship and Multi-Verse. I really enjoy interactions like this and any and all romantic actions will take place in universes separate form one another unless overwise noted.

NSFW will potentially happen on this blog is various forms such as Sexual Situations, Violence, and Gore. It will be tagged and placed under a read more.

Major Power-Playing & God-Moding will not be tolerated! If it’s something minor (like if your character asks for a pen, it’s okay to assume that the character will give your muse the pen) but if it would seem like something my muse would not do PLEASE ASK FIRST!

If you are uncomfortable with how one of our threads is going I strongly encourage you to get a hold of me so that we can remedy the situation! If I feel uncomfortable, I will likewise go to you.

If I have not responded in about a week shoot me an ask! I’ll be glad to respond! Again, likewise, I’ll do the same if need be.

I will roleplay with people who are under the age of 18. HOWEVER, I will not roleplay anything of a sexual nature with them. It is illegal, and if I find you've tricked me in some manner to write with you under the pretense that you're of age, you will be blocked.

Communication out of character is a two-way street for me.

You are not required to match the length/style/format of my posts. I do this because I find it enjoyable but it does take a long time to fiddle with. It would be super rude of me to expect something like that from anyone else.

Regarding Triggers

I will not rp blatant psychological abuse and manipulation unless it is discussed at length with my roleplay partner OOC. Please be respectful of this. If it happens in an RP and it was not discussed before hand you’ll be warned once then I’ll block you if it happens a second time.

If I follow you and you play a character that is manipulative in this manner (Hannibal Lecter, The Joker, Eddie Gluskin, etc. etc.) Then yes I know what your character does. I’m still insterested in the dynamic the character can provide. I would still very much so appreciate an ooc talk before/during/after any kind of abuse scene however.

Schedule

I work about 29-34 hours a week and frequently have swing shifts with no set day off.

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  EDITH PRISCILLA VALENTINA DUCCHUS
  
  AGE: Unknown, however appears to be in her 20's to 30's
  TIMELINE: Various
  SPECIES: Teifling (Beastbrood)
  
  Edith has, for the most part, compartmentalized her life. She has the "before" and the "now". Truly, only the "now", where she lives as a wandering fortune-teller, is important to her. Using all manner of tricks and magics, Edith uses her abilities as a Sorceress to either faithfully tell the fortunes of those that come to her, or she convinces them of her powers through illusions and conns them out of more and more money. She's quite good as what she does, and plays by her own rules: primarily those that do not look at her with disgust are worth her time, and thus are worth the truth. The Golden Rule plays heavily for Edith, and she will not hesitate to summon a beast to scare away those that have proven themselves to be lacking.
  
  As for the "before", Edith cares little in talking about it. She has made up numerous lies about her past and it will take a very trustworthy person to pull it from her.

• General Information

  
  
  Full Name: Edith Pricsilla Valentina Ducchus
  
  Alias: Lady Valentina Fortuna (Stage Name), Hazel (Common Alias)
  
  Biological Age: 20's-30's
  
  Chronological Age: Unknown
  
  Date of Birth: Unknown
  
  Astrological Sign:
  
  Sex: Female
  
  Gender: Female
  
  Species: Teifling (Beastbrood)
  
  Ethnicity: Galt/Vudra
  
  Nationality: Vudra

• Background Information

  
  
  Hometown: Unknown, a private estate along the Vudra coast.
  
  Current Residence: A wagon that she travels most of Golarion in.
  
  Past Residences: Multiple
  
  Spoken Languages: Common, Infernal, Sylvan, Draconic, Vudrani, Hallit, Dwarven, Elder Thing, Auran
  
  Social Class: Vudran Nobility, however because of her Teifling status she's not well considered.
  
  Political Affiliations: None
  
  Financial Status: Actually quite rich; Edith has become quite good at selling her services as a fortune-teller, clairvoyant, and diviner. Many people with more coin than sense often times come back to her repeatedly for every little life-changing decision.
  
  Educational Level: Edith was well educated by her Governess during her time sequestered away in the estate.
  
  Occupation: Fortune-Teller

• Familial Information

  
  Raktavati Vaknis
  
  AGE: Unknown
  RELATIONSHIP: Edith's Mother
  SPECIES: Human (Vudrani)
  
  Gérard Laurent Dacchus
  
  AGE: Unknown
  RELATIONSHIP: Edith's Father
  SPECIES: Human (Galt)
  
  Siblings: None
  
  Children: None
  
  Pets: Cart Horse is called Vernon
  
  Family Financial Situation: Not Applicable

• Physical Information

  
  Face Claim: Sarah Shahi
  
  Height: 5'7" - 170 cm
  
  Weight: 160 lbs - 72 kg
  
  Hair Color: Dark Plum.
  
  Eye Color: Iris is a dark ruby-red while the scalera is a lighter red color.
  
  Skin Tone: Lavender with faint, darker violet tiger stripes
  
  Physical Build: Volumptuious, muscled
  
  Distinguishing Marks: Faint, dark violet, tiger stripes. Has long, but tiger-light ears where normal ones ought to be
  
  Tattoos / Piercings: Multiple piercings through her ears, horns ar banded and capped in gold, her canins and first pre-molars (8 teeth total) are also capped with gold

• Wellness

  Physical Health: Generally, Edith is in good health most of the year. She'll come down with a cold every now and again.
  
  Neurological Health: Despite her seemingly well-adjusted nature, Edith can be known to be anxious, depressed, and paranoid. However, many of these are justified given the nature of her existence.
  
  Allergies: Hay fever,
  
  Sleeping Habits: Average, get around 6-8 hours of sleep and a few naps throughout the day.
  
  Eating Habits: Acceptable, however somedays Edith actually forgets to eat; either because she's travelling or concentrating on making enough coin to continue to live comfortably in her current lifestyle
  
  Exercise Habits: Frequent! Edith, though not a fighter, will often practice use of her various weapons while on the road and, during long stretches, will walk beside her horse
  
  Emotional Stability: Pretty solid and not easily perturbed, however there are some things that will upset her
  
  Sociability: Extremely, Edith often thrives in a busy and social environment. However, this also depends on how welcoming the environment is towards Teiflings
  
  Body Temperature: Normal for a Humanoid
  
  Addictions: frequently smokes magicked and flavored tobacco (primary flavor is cherry but there are others)
  
  Drug Use: None
  
  Alcohol Use: Liberally drinks but not to the point of severe drunkenness.

• Personality

  Positive Traits: Capable, Hardworking, Self-Reliant
  
  Negative Traits: Abrasive, Hedonistic, Opportunistic
  
  Moral Alignment: Chaotic Good (Leans Chaotic Neutral)
  
  MBTI: ENTJ
  
  Enneagram Type: Type III: The Performer
  
  Temperament: Choleric
  
  Desires: To simply live out her days travelling and making money without being bothered because of her race
  
  Fears: To either lose her life because of peoples resetment of Teiflings or being forced to return to her mother's home in Vudra
  
  Hobbies: Researching other types of magic, writing poetry and short stories
  
  Habits: Smoking
  
  Hogwarts House: Slytherin
  
  Primary Virtue: Diligence
  
  Primary Vice: Pride
  
  Element: Fire

• Warfare Capabilities

  Strengths: Level 20+ Sorcerer, inticate magical abilities, naturally resistant to some fire, cold, electic, cold iron. Immune to Curses, along with Sleep and Paralysis
  
  Weakness: Pretty damn mortal
  
  Weapons: Quarterstaff +5, Punching Dagger +5, Light Crossbow +5
  
  Familiars/Summons/Pets: None
  
  Fighting Style: Socerer, "Ducchus" Bloodline" (Harrowed Bloodine with some tweeks)
  
  Old Injuries: None
  
  Movement Issues: None
  
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  Agility: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Strength: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Stamina: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Defensive Ability: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Magical Ability: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾
  
  Strategic Ability: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Memory: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Luck: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Reaction Speed: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾⦾⦾
  
  Learning Curve: ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦾⦾⦾

• Feats

  Darkvision
  Darkvision is the extraordinary ability to see with no light source at all, out to a range specified for the creature. Darkvision is black-and-white only (colors cannot be discerned). It does not allow characters to see anything that they could not see otherwise—invisible objects are still invisible, and illusions are still visible as what they seem to be. Likewise, darkvision subjects a creature to gaze attacks normally. The presence of light does not spoil darkvision.
  
  Prehensile Tail
  Many tieflings have tails, but some have long, flexible tails that can be used to carry items. While they cannot wield weapons with their tails, they can use them to retrieve small, stowed objects carried on their persons as a swift action.
  
  Eschew Materials
  You can cast many spells without needing to utilize minor material components.
  
  Harrowed
  You get a +1 bonus on all Will saves made to resist enchantment effects. Once per day, you may draw a card from a Harrow deck you own. At any one time for the rest of that day, you may apply a +2 bonus on any d20 roll modified by the card’s suit. For example, if you drew a card from the suit of Dexterity, you could apply this +2 bonus on an Initiative check, a Reflex save, a Dexterity-based skill check, or a ranged attack roll. You may assign this +2 bonus after you make the roll, but you must do so before you know whether the roll was a success or not.
  
  Harrowed Summoning
  When you cast a conjuration (summoning) spell or use a spell-like ability to summon one or more creatures, you can draw two random cards from a complete harrow deck you own. Doing so adds both a somatic component (if the spell does not already have one) and a focus component (the harrow deck) to the spell, but does not increase the spell’s casting time.
  
  For the duration of the spell, each summoned creature gains a +4 enhancement bonus to the corresponding ability scores of the drawn card’s suits. If both cards are the same suit, each summoned creature gains a +6 bonus to that ability score instead. If either card’s alignment is a true match for the summoned creatures’ alignment, the duration of the spell is doubled, while drawing an opposite match halves the duration of the spell. If both a true match and an opposite match are drawn, the spell’s duration is unchanged.
  
  A creature summoned in this way is distinctly altered by the cards drawn. Its physical appearance reflects the visual elements of the cards. The creature’s personality is also influenced by the cards, but not so much as to alter its alignment.
  
  Alertness
  You get a +2 bonus on Perception and Sense Motive skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
  
  Craft Wondrous Item
  You can create a wide variety of magic wondrous items. Crafting a wondrous item takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp in its price. To create a wondrous item, you must use up raw materials costing half of its base price. You can also mend a broken wondrous item if it is one that you could make. Doing so costs half the raw materials and half the time it would take to craft that item.
  
  Extend Spell
  An extended spell lasts twice as long as normal. A spell with a duration of concentration, instantaneous, or permanent is not affected by this feat.
  
  Mage's Tattoo
  Select a school of magic (other than divination) in which you have Spell Focus—you cast spells from this school at +1 caster level. Additionally, you gain a single spell-like ability usable up to three times per day.
  
  Fortune Teller
  
  Cold Readings: A cold reading is when you decide to plunge into a fortune-telling situation without much—if any—preparation. This might occur because the players suddenly seek out a fortune-teller or because it suddenly seems right in your campaign.
  
  For a cold reading, you can either revert to reading the palms of your players’ characters, throwing stones, using cards or dice, or other mystical-feeling methods. The critical thing with a cold reading is not to commit too anything too concrete or detailed in the fortuneteller’s answers. You haven’t prepared and committing to a possible game changer or other critical game element on the fly can come back to haunt you.
  
  With such readings, attempt to give vague answers or ones filled with symbolism that the players can interpret (“I see a red hawk at your shoulder. Its left foot is crippled, a black ribbon tangled in its claws.”). While such prophecies might have little meaning initially, you can work manifestations of such revelations into future adventures—or not, depending on the legitimacy of your fortune-telling NPC.
  
  True Randomness: With this method of fortunetelling you let the sticks, dice, cards, or stones fall as they may. Then it is up to you to interpret the results in a way that is useful and potentially meaningful for your players. This method works best if you write down a few possible results for each player. You can do this by listing several positive and negative results (say, having the upper numbers on dice tell something positive and the lower numbers mean a negative future). Doing so allows you to create a few vague and optional fates that work with your campaign and your characters’ abilities, but still afford the excitement of leaving the results up to chance.
  
  False Randomness: Many fortune-telling methods can be made to look random while allowing you to remain in total control of the outcome. This is easiest to do with a prop like a spirit board, but can also be done easily with cards. The advantage to false randomness is that it allows you to give players specific information you want to impart about their futures. By spelling out words on a spirit board or stacking a deck so certain cards are revealed, you can impart meanings specific to the needs of your game. The disadvantage of this technique is that, if you mess up, players know you rigged the results and don’t feel as excited or as invested in the results as they might otherwise.

  Spell-Like Abilities

  Darkness
  This spell causes an object to radiate darkness out to a 20-foot radius. This darkness causes the illumination level in the area to drop one step, from bright light to normal light, from normal light to dim light, or from dim light to darkness. This spell has no effect in an area that is already dark. Creatures with light vulnerability or sensitivity take no penalties in normal light. All creatures gain concealment (20% miss chance) in dim light. All creatures gain total concealment (50% miss chance) in darkness. Creatures with darkvision can see in an area of dim light or darkness without penalty. Nonmagical sources of light, such as torches and lanterns, do not increase the light level in an area of darkness. Magical light sources only increase the light level in an area if they are of a higher spell level than darkness.
  
  If darkness is cast on a small object that is then placed inside or under a lightproof covering, the spell’s effect is blocked until the covering is removed.
  
  Acid Splash
  You fire a small orb of acid at the target. You must succeed on a ranged touch attack to hit your target. The orb deals 1d3 points of acid damage. This acid disappears after 1 round.

  Bloodline Abilities

  Lullaby
  At 1st level, you can use lullaby as a spell-like ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. This effect lasts for 1 minute and does not require concentration. The penalty on saves versus sleep effects increases to –4.
  
  See It Coming
  At 3rd level, you gain a +1 luck bonus on the saving throw type of your choice (Fortitude, Reflex, or Will). As a full-round action, you can change which saving throw your luck bonus applies to. At 7th level and every 4 levels thereafter, this bonus increases by 1, to a maximum of +5 at 19th level.
  
  Invoke the Harrow
  At 9th level, you can draw a random harrow card from a complete harrow deck you own as a standard action and channel the aspects of the card into your body. You take on superficial traits featured on the card and gain a +4 enhancement bonus to the ability score associated with the card’s suit. You can invoke the harrow for a number of minutes per day equal to your sorcerer level; the duration need not be continuous, but it must be used in 1-minute increments.
  
  Harrowed Home
  At 15th level, your otherworldly connection is so strong that your subconscious cleaves off a small portion of the Harrowed Realm for use as your own private sanctuary. Your harrowed home is created the first time you use this ability, and is decorated as a garish reflection of your personality. Thereafter, you always visit this same home. You can place a portal to your harrowed home once every 24 hours, but placing a new portal destroys the previous one, and you can not move the entrance while you are inside. As long as you are not in your harrowed home, time ceases to pass for anything and anyone still in your pocket dimension; creatures cannot move, objects do not decay, and everything remains exactly the same as you left it the last time you visited the plane. Time continues as normal whenever you are inside your harrowed home. This ability is otherwise identical to mage’s magnificent mansion.
  
  Kin to the Old Tales
  At 20th level, your soul becomes host to the otherworldly energies of the harrow. You gain DR 10/cold iron and immunity to curses, paralysis, and sleep. You can always act in the surprise round of combat, and you cannot be caught flat-footed. You gain unlimited use of your invoke the harrow ability.

  Bloodline Spells

  Ill Omen
  You afflict the target with bad luck. On the next d20 roll the target makes, it must roll twice and take the less favorable result. For every five caster levels you have, the target must roll twice on an additional d20 roll (to a maximum of five rolls at 20th level).
  
  A target who can speak and has at least one free hand and who is aware of the spell and its effects (such as from a Spellcraft check to identify the spell as it is cast) can negate one reroll by spending a move action to utter a brief prayer or good luck charm to appease the spirits of ill fortune.
  
  Augury
  An augury can tell you whether a particular action will bring good or bad results for you in the immediate future.
  
  The base chance for receiving a meaningful reply is 70% + 1% per caster level, to a maximum of 90%; this roll is made secretly. A question may be so straightforward that a successful result is automatic, or so vague as to have no chance of success. If the augury succeeds, you get one of four results:
  
  Weal (if the action will probably bring good results).
  Woe (for bad results).
  Weal and Woe (for both).
  
  Nothing (for actions that don’t have especially good or bad results). If the spell fails, you get the “nothing” result. A cleric who gets the “nothing” result has no way to tell whether it was the consequence of a failed or successful augury.
  
  Harrowing
  You use a Harrow deck to tell a fortune for yourself or someone else. If you cast harrowing on another creature, you must remain adjacent to the target for the duration of the casting time. A harrowing must describe one set of events or course of action (for example, “hunting down the pirate king,” or “traveling to Viperwall to search for a magic sword”) that the target of the spell intends to undertake at some point during the spell’s duration.
  
  Record the ability score and alignment associated with each card. Each of these cards grants a luck bonus or a penalty on a specific type of d20 check; the magnitude of the penalty or bonus depends upon how closely that particular card’s alignment matches the target creature’s alignment. If the card and target’s alignments are identical, that card provides a +2 luck bonus on the associated suit’s check. If the card and target’s alignments are of the opposite alignment (see below), the card inflicts a –1 penalty on that associated check. If the card has any other alignment, it provides a +1 luck bonus on the associated suit’s check.
  
  Divination
  Similar to augury but more powerful, a divination spell can provide you with a useful piece of advice in reply to a question concerning a specific goal, event, or activity that is to occur within 1 week. The advice granted by the spell can be as simple as a short phrase, or it might take the form of a cryptic rhyme or omen. If your party doesn’t act on the information, the conditions may change so that the information is no longer useful. The base chance for a correct divination is 70% + 1% per caster level, to a maximum of 90%. If the die roll fails, you know the spell failed, unless specific magic yielding false information is at work.
  
  Contact Other Plane
  You send your mind to another plane of existence (an Elemental Plane or some plane farther removed) in order to receive advice and information from powers there. See the accompanying table for possible consequences and results of the attempt. The powers reply in a language you understand, but they resent such contact and give only brief answers to your questions. All questions are answered with “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” “never,” “irrelevant,” or some other one-word answer.
  
  Legend Lore
  Legend lore brings to your mind legends about an important person, place, or thing. If the person or thing is at hand, or if you are in the place in question, the casting time is only 1d4 x 10 minutes. If you have only detailed information on the person, place, or thing, the casting time is 1d10 days, and the resulting lore is less complete and specific (though it often provides enough information to help you find the person, place, or thing, thus allowing a better legend lore result next time). If you know only rumors, the casting time is 2d6 weeks, and the resulting lore is vague and incomplete (though it often directs you to more detailed information, thus allowing a better legend lore result next time).
  
  During the casting, you cannot engage in other than routine activities: eating, sleeping, and so forth. When completed, the divination brings legends (if any) about the person, place, or things to your mind. These may be legends that are still current, legends that have been forgotten, or even information that has never been generally known. If the person, place, or thing is not of legendary importance, you gain no information. As a rule of thumb, characters who are 11th level and higher are “legendary,” as are the sorts of creatures they contend with, the major magic items they wield, and the places where they perform their key deeds.
  
  Greater Harrowing
  This spell functions as harrowing, except it can affect an entire group of creatures and allows its subjects some measure of control over their destiny. Subjects of a greater harrowing spell record and spend their accumulated bonuses and penalties individually, according to their own alignment.
  
  Each participant in a greater harrowing can gain a special ability to seize control of fate if a card that matches that participant’s alignment is drawn. Like the bonuses and penalties granted by the spell, the special ability can be used once before the end of the spell’s duration. The exact ability gained depends on the card’s suit; if multiple cards that match a participant’s alignment are drawn, the participant can select one suit of her choice during the spell’s casting.
  
  Hammers: As a standard action, you can grant yourself a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength for 1 minute. While this bonus persists, you can reroll any bull rush, grapple, or sunder combat maneuver checks. You must use the result of this second roll, even if it is worse.
  Keys: As a standard action, you can grant yourself a +4 enhancement bonus to Dexterity for 1 minute. While this bonus persists, you gain evasion, as the rogue class feature. If you already possess evasion, you instead gain improved evasion, as the advanced rogue talent.
  Shields: As a standard action, you can grant yourself a +4 enhancement bonus to Constitution for 1 minute. While this bonus persists, you gain fast healing 1 and don’t die until you reach a number of negative hit points equal to double your Constitution.
  Books: As a standard action, you can grant yourself a +4 enhancement bonus to Intelligence for 1 minute. While this bonus persists, you gain a +3 enhancement bonus on checks with all skills you have no ranks in, and you can use those skills even if they can’t normally be used untrained.
  Stars: As a standard action, you can grant yourself a +4 enhancement bonus to Wisdom for 1 minute. While this bonus persists, you gain immunity to one of the following (your choice): charm and compulsion effects, curse effects, or fear effects.
  Crowns: As a standard action, you can grant yourself a +4 enhancement bonus to Charisma for 1 minute. While this bonus persists, whenever you succeed at a Diplomacy or Intimidate check to improve a non-hostile creature’s attitude toward you, that creature’s attitude toward you becomes helpful for the remaining duration of the Charisma bonus, regardless of the number of steps by which you would normally improve its attitude. The creature reverts to its original attitude after the duration expires.
  
  
  A single creature can be under the effects of only one harrowing or greater harrowing at a time. If the subject is targeted with a second harrowing or greater harrowing spell while a previous harrowing or greater harrowing is s till affecting him, the new spell automatically fails for that subject.
  
  Moment of Prescience
  This spell grants you a sixth sense. Once during the spell’s duration, you may choose to use its effect. This spell grants you an insight bonus equal to your caster level (maximum +25) on any single attack roll, combat maneuver check, opposed ability or skill check, or saving throw. Alternatively, you can apply the insight bonus to your AC against a single attack (even if flat-footed). Activating the effect doesn’t take an action; you can even activate it on another character’s turn. You must choose to use the moment of prescience before you make the roll it is to modify. Once used, the spell ends. You can’t have more than one moment of prescience active on you at the same time.
  
  Weird
  You create a phantasmal image of the most fearsome creature imaginable to the subject simply by forming the fears of the subject’s subconscious mind into something that its conscious mind can visualize: this most horrible beast. Only the spell’s subject can see the phantasmal killer. You see only a vague shape. If a subject’s Fortitude save succeeds, it still takes 3d6 points of damage and is stunned for 1 round. The subject also takes 1d4 points of Strength damage.

  Sorcerous Spells

  Cantrips

  Resistance
  You imbue the subject with magical energy that protects it from harm, granting it a +1 resistance bonus on saves.
  
  Read Magic
  You can decipher magical inscriptions on objects – books, scrolls, weapons, and the like – that would otherwise be unintelligible. This deciphering does not normally invoke the magic contained in the writing, although it may do so in the case of a cursed or trapped scroll. Furthermore, once the spell is cast and you have read the magical inscription, you are thereafter able to read that particular writing without recourse to the use of read magic.
  
  Detect Magic
  You detect magical auras. The amount of information revealed depends on how long you study a particular area or subject.
  
  
  1st Round: Presence or absence of magical auras.
  2nd Round: Number of different magical auras and the power of the most potent aura.
  3rd Round: The strength and location of each aura. If the items or creatures bearing the auras are in line of sight, you can make Knowledge (arcana) skill checks to determine the school of magic involved in each. (Make one check per aura: DC 15 + spell level, or 15 + 1/2 caster level for a nonspell effect.) If the aura emanates from a magic item, you can attempt to identify its properties (see Spellcraft).
  
  Magical areas, multiple types of magic, or strong local magical emanations may distort or conceal weaker auras.
  
  Haunted Fey Aspect
  You surround yourself with disturbing illusions, making you look and sound like a bizarre, insane fey creature.
  
  Mage Hand
  You point your finger at an object and can lift it and move it at will from a distance. As a move action, you can propel the object as far as 15 feet in any direction, though the spell ends if the distance between you and the object ever exceeds the spell’s range.
  
  Arcane Mark
  This spell allows you to inscribe your personal rune or mark, which can consist of no more than six characters. The writing can be visible or invisible. An arcane mark spell enables you to etch the rune upon any substance without harm to the material upon which it is placed. If an invisible mark is made, a detect magic spell causes it to glow and be visible, though not necessarily understandable.
  
  See invisibility, true seeing, a gem of seeing, or a robe of eyes likewise allows the user to see an invisible arcane mark. A read magic spell reveals the words, if any. The mark cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed by the caster or by an erase spell.
  
  If an arcane mark is placed on a living being, the effect gradually fades in about a month.
  
  Prestidigitation
  Prestidigitations are minor tricks that novice spellcasters use for practice. Once cast, a prestidigitation spell enables you to perform simple magical effects for 1 hour. The effects are minor and have severe limitations. A prestidigitation can slowly lift 1 pound of material. It can color, clean, or soil items in a 1-foot cube each round. It can chill, warm, or flavor 1 pound of nonliving material. It cannot deal damage or affect the concentration of spellcasters. Prestidigitation can create small objects, but they look crude and artificial. The materials created by a prestidigitation spell are extremely fragile, and they cannot be used as tools, weapons, or spell components. Finally, prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond just moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists only 1 hour.
  
  Mending
  This spell repairs damaged objects, restoring 1d4 hit points to the object. If the object has the broken condition, this condition is removed if the object is restored to at least half its original hit points. All of the pieces of an object must be present for this spell to function. Magic items can be repaired by this spell, but you must have a caster level equal to or higher than that of the object. Magic items that are destroyed (at 0 hit points or less) can be repaired with this spell, but this spell does not restore their magic abilities. This spell does not affect creatures (including constructs). This spell has no effect on objects that have been warped or otherwise transmuted, but it can still repair damage done to such items.
  
  Light
  This spell causes a touched object to glow like a torch, shedding normal light in a 20-foot radius from the point touched, and increasing the light level for an additional 20 feet by one step, up to normal light (darkness becomes dim light, and dim light becomes normal light). In an area of normal or bright light, this spell has no effect. The effect is immobile, but it can be cast on a movable object.
  
  You can only have one light spell active at any one time. If you cast this spell while another casting is still in effect, the previous casting is dispelled. If you make this spell permanent (through permanency or a similar effect), it does not count against this limit. Light can be used to counter or dispel any darkness spell of equal or lower spell level.
  
  

  First Level

  Alarm
  Alarm creates a subtle ward on an area you select. Once the spell effect is in place, it thereafter sounds a mental or audible alarm each time a creature of Tiny or larger size enters the warded area or touches it. A creature that speaks the password (determined by you at the time of casting) does not set off the alarm. You decide at the time of casting whether the alarm will be mental or audible in nature.
  
  Mental Alarm: A mental alarm alerts you (and only you) so long as you remain within 1 mile of the warded area. You note a single mental “ping” that awakens you from normal sleep but does not otherwise disturb concentration. A silence spell has no effect on a mental alarm.
  
  Audible Alarm: An audible alarm produces the sound of a hand bell, and anyone within 60 feet of the warded area can hear it clearly. Reduce the distance by 10 feet for each interposing closed door and by 20 feet for each substantial interposing wall.
  In quiet conditions, the ringing can be heard faintly as far as 180 feet away. The sound lasts for 1 round. Creatures within a silence spell cannot hear the ringing.
  
  Ethereal or astral creatures do not trigger the alarm.
  
  Endure Elements
  A creature protected by endure elements suffers no harm from being in a hot or cold environment. It can exist comfortably in conditions between -50 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit (-45 and 60 degrees Celsius) without having to make Fortitude saves. The creature’s equipment is likewise protected.
  
  Comprehend Languages
  You can understand the spoken words of creatures or read otherwise incomprehensible written messages. The ability to read does not necessarily impart insight into the material, merely its literal meaning. The spell enables you to understand or read an unknown language, not speak or write it.
  
  Cultural Adaptation
  When casting this spell, you must concentrate on a culture or subculture to which you wish to adapt. If you speak the native language of the culture in question, then for the duration of this spell, you speak the language with a native accent. The spell doesn’t teach you the language in question, but can be combined with tongues or a similar spell. Your body language and gestures mark you as a native of the culture, and you unconsciously make small decisions that help you blend in. Combined, these grant you a +2 circumstance bonus on Diplomacy checks to influence members of the culture to which you have adapted, which doesn’t stack with other circumstance bonuses you might possess by virtue of being a member of the chosen culture. You also gain a +2 circumstance bonus on Disguise checks to pass yourself off as if you were a member of the culture, if you are not.

  Second Level

  Detect Thoughts
  You detect surface thoughts. The amount of information revealed depends on how long you study a particular area or subject.
  
  1st Round: Presence or absence of thoughts (from conscious creatures with Intelligence scores of 1 or higher).
  
  2nd Round: Number of thinking minds and the Intelligence score of each. If the highest Intelligence is 26 or higher (and at least 10 points higher than your own Intelligence score), you are stunned for 1 round and the spell ends. This spell does not let you determine the location of the thinking minds if you can’t see the creatures whose thoughts you are detecting.
  
  3rd Round: Surface thoughts of any mind in the area. A target’s Will save prevents you from reading its thoughts, and you must cast detect thoughts again to have another chance. Creatures of animal intelligence (Int 1 or 2) have simple, instinctual thoughts.
  Each round, you can turn to detect thoughts in a new area. The spell can penetrate barriers, but 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks it.
  
  Share Language
  You can share your facility for one particular language with another creature. For 24 hours the target can read, understand, and communicate to the best of its ability in any one language which you already know. For every 5 levels you possess, you can grant the use of another language you know, to a maximum of 5 languages at 20th level. The target must have the physical capacity to articulate sounds, make gestures, or engage in whatever other method speakers of the language use to communicate with each other in order to actually converse.
  
  Aggressive Thundercloud
  A crackling, spherical storm cloud flies in whichever direction you point and deals electricity damage to those it strikes. It has a fly speed of 20 feet with perfect maneuverability. If it enters a space that contains a creature, the storm stops moving for the round and deals 3d6 points of electricity damage to that creature, though a successful Reflex save negates that damage.
  
  Glitterdust
  A cloud of golden particles covers everyone and everything in the area, causing creatures to become blinded and visibly outlining invisible things for the duration of the spell. All within the area are covered by the dust, which cannot be removed and continues to sparkle until it fades. Each round at the end of their turn blinded creatures may attempt new saving throws to end the blindness effect. Any creature covered by the dust takes a -40 penalty on Stealth checks.

  Third Level

  Summon Monster III
  This spell summons an extraplanar creature (typically an outsider, elemental, or magical beast native to another plane). It appears where you designate and acts immediately, on your turn. It attacks your opponents to the best of its ability. If you can communicate with the creature, you can direct it not to attack, to attack particular enemies, or to perform other actions.
  
  Phantom Driver
  You conjure a Small or Medium, quasi-real, humanlike creature (the exact physical features can be customized as you wish). This creation can drive any vehicle you command it to. This phantom creature does not fight, and while animals that power a muscle-propelled vehicle driven by the creature do respond to its commands, animals otherwise shun the creature and refuse to attack it.
  
  Dispel Magic
  You can use dispel magic to end one ongoing spell that has been cast on a creature or object, to temporarily suppress the magical abilities of a magic item, or to counter another spellcaster’s spell. A dispelled spell ends as if its duration had expired. Some spells, as detailed in their descriptions, can’t be defeated by dispel magic. Dispel magic can dispel (but not counter) spell-like effects just as it does spells. The effect of a spell with an instantaneous duration can’t be dispelled, because the magical effect is already over before the dispel magic can take effect.

  Fourth Level

  Summon Monster IV
  [See SUMMON MONSTER III]
  
  Scrying
  You can observe a creature at any distance. If the subject succeeds on a Will save, the spell fails. The difficulty of the save depends on how well your knowledge of the subject and what sort of physical connection (if any) you have to that creature. Furthermore, if the subject is on another plane, it gets a +5 bonus on its Will save.
  
  Black tentacles
  This spell causes a field of rubbery black tentacles to appear, burrowing up from the floor and reaching for any creature in the area. Every creature within the area of the spell is the target of a combat maneuver check made to grapple each round at the beginning of your turn, including the round that black tentacles is cast.

  Fifth Level

  Wreath of Blades
  The daggers serving as focus of this spell take on a deadly sharpness as they animate and spin around you, creating a 5-foot-radius emanation of spinning mithral blades that moves with you.
  
  Summon Monster V
  [See SUMMON MONSTER III]
  
  Glimpse of Truth
  You confer on the subject the ability to see all things as they actually are. The subject sees through normal and magical darkness, notices secret doors hidden by magic, sees the exact locations of creatures or objects under blur or displacement effects, sees invisible creatures or objects normally, sees through illusions, and sees the true form of polymorphed, changed, or transmuted things. Further, the subject can focus its vision to see into the Ethereal Plane (but not into extra-dimensional spaces).

  Sixth Level

  Telepathy
  You can mentally communicate with any other creature within 100 feet that has a language. It is possible to address multiple creatures at once telepathically, although maintaining a telepathic conversation with more than one creature at a time is just as difficult as speaking and listening to multiple people simultaneously.
  
  Summon Monster VI
  [See SUMMON MONSTER III]

  Seventh Level

  Summon Monster VII
  [See SUMMON MONSTER III]
  
  Greater Insect Spies
  You summon one or more glossy black beetles, which have a measure of intelligence and make for excellent spies. When they are in your presence, the insects obey your mental commands, and you can issue orders to any number of them as a single standard action, provided that you issue the same orders to each one. In order to issue different orders to different insects, you must spend a separate standard action for each set of orders. An insect in physical contact with you can answer simple questions about what it has observed, at a rate of one question per round. It can relate only what it perceived with its senses, and can’t repeat speech. It has difficulty making subjective judgments, and questions that demand such reasoning are unlikely to yield a clear answer.

  Eighth Level

  Discern Location
  A discern location spell is among the most powerful means of locating creatures or objects. Nothing short of a mind blank spell or the direct intervention of a deity keeps you from learning the exact location of a single individual or object. Discern location circumvents normal means of protection from scrying or location. The spell reveals the name of the creature or object’s location (place, name, business name, building name, or the like), community, county (or similar political division), country, continent, and the plane of existence where the target lies.
  
  To find a creature with the spell, you must have seen the creature or have some item that once belonged to it. To find an object, you must have touched it at least once.
  
  Summon Monster VIII
  [See SUMMON MONSTER III]

  Ninth Level

  Interplanetary Teleport
  This spell functions as teleport, except there is truly no range limit and you do not need to have seen your destination, though you must have a solid grasp of which world you wish to travel to (“the third planet from the sun” is an acceptable destination, but “a habitable world near that bright star” is not). If you have a specific location on a planet in mind, you arrive there without a chance of failure; otherwise you arrive at a location that would not immediately be life-threatening. If no such safe landing zone exists on the world, such as someone attempting to travel into the sun without the proper precautions in place, the spell simply fails.
  
  Foresight
  This spell grants you a powerful sixth sense in relation to yourself or another. Once foresight is cast, you receive instantaneous warnings of impending danger or harm to the subject of the spell. You are never surprised or flat-footed.
  
  Impenetrable Veil
  You enchant the target so it is nearly impossible to detect by both magical and mundane means, granting it the following benefits. The target gains a bonus on Stealth checks equal to half your caster level, and can use Stealth to hide from all creatures attempting to perceive it, even when it lacks concealment or cover. It can attempt a Stealth check to avoid detection from creatures using blindsight, blindsense, or any ability that functions as either (such as lifesense or tremorsense). Furthermore, the target leaves no trail and cannot be tracked unless it chooses to leave a trail. If a creature attempts to discern the target’s presence or location using divination magic (including magic items with a divination aura such as a crystal ball), that creature must succeed at a caster level check with a DC equal to the target’s Stealth bonus to discern any information about the target, and on a failed check cannot do so for the spell’s duration.

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