Class Rules

Identity

The Gladiator is not a renamed Fighter. The class uses discipline, presence, precision, timing, armor pressure, positioning, and tactical leadership.

Confirmed Ability Family

• Spartan Precision
• Expose Weakness
• Get Up!
• Stand Your Ground
• Ready Strike / Readied Assault
• Armor Break
• Inspire Confidence

Current Rules Lock

Use full BAB and the four-Hit-Dice Hornerville starting framework. Normal D&D 3.5 iterative-attack thresholds apply unless a Gladiator feature explicitly replaces them.

Class Rules

Current Feature Path

Spirit Communion & The Weave

Every dawn begins with a choice. The spirits called today shape the road ahead. S

Spirit Communion

Each morning, the Shaman spends one uninterrupted hour in meditation, ritual, prayer, or silent communion with the spirits. During this hour, the Shaman chooses spells from the Shaman Spell Compendium. Only communed spells may be cast until the Shaman performs Spirit Communion again. Once a spell has been communed with, it may be cast repeatedly, provided the Shaman can pay its Spirit Point cost.

Communion Rules

Duration: 1 uninterrupted hour Selection: Choose from the Shaman Spell Compendium Access: Only communed spells may be cast that day Use: Cast repeatedly while Spirit Points remain P

Preparing For The Unknown

The Shaman's strength lies in judgment. A haunted ruin may call for wards and spirit-sight. A wilderness journey may demand healing, strength, weathercraft, or communion with beasts. Every dawn gives the Shaman another opportunity to prepare for the journey ahead. P

Spirit Points

Spirit Points are the Shaman's reserve of spiritual power. Casting a spell costs Spirit Points equal to its Spirit Circle. All Spirit Points return after a full night's rest.

Spirit Circle

Spirit Point Cost

I

1 Sp

Ii

2 Sp

Iii

3 Sp

Iv

4 Sp

V

5 Sp

Vi

6 Sp

Vii

7 Sp

Viii

8 Sp

W

The Weave

Everything in Hornerville is joined by the Weave: people, beasts, forests, rivers, memories, and spirits. The Shaman does not force this bond into obedience. The Shaman listens to its movement and redirects its flow.

Weave - Class Feature

When casting an area spell, the Shaman may shape its flow. The Shaman excludes a number of 5-foot spaces as shown on the class advancement table. Creatures entirely within excluded spaces are unaffected by that spell. E

Battlefield Example

Undead surround the adventurers. The Shaman casts a violent area spell and uses Weave to exclude the spaces occupied by companions. The undead suffer the full effect; the party remains untouched. A Shaman prepares with wisdom, spends with restraint, and shapes magic without abandoning allies. Page 2

Spirit Intervention

When the Shaman calls, the unseen world chooses how it will answer. S

Calling For Intervention

Beginning at 3rd level, a Shaman may call directly upon the spirits in a moment of danger. Using Spirit Intervention is a standard action, costs no Spirit Points, and affects a point the Shaman can see within 60 feet. Roll 1d6 on the table below. The Shaman chooses where the intervention appears, but the spirits decide which form it takes.

Uses

1/day at 3rd, 2/day at 6th, 3/day at 11th, 4/day at 18th

Area

20-foot radius unless an outcome says otherwise

Save Dc

10 + one-half Shaman level + Wisdom modifier

D6

Spirit Response

Effect

Spirit Shield All allies in the area gain +2 Armor Class and +2 on saving throws for 1 round per Shaman level. These bonuses increase to +3 at 10th level and +4 at 17th level. Spirit Renewal Living allies in the area regain 1d6 hit points for every two Shaman Hit Dice, rounded down. This healing cannot exceed 10d6 and does not harm undead. Guardian Spirits Protective spirits fill the area for 3 rounds. Allies gain 20% concealment, while enemies treat the area as difficult terrain and cannot make attacks of opportunity inside it. Spirit Tempest Enemies in the area take 1d6 spirit damage for every two Shaman Hit Dice, rounded down. A successful Reflex save halves the damage. Curse of the Ancestors Enemies in the area must succeed on a Will save or suffer -2 on attacks, saving throws, and skill checks for 1 round per Shaman level. The penalty becomes -3 at 10th level and -4 at 17th. Wrath of the Wild Spectral beasts charge through the area. Enemies take 1d8 damage for every two Shaman Hit Dice, rounded down, and must succeed on a Fortitude save or be knocked prone.

The Spirits Decide:

The Shaman may not select or reroll the result. The uncertainty is the price of asking the unseen world to act directly. Page 4

Spirit Vessel

The Shaman does not become a beast. An honored ancestor walks beside them. V

Spirit Vessel

At 7th level, the Shaman may invite a willing honored ancestor to share their body. Activating Spirit Vessel is a standard action and may be done once per full rest. The bond lasts for 1 minute. The Shaman remains completely aware and in control. The ancestor cannot possess, command, or replace the Shaman, and the Shaman's body does not transform. A spectral likeness, altered voice, ancestral markings, or other visible signs may appear.

While The Vessel Is Active

Gain temporary hit points equal to twice your Shaman level. Choose one Ancestral Gift from the four options below. You may end the bond at any time without using an action. G

Greater Spirit Vessel

At 10th level, Spirit Vessel may be used twice per full rest. Each time it is activated, choose two different Ancestral Gifts instead of one. Both remain active for the full duration. A

Ancestral Authority

At 14th level, while Spirit Vessel is active, the Shaman is immune to possession and magical fear. Allies within 20 feet gain +2 on saving throws against fear, charm, and possession.

Ancestral Gifts

G

Guardian

Gain +2 Armor Class and +2 on Fortitude saves. You cannot be knocked prone or moved against your will while standing on solid ground. W

Warrior

Gain +2 on weapon attacks, spell attacks, and weapon damage rolls. Your attacks count as spiritual for overcoming resistance. H

Healer

The first time each round you restore hit points with a Shaman spell, one affected creature regains additional hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier. S

Seer

Gain +2 on Reflex and Will saves, cannot be flanked, and may act during a surprise round even when you would normally be unable to act. Page 5

The Weave & Living Bridge

Every life is a thread. The master Shaman learns where each thread may safely pass. W

The Weave

Beginning at 1st level, a Shaman can redirect the flow of an area spell around chosen spaces. When casting a Shaman spell that affects an area, the Shaman may exclude a number of 5-foot spaces equal to their Wisdom modifier, with a minimum of one. Excluded spaces may be anywhere inside the spell's area and do not need to touch one another. Weave requires no action and costs no additional Spirit Points. A creature is protected only when every space it occupies is excluded. Large creatures may require several spaces. Weave changes who is affected; it does not change the spell's range, duration, damage, or saving throw.

Weave Improvement

At 4th level and every four Shaman levels thereafter, protected spaces increase.

Level

Total Spaces

Formula

Wisdom modifier Minimum 1 Wisdom + 2 First improvement Wisdom + 4 Second improvement Wisdom + 6 Third improvement Wisdom + 8 Final improvement

Weave In Play

A Shaman casts a hostile area spell over enemies surrounding three allies. The gold spaces are excluded by Weave; the burgundy spaces remain affected.

Ally

Ally

Ally

Foe

Foe

Foe

Foe

Foe

Foe

Foe

Example only: the exact area depends on the spell being cast.

Living Bridge

20th-level Shaman feature At 20th level, the boundary between the Shaman and the spirit world becomes permanently open. The Shaman remains mortal, but stands with one foot in each world. You can always see and hear spirits, spiritual residue, and creatures hidden by spiritual effects within 60 feet. You are permanently immune to possession and effects that forcibly displace or imprison your spirit. Spirit Vessel no longer has a daily use limit, though only one vessel may be active at a time. Once each round, reduce the Spirit Point cost of one Shaman spell by 1, to a minimum cost of 1. When using Spirit Intervention, roll twice and choose which of the two results occurs. The spirits no longer answer from afar. They answer through you. Page 6

Spirits Of Hornerville

Not every spirit is an ancestor, and not every haunting is an enemy. Shamans use the word spirit for many unseen beings: the remembered dead, the awareness of a place, wild powers given form, and entities altered by grief, curses, or unnatural magic. These families are guides for recognition - not rigid laws. A spirit's choices and history matter more than its category. A

Honored Ancestors

The dead who retain identity, memory, and concern for the living. An ancestor may guide, warn, teach, or refuse. Communion is an invitation, never ownership. Spirit Vessel draws only upon a willing honored ancestor. P

Spirits Of Place

Roads, rivers, homes, forests, graveyards, and battlefields may develop a presence shaped by what occurs there. These spirits often communicate through signs, sensations, dreams, weather, or changes in the land. W

Wild And Beast Spirits

These spirits express instinct, migration, seasons, storms, hunger, growth, and the memory of the natural world. They are not ordinary animals and do not think according to mortal customs. R

Restless Dead

Some dead remain bound by unfinished duty, violent death, desecration, fear, or attachment. Restlessness does not automatically mean evil. Many can be calmed by discovering what prevents them from leaving. C

Corrupted Spirits

Curses, necromancy, broken pacts, spiritual contamination, and prolonged suffering can twist a spirit's nature. A Shaman should determine whether the corruption can be cleansed before choosing destruction. U

The Unnamed

Some presences are too old, distant, or unfamiliar to classify safely. A wise Shaman observes first, speaks carefully, and avoids promises until the being's motives and limits are understood. THE SHAMAN'S FIRST DUTY:Observe, listen, identify what binds the spirit, and seek understanding before force. Banishment is sometimes necessary. It should not be the first question asked. Page 7

The Shaman'S First Duty

Observe, listen, identify what binds the spirit, and seek understanding before force. Banishment is sometimes necessary. It should not be the first question asked.

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle I - foundational healing, guidance, protection, and living magic

Cost

1 Spirit Point

Save Dc

11 + Wisdom modifier

Communion

Choose daily after one hour

Repeat Casting

Allowed while SP remains

Spirit Stitch

Touch • Instant • Healing

Close torn flesh with luminous spiritual threads. The target regains 1d8 + Wisdom modifier hit points. A creature may receive Spirit Stitch repeatedly, but each casting costs Spirit Points normally.

Detect Undead

Self • 60-Ft Cone • Concentration

Sense the presence and direction of undead within the cone. After 1 round, learn the number present; after 2 rounds, learn the location and relative strength of each aura. Barriers may block the reading.

Bear Strength

Touch • 1 Minute • Enhancement

Call the remembered power of the great bear into a willing creature. The target gains +2 Strength modifier for attacks, damage, lifting, breaking, and Strength-based checks.

Root Gossip

Touch • 1 Minute • Divination

Touch a living rooted plant and ask one clear question about events within 30 feet during the previous day. The plant answers through sensations, images, scents, or simple impressions rather than speech.

Green Debt

30 Feet • 10 Minutes • Nature

A living plant grows one temporary limb, root, hook, handle, ladder rung, or simple tool capable of supporting up to 100 pounds. When the spell ends, the plant becomes dormant until the next dawn.

Spirit Ward

Touch • 1 Minute • Protection

A faint ancestral mark appears on the target. The creature gains +2 Armor Class and +2 on saving throws against undead, spirits, possession, curses, and spiritual effects.

Season'S Borrow

Self Or Touch • 10 Minutes • Nature

Borrow one seasonal quality: Spring grants +2 on healing received; Summer grants resistance 3 to fire; Autumn grants +2 on perception checks; Winter grants resistance 3 to cold. Choose when cast.

Threadmark

60 Feet • 1 Hour/Level • Tracking

Mark one creature you can see with a spiritual thread. You know the general direction to the target while it remains within 1 mile. The mark leaves no visible sign and ends if the target crosses into another realm. Page 8

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle II - deeper communion, battlefield control, and spirit-guided travel

Cost

2 Spirit Points

Save Dc

12 + Wisdom modifier

Access

Available at Shaman Level 2

Weave

Applies to eligible area spells

Enter Dreams

Spirit • Touch • Up To 10 Minutes • Will Negates

Enter the surface dream of a sleeping creature. On a failed save, you observe the dream and may speak through a symbolic form. You cannot force truthful answers or directly harm the dreamer. The spell ends immediately if the target awakens. A willing target may waive the saving throw.

Speak With Trees

Plant • Touch • 10 Minutes • No Save

Awaken a tree's slow awareness. It can describe creatures, weather, fire, cutting, and other notable events within 30 feet during the past day per Shaman level. Its answers are simple and shaped by a tree's perspective. It cannot identify a creature by name unless it has heard that name repeatedly.

Healing Pollen

Healing, Plant • 15-Ft Cone • Instant • Will Half

A cloud of golden pollen restores 1d6 + Wisdom modifier hit points to each living creature in the cone. Undead instead take the same amount as spiritual healing damage; a successful Will save halves it. Weave may exclude protected spaces normally.

Grasping Roots

Plant • 20-Ft Radius Within 60 Ft • 1 Round/Level

Roots burst from natural earth and turn the area into difficult terrain. A creature entering the area or starting its turn there must succeed on a Reflex save or become entangled until the start of its next turn. A trapped creature may use its action to attempt a Strength or Escape check against the spell save DC.

Ghost Lantern

Spirit, Light • 60 Feet • 10 Minutes/Level • No Save

Create a pale floating lantern that follows you or a willing creature. It sheds bright light for 20 feet and dim light for another 20 feet. Invisible or incorporeal creatures inside the bright light shimmer faintly, granting observers +2 on checks made to notice them. The lantern does not automatically reveal an exact location.

Spirit Swim

Water • Touch • 10 Minutes/Level • Harmless

The target gains a swim speed equal to its land speed, +8 on Swim checks, and may take 10 on Swim checks even while threatened. The target may hold its breath for ten times the normal duration, but does not gain the ability to breathe water. Page 9

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle III - tracking the unseen, cleansing poison, weather, stone, and spirit allies

Cost

3 Spirit Points

Save Dc

13 + Wisdom modifier

Access

Available at Shaman Level 5

Weave

Applies to eligible area spells

Spirit Trail

Divination • Self • 1 Hour/Level • No Save

You perceive a faint trail left by spirits, undead, summoned creatures, and creatures that have used teleportation or planar travel. You can follow a trail no more than one day old per Shaman level. The spell reveals direction and age, not identity. Heavy consecration, running water, or planar disruption may break a trail.

Cleanse Poison

Healing • Touch • Instant • Fortitude Harmless

Neutralize one poison affecting the target and end its ongoing effects. Damage already suffered remains. For the next hour, the target gains +2 on saving throws against poison. Against a poisonous creature, the spell suppresses one natural poison attack for 1 minute on a failed Fortitude save.

Rain Call

Weather • 60-Ft Radius Within 120 Ft • 10 Minutes/Level

Steady rain falls in the area, even beneath an open sky without clouds. It extinguishes unprotected nonmagical flames, grants +2 against heat and fire hazards, and imposes -2 on Perception checks based on sight or hearing. The spell cannot create flooding by itself.

Armor Of Thorns

Plant • Touch • 1 Minute/Level • Harmless

Living thorns cover the target without hindering movement. The target gains +2 natural armor. A creature that hits the target with an unarmed strike, natural weapon, or grapple takes 1d6 piercing damage. The thorns count as magical weapons for overcoming resistance.

Stone Spike

Earth • 60 Feet • Instant • Reflex Half

A stone spike erupts beneath one 5-foot space. Creatures in that space take 3d6 piercing damage and fall prone on a failed Reflex save. A successful save halves the damage and prevents falling prone. The spike leaves the square as difficult terrain until cleared.

Summon Wolf Spirit

Summoning • 30 Feet • 1 Round/Level • No Save

Summon a spectral wolf in an open space. It acts immediately after your turn and obeys simple commands. Use a normal wolf's statistics, but it is a spirit, its attacks are magical, and it gains temporary hit points equal to twice your Shaman level. At 0 hit points, it vanishes. Page 10

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle IV - purification, concealment, curses, summoned strength, and wind

Cost

4 Spirit Points

Save Dc

14 + Wisdom modifier

Access

Available at Shaman Level 9

Weave

Applies to eligible area spells

Purify Body

Healing • Touch • Instant • Will Harmless

End one disease, one poison, or one condition chosen from fatigued, sickened, or nauseated. When removing a magical disease or curse-like affliction, make a Shaman-level check against DC 11 + the effect's Circle or spell level. Failure does not spend additional Spirit Points, but the condition remains.

Mist Veil

Water, Weather • 20-Ft Radius Within 60 Ft • 1 Minute/Level

Thick mist fills the area. Creatures more than 5 feet apart have concealment; creatures more than 20 feet apart have total concealment. Wind disperses the mist as appropriate. You can see through your own Mist Veil out to 10 feet farther than normal.

Mudslide

Earth, Water • 30-Ft Line • Reflex Partial

A surge of mud deals 4d6 bludgeoning damage and pushes creatures 10 feet away from you. A successful Reflex save halves the damage and prevents the push. The line becomes difficult terrain for 1 minute. Creatures pushed into a solid obstacle fall prone.

Curse Of Misfortune

Curse, Spirit • 60 Feet • 1 Minute/Level • Will Negates

One creature suffers -2 on attack rolls, saving throws, ability checks, and skill checks. Once during the duration, when the target rolls a natural 20, you may force it to reroll and use the second result. Remove Curse or comparable magic ends the effect.

Summon Bear Spirit

Summoning • 30 Feet • 1 Round/Level • No Save

Summon a spectral black bear in an open space. It acts immediately after your turn and follows simple commands. Use a black bear's statistics; it is a spirit, its attacks are magical, and it gains temporary hit points equal to three times your Shaman level. It vanishes at 0 hit points.

Wind Wall

Air • Wall Within 60 Ft • 1 Round/Level • No Save

Create a vertical curtain of wind up to 10 feet long per Shaman level. It blocks ordinary arrows, bolts, dust, vapors, and Tiny flying creatures. Larger ranged weapons suffer -4 when crossing it. Each 5 feet crossed costs 10 feet of movement. The wall cannot be placed through occupied spaces. Page 11

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle V - powerful restoration, binding earth, corrosive storms, and spiritual influence

Cost

5 Spirit Points

Save Dc

15 + Wisdom modifier

Access

Available at Shaman Level 13

Weave

Applies to eligible area spells

Greater Healing Sap

Healing • Touch • Instant • Will Half (Harmless)

Restorative sap heals 5d8 + twice your Wisdom modifier hit points. It also ends either the fatigued or sickened condition. Against undead, it deals the same amount as positive-energy damage, with a Will save for half.

Earthbind

Earth • 90 Feet • 1 Minute/Level • Fortitude Negates

One flying creature is dragged toward the ground. On a failed save, its flying speed becomes 0 and it descends safely up to 60 feet per round until it lands. It cannot take off during the spell. A creature already on the ground cannot gain a flying speed.

Acid Rain

Water, Weather • 20-Ft Radius Within 90 Ft • Reflex Half

Burning rain deals 3d6 acid damage when it appears and 2d6 acid damage to each creature that starts its turn in the area. A Reflex save halves each instance. The rain damages unattended organic objects but does not dissolve stone or metal during its brief duration.

Root Prison

Plant • 60 Feet • 1 Round/Level • Reflex Negates

Massive roots close around one Large or smaller creature, restraining it. The target has total cover from outside attacks but cannot move and has only partial freedom to act. It may use an action each round for a Strength or Escape Artist check against your spell save DC. The prison has hardness 5 and 10 hit points per Shaman level.

Puppet Thoughts

Plant one simple impulse in a creature: approach, retreat, drop an item, kneel, speak a short phrase, or attack a designated obvious enemy. The target follows the impulse on its next turn but will not perform an obviously suicidal act. Each round after the first, the target receives a new Will save to end the spell. This spell guides a single immediate impulse; it does not grant lasting control, reveal thoughts, or erase memory. Page 12

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle VI - uncontrolled storms, living barriers, shattered ground, and awakened guardians

Cost

6 Spirit Points

Save Dc

16 + Wisdom modifier

Access

Available at Shaman Level 15

Warning

Call Storm cannot use Weave

Wall Of Thorns

Plant • Wall Within 90 Ft • 10 Minutes/Level • Reflex Partial

A dense wall of magical thorns fills connected 5-foot spaces, up to 10 feet long per Shaman level. Entering a space costs 20 feet of movement and deals 2d6 piercing damage. A creature caught when the wall appears may save to move to the nearest open space on either side. Each section has hardness 5 and 20 hit points; fire deals double damage.

Tremor

Earth • 30-Ft Radius Within 90 Ft • 1 Round • Reflex Partial

The ground convulses. Creatures standing on the ground take 5d6 bludgeoning damage and fall prone. A successful Reflex save halves the damage and prevents falling. Structures and unattended objects take double damage. The area becomes difficult terrain until repaired or cleared.

Awaken Tree Guardian

Plant, Summoning • Touch • 1 Minute/Level • No Save

Awaken a mature tree as a guardian. It uproots itself and uses the statistics of an animated tree or treant appropriate to your level, chosen by the Worldkeeper. It obeys spoken commands, cannot move more than 300 feet from where it awakened, and returns to ordinary rooted form when the spell ends if able.

Beast-Shunned

Curse, Nature • 60 Feet • 1 Hour/Level • Will Negates

Animals and magical beasts instinctively distrust the target. Such creatures begin one attitude category worse, refuse ordinary aid, and gain +2 on attacks and saving throws against it. Animal companions and bonded creatures may attempt a Will save when first affected to ignore the curse.

Call Storm

Dark clouds gather overhead. Once each round as a standard action, call one unpredictable lightning bolt into the storm's area. Randomly determine one occupied 5-foot space in the area; a creature in the chosen space takes 6d6 electricity damage, with a Reflex save for half. When no occupied space is selected, the bolt strikes harmlessly. Call Storm cannot be made safe with Weave: allies and excluded spaces may still be struck because the lightning is random and uncontrolled. Page 13

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle VII - catastrophic nature, spirit travel, and command over the soul

Cost

7 Spirit Points

Save Dc

17 + Wisdom modifier

Access

Available at Shaman Level 17

Weave

Random vents may bypass safety

Volcano

The ground ruptures. When cast, creatures take 6d6 fire and 4d6 bludgeoning damage. At the start of your next two turns, new vents erupt in three randomly chosen 5-foot spaces, dealing 4d6 fire damage to occupants. The terrain becomes jagged, hot, and difficult for 1 hour.

Spirit Walk

Spirit • Self • 1 Minute/Level • No Save

You become incorporeal and gain a fly speed equal to your land speed with perfect maneuverability. You may move through creatures and nonmagical objects but must end each turn in an open space. You cannot make weapon attacks; non-damaging Shaman spells function normally. Force effects and spirit wards affect you normally.

Soul Bind

Spirit • 60 Feet • 1 Round/Level • Will Negates

Tether one creature's soul to its body and the ground beneath it. The target cannot teleport, become incorporeal, possess another creature, or leave the plane. If reduced below 0 hit points during the spell, it remains dying and its soul cannot be captured or raised until the spell ends.

Nature'S Wrath

Wind, roots, stone, and rain tear through the area. Creatures take 4d6 bludgeoning and 4d6 piercing damage when the spell begins and must save or become entangled. The area is difficult terrain, ranged weapon attacks through it suffer -4, and open flames are extinguished.

Tsunami

Water • 120-Ft Line, 20 Ft Wide • Instant • Reflex Partial

A towering wall of water deals 8d6 bludgeoning damage, pushes creatures to the end of the line, and knocks them prone. A successful Reflex save halves the damage and limits the push to 20 feet. Huge or larger creatures gain +4 on the saving throw. The affected ground remains flooded and becomes difficult terrain for 10 minutes. The wave may extinguish exposed flames and carry unsecured objects at the Worldkeeper's discretion. Page 14

Shaman Spell Compendium

Spirit Circle VIII - the highest workings of earth, root, spirit, and the living Weave

Cost

8 Spirit Points

Save Dc

18 + Wisdom modifier

Access

Available at Shaman Level 19

Mastery

Highest Shaman spell circle

Earthquake

Earth • 80-Ft Radius Within 200 Ft • 1 Round • Reflex Partial

The ground splits and heaves. Creatures standing on it take 10d6 bludgeoning damage and fall prone; a successful Reflex save halves the damage and prevents falling. Structures take 15d6 damage, ignoring half their hardness. Fissures open in spaces chosen by the Worldkeeper; creatures there must save or fall 20 feet and become trapped.

World Root

Plant • 60-Ft Radius Within 150 Ft • 1 Minute/Level • Reflex

An immense spectral root network transforms the area into living terrain. Enemies entering or starting a turn there must save or become restrained until they escape using an action and a Strength or Escape Artist check. Allies gain half cover and move freely. Once per round, you may move one restrained enemy 10 feet within the area.

Avatar Of The Elderwood

Transformation, Plant • Self • 1 Minute/Level • No Save

Become a towering elderwood avatar. Your size increases by one category; you gain +4 Strength, +4 natural armor, appropriate reach, resistance 10 to acid, cold, and electricity, and two slam attacks appropriate to your size. You may still cast Shaman spells, and plants do not impede your movement.

Spirit Gate

Conjuration, Spirit • Touch • 1 Minute/Level • No Save

Create two linked spirit doorways on solid surfaces you touch, no more than 1 mile per Shaman level apart and on the same plane. A creature entering one exits the other, spending 5 feet of movement. The gate cannot open inside a creature or an unobserved sealed space. You may dismiss it freely on your turn.

Harmony Of The Weave

Enter perfect harmony with the living world. Your area spells may exclude every space occupied by a willing ally you can perceive, rather than using your normal Weave limit. Once per round, when you cast a Shaman spell of Circle IV or lower, reduce its Spirit Point cost by 2, to a minimum of 1. Harmony of the Weave does not protect creatures from random or uncontrolled effects such as Call Storm. Page 15

The current Shaman class volume already contains its Spirit spell compendium in the same reader.

Class Rules

Corrected XP Through Level 20

8. Constitution-Based Blood Casting

The Bloodmage casts rites spontaneously from the rites he knows. He does not prepare a daily list and does not depend on a deity, prayer, spellbook, or material pouch.

8. Constitution-Based Blood Casting

Rite save DC = 10 + rite Circle + Constitution modifier. Rite attack roll = base attack bonus + Constitution modifier. Blood Points per full rest = Base BP from the advancement table + one-half Constitution modifier, rounded down. Casting a rite costs Blood Points equal to its Circle. All Blood Points return after a full rest. Rites known At Level 1, a Bloodmage knows six Circle I rites. At every new Bloodmage level, he learns two additional rites from any Circle he can cast. A rite may also be learned through a Bloodmage mentor, preserved blood record, anatomical discovery, or other story source approved by the Worldkeeper. Learning a rite does not make it available to Arcanists, Shamans, or Alchemists. The Bloodmage may replace one known rite whenever he gains a Bloodmage level, representing discarded practice and retrained blood memory. Spell resistance and components A rite that directly affects an unwilling creature allows Spell Resistance unless its entry says otherwise. Hornerville magic has no default verbal or material components. Blood, scars, gestures, instruments, whispered counting, and visible changes are class fiction unless an entry creates a mechanical requirement.

9. Blood Rite

Blood Rite is the class's defining gamble. When casting a Bloodmage rite, the caster may deliberately sacrifice HP to empower it. This is optional. The player chooses before attack rolls or saving throws are resolved. The Blood Price The standard Blood Price is 2 HP per Circle of the rite, with Circle I costing 2 HP. The sacrifice comes from current HP and cannot be paid with temporary HP. It cannot be prevented, reduced, redirected, resisted, or transferred. A Bloodmage cannot pay a Blood Price that would reduce him below 1 HP. HP sacrificed to Blood Rite becomes a Rite Wound. A Rite Wound cannot be healed while the empowered rite remains active. For an instantaneous rite, it remains locked until the end of the encounter or 10 minutes, whichever comes first. After the lock ends, it becomes ordinary missing HP and can be healed normally. This prevents a large Constitution score or constant healing from turning sacrifice into a meaningless cost. Universal Blood Rite augments Choose one legal augment when paying the Blood Price: ● Potency: +1 to the rite's save DC or +2 on its rite attack roll. ● Overflow: Add one extra damage or healing die, plus one additional die for every three Circles above I. Circle I-III adds 1 die, IV-VI adds 2 dice, and VII-IX adds 3 dice. The added dice use the rite's primary die type. ● Reach: Increase Touch to Close, Close to Medium, or Medium to Long. A Long-range rite instead increases a burst, cone, line width, or radius by 5 feet. A rite with Self range cannot use this augment unless its entry says otherwise.

9. Blood Rite

● Persistence: Double a non-instantaneous duration, to a maximum of 24 hours. This cannot extend concentration, permanent, or until-discharged effects. Many rites also list a Signature Blood Rite option. A signature option may be chosen instead of a universal augment. Deep Rite and Master Rite At 7th level, Deep Rite allows the Bloodmage to apply two different augments to one casting by paying the Blood Price separately for each. At 15th level, Master Rite allows three different augments on one casting, each with its own Blood Price. The same augment cannot be selected twice unless the rite explicitly permits it. Overdrawing Blood Points When the Bloodmage lacks enough Blood Points, he may Overdraw. Each missing Blood Point costs 3 HP. Overdraw HP reduces both current and maximum HP until the next full rest, cannot come from temporary HP, and cannot reduce the Bloodmage below 1 HP. Overdraw may be combined with Blood Rite, but their costs are paid separately. At 17th level, Living Reservoir reduces Overdraw to 2 HP per missing Blood Point.

10. Active Rites

Major enhancement rites marked ACTIVE RITE are limited by the Active Rites mechanic. At Level 1, the Bloodmage may maintain one Active Rite at a time. This increases to two at Level 7, three at Level 14, and four at Level 20. An Active Rite uses one slot regardless of how many individual bonuses it grants. If one casting affects multiple creatures, it still uses one slot. If the Bloodmage would exceed his limit, he chooses one existing Active Rite to end immediately. An Active Rite may be dismissed on the caster's turn without an action. Two instances of the same Active Rite never stack on one creature. Ordinary non-Active spells and short emergency reactions do not count against the limit. Any Blood Rite HP sacrificed to enhance an Active Rite remains a locked Rite Wound until that Active Rite ends.

11. Reading the Body

At Level 1, a Bloodmage can obtain basic physical information without spending Blood Points or wasting a rite. Observation After observing a creature within 30 feet for one round, the Bloodmage may attempt Knowledge (Anatomy) against DC 10 + the creature's Hit Dice. On success, he learns its health band (unharmed, lightly wounded, heavily wounded, or near death), whether it is actively bleeding, and one obvious physical condition such as poison symptoms, disease symptoms, exhaustion, suffocation, or magical alteration of flesh. Examination With a standard action and touch, or one minute with a cooperative subject, the Bloodmage may use Knowledge (Anatomy) or Heal against DC 15, adjusted by complexity. Success identifies the apparent source and severity of wounds, whether bleeding is internal or external, signs of poison or disease, broken bones, organ distress, and whether healing magic has altered the injury.

11. Reading the Body

Corpse examination Ten minutes of examination allows a Knowledge (Anatomy) check to estimate cause of death, broad time of death, major injuries before and after death, unusual blood loss, poison or disease signs, and evidence of reanimation, feeding, or bodily alteration. A more difficult or unfamiliar case increases the DC. Reading the Body provides evidence, not impossible certainty. Disguise, deliberate surgical alteration, rare biology, decay, and magic can mislead or increase the DC.

12. Signature Knowledge Skills

Knowledge (Anatomy) Intelligence-based. This skill covers organs, bones, muscles, circulation, wounds, blood loss, trauma, cause of death, creature physiology, biological weaknesses, disease, poison effects, surgery, and magical alterations of flesh or blood. Common uses include: ● Identify a wound, fracture, or organ at risk. ● Estimate cause and time of death. ● Recognize blood-loss severity or internal bleeding. ● Determine whether a biological weakness is plausible. ● Understand unfamiliar creature anatomy after study. ● Identify signs of disease, poisoning, feeding, or surgical alteration. Knowledge (Undead) Intelligence-based. This skill covers identification, physiology, behavior, strengths, weaknesses, resistances, known creation methods, signs of reanimation or vampirism, and the interaction between Bloodmage abilities and undead bodies. Common uses include: ● Identify an undead type from physical or behavioral evidence. ● Determine whether it possesses usable blood, organs, bones, circulation, or only spiritual form. ● Recall common resistances, feeding needs, recovery patterns, and vulnerabilities. ● Distinguish a corpse from a dormant or feigning undead creature. ● Recognize recent reanimation, vampiric feeding, preservation, possession, or bodily reconstruction. ● Predict which Bloodmage rites are likely to function normally, partially, or not at all. Knowledge (Undead) does not become Knowledge (Religion). Hornerville undead are studied through physiology, history, behavior, bloodlines, magic, and direct evidence.

13. Blood and Undead Physiology

The Worldkeeper assigns a physiology category when needed. A successful Knowledge (Undead) check may reveal it. ● Living circulation: Normal living creatures with blood or a comparable circulating life fluid. Blood-dependent rites function normally.

13. Blood and Undead Physiology

● Blooded undead: Undead with usable blood, preserved organs, or active circulation, including many vampires. Blood-control rites may function, but healing, poison, disease, and ordinary bleeding immunities remain unless a rite says otherwise. ● Bloodless corporeal undead: Skeletons, dried bodies, and other physical undead without usable circulation. Blood-dependent control fails, but weapon enhancements, sanguine damage created from the caster, bone effects, and rites that target a body rather than blood may function. ● Incorporeal undead: Creatures without a stable physical body. Anatomy can identify behavior and vulnerabilities, but physical blood and organ effects normally fail. The exact physiology of a named Hornerville creature overrides assumptions. Not every vampire, corpse, spirit, or reanimated body works identically.

14. Class Features

Bloodbound Armament - Level 2 After a 10-minute rite, choose one weapon you are proficient with. It becomes bloodbound until you bind another. Your self-only weapon enhancement rites may affect that weapon while you hold it, and you may call it to your empty hand from within 30 feet as a move action if it is unattended and has a clear path. Bloodbinding grants no proficiency, attack bonus, extra attacks, or automatic critical hits. Bloodsense - Level 3 As a move action, sense fresh blood, active bleeding, and living circulation within 30 feet until the start of your next turn. Ordinary darkness and concealment do not block the sense, but solid barriers, sealed containers, and effects that block supernatural detection may. Bloodsense gives location and general strength, not identity or exact HP. Combat Invocation - Level 4 Once per encounter, the first self-targeted Active Rite you cast with a standard-action casting time may be cast as a move action. This does not remove its Blood Point or Blood Rite cost. Anatomy Exploit - Level 5 After successfully Reading the Body of a hostile creature, choose one benefit for the encounter: +1 on weapon attack and damage rolls against it, or +1 to Bloodmage rite DCs against it. You may maintain this insight against only one creature at a time. Surgical Insight - Level 6 You may perform first aid, stop ordinary bleeding, or stabilize a dying creature as a move action. When you take at least one minute to treat a creature, add your Constitution modifier as an insight bonus on the Heal check. You may use improvised clean tools without penalty when proper medical tools are unavailable. Deep Rite - Level 7 Blood Rite may apply two different augments to one casting, paying each Blood Price separately. Red Recovery - Level 8 When a hostile creature you damaged or affected with a rite falls to 0 HP or lower within 30 feet, recover 1 Blood Point. This can occur once per round and a number of times per full rest equal to your Constitution modifier, minimum once. Summoned or helpless creatures deliberately used as fuel do not trigger Red Recovery.

14. Class Features

Scarred Focus - Level 9 Gain +4 on Concentration checks caused by damage, pain, bleeding, grappling, or casting defensively. Rite Wounds never force a Concentration check by themselves. Wound Savant - Level 10 Once per round when you deal bleeding damage or damage to a bleeding creature, add your Constitution modifier to one damage roll. You also identify whether visible blood is fresh, contaminated, magically altered, living, or undead with a successful Reading the Body check. Undead Anatomist - Level 11 Gain +4 on Knowledge (Undead) checks. After one successful examination of an undead creature, your Anatomy Exploit may affect it even if it lacks blood. This does not make blood-dependent control function on a bloodless target; it represents targeting joints, preserved organs, bindings, or structural weaknesses. Greater Combat Invocation - Level 12 Combat Invocation may be used once per encounter as a swift action instead of a move action. Crimson Reach - Level 13 Willing-target Touch rites may be delivered at Close range. Self-only rites remain Self unless their entry says otherwise. Unwilling Touch rites still require touch unless Blood Rite: Reach or another ability changes them. Active Rites 3 - Level 14 You may maintain three Active Rites at once. Master Rite - Level 15 Blood Rite may apply up to three different augments to one casting, paying each Blood Price separately. Refuse Death - Level 16 Once per full rest, when HP damage would reduce you below 1 HP, remain at 1 HP instead. This does not prevent disintegration, bodily destruction, death from maximum-HP loss, or a non-HP death condition. You gain no immunity after the trigger. Living Reservoir - Level 17 Add your full Constitution modifier, rather than half, to Blood Points. Overdraw costs 2 HP per missing Blood Point instead of 3. Heart Command - Level 18 Once per full rest, after a creature with a physical body succeeds on a saving throw against your Bloodmage rite, force it to reroll and use the second result. Against bloodless or incorporeal undead, Heart Command works only if Undead Anatomist and Anatomy Exploit currently apply to that creature. Living Blood - Level 19 You are immune to ordinary bleeding and natural disease, gain +4 on saves against poison and magical disease, and may determine the exact remaining duration of a poison, disease, bleed, or physical transformation affecting a creature you successfully examine. Sanguine Ascendant - Level 20 You may maintain four Active Rites. The first Blood Rite augment you use in each encounter costs half its normal HP, rounded up. Once per full rest, cast one known Bloodmage rite without spending Blood Points; Blood Rite costs still apply. Your body remains mortal and can still be killed.

14. Class Features

15. Bleeding Rules

A Bloodmage bleed deals the listed HP loss at the end of the target's turn. A creature can suffer only one Bloodmage bleed at a time; a stronger bleed replaces a weaker one, and equal effects do not stack. Unless an entry says otherwise, a standard action and a successful Heal check against the rite's save DC ends the bleed. Magical healing that restores at least as many HP as the bleed's next tick also ends it. Blooded undead may be affected only when the specific rite says so or their physiology permits it. Bloodless and incorporeal creatures do not bleed.

16. Combat Tactics

Before contact Use Reading the Body and Bloodsense. Decide whether the enemy is living, blooded undead, bloodless, already wounded, or protected by Spell Resistance. Choose an Active Rite that answers the actual fight rather than defaulting to one permanent combination. Opening round Use Combat Invocation to establish a self-enhancement without surrendering the entire turn. Blood Edge is efficient damage, Sanguine Guard is safer, Red Rush closes distance, and Predator's Pulse rewards focus on a wounded target. Inside melee The Bloodmage should use positioning and temporary advantages, not pretend to be a Gladiator. Mix normal attacks with swift or immediate rites, retaliatory defenses, reach, lifesteal, and short control. If the enemy is hard to hit, use rite attacks instead of forcing weapon swings. When wounded The class becomes more dangerous but not invincible. Vein Drinker, Blood Retaliation, Blood Mirror, Death Refusal, and other rites can reverse pressure. Blood Rite becomes more dramatic because every sacrifice matters. Do not spend to 1 HP without a survival plan. Against undead Identify physiology before spending a blood-dependent rite. Against a bloodless enemy, use weapon enhancements, caster-created sanguine damage, bone/body effects, battlefield control, or Anatomy Exploit. Against vampires and blooded undead, Knowledge (Undead) determines which circulatory effects can bypass their unusual state.

22. Player Quick Reference

At the start of a fight: Identify physiology and wounds. Choose the Active Rite that answers this battlefield. Decide whether Blood Rite is worth the locked HP. Keep enough Blood Points for an emergency. Remember that martial allies are better at sustained weapon combat. On every Blood Rite decision, ask: ● Will this extra power change the outcome? ● How long will the Rite Wound remain locked? ● What happens if I am hit immediately afterward? ● Am I spending HP because it is dramatic, or because it is useful? The Bloodmage is strongest when the player understands the body, chooses the correct enhancement, and risks exactly enough.

1. Shared Bloodmage Magic Rules

Standard action: The character's main action. Move action: Movement or a comparable minor action. Swift action: A very fast action used once during the character's turn. Immediate action: A reaction outside the character's turn; it uses the next swift action. Full-round action: Uses both the standard and move actions. Touch: Physical contact. Close: 30 feet. Medium: 60 feet. Long: 120 feet. Rite save DC: 10 + rite Circle + Constitution modifier. Rite attack: Base attack bonus + Constitution modifier. Blood Point cost: Equal to the rite's Circle. Spell Resistance: Yes when a rite directly affects an unwilling creature, unless the entry says otherwise. Components: Hornerville magic has no default verbal, material, or somatic components. Fresh blood, visible scars, instruments, and gestures are class imagery unless an entry makes them mechanically necessary.

2. Descriptors and Terms

ACTIVE RITE: Counts against the caster's Active Rite limit. BLOOD-DEPENDENT: Requires usable blood or comparable circulation in the target. It normally fails against bloodless or incorporeal creatures. BODY: Changes flesh, bone, muscle, organs, or the caster's physical structure. It does not automatically require the target's blood. SANGUINE DAMAGE: Supernatural physical harm formed from the caster's blood magic. It can damage living creatures, objects when stated, and undead. It is not poison, disease, negative energy, or ordinary bleeding. Spell Resistance applies when the rite targets a creature. WOUNDED: Below maximum HP or currently suffering a bleed effect. BLEEDING: Ongoing HP loss at the end of the target's turn. Only one Bloodmage bleed affects a creature at once; the stronger effect replaces the weaker.

2. Descriptors and Terms

Signature Blood Rite: A special augment available when the caster pays the Blood Price. It replaces a universal augment unless Deep Rite or Master Rite permits more than one.

3. Quick Index

Circle I: Blood Edge, Sanguine Guard, Red Rush, Predator's Pulse, Blood Bolt, Coagulate, Bloodprint. Circle II: Crimson Strength, Borrowed Vigor, Scarlet Reach, Vein Snare, Blood Heat, Shared Wound, Vein Compass. Circle III: Sanguine Armor, Heartfire, Blood Retaliation, Open Wound, Crimson Lance, Life Exchange, Kinmark. Circle IV: Vein Drinker, Blood Frenzy, Blood Armor, Blood Mirror, Heart Hammer, Crimson Storm, Purging Blood. Circle V: Predator Ascendant, Life Bond, Sanguine Chains, Hemorrhage, Blood Prison, Blood Door, Crimson Offering. Circle VI: Marrow Bastion, Blood Eclipse, Death Refusal, Rupture, Vein Storm, Soulstitch, Red Dominion. Circle VII: Sanguine Dominion, Vessel of Many, Shared Fate, Heart Stop, River of Blood, Unkillable Wound, Body Claim. Circle VIII: Scarlet Colossus, Perfect Circulation, Blood Moon Field, Blood Puppet, Empty Vein, Last Breath Mortgage, House of Flesh. Circle IX: Crimson Apotheosis, Last Heartbeat, Final Offering, Name in the Blood, Sea of Blood, Sanguine Cataclysm, Bloodline Rewrite.

3. Quick Index

CIRCLE I

Blood Edge - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Target: One held weapon. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Your blood forms a thin supernatural edge along the weapon. The weapon counts as magical and deals +1d6 sanguine damage on the first successful hit you make each round. At Bloodmage Levels 7 and 15, this bonus increases by +1d6. Signature Blood Rite - Hungry Edge: For the duration, the bonus damage applies to the first two successful hits each round, but never more than once on the same attack. Sanguine Guard - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. A moving layer of hardened blood turns aside blows. Gain +2 Armor Class. This is a deflection bonus and does not stack with another deflection bonus. When you are below half maximum HP, the bonus becomes +3. Signature Blood Rite - Guard Another: One willing creature within Close range receives the rite instead of you. Red Rush - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute. Save: None. SR: No. Accelerate circulation and sharpen leg response. Gain +10 feet speed, +2 on initiative checks made while the rite remains active, and +2 on checks to jump, climb, or resist forced movement. Signature Blood Rite - Violent Start: Move up to half your speed immediately without provoking attacks of opportunity from the first creature whose threatened area you leave. Predator's Pulse - ACTIVE RITE, BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Choose one wounded creature you can perceive. You know its direction while it remains within 60 feet and gain +1 on weapon attacks, rite attacks, and damage rolls against it. When it falls or leaves range, choose another wounded creature as a swift action. Signature Blood Rite - Smell the Weak: The range becomes 120 feet, and ordinary concealment does not hide the target's location from your Bloodsense. Blood Bolt Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One creature or object. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: None. SR: Yes for creatures. Launch a hardened bolt made from your own blood magic. Make a ranged rite attack. On a hit, deal 2d6 + Constitution modifier sanguine piercing damage. Add 1d6 at Bloodmage Levels 5, 9, 13, and 17.

CIRCLE I

Signature Blood Rite - Forked Bolt: After a hit, a second creature within 15 feet of the first takes half the rolled damage; a Reflex save negates the secondary damage. Coagulate Action: Standard. Range: Touch. Target: One living creature. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: None when willing. SR: No when willing. Close wounds and stabilize circulation. Restore 1d8 + Constitution modifier HP and end one ordinary bleed effect. This rite does not remove poison, disease, broken bones, or organ damage. It does not heal undead unless a creature's specific physiology says it can be repaired by living-blood healing. Signature Blood Rite - Emergency Seal: Cast as a swift action on a creature at 0 HP or lower, or as an immediate action when a creature within reach begins dying. Bloodprint Action: 1 minute. Range: Touch. Target: One blood sample. Duration: Instantaneous record. Save: None. SR: No. Analyze the sample. Learn whether it is living or undead blood, fresh or old, naturally or magically altered, contaminated by poison or disease, and whether two samples came from the same creature or a close blood relative. You may preserve the result as a crimson pattern only a Bloodmage can read. Signature Blood Rite - Deep Sample: Also learn the owner's ancestry clues, health band when the sample was shed, and one major ongoing biological alteration present at that time.

CIRCLE I

CIRCLE II

Crimson Strength - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self or Touch. Target: One willing creature. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Thicken muscle fibers and reinforce tendons. The target gains +2 Strength modifier for melee attack rolls, weapon damage, lifting, breaking, grappling, and Strength checks. This does not grant proficiency or extra attacks. Signature Blood Rite - Sudden Exertion: The target may immediately attempt one Strength check, grapple check, or melee attack as a reaction to the rite being cast. Borrowed Vigor - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Touch. Target: One willing living creature. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Grant temporary HP equal to 5 + twice your Bloodmage level and +2 on Fortitude saves. The temporary HP disappear when the rite ends. Signature Blood Rite - Split Vigor: Divide the temporary HP as you choose between two willing creatures within reach; both receive the Fortitude bonus, and the one casting still occupies only one Active Rite slot. Scarlet Reach - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Extend muscle, bone, blood force, and weapon path. Your natural melee reach increases by 5 feet. You may still attack adjacent creatures normally. This does not enlarge your occupied space. Signature Blood Rite - Grasping Reach: Once per round after hitting a creature with a melee attack, pull it 5 feet toward you if it is no more than one size category larger; Fortitude negates. Vein Snare - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One creature with usable circulation. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Fortitude negates; repeat at end of turn. SR: Yes. Lock blood in the target's legs. Its speed becomes 0. It may still attack, cast, and defend. At the end of each turn it may repeat the save to end the rite. Signature Blood Rite - Crawling Snare: On a successful initial save, the target's speed is still halved for 1 round. Blood Heat - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Close. Target: One creature with usable circulation. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: Fortitude half. SR: Yes. Overheat the target from within, dealing 4d6 blood-and-heat damage. On a failed save, it also becomes sickened until the end of its next turn. Fire resistance reduces half the damage; the other half is sanguine damage.

CIRCLE II

Signature Blood Rite - Boiling Step: After resolving the rite, move up to 10 feet without provoking from the target. Shared Wound Action: Immediate. Range: Close. Target: One willing living creature taking damage. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: None. SR: No. Transfer up to half the triggering HP damage, after resistance, from the target to yourself. The transferred amount is untyped HP loss, not damage, and cannot be reduced. You cannot transfer more than would leave you at 1 HP. Signature Blood Rite - Protected Transfer: Reduce the amount you receive by your Constitution modifier, minimum 1, while preventing the full chosen amount on the ally. Vein Compass - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Self. Target: One blood sample touched within the last day. Duration: 10 minutes/level. Save: None. SR: No. Know the direction, approximate distance, whether the owner lives or persists as blooded undead, and whether it is moving while on the same plane. Sealed lead, planar boundaries, and effects that block supernatural tracking can interfere. Signature Blood Rite - Long Memory: The sample may be up to one month old, and the duration becomes 1 hour/level.

CIRCLE II

CIRCLE III

Sanguine Armor - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self or Touch. Target: One willing creature. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Form flexible red-black plates beneath or above the skin. Gain +3 natural armor and damage reduction 3/-. The damage reduction becomes 5/- at Bloodmage Level 12. Signature Blood Rite - Shattering Plate: When the rite ends, adjacent enemies take 3d6 sanguine slashing damage; Reflex half. Heartfire - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Your heart burns without consuming you. Weapon attacks deal +1d6 fire damage, you gain cold resistance 10, and you shed bright crimson light for 20 feet. When below half HP, the bonus damage becomes +2d6. Signature Blood Rite - Share the Flame: One willing ally within Close range gains the weapon damage and cold resistance; this remains one Active Rite instance. Blood Retaliation - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: Fortitude half. SR: Yes. The first creature each round that damages you with a melee attack takes 2d6 + Constitution modifier sanguine damage. A creature can trigger this only once per round, even with multiple attacks. Signature Blood Rite - Retaliatory Step: After retaliation resolves, shift 5 feet without provoking from the triggering attacker. Open Wound - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One living or blooded undead creature. Duration: Up to 3 rounds. Save: Fortitude negates; repeat to end. SR: Yes. Tear open a wound. The target takes 3d6 sanguine damage immediately and bleeds for 1d6 at the end of each turn. A successful save prevents the entire rite. A successful repeat save or proper treatment ends the bleed. Signature Blood Rite - Refuse Closure: The first magical healing received during the duration is reduced by half and does not automatically end the bleed. Crimson Lance Action: Standard. Range: Long. Area: 90-foot line, 5 feet wide. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: Reflex half. SR: Yes. A compressed lance of caster-created blood force deals 6d6 sanguine piercing damage to creatures in the line. Unattended fragile objects take full damage.

CIRCLE III

Signature Blood Rite - Driving Lance: Creatures that fail the save are pushed 10 feet along the line and fall prone if they strike a solid obstacle. Life Exchange Action: Standard. Range: Close. Target: Two willing living creatures, one of which may be you. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: None. SR: No. Move up to 3 HP per Bloodmage level from one target to the other. The donor loses HP and the recipient heals the same amount. The donor cannot be reduced below 1 HP, and the recipient cannot exceed maximum HP. This is transfer, not damage. Signature Blood Rite - Unequal Bargain: Transfer up to 4 HP per Bloodmage level, and the recipient gains temporary HP equal to your Constitution modifier. Kinmark Action: Standard. Range: Touch. Target: One willing creature. Duration: 24 hours. Save: None. SR: No. Mark the target as blood-kin. Know its direction, health band, and whether it is conscious while on the same plane and within 10 miles. Once during the duration, deliver one willing-target Touch rite to it from any distance within that range. The Kinmark then ends. Signature Blood Rite - Circle of Kin: Mark up to three willing creatures touched during the casting. The distant Touch use may affect only one.

CIRCLE III

CIRCLE IV

Vein Drinker - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Once per round when your melee attack or Bloodmage rite damages a wounded living or blooded undead creature, regain HP equal to half your Constitution modifier plus half the rite's Circle, minimum 1 and maximum your Bloodmage level. You cannot heal from summoned, helpless, or allied creatures deliberately used as fuel. Signature Blood Rite - Deep Drink: Once during the duration, after damaging a hostile creature, heal an additional 4d6 HP. Blood Frenzy - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute. Save: None. SR: No. Accelerate aggression without removing judgment. Gain +2 on weapon attack rolls, +2 weapon damage, and +10 feet speed. Once during the duration, after a successful melee attack, make one additional attack with the same weapon as a swift action. Blood Frenzy does not stack with an involuntary Berserker Breaking Point extra strike. Signature Blood Rite - Immediate Violence: Make one melee attack when the rite is cast. This consumes the rite's once-per-duration bonus attack. Blood Armor - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self or Touch. Target: One willing creature. Duration: 10 minutes/level or until depleted. Save: None. SR: No. Create a reservoir of 5 temporary HP per Bloodmage level. While any remain, the target is immune to ordinary bleeding and gains +2 on saves against poison and disease. This rite ends when the temporary HP are gone. Signature Blood Rite - Red Shelter: When damage would deplete the temporary HP, reduce the remaining damage by your Constitution modifier. Blood Mirror - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Fortitude half. SR: Yes. Once per round when a creature within Medium range deals HP damage to you, reflect sanguine damage equal to one-half the damage actually taken, maximum 4 per Bloodmage level. You still take the original damage. Signature Blood Rite - Mirror an Ally: Choose one willing ally within Close range when cast. The rite may reflect one damage instance dealt to either of you each round.

CIRCLE IV

Heart Hammer - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One creature with a functioning heart or equivalent organ. Duration: Instantaneous and 1 round. Save: Fortitude partial. SR: Yes. Strike the target's heartbeat with force. Deal 8d6 sanguine bludgeoning damage. On a failed save, it is staggered until the end of its next turn. On a success, damage is halved and it is not staggered. Signature Blood Rite - Double Beat: On a failed save, the target also drops one held item and cannot take immediate actions for 1 round. Crimson Storm Action: Standard. Range: Long. Area: 20-foot-radius burst. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: Reflex half. SR: Yes. Razor droplets explode through the area, dealing 8d6 sanguine slashing damage. Wounded creatures suffer -2 on the save. Signature Blood Rite - Chasing Storm: After the burst, move the center up to 20 feet and deal 3d6 additional damage in the new area; Reflex half. A creature can take this secondary damage only once. Purging Blood Action: Standard. Range: Touch. Target: One living creature. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: None when willing. SR: No when willing. End one poison, natural disease, sickened condition, or nauseated condition. Against a magical disease or biological curse, make a Bloodmage-level check against DC 11 + the effect's Circle or spell level. Failure leaves the effect but does not cause additional harm. Signature Blood Rite - Violent Purge: Also restore 4d8 + Constitution modifier HP, but the target is fatigued for 1 round.

CIRCLE IV

CIRCLE V

Predator Ascendant - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Gain +20 feet speed, scent for wounded creatures within 60 feet, +2 Armor Class against attacks of opportunity, and +2d6 sanguine damage on the first melee hit made after moving at least 20 feet on your turn. Signature Blood Rite - Red Pursuit: Once per round when a wounded enemy within 30 feet moves away, move up to 10 feet as an immediate action without provoking from that enemy. Life Bond - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Close. Target: One willing living ally. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. You and the ally know each other's health bands. Once per round when either takes damage, the other may accept up to one-half as untyped HP loss. Neither participant can be reduced below 1 HP by the transfer. Healing either participant restores 2 additional HP while both remain within Close range. Signature Blood Rite - Guardian Bond: The bonded ally gains +2 Armor Class while within Close range of you. Sanguine Chains - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: Up to one wounded creature per three Bloodmage levels, maximum five. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Fortitude negates; repeat with action. SR: Yes. Chains pull from exposed wounds. Failed targets are restrained and cannot move from their spaces. A restrained target may use a standard action to repeat the save or attempt Strength or Escape Artist against the rite DC. Signature Blood Rite - Chain the Unwounded: One target need not be wounded, provided it has usable circulation. Hemorrhage - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One living or blooded undead creature. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Fortitude partial; repeat to end. SR: Yes. Deal 6d6 sanguine damage. On a failed save, the target bleeds for 3d6 at the end of each turn and receives only half healing. A successful initial save halves the damage and prevents bleeding. Signature Blood Rite - Arterial Break: The first bleed tick is maximized instead of rolled. Blood Prison Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One Large or smaller corporeal creature. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Reflex negates. SR: Yes.

CIRCLE V

Create a ribbed sphere of hardened caster-blood. The target is restrained and has cover. It may attack the prison or use a standard action for a Strength or Escape Artist check against the rite DC. The prison has hardness 5 and 10 HP per Bloodmage level. Signature Blood Rite - Crushing Cell: At the end of each failed escape turn, the target takes 3d6 bludgeoning damage. Blood Door Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: Two fresh blood marks you can perceive. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: None. SR: No. Step into one mark and emerge from the other, bringing one willing adjacent creature. Each mark must contain at least one drop of real blood or comparable life fluid and fades after use. The destination must have open space. Signature Blood Rite - Moving Door: Use a visible wound on a willing living creature as one mark, allowing arrival adjacent to it. Crimson Offering Action: Swift. Range: Self. Duration: Instantaneous with recovery lock. Save: None. SR: No. Sacrifice 5 current and maximum HP per Blood Point recovered, up to your Constitution modifier in BP. This is not Blood Rite and cannot be reduced. The maximum-HP loss remains until a full rest. Crimson Offering cannot reduce you below 1 maximum or current HP. Signature Blood Rite - Offer More: Recover one additional BP without paying the 5-HP cost for that final point; the normal Blood Price of this Circle still applies.

CIRCLE V

CIRCLE VI

Marrow Bastion - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Reinforce bone and enlarge the frame without changing occupied size. Gain +4 Strength modifier, +4 natural armor, damage reduction 5/-, and immunity to broken-bone penalties and forced movement of 10 feet or less. You suffer -2 Dexterity while active. Signature Blood Rite - Bone Rampart: Adjacent willing allies gain half cover while you are conscious and standing. Blood Eclipse - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Area: 20-foot-radius emanation. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Fortitude half. SR: Yes. Crimson dimness follows you. Hostile living or blooded undead creatures that begin their turns in the area take 4d6 sanguine damage. At the end of your turn, gain temporary HP equal to one-quarter of the total damage dealt that round, maximum twice your Bloodmage level. The temporary HP last 1 round. Signature Blood Rite - Shelter the Chosen: Willing allies in the area gain concealment against attacks originating outside it. Death Refusal Action: Immediate when you or a creature within Close range would fall below 0 HP. Range: Close. Target: One creature with a physical body. Duration: 3 rounds. Save: None when willing. SR: No when willing. The target remains conscious and functional at 1 HP. Further HP damage is recorded but does not apply until the rite ends. Healing first erases recorded damage, then restores HP. When the rite ends, unresolved recorded damage applies immediately. Signature Blood Rite - Refuse the Verdict: Extend the duration to 1 minute, but the target cannot receive temporary HP during it. Rupture - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Long. Target: One wounded creature; Area: 15-foot burst around it. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: Fortitude half for target, Reflex half for others. SR: Yes. The target takes 12d6 sanguine damage as wounds rupture outward. Other creatures in the burst take 6d6 sanguine damage. If the primary target is not bleeding, reduce both amounts by 2d6. Signature Blood Rite - Chain Rupture: One secondary wounded creature damaged by the burst erupts for a new 10-foot burst dealing 4d6; no creature takes secondary damage twice. Vein Storm Action: Standard. Range: Long. Area: 30-foot-radius burst. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: Fortitude half. SR: Yes.

CIRCLE VI

Every open wound becomes a launch point for crimson needles. Wounded creatures take 12d6 sanguine piercing damage; unwounded creatures take 6d6. Bloodless creatures take the unwounded amount because the needles are caster-created. Signature Blood Rite - Harvest the Storm: Regain 1 HP per hostile creature damaged, maximum twice your Bloodmage level. This healing occurs after damage resolves. Soulstitch Action: Standard. Range: Touch. Target: One dead or dying creature with an intact body. Duration: 1 hour or instantaneous. Save: None when willing. SR: No. A dying creature stabilizes, remains at 1 HP, and cannot die from HP loss for 1 hour, though it remains unconscious unless healed. A creature dead no longer than 1 round returns at 1 HP, gains one permanent visible scar, and suffers -1 Constitution modifier until it completes seven full rests or receives Circle VIII or higher restorative magic. This rite cannot restore a destroyed body. Signature Blood Rite - Strong Stitch: The returned creature rises at one-quarter maximum HP and suffers no Constitution penalty, but you take 2 Constitution damage until full rest in addition to Blood Rite cost. Red Dominion - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: Up to one wounded creature per four Bloodmage levels. Duration: Concentration, up to 1 round/level. Save: Fortitude negates; repeat after damage. SR: Yes. On each of your turns, command each failed target to do one: move up to its speed, drop held objects, fall prone, or make one weapon attack against a legal target. You do not control speech, spell use, memories, or complex choices. A target repeats the save after it takes damage. Signature Blood Rite - First Command: Failed targets immediately obey one movement, drop, or prone command when the rite is cast.

CIRCLE VI

CIRCLE VII

Sanguine Dominion - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Area: 30-foot-radius aura. Duration: 1 minute. Save: None for allies; Fortitude partial for enemies. SR: Yes for enemies. Choose up to your Constitution modifier willing creatures in the aura. They gain +2 on weapon attacks, weapon damage, Fortitude saves, and death saves, plus 10 temporary HP. Wounded enemies treat the aura as difficult terrain; on entering or starting a turn there, they must save or lose immediate actions until their next turn. Signature Blood Rite - March of the Living: Chosen allies also gain +10 feet speed and may stand from prone without provoking. Vessel of Many - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: 10 minutes. Range: Touch. Target: Self plus up to three willing donors. Duration: 1 hour/level. Save: None. SR: No. Each donor gives 5 HP that cannot be healed until the rite ends. Choose two physical benefits present among the donors: one movement mode at the donor's normal speed, energy resistance 10, +2 to one physical ability modifier, natural armor +2, or one ordinary natural weapon. The rite cannot copy class features, spellcasting, unique legendary powers, or vampire feeding paths. Signature Blood Rite - Many Bloods: Choose a third legal benefit. Shared Fate - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One hostile creature with a physical body. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Will negates. SR: Yes. Bind its harm to yours. Once per round when you take HP damage, the target takes one-half as sanguine damage. Once per round when it receives healing, you regain one-half that amount. The target's damage cannot trigger Blood Mirror or another Shared Fate. Signature Blood Rite - Two Fates: Affect a second hostile creature within 15 feet. Divide reflected damage evenly between them. Heart Stop - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One creature with a functioning heart or equivalent organ. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: Fortitude partial. SR: Yes. On a failed save, a creature with Hit Dice no greater than your Bloodmage Hit Dice falls to -1 HP and begins dying. A creature with more Hit Dice, or one designated legendary by the Worldkeeper, instead takes 14d6 sanguine damage and is staggered for 1 round. On a successful save, any target takes half of 14d6 and is not staggered. Signature Blood Rite - Silence the Second Heart: A creature with multiple hearts suffers -2 on the save and loses regeneration for 1 round on failure.

CIRCLE VII

River of Blood Action: Standard. Range: Long. Area: 120-foot line, 20 feet wide. Duration: Instantaneous, terrain 1 minute. Save: Reflex partial. SR: Yes. A rushing river deals 14d6 bludgeoning and sanguine damage, pushes creatures up to 40 feet, and knocks them prone. A successful save halves damage, limits push to 10 feet, and prevents prone. The line remains slick difficult terrain. Signature Blood Rite - Bend the River: The line may turn once up to 90 degrees at a point you choose. Unkillable Wound - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Medium. Target: One living or blooded undead creature. Duration: Permanent until cured. Save: Fortitude negates. SR: Yes. Create a wound that refuses closure. The target bleeds for 2d6 each hour, cannot heal above three-quarters maximum HP, and leaves a trail visible to your Bloodsense on the same plane. Circle VII or higher healing, a successful dispel, or a specific cure determined by the Worldkeeper ends it. Signature Blood Rite - Battle Wound: For the first 3 rounds, the bleed occurs at the end of every turn instead of hourly. Body Claim - BODY Action: Full-round. Range: Touch. Target: One corpse dead no longer than 1 minute/level. Duration: 1 hour/level. Save: None. SR: No. Move your consciousness into the corpse. Your original body becomes helpless but stable. The claimed body uses its physical size, movement, Strength, Dexterity, and natural attacks; it uses your mental abilities, BAB, saves, skills, class features, and current Blood Points. It has temporary HP equal to half your maximum HP. If destroyed, you return to your body stunned for 1d4 rounds. Signature Blood Rite - Borrow the Memory of Motion: Gain one nonmagical movement proficiency or natural attack routine the body possessed in life, as approved by the Worldkeeper.

CIRCLE VII

CIRCLE VIII

Scarlet Colossus - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. Increase one size category, including space and reach. Gain +4 Strength modifier, +4 natural armor, damage reduction 8/-, and two slam attacks appropriate to the new size. Equipment resizes without changing base damage except as normal for size. You may still cast rites. This does not grant a Gladiator's techniques or a Berserker's extra strike. Signature Blood Rite - Giant's Advance: When cast, move up to your speed and make one slam or weapon attack. Perfect Circulation - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self or Touch. Target: One willing creature. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None. SR: No. The target gains fast healing 10, immunity to bleeding, poison, disease, paralysis, stunning, and fatigue, and may act normally underwater or in thin air. It does not become immune to HP damage, death effects, dismemberment, or maximum-HP loss. Signature Blood Rite - Restart the Body: When cast, end one paralysis, stun, poison, disease, or suffocation effect already present and restore 8d8 HP. Blood Moon Field - ACTIVE RITE Action: Standard. Range: Self. Area: 60-foot-radius emanation. Duration: 1 minute. Save: See text. SR: Yes for hostile effects. You know the square and health band of every wounded corporeal creature in the field. Your Bloodmage rite DCs against wounded creatures increase by +2. Hostile creatures receive only half healing, while willing allies gain +2 on saves against death, poison, disease, and bleeding. Signature Blood Rite - Red Sky: Increase the radius to 120 feet and prevent hostile teleportation out of the field unless the creature succeeds on a Will save. Blood Puppet - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Long. Target: Up to one wounded creature per three Bloodmage levels. Duration: 1 round/level. Save: Fortitude negates each round. SR: Yes. At the start of each target's turn, choose its movement or one physical standard action, including one weapon attack, stand, kneel, drop, grapple attempt, or manipulation of an object. The target retains speech, thoughts, and any actions you did not choose. Obviously suicidal commands grant +4 on the save. Signature Blood Rite - Marionette Jerk: Move every failed target up to 10 feet immediately when cast.

CIRCLE VIII

Empty Vein - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: Standard. Range: Long. Target: One creature with usable circulation. Duration: Instantaneous and 1 minute. Save: Fortitude partial. SR: Yes. On a failed save, choose one: blind it, silence it, make one arm unusable, reduce speed to 5 feet, or deal 16d6 sanguine damage. A physical impairment lasts 1 minute and allows a new save at the end of each turn. On a successful initial save, deal 8d6 damage and no impairment. Signature Blood Rite - Drain Two Paths: On a failed save, choose two impairments instead of one, but not the damage option. Last Breath Mortgage Action: Immediate when a creature within Medium range dies or would die. Range: Medium. Target: One creature with an intact body. Duration: 1 minute/level. Save: None when willing. SR: No. The target remains alive, conscious, and functional at 1 HP. It cannot be killed by HP loss during the rite, but damage is recorded. Healing first clears recorded damage. When the rite ends, the target dies if any recorded damage remains or if it has not been healed to at least one-quarter maximum HP. Signature Blood Rite - Shared Mortgage: Affect a second dying creature within 30 feet, but you immediately take unpreventable HP loss equal to your Bloodmage level. House of Flesh - BODY Action: 10 minutes. Range: Medium. Area: Up to a 30-foot cube. Duration: 1 hour/level. Save: None. SR: No. Grow a sealed chamber of muscle, bone, and warm membrane. It has hardness 10 and 20 HP per Bloodmage level, obeys simple opening commands, maintains breathable air, and heals resting living occupants 2 HP per round. It may crawl 10 feet per round on jointed limbs when directed but cannot attack. Signature Blood Rite - Walking Refuge: Increase speed to 30 feet and grant the structure tremorsense 60 feet, which it communicates to you by pulse.

CIRCLE VIII

CIRCLE IX

Crimson Apotheosis - ACTIVE RITE, BODY Action: Standard. Range: Self. Duration: 1 minute. Save: None. SR: No. Become a perfected engine of bloodmagic. Gain +4 Strength, +4 Dexterity, +6 Constitution, +5 natural armor, damage reduction 10/-, fast healing 15, +20 feet speed, and 10-foot additional melee reach. The first weapon hit and first damaging rite each round deal +3d6 sanguine damage. You remain mortal, and the Constitution increase does not create Blood Points or retroactively change Rite Wounds. Signature Blood Rite - Ascend Now: Cast as an immediate action when you would fall below half HP. Last Heartbeat Action: Immediate when a creature within Long range dies. Range: Long. Target: One creature dead no longer than the triggering moment. Duration: Instantaneous. Save: Reflex half for detonation. SR: Yes for detonation. Catch the final heartbeat and choose one: restore the creature to life at half maximum HP; ask the departing consciousness three questions answered from what it knew; or detonate the heartbeat in a 30-foot burst for 18d6 sanguine damage. Restoration requires an intact enough body and cannot return a creature whose spirit is trapped or unwilling. Signature Blood Rite - Hold the Beat: Store the heartbeat for up to 1 hour before choosing, carrying it as a visible crimson pulse. Final Offering Action: Standard. Range: Long. Target: One creature with a physical body. Duration: Instantaneous; caster loss 7 days. Save: Fortitude half. SR: Yes. Choose an amount up to half your maximum HP. Reduce your current and maximum HP by that amount for seven days. The target loses maximum HP equal to twice the amount; a successful save halves the target's loss. A creature reduced to 0 maximum HP becomes a dry husk. This cost is not Blood Rite and cannot be prevented or restored early except by a specific Circle IX effect. Signature Blood Rite - Offer Everything: You may sacrifice down to 1 maximum HP. If the target survives, you immediately fall unconscious for 1 hour. Name in the Blood - BLOOD-DEPENDENT Action: 1 hour. Range: Touch. Target: One blood sample and its owner. Duration: Permanent until fulfilled or broken. Save: Will negates. SR: Yes. Write one precise bodily covenant into the owner's blood: it cannot cross a named threshold, must physically answer when called by a true name, loses consciousness upon knowingly breaking a sworn condition, or another equally precise non-deity condition approved by the Worldkeeper. The rite cannot force belief, love, loyalty, worship, or impossible knowledge. Signature Blood Rite - Lineage Ink: The covenant also affects one named direct descendant who fails a separate save.

CIRCLE IX

Sea of Blood Action: Standard. Range: Long. Area: 60-foot-radius spread. Duration: 3 rounds. Save: Reflex partial. SR: Yes. A deep supernatural sea floods the area. Hostile creatures take 8d6 sanguine bludgeoning damage when it appears and 6d6 at the start of each later turn, are slowed, and must save or fall prone. Willing allies gain fast healing 10, swim through the sea at full land speed, and have total control of their breathing. Signature Blood Rite - Red Current: At the start of each turn, move any number of willing allies 20 feet and hostile failed creatures 10 feet within the sea. Sanguine Cataclysm Action: Standard. Range: Long. Area: 60-foot-radius burst. Duration: Instantaneous and 1 round. Save: Reflex half. SR: Yes. Crimson pressure, bone fragments, and cutting force erupt for 18d6 sanguine damage. Failed creatures are pushed 30 feet, knocked prone, and cannot regain HP until the end of your next turn. Structures and unattended objects take half damage. Signature Blood Rite - Eye of the Cataclysm: Exclude a number of 5-foot spaces equal to your Constitution modifier. This is not Shaman Weave and applies only to this casting. Bloodline Rewrite - BODY Action: 1 hour. Range: Touch. Target: One willing living or blooded undead creature. Duration: Permanent. Save: None when willing. SR: No. Rewrite one established biological trait: remove a hereditary disease, repair a permanent physical deformity, change blood compatibility, restore a lost ordinary organ or limb over 24 hours, suppress one non-legendary inherited weakness, or create a comparable bodily change approved by the Worldkeeper. This cannot grant class features, increase an ability modifier, create immortality, change a vampire feeding path, copy a unique race power, or alter identity and memory. Signature Blood Rite - Rewrite Under Fire: Reduce casting time to a full-round action for restoring a recently lost limb or organ, but the target is exhausted and cannot receive further Circle IX bodily alteration for seven days.

4. Suggested Starter Repertoires

Frontline starter Blood Edge, Sanguine Guard, Red Rush, Predator's Pulse, Coagulate, Blood Bolt. Protector starter Sanguine Guard, Red Rush, Coagulate, Blood Bolt, Predator's Pulse, Bloodprint. Investigator starter Bloodprint, Coagulate, Predator's Pulse, Blood Bolt, Sanguine Guard, Red Rush. First Circle II additions Crimson Strength and Shared Wound for close protection; Borrowed Vigor and Scarlet Reach for melee; Vein Snare and Blood Heat for control and damage; Vein Compass for pursuit.

4. Suggested Starter Repertoires

5. Final Play Guidance

The best Bloodmage turn is not always the turn with the largest Blood Price. The class rewards selecting the correct Active Rite, recognizing physiology, exploiting wounds, and keeping enough HP and Blood Points to survive the next exchange. If a rite is exciting only on paper but repeatedly useless in play, it should be reported for revision. The standard is simple: at almost every Circle, a Bloodmage player should see multiple rites he genuinely wants to cast.