Drain

Rank 1

• Drain Life: At-will, std, ranged; medium necrotic damage, plus you gain the same as temporary Hit Points (lasting the encounter).
• Drain Soul: At-will, swift, ranged; you gain a fragment of the subject's soul called a Soul Shard, which can be used in one of the following ways:
  • Fetish: you drain one of the subject's ability scores. They suffer a -4 penalty to that score while the soul shard exists, and you gain +4 to the same score. Lasts up to 24 hours.
  • Phylactery: you use the soul fragment as the component for a phylactery (see Create Phylactery), if you are capable of creating those.
  • Steal Ability: you gain access to a single chosen power, feat, or skill that the subject possesses, while you retain the shard. Lasts up to 24 hours. To use the ability, you must meet its prerequisites.
  • Redirect Divination: you can create a magic item that causes divinations against you to detect the subject, or vice versa, for 24 hours.

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Rank 2

• Death and Decay: area effect drain

• Ability Damage

• Soul Shards can now be used for:

  • Fooling a spell, ward, or magical effect into thinking you are its caster
  • Reading thoughts, attempting to implant thoughts or emotions, spying on subject's senses, attempting to inject sensory input
  • Crushing it causes 1 negative level to the subject, destroying the shard

Rank 3

• Demi: At-will, standard, ranged; subject suffers necrotic damage equal to half its current HP, Con half.