Death Sphere

You may make any of your ghost strikes against any corpse capable of being raised as a skeleton or zombie, or against any corporeal mindless undead under your control. The corpse explodes in a 20-foot radius, affecting all creatures in range as if they had been struck by the chosen ghost strike; if the ghost strike does not allow a saving throw, creatures affected are allowed a Reflex save to negate its effects.

The corpse or undead collapses and is destroyed; it cannot be reanimated or targeted by another Corpse Bomb.

You can alter a corpse in one of the following ways by touching it as a standard action:

• You grow flesh on a decomposed or skeletonized corpse, providing it with sufficient flesh that it can be animated as a zombie rather than a skeleton. The corpse looks as it did just before death. The new flesh is not fit for eating.
• You decompose the flesh from a corpse, leaving behind a perfectly cleaned skeleton.
• You can spend a spell point to touch a collapsed or destroyed undead corpse, mending it so it is a valid target to be reanimated again.
• You can spend a spell point to preserve the remains of a dead creature for 1 day per caster level so that they do not decay. Doing so effectively extends the time limit on raising that creature from the dead. Days spent under the influence of this spell do not count against the time limit. Additionally, this makes transporting a slain (and thus decaying) comrade less unpleasant. This ability also works on severed body parts and the like.
• You can reshape the dead body to look like another creature or even a specific person so long as you have firsthand knowledge of how that creature or person actually looks. You can make the corpse one size larger or smaller or change its apparent type, gender, or age. Attempt a Disguise check to determine how convincing the change is, though you may substitute your caster level for ranks in Disguise if desired.

As a standard action, you may make a single weapon attack in conjunction with making a ghost strike. This casting cannot be reduced below a standard action, and does not provoke attacks of opportunity, unless as usual if making a ranged attack. If the target is struck by the attack, it is also struck by the ghost strike. If using a scatter weapon, the strike only applies to a single target, chosen at the time of attack.

All creatures you reanimate gain a +4 enhancement bonus to their Strength and Dexterity.

When you reanimate a creature you may reanimate it as a variant skeleton or zombie, such as a bloody skeleton, burning skeleton, fast zombie, or plague zombie. When reanimating a creature in this way, they count as twice their normal Hit Dice when casting the reanimate sphere effect, but once controlled, count normally against your Hit Dice limit.

Example: For a Death sphere caster level of 10 who gained this talent, the caster can reanimate and control a combined total of 20 Hit Dice of creatures. The largest creature the caster can reanimate is either a 20 Hit Dice skeleton or zombie or a 10 Hit Dice variant skeleton or zombie. A variant skeleton or zombie does not count as 20 Hit Dice for your Hit Dice limit, only for the initial casting of the reanimate sphere effect. Hit Dice multipliers are additive; an undead with two variants, such as a bloody burning skeleton, counts for three times its normal Hit Dice (x2 increasing to x3) for the purposes of reanimating.

You may spend a spell point as a standard action to gain the ability to speak with undead and corpses for 1 minute per caster level. You can communicate with, ask questions of, and receive answers from them. A mindless undead or corpse spoken to with gravetongue does not maintain any memory of its life or death - only the time that has elapsed since its death (and reanimation).

A normal corpse’s sense of its surroundings is limited, so it will not be able to give (or recognize) detailed descriptions of creatures or answer questions about events outside its immediate vicinity. The spell does not make undead creatures any more friendly or cooperative than normal, and while mindless undead and corpses will always answer truthfully, their ability to answer more than simple questions is restricted. You do not need to share a language with the target.

Addendum: At the GM’s discretion, in worlds where magic can more easily access the afterlife or spiritual remnants of creatures, those with the Gravetongue talent and at least 5th caster level may be able to pull information from the remaining traces of a spirit in a corpse they can touch. By remaining in contact with a corpse for 1 minute while under the effects of the Gravetongue talent and spending a spell point, you may ask it up to 1 question per 5 caster levels you possess.

If the corpse is unwilling, it may attempt a Will save to either refuse or attempt to deceive you (such as by attempting a Bluff check). Questions asked and answers given this way must be brief; no more than ten words each, plus two additional words per caster level above 5th, and a corpse cannot be questioned more than once per week this way. If the corpse is particularly old (older than 100 years), is heavily damaged, only a partial corpse or otherwise in poor shape, any answers given may be vague and incomplete or only partially correct. [Archamgi's HB]

Increase the total Hit Dice creatures you may have reanimated at once to four times your caster level (from two times your caster level). You may select this talent a second time. If you do, increase the benefits of this talent to five times your caster level.

You may place a ghost strike of your choice onto an adjacent, unoccupied area up to one 5-foot square per two caster levels (minimum one 5-foot square), that lashes out at the first creature who enter its area, similar to a haunt.

The first creature who steps onto an affected square is affected by your ghost strike. If the ghost strike does not allow a saving throw, the creature affected is allowed a Will save to negate its effects. After activation, this haunt disappears.

A haunting apparition lasts for 10 minutes per caster level before becoming inert. It shares your alignment, and its Perception DC and hit points are equal to its save DC. You may only have one active haunt apparition at a time; placing a second haunting apparition deactivates the first. You may select this talent multiple times. Each time it is taken, increase the number of haunting apparitions you may have active at once by 1.

When you use a ghost strike, instead of unleashing an attack yourself, you may have an undead you control within range deliver the attack as a melee touch attack sometime within the next round. This charge is ‘held’ through the round; if the undead gets multiple attacks, it can attempt to deliver the touch attack additional times if the first attempt failed. If you spend an additional spell point, you may grant a use of this ghost strike to each undead you control, but multiple undead cannot affect the same target with the same ghost strike that round.

As a standard action you may touch a small container of liquid and instill a reanimate inside it, which functions as an oil. This cannot be combined with Sustained Reanimation, and undead created through an instilled liquid still consider you their creator, counting against your totals and following your commands.

Alternatively, you may spend a spell point to instill a ghost strike. As a standard action, this can be primed and thrown as a splash weapon. All targets affected by the splash (5-foot radius) must save against any ghost strike effect requiring a saving throw, but any target not affected by a direct hit treats any dice rolls from the effect as if they had rolled their minimum.

An instilled liquid remains potent until you rest to regain spell points. If you have equipment on hand (such as an alchemy lab), the cost of bottles and water is considered negligible. You may target food but not an already-magical item, such as a potion. All spell points must be spent and all variables of the sphere effect must be chosen at the time the instilled liquid is created. You cannot instill multiple effects in a single liquid, nor create multiple instilled liquids with a single action.

Your ghost strikes can rip the very soul from the living. If a target fails their saving throws against your ghost strikes 3 times within a 1-minute period, they immediately die (Fortitude negates). If a ghost strike does not allow a save, it is not usable with this talent.

When using your reanimate ability, you may spend an additional spell point to reanimate multiple creatures at once. Your Hit Dice limits apply to the total number you may reanimate at once with this ability.

When making a ghost strike, you may spend an additional spell point to form your ghost strike into a close-range cone, allowing you to make an attack roll against every target within this area. (Formerly Greater Ghost Strike and Mass Reanimate)

Whenever you take control of one or more undead with Command Undead or a similar ability, you may, as a swift action, spend a spell point to grant those undead the benefits of any talents that you apply to an undead upon reanimation (such as increased ability scores from Empowered Reanimate or a bonus feat from Reanimated Warriors). These benefits last for the duration of your control over the undead.

Increase the range at which you can reanimate from touch to close range, your ghost strike from medium to long range, and the range you can use your dominion abilities from close to medium range.

You may select this talent up to 3 times. Each time it is selected, the range of your Death sphere abilities increase by 1 additional step to a maximum range of long (close to medium, medium to long).

When you reanimate a corpse or corpses, they remain for 1 hour per caster level instead of 1 minute per caster level. You may reanimate a single corpse as a sustained undead without spending a spell point, but the duration of the reanimate effect is changed to ‘concentration’. A sustained undead only counts as half their Hit Dice (rounded up, minimum 1) against the total amount you may have reanimated at once. You can never have more than 1 sustained undead.

Wiki Note: Formerly Lingering Necromancy and Sustained Reanimation; any references to those refer to this talent.

Whenever a target fails their saving throw against your ghost strike, the creature affected has all healing effects used on it halved for 1 round per 2 caster levels. If you spend an additional spell point, it cannot heal hit point damage by any means for the duration, including fast healing and regeneration. In addition, you can touch a willing creature as a standard action to cause them to be healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy for 1 minute (Fortitude negates if unwilling); as normal, fast healing is unaffected.

You can make a melee touch attack against a living creature up to your size to attempt to absorb it into your body, similar to the swallow whole ability (Reflex negates).

Being absorbed causes a creature to take negative energy damage each round equal to 1d6 + 1d6 for every three caster levels you have (undead are not affected). An absorbed creature gains the grappled condition, while you do not. An absorbed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon (the amount of cutting damage required to get free is equal to 1/10 your total hit points), or it can just try to escape as if escaping a grapple (using your CMD or your MSD, whichever is higher). The armor class of your interior is 10 + 1/2 your caster level, with no modifiers for size or Dexterity. If an absorbed creature cuts its way out, you cannot use this talent again until the damage is healed.

Alternatively, you can touch a corpse or undead that you control as a move action to absorb it into your body or to expel an absorbed corpse or undead into an adjacent square. While absorbed, an undead cannot use any of its senses or take any actions, and time passes normally - corpses rot and reanimate’s duration continues to pass.

You can have a number of corpses or controlled undead absorbed at a time equal to 1 plus 1 for every 3 caster levels you have. You can spend a spell point to expel all absorbed corpses and undead with a single swift action. While you have at least one undead absorbed, you give off an aura that can be detected by Divine Undead equal to the highest Hit Dice undead absorbed, but your appearance is not otherwise changed.

Creatures and bodies stored within your tomb of flesh are stored in an extradimensional space; you do not increase in size no matter how many creatures and bodies are stored inside you.

Whenever you would take hit point damage that would reduce you to 0 hit points or less, you can spend 1 spell point as an immediate action to sacrifice a mindless undead creature you control within your dominion range, destroying it instantly; reduce the damage you take by the sacrificed undead’s current hit points (to a minimum of 0).

You can telepathically order and communicate with undead creatures you control within your dominion range. You do not need line of sight or effect to maintain this connection. Only targets completely under your control are valid; charmed undead are not truly under your control, and as such do not qualify.

Giving basic commands to an undead is a free action, but your increased control allows you to master complex commands for your undead as well. Choose any 2 tricks + 1 per 5 caster levels that can be taught to an animal or the pose as scenery trick (see the Handle Animal skill). Mindless undead you control are able to perform these tricks when ordered to as a move action. This does not allow you to train undead for a purpose, “push” an undead to perform a task it normally would not be able to, or accomplish other effects of the Handle Animal skill.

Additionally, so long as an undead you control is within your dominion range, you may, as a full-round action, concentrate on that undead to perceive that creature’s surroundings as if you were standing where that creature was. While you may use the creature’s special sense (i.e., darkvision, etc.), you must use your own Perception skill if attempting a check.

You can select this talent multiple times; each time you do after the first, increase the number of tricks your undead can perform by 3.

You gain the following abilities which allow you to direct, manipulate, and command undead creatures you control within your dominion range:

• Command Attack: As a standard action, one undead within your dominion range makes an attack against a creature within its threatened reach (or range, if the undead can use a ranged weapon). If you possess the Mass Death Magic talent, you may spend an additional spell point to grant an attack to 1 additional undead per 2 caster levels (minimum 1). If a creature would be attacked by more than one undead with this effect, choose one undead to be the primary attacker. Each additional undead attacking that same target instead uses the aid another action to assist the primary attacking undead’s attack roll, even if those undead could not normally use the aid another action to assist against that target. If you possess the Reanimated Warriors talent, you may use this ability to allow your undead to assist your own efforts. As an immediate action after you make a weapon attack roll, you may choose one undead within your dominion range. That undead either uses the aid another action to assist your attack roll or is granted an attack of opportunity against the target of your attack, provided that your attack hits the target. An undead granted the ability to use the aid another action or granted an attack of opportunity this way must be able to take the action normally, such as being in a position to aid another you normally or by having the target of your attack within their threatened area.
• Siphon Life: Whenever you or an undead within your dominion range reduces a creature to 0 or fewer hit points, you may use this talent as an immediate action to grant yourself or an undead within range a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d6 + your caster level which last for 1 minute. You may use this effect as a free action that can be taken even when it is not your turn by spending an additional spell point.
• Creatures within your dominion range of you or an undead with temporary hit points from this effect take a -2 penalty on their saving throw against the Necrotic Feeding (ghost strike) talent.
• Unnerving Pulse: As a standard action, one undead within range releases an unnerving wave of energy. Creatures within 5 feet + 5 feet per 5 caster levels are shaken for 1d4 rounds (Will negates). This is a mind-affecting fear effect.

Mindless undead under your control are always considered willing targets of these abilities. An unwilling undead may attempt a Will save to negate this talent’s effects and not be manipulated.

You gain the following abilities which allow you to reanimate incomplete corpses and individual corpse parts:

Reanimate Piecemeal Undead: You can reanimate an individual part or parts of a corpse as a piecemeal undead, such as reanimating a corpse’s arm or skull or a torso with an arm. When reanimating piecemeal undead this way, use the statistics of an appropriately sized animated object (see the Enhancement sphere, Ultimate Spheres of Power pg. 288, 577) with the undead construction flaw and no other construction point abilities or construction flaws. Piecemeal undead otherwise count as an undead creature you reanimated, count against the total number of reanimated creatures you may have active at any one time normally, and obey your commands as normal for an undead you reanimated. A piecemeal undead will usually be anywhere from three sizes smaller to approximately the same size as the original corpse. See Table: Piecemeal Undead to determine the appropriate animated object size for a piecemeal undead.

A piecemeal undead is not a skeleton or zombie and cannot be modified by the Expanded Necromancy talent, except as described below. Piecemeal undead do not count as animated objects for the purposes of Enhancement sphere talents, feats, and other abilities.

Infuse Piecemeal Undead: You can grant an intact undead under your control the ability to split off parts of itself to create piecemeal undead as described in the Reanimate Piecemeal Undead ability. As a standard action, or as a free action when reanimating one or more undead, you may spend a spell point to grant one undead within your dominion range the ability to split off a part of itself. If you possess Mass Death Magic, you may spend an additional spell point to grant this ability to 1 additional undead per 2 caster levels (minimum 1). An undead granted the ability to split off a part of itself can spend a full-round action to create a piecemeal undead of an appropriate size to the body part used into an adjacent, unoccupied space (such as a zombie tearing off its own arm or hand, or the skull of a skeleton popping off). You must be able to control the Hit Dice of a piecemeal undead created this way or it fails to be created. Piecemeal undead created this way share the duration of the reanimate effect which initially created the intact undead it was separated from and possesses any properties (including defensive abilities, special abilities, and special attacks) possessed by that undead, subject to GM discretion, but does not increase any existing defensive abilities it would possess as a piecemeal undead (such as damage reduction or natural armor). This can include abilities granted by a variant, such as those from the Expanded Necromancy talent, allowing for a bloody skeleton to separate its arm from itself to create an appropriately sized “bloody” piecemeal undead with the fast healing and deathless qualities from the bloody skeleton variant.

Only undead raised from intact corpses, such as those normally available without this talent, can be granted the ability to split with this talent; piecemeal undead can never be granted the ability to split off parts of themselves. An intact undead can only separate a single part of itself as a piecemeal undead at any given time, but can spend a move action when within reach of the piecemeal undead created from its body to rejoin with it. When an undead separates a part of itself to create a piecemeal undead, it loses a number of hit points equal to the piecemeal undead’s hit points, to a maximum of half the intact undead’s current hit points. If the body part used grants the intact undead a natural attack (such as a skeleton removing its arm), that undead loses that natural attack until it rejoins with the piecemeal undead. If the body part is one of the intact undead’s legs or wings, it reduces its movement speed with the appropriate movement type by 10 feet until it rejoins with the piecemeal undead.

Choose a combat talent, combat feat, or teamwork feat you possess. Undead you reanimate and control gain the benefit of this talent or feat when they are within your dominion range. You cannot choose a feat that has another feat as a prerequisite nor feats that grant open-ended bonuses (such as Extra Combat Talent), but your undead do not otherwise need to meet the feat’s prerequisites.

Whenever you rest and recover spell points, you may change the feat or talent chosen. You may take this talent multiple times; each time you do, you may grant an additional combat talent, combat feat, or teamwork feat to your undead. Feats granted by this talent can be used to meet the prerequisites of additional feats.

Whenever you succeed at an attack roll made as part of a ghost strike, you can choose to mark the affected creature with necrotic energy as a free action. If a marked creature dies within your dominion range within 1 round per caster level, you can spend 1 spell point as an immediate action to reanimate its body. You can only have a number of creatures marked at a time equal to your casting ability modifier (minimum 1).

If you possess Sustained Necromancy, you may use this talent to reanimate the body without spending a spell point if you concentrate on it with that talent.

Undead you reanimate and control gain one skill rank per caster level. These skill ranks cannot be spent on a Knowledge skill, but otherwise any skill is valid as long as either you or the creature (when it was alive) possess ranks in the chosen skill. Undead cannot possess more ranks in a skill than either you possess in that skill or that it possessed in life, whichever is greater. You may command these undead to use their skills as a basic command.

If you possess the Master’s Presence (dominion) talent, your undead may use your skill ranks in place of their own for any valid skill check, so long as they are within your dominion range.

You may make a ghost strike that deals 1 bleed damage per caster level (minimum 1; no save). Targets take damage on the round they are hit, plus each additional round until the bleed effect stops (usually through the Heal skill or an application of magical healing). You may spend a spell point to improve this effect to 2 bleed damage per caster level (minimum 2).

You may make a ghost strike that painfully contorts the target’s skeleton, exoskeleton, or body. The target suffers 1d6 + 1d6 per 3 caster levels damage and moves 5 feet + 5 feet per 10 caster levels into an unoccupied space of your choice (Fortitude partial; half damage and no forced movement). Forced movement from this effect does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and the target can only move into a space it could reach with its natural movement. The target receives a +4 bonus to their saving throw if you would move them into a location that is directly harmful to them (such as onto a bed of spikes, out of a window, etc.).

If you spend an additional spell point when using this ghost strike, the target is repeatedly wracked with pain for a short time. On a failed Fortitude saving throw against this ghost strike's initial effects, the target is afflicted for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 your caster level (minimum 1). For the duration of this effect, the target suffers the effects of this ghost strike at the start of its turn, taking damage and being forced to move. The target is granted a new saving throw against this ghost strike to reduce its effects, but a successful saving throw does not end this ghost strike's duration.

Special: This ghost strike affects any creature with a skeleton, exoskeleton, or other similar body structure, bypassing any racial immunity to Fortitude saves or death effects the target may possess. Creatures without discernible anatomy are immune (such as elementals, oozes, or other appropriate creatures, usually those immune to critical hits or with the amorphous universal monster rule). At the GM’s discretion, creatures with reasonably discernable anatomy or body structures, such as a robot or construct whose inner gears and pieces may instead shake and rattle violently, can be affected by this ghost strike.

Author's Note: For the purposes of the Killing Curse talent, only the initial saving throw is considered the saving throw "against your ghost strike"; additional, subsequent saving throws during Bonerattle's duration do not count towards Killing Curse.

You may spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that grants you a measure of control over an undead creature (Will negates). For 1 minute per caster level, an unintelligent undead creature falls under your control or an intelligent undead becomes friendly toward you. You can give an intelligent undead creature orders, but you must win an opposed Charisma check to convince it to do anything it would not ordinarily do. Retries are not allowed. An intelligent commanded undead never obeys suicidal or obviously harmful orders, but it might be convinced that something very dangerous is worth doing. Any act by you or your apparent allies that threatens the commanded undead (regardless of its Intelligence) breaks this effect.

Your commands are not telepathic; the undead creature must be able to hear you. Intelligent undead remember they were manipulated and may seek revenge.

You may spend 2 spell points to make a ghost strike that bestows a permanent curse on the target (Will negates). Curses may be removed with the Break Enchantment Life talent, rituals such as break enchantment or remove curse, wishes, upon your death, or by your choice as a free action, but otherwise cannot be dispelled.

Choose one of the following curses to bestow upon the target:

• The target suffers a -4 decrease to an ability score plus an additional -2 per 5 caster levels (minimum 1).
• The target suffers a -3 penalty on all attack rolls, saving throws, ability checks, and skill checks plus an additional -1 per 5 caster levels.
• Each turn the target has a 25% chance to take no action. This chance increases by 5% per 2 caster levels (maximum 75%).

Curses do not stack with themselves, but a target can be afflicted by multiple different curses. With GM permission, you may invent your own curse, but it should be of equal power to those listed. The following effects would be considered appropriate:

• Black Mark: The target is trailed by an unpleasant aura. The target takes a penalty on all Diplomacy and Handle Animal checks equal to 1/2 your caster level. All creatures begin with an attitude of unfriendly towards you (unless their attitude would start worse). Any animals the target interacts with react wildly, with prey animals running away and predator animals baring fangs or even attacking the target. [Gravecaller's HB]
• Clumsy: The target cannot move faster than half their speed without an Acrobatics check vs. the curse’s DC. On a failure, the target falls prone.
• Extreme Hunger: The target must eat and drink three times as much as normal every day or begin suffering from thirst and starvation.
• Fumble: Anytime the victim picks up or retrieves an object (including drawing a weapon or ammunition), there is a 50% chance that he immediately drops it. If ammunition is dropped, the attack being made is lost. Any remaining attacks in a full attack action may still be attempted.
• Greater Pain: Whenever the victim takes damage, he is staggered for 1 round.
• Magically Conductive: When the victim is adjacent to the area of a damaging spell or spell-like effect, the area expands to include the victim.
• Old Age: The target gains the penalties (but not the benefits) of advancing to the next age category. This does not actually increase their age.
• Phobia: The target is cursed with a fear of a concept, chosen by the caster (such as crowds, spiders, rats, thunder, loud noises, etc.). Each round the target sees or hears a manifestation of its phobia (such as a spider, or an illusionary spider), the target must succeed at a Will save or be frightened for 1d4 rounds. A target cannot be frightened by the same phobia’s manifestation more than once per hour (such as the same spider, the same crowd, etc.) but new instances of the phobia work normally. GMs should determine if a phobia is appropriate by considering how frequently the target may encounter it. A phobia which would constantly trigger, such as a phobia towards “skin” or “all clothing”, would be more debilitating than the chance to take no action from the Curse (ghost strike)’s base options, and would not be appropriate. This curse is a mind-affecting effect. [Gravecaller's HB]
• Repel Healing: The victim cannot heal naturally, and magical healing heals the victim by only half the usual amount (minimum 1 point). Fast healing and regeneration are likewise halved.
• Unfocused: The target suffers a penalty equal to your casting ability modifier to all skill checks governed by an attribute of your choice.

Addendum: [SM—] When you afflict a target with a curse, you may have the effects of the curse only apply in specific circumstances such as when the target is in a specific place or performing a specific task using the same trigger conditions as the Contingency feat. You may have the curse delay in activation and remain constant or suppress itself again when the parameters are no longer fulfilled.
In addition, you may select the following additional effects

• Skill Blockage: The target takes a penalty equal to 5 + 1/2 your caster level on all skill checks made using a chosen ability score.
• Twisted Fortune: Whenever the target or their immediate allies roll a d% to determine the outcome of an event (such as a random encounter or a downtime event), they roll an additional time and the GM chooses the result from between the two, selecting whichever one they believe will be less desirable for the cursed target.

^{Source: Baron’s Secluded Library}

You may spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that imposes 1 temporary negative level on the target for one hour per caster level (no save). This increases by 1 die size per 5 caster levels (1d2, 1d3, 1d4, and 1d6). Unlike with other ghost strikes, negative levels stack. While normally negative levels have a chance to become permanent and can kill a target whose negative levels equal its Hit Dice, these negative levels do not last long enough to become permanent, and if a negative level from this ghost strike would reduce the creature to 0 Hit Dice, the creature instead takes 4 points of Constitution drain for the duration of the effect. If a negative level lasts longer than 1 day, the target must succeed at a Fortitude save per negative level or have the negative level become permanent. If this ability is used on an undead creature, it instead grants the creature 5 temporary hit points per negative level, which last for 1 hour.

You may spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that permanently curses the target to become plagued by chickens, ducks, or another similar bird of your choice (Will negates). Whenever the target draws a weapon or pulls an item out of a container, they have a 50% chance of drawing a live bird instead. The bird’s starting attitude toward the target is hostile, and will react appropriately to being drawn out by its ankles (or other part of its body). A bird’s body created by this effect disappears if it dies.

If you spend an additional spell point when casting this sphere effect, the target always draws the same live bird, even if it was killed previously. Drawing this bird causes it to disappear from wherever it was and appear in the target’s hands. The bird remembers the target and will behave appropriately, usually becoming angrier with each draw. With enough time, some birds may realize peace was never an option.

You may spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that saps a creature of its energy (Will negates). On a failed save, the subject is fatigued and takes nonlethal damage equal to 1d8 per caster level. This is considered starvation damage, and as such the fatigue and nonlethal damage cannot be healed, even by magic, until the target consumes some sort of food (a standard action, assuming the food is on hand and need not be dug out of a backpack first). If no food is available, the target begins to attempt Constitution checks per day as normal for starvation.

Multiple applications of hunger do not stack; only the highest nonlethal damage applies.

You may spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that causes the target to contract a disease (Fortitude negates). The subject contracts one of the following diseases: blinding sickness, bubonic plague, cackle fever, filth fever, leprosy, mindfire, red ache, shakes, or slimy doom. The disease is contracted immediately (the onset period does not apply). Use the disease’s listed frequency and save DC to determine further effects.

You may make a ghost strike that emulates the power of a lich’s touch, incapacitating the target. The target is staggered for 1 round plus 1 round per 4 caster levels (Fortitude negates). If you spend 2 additional spell points, the target is instead paralyzed for 1 round per caster level (Fortitude negates). On a successful save to avoid paralysis, the target is instead staggered for 1 round. A target paralyzed by this ghost strike is allowed a new Fortitude save each round to end this effect early. This is a fullround action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity.

A creature paralyzed by the Lich Strike talent seems dead, though a Perception check (DC 15 + caster level) or Heal check (DC 15 + 1/2 caster level) reveals that the creature is still alive.

You may make a ghost strike that harms undead, dealing 1d8 damage per 2 caster levels (minimum 1d8, Will half). You may spend a spell point to instead heal the undead for this amount.

You may make a ghost strike that causes a living creature that is below 0 hit points but stabilized to resume dying. You may also spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that, when it strikes a target below 0 hit points, kills it instantly (Will negates).

If the target fails their saving throw, you gain temporary hit points equal to twice the target’s Hit Dice, as well as a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength and Dexterity, which increases by +2 for every 8 Hit Dice the target possesses. These effects last for 10 minutes per Hit Die of the slain creature. Bonuses from multiple creatures do not stack; only the highest bonuses apply.

You may make a ghost strike that attaches a vengeful poltergeist to the target, disrupting their actions. Whenever the target makes a d20 roll within 1 round per caster level, you can choose for them take a -3 penalty to the roll, ending this effect. This penalty is increased by 1 for every 6 caster levels you have.

If you spend a spell point when you use this ghost strike, you can impose the penalty on up to one d20 roll the target makes each round for the effect’s duration, and imposing the penalty does not end the effect. A creature can only be affected by one poltergeist at a time.

You may make a ghost strike that causes the target to be sickened for 1 round per caster level (Fortitude negates). You may spend a spell point to cause the target to instead become nauseated. On a successful save, the target is still sickened for 1 round.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Debilitating Talents 2}

You may spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that disrupts the bonds between layered planes. An incorporeal creature hit by this ghost strike must succeed a Will saving throw or be considered corporeal for a number of rounds equal to your caster level (minimum 1). The creature can attempt another saving throw at the end of their turn to dismiss this effect.

You may spend a spell point to make a ghost strike that deals 1d6 damage per 2 caster levels to the target (minimum 1d6) and grants yourself an equal number of temporary hit points that last 1 minute per caster level (Fortitude half). You cannot gain more temporary hit points in this manner than the subject’s current hit points + their Constitution score. If you strike multiple targets at once with the same vampiric strike (for example, through the Mass Death Magic talent) you cannot gain more temporary hit points than 3 per caster level (minimum 6).

You may make a ghost strike that inflicts a 1d4 point penalty to the target’s Strength or Dexterity (your choice, Fortitude negates) for 1 round per level. You may spend a spell point to increase this reduction by half your caster level (minimum 1) and cause a successful Fortitude save to only halve the effect instead of negate it. This cannot reduce the target’s Strength or Dexterity scores to less than 1.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Project Spirit (advanced)), caster level 10th.

When using the Project Spirit advanced Death talent, you may spend an additional spell point to project your spirit into the Astral Plane instead of the Ethereal Plane. You may bring up to 1 additional willing creature per 2 caster levels with you, provided these creatures are linked in a circle with you at the time. These fellow travelers are dependent upon you and must accompany you at all times. If something happens to you during the journey, your companions are stranded wherever you left them.

While you are on the Astral Plane, your astral body is connected at all times to your physical body by an incorporeal silver cord. If the cord is broken, you are killed, astrally and physically.

Luckily, very few things can destroy a silver cord. Unlike a regular use of the Project Spirit talent, you and your companions may travel through the Astral Plane in this manner indefinitely, until you either choose to end the effect (which returns you to your body) or it is ended by some outside means. This effect may be dispelled like any other sphere effect by targeting either your astral form or your physical body. Dispelling this effect immediately returns you to your body.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Astral Projection (advanced), Project Spirit (advanced)), caster level 15th.

When projecting yourself and/or your allies into the Astral Plane, you may spend an additional spell point (bringing the total to 3) to allow you and your allies to travel astrally to any of the other planes that border the Astral Plane. If you choose to enter one of these planes, you form a new physical body (and equipment) on that plane of existence, exactly like your true form, although the silver cord remains invisibly attached to this new body, and magic items used still count against the item’s total uses. You are still subject to the weaknesses of an astral form (you may be dispelled, your cord may be broken, etc.). If your new form is killed, you are returned to your original body, gaining 2 permanent negative levels as normal.

Prerequisites: Death sphere, caster level 5th

You may spend 2 spell points to hemorrhage a target’s body to a specific point of capacity. A target who fails a Fortitude save is reduced to half of their maximum hp (rounded down). If a creature is already at or below half their hp, they are treated as having succeeded at their saving throw. On a successful saving throw, they instead take 1d6 points of damage per 2 caster levels.
If you possess the life sphere, you may cause a creature who is below half their hp to instead be restored to half their maximum hp.

Source: Card Casting 2: Counters and Control

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Corpse Manipulation), caster level 3rd.

As a standard action, you can destroy one undead you reanimated and control within your dominion range to add its Hit Dice to another undead you reanimated and control within range. The creature receiving the benefit of this talent does not gain any other abilities of the sacrificed creature beyond the increase in Hit Dice, although its own abilities are recalculated using the higher Hit Dice. Add their current hit points together (to a maximum of their new total hit points), and use the longer of their durations. The resulting undead can have Hit Dice above 20, but still cannot possess Hit Dice greater than twice your caster level. When the reanimate duration ends, all combined corpses separate into their original forms.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Haunting Apparition), caster level 5th.

You may spend 1 minute and 5 spell points to create a haunt with a CR equal to or less than 1/2 your Death sphere caster level. These haunts share your alignment. Haunts created through this talent have a destruction condition of being successfully affected with the Break Enchantment talent from the Life sphere or other effects that would counter a curse.

Prerequisites: Death sphere, caster level 5th.

You draw forth the ebbing life force of a dying creature or one that has died in the past round, transforming it into a soul gem. The target must be within range of your ghost strike in order for you to use this ability on them (or within close range if you do not possess the ability to use ghost strike). If the creature is dying but alive and fails its saving throw, it dies and you capture its soul in the gem.

If the creature is dead, it can still resist this effect by attempting a Will save as if it were still alive. The value of the soul gem created depends on the nature of the creature it is made from (see below). Soul gems created by this effect crumble to dust after 1 day per caster level, releasing the trapped soul to travel on to the afterlife.

Only one soul gem can be created from a dying creature. Any attempt to resurrect a body whose soul is trapped in a soul gem requires a magical skill check against your MSD. Failure results in the resurrection having no effect, while success shatters the target’s soul gem and returns the creature to life as normal. If you possess the Death sphere Soul Trap advanced talent, you may transfer a soul contained in a soul gem into an appropriate gemstone as a standard action by spending 3 spell points.

If a creature does not possess a soul, they are unaffected by this talent. If a creature’s soul is already pledged to another entity such as a god or outsider, said entity may seek to reclaim the soul somehow.

The Value of Souls

Trapped souls are one of the fundamental currencies throughout Abaddon, the Abyss, and Hell. Three key factors influence a soul's value in the soul trade: the strength of the soul's life force (which relates directly to the CR of the creature from which the soul was harvested), the soul's age (how long the soul has been cycled through reincarnation, which directly relates to the sapience of the creature from which the soul was harvested), and the soul's flavor (which is determined by factors that include the alignment, personality, and religion of the creature from which the soul was harvested). It is worth noting that while trading in souls may prove lucrative, the practice may be considered evil or an affront to the natural order in certain settings unless one is trading souls for an altruistic purpose (such as to smash purchased prisons and release the souls trapped within).

Life Force: A souls' life force sets its base gp value. This is equal to the CR of the creature from which the soul was harvested x 1000. Thus, the base value of a CR 1 creature is 1000 gp, while the base value of a CR 20 creature's soul is 20,000 gp.

Age: A soul from a creature who in life had an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score of 2 or less (including the lack of a score at all in one of those categories, and regardless of how high the other ability scores were) is less refined and younger in age, and as such worth half its base value. Thus, the soul of a CR 1 animal with an Intelligence of 1 is worth 500 gp, while the soul of a CR 20 vermin with no Intelligence score at all would be worth 10,000 gp.

Flavor: As a general rule, a soul's flavor has no direct impact on its gp value for the purposes of functioning as a material component or raw materials for magic item creation, but in certain circumstances subject to the GM's discretion, the soul's flavor can halve or double its final value. For example, a paladin's soul might have double its normal value to a daemon who finds lawful good souls to be particularly delicious, while the soul of a devout worshiper of a chaotic good deity might be worth only half as much when used to create a magic item designed to be particularly deadly to chaotic good creatures, since such a soul would inherently resist being used in such a way.

A soul's value can be used as currency when purchasing favors from outsiders or may be used as the materials to craft items. Other uses such as spell, ritual, or incantation components may exist at GM discretion.

Oath of Loyalty and Souls

When a being who has sworn an Oath of Loyalty dies, the being or organization which they have sworn the Oath of Loyalty to (referred to as the claimant) may claim the character's soul. A claimed soul cannot be resurrected by any means short of a wish or miracle spell (unless the claimant wishes otherwise) and the claimant is automatically aware of any successful resurrection of a soul they have claimed. A claimed soul resurrected in this way is considered to have forsworn any Oaths of Loyalty they have previously sworn.

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Soul Trap (advanced)), caster level 15th.

When using the Soul Trap talent to trap a soul, you may instead choose to sever it. You do not need a gemstone and do not capture its soul. Instead the creature can no longer be resurrected except by use of spells such as wish, miracle or true resurrection or talents such as Supreme Resurrection from the Life sphere.

If your permanent caster level is at least 20, a creature whose soul has been severed can only be brought back to life with a wish, miracle or true resurrection if the soul is located (typically, the soul is hidden somewhere important to the original creature). Magical search by a crystal ball, a locate object spell, or other similar divinations (including most effects from the Divination sphere) does not reveal the fact that a creature’s soul is severed, but the wish, miracle, discern location or the Discern Location advanced talent do reveal the location of the severed soul. Even if the soul is located, attempting to resurrect the severed soul requires a successful magic skill check against 15 + your permanent caster level unless the effect comes from an artifact, deity, or mythic creature with more mythic tiers or ranks than you.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Icy Grip, any one (dominion) talent), caster level 5th.

While an undead you reanimated is within your dominion range, you may spend an additional spell point as part of creating a magical sphere effect to treat the undead as the point of origin for any effect you create. Personal-range spells take effect on the undead channeling the effect rather than yourself.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Drain (ghost strike)), caster level 15th.

You may spend an additional spell point when using the Drain ghost strike to increase the number of temporary negative levels by one additional die (2d4, 2d6, 2d8, etc., maximum 2d12) and increase the duration of these negative levels to 24 hours (if this duration would be higher).

Prerequisites: Death sphere (avasculation), caster level 10th

You may spend an additional spell point when using avasculation to cause the target to fall to 1 hp rather half their maximum hp on a failed Fortitude save.

Source: Card Casting 2: Counters and Control

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Command Undead (ghost strike), Sustained Necromancy).

When a creature fails its saving throw against your Command Undead ghost strike, you may extend the duration of the effect to 1 hour per caster level. If you do, the Hit Dice of the controlled undead count towards the number of Hit Dice of undead you may reanimate.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Curse (ghost strike)), caster level 15th.

When you successfully apply a curse through your Curse ghost strike, the DC to remove it is increased by +5. Additionally, you may apply much more powerful curses to the target, examples of which are outlined below:

Curse of Ages: The target ages 1 year every day.

Daybane: The target suffers 1d6 points of nonlethal damage for every minute of exposure to bright light, including daylight. This does not become lethal damage if the target falls unconscious.

Dayblind: The target is blind except in dim light or darkness.

Famine: Any food that the target attempts to consume instantly rots into a putrescent mass. The target can attempt a Fortitude save to choke down the spoiled food. If the target fails at the check, she takes 1d2 points of Constitution damage. In either case, attempting to consume food leaves the target sickened and unable to eat for 1d4 hours. Food created by magic can resist spoilage with a successful magic skill check against the DC of the curse.

Font of Truth: The target is unable to intentionally lie. In addition, anytime the target is asked a question, she must succeed at a Will save or answer in exacting, truthful detail. The target receives an additional save once per minute to cease elaborating upon her answer.

Insanity: The target gains either amnesia, mania/phobia, multiple personality disorder, paranoia, psychosis, or schizophrenia, as detailed in the Pathfinder RPG GameMastery Guide.

Lycanthropy: The target becomes afflicted with lycanthropy.

Ravenous: The target must attempt a Fortitude save every hour. If it fails, it must eat a full day’s worth of food. If sufficient food is not available, starvation advances at the rate of 1 day per failed Fortitude save.

Unluck: Once per hour, the target must reroll one roll (decided by the GM) and take the worse result.

Venerable: The target gains the penalties (but not the benefits) of advancing to the venerable age range. This does not actually increase their age.

Vulnerability: The target gains vulnerability to a single energy type. This has no effect on targets immune to the chosen energy type.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Sustained Necromancy, Permanent Undead (advanced)), caster level 5th.

You may spend 3 spell points and 1 hour to reanimate a body as a greater form of undead, including banshees, vampires, wights, and others. This is always an instantaneous effect, creating permanent undead that cannot be dispelled.

The created undead cannot have a challenge rating above 1/2 your caster level, and the created undead are not automatically under your control; alternate means of control must be established. Many undead have specific requirements for their creation listed in their descriptions (banshees are the spirits of female elves who either betrayed a lover or were betrayed by one, bodaks are extraplanar undead created in the Abyss, allips are the spirits of insane suicides, etc.). These prerequisites must be met in order to create a specific kind of undead.

At caster level 15th, you may create any form of undead, regardless of CR, provided you meet its additional prerequisites. GMs always have the final say over what prerequisites an undead might require.

Prerequisites: Death sphere.

Whenever you kill a creature using a Death sphere effect, you may choose to leave the body completely intact but empty of a soul. The soul passes on, but the body itself remains alive in a catatonic state. Mind-affecting effects and abilities such as possession can be used on this hollow body as if it were a willing living creature. Hollow bodies still require food to survive and become a regular corpse should they die. A hollow body that is dominated or possessed functions as if it had been given the zombie template (or one of the variant zombies creatable through Expanded Necromancy if you possess that talent), save that it lacks undead traits and retains the traits of its original creature type. They are treated as their original type, not undead, for the resolution of magical effects and attacks. Channelling positive energy cannot harm a hollow body zombie, for example, nor does negative energy heal it.

If you possess the Life sphere, you may reanimate a creature as a hollow body rather than as a skeleton or zombie.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Corpse Manipulation or Killing Curse).

As a standard action, you may target a conscious and willing creature with your ghost strike, and they immediately die without any pain or discomfort. However, for 1 day per caster level the creature is treated as having died for no more than 1 round for the purposes of the Resuscitate talent and other spells or abilities that are used to bring creatures back from the dead. While this effect lasts, the remains of the dead creature do not decay and cannot be reanimated by anyone but you without a successful magic skill check made against your MSD.

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Soul Trap (advanced)), Mind sphere (Inception (charm), Mass Charm, Powerful Charm), caster level 15th.

When you use Cut The Cord* or Soul TrapUSoP on a creature, any recollection of the target is wiped from existence. Any memories including that target are revised such that no creature which can be affected by your charm ever recalls the target’s existence, their memories being revised as per the Inception greater charm (this effect functions even across planes). You can choose to exempt any number of creatures from the memory revisions of this talent.

If you have the Witness Across Time advanced Time talent, you may choose to also affect all alternate timeline versions of the deceased creature you are aware of who had an equal number or fewer of Hit Dice and mythic ranks to the deceased creature with either Cut The Cord or Soul Trap, trapping or severing all of them. If using Soul Trap, all versions of the creature are trapped within the same gem and count as a single trapped soul. If using Cut The Cord, all versions of the creature’s soul are confined to a single timeline which one of them occupied.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Sustained Necromancy), caster level 5th.

When you reanimate a corpse as a skeleton or zombie, you may spend 2 spell points to make the reanimation an instantaneous effect. The undead creature exists independent of your concentration, has no duration, and cannot be dispelled. These undead still count against the total number of undead you may have reanimated at any one time. If you create more undead than your total, old permanent undead are not destroyed; instead, they are simply released from service and will attack you or any other nearby living creatures.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Project Spirit (advanced)), caster level 10th.

When you project your spirit by use of the Project Spirit advanced Death talent, you may move into the same space as a material creature and attempt to possess it. You must spend a spell point to attempt a possession, and the target is allowed a Will save to negate. If their saving throw fails, the target’s soul is repressed, and yours assumes control of the body. You may only possess a physical creature with a soul (this includes most living creatures and intelligent undead but not constructs, unintelligent undead, or outsiders).

Attempting to possess a body is a full-round action. You may only attempt to possess a creature once during any individual projection of your spirit.

If you are successful, your life force occupies the host body. You keep your Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, level, class, base attack bonus, base save bonuses, feats, talents, alignment, mental abilities, extraordinary abilities, supernatural abilities, and magical abilities such as spells and sphere abilities. The body retains its Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, hit points, natural abilities, and automatic abilities. A body with extra limbs does not allow you to make more attacks (or more advantageous two-weapon attacks) than normal. You cannot choose to activate the body’s extraordinary or supernatural abilities.

The creature’s spells and spell-like abilities do not stay with the body. You may possess a body for up to 1 hour per caster level, but may always end the effect early as a standard action. If the host body is slain, you return to your body and suffer 2 permanent negative levels. As is usual when projecting your spirit, this effect may be dispelled at either your body or the host’s body.

Prerequisites: Death sphere, caster level 10th.

You may spend a spell point to project your spirit out of your body for up to 1 round per caster level. During this time, your body falls into a state of suspended animation; it requires neither food nor water and does not age, although it may be slain through normal means.

Your spirit manifests as an ethereal version of you with your hit points and abilities, and carries a copy of all of your equipment. It is invisible, insubstantial, and capable of moving in any direction, even up or down, albeit at half normal speed.

It can move through solid objects, including living creatures, and may see and hear its surroundings, although as it is on the Ethereal Plane, it can only see and hear the Material Plane to a distance of 60 feet. When the time limit expires, your spirit immediately returns to your body. Using magic items (such as scrolls, wands, potions, and other items with a limited number of charges or uses per day) while ethereal counts against the item’s total remaining uses when you return to your body.

Your spirit cannot attack or otherwise affect creatures and objects on the Material Plane nor generally be affected by them, although some effects (such as force damage) specifically target ethereal creatures when used by material creatures. Certain material creatures or objects also have attacks or effects that can specifically affect creatures on the Ethereal Plane. These effects do not work in reverse to allow your spirit to affect material creatures.

Your spirit treats other ethereal creatures and ethereal objects as if they were material. Your spirit may use any magic you possess, but such magic can only affect other ethereal things.

If your spirit self is slain, your spirit instantly returns to your body, reviving it from its state of suspended animation. This is a traumatic affair, however, and you gain two permanent negative levels.

Prerequisites: Death sphere, caster level 5th.

Each time you use a ghost strike that does not cause negative levels or immediately kill its target (such as Killing Curse), you can choose for it not to count as a death effect, meaning it can affect creatures normally resistant or immune to death effects, such as outsiders with the daemon subtype. This allows you to affect constructs and undead with your ghost strikes. Such creatures gain a +4 bonus to any granted saving throw, and may still be immune to the effects caused by your ghost strike (disease, etc.).

Prerequisites: Death sphere, caster level 15th.

As a standard action, when adjacent to a creature that has died very recently (within 1 round per caster level) you may spend 3 spell points to trap their soul into a gem. The target is allowed a Will save to negate the effect, and the gemstone’s value must be at least 1,000 gp per Hit Die of the creature you are attempting to trap. If successful, the creature’s soul becomes trapped within the gemstone. A trapped creature cannot be resurrected or have its spirit summoned, unless the caster is in possession of this gemstone. The creature trapped inside the gemstone always fails its saving throws if the holder of the gemstone uses the Summon Spirit advanced Death talent on it.

If the gemstone is broken, the spirit is released. If the spirit is called through the Summon Spirit advanced Death talent, the caster may choose to release the spirit, in which case it travels to the afterlife, leaving the gem empty and reusable.

Prerequisites: Death sphere, caster level 5th.

You may spend 3 spell points and 1 hour to summon the spirit of a dead creature. You must know the exact creature you are trying to summon and be able to designate them (such as their name or place and time of death, etc.) and the more familiar you are with the spirit and the more recently they died, the more likely they are to appear. The spirit you are trying to summon is allowed a Will save with the following modifiers depending on your knowledge and connection to the target, as well as its time of death:

^You must have some sort of connection (see below) to a creature of which you have no knowledge.

On a successful saving throw, the target does not appear and may choose to retaliate spiritually, giving you 2 temporary negative levels that last 24 hours (meaning you must save against them becoming permanent). While friends may choose to purposefully fail their saving throw and come willingly, in most other cases being ripped from the afterlife is a horrid experience and can turn even the nicest of spirits hostile. If a spirit succeeds at their saving throw against this effect they cannot be summoned again by the same caster for 1 month. Sometimes, the spirits of heroes, kings, and others are protected by a deity and are simply unable to be summoned.

Once a spirit has been summoned, you may do any of the following:

• You may ask one question per two caster levels. The corpse’s knowledge is limited to what it knew during life, including the languages it spoke. Answers may be brief, cryptic, or repetitive. A creature who would have opposed you in life may attempt a new Will save to refuse to answer or to lie with the Bluff skill.
• You may use the spirit as a component when creating an animated object or undead creature (Will negates if unwilling; if the spirit succeeds at its save, it immediately returns to the afterlife as if it had made its original saving throw). You must create the undead creature or animated object as usual, but by placing the spirit into the target, the spirit is brought back to life within this new body. The object or undead creature gains the mental attributes, personality, memories, etc. of the selected spirit, but otherwise is normal for its new creature type. (At the GM’s discretion, a spirit bound to a permanent animated object or undead creature may recover or gain class levels over time, but loses at least 1 level per CR of its new form.) An undead creature or animated object created in this way is not automatically under your control.
• If you possess the Resurrection advanced Life talent, you may place the spirit into a new body, bringing the soul back to life, even if you do not have the target’s body, it is missing vital components, or the target has been dead for longer than the time limit. You must possess either a soulless body (such as one created through the Fleshcraft and Create Materials advanced Creation talents), or else a body assembled from other, recently slain bodies. (Assembly requires either the target’s body with one additional body for every replaced vital component, or else a minimum of six different bodies—one for each limb, the torso including head, and the brain. In some cases, more bodies may be necessary. Special unguents and bindings worth 500 gp are also required.) You may bring the target back to life with the Resurrection advanced Life talent. The target retains its ability scores and class levels (even those dependent on blood, such as sorcerer levels) but its race and appearance depend on the body possessed.

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Astral Projection (advanced), Astral Travel (advanced), Project Spirit (advanced)), Time sphere, caster level 20th.

When you use Astral Travel to travel into the astral plane, you may spend 2 additional spell points (bringing the total to 5) to allow you and your allies to travel astrally to other points in time on the planes you enter. The alternate time period reached through Temporal Projection is an alternate timeline that is functionally identical to your own in all ways, meaning that you cannot change your current timeline’s history through your spirit or return to the same alternate timeline after the effect ends. You return to your original timeline when the effect ends or your new form is killed. Any objects you have brought from your original timeline return with you to the original timeline. Your Temporal Projection expires if it would be used to arrive at a point in time where another instance of your Temporal Projection is active.

If you have the Witness Across Time advanced Time talent, you may use Temporal Projection to project your spirit into a specific alternate timeline you are aware of.

If you have the Possession advanced Death talent and project your spirit into a timeline where an alternate version of yourself exists, you may automatically possess that alternate version of yourself. The alternate version is not allowed a saving throw to resist this possession and you may continue to possess the body for the duration of your spirit projection.

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Cut The Cord (advanced), Nothing Shall Bear Your Name (advanced), Soul Trap (advanced)), Mind sphere (Inception (charm), Mass Charm, Powerful Charm), Time sphere, Warp sphere (Distant Teleport, Timeline Drift (advanced), Time Warp (advanced), True Teleport (advanced), Unseeing Teleport), caster level 20th.

When you use Cut The Cord in conjunction with Nothing Shall Bear Your Name on a deceased creature, you may rewrite history so that the target never existed in the first place. You create a new timeline where the deceased creature never existed or affected events and transport yourself and up to one other creature per caster level to this new timeline. Only the creatures transported from the old timeline recall the original creature that was erased and the actions that they took.