Inheritors of Auracite

Auracite Forging:

All Inheritors have a power known as Auracite Forging, which is the power to create and wield Auracite, allowing the use of Auracite Techniques.
How much Auracite an Inheritor can create in a day is represented in a resource known as Aura Points (AP).
This AP can be used by the Inheritor to produce certain effects, most often either crafting items out of Auracite, or enhancement of already existing items.
Each technique using AP describes the specific action, cost, range and duration for that technique.

When used, Auracite is either invested or burned.
Invested AP remains invested for the duration of the effect, and is not available for the Inheritor to use until she regains it, either through rest or by absorbing it from the effect.
Burned AP is only regained by rest.
Unless stated otherwise, Auracite techniques invest the AP used, rather than burning it.

As a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity the Inheritor may touch an active Auracite effect and regain the AP invested into that effect, ending the effect immediately.
Only invested AP can be regained by absorption.
If an effect has both invested and burned AP, only the invested portion can be absorbed.
AP cannot be regained from an ended or instantaneous effect.

When an Auracite effect ends, regardless of why it ended, all AP invested or burned into the effect immediately degrades and disappears, and can only be regained through rest.

Following 8 hours of rest, the Inheritor must spend 1 hour preparing herself to create her Auracite, at the conclusion of which she regains all her AP.
She may not have more AP at any one time than her maximum.

The preparation an Inheritor does to create Auracite can differ between individual Inheritors but cannot include any strenuous activity. Activities such as meditation, study and practice of martial forms are all valid, but activities such as sparring and crafting are not. Any activity that would interrupt rest interrupts this preparation.

If the Inheritor is a magic using character that needs to spend time preparing her magic, she may increase that time spent by 30 minutes to include her Auracite preparations with those preparations.

All Auracite techniques have somatic components that involve the Inheritor shaping the Auracite used for the technique.
In addition to the somatic components, the Inheritor’s Auracite techniques are always accompanied by an obvious tell-tale audio or visual cue chosen by the Inheritor, indicating that something supernatural is taking place.

Armor and shields interfere with the precise sculpting needed to form an Inheritor’s Auracite techniques.
An Inheritor wearing medium armor, heavy armor or a shield incurs a chance of her techniques failing equal to the arcane spell failure chance of the equipment worn.

If an Inheritor's attempt to use an Auracite technique fails, such as from wearing armor or loosing concentration, the technique is still used, the AP still used, but the Inheritor fails to form the effect and the Auracite is wasted.

The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against an Inheritor’s Auracite techniques is 10 + half Inheritor's Forging level + Inheritor's Forging modifier.

The power of Auracite Techniques depend on the Inheritor's Forging level, see the Awaken Auracite class feature.
The level of her techniques is equal to half her Forging level (maximum 9).

Auracite techniques and effects are not subject to spell resistance.

Auracite Technique and Effect:

Auracite technique and Auracite effect refer to different, but connected aspects of the Inheritor's arsenal. Auracite technique refers specifically to the technique the Inheritor uses to do something with her Auracite, while Auracite effect refers to what is produced by the Auracite technique.
The AP invested as part of using the technique is invested into the effect, not into the technique.
For instance, the Auracite technique Shape Auracite allows the Inheritor to create objects from her Auracite.
The Auracite effect for the Shape Auracite technique is the object created.
Effectively, the Inheritor is the crafter, the technique is the tool and the blueprint, the AP is the material and the effect is the crafted item.

Auracite base class:

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Inheritor class

Weapon and Armor Proficiency

Inheritors are proficient with all simple weapons and light armor.

Awaken Auracite

The Inheritor awakens her inheritance and begins her exploration of her new power.

At 1st level, the Inheritor gains Forging level 1.
For every Inheritor level she gains, her Forging level increases by the same amount.

The Inheritor gains a pool of energy she uses to forge her Auracite from, called an Aura reservoir.
This pool contains a number of Aura Points (AP) equal to 2x Forging Level plus Forging modifier (minimum 1).
This pool replenishes once per day after 8 hours of rest.

When she gains this feature, the Inheritor chooses either Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma.
The chosen ability score becomes her Forging ability score, and her Forging modifier.
Whenever an Auracite source refers to her forging modifier, use the ability score modifier from her chosen ability score.
Once made, this choice cannot be changed.

When this feature is gained, choose either Arcane, Divine or Psionic.
This determines the fuel source that gives power to the Auracite Shard, and determines what the Inheritor's Auracite registers as and is affected by.
For the purposes of the rules under Auracite Forging, Arcane or Divine is assumed to have been chosen, for psionic differences see Magic/Psionic Transparency on page 35.

Additionally the Inheritor gains the following Auracite technique: Shape Auracite.

Inheritor Path

The Inheritor decides what to focus her study of her inheritance towards, choosing what path to walk in her journey.

The Inheritor chooses one Inheritor Path to follow, granting her a technique exclusive to her path at 1st level and new features at 3rd level and every odd levels thereafter (5th, 7th, and so on).

Auracite Technique

The Inheritor learns new ways to utilize her inheritance.

At 2nd level, the Inheritor gains a new Auracite technique. She must meet the prerequisites of the chosen Auracite technique, if any.
She gains an additional technique at 6th level,
10th level, 14th level and 18th level.

Upon reaching 6th level and every four levels thereafter (10th, 14th, and so on), the Inheritor may choose to learn a new Auracite technique in place of an Auracite technique she has already learned.
In effect, she loses the previously known technique in exchange for the new one.
The old technique cannot be one that was used as a prerequisite for another technique, prestige class or other ability.

Inheritor Talent

The Inheritor deepens her skill with her Auracite, learning new ways to use her inheritance.

At 4th level, the Inheritor gains an Inheritor talent.
She must meet the prerequisites of the chosen talent, if any.
She gains an additional talent at 8th level, 12th level, 16th level and 20th level.

Upon reaching 8th level and every four levels thereafter (12th, 16th, and so on), the Inheritor may choose to learn a new talent in place of a talent she has already learned.
In effect, she loses the previously known talent in exchange for the new one.
The old talent cannot be one that was used as a prerequisite for another talent, feat, prestige class or other ability.

Skilled Crafter

To truly utilize her Inheritance, the Inheritor needs to practice and hone her skills, for a poorly made tool is of little use to her.

At 6th level, the Inheritor gains a +3 to all Craft checks. This increases to +6 at 14th level.
This stacks with feats such as Skill Focus.

A Growing Shard

The Inheritor's increased focus on her inheritance leads to a stronger connection with her Auracite Shard, causing it to grow larger, allowing the Inheritor to produce stronger Auracite.

At 9th level, the Inheritor's more potent Auracite becomes more difficult to disrupt.
Increase the DC for dispelling (such as with Dispel Magic or similar effects) the Inheritor's Auracite effects by +2.

If the Inheritor possesses A Growing Shard from a different source, such as the Shrouded Inheritor prestige class, the increase in DC for dispelling stacks.

Prodigious Inheritor

Crafting with regular materials is all well and good, but the Inheritor's prowess truly shines when crafting with Auracite.

At 18th level, the Inheritor gains a +6 to all Craft checks involving Auracite.
This stacks with Skilled Crafter and feats such as Skill Focus.

A Grown Core

The Inheritor's shard has grown to the extent it is now closer to a miniature Auracite Core, rather than just a shard, allowing her to create stronger Auracite.

At 20th level, the Inheritor's connection to her Auracite has grown to the point where she may sustain her Auracite, even where magic normally does not work.
When in a place where magical effects do not function, such as an anti-magic zone, the Inheritor may attempt a DC 20 forging level check.
On a successful check, her Auracite is not destroyed by the anti-magic zone, but any magical properties are suppressed.
On an unsuccessful check the Auracite is destroyed as normal.

Even on a successful check the Inheritor may not form new objects while within the anti-magic zone, only maintain those she has already made.

Additionally, the Inheritor's larger shard allows her to produce more Auracite when she needs it.
Three times per day, as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, the Inheritor may regain a number of AP equal to her forging modifier without having to rest.

Inheritor Paths:

Path Feature: Rapid Deployment

The Constructor learns to reduce the time required to create her constructs

At 11th level, the Constructor Inheritor may make her constructs with the full amount of menu options as a standard action.

Path Feature: Explosive Construction

Constructs are useful, exploding constructs can be even more so.

At 13th level, the Constructor Inheritor gains the Explosive Construction technique.

Path Feature: Distant Deployment

The Constructor's skill reaches the point where her constructs need not remain as close to her.

At 15th level, the range of the Auracite Construct technique increases to Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./1 levels).

Path Feature: Improved Longevity

The Constructor learns to increase the lifespan of her constructs

At 17th level, the duration of the Auracite Construct technique increases to 1 min/level (D)

Path Feature: Twin Construct

The Constructor's skill allows her to make multiple constructs at once.

At 19th level, the Constructor Inheritor gains the Twin Construct technique.

Scholar Path:

Inheritors following the Scholar path focus on studying how magic and Auracite interacts, their similarities and their differences.

Path Feature: Auracite Casting, 4th level

Dedicated study and practice elevate the Scholar's spellcasting to a new level

At 15th level, the Scholar Inheritor chooses a number of 4th level spells from the Wizard spell list equal to half her forging modifier.
She learns the chosen spells as spell-like abilities and may cast them by burning 12 AP per spell.

Path Feature: Auracite Casting, 5th level

Through much study and practice, the Scholar learns to cast more powerful spells

At 19th level, the Scholar Inheritor chooses a number of 5th level spells from the Wizard spell list equal to half her forging modifier.
She learns the chosen spells as spell-like abilities and may cast them by burning 15 AP per spell.

Warrior Path:

Inheritors following the Warrior path focus on martial power and discipline.

Auracite prestige classes:

Some Inheritors seek not only to explore their inheritance thoroughly but also want to walk different paths and find other ways of using their inheritance.
These Inheritors may decide to take up one or more of the following prestige classes.

Shroud

The Shrouded Inheritor's desire to wield her Auracite more freely leads her to develop a new technique taking advantage of the flexible nature of Auracite, allowing her to wreathe herself in her Auracite and use it in ways she could not before.

At 1st level, the Shrouded Inheritor gains the Shroud technique.

Inheritor Talent

The Shrouded Inheritor is still an Inheritor, and her continued study advances her prowess with her inheritance.

At 2nd and 8th level, the Shrouded Inheritor gains an Inheritor Talent.

Upon reaching 6th and 10th level, the Shrouded Inheritor may choose to learn a new talent in place of a talent she has already learned.
In effect, she loses the previously known talent in exchange for the new one.
The old talent cannot be one that was used as a prerequisite for another talent, feat, prestige class or other ability.

Controlled Shroud

The Shrouded Inheritor's control over her shroud continues to grow, granting her both increased prowess and finesse.

At 3rd level, the Shrouded Inheritor gains the Controlled Shroud technique.

A Growing Shard

The Shrouded Inheritor's increased focus on her inheritance leads to a stronger connection with her Auracite Shard, causing it to grow larger, allowing the Shrouded Inheritor to produce stronger Auracite.

At 4th level, the Shrouded Inheritor's more potent Auracite becomes more difficult to disrupt.
Increase the DC for dispelling (such as with Dispel Magic or similar effects) the Inheritor's Auracite effects by +2.

If the Shrouded Inheritor possesses A Growing Shard from a different source, such as the Inheritor class, the increase in DC for dispelling stacks.

Quickened Configuration

The Shrouded Inheritor learns to change her shroud's configuration quicker than before

At 4th level, the Shrouded Inheritor gains the ability to change her shroud's configurations as a
full-round action or a standard action.
If she changes her shroud's configurations as anything other than a full-round action, she does not gain the deflection bonus to AC, cannot move as part of the action and are not prevented from making attacks of opportunity.

At 6th level, the Shrouded Inheritor may change her shroud's configurations as a move action

At 9th level, the Shrouded Inheritor may change her shroud's configurations as a swift action.

Efficient Shroud

The Shrouded Inheritor's skill with her shroud grows even more, surpassing previous limits.

At 5th level, the Shrouded Inheritor gains the Efficient Shroud technique.

Amplified Shroud

The Shrouded Inheritor realizes that pumping more power into the shroud makes it stronger.

At 7th level, the Shrouded Inheritor gains the Amplified Shroud technique.

Twin Shroud

The Shrouded Inheritor has figured out how to share her shroud.

At 10th level, the Shrouded Inheritor gains the Twin Shroud technique.

Auracite Feats:

Unless stated otherwise, an Auracite Feat cannot be gained multiple times.

Inheritor Talents:

Unless stated otherwise, an Inheritor Talent cannot be gained multiple times.

Inheritor's Focus

You have learned how to grant your Auracite the special properties of a material.

Prerequisites: Forging level 8
Benefit(s): When you take this talent you gain the ability to create an Inheritor's Focus. This focus is created from a piece of a material of a similar size to a holy symbol, typically around 3 inches in diameter, takes 1 hour to craft with a Craft (any) DC of 20. You may use this focus as a focus component for your Auracite techniques.

Holding an Inheritor's Focus does not prevent the Inheritor from making somatic components.

While using an Inheritor's Focus you may, as part of the action needed to create an Auracite effect, invest 5 AP in the effect in order to grant the effect the special properties of the material of the Inheritor's Focus.
This does not change the effect's HP, hardness or weight.
Thus an Inheritor's Focus crafted from umbrite would impart the Auracite effect with umbrite's ability to absorb light, but not umbrite's HP, hardness or weight.

The special property granted by an Inheritor's Focus is temporary. Once the effect ends, the special property ends as well and must be reapplied.
The Inheritor's Focus is not consumed when used.

Note on Adamantine: when using this ability to grant Auracite the property of Adamantine, a weapon made from this Auracite only ignores hardness less than its own.
So an Auracite blade with the property of Adamantine but hardness of 10 only ignores hardness of 9 or less.

Rapid Armor

You learn to forge your armor more quickly

Prerequisite: Forging level 5, Auracite Armor
Benefit: When you take this talent your skill with forming armor allows you to form your light Auracite Armor as a swift action, medium armor as a move action and heavy armor as a standard action.

Rapid Shield

You learn to forge your shield more quickly

Prerequisite: Forging level 5, Auracite Shield
Benefit: When you take this talent your skill with forming shields allows you to form your Auracite shield as a swift action.

Shrouded Focus

You learn to apply your focused training to more than just one configuration.

Prerequisites: Shrouded Inheritor level 2,
Weapon Focus (any offensive configuration),
Improved Critical (any offensive configuration) or Weapon Specialization (any offensive configuration)
Benefit: When you take this talent choose one of the above feats.
You count as having the chosen feat for any active offensive configuration that are legal choices for that feat.
This includes for the purpose of meeting prerequisites.

Special: This talent may be chosen multiple times, each time choosing a different feat to apply.

Tricky Forging

You learn to be more subtle with your inheritance.

Prerequisite: Forging level 4
Benefit: When you take this talent you gain the ability to use an Auracite technique without somatic components and without an audio or visual cue by burning 1 additional AP.

Quickened Absorption

Due to continous practice, you learn to move Auracite between effects at a faster rate than normal.

Prerequisite: Forging level 4
Benetif: When you take this talent the action needed to regain invested AP from an Auracite effect becomes a move action.

Special: This talent may be chosen one additional time at Forging level 8. If taken a second time, the action needed to regain invested AP from an Auracite effect becomes a swift action.

Auracite Techniques

The following section describes the individual Auracite techniques available to Inheritors.
Unless stated otherwise, an Auracite technique can only be gained once.

The description of each technique is presented in the following format:

Technique Descriptions

Auracite Armor

Base Technique, Sustained

• Forging Time: Special, see text
• Range: 0 ft.
• Effect: Auracite Armor
• AP Cost: Special, see text

When you gain this technique you learn to form armor from your Auracite.
You may create a suit of armor in either light, medium or heavy form. Creating light armor is a move action and costs 1 AP, medium armor is a standard action and costs 2 AP and heavy armor is a full-round action and costs 3 AP.

Light form is treated in all ways (except visually) as masterwork Leather Armor.
Medium form is treated in all ways (except visually) as masterwork Chainmail.
Heavy form is treated in all ways (except visually) as masterwork Splint mail.

You may create your armor directly on your body.
The Auracite armor is created on top of other garments or armor worn. You loose access to and any benefits from other worn armor while you are wearing Auracite armor.

You are always considered proficient in your Auracite Armor.

The hardness of Auracite Armor is the same as other Auracite objects, but the hit points of the armor is equal to armor bonus x 5.
The armor's hardness and hit points are modified by enhancement bonuses as normal.

Reinforcement: Reinforcing your Auracite Armor allows you to improve its form.
Reinforcing Auracite Armor is the same action as creating the armor.

By burning 1 AP you can upgrade your armor.
Light form armor becomes treated as masterwork Chain shirt.
Medium form armor becomes treated as masterwork breastplate.
Heavy form armor becomes treated as masterwork full plate.

Auracite Blade

Base Technique, Sustained

• Prerequesites: Warrior path level 1
• Forging Time: 1 Move Action
• Range: 0 ft.
• Effect: Auracite weapon
• AP Cost: 1 AP

When you gain this technique you learn to form weapons from your Auracite. As a move action, you may create either a two-handed simple or martial weapon or up to two light or one-handed simple or martial weapons in your hands.

You are always considered proficient with your Auracite weapons.

A light Auracite weapon deals 1d6 points of damage,
a one-handed Auracite weapon deals 1d8 points of damage, and a two-handed Auracite weapon deals 2d6 points of damage, regardless of shape.
All damages are based on a Medium-sized creature wielding Medium-sized weapons; adjust the weapon damage as appropriate for different sized weapons.

Regardless of shape, an Auracite blade has a critical range of 19-20/x2.

Regardless of the weapon form, the Auracite Blade does not have a set damage type. When making your weapon you choose if it deals bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage.
You may change the damage type of an existing Auracite blade as the same action as making the weapon.

If forming a non-thrown ranged weapon using this technique you may invest 1 additional AP as you form the weapon to allow the weapon to produce any ammunition it needs. The ammunition is formed as the weapon is readied to fire(string being pulled etc).

An Auracite blade is considered a magic weapon for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction and is considered a masterwork weapon.

You can use feats such as Power Attack or Combat Expertise in conjunction with the Auracite blade just as if it was a normal weapon. You can also choose your Auracite blade for feats requiring a specific weapon choice, such as Weapon Focus and Improved Critical.
Powers or spells that upgrade weapons can be used on an Auracite blade.
You can use feats such as Weapon Finesse that work with light weapons with your Auracite blade, but you will only benefit from it with an Auracite weapon in a light weapon form.

You choose the appearance of your Auracite weapon, although its shape must reflect the selections you have chosen: a bludgeoning Auracite blade would be blunt, slashing would have an edge, etc.

An Auracite blade disappears if not wielded by you for more than 1 round.

Reinforcement: As a move action, you may burn
1 AP to grant an Auracite weapon a weapon property, such as trip, chosen when reinforcing the weapon.
This might require a Craft check, at DM discretion.

Auracite Bolt

Base Technique

• Forging Time: 1 Standard Action
• Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Effect Auracite projectile
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Saving Throw None
• AP Cost 1 AP burned

When you gain this technique you learn to shape and propel a razorsharp shard of Auracite at your target.

You must succeed on a ranged attack with the projectile to deal damage to your target.
The projectile deals 1d6 bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage to the target, chosen when making the attack.

At forging level 4, forging level 7 and forging level 10, the damage dealt increases by 1d6, to a maximum of 4d6 at forging level 10.
You may choose to split this additional damage into separate projectiles that you may have strike a single or several creatures. A single projectile can strike only one creature.

Auracite Construct

Base Technique

• Prerequisite: Constructor path level 1
• Forging Time: Special, see text
• Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Effect: One created Auracite Construct
• Duration: 1 round/level (D)
• AP Cost: 1, see text

When you gain this technique, you learn to create one 1st-level auracite construct of animated auracite that attacks your enemies.

You choose where it appears within your range and it acts immediately on your turn.
It attacks your opponents to the best of its ability.

As a free action, you can mentally direct a construct not to attack, to attack particular enemies, or to perform other actions.

The auracite construct acts normally on the last round of its duration and dissipates at the end of its turn.

You may create an auracite construct as a standard action, or a full-round action.
If you use a standard action you form the construct with one less menu option than normal.
If you use a full-round action you form the construct with the full amount of menu options.

Auracite constructs are not summoned, they are created on the plane you inhabit. Thus, they are not subject to effects that hedge out or otherwise affect outsiders, they are constructs, not outsiders.

Generally you do not have to roll Craft to make an auracite construct unless you want to give the construct a specific shape and the DM deems it sufficiently difficult to require a check.

Other than as stated before an auracite construct counts as an astral construct, such as for feats like Boost Construct and Advanced Constructs.

Reinforcement:
When creating an auracite construct, you may burn AP to increase its power. For every 1 AP you burn the level of the auracite construct increases by one.
The level of an auracite construct cannot be increased above half your Forging level.

Auracite Grenade

Base Technique

• Prerequisite: Forging level 6
• Forging Time: 1 Standard Action
• Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Area: 10-ft.-radius spread
• Effect Exploding Auracite projectile
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Saving Throw Reflex half
• AP Cost 2 AP burned

When you gain this technique you learn to launch a dangerously unstable Auracite projectile that detonates upon contact with a solid surface.

The explosion deals 2d6 bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage to all creatures in the area of effect, chosen when using the technique.

At forging level 9, forging level 12 and forging level 15, the damage dealt increases by 1d6, to a maximum of 5d6 at forging level 15.

Auracite Platform

Base Technique

• Prerequisite: Forging level 4
• Forging Time: 1 Standard Action
• Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Effect: Auracite platform
• Duration: 1 min/level (D)
• AP Cost: 2 AP

When you gain this technique you learn to create a platform that allows you to traverse places you would normally not be able to.

You may move the platform using a move action mental command at a speed of 30 feet. The platform must remain within your range or it is destroyed.

The platform may not support more than one creature at a time.
The platform may not be larger than your space, 5 feet for a Medium character, 10 feet for Large etc, but does not have to be in the shape of one continuous platform.

Auracite Shield

Base Technique, Sustained

• Forging Time: 1 Move Action
• Range: 0 ft.
• Effect: Auracite Shield
• AP Cost: 1 AP

When you gain this technique you learn to, as a move action, create a shield from your Auracite.

You can use your Auracite Shield as if it was in all ways (except visually) a masterwork heavy steel shield, including making shield bashes.

You are always considered proficient with your Auracite Shield.

Reinforcement: You can reinforce your Auracite Shield, allowing you to wield it easier.
Reinforcing the shield reduces the Armor Check penalty and Arcane Spell Failure chance of the shield by 1 per AP burned for the reinforcement.
You cannot reduce the Armor Check penalty or Arcane Spell Failure chance beneath 0.

Auracite Tasker

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Constructor path level 3
• AP Cost: 1 AP

When you gain this technique you learn additional ways to use a Utility Auracite Construct.

You can create a specialized utility Auracite Construct called an Auracite Tasker that, in addition to the normal abilities offered by a utility Auracite Construct, can be reshaped to grant additional capability depending on its level.

Reshaping an Auracite Tasker requires 1 AP invested into the construct, and a successful Craft check with a DC of 10 + twice the constructs level.
Reshaping an Auracite Construct into an Auracite Tasker is the same action as creating the original construct.

You may create a construct directly as an Auracite Tasker. Doing so adds the AP cost of creating the tasker to the cost of creating the construct.

A 2nd or higher level Auracite Tasker can be shaped into a quadruped.
This results in an increase in its speed to 50 feet, +4 CMD against Trip and the tasker can be ridden if the character riding weighs less than the tasker’s carrying capacity.
Additionally, in this form it is easier to strap bags or crates to the tasker or use it to pull a cart.
However, it loses the ability to manipulate objects since it has no arms or hands.

Taskers of 3rd level or higher that has been shaped into a quadruped can also have a single set of arms added so as to manipulate objects as normal.

A 3rd or higher level Auracite Tasker can be shaped with an extra set of arms.
These extra arms allow the tasker to perform certain tasks quicker (such as stacking wood). The speed increase is up to the DM.

A 4th or higher level Auracite Tasker can be reshaped so it resembles a two-wheeled object such as a cart.
This cart can be pushed or pulled at a speed of up to 70 feet. Note the cart cannot move by itself, it has to be pushed or pulled by something else.

Up to two Medium-size creatures/characters can be carried on a Medium wheeled Auracite Tasker if their weight is less than its' carrying capacity.
A Large wheeled Auracite Tasker resembles a four-wheeled cart and can carry four Medium sized creatures/characters if their weight is less than its' carrying capacity.

Taskers of 5th level or higher that have been shaped into a cart can also have a single set of arms added so as to manipulate objects as normal.
An Auracite Tasker cannot have wheels and also be a quadruped.

A 5th or higher level Auracite Tasker can be imbued with a small amount of knowledge granting it the ability to perform tasks as though it has a specific profession or craft skill.

The skill granted is equal to that of the Shaper meaning the Shaper cannot grant a skill she does not herself have.

An Auracite Tasker can only be imbued with a single skill at a time.
For example, a Shaper with the Craft (blacksmithing) skill can create an Auracite Tasker and imbue it with blacksmithing.

Additionally Taskers of 6th or higher level that have been empowered with a profession or craft can have an extra set of arms added so as to perform certain tasks quicker (such as using hammer and anvil). The speed increase is up to the DM.
Taskers that have been empowered with a profession or craft cannot have wheels or be quadrupeds.

Binding Bolt

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Auracite Bolt or Auracite Grenade

When you gain this technique you learn to surround the targets of your Bolt or Grenade in restrictive Auracite.

When using Auracite Bolt or Auracite Grenade you may choose to also ensnare Medium or smaller targets in sticky Auracite.
This reduces the damage die of the Bolt or Grenade from d6s to d4s and any targets struck or that failed their Reflex saving throw may attempt a Reflex save.
On a successful save, the target is entangled and glued to the floor, unable to move for 1 round.

On a unsuccessful save, the target is entangled and glued to the floor, unable to move for 1 round per damage die of the attack (so 3d4 would equal 3 rounds). A flying creature is not stuck to the floor, but must make a Reflex save or be unable to fly(assuming it uses its wings to fly) and fall to the ground.

A creature stuck with your Binding Bolt can attempt to break free by making a Strength or Escape Artist check or by destroying the Binding Bolt.

Reinforcement: You can reinforce your Binding Bolt, making it stronger and larger. For every 1 AP burned in reinforcing this technique, increase the size of the creature you may target by 1.

Construct Model

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Constructor path level 9
• Forging Time: 10 min
• Effect: Auracite construct model
• Duration: 1 hour/Forging mod

When you gain this technique you learn to prepare your constructs ahead of when you need them.

By increasing the forging time of the Auracite Construct technique to 10 minutes you halve the total AP cost of creating the construct, calculated after deciding the level of the construct, and instead of creating an Auracite Construct you create a small, handheld model of the construct.

All decisions about the construct such as shape, level and menu options are made when creating the model.

If the duration of the model expires before being used the construct is lost.

As long as you have the model you may, as a move action, deploy the model, which then takes the full form of the construct and begins acting normally from that point on. The duration of the construct counts from the time it is deployed.

Controlled Shroud

Technique Expansion, Technique Reinforcement

• Prerequisite: Shrouded Inheritor level 3
• Effect: Reinforced Shroud
• AP Cost: Special, see text

When you gain this technique, you learn to reinforce your shroud, toughening the shroud as well as increasing the potency of any active configurations.

There is a limit to how much you can reinforce your Shroud.
At Forging level 8, the maximum amount of AP you can use to reinforce your shroud is 3, this increases by 1 every even level after 8th, to a maximum of 9 at Forging level 20.

For every 1 AP burned for the reinforcement, increase the hardness of the shroud by 2 and the hit points of the shroud by 4, and increase the potency of the Shroud's active configurations as follows:

• The AC bonus of the Armor and Shield configurations are increased by 1

• The Attack and Impale configurations gain a +1 enhancement bonus (maximum +5)

• The Body Reinforcement configuration determine the bonus from Ant Haul as if the Strength score was 1 higher

• The bonus from the Camouflage and Movement: Acrobatics configurations are increased by 2

• The weight limit of the Hands configuration increase by 1 lbs/2 Forging levels (Example: a Shroud reinforced with 2 AP gives the Hands configuration a weight limit of 7 lbs/2 levels, 3 AP gives 8 lbs/2 levels)

For every 2 AP burned for the reinforcement, increase the potency of the Shroud's active configurations as follows:

• The damage reduction provided by the Dampening configuration increase by 1 and becomes /magic.

• The movement speed granted by the Movement: Burrow, Movement: Climb, Movement: Speed and Movement: Swim configurations are increased by 5 feet.

When you gain this technique, your Hands configuration gains the following description:
You can perform fine manipulations using this configuration, including attempting Sleight of Hand and Disable Device checks.

Additionally, when you gain this technique you add the following to the list of configurations you may add to your shroud:

Body Reinforcement

Utility configuration that allows the shroud to augment your carrying capacity.

• A shroud with the body reinforcement configuration functions as the Ant Haul spell with you as the target of the spell.
The duration is the same as the duration of the spell or until the configuration is changed, whichever comes first.

To activate this configuration, you must burn 1 AP.
This is in addition to any normal cost of activating configurations.

When the duration expires, the configuration remains active, but has no effect. The configuration can be exchanged with a different configuration as normal, or 1 AP can be burned to regain the effect.

Dampening

Defensive configuration that allows the shroud to protect you by dampening physical damage.

• A shroud with the dampening configuration provides you with a damage reduction of 5/bludgeoning.

Impale

Offensive configuration that allows you to strike multiple targets using your shroud.

• A shroud with the Impale configuration counts as a two-handed melee weapon that allows you to, as a standard action, make a single melee attack roll against each creature or object in a 10 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels line, starting with the closest target.

The attack deals 1d8 (for a Medium character, adjust for size as needed) points of piercing damage.

Calculate the damage against each target struck, starting from the closest.
For every target after the first, reduce the damage dealt by 2.
If the attack strikes a target but fails to deal damage to that target the attack fails to penetrate and does not continue.

You can use feats such as Power Attack or Combat Expertise in conjunction with the Impale configuration just as if it was a normal weapon.
You can also choose your Impale configuration for feats requiring a specific weapon choice, such as Weapon Focus and Improved Critical.
Powers or spells that upgrade weapons can be used on an Impale configuration.

Movement: Acrobatics

Mobility configuration that allows the shroud to augment your agility.

A shroud with the movement: acrobatics configuration provides you with a +2 competence bonus on Acrobatics checks.

Movement: Burrow

Mobility configuration that allows the inheritor to burrow into the ground

A shroud with the movement: burrow configurations provides you with the ability to burrow at a speed of 15 feet (or 10 feet if you are wearing medium or heavy armor, or if you are carrying a medium or heavy load) through sand, loose soil, or gravel, or at a speed of 5 feet through stone.
You may not charge or run while burrowing.
Loose material collapses behind you 1 round after you leave the area.

Movement: Climb

Mobility configuration that allows the shroud to augment your ability to climb.

A shroud with the movement: climb configuration provides you with a climb speed equal to 15 feet (or 10 feet if you are wearing medium or heavy armor, or if you are carrying a medium or heavy load) and all the benefits of having a natural climb speed.

Movement: Speed

Mobility configuration that allows the shroud to augment your speed

A shroud with the movement: speed configuration provides you with an enhancement bonus of +10 feet to your base speed.

Movement: Swim

Mobility configuration that allows the shroud to augment your ability to swim.

A shroud with the movement: swim configuration provides you with a Swim speed of 15 feet (or 10 feet if you are wearing medium or heavy armor, or if you are carrying a medium or heavy load), and all the benefits of having a swim speed.
You do not gain the ability to breathe water from this configuration.

Wings

Mobility configuration that allows the shroud to slow your fall.

• A shroud with the wings configuration allows you to, as an immediate action, make a DC 15 Reflex save to slow your fall to 60 feet per round and take no damage when landing, as if using the feather fall spell, except the duration is the same as the duration of the shroud or until the configuration is changed, whichever comes first.
When falling safely, you may make a DC 15 Fly check to glide, moving 5 feet forward for every 10 feet you fall.

Efficient Shroud

Technique Expansion, Technique Reinforcement

• Prerequisite: Shrouded Inheritor level 5

When you gain this technique you learn to be more efficient with your shroud, adding new configurations for your shroud

When you gain this technique, change the Wings configuration to:
You gain a fly speed of 15 feet, with clumsy maneuverability.

For every 1 AP burned for the shroud's reinforcement, increase the potency of the Shroud's active configurations as follows:

• The Blocking configuration regains 1 hit point every round

• The Grab configuration gains a +1 to attack, grapple checks and damage dealt using this configuration (maximum +5)

For every 2 AP burned for the reinforcement, increase the potency of the Shroud's active configurations as follows:

• The Kinetic Feedback and Thorns configurations deal 1 additional damage to those affected

• The fly speed granted by the Wings configuration is increased by 5 feet and the maneuverability is increased by one step to a maximum of perfect.

Additionally, you add the following to the list of configurations you may add to your shroud:

Empowered Weapon

Base Technique, Sustained

• Prerequisite: Warrior path level 7
• Forging Time: 1 Move Action
• Range: 0 ft.
• Effect: Empowered Auracite Blade
• Duration: 1 round/level
• AP Cost: Special, see text

Sometimes, the needs to push herself and her weapon beyond their normal limits.
The Warrior Inheritor learns to empower her Auracite Blade, increasing its efficiency.

As a move action, the Warrior Inheritor invests a number of AP into her weapon.

The Warrior gains a bonus to attack rolls with the weapon equal to the AP invested into the weapon through this ability and a bonus to damage rolls equal to twice the AP invested into the weapon through this ability.

This additional damage is of the same type as the weapon used.

You cannot invest more AP than half your Forging level into a single weapon using this technique.

Enhanced Armor

Technique Reinforcement

• Prerequisite: Auracite Armor, Forging level 3
• Effect: Enhanced Auracite armor

You gain the ability to reinforce your Auracite armor with increased power.

Add the following to the Reinforcement options for your Auracite Armor:

For every 1 AP burned to reinforce the armor, you grant the armor a +1 enhancement bonus that you may spend on an actual enhancement bonus or on a armor special ability.

There is a limit to how much total enhancement bonus you can grant your armor and to the maximum amount of enhancement bonus your armor can have, based upon your forging level.
At Forging level 3, the total enhancement bonus you can grant your armor is +1, this increases by +1 every odd level after 3rd, to a total of +9 at Forging level 19.
At Forging level 3. the maximum enhancement bonus your armor can have is +1, this increases by +1 every three levels after 3rd, to a maximum of +5 at 15th level.

You may (and must, if your armor's total enhancement is higher than your maximum bonus) apply any special ability from the following table instead of an enhancement bonus, as long as you meet the level requirements.

You can choose any combination of armor special abilities and/or enhancement bonus that does not exceed the total available to you, but you must assign at least a +1 enhancement bonus before assigning any special abilities.

The following table denote the armor special abilities that can be applied to an Auracite Armor, the enhancement bonus required and the required level needed to learn the armor special ability.

Optional Rule: See page 35 for an optional rule regarding acquiring armor special abilities

Enhanced Blade

Technique Reinforcement

• Prerequisite: Auracite Blade, Forging level 3
• Effect: Enhanced Auracite weapon

You gain the ability to reinforce your Auracite weapons with increased power.

Add the following to the Reinforcement options for your Auracite Blade:

For every 1 AP burned to reinforce the weapon, you grant the weapon a +1 enhancement bonus that you may spend on an actual enhancement bonus or on a weapon special ability.

There is a limit to how much total enhancement bonus you can grant your weapon and to the maximum amount of enhancement bonus your weapon can have, based upon your forging level.
At Forging level 3, the total enhancement bonus you can grant your weapon is +1, this increases by +1 every odd level after 3rd, to a total of +9 at Forging level 19.

Enhanced Shield

Technique Reinforcement

• Prerequisite: Auracite Shield, Forging level 3
• Effect: Enhanced Auracite shield

You gain the ability to reinforce your Auracite shield with increased power.

Add the following to the Reinforcement options for your Auracite Shield:

For every 1 AP burned to reinforce the shield, you grant the shield a +1 enhancement bonus that you may spend on an actual enhancement bonus or on a shield special ability.

This enhancement bonus only applies to the shield's AC, not attack or damage bonus.

There is a limit to how much total enhancement bonus you can grant your shield and to the maximum amount of enhancement bonus your shield can have, based upon your forging level.

At Forging level 3, the total enhancement bonus you can grant your shield is +1, this increases by +1 every odd level after 3rd, to a total of +9 at Forging level 19.
At Forging level 3. the maximum enhancement bonus your shield can have is +1, this increases by +1 every three levels after 3rd, to a maximum of +5 at 15th level.

You may (and must, if your shield's total enhancement is higher than your maximum bonus) apply any special ability from the following table instead of an enhancement bonus, as long as you meet the level requirements.

You can choose any combination of shield special abilities and/or enhancement bonus that does not exceed the total available to you, but you must assign at least a +1 enhancement bonus before assigning any special abilities.

The following table denote the shield special abilities that can be applied to an Auracite Shield, the enhancement bonus required and the required level needed to learn the shield special ability.

*Note: Reflecting can only be used once per day

Optional Rule: See page 35 for an optional rule regarding acquiring shield special abilities

Expanded Improvement

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Improving Touch

When you gain this technique you learn to improve additional types of items.
Add the following to your list of Improving Touch options:

Tools:

Improvements that may be applied to Clothes, Outfits, Kits, Musical Instruments or Tools.
• Resplendent: increase the numerical base value of the items' bonus (whether circumstance bonuses, saves, resistances or skill checks) by half AP invested.

Explosive Construction

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Constructor path level 13
• Effect: Explosive construct

When you gain this technique, you learn to turn your constructs dangerously unstable.

When creating a Auracite Construct, you may choose to create it as an explosive construct.
Any AP used to create an explosive construct is burned rather than invested.

When the construct is destroyed or it's duration expires, the construct explodes dealing 1d6 points of piercing and slashing damage in a 10-ft.-radius spread (Reflex half).
For every 1 additional AP used to create the construct, increase the damage by 1d6 and for every 2 additional AP used increase the radius by 5 ft.

Eye see you

Technique Expansion, Sustained

• Prerequisite: Any other Base Auracite technique
• Forging Time: 1 Swift Action, 1 Standard Action
• Target: Auracite Object
• Effect: Sensory link with object
• AP Cost: 1 AP

When you gain this technique you learn to shift some of your senses into your creations.

When creating something using Auracite, you may spend a swift action and invest 1 additional AP into your creation to form a link between yourself and the object you make.

As a standard action, you can shift some of your perception to the linked object allowing you to sense through it as though it were your own eyes and ears, even if it does not have eyes or ears.
You choose if you want to shift sight, hearing or both to the object. While you have shifted your perception to a linked object you yourself are Blinded if you chose sight, Deafened if you chose hearing, or both if you chose both.
You make any skill checks involving the shifted senses, such as Perception, from the object, rather than yourself.

You may maintain this technique as long as you want, but it requires a swift action to shift your perception back to yourself. If the creation is destroyed, such as by damage or duration expiring, while your perception is shifted to it, you become stunned for 1 round.

Fortify body

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Warrior path level 15

When you gain this technique you learn to further use Auracite to augment your body.

Add the following options to your Augmented Body technique:

• Fortitude: AP cost 2-4. Grant yourself a bonus to Fortitude saves equal to half AP used.
• Reflex: AP cost 2-4. Grant yourself a bonus to Reflex saves equal to half AP used.

Improved Construction

Technique Improvement

• Prerequisite: Constructor path level 5

When you gain this technique you gain improved control over your constructs.

When you create an auracite construct, the construct gains an additional menu option of the highest menu available.

This additional menu option stacks with the Boost Construct feat, but not the Shaper Psion’s Summoner’s Call ability.

Improving Touch

Base Technique

• Forging Time: 1 Standard Action
• Range: Touch
• Target: Touched object
• Effect: Improvement to object
• Duration: 1 round/level
• AP Cost: Special, see text

When you gain this technique you learn to utilize your Auracite to impart short term improvements to items.

The improvements you may apply depends on the type of item you are improving, and are listed in the following tables, which also denote what the AP cost for the individual improvements is.

An item may benefit from multiple improvements, but multiple uses of the same improvements do not stack. Any improvements applied to an item count as a separate spell effect and may be dispelled as normal.

Reinforcement: You may double the numerical benefit of an improvement by burning the AP used.

Increased Size

Technique Improvement

• Prerequisite: Shape Auracite, Forging level 5

When you gain this technique you learn to create larger objects by using all of the energy contained in the Auracite.

At Forging level 5, when increasing maximum size of Shape Auracite to Large, you may instead burn the AP used to increase the maximum size to Huge and increase the hit points of the object by 10 instead of 5.

At Forging level 10, when increasing maximum size of Shape Auracite to Huge, you may instead burn the AP used to increase the maximum size to Gargantuan and increase the hit points of the object by 15 instead of 10.

At Forging level 15, when increasing maximum size of Shape Auracite to Gargantuan, you may instead burn the AP used to increase the maximum size to Colossal and increase the hit points of the object by 20 instead of 15.

It's a Trap!

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Auracite Bolt or Auracite Grenade
• Forging Time: 1 Standard Action
• Effect: Auracite Trap
• Duration: 1 hour/level or until discharged (D)

When you gain this technique you learn to create traps using your Auracite Bolt or Auracite Grenade.

You may place an Auracite Bolt or Auracite Grenade onto an adjacent, unoccupied 5-foot square.
Any creature who steps onto that square triggers the trap, resolving the attack as normal for the chosen technique.

This is a magical trap with a Perception and Disable Device DC equal to 10 + half Forging level + Forging Modifier.

Life to Auracite

Base Technique

• Forging Time: 1 Full-Round Action
• Target: Forger
• Effect: AP gained

When you gain this technique you learn to create more Auracite at the expense of your own lifeforce.

You may take 8 lethal damage in order to generate 1 AP.

For every 8 additional damage you take you generate 1 additional AP.
You cannot create more AP than your Forging level per use of this technique.

Pinnacle of Blades

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Warrior path level 19
• Forging Time: 1 Swift Action
• Range: Touch
• Target: Touched Auracite weapon
• Effect: Armor penetrating Auracite weapon
• Duration: 1 round
• AP Cost: 4 AP burned

When you gain this technique not even the best of defences can stop your weapons.

When you use this technique, you may allow your Auracite Blades to ignore any armor and shield bonuses to AC (including any enhancement bonuses to that armor) for 1 round.

Reshape Auracite

Base Technique

• Prerequisite: Shape Auracite
• Forging Time: 1 Standard Action
• Range: Touch
• Target: Touched Auracite object
• Effect: Reshaped effect
• Duration: Duration of object continues but is not extended

When you gain this technique you learn to reshape the Auracite of your objects into a new form

You may reshape an object created using Shape Auracite, changing the object into a different object with the same size. A Medium object can be changed into another Medium object, but not a Large or Small object and so on.

You may need to roll Craft to determine if you can create the new form, determined by the DM.

In addition this technique allows you to repair damage done to an Auracite object, even those not created using Shape Auracite, restoring 1d4 hit points to the object. If the object has the broken condition, this condition is removed if the object is restored to at least half its original hit points.

Using this technique allows you to restore damage done to an Auracite object or reshape an object, but not both with one use.

Shape Auracite

Base Technique

• Prerequisite: Forging level 1
• Forging Time: Normal: 10 minutes, Quick: 1 Standard Action, see text
• Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Effect: Unattended, non-magical object
• Duration: 10 min/level
• AP Cost: 1 AP, see text

When you gain this technique you learn to sculpt the Auracite used into a non-magical, unattended object of your choosing.

You must succeed on an appropriate Craft skill check to make an object using the table below to adjust the DC, starting with Size, then Item Complexity.

Provided you make the Craft skill check, at Forging level 1 you may make an object of Medium size or smaller.

At Forging level 5 you may increase the AP cost to 3 to increase the size to Large and increase the hit points of the object by 5.

At Forging level 10 you may increase the AP cost to 5 to increase the size to Huge and increase the hit points of the object by 10.

At Forging level 15 you may increase the AP cost to 9 to increase the size to Gargantuan and increase the hit points of the object by 15.

At Forging level 20 you may increase the AP cost to 17 to increase the size to Colossal and increase the hit points of the object by 20.

When using this technique, you may use the normal forging time or the quick forging time.
The normal forging time works as above while the quick forging time works as above except as follows: shaping at this speed does not allow you the time needed to make detailed work, meaning you can only make a simple object and may not choose from the item complexity table.
You may, for instance, create a cage, but may not create a cage with a door.

Reinforcement: You can reinforce the effect to make the object stronger. For every AP burned to reinforce the Auracite object, increase its hardness by 1 and its hit points by 5.

Shroud

Base Technique, Sustained

• Prerequisite: Shrouded Inheritor level 1
• Forging Time: 1 Full-Round Action
• Range: Varies by configuration
• Target: Varies by configuration
• Effect: Varies by configuration
• Saving Throw: Varies by configuration
• AP Cost: 2-8 AP burned

When you gain this technique, you learn to forge a deeper connection to your Auracite, allowing you to wield it more akin to a limb than just as a material.

As a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, you may burn at least 2 AP to create a shroud of Auracite around yourself that you may use in various ways, depending on what configurations it has.
The exact appearance of the shroud is up to you, but should reflect its current configurations in some way.

The shroud occupies your space, moves with you, and you may not completely move the shroud away from you without also dismissing the shroud.

Upon creating the shroud you choose a configuration type to activate, and apply a corresponding configuration to your shroud.
For every 2 additional AP, up to a total maximum of 8, burned to power the shroud you activate another configuration type and apply a corresponding configuration to your shroud.

The Shroud can support up to four configuration types at the same time, each of which can have one configuration applied at a time.

You may, as a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity, burn 2 AP to activate an additional configuration type and apply a corresponding configuration for the Shroud, provided the Shroud does not already support the maximum amount of configuration types active.

You may, as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, change the configurations of the shroud, deactivating the current configurations and activating new ones. You choose how many of the active configurations to change. Changing one or changing all configurations requires the same action.

Changing the configurations of a shroud does not require additional AP use.

The shroud retains the active configurations until the configurations are changed or the shroud is dismissed, unless stated otherwise.

While creating your shroud or changing its configurations you may move up to half your speed and you gain a +2 deflection bonus to AC until the beginning of your next turn, but you cannot make attacks of opportunity until your next turn.

The shroud itself counts as an object, but it itself cannot be targeted for sundering. It is composed of up to four configurations, all of which can be destroyed, such as through sundering. If all of the active configurations of a shroud are destroyed, the shroud itself is also destroyed and must be made anew.
Each active configuration has the same hardness and hit points as normal Auracite objects. Any damage an active configuration takes carries over to any configuration that replaces it.
For example, an Inheritor has three configurations active, one of which has been reduced to half hit points. If the Inheritor burns 2 AP to activate a forth configuration, that configuration is undamaged, but if she instead replaces the damaged configuration with a new one, the new configuration retains the damage from the previous configuration.

The shroud itself cannot be targeted by effects like Reshape Auracite or Mending, but an active configuration can.

If an active configuration type is damaged, it stays damaged until repaired, the Inheritor creates the shroud anew, or the Inheritor burns 1 AP to completely repair the damaged configuration as the same action it takes to activate additional configuration types.

Destroying an active configuration type reduces the number of active configurations, but the Inheritor may burn AP to activate a new configuration type as normal.

Armor

Defensive configuration that allows your shroud to protect you.

• A shroud with the armor configuration provides you with a +2 deflection bonus to AC.

The armor shroud entails no armor check penalty, arcane spell failure chance or speed reduction.

Attack

Offensive configuration that allows you to make attacks using your shroud.

• A shroud with the Attack configuration counts as a two-handed melee weapon that deals 1d8 (for a Medium character, adjust for size as needed) points of bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage, chosen when activating the configuration.
You may change the chosen damage type as a swift action.

You can use feats such as Power Attack or Combat Expertise in conjunction with the Attack configuration just as if it was a normal weapon.
You can also choose your Attack configuration for feats requiring a specific weapon choice, such as Weapon Focus and Improved Critical.
Powers or spells that upgrade weapons can be used on an Attack configuration.
You cannot use feats such as Weapon Finesse that work with light weapons with your Attack configuration.

Camouflage

Utility configuration that allows you to change the colour of your shroud to better blend in with your surroundings.

• A shroud with the camouflage configuration provides you with a +2 competence bonus to stealth for as long as the shroud retains the Camouflage configuration.

Hands

Utility configuration that allows you to, as a standard action, use your shroud as additional hands.

• This configuration functions similar to the Mage Hand spell, except the range is 10 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels, the weight limit is up to 5 lbs per 2 Forging levels, and magical objects may be targeted.

If concentration is broken, the configuration has no effect but remains active, and you can resume concentration as a standard action.

Shield

Defensive configuration that allows the shroud to protect you.

• A shroud with the shield configuration provides you with a +1 shield bonus to AC.

The shield shroud entails no armor check penalty, arcane spell failure chance or speed reduction, but may not be used for shield bashing.

Twin Construct

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Constructor path level 19
• Effect: Duplicate construct
• Duration: Same as original construct
• AP Cost: 2-6 AP burned

When you gain this technique your superior skill allows you to create hordes of constructs in the same time it used to take you to create one.

When creating an Auracite Construct you may burn 2 AP in addition to the AP used to create the construct to create an additional construct.
This additional construct is an exact duplicate of the first construct.

For every 2 additional AP used you create an additional copy. You may create up to three additional constructs per use of this technique.

Twin Shroud

Technique Expansion

• Prerequisite: Shrouded Inheritor level 10
• Range: Touch
• Target: Willing touched creature
• Effect: Duplicate shroud
• Duration: 1 round/level

When you gain this technique your connection to and skill with your shroud has reached a point where you may now create a separate shroud for your allies.

You may form a duplicate shroud on a touched willing target.
The duplicate shroud is identical to your own, except as follows:
You may not change the configurations of the duplicate shroud after creating it, the target has control over the duplicate shroud rather than you and the duration of the duplicate shroud is 1 round per Forging level.

You must provide the AP for the duplicate shroud as normal.

Equipment

While Auracite itself is temporary, Inheritors have developed a variety of magic items to work with and augment their Auracite, while those who oppose Auracite developed ways to more effectively combat it.

Wondrous Items

Heirloom Storage

Heirloom Storage is the name Inheritors gave to a type of magic item created to store raw Auracite, which may later be used for Auracite techniques.

Physical Description: A heirloom storage consists of a small clay jar with gold engravings and a silver stopper. The gold engravings give of a faint glow.
A typical heirloom storage weighs approximately 1 pound, has AC 7, 10 hit points, a hardness of 8, and a break DC of 16.

Activation: The user must merely hold or have a storage on her person for a period of at least 10 minutes (which is long enough to attune oneself to the storage). Thereafter, the owner can use auracite points stored in the jar to activate techniques she knows.

The maximum number of points a heirloom storage can store is denoted in the table below. It can store only as many auracite points as its original maximum, set at the time of its creation. When a heirloom storage’s auracite points are used up, the glow of the engraving dims.

However, the user can recharge it by paying auracite points on a 1-for-1 basis. While doing this depletes the user’s own auracite point reserve for the day, those auracite points remain available in the heirloom storage until used.

A user cannot replenish her personal auracite points from those stored in a heirloom storage, either directly or by absorbing the auracite out of a auracite effect, nor can she draw auracite points from more than one external source to activate a technique.

Aura faint to strong abjuration or psychokinesis; CL/ML equal to maximum auracite point storage; Craft Wondrous Item; Weight 1 lb.

Miscellaneous Rules

Path Feature: Auracite Manifesting, 2nd level

Through dedicated study, the Scholar learns more powerful powers

At 7th level, the Scholar Inheritor chooses a number of 2nd level powers from the Psion Power list equal to half her forging modifier.
She learns the chosen powers as psi-like abilities and may manifest them by burning 6 AP per power.

Path Feature: Auracite Manifesting, 3rd level

The Scholar's studies grant her access to more powerful powers

At 11th level, the Scholar Inheritor chooses a number of 3rd level powers from the Psion Power list equal to half her forging modifier.
She learns the chosen powers as psi-like abilities and may manifest them by burning 9 AP per power.

Path Feature: Auracite Manifesting, 4th level

Dedicated study and practice elevate the Scholar's manifesting to a new level

At 15th level, the Scholar Inheritor chooses a number of 4th level powers from the Psion Power list equal to half her forging modifier.
She learns the chosen powers as psi-like abilities and may manifest them by burning 12 AP per power.

Path Feature: Auracite Manifesting, 5th level

Through much study and practice, the Scholar learns to cast more powerful powers

At 19th level, the Scholar Inheritor chooses a number of 5th level powers from the Psion Power list equal to half her forging modifier.
She learns the chosen powers as psi-like abilities and may manifest them by burning 15 AP per power.