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What is Sith Alchemy?

Force alchemy, better known as Sith alchemy, was a science that referred to a number of areas under the Sith. It encompassed any power or technique which used the Dark side of the Force in tandem with science, to permanently alter an item or living being. It is rejected by the Jedi as an act of treason against the Force's will.

Sith Alchemy has a wide variety of uses, many of which are fundamentally about altering or manipulating living or non-living material by imbueing it with the force, mainly by changing its natural state into something unnatural, which many Jedi attribute as a blasphemous in and of itself.

Performing Sith Alchemy

All Sith Alchemical creations require that you are Force-Sensitive, meaning you must either have the Force-Sensitive feat or have the Forcecasting feature.

In addition, a variety of tool kit proficiencies are required dependent on the type of sith alchemical creation:

• The creation of Sith Ritual Scrolls require proficiency with Artist's Tools.
• Sith Poison requires Poisoner's Kit.
• Creating new sith weapons or armor require Armstech and Armortech tools.
• Creating sith mutagenic formulas requires Biochemists' kit.

Lastly, any time you create or use a Sith Alchemical item; whether a Sith Ritual or a Sith Mutagen, you gain Dark Side Corruption, as per the optional ruling: Force Alignment. Gaining 5 Dark Side Corruption Points.

Sith Mutagens and Sith Rituals

Sith Alchemical creations are broken down into two forms; those that invoke the dark side of the Force to twist and mutate creatures, blending science and sith sorcery into one, these ancient rites are known as Sith Mutagenic Formulas and require complex potions and various concoctions to make them. Sith Rituals are complex incantations that require deep meditative thought and long intense rituals, expending strange incenses, oils and other exotic arcane goods to perform them, many which require unique ritual scrolls to scribe down the incantations.

List of Sith Alchemical Creations

Creation
Sith Ritual - Dwomutsiqsa (Summon Smoke Demon)
Sith Ritual - Tsaiwinokka Hoyakut (Reanimate Dead)
Sith Ritual - Dark Heart
Sith Ritual - Sith Poison
Sith Ritual - Dark Imbuement
Sith Ritual - Essence Transfer
Sith Mutagenic Formula - Rakghoul Plague
Sith Mutagenic Formula - Sith Abomination
Sith Mutagenic Formula - Terentatek
Sith Mutagenic Formula - Chrysalis Beast
Sith Mutagenic Formula - Body Alteration

Sith Ritual Scroll (Dwomutsiqsa)

Enhanced Consumable Item

Rarity: Advanced

You can perform an ancient dark ritual called the Dweomutsiqsa to summon forth a a terrible creature born of nightmare called a Smoke Demon, that hunts down a singular target and metamorphose into their worst fears, unrelenting until their target is killed. You can utter the foul incantations upon this scroll and perform a ritual that takes 1 hour to cast, rhythmically chanting and swirling incense and smoke around you and channeling the dark side of the force to give it sentience. At the end of this ritual, You must make a DC:20 Forcecasting check, a failure results in the ritual failing and the scrolls magic fades.

A success results in the demon taking shape, upon which you must designate the name of one living creature for it to hunt, you must know their name and have a clear image of them in your minds' eye, a moniker will not suffice. It will hunt down it's target across the galaxy and has a psychic connection to find them, it needs no food, sleep nor does it require oxygen and it can travel through the cold vacuum of space.

The demon uses the "Smoke Demon" stat block detailed later on. The Demon will hunt down its target and obey your commands, it has its own turns and uses its own initiative. However, control over the demon is difficult as it is malevolence incarnate. At the end of each day, the demon can make a Charisma Saving Throw against your Force Save DC, it has disadvantage on this save if your dark side score is 50 points or higher. On a failed save, it continues to obey you. On a successful save, your control of it ends and it instead hunts you as its new target. If the demon is reduced to 0 hit points or if it succeeds in killing its target, it disperses in a puff of smoke and returns to the Force.

As part of the incantation of this ritual, you can choose to offer some of your own life essence to tether it to the Smoke Demon, doing so causes your maximum hit points and your hit die amount to be reduced by half, in exchange the smoke demon gains a number of hit points equal to the max hit points you sacrifice. So long as the Smoke Demon is alive, these hit points do not return after a long rest. However, in exchange for this sacrifice, the demon will not not harm you and the smoke demon automatically fails its saving throws each day to break free of your mental control.

Sith Ritual Scroll (Tsaiwinokka Hoyakut)

Enhanced Consumable Item

Rarity: Prototype

A sith ritual to animate the corpses of the dead and have them do your bidding as mindless drones. With this sith ritual scroll in hand, you can perform its incantations over an hour long ritual, upon which you must make a DC:16 forcecasting check, on a failure, the ritual fails and the sith scroll's magic withers. On a success, the ritual takes hold as you reach out with the Dark side of the force to animate a> number of corpses equal to your Forcecasting modifier that you can see within 60 feet of you, only humanoid corpses of Medium size or smaller can be animated by this Sith ritual, the corpse uses the > "Sith Zombie" stat block, as per Fisto's Codex.

The zombies obey your commands for the next 24 hours, after which the zombies can make a Charisma Saving Throw against your Force Save DC, They have disadvantage on this saving throw if you are at 50 dark side corruption or higher (optional ruling). On a failed save, they continue to obey your commands for the next 24 hours, but on a successful save they break free of your hold and become hostile and attack anything in sight. You can only maintain a maximum control over a number of undead equal to your twice character level + your forcecasting modifier. If you attempt to animate another corpse beyond this limit, than the oldest animated zombie breaks free of your control and becomes hostile.

Sith Ritual Scroll: The Dark Heart

Enhanced Consumable Item

Rarity: Legendary

A profane ceremony to replace ones physical heart with a sith crystal that is bonded by an unholy pact with the dark side of the force - this unique ability was originally created by a Sith Sorcerer named Dathka Graush, who was also famed for the creation of the Tsaiwinokka Hoyakut. This ritual requires the aforementioned ritual scroll and a rare sith phylactery crystal, this crystals' price should be treated as if it was a relic of legendary quality. (As per Enhanced Item Values via Wretched Hives.)

if you succeed in deciphering this scroll, performing this ritual is an 8 hour process of intense focus and concentration. During the ritual, you must succeed on a DC:25 Charisma Saving Throw to form a force bond to the sith crystal. After the bond is successful, you must then carefully carve out your own heart and make a DC:25 Constitution Saving Throw. If you fail the initial Charisma Saving Throw, the ritual fails and you must purchase another crystal as it cracks from the delicate procedure. If you fail the Constitution Saving Throw, the ritual fails and you die. As long as this bond remained intact, you gain the following benefits:

• Immortality: You cease to age nor can you affected by any force ability that would age you, or die from old age and suffer its effects.
• Perfect Health: You become immune to all diseases and poisons as your body is rendered to an effected state of undeath.
• Regeneration: The crystal will slowly repair your body, causing you to regain a number of hit points equal to your Constitution Modifier at the start of each of your turns so long as you are not below 1 hit point.
• Death: If you are brought to 0 hit points and or killed outright, so long as the crystal remains intact, you will return to 1 hit point after 24 hours. You cannot regain hit points from any Light-side force power. You can choose to end your immortal live by letting go of your hatred or if you cease having any dark side corruption and instead shift towards the light side of the force (as per the optional Force Alignment rules), upon which, the dark heart inside of you shatters and you immediately die. Lastly, the crystal can be damaged if it is carved out from your body and smashed or if you are brought to 0 hit points by a critical hit.

Sith Ritual Scroll: Dark Imbuement

Enhanced Consumable Item

Rarity: Premium

This sith ritual allows one to imbue the dark side of the force into their weapon or armor, allowing it to surge with dark energies. As part of casting this hour long ritual, you can imbue one non-enhanced weapon or non-enhanced suit of armor you touch and temporarily imbue it with the dark side of the force. The Chosen object gains a benefit depending on your choice. This rituals' technique is known for its more permanent version and is utilized by sith alchemists to make Sith Alchemical Swords or Sith Armor.

• Weapon: For the next 8 hours, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls and deals an additional +1d6 necrotic damage on hit. If the creature wielding this weapon has a Dark Side score of 50 or higher, then this damage is changed to +1d8 instead.

• Armor: For the next 8 hours, the suit of armor grants a +1 bonus to your AC, additionally, you gain resistance to one damage type of your choice while wearing this armor. You can re-direct the flow of the dark side of the force to adjust this resistance over the course of a short rest, letting you change it from its current chosen type to a different one. If you have 50 or more Dark Side corruption points, you can choose two damage types at a time.

New Enhanced Equipment!

Sith Amulets

Sith Amulets of Power

Rarity: Premium (Minor), Prototype (Greater), Advanced (Ascendant)

Enhanced Item

Requires Attunement, Type: Neck

A Sith Amulet of Power is imbued with sith runes, placed upon to enhance physical prowess or protection in combat and generally given out to a a sith lords servants or warrior slaves. They vary in power depending on the efficiency of the runes, with the more powerful variants often being given to dark acolytes or sith apprentices of merit. These amulets of power come in three variants; Minor, Greater or Ascendant.

Roll a d6 and the amulet gains a sith runic property from the table below and gains a number of charges dependent on the quality of the amulet, these charges if expended are regained at dawn.

A Minor Amulet has one property from the table below and 3 charges, a Greater Amulet gains two properties and has 6 charges and an Ascendant amulet has three properties and 9 charges.

Sith Mutations

Rakghoul Plague

The rakghoul plague is a unique disease that can only be cured by the casting of the Greater Heal, or Master Heal force power. Any other attempt to cure it, whether a tech power, medical tool or lower level force power results in failure due to the strength of the virulent disease. The disease becomes more severe over time, progressing through 4 stages. When a creature comes into contact with a disease; whether through direct contact (such as diseased bodily fluid), being bitten, injury, or consumption of the mutagen, there is a chance of infection. The disease has an incubation period, whereupon whether infected or not, they display no symptoms.

This period lasts for 1 day. Every day past the incubation period, the disease will worsen and the creature must make a DC:21 Constitution Saving Throw or the disease escalates to the next stage, a successful check means you fight off the initial symptoms and the disease decreases by 1 stage, but it cannot be cured in this manner and can go no lower than stage 1. If you are treated with intense medical aid and bed rest, you have advantage on this saving throw.

While a creature is infected by the rakghoul plague, they are highly contagious and can spread the disease to others, the worse the disease and the more you bleed or sweat, the greater threat of contagion. The more injured your character is, the greater the threat of spreading this disease, as per the chart below.

Death: If you die, your corpse is a breeding ground for your sickness and your corpse remains contagious for a week.

SEVERITY	CONTAGION
Stage 1	Less than 25% HP remains
Stage 2	Less than 50% HP remains
Stage 3	Less than 75% HP remains
Stage 4	Always Contagious

Rakghoul Plague (Incubation: 1 day)

Stage	Effect
1	You suffer severe migraines and muscle pains. -2 to your INT & disadvantage on concentration checks.
2	You have an intense fever and body aches, suffering -2 to all ability modifiers.
3	Your skin pales, your veins blacken, and you become increasingly aggressive. You have advantage on all STR rolls, but disadvantage on all INT, WIS, and CHA rolls.
4	You bleed black blood from your eyes and ears and lose your mind, transforming into a Rakghoul.
Cured	Post cure, you have bloodshot eyes and muscle pains and difficulty calming down from your anger for a week.

Sith Mutagenic Formula (Sith Abomination)

Enhanced Consumable

Rarity: Prototype

You can use the dark side of the force to warp and twist a creature into a sith abomination. Once you have created the mutagen, you must administer it in continuous small doses to a living Beast or Humanoid, the process of which takes 7 days and your constant focus. At the end of the mutation process, the creature must make a Charisma Saving Throw against your Force Save DC in an attempt to free itself from your control, if it succeeds it becomes hostile, on a failure, it continues to obey you. The sith abomination has disadvantage on this saving throw if you are at 50 dark side corruption or higher (optional ruling). The Mutagen is unstable and will lose its potency if not utilized within 24 hours of its creation. The creature remains under your control for 24 hours, after which it can attempt to resist your mental influence and re-attempt the charisma saving throw.

Sith Mutagenic Formula (Terentatek)

Enhanced Consumable

Rarity: Advanced

You can use the dark side of the force to warp and twist an Adolescent Rancor or Juvenile Rancor into a Terentatek.
Only an Adolescent or Juvenile rancor are possible to be warped and mutated into a Terentatek, as they must be young and malleable and have not undergone full physical development yet.

Once you have concocted the mutagen, you must administer it in continuous small doses to a living Rancor, the process of which takes 7 days and your constant focus. At the end of the mutagenic process, the creature can make a Charisma Saving Throw against your Force Save DC in an attempt to free itself from your control, if it succeeds it becomes hostile, on a failure, it continues to obey you. The Terentatek has disadvantage on this saving throw if you are at 50 dark side corruption or higher (optional ruling). The Mutagen is unstable and will lose its potency if not utilized within 24 hours of its creation. The creature remains under your control for 24 hours, after which it can try to resist your mental influence and re-attempt the charisma saving throw.

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