Akashic Constructs

## **Akashic Construct**

*Akasha given shape and form to surround its weaver, akashic constructs are a rarely used form of akashic magic. These akashic constructs are difficult to use and require a great deal of specialization to master, but a veilweaver who does so is a formidable foe on any battlefield.*

**Author's Note:** Despite functioning similarly to a veil, an akashic construct does not count as a veil for the purposes of features that grant you a veil known. Unless you are granted the ability to shape an akashic construct by a class feature you need to take the Shape Akashic Construct feat.

Akashic constructs are special veils that function as a combination of creature and magical creation, and are treated as if they had the [Force] and [Enhanced (heavy armor; see text)] descriptors. You can shape this special veil in either the veilweaver’s Shoulders or Body slots, and it can be invested with essence as if it were a veil. Unlike a normal veil the akashic construct cannot be sundered, though it can still be affected by *dispel magic* or affected by similar abilities that dispel magic or suppress veils. An akashic construct is still considered a supernatural effect.

You can envelop yourself in your akashic construct or dismiss it as a move action. The akashic construct mimics your movements as if it were a second skin. You cannot wear armor or bulky clothing or be under the effects of a polymorph effect or other effects that change your shape when you envelop yourself with your akashic construct. Due to being entirely enclosed within your akashic construct, you cannot benefit from any items that increase your armor bonus to your armor class, such as using *bracers of armor*. While enveloped by your akashic construct, you do not benefit from any armor bonuses to your armor class from a veil, nor from any armor created by a veil. You can still be affected by veils, spells, and abilities that otherwise increase your defenses.

Being enclosed in your akashic construct counts as wearing heavy armor for any class features, feats, or talents that depend on being armored or unarmored. You gain a bonus to your armor class that is based on your veilweaver level with the akashic construct while enveloped by it (see Table: Akashic Construct), and this veil can be enhanced as if it were a suit of heavy armor. Because the akashic construct is derived from force, this bonus to armor class functions against the attacks of incorporeal creatures.

The akashic construct is the same shape and size you, with the same number of limbs. It emulates all of your natural attacks, including those granted by veils or other magical effects. While enveloped in your akashic construct, you gain an enhancement bonus to your Strength and Dexterity based on your veilweaver level with the akashic construct, but otherwise use your own ability scores (see Table: Akashic Construct).

The akashic construct has its own Hit Dice and Hit Points (see Table: Akashic Construct). It automatically recovers any hit points it has lost when you rest and shape your veils for the day, but can otherwise be healed as if it were you, or a creature of the construct type. You can also meditate for 1 hour to restore 5 hp to the akashic construct.

Whenever you take damage while enveloped by your akashic construct, apply your akashic construct’s hardness to it, as well as any other defensive abilities you possess that reduce damage such as resistances, and then split the remaining damage evenly between yourself and the akashic construct (the construct takes the extra damage if it's an odd number). The hardness granted by an akashic construct does not stack with hardness granted by other sources, or with any form of damage reduction. If the akashic construct is reduced to 0 hit points it is immediately dismissed and you cannot envelop yourself with it again until you rest and reshape their veils (restoring it to full health), or meditate for one hour, which returns it to 5 hit points and allows it to be healed as normal thereafter.

The akashic construct can be targeted by abilities that affect only constructs. If those abilities provide a benefit or penalty, you gain those bonuses or suffer those penalties while you are enveloped by the construct. If it is an effect that deals damage only to constructs, you and your akashic construct split the damage dealt from the effect as normal. Any abilities used on your akashic construct persist even while the akashic construct is dismissed, but you do not suffer any bonuses or penalties caused by those abilities while it is dismissed.

**Essence:** When the akashic construct is invested with at least 1 point of essence, you gain a primary slam attack that deals bludgeoning damage based on the size of the akashic construct, and the amount of essence invested in it (see Table: Akashic Construct Slam Damage) while you are enveloped by your akashic construct. You may also use this slam natural attack in place of your unarmed strikes while enveloped by your construct, though you can’t use this slam attack as a natural attack during any round in which you do so. When doing so, it is still treated as an attack made using an unarmed strike for effects that modify unarmed strikes, or for effects that trigger off of unarmed strikes. If you have an effect that increases the base damage dice of your unarmed strikes, it does not apply to the damage of this slam attack when used in place of an unarmed strike (this does not include size increases from other effects).

**Chakra Bind (Shoulders):** Binding the akashic construct to your Shoulders chakra allows you to increase your akashic construct’s size. When you envelop yourself in your akashic construct, you can choose for it to be of a size one category greater than your own. For each size category the akashic construct is increased, the space you take up increases by one category and grants you a +2 size bonus to Strength, a -2 penalty to Dexterity, a -4 penalty to Stealth checks, and increases your natural reach by 5 feet. You do not gain any other bonuses or penalties associated with your akashic construct’s size (such as size bonuses or penalties), but are otherwise treated as the new size for all purposes, such as being affected by combat maneuvers. The akashic construct gains 10 additional hit points and the damage die of its slam increases in size as well (see Table: Akashic Construct Slam Damage) for each size category it increases. These bonuses stack with themselves when increasing the akashic construct’s size by more than one size category (such as through the effects of the Body bind, or the size increase akashic upgrade). When wielding weapons you are considered to be of the size of your akashic construct, suffering the penalties for wielding undersized weapons if applicable. If one of your veils creates a weapon for you to wield, you can choose for it to produce weapons sized appropriately for your akashic construct. Your natural attacks are also emulated by your akashic construct, dealing damage based on its size when you use them while enveloped by it.

Alternatively, rather than increasing your akashic construct’s size, you can instead increase the bonus to Dexterity granted by your akashic construct by +2 and grant the akashic construct an additional 10 hit points. These bonuses stack for each size category increase you choose to apply this option to. You must choose this option if increasing your akashic construct’s size would make it larger than Colossal.

**Chakra Bind (Body):** Binding this veil to your Body chakra grants you all the benefits of binding it to your Shoulders chakra, and allows you to cause your akashic construct to grow up to two size categories instead of only one.

## **Akashic Construct Base Statistics**

**Veilweaving Level:** Your veilweaving level with the akashic construct determines its statistics.

**Hit Dice:** The number of hit dice the akashic construct has. Akashic constructs normally have average hit points per hit die. For a d10, the average is 5.5. multiply 5.5 times the number of hit dice and round down to determine your akashic constructs base hit points.

**Armor Bonus:** The armor bonus to armor class granted to you while you are enveloped by the akashic construct.

**Hardness:** The akashic construct hardness. This hardness does not stack with hardness gained from other sources, or with damage reduction.

**Str/Dex Bonus:** The enhancement bonus granted to your Strength and Dexterity scores while enveloped by the akashic construct.

**Bonus Hit Points:** An akashic construct does not have a Constitution score, but begins with 10 bonus hit points at 1st level.

**Akashic Upgrade:** At 1st level, and again at 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th levels, the akashic construct gains a permanent upgrade. By spending 8 hours in meditation, you can exchange a single upgrade you have selected for your akashic construct for another. For every additional 4 hours you meditate, you can change an additional upgrade. For more information on Akashic Upgrades, see below.

## **Akashic Upgrades**

### **Akashic Armament**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 5 with your akashic construct.

While enveloped by your akashic construct, you treat the weapons or natural weapons produced by one of your veils, chosen when you shape your akashic construct each day, as if they were one size category larger when determining their damage dice.

You may select this upgrade multiple times, allowing you to apply its effects to an additional veil for each selection.

### **Akashic Targeting**

The akasha that forms the construct amplifies the weapons you wield, causing them to become more accurate. While enveloped by your akashic construct, you are treated as though you had the Weapon Focus feat with the weapons or natural weapons produced by a single veil, chosen when you shape your akashic construct each day.

You may select this upgrade multiple times, allowing you to apply its effects to an additional veil for each selection.

### **Akashic Targeting, Improved**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 5 with your akashic construct, Akashic Armament akashic upgrade

While enveloped by your akashic construct, you are treated as though you had the Greater Weapon Focus feat with the weapons or natural weapons produced by one veil selected by the Akashic Targeting upgrade.

This upgrade can be taken multiple times, affecting an additional veil each time it is selected.

### **Arcforged Armor**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 9 with your akashic construct.

The akashic construct increases its hardness by 5.

### **Cerebral Reinforcement**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 15 with your akashic construct.

The akashic construct extends the following construct features to its pilot while they operate it: Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, morale effects, patterns and phantasms).

### **Mechanized Enhancement**

The following mech enhancements (found in Arcforge - Technology Expanded) are available to an akashic construct as akashic upgrades, using your veilweaving level with the akashic construct as its mech level when meeting their prerequisites: Arcforged Armor, Cerebral Reinforcement, Modified Aerodynamics, Nautical Superiority, Powered Servomotors, Shielded Cockpit, Superior Arcforged Armor, Thrusters. Additional mech enhancements found in other books can be taken at your GM’s discretion.

This upgrade can be selected multiple times, selecting a different mech upgrade each time it is selected.

### **Modified Aerodynamics**

*Prerequisites:* Powered Servomotors akashic upgrade.

Akashic constructs with this upgrade can make a DC 15 Fly check to fall safely from any height without taking falling damage, as if using *feather fall*. When falling safely, it may make an additional DC 15 Fly check to glide, moving 5 feet laterally for every 10 feet it falls.

### **Nautical Superiority**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 5 with your akashic construct.

The akashic construct gains a swim speed equal to base land or fly speed chosen when this upgrade is selected. The akashic construct can remain submerged for 1 hour per Hit Die before its air filters start to fail and the pilot has to make Constitution checks to hold their breath or begin drowning.

### **Powered Servomotors**

The akashic construct is capable of fantastic feats of agility. Akashic constructs with this enhancement gain a +15 bonus to Acrobatics or driver Ride checks made to perform a long jump or high jump. In addition, they are always considered to have a running start when jumping.

### **Shielded Cockpit**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 13 with your akashic construct.

The akashic construct extends the following construct features to its pilot while he operates it: Immunity to bleed, disease, death effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, and stunning.

### **Size Increase**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 5 with your akashic construct.

When you envelop yourself in your akashic construct, you can choose to increase its size by one category, gaining the bonuses and penalties listed in the Shoulders slot bind ability of the akashic construct. You can choose whether to increase your construct in size or increase its Dexterity each time you envelop yourself in it, as per the ability listed above.

This akashic upgrade can be taken a second time if your veilweaving level with the akashic construct is at least 15.

### **Superior Arcforged Armor**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 13 with your akashic construct, Arcforged Armor akashic upgrade.

The akashic construct increases its hardness by 5. This stacks with the increase granted by the Arcforged Armor akashic upgrade.

### **Thrusters**

The akashic construct increases their current fly speed by 10 feet and increase their maneuverability by one step. If the akashic construct did not have a fly speed before taking this upgrade, it now has a maneuverability of clumsy. Each time it takes this enhancement, improve its fly speed by an additional 10 feet and its maneuverability by one step. This enhancement can be taken up to three times.

### **Weapon Envelopment**

When you envelop yourself in your akashic construct, it envelops your weapons in a shell of akasha as well. Your manufactured and natural weapons are considered to be magical and derived of force, dealing full damage to incorporeal creatures. You gain an insight bonus to your CMD against attempts to disarm your weapons while you are enveloped equal to twice the amount of essence invested in the akashic construct. If a creature attempts to sunder your weapons, you may choose to use the higher of the weapon’s or akashic construct’s hardness against the attack, and may choose to split the damage between the akashic construct and the weapon if the creature’s sunder attempt is successful.

Whenever you increase the size category of your akashic construct, the shell enveloping your manufactured weapons increases in size as well, allowing your manufactured weapons to be wielded and deal damage as if they had increased in size along with the akashic construct.

If your akashic construct has the Akashic Armament or Weapon Infusion upgrade, you can select a single manufactured weapon in place of a veil when using those upgrades, applying their effects to the chosen manufactured weapon.

### **Weapon Infusion**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 5 with your akashic construct.

The aksha that makes up the construct infuses the weapons you wield, causing them to deal more damage. While enveloped by the akashic construct, you are treated as though you had the Weapon Specialization feat with the weapons or natural weapons produced by a single veil you can shape, chosen when you shape your akashic construct each day.

This upgrade can be taken multiple times, affecting an additional veil each time it is selected.

### **Weapon Infusion, Improved**

*Prerequisites:* Veilweaver level 15 with your akashic construct, Akashic Infusion akashic upgrade

While enveloped by your akashic construct, you are treated as though you had the Greater Weapon Specialization feat with the weapons or natural weapons produced by one veil selected by the Weapon Infusion upgrade.

This upgrade can be taken multiple times, affecting an additional veil each time it is selected.