Assassin's Fervor

**Descriptors:** Variant

**Class:** Eclipse, Guru, Promethean, Vizier

**Slot:** Head, Wrists

**Saving Throw:** None

*Dark energy circles you, granting you knowledge of your foes' vitals and how to exploit them.*

This veil is a variant of the Wiles of the Assassin veil.

As a swift action, you can discern the health and condition of one creature you can see. You determine their condition based on the list below:

*•    Normal:* Has at least 90% of full normal hit points, free of disease.

*•    Fair:* 30% to 90% of full normal hit points remaining.

*•    Poor:* Less than 30% of full normal hit points remaining, afflicted with a disease, or suffering from a debilitating injury.

*•    Weak:* 0 or fewer hit points remaining, afflicted with a disease that has reduced an ability score to 5 or less, or crippled.

Activating this ability is a purely mental action that has no visible components. Your ability to discern the target creature’s condition persists until you use this ability again. While discerning a creature’s condition, you gain a +2 insight bonus on Stealth checks to hide yourself from that creature and you deal additional precision damage with weapon attacks against that creature based on that creature’s condition:

*•    Normal:* 2 precision damage per veilweaving level.

*•    Fair:* 1 precision damage per veilweaving level.

*•    Poor:* 1 precision damage per 2 veilweaving levels (minimum 1).

*•    Weak:* 1 precision damage per 4 veilweaving levels (minimum 1).

**Essence:** For each point of essence invested in this veil you deal an additional 1 point of precision damage against the targets of this veil, and the insight bonus to Stealth checks granted by this veil increases by +1.

**Chakra Bind (Head):** Binding this veil to your Head chakra allows you to use the dark magic of this veil to disguise your appearance, allowing you to more easily approach your targets. You may make Stealth checks in place of Disguise checks when disguising your appearance. Whenever you are disguised, creatures you are discerning the condition of increase the DC to see through the disguise by an amount equal to the insight bonus to Stealth checks granted by this veil. This doesn’t stack with any insight bonuses you already added to the check you made to disguise yourself.

Additionally, whenever you disguise yourself you may tap into the powers of this veil to magically aid you, as per the  *disguise self* spell. This effect persists for as long as you remain disguised. The DC of the Will save for creatures who interact with this illusion is equal to the DC of this veil. Against the creature you are discerning the health of, this DC is further increased by an amount equal to the number of points of essence invested in this veil.

**Chakra Bind (Wrists):** Binding this veil to your Wrists chakra allows you to further expose your foes weaknesses and exploit them. Whenever you discern a creature’s health, you gain one of the following abilities that can only be used against that creature:

*•    Deadly Strike:* Whenever you attack the discerned creature while they are unaware of your presence due to Stealth, the precision damage you deal with that attack is increased by an amount equal to your veilweaving level.

*•    Find Gap:* You treat the discerned creature’s AC as 1 lower, plus an additional 1 lower for every 4 veilweaving levels you possess.

*•    Identify Rhythms:* You gain a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves against the discerned creature and their effects, increasing by an additional +1 for every 4 veilweaving levels you possess.

At the beginning of each of your turns while you have a creature discerned using this veil you may change the selected ability.