Beatae Memoriae

**Level:** Illuminati 4

**Spell Resistance:** Yes

By placing your hand on a book or other repository of knowledge, you copy it's contents and memorize them. As a Full round action, you place your hand on a device that contains knowledge, such as a book, scrap of paper, journal, or similar object, and you learn it's contents. You can remember up to 15 pages of text per level at a time. At any point that you need to recall this information or information that may be located within this you may make a wisdom check with a +10 bonus to properly recall the information. If this is used on a tome of knowledge that is longer than you can learn, you must make a will saving throw or be stunned for 1 round per 15 pages that you cannot learn. This can be used to memorize contents within a wizard's spellbook, though it takes 1 hour to cast when attempting to memorize a spell in this way. If you are a wizard or a class that can learn spells through study, you can memorize them and then recall the spell from memory. It still takes the normal amount of time to learn said spell, it can simply be recalled and learned without any outside help or study requirements. You can have a total number of pages of documents equal to 15X Current level X Intelligence modifier. (For example if you have an intelligence mod of 5 and you are level 28, you could memorize 2,100 pages of documents).

When using this technique, you can do so with a sleight of hand check to make it appear as if nothing had happened. If the creature has arcane sight or a similar ability, they gain a +4 bonus to their perception check. This can be used to do things secretively such as brush against their wallet through their pants and learn someone's identity.

When using this ability, a creature can attempt to copy information from a computer or similar source of information such as a hard drive, phone, or a flash drive. When doing so, regardless of the information kept on the device, your mind will be bombarded with useless information and binary code strings. You must make a will saving throw when copying from a digital device or be stunned for 10 rounds and staggered for 1 hour. On a successful save there is a 50% chance that you will be staggered for 1d10 rounds or that you will be immediately stunned for 2d10 rounds using this in this way. Otherwise a digital device is treated as 30 pages of text instead of 15.

You can use this technique to touch a creature and transfer the information to them. This can be used with a contingency spell to cause them to only remember the information in a certain situation which triggers the contingency. You can choose to retain this knowledge when you transfer it to another creature, or choose to completely forget it yourself and leave them as the only ones who know. When doing this you can do so as a standard action to attack an enemy, and flood them with useless information you have. They must make a will saving throw DC: 14+ Charisma modifier or be stunned for 1d6 rounds and take 1d4 wisdom damage. Machines or similar creatures that can parse huge loads of information may be unaffected by this.

Finally this technique can be used in the same way as modify memory.