Calavera Mask

**Descriptors:** Necromancy

**Class:** Nexus, Radiant, Volur

**Slot:** Head, Headband

**Save:** Will; see text

*This mask exudes a sugary aroma that is soothing to restless spirits and confounds their hostility.*

Shaping this veil forms a colorfully decorated skull mask over your face, granting you a +1 insight bonus to AC, Diplomacy checks, Sense Motive checks, and saves against undead creatures and haunts. Additionally, you gain the ability to cast *grave words* as an at-will spell-like ability.

**Essence:** For each point of essence invested in this veil, the insight bonus to AC, Diplomacy checks, Sense Motive checks, and saves against undead creatures and haunts increases by +1. If at least 3 points of essence are invested in this veil you gain the ability to speak Necril.

**Chakra Bind (Head): [N6, R6, Vo5]** Binding this veil to your Head Chakra makes your presence especially agreeable and familiar to the undead. Your name appears on this veil in a form that is only visible to undead creatures. Undead creatures must make a Will saving throw when getting within 10 feet of you or when they read your name on this veil. Undead creatures that fail this save treat you as if you were an acquaintance or a distant relative, and greet you by name if they are capable of speech. The attitude of affected undead is improved by one step. You can make Diplomacy checks against mindless undead affected by this effect as if they had an intelligence of 3, and they understand you so long as you speak Necril, but you take a -5 penalty on such checks. This effect lasts for 1 hour per veilweaver level, after which an affected undead creature’s attitude drops by one step. Any improvements to an affected undead creature’s attitude resulting from successful Diplomacy checks or other similar actions taken after the creature was affected by the ability remain. Once a creature has passed or failed their save against this ability they cannot be affected again for 24 hours. This is a mind- affecting charm effect that ignores an undead creature’s normal immunity to such effects.

**Chakra Bind (Headband): [N12, R9, Vo11]** Binding this veil to your Headband chakra enhances your ability to commune with the dead. A number of times per day equal to your veilweaving modifier, in a process that takes 10 minutes you can cause a colorful skull shaped candy to appear in a square you can see within 10 feet + 5 feet per point of essence invested. If the candy appears in a square that contains a dead creature, or is within a haunt’s area, the candy vanishes and the dead creature or haunt is treated as if *speak with dead* or *speak with haunt* had been cast on it using your veilweaver level as the caster level. If at least 4 points of essence are invested in this veil, you can choose for the candy to instead provide the effects of *speak with soul* if it appears in a square that is a soul’s place of death or that contains a soul’s presence.

Additionally, the candy produced by this veil can be consumed by living creatures and undead, including incorporeal undead. Undead creatures must make a Will save to resist eating this candy if they enter a square containing it. If an undead creature consumes this candy, you are protected from harm by them as if you had cast *sanctuary* except that the duration is 1 hour. This candy has no special effect on living creatures. Unconsumed candies vanish after 1 hour.