Blackened Pitchfork

**Descriptors:** Enhanced (trident), Evil

**Class:** Daevic, Nexus, Vizier

**Slot:** Hands, Wrists

**Saving Throw:** Fortitude

*This pitchfork appears to be made of translucent blackened iron and seethes with infernal energy, seeming both bitterly cold and unbearably hot.*

Shaping this foul veil grants you the ability to call upon a trident forged of hell-touched iron molded into shape and made safe to wield by akashic power. Whenever you score a critical hit with this weapon, the target is sickened for a number of rounds equal to your veilweaving modifier; if the target is already sickened when this effect is triggered, they must make a Fortitude saving throw or are instead nauseated for 1 round. If used as a thrown weapon, the trident reappears in your hand immediately after the attack is resolved.

**Essence:** If you have at least 1 point of essence invested in this veil, the trident created by this veil is treated as cold iron for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction in addition to any special materials it is upgraded with, if any. For each point of essence invested in this veil, the conjured trident deals an additional 1d4 cold or fire damage; for every even numbered point of essence add 1d4 fire damage, and for each odd numbered point of essence add 1d4 cold. This additional damage is not multiplied on a critical hit.

**Chakra Bind (Hands): [D4, He2, N2, Vi2]** Binding this veil to your Hands chakra hones its hellish power and increases its ferocity against goodly foes. The critical threat range of the trident created by this veil increases by 1; this increase is applied before any other increases and stacks with abilities like *keen* or the Improved Critical feat.

In addition, against Good- or Chaotic-aligned creatures the bonus damage granted by investing essence in this veil has its damage dice increased from 1d4 to 1d6.

**Chakra Bind (Wrists): [D7, He8, N8, Vi8]** Binding this veil to your Wrists chakra grants you all the benefits of binding it to your Hands chakra, and whenever you slay a creature whose Hit Dice are greater than or equal to your own with this weapon, their soul becomes trapped within the weapon. Creatures whose souls are trapped in this weapon cannot be returned to life except by true resurrection, miracle, wish, or a similar effect. You may consume a trapped soul’s energy as a swift action to regain hit points equal to 1d8 + 1d8 per point of essence invested, at which point the soul can be returned to life normally, though any negative levels it gains as a result of being returned to life are increased by 1. You can only contain a number of souls in the Blackened Pitchfork equal to 1 + your veilweaving modifier. If this veil is sundered, unshaped, or suppressed, any captured souls are immediately freed.

## Blackened Pitchfork [Weapon-like]

**Descriptors**: Evil

**Class**: Daevic, Helmsman, Nexus, Vizier

**Slot**: Hands, Wrists

**Saving Throw**: None

*This pitchfork appears to be made of translucent blackened iron and seethes with infernal energy, seeming both bitterly cold and unbearably hot.*

Shaping this foul veil grants you a pitchfork forged of hell-touched iron molded into shape and made safe to wield by akashic power. This weapon-like veil acts as a trident sized appropriately for you. Whenever you score a critical hit with this weapon, the target is sickened for a number of rounds equal to your veilweaving modifier; if the target is already sickened when this effect is triggered, they are instead nauseated for 1 round. You may choose to use your veilweaver level in place of your base attack bonus when attacking with this veil.

**Essence:** If you have at least 1 point of essence invested in this veil, it is treated as cold iron for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction. For each additional point of essence invested beyond the first this weapon deals an additional 1d6 cold or fire damage; for every even numbered point of essence add 1d6 fire damage, and for each odd numbered point of essence add 1d6 cold.

**Chakra Bind (Hands): [D4, He2, N2, Vi2]** Binding this veil to your Hands chakra grants your Blackened Pitchfork a +1 enhancement bonus per point of essence invested (maximum +5). As long as this weapon has at least a +1 enhancement bonus, you may also use any invested essence to gain a +1 effective enhancement bonus you can spend towards any of the following weapon special abilities: *axiomatic*, *bane* (good or chaotic outsiders only), *flaming*, *flaming burst*, *frost*, *icy burst*, *keen,* *unholy*, *vicious*, or *wounding*.

**Chakra Bind (Wrists): [D7, He8, N8, Vi8]** Binding this veil to your Wrists chakra grants you all the benefits of binding it to your Hands chakra, and increases the weapon’s critical threat range by 1; this is applied first and stacks with abilities like *keen* or the Improved Critical feat. Whenever you slay a creature whose Hit Dice are greater than or equal to your own with this weapon, their soul becomes trapped within the weapon. Creatures whose souls are trapped in this weapon cannot be returned to life except by *true resurrection*, *miracle*, *wish*, or a similar effect. You may consume a trapped soul’s energy as a swift action to regain hit points equal to 1d8 + 1d8 per point of essence invested, at which point the soul can be returned to life normally, though any negative levels it gains as a result of being returned to life are increased by 1. You can only contain a number of souls in the Blackened Pitchfork equal to 1 + your veilweaving modifier. If this veil is sundered or suppressed, any captured souls are immediately freed.