Bushi's Scabbard

**Descriptors:** Enhanced (spiked light shield)

**Class:** Daevic, Guru, Helmsman, Kheshig, Soulforge, Stormbound

**Slot:** Hands, Belt

**Save:** None

*This dull scabbard is more than it appears, adjusting in size and shape to fit most hand-held weapons and then infusing them with potent magics.*

Shaping this veil grants you a scabbard attached to your hip that can change its shape to hold any melee weapon. This scabbard can also hold [enhanced (weapon)] veils, causing them to not be dismissed when sheathed in the scabbard. When wielded in a free hand, this scabbard provides benefits as if it were a masterwork spiked light shield, and you are treated as having the Improved Shield Bash feat while using it as a shield. If this scabbard is removed from your grip it immediately dissipates and reappears on your waist. Grabbing the scabbard from your waist is a free action.

A weapon sheathed in this scabbard is infused with magic that allows it to be effortlessly drawn, allowing you to draw it forth as a free action, even if it isn’t your turn. If the scabbard is suppressed or unshaped while a weapon is sheathed in it, you may draw that weapon as part of it being suppressed or unshaped as a free action. Whenever you draw a weapon from the scabbard and immediately make an attack with it, you can sheathe it again in the scabbard after the attack is resolved.

You are considered to be threatening attacks of opportunity while you have a weapon sheathed in the scabbard. Whenever you make an attack of opportunity using a weapon you had sheathed in the scabbard, you may sheathe it again after the attack is resolved.

**Essence:** For each point of essence invested in this veil you gain an additional attack of opportunity each round that may only be used with a weapon sheathed in the scabbard, or with the scabbard itself.

**Chakra Bind (Hands):** Binding this veil to your Hands chakra allows you to utilize a weapon sheathed in the scabbard to make a blindingly fast attack. As a standard action, you can draw a weapon from the scabbard and make a melee attack against a single creature and then immediately sheathe the weapon again. The target of your attack is considered to be flat-footed against this attack, and takes an additional 1d6 points of damage per point of essence invested in the veil. This damage is of the same type as the weapon.

In addition, when making shield bashes using the scabbard it gains the benefits of any enhancement bonuses to attack and damage rolls from a weapon sheathed inside of it. If the scabbard is also enhanced as a weapon, you must choose which set of enhancements you use with the scabbard at the beginning of each turn.

**Chakra Bind (Belt):** Binding this veil to your Belt chakra grants you all the benefits of the Hands bind, and allows you to perform blindingly fast counter attacks. Whenever you are attacked by a foe within the reach of the weapon sheathed in the scabbard, you may make a blindingly fast counterattack against that foe as an immediate action. Make a melee attack against that foe using the sheathed weapon, treating that foe as flat-footed. You may make this attack after the foe’s attack is rolled, but before you take damage. If you hit, that foe suffers a -1 penalty to that attack per point of essence invested in this veil. If this reduction would cause the attack to miss you, you take no damage from the attack.

In addition, when making shield bashes using the scabbard it gains the benefit of any weapon special abilities the weapon sheathed inside of it is enhanced with. If an ability would not be usable with a shield bash (such as the keen or vorpal abilities), those abilities have no effect.