Chef

**Parent Class:** Radiant

There are few things that are as soothing and restorative to the body, mind, and spirit as a well cooked meal. Chefs are radiants that have tailored their akashic gifts to take advantage of the ability of food to affect the well-being of others.

### **Akashic Cooking**

True chefs are never without the tools needed to prepare meals. At 1st level the chef adds the Chef’s Armory veil to their veil list. Shaping this veil does not count against their normal limits on veils shaped, or their veil slots. As this veil does not count against the chef's veil slots or chakras, they can still shape a different veil into the same slot as it freely.

For every 3 ranks they possess in Profession (chef), Craft (beverage or food), or a similar skill appropriate for the making of food and beverages (subject to GM discretion), the chef immediately learns (or creates) 1 akashic recipe. They can gain a maximum of 6 akashic recipes in this way.

This ability replaces mind over matter.

### **Harvester (Su)**

The chef is not just a deft hand when it comes to the preparation of foodstuffs, but they are also skilled in the collection of fine ingredients. They gain a bonus equal to 1/2 their class level on Survival checks made to forage for akashic cooking ingredients and to “Get along in the wild” (i.e. provide food and water for 1 or more creatures). They also gain this bonus on skill checks made to harvest trophy components as outlined in Pathfinder Ultimate Wilderness.

This ability can be invested with essence. For each point of essence invested in this ability the chef also gains a +1 insight bonus on Knowledge checks made to identify or recover trophies.

### **Culinary Bond (Su)**

Even the mundane meals prepared by the chef are spiced with potent akashic energies. The chef knows how to use these imparted energies to aid their allies.

The chef can only target allies with their akashic bond ability that have consumed food or drinks prepared by them in the last 24 hours. Additionally, the chef’s allies do not gain temporary hit points when under the effects of their akashic bond ability.

As a standard action the chef can force the akasha laced nutrients in the body of an ally within 60 ft. of them, who is under the effects of their akashic bond, to nourish that ally at an unnaturally fast rate. An ally affected by this ability immediately heals 1d6 points of damage + 1d6 per point of essence invested in them via akashic bond after the first. A chef can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 1/2 their radiant level + their Wisdom modifier.

This ability alters akashic bond.

### **Panacea and Poison (Su)**

Food prepared by skilled hands is known to benefit the body, but such hands are also well placed to do quite the opposite. At 4th level by taking a point of essence burn as a standard action the chef can touch a piece of food, a drink, or some other item to be consumed (including alchemical items, potions, elixirs, or similar items) and alter it with one of the following effects:

### **Enrich**

The consumable item also functions as a potion of *polypurpose panacea* for 24 hours after which it reverts to normal. You choose the effect that the creature will gain from the item when activating this ability. A creature consuming the affected item is immediately aware of the effect upon consuming the item and can choose to ignore it. You can expend 75 gp worth of spices as a part of activating this ability to cause the affected item to grant the effects of either a potion of *rite of bodily purity*DA or of *rite of the centered mind*DA for 24 hours, but the consumer does not gain the benefits of this until 30 minutes after consuming the item. Items under the effects of this ability count as food that has been prepared by the chef for the purposes of culinary bond.

### **Transfer Poison**

A single dose of ingested poison on the chef’s person is applied to the item. The chef can take additional points of essence burn to apply multiple doses of poison, the same or different poisons, as a part of the same action. The chef is immune to doses of poison that have been applied using this effect.

The chef can use this ability a number of times per day equal to their veilweaving modifier.

This ability replaces a vivification of the chef’s choice that would be gained at 4th level or later. The chef does not have to gain this ability.