Abhyasi

**Parent Class:** Rajah

*Abhyasi utilize arcane magics to maintain their rule. With the ability to cast their spells through their entitled allies, the abhyasi can turn the tides of battle even from afar.*

### **Spell Casting**

The abhyasi casts arcane spells and cantrips as a magus (additional magus spells can be found here) of their rajah level, using Intelligence as their casting ability score. Any rajah class feature or ability that references their initiation modifier or their Charisma, instead uses their casting ability score. They have a spellbook, and gain spells each level as if they were a magus.

*This replaces the rajah’s maneuvers, maneuvers readied, and stances known class features.*

### **Arcane Vassalage (Su)**

The abhyasi can cast spells gained through this archetype through any ally that they have shaped a veil with the Title descriptor onto. The abhyasi uses special rules, listed below, when casting spells through this class feature. The abhyasi may only use these abilities on entitled allies within Close range.

When casting a spell gained through this archetype, the abhyasi may use that ally’s space as if it were their own, determining range, line of sight, and line of effect from that ally’s space. The abhyasi must still be able to perceive their target from their own space, unless the spell only targets the entitled ally or is centered on the entitled ally.

For spells that require the abhyasi to touch a creature or make a touch attack, the abhyasi uses their own attributes. If they cast a touch spell that grants multiple charges, such as *chill touch*, on following rounds they can spend a standard action to make a touch attack using one of those charges through their entitled ally.

If the abhyasi casts a spell gained through this archetype that has a range of personal, they can choose whether to have the spell affect themselves or one of their entitled allies.

*This modifies the rajah’s vassalage class feature.*

### **Abhyasi’s Crossroads (Su)**

With their stave held aloft, the abhyasi commands their dominion over the battlefield. At 1st level, they choose one of the following staves, granting them unique benefits when casting their arcane spells. Once this choice is made, it cannot be changed.

* *Staff of the Sky Sovereign:* When making an attack with a spell cast through their arcane vassalage class feature, the abhyasi may use their casting modifier in place of their Strength or Dexterity modifiers on their attack rolls. Spells cast by the abhyasi through their arcane vassalage class feature deal an additional 1 point of damage per damage die of the spell. This damage is of the same type as the spell.
* *Staff of the Sun King:* When the abhyasi casts a spell that affects an enemy, that enemy erupts with purifying akashic flame. Your enemies within 10 feet of the affected enemy must succeed at a Reflex save or take 1d6 points of damage per odd-numbered class level. This does not affect the initial target of the spell. The DC of this saving throw is equal to 10 + 1/2 the abhyasi’s class level + their casting modifier. This damage comes from an akashic pulse of power, and as such is not reduced by damage reduction, hardness, resistances, or immunities. If the abhyasi affects multiple enemies with a single spell, they choose only one of them to be affected by this ability.
* *Staff of the Moon Queen:* Whenever the abhyasi casts a spell through one of their entitled allies using their arcane vassalage class feature, a blend of akasha and arcana infuses that creature and ward them from harm. Until the end of the abhyasi’s next turn, the entitled ally they cast the spell through gains a +2 shield bonus to their AC. This bonus stacks with their existing shield AC, and is considered a force effect that applies against incorporeal attacks. This bonus increases by an additional +1 at 3rd level, and every 3 levels thereafter.

*This ability modifies the rajah’s crossroads class feature.*

### **Arcane Mandate (Su)**

When the abhyasi uses their royal mandate ability, instead of swapping a single readied maneuver, the abhyasi suffuses their ally with arcane power, granting them a +1 bonus to weapon damage rolls and treating their weapon attacks as magical until the end of the abhyasi’s next turn. This bonus increases by an additional +1 at 3rd level, and every 3 levels thereafter.

*This modifies the rajah’s royal mandate class feature.*

### **Akashic Strike**

At 2nd level, whenever the abhyasi casts a spell that can be delivered by a melee or ranged touch attack through one of their entitled allies using their arcane vassalage ability, they can choose to allow that ally to deliver the spell with a weapon attack. Instead of the normal attack allowed by the abhyasi as a free action, they instead grant that ally the ability to make an attack with one of their weapons as a free action (even if it isn’t their turn).

If the spell is delivered with a melee touch attack, the attack must be made with a melee weapon. If the spell is delivered using a ranged touch attack, the attack must be made with a ranged weapon. If the attack hits a creature, it deals its normal damage as well as the effects of the spell. This attack uses the weapon’s critical range (20, 19–20, or 18–20 and modified by the keen weapon property or similar effects), but the spell effect only deals x2 damage on a successful critical hit, while the weapon damage uses its own critical modifier.

Spells that grant multiple attacks, such as scorching ray, can only have one of their attacks delivered by a weapon using this ability, the abhyasi makes any additional attacks normally through that entitled ally. If they cast a spell that grants multiple charges of melee or ranged touch spells, such as chill touch, on following rounds they can spend a standard action to allow their ally to make a weapon attack to deliver a charge.

### **Prepotency**

At 10th level, the abhyasi has become a master of their magical arts, fortifying their mind and their spirit with magical rituals and mnemonics. They gain immunity to fear effects, and the essence capacity of all of their veils and class feature essence receptacles increases by one (This does not affect akashic items, or other non-listed receptacles).

The abhyasi may invest essence in this ability. They gain an insight bonus on attack rolls with their spells and spell-like abilities equal to the essence invested. For every odd point of essence invested, the saving throw DCs of their spells and spell-like abilities increase by 1.

This replaces the rajah’s regality class feature.