Black Hat of the Witch

**Descriptors:** Divination, Summoning

**Class:** Eclipse, Huay, Nexus, Promethean, Radiant, Stormbound, Vizier, Volur

**Slot:** Head, Headband

**Saving Throw:** None

*A large hat of roiling shadowy akasha appears in your hands, and out crawls a cat whose fur matches its cloth.*

Shaping this veil grants you an over-sized black conical hat with a wide brim that can be inverted to produce a black cat under your control. This functions as a cat familiar, using your veilweaving level as your wizard level when determining its abilities. Unlike a normal cat familiar, this black cat gains Darkvision 60 feet and it grants you a +1 insight bonus to Stealth instead of its normal granted bonus to Stealth. You cannot give the familiar created by this veil a familiar archetype. Summoning the black cat takes a standard action and causes it to appear in your space, and dismissing it requires a standard action and for the cat to be within your reach.

While the black cat is dismissed it regains hit points at a rate of 1 per 10 minutes. You only gain the benefits of the familiar while it is conjured. If the black cat familiar is slain, it disappears into the veil. After 1 hour it is restored to life at1 hit point and can be summoned again.

The black cat can be dispelled as if it were this veil, suppressing or unshaping the veil if the one who attempted to dispel it is successful (as per the normal rules for dispelling a veil). If the black cat enters an antimagic field or similar effect, it is immediately dismissed and cannot be resummoned for 1d4 rounds. If this veil is suppressed or unshaped, the black cat is also dismissed.

**Essence:** For each point of essence invested in this veil, the bonus to Stealth checks granted by the black cat increases by 1, and the black cat gains a +2 insight bonus to its own Stealth checks.

**Chakra Bind (Head):** **[E9, Hu6, N6, P6, R6, St6, Vi6, Vo5]** Binding this veil to your Head chakra heightens your bond with the black cat produced by the veil, allowing it to deliver the effects of your veils. The black cat conjured by this veil gains a +1 insight bonus to its attack rolls for each point of essence invested in this veil.

Additionally, whenever you use the ability of a veil that can be delivered with a melee or ranged touch attack you can store its effects within the black cat until the end of its next turn. During the black cat’s next turn, it can make a melee touch attack to deliver the effects of the veil as a standard action. Your black cat must be within Long range (400 feet + 40 feet) per veilweaver level of you to use this ability, but you do not need line of sight or effect to it. If you use the effects of a veil that allows you to make multiple touch attacks as part of a single action you may store any number of those touch attacks within the black cat. In such a case, delivering more than one touch attack requires the black cat to spend a full-round action. You cannot store the effects of multiple veils using this ability at once, attempting to store the effects of a second veil within the black cat removes the effects of the first stored veil.

**Chakra Bind (Headband): [Hu12, N12, P12, R12, St12, Vi12, Vo11]** Binding this veil to your Headband chakra grants you all of the benefits of the Head bind and enhances your connection with the black cat conjured by the veil, allowing you to share its senses. You and the black cat gain the benefits of the *share senses* spell as a constant effect using your veilweaving level as your caster level, allowing you to share a single one of the black cat’s senses (as per the spell) as long as it remains within Long range of you. You can change the sense you are sharing by spending one full round in meditation. Creatures immune to divination effects are not detected by this shared sense, though may be able to be detected normally by the black cat.