Daevic Aspect/Apathy

**Descriptors:** See text

**Class:** Daevic

**Slot:** Blood

**Saving Throw:** See text

*A nebulous cloud of akashic energy takes shape around you, coalescing into various forms as it channels the powers of your passions and emotions.*

When you shape this veil, choose one daevic passion. The effects of this veil are determined by the chosen passion. If you have levels in a class that grants you a passion, you must select that passion when you shape this veil.

**Note:** This is the page for the **Apathy** aspect, you can find the other aspects here.

This veil gains the Mind-Affecting descriptor. Shaping this veil surrounds you in an aura of energy that obscures your appearance and causes others to become apathetic to your very presence. When you make a Stealth check, you can choose to utilize the effects of this veil. When doing so, you gain a +2 insight bonus to that Stealth check, use your veilweaving modifier in place of your Dexterity for that Stealth check, and you can hide from creatures with an Intelligence score of 1 or higher without the need for cover or concealment. If you begin hiding in this way while a creature can perceive you, they are considered to have automatically beaten this Stealth check. You must make new Stealth checks as part of a move action each round to maintain this ability, and continuing to hide in this way as part of a move action does not reveal you. If you are not in immediate danger or distracted you can take 10 on this check, as normal.

Unless a creature is actively searching for you (such as if they have been alerted to and are actively seeking out intruders and are actively using their move action to make Perception checks), a creature only notices you if your Stealth check fails to beat a DC of 11 + the creature’s Perception bonus. A creature actively searching for you makes a Perception check opposed by your Stealth check, as normal (failing to beat the above DC causes you to be revealed to the creature, even if their roll to actively search for you is lower).

If a creature fails to notice you using Stealth in this way, instead of being hidden from them that creature instead either overlooks you entirely, believes you are supposed to be there and ignores you, or simply doesn’t care about your presence enough to interact with you. A creature who succeeds on this check can alert their allies to your presence, negating the effects of this ability. A creature who fails to notice you while using this ability still remembers seeing you and the actions you took, but remembers almost nothing about you besides your size and vague appearance. If a creature notices you, this only affects their memories before you were revealed to them

You are automatically revealed if you attack a creature or perform a hostile action in view of an affected creature (unless that action is suitably hidden, such as using Sleight of Hand to steal an object from a creature unnoticed). For purposes of this ability, an attack includes any spell targeting a foe or whose area or effect includes a foe.

Using Stealth in this way is a supernatural mind-affecting effect. Creatures who are immune to mind-affecting effects or who have an Intelligence score of — automatically notice you when attempting to hide from them in this way. If you have the ability to allow your effects to bypass immunity to mind-affecting effects, it applies to the abilities of this veil as well.

**Essence:** For each point of essence invested in this veil, the insight bonus to Stealth checks granted by the veil increases by +1.

**Chakra Bind (Blood):** Binding this veil to your Blood chakra further empowers its apathetic effects upon creatures you choose to hide from. You may choose to activate the effects of this veil as a free action at the beginning of each of your turns. If you choose to do so, you roll a Stealth check and use that to determine the effects of this veil until the beginning of your next turn. If you are not in immediate danger or distracted you can take 10 on this check, as normal. While using this veil in this way you cannot choose to use the effects of this veil in place of a normal Stealth check, and you do not suffer any penalties for moving at more than half your speed. You can also combine the effects of this veil with normal Stealth checks as well.

Additionally, the base effects of this veil are improved in the following ways:

If a creature who succeeds on their Perception check alerts their allies to your presence, instead of automatically breaking the effects those creatures instead receive a new Perception check against the effect each round their allies try to alert them to your presence. They may only receive a new check once per round in this way, even if multiple allies try to alert them to your presence.

Attacking a creature or performing a hostile action only automatically breaks the effects of this veil against creatures who the action or attack was directed against. Other affected creatures who can see you and weren’t attacked instead receive a new Perception check to notice your hostility as out of the ordinary. If they fail, they react as if it is entirely normal and expected and do nothing to intervene. This check is in addition to the normal Perception checks they may make to notice you while you are visible to them, and they may only make one check this way each round no matter how many hostile actions you take in their presence.