Akasha Expanded: Veilbreaker (Patreon)

New Feat

Precision Veil Breaking

You can aim multiple precise blows against a veil to shatter it in a flurry of smaller strikes.

Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6, Improved Sunder

Benefits: When you sunder a veil multiple times as part of the same action (such as when making multiple attacks as part of a full-attack), treat all of the damage you deal to the veil, after subtracting its hardness from each hit, as if it were dealt by a single sunder attempt when determining if you successfully sunder the veil.

Normal: You must deal enough damage to sunder a veil in a single hit.

Veilbreaker (Prestige Class)

Whether driven by hatred, fear, or simply a desire to overcome the powers of magic itself, veilbreakers are the master of their namesake. These warriors specialize in the destruction of veils and the effects they produce, allowing them to overcome veilweavers through sheer destructive force.

Alignment: Any.

Hit Die: d10.

Requirements

To qualify to become a veilbreaker, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.

Feats: Essence Rejection

Skills: Knowledge (arcana) 5 ranks.

Veilweaving: Character must not have the ability to shape veils.

Class Skills

The veilbreaker’s class skills are Acrobatics (Dex), Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha) Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Perception (Wis), Ride (Dex), Sense Motive (Wis), and Swim (Str).

Skill Ranks at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier.

Table: The Veilbreaker

Class Features

The following are class features of the veilbreaker prestige class.

Precision Veil Breaking

At 1st level, the veilbreaker gains Improved Sunder and Precision Veil Breaking as bonus feats, even if they do not meet the prerequisites for those feats.

Total Rejection (Ex)

At 1st level, the veilbreaker adds their class level to their bonus to saving throws granted by their Essence Rejection feat, and also gains that bonus as an insight bonus to AC against attacks made by akashic effects, such as weapons created by a veil, attacks benefitting from an effect that grants a bonus to attack or damage based on essence, or by touch attacks made using a veil. The veilbreaker cannot have veils shaped on them or be granted essence in any way. Any attempt to do so automatically fails.

Akasha Resistance (Ex)

At 2nd level, whenever the veilbreaker is targeted by the effects of a veil or akashic feat that allows a saving throw, they negate the effects on a successful save, even if the effect would normally have partial effects on a successful saving throw.

Essence Sunder (Ex)

At 3rd level, the veilbreaker can attempt to sunder the very essence that makes up a creature. Using this ability, the veilbreaker can attempt a sunder maneuver against a creature. On a success, the creature takes half the damage dealt by the sunder attack and takes 1 point of essence burn per veilbreaker class level. This damage ignores any hardness or damage reduction the creature might possess.

Esoteric Sundering (Ex)

At 4th level, the veilbreaker gains the ability to sunder the effects produced by a veil. Doing so requires them to be in range of the effect with their weapon (or in range of any square of the effect, for those that effect an area) and requires them to make a sunder attempt against the veilweaver’s CMD. This otherwise functions as sundering a veil in regards to the effects hit points, save that veil effects don’t have any hardness. If the veilbreaker successfully destroys the effects of a veil they are immediately dispelled. This ability cannot be used to sunder auras, but can be used to sunder the effects the aura places on a creature. In such a case, that creature gains an immunity to the effects of the aura for 1d4 rounds after the effect is successfully sundered.

Once per turn as an immediate action, the veilbreaker can sunder the effects of a veil as it is produced, assuming they are either within range of the veilweaver that caused the effect, or within the reach of the target or target area of the effect. When doing so, if they successfully destroy the veil effect it is dispelled before it affects the target creature or area. For effects that target multiple creatures but not an area, the veilbreaker may only sunder the effect targeting one of the creatures. The veilbreaker must be aware of the veilweaving and effect to use this ability.

Improved Akasha Resistance (Ex)

At 5th level, the veilbreaker’s resistance to akashic effects further improves, allowing them to shrug off the effects of akasha even on a failed save. If they are subject to an akashic effect that would normally allow reduced or partial effects on a successful save, if they fail the saving throw they are instead treated as suffering from those effects instead of the normal effects of the akashic effect.

Improved Essence Sunder (Ex)

At 5th level, when the veilbreaker sunders the essence of a creature they deal full damage to that creature, and it takes that creature 10 minutes of rest to recover each point of essence burned using this ability, rather than only 1 minute of rest per essence burned.

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