Carrion Bird (Empathic Bond)

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1 Bonding Requirements
2 Known Abilities
- 2.1 Attribute Modifications
- 2.2 Specialty Bonuses

Bonding Requirements

Carrion birds are battlefield scavengers, and are very much associated with death and the dead. Mortuary skill is required to bond to them, about five will suffice.

Known Abilities

The carrion bird is an opportunistic avian scavenger, found in nearly every region. It can fly, eats corpses, and can see in the dark. The carrion bird type consists of vultures, crows and ravens. The only real difference known is size and starting level.

Attribute Modifications

Bonding to a carrion bird provides its consort a large bonus to charisma, moderate bonuses to intelligence and willpower, and a small bonus to perception.

Specialty Bonuses

Bonus specialty degrees and access are provided as follows:

Tier 1

Entropy Affinity

Tier 2

Thanaturgy

Tier 3

At the middle of "very frail":

Memory

Tier 4

At the middle of "somewhat frail" bond strength:

Telesmatic Weapon

Tier 5

At the middle of "fairly healthy" bond strength:

At "very healthy" bond strength, the bonus specialty for Entropy Affinity is increased to 2.

Tier 6

At the middle of "very healthy" bond strength:

At "robust" (?) bond strength, the Tier 2 bonus specialty (Thanaturgy) increases to 2

At "resilient" bond strength, the Tier 3 bonus specialty (Memory) increases to 2.

Significant access for all these skills is also provided.

Charms

Brought to you by Nemesys.

You sense that you have one method by which you can form an empathic bond: a full essence bond via 
witchcraft, a means provided by the Coven.  This bond requires a familiar that is avian, animal, and 
totemic and forbids a familiar that is anthropic.  This bond is fulfilled by <§> Meg <§>, with whom your 
connection is complete.  You sense that she is thoroughly satiated and thoroughly quenched.  You may break 
your empathic bond with her by concentrating on doing so.

   You sense that this bond is enabling you to perform loads of charms, arcane feats accomplished by 
simple mental acts.

Initially on bonding:

   First, the ability to perceive subtle energy flows.  To do this, concentrate on perceiving subtle 
energy flows.  To end the effects of this charm, concentrate on ceasing to
perceive subtle energy flows.

   Second, the ability to urge your familiar to specific action.  This ability can be used even if you do 
not know where your familiar is.  To do this, concentrate on urging your familiar to undertake the desired
action.

   Third, the ability to command a friendly creature over which your familiar is sovereign to undertake a 
specific action.  You can command multiple creatures at once in this manner.  To do this, concentrate on 
commanding your follower or followers to undertake the desired action.

   Fourth, the ability to tame creatures over which your familiar is sovereign.  To do this, concentrate 
on taming the creature.

Shortly after:

   Fifth, the ability to hallow the remains of the departed.  Doing so resolves the remains into entropic
energy and then washes you in said energy.  To do this, concentrate on the dead joining with death.

   Sixth, the ability to send your familiar to safety.  This ability can be used even if you do not know 
where your familiar is.  To do this, concentrate on sending your familiar to safety.

   Seventh, the ability to channel spiritual energy from yourself to your familiar.  To do this, 
concentrate on channeling my spiritual energy outward.

   Eighth, the ability to call your familiar to your side.  To do this, concentrate on calling your 
familiar.

   Ninth, the ability to weave shadows into arrows.  To do this, concentrate on weaving shadow into an  
arrow or arrows.

   Tenth, the ability to channel spiritual energy from your familiar to yourself.  To do this, concentrate 
on channeling spiritual energy inward.

   Eleventh, the ability to see through your familiar's eyes.  This ability can be used even if you do not 
know where your familiar is.  To do this, concentrate on seeing what your familiar sees.

Towards the end of "very frail" bond strength:

   Twelfth, the ability to conjure a devilfly from the corpse of a rat.  To do this, concentrate on 
conjuring a devilfly.

   Thirteenth, the ability to convert spiritual energy into more refined forms.  You sense that this bond 
is enabling you to acquire entropic energy with this ability.  To do this, concentrate on channeling my
spiritual energy into the desired type of energy.

At the middle of "fairly healthy" bond strength:

   Fourteenth, the ability to enchant a staff (or similar object) with the power of the clouds, enabling 
its holder to fly.  To do this, concentrate on the sky joining the earth within the desired staff, cane,
or walking stick.

At the beginning of "very healthy" bond strength:

   Fifteenth, the ability to recall your conjured followers to your side.  To do this, concentrate on 
recalling the desired follower or followers.

   Sixteenth, the ability to conjure a hellhound from the corpse of a wolf.  To do this, concentrate on 
conjuring a hellhound.

   Seventeenth, the ability to rarify your form and become intangible.  To do this, concentrate on 
rarifying my form.

   Eighteenth, the ability to use the eyebeam of the severed eyestalk of a bezhuldaar.  To do this, 
concentrate on channeling entropic energy at your target through the eyestalk.

   Nineteenth, the ability to become one with your familiar.  This ability can be used even if you do not 
know where your familiar is.  To do this, concentrate on becoming one with your familiar.

   Twentieth, the ability to suffuse an item with entropy.  To do this, concentrate on suffusing the item 
with entropic energy.

   Twenty-first, the ability to conjure a small gate to the underworld.  The gate manifests as a small 
globe that orbits your person and shines deadly light on your enemies. The eye of a fey creature is needed
as a component for this charm.  To do this, concentrate on bringing the light of the underworld in through
the fey eye.  To end the effects of this charm, concentrate on closing the conjured sphere.

   Twenty-second, the ability to conjure a banshee from the corpse of a female dana.  To do this, 
concentrate on conjuring a banshee.

   Twenty-third, the ability to become invisible.  To do this, concentrate on vanishing.  To end the 
effects of this charm, concentrate on appearing.

   Twenty-third and a half, the ability to change one's form. You sense that this bond is enabling you to 
transform into a crow, raven, vulture, wolf, rat, mouse, or spider.  To do this, will myself to change  
into the desired form.  To end the effects of this charm, will myself to my normal form.

   Twenty-fourth, the ability to enchant an ordinary gemstone to orbit around your head and bestow various
benefits.  This charm requires the brainstem of a pegasus as a component.  To do this, concentrate on the 
moving empyrian power rooted within the brainstem into the desired gemstone.

   Twenty-fifth, the ability to envelop yourself in a shroud of passed souls.  To do this, will the souls 
of the dead to protect me.  To end the effects of this charm, will the souls of the dead to  
cease protecting me.

   Twenty-sixth, the ability to weave the essence of darkness into arrows.  To do this, concentrate on 
weaving gloom into an arrow or arrows.

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