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Contents 1 Bonding Requirements 2 Known Abilities 2.1 Attribute Modifications 2.2 Specialty Bonuses 2.2.1 Tier 1 2.2.2 Tier 2 2.2.3 Tier 3 2.2.4 Tier 4 2.2.5 Tier 5 2.2.6 Tier 6 2.3 Charms 2.4 Additional Bonuses and Powers 2.4.1 Combat Maneuvers 2.4.2 Traits granted

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:

• Centering
• Channeling
• Archery

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:

• Thanaturgy
• Mortuary
• Spirit Lore

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

Carrion birds fly in flocks, and are social creatures; the carrion bird familiar is able to charm other carrion birds into following its consort. Initially on bonding:

• Urge
• Tame
• Command
• Starsee

Shortly after:

• Call
• Send
• Kinsee
• Convert spiritual energy into entropic resource energy
• Channel spiritual energy from yourself to your familiar
• Channel spiritual energy from your familiar to yourself
• Hallow Remains of departed creatures, adding to entropic resource energy
• Weave shadow into arrows, enchanting them to do esoteric damage types

Towards the end of "very frail" bond strength:

• Conjure a Devilfly from the remains of a rat

At the middle of "fairly healthy" bond strength:

• Cloudweave a staff, enchanting it with the power to grant wingless flight

At "very healthy" bond strength:

• Conjure a Banshee from the remains of a female dana
• Recall Conjured Followers

Late in "very healthy" bond strength:

• Rarify one's form to become intangible

At the middle of "robust" bond strength:

• The ability to use the eyebeam of the severed eyestalk of a bezhuldaar

Around "resilient" bond strength:

• The ability to summon a bildwyrm from the corpse of a slain dragon is acquired. A bildwyrm is a powerful undead dragon animated by ordered enregies. It will follow your commands and is mountable.

After "resilient" bond strength:

• The ability to summon a small gate to the underworld is acquired. This requires the eye of a fey creature. Faerie, dana, and drow eyes are confirmed to meet this requirement, but others may also work. This gateway requires a small amount of entropic energy to stay open, but will fire blasts at any attackers while it is maintained. These blasts vary in damage type, but all seem to have an unholy component.

Prior to "intimate" bond strength:

• The power of invisibility is acquired. This charm will also affect your familiar, but not any summoned followers. The combat benefits of this are clear, but it has a variety of other helpful (and sometimes detrimental) side effects. Attempting to buy, sell, or train while invisible will be met with frustration.

As your bond approaches the "intimate" bond strength:

• The ability to create iouns stones from a ordinary gem and the brainstem of a pegasus is acquired.

Additional Bonuses and Powers

Combat Maneuvers

At the middle of "somewhat frail" bond strength, a new attack maneuver called "Gust of Black Wind" is added. This attack does a mix of entropic and elemental air damage, uses telesmatic weapon and necromancy as its core skills, and is fueled by the entropic resource energy collected by the Convert and Hallow Remains charms. It has a moderate activity cost, a very low resource energy cost, is very accurate, and does damage to a very large area.

At the middle of "resilient" bond strength, a second attack maneuver called "Wisp of Soulfire" is added. This attack does a mix of entropic, holy, and fire damage, uses telesmatic weapon and necromancy as its core skills, and is fueled by entropic and a small amount of spiritual energy. While the damage is much greater than "Gust of Black Wind" its resource cost is also significantly higher.

Traits granted