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Contents 1 Bonding Requirements 1.1 Failure Message 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 2.2.7 Tier 7 2.3 Charms 2.4 Additional Abilities 2.5 Traits Granted

Bonding Requirements

Some amount of both discipline and empathy seems to be required.

Failure Message

You sense a lack of regard from the white-feathered female swan, and dimly feel that she
considers you to be insufficiently serious about kindness.

Known Abilities

Attribute Modifications

Those who form an empathic bond with swans receive bonuses to their Intelligence, Dexterity, Charisma and Perception.

Specialty Bonuses

Bonus specialty degrees and access are provided as follows:

Tier 1

• Light Affinity

Tier 2

• Sword
• Archery

Tier 3

• Balance
• Dancing
• Discipline
• Dodge
• Lumiturgy
• Quickness
• Sky fieldcraft

Tier 4

At the middle of "fairly healthy" bond strength:

• Combat Reflexes
• Illusion
• Meditation
• Precision Strike
• Tactics

At "very healthy" bond strength, Light Affinity bonus specialty is increased to 2.

Tier 5

At the middle of "very healthy" bond strength:

• Intelligence Analysis

Late in "very healthy" bond strength, the Archery and Sword bonus specialties are increased to 2.

Tier 6

In "robust" bond strength:

• Manipulation

Tier 7

Later in "robust" bond strength:

• Flight

Charms

• Urge
• Call
• Send
• Kinsee

• Channel spiritual energy into the familiar from oneself
• Channel spiritual energy out of the familiar to oneself

• Lightveil, enchant ordinary arrows with radiant energy
• Convert spiritual energy into radiant energy
• Cloudweave, the ability to enchant a staff (or similar object) with the power of the clouds, enabling its holder to fly.
• Starsee
• Lightgarb, the ability to encase one's body in a protective sheath of light. The light will attempt to absorb damage by drawing on one's radiant energy.

Additional Abilities

Swan familiars open and charge the Anahata chakra periodically and provide a special sword attack which utilizes radiant energy.

Attack                     Activity Cost

Crescent                   13     

Ray of Intense Light       15   

The crescent attack is a photonic-based attack that adds photonic affinity and lumimancy to its hit rating, and requires a normal-sized sword to use.

The ray of intense light attack is a photonic-based attack that bases its attack rating largely upon lumimancy.

Traits Granted

Appears to grant Ambidexterity. After awhile, diet changes to photovore.