Title Veils Overview
A Title Veil is a unique type of akashic veil woven mostly by the rajah class. Title veils occupy veil slots as normal, and the normal limits on weaving veils apply to title veils. They are woven, bound, and can have essence invested into them exactly as normal veils. However, unlike other veils, the veilweaver who weaves a title veil gains no benefit from it.
Instead, when a veilweaver weaves a title veil, they are able to grant the effects of that veil to another creature. This act of granting a title veil to another is called Bestowing a title, and the creature who receives the title is called the Entitled. The entitled gains all the benefits as described in the veil as long as they remain nearby the veilweaver who bestowed the title to them.
A bestowed title does not occupy any chakra slots, nor is there any limit to the number of titles that can be bestowed onto a creature; however, the entitled may only have titles from a single source. So, if there are two rajahs in the party, each ally can only receive a title from one of them. Attempting to bestow a title to a creature already entitled by another simply fails. Likewise, a veilweaver cannot bestow a title to a creature who has a veil woven with the same name as that title, even if it was not bestowed to them.
A title veil is a visible construct on the veilweaver, as normal for veils. Bestowing a title grants a manifestation of the veil to the entitled.
Weaving and Bestowing Titles
Weaving Title Veils
A veilweaver weaves a title veil as they would any other veil. They select the veils from their list and weave them as normal. A veilweaver cannot weave more than one copy of the same veil, nor can they have more than one veil occupying the same chakra.
Weaving veils typically requires benefiting from a Long Rest then spending one hour in meditation to weave veils.
Binding Title Veils
A title veil cannot be bound to a chakra unless the veilweaver possess the Empowered Titles ability, even if they have otherwise unlocked those chakras. Binding title veils requires a special understanding and proficiency that most veilweavers simply do not gain.
Bestowing Titles
Once a title veil has been woven, the veilweaver may bestow that veil’s title to a creature other than himself. There is no time limit on how long a veilweaver may hold a title before bestowing it and may bestow the title at any time until the veil is unraveled.
Bestowing a title requires expending a move action and touching the creature the veilweaver wishes to entitle. The creature who receives the title is called the Entitled.
A creature must willingly accept a bestowed title. Unwilling creatures and those that are unconscious, mindless, or otherwise unable to accept the title cannot be forced to become entitled. Any such attempt simply fails.
The Demesne
Any veilweaver capable of weaving title veils and bestowing a title has an area around them called their Demesne. Titles are only effective while within the veilweaver’s demesne and lose their abilities when the entitled creature leaves the demesne.
A demesne normally covers an area with a range of 30 feet from the veilweaver. (See Range and Suppression below.)
Effects of a Title Veil
A veilweaver who has woven a title veil treats it as a normal veil for most purposes. They can interact with it, invest and remove essence (even while it’s suppressed), unravel and reweave it, and other such actions; however, class features, feats, and other abilities which require having a veil woven do not function while it is suppressed—as is normal for suppressed veils.
Determining Effects
Although a title veil has been woven by the veilweaver and occupies one of their chakra slots, all effects of the title veil are considered to originate from the entitled. The benefits of a title veil that reference the veilweaver (such as veilweaver level, veilweaving modifier, etc.) refer to the abilities of the veilweaver, and essence effects are based on how much essence the veilweaver has invested into the title veil. All other effects are determined based on the abilities of the entitled.
Only the veilweaver can invest essence into a title veil they weave. The entitled gains no ability to invest essence into the bestowed title.
Range and Suppression
The entitled only gains the effects of their title while they remain nearby the veilweaver who bestowed the title to them. The area where bestowed titles are effective—called the veilweaver’s Demesne—is normally anywhere within 30 feet of the veilweaver.
If an entitled creature leaves the demesne, the effects of the title persist until the end of the entitled’s turn, at which time the title veil becomes suppressed. When a title veil is suppressed, the entitled gains no effects of their title.
If the entitled is within the veilweaver’s demesne at the start of either of their turns, any suppressed title veils are restored and the benefits of the title return to the entitled.
A veilweaver can pinpoint the location of any creature they have entitled, so long as the entitled creature is within their demesne. This allows them to interact with the entitled without fail, even if the entitled is invisible to the veilweaver. While the title is suppressed (usually because the entitled is outside of the veilweaver’s demesne), the veilweaver is only aware of vague information about the entitled creature’s location, as long as they are on the same plane. If on different planes, the veilweaver is aware only that the entitled is no longer on the same plane.
Identifying and Interacting with Title Veils
Both the original title veil and any manifestation of the bestowed title are treated as the original veil for most purposes. Both the veil and manifestation can be identified and sundered as normal for veils. A title veil can be identified by examining either the veilweaver or the entitled with no change in difficulty.
If a veil is suppressed, sundered, or unraveled for the veilweaver, then the same applies to the bestowed title. If the manifestation of the title is suppressed, sundered, or unraveled for the entitled, then the same applies to the original veil. They are treated as being the same esoteric effect.
The title remains active even if the veilweaver is unconscious or dying or otherwise prevented from using their veils; however, any bestowed title and its effects are immediately lost if the veilweaver dies. If the entitled dies, the title is returned to the veilweaver, who may bestow it on another creature.
Other Considerations
Shared Veils
The ability to share veils directly, such as through the Shared Veil feat, function a bit differently with title veils. Such effects do not grant the title veil itself to the creature sharing the veil. Instead, a creature that receives a shared title veil is bestowed the title granted by that veil. This effectively grants the veilweaver an additional title for their veil that they can bestow on another creature.
The range at which the bestowed title functions is determined as normal for bestowing a title rather than the ability which granted the shared veil.
For example, if a Rajah/Beast Master Druid with the Shared Veil feat weaves The Wild, she could choose to bestow that title to her druid animal companion using the Shared Veil feat. The title would function within close range as normal for a bestowed title rather than the normal 15 foot range allowed by that feat. She would still be able to bestow that title to one of her allies as normal.