By aligning yourself with the sun, you can gain powerful effects.
Prerequisites
2 or more Radiant Dawn techniques, 2 or more techniques from other martial disciplines.
Benefit
You can invest essence into maneuvers that you cannot normally invest essence into and may use your Sun’s Gleam ability with a strike from any discipline that includes a ranged weapon attack and has essence invested.
Once per day at sunrise, you can align yourself with one major position of the sun, gaining a different benefit based on your alignment. This benefit cannot be changed until the following sunrise or 24 hours has passed, whichever comes first.
You gain 1 point of essence.
Sunrise
Whenever you initiate a maneuver with invested essence, you gain a bonus to AC equal to 1/2 the maneuver level plus the invested essence. This bonus does not stack with itself and lasts for 1 round.
High Noon
After you have initiated a maneuver with invested essence, you gain a bonus to the damage roll of the next attack you make (that isn’t part of that maneuver) equal to 1/2 the maneuver level plus the invested essence. This attack must be made before the end of your next turn, or the bonus is lost. This bonus does not stack with itself.
Sunset
Whenever you initiate a maneuver with invested essence, you grant temporary hit points to one ally within close range (25 feet + 5 feet per 2 initiator levels) equal to your character level plus the invested essence. These temporary hit points last for one minute and stack with other temporary hit points to a maximum of half the ally’s maximum total hit points. This ability can only be used once per round.