[Chthonic, Aura, Evil]
| Class: | Guru, Vizier |
| Chakra: | Body |
| Saving Throw: | Fortitude negates |
A blackened and tattered aura stained through with spots of dark crimson cloaks your body in ghostly in a ghostly shroud.
As a standard action, you can activate an aura with a range of 5 feet. The aura persists until you deactivate it (also a standard action). Whenever a creature within your aura takes piercing or slashing damage, the first point of that damage is considered Bleed damage, inflicting ongoing damage to the creature. A successful Fortitude save negates the bleed effect but does not reduce the damage.
Essence
Each point of essence invested in this veil increases the range by 5 feet and increases the amount of damage treated as bleed damage by 1.
Chakra Bind (Body)
The ghostly shroud becomes a tangible cloak wrapped around your body and stained with blood. Holes are torn through the cloth, evidence of fatal wounds suffered by those who wore it before you.
When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon, you deal 1d4 negative levels (Fortitude half) to the target. For each negative level inflicted, you gain 1 temporary essence and 5 temporary hit points. The temporary essence lasts 1 round and the temporary hit points last for up to 1 hour.
If you have a Stolen Essence Pool, you may choose to gain stolen essence instead of temporary essence.