Twisted Vellum

Twisted Vellum is an unusual discipline in that it relies on manipulating the energy stored within a spell scroll to achieve its combat effects. The techniques it teaches are often magical in nature and are useful only when properly equipped with a scroll (or other spell completion item, at GM’s discretion). To use a scroll with a Twisted Vellum maneuver, a martial disciple must have successfully deciphered the writing on the scroll.

Key Skill: Linguistics
Discipline Weapons: Any spell scroll (or other spell completion item, at GM’s discretion). A martial disciple with access to this discipline can attack with a spell scroll as if it were a martial light weapon, though a scroll deals no damage when used this way.

The Magic Descriptor

Many techniques of the Twisted Vellum discipline have the [Magic] descriptor. Techniques with this descriptor that have a duration can be dispelled as if they were an active spell and count as esoterica when interacting with other effects.

The Inert Condition

Some techniques within this discipline require using a spell scroll as part of initiating the technique. Some of these techniques inflict the Inert condition on the scroll used. An item afflicted with Inert has temporarily lost its magical ability and cannot be used for its normal purpose nor to initiate a maneuver.

Unless otherwise stated in a technique’s description, spell scrolls rendered inert by a twisted vellum technique lose the inert condition after 1 minute per level of the spell stored in the scroll.

Some scrolls may hold more than one spell. If such a scroll is used as part of a technique, only one spell from that scroll becomes inert rather than the entire scroll.

Twisted Vellum Techniques

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