Skill Catalog

Your advanced knowledge of animals and nature gives you the ability to manifest from thin air a natural material—up to two square feet—from any common or uncommon creature on the flora and fauna list. This takes the duration of one action and does not require a stat roll for success. You may choose one material per season to be this familiar with.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes one action
- Manifested material cannot be larger than two feet or three square feet

Whether wielding this power to help or harm, you have the ability to cause the instant destruction of up to three small, inorganic objects per thread.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes one action

Cause any small material to quickly decay. You must be touching the material the entire time, and if your hand is removed, the progression immediately stops.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes a full action plus bonus action
- When PC reaches Tier Two magic, skill takes an action, not a bonus action

When you will it, your movements—even if technically silent—can produce an echo up to five seconds after the movement is taken.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action
- Can be focused on individual targets or area of effect (AoE)

Glimpse a few seconds into the future once per thread to see the possible outcomes of a situation. This allows for a roll with advantage on the turn that it was used, so note the use in the TLDR of a quest/event and staff will automatically roll the action taken with advantage.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes a bonus action
- Limited to once per thread

Through touch alone, you can target an inorganic object or surface of any size and weaken it, making it easier to break apart for any number of purposes.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes a bonus action

You can make people in the immediate area experience what you are feeling as you are feeling it. Whether that means you are a master of manipulating your own emotions or simply wish to share them as they happen, it can be a unique experience to share feelings.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action, to use the skill and apply an emotion to it

Hollow voice makes your words sound distant or echo as if from underground, projecting unnaturally for up to three hundred feet, allowing it to be heard without effort at a great distance.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action
- Lasts for two rounds

Being able to track magic is a critically useful ability in a world where magic runs free. Tuned into the magic energy, you can use your nose or your advanced knowledge to gain a bonus on rolls for magic-based exploration or tracking threads.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes a bonus action

The perfect combination of helping and harming, you have the ability to touch someone and absorb a portion of their health to heal yourself in an emergency. The PC does not have to be willing, but this can lead to PvP. You cannot leech the last HP, so this cannot be used as a killing blow.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action

In times of darkness or when you simply need a little extra light, you can call on the magic within you to create three small spheres of light that hover with a soft, golden glow.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes a bonus action

You can create a tether between two people—either two others or yourself and one other person—which links their physical health. If one person is harmed, they both are harmed. If one person is healed, they both are healed.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action

Your ability to read people goes a step further than most, and you are able to feel where their strength comes from. In turn, you are able to bestow either a -2 penalty to WIS [siphoning mage] or a +2 buff to WIS [veneration mage].

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action
- Can be done twice per thread
- Can only be applied to one character at a time
- Effect lasts up to two rounds

When you focus on a metal object within approximately a thirty foot radius, whether it is technically a magnetic material or not, it will pull toward you.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action

With more and more practice in the chosen magic, you are able to magically manipulate small objects with expert precision.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action 
- Lowers the DC by 2

Light bends and shrinks around you, darkness pulling in and in and in. Enwrapping yourself in darkness allows for the safe recovery of a little more HP than a healing potion would give.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes an action

Your familiarity with cloth, leather, and fur instantly allows your touch to instantly soften and smooth base materials of armor—which is most often made from some kind of treated natural material—to lower the armor class of an opponent for the rest of the thread.

Use in quest/PvP:
- Takes an action
- Must touch the armor

Understanding humanity on a deeper level—be it magical inclination or sense of greatness—you develop the ability to read people significantly easier, gaining insight into how people are feeling, either individually or in small groups. Using this skill counts as a bonus action and gives you a +1 buff to WIS for one round.

Bending perception and the world around you, you have the power to deprive one person of two of their senses for a duration of three posts.

In learning the extent of your abilities, you can look through the eyes of a creature or a willing person within a thirty foot radius. The duration after making the connection is up to five posts, but it can be used an infinite number of times, as long as the connection is re-established.

Your focus brings you a great advantage. When intensely concentrating on one area (ex: a bleeding wound, a thrown dart), time slows slightly and allows precision and thought to be put into your actions. Using this skill counts as a bonus action for one round, but allows two actions to be taken in a single round. They must be the same action repeated.

With powerful magic comes the potential to wield it on a great scale. Mass hysteria comes in many forms, and with this ability, you can influence groups of up to five people to riot, become paralyzed with fear, or cause general chaos from their heightened emotions for up to three rounds.

Becoming intricately familiar with the abilities of others through your bond or understanding the behaviors of numerous creatures gives you the ability to channel other people. Acting as a single unit, you give yourself and your allies the ability to know each others next moves in the next round of combat or a quest [meta gaming]. Using this skill counts as a bonus action for one round, and it can be used twice per thread. OOC coordination may gain bonuses or advantage on rolls, depending on the situation.

When focusing intently on someone, you can compel them to be truthful, regardless of if they wish to lie. Those with strong enough mental willpower may be able to fight back, but it would be difficult!

Focusing on an activity or ability draws attention from all around, as the sounds of the world fade in your immediate vicinity. Using this skill counts as a bonus action for one round, and the duration lasts for one round.

Careful and dedicated development of your magic allows for the vague control of another. You cannot control their movements or their minds, but you can slow their movements to give yourself or your allies an advantage. A WIS save is rolled for the target at the beginning of each round.

With your affinity for animals and mixing nature and technology, nature sees you as an ally. Hostile creatures are more hesitant to attack you for the duration of one round, but that does not mean you are free to interact with them entirely without consequence. The target animals must not be compelled or magically created/conjured.

In becoming more comfortable with your draconic features, you gain the ability to grow more. Strong, sharp spikes erupt at will down your spine, along the backs of your forearms, and from your knuckles as natural weapons and armor. It takes an action to summon the spikes, but no stat roll is required. This can be stacked on top of the Natural Armor skill, but it cannot be summoned in the same turn.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes a bonus action

Collecting your different animals and spending more and more time in each one gives you in-depth knowledge of the benefits and drawbacks they all have. You have the ability to select features from two of your collected forms at a time [of the same size category] and combine them into one shift form.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes either one action or the full movement for the round

More numerous scales (for Bonded) and scales, fur, or feathers (for Shifters, any combination of their forms) in their human form appear in the more vulnerable areas of the body for the purpose of protection. This is a boost to your armor class, which can be used once per thread and lasts for three posts.

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes a bonus action
- Can be stacked with Drake Spine skill, but cannot be summoned in same turn

Thoroughly familiar with how many different animals work, you have the ability to harness certain features, while still remaining mostly in your human form [ex: wings for flight, pointed ears/sensitive nose for heightened senses].

Use in quests/PvP:
- Takes either one action or the full movement

You have the ability to shift between two forms in one turn, without losing your attack or movement.

Use in quest/PvP:
- Takes a bonus action
- Still have your action and movement in a turn

As you begin to embrace the inner fire that comes with your magic, you develop the ability to heal yourself to the same extent as a healing potion, burning away injuries to replace with healthy tissue. This can only be done once per thread and does not work on lingering or lethal injuries.

When in your bestial form, you channel your magic from within, creating a silver outer layer over your skin, which is impervious to magic, but has no extra defenses against nonmagical attacks/damage. This can be done once per thread and lasts for three posts. It takes an action to summon the hide, but no stat roll is required.

Becoming intricately familiar with the abilities of others through your bond or understanding the behaviors of numerous creatures gives you the ability to channel other people. Acting as a single unit, you give yourself and your allies the ability to know each others next moves in the next round of combat or a quest [meta gaming]. Using this skill counts as a bonus action for one round, and it can be used twice per thread. OOC coordination may gain bonuses or advantage on rolls, depending on the situation.

Enough time of being one with your dragon has opened the ability to synchronize your heartbeats in a way that allows you to share your health both ways in the form of temporary health points once per thread. Using this skill counts as a bonus action for one round, but no roll is required. The PC can take up to 15 temporary health points from their dragon, but the dragon cannot get the HP returned during the active thread.