Truenamer Homebrew

CONTENTS

Truename Magic Truespeak (Int; Trained Only)

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Truename Research (Discovering a Personal Truename)

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The Truenamer Maximum Utterance Levels

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Truenamer Prestige Classes Acolyte of the Ego

8

True Scholar

10

Wordspeaker

12

Forgotten

14

Fiendbinder

16

Warden of Silence

20

Truename Feats

25

Utterances

29

Speaking an Utterance

29

Utter Defensively

29

Spell Resistance

29

Personal Truename

29

Target

30

Range

30

Duration

30

Effective Spell Level

31

The Laws

31

Counterspeaking and Dispelling

31

Lexicons The Lexicon of the Evolving Mind

32

The Lexicon of the Crafted Tool

42

The Lexicon of the Perfected Map

47

Truename Magic Items

51

Bottled Echoes

51

Inscriptions

52

Artifacts

55

This homebrew Truenamer (and related prestige classes) were originally created by Kyeudo. Formatting and grammar/spelling corrections, as well as some adding some small additional effects to abilities were done by Quirken.

TRUESPEAK (INT; TRAINED ONLY)

any other container with a single word. If anything resists this activity, the spell fails. This effect only works on ordinary objects that are within 60 feet and cannot affect anything beyond 30 pounds in weight.

Use this skill to master the torturous pronunciation of truenames, each of which involves a dozen syllables, precise timing, and vocalizations foreign to even the most multilingual character. If you're a truenamer, you use this skill every time you deliver an utterance. If you’re a spellcaster with a truename spell at your disposal, you make a Truespeak check to cast the spell properly. Members of prestige classes make Truespeak checks to activate class features. You can also make a Truespeak check as a free action to identify an utterance being spoken, even when it’s not your turn. Of the standard classes, only the truenamer has Truespeak as a class skill. Other characters can avoid the high cost of cross-class skills by taking the Truename Training feat. Action: Speaking a truename is a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity. Try Again: Yes. Synergy: If you have 5 or more ranks in Truespeak, you gain a +2 bonus in any Knowledge checks made to conduct truename research.

WHISPER OF RADIANCE: Your words cause an object within 60 feet to glow like a torch, shedding bright light in a 20-foot radius (and dim light for an additional 20 feet). The effect is immobile but can be used on a mobile object. Light taken into an area of magical darkness does not function. This effect lasts for one minute and does not work on any magical object or any unwilling attended object.

WHISPER OF MOTION: A few words of Truespeech and some concentration are all you need to move a small object around the room. You can only affect unattended, mundane objects weighing a pound or less and the object must be within 60 feet. Each round you concentrate, you can move the object 10 feet. You can concentrate on this effect for up to 5 rounds.

WHISPER OF FIRE: With a single word, you cause a

WHISPER OF OPENING: You can open or close (your

bright spark of flame to come into existence. This small burst of fire deal 1 point of fire damage to one creature or object within 60 feet. This fire damage is enough to light extremely flammable substances, such as oil or paper, on fire. When used on an object, use the object's caster level (if it has one) in place of it's CR.

choice) a door, chest, box, window, bag, bottle, or

ECHO OF MAGIC: You speak a word of Truespeech to

The following are spell-like abilities, equivalent to a 0 level spell. They have an effective caster level of 1.

TABLE 1: TRUESPEAK CHECKS Check: You can pronounce truenames, identify an utterance, and perform truename magic. The DC and the effect of a successful check depend on the task you attempt. Task

Truespeak DC

Speak an Utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind* DC 15 + (Utterance Level x 2) + Creature's CR Speak an Utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool*

DC 15 + (Utterance Level x 2) + Object's Caster Level

Speak an Utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map* DC 25 + (Utterance Level x 5) + 5 if the location is magical Identify an utterance as it is spoken

DC 15 + Utterance Level

Identify a Truespeak effect that is already in place

DC 20 + Utterance Level

Identify a bottled echo

DC 20 + Utterance Level

Whisper of Opening*

DC 15

Whisper of Radiance*

DC 15

Whisper of Motion*

DC 15

Whisper of Fire*

DC 15 + Target's CR

Echo of Magic*

DC 15

*Subject to the Law of Resistance Note: For the purpose of determining a PC's Challenge Rating, assume that it is equal to his Effective Character Level.

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TABLE 2: PERSONAL TRUENAME RESEARCH DCS Subject Creature Object Common location (such as a tavern)* Important Location (such as a king's palace) Famous Location (such as the Cliffs of Despair) Legendary Location (Such as the Forge of Moradin) Secret or hidden location (such as the secret lair of a word dragon)* *considered obscure. See below.

Difficulty Class Number of Checks Required DC 20 + creature's CR 1/2 creature's CR DC 20 + object's caster level 1/2 object's caster level DC 25 2 DC 30 5 DC 35 7 DC 40 10 DC 50

an item in your hands and the magic within that item resonates with the language of the universe. This causes the magic item you hold to produce a musical chime, the pitch and tone of which changes depending on the school of magic associated with it. You can identify that school with a Spellcraft check (DC 15 + half the object's caster level). Using this effect on a nonmagical item produces no sound.

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The DC of this check is equal to 20 + the creature's CR, 20 + the object's caster level (if it has one), or is based on the relative importance of a location (see below). If you have the bardic knowledge class feature, you can substitute bardic knowledge checks for the Knowledge check. Just one success is rarely enough to discover a personal truename. You need a number of successes equal to 1/2 the creature's CR, 1/2 the object's caster level, or to some number based on the relative importance of the location (minimum 1; see table 4). Each Knowledge check to discover a personal truename takes one week and cost 1000gp (for various research supplies, library fees, bribes, meditative incense, and so on). Spells cast as part of truename research need not be cast by you, but must be cast with the intent of discovering

DISCOVERING A PERSONAL TRUENAME

The simplest way to discover a personal truename is for someone to teach you that creature's personal truename. With only a minute or two of practice, you can understand that truename well enough to use it yourself. Of course, truenamers tend to be very protective of the truenames they know, so most will not part with them TABLE 3: PERSONAL TRUENAME RESEARCH MODIFIERS without some form of compensation. You can also find out the personal Condition truename of a person, place, or object Staff of research assistants using a combination of mundane and You know who the subject's parents are You know who the subject's grandparents are magical research techniques, but the You know who the subject's great grandparents or beyond are search can be an expensive, timeconsuming process as you try to track You know who the object's creator is You know the architect who designed the structure down the name of just one person You have met/visited the subject among millions. You have spent more than a month in proximity to the subject It takes a successful Knowledge You are related to the subject (or you are the subject) check in the relevant subskill You have 5 ranks in Truespeak (synergy) (Knowledge (dungeoneering) for an You have the Truename Research feat aberration's truename or Knowledge Subject is considered obscure (see above) (engineering and architecture) for a Subject has the Obscure Personal Truename feat building's truename) to discover a Subject is under the effects of a hidden truename spell personal truename. Commune spell

Modifier +2 +1 +2 +4 +2 +2 +1 +2 +4 +2 +2 -4 -4 -8 +2

Divination spell

+4

Contact other plane spell

+2

Legend lore spell

+6

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the researched truename. The research process is interruptible at any time. If you need to go adventure, just keep track of how many successful checks you've made so far, then resume your research when your schedule allows. Obscure Creatures: Ironically, it can be somewhat easier to research the personal truename of an ancient lich than a lowly goblin scout. Histories will periodically mention the lich's unholy deeds and previous truename researchers may have made progress on the truename (and recorded that progress), but it's unlikely that anyone has ever cared to know the goblin's truename, so mundane texts won't help much. Creatures with a CR of less than 10 (or objects with a caster level of less than 10) are considered to be obscure unless they have historical or political importance. You can't even attempt to research the truename of an obscure creature without magical aid of some sort, usually some sort of divination spell, and even then you take a -4 penalty on the check. Starting Play with Personal Truenames: With the Dungeon Master's permission, you can begin play knowing the personal truenames of other creatures, objects, and places that you could logically have investigated already. Each such truename counts against your starting gold like a magic item. Truenames costs (1500 gp x the number of checks normally required to discover the creature's truename). For example, the truename of your 6th level ally costs 4500 gp to know at character creation.

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THE TRUENAMER A truenamer studies the words that comprise the fabric of existence. Long hours of practice and memorization have allowed him to master the language by which the universe defines itself and through it can bend reality to his will.

MAKING A TRUENAMER Alignment: Starting Gold: Starting Age:

Any. 4d4 x 10 gp. As wizard.

TABLE 4: THE TRUENAMER

Level 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

Base Attack Fort Bonus Save +0 +0 +1 +0 +2 +1 +3 +1 +3 +1 +4 +2 +5 +2 +6/+1 +2 +6/+1 +3 +7/+2 +3 +8/+3 +3 +9/+4 +4 +9/+4 +4 +10/+5 +4 +11/+6/+1 +5 +12/+7/+2 +5 +12/+7/+2 +5 +13/+8/+3 +6 +14/+9/+4 +6 +15/+10/+5 +6

Ref Save +0 +0 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +5 +5 +5 +6 +6 +6

HIT DIE: D6 Will Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7 +7 +8 +8 +9 +9 +10 +10 +11 +11 +12

Utterances Known

Lexicon of the Evolving Mind Special Known Personal Truename 2 Knowledge Focus 3 Skill Focus (Truespeak) 4

Bonus Truename Feat Knowledge Focus

Bonus Truename Feat Knowledge Focus Speak Unto the Masses Bonus Truename Feat Knowledge Focus

Say My Name and I Am There

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Lexicon of the Crafted Tool 1

Lexicon of the Perfected Map -

1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9

1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7

Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, x4 at 1st level): Bluff, Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Diplomacy, Knowledge (All skills taken individually), Listen, Perform (oratory), Profession, Sense Motive, Truespeak, Use Magic Device, and Speak Language.

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TABLE 5: MAXIMUM UTTERANCE LEVEL KNOWN

level, if you wish. Each utterance represents hundreds of truenames in your repertoire. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against your utterances is equal to 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Int modifier. Beginning at 3rd level, you also gain access to 1st level utterances of the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool, allowing you to alter objects with your truenames. You gain access to higher level utterances from this lexicon at 7th, 11th, 15th, and 19th levels, as indicated on the table. Beginning at 8th level, you also gain access to 1st level utterances of the Lexicon of the Perfected Map, allowing you to alter places with your truenames. You gain access to higher level utterances from this lexicon at 12th, 16th, and 20th levels, as indicated on the table. Upon reaching 3rd level, and at every level thereafter, a truenamer can choose to learn a new utterance in place of one he already knows. In effect, the truenamer "loses" the old utterance in exchange for the new one. The new utterance’s level must be the same as that of the utterance being exchanged, it must come from the same lexicon as the exchanged utterance, and it must be at least one level lower than the highest-level utterance the truenamer can speak from that lexicon. A truenamer may swap only a single utterance at any given level, and must choose whether or not to swap the utterance at the same time that he gains new utterances known for the level. Knowledge Focus (Ex): As a truenamer, you spend a great deal of time studying the world around you in an effort to learn new truenames. At 2nd level and every five levels thereafter, you gain a permanent +3 bonus on a Knowledge skill of your choice. Each time you gain this ability, you can apply it to a different Knowledge skill or to the same Knowledge skill, if you want to focus on a particular area of expertise. Skill Focus (Truespeak): At 3rd level, you gain Skill Focus (Truespeak) as a bonus feat. If you already have Skill Focus (Truespeak), you can instead take any truespeech-related feat you meet the prerequisites for instead.

Level

Lexicon of the Evolving Mind

Lexicon of the Crafted Tool

Lexicon of the Perfected Map

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4

CLASS FEATURES Your class features involve learning new utterances, attaining more knowledge among the three lexicons, and learning recitations that use your personal truename. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: You are proficient with simple weapons and with light armor, but not with shields. Known Personal Truename: You know your own personal truename. You cannot pronounce it automatically; doing so requires a Truespeak check as normal (including the +2 difficulty for speaking a personal truename). Because it's your personal truename, you get a +4 bonus on the Truespeak check. Utterances (Sp): You have the ability to speak utterances, powerful combinations of truenames that can alter the world in fundamental ways. Utterances exist in three lexicons: The Lexicon of the Evolving Mind, the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool, and the Lexicon of the Perfected Map. You begin play knowing two utterances from the 1st level of the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind, and you gain one utterance from this lexicon at each truenamer level you attain. You gain access to higher levels of utterances at the levels indicated on table 2. When you gain access to higher level utterances, you can choose an utterance from that level or from a lower 6

Bonus Truename Feats: At 5th, 10th, and 15th level, you gain a bonus feat. This feat must be a truespeech-related feat and you must meet the prerequisites to take that feat. Speak Unto the Masses (Su): At 13th level, you have the ability to affect a number of creatures with a single powerful utterance. You can only affect creatures of the same type (humanoids, giants, or dragons, for example) with a single use of this ability, although you could use it against a different group of a different creature type each round. No two of the creatures you wish to affect can be more than 30 ft apart, and the base DC for your Truespeak check is equal to the most powerful (highest CR) creature in the group. For each creature you wish to affect beyond the first, the DC of your Truespeak check increases by 2. The Law of Resistance still applies to utterances altered with Speak unto the Masses, but only counts as one use of that utterance, not once per creature affected. You cannot speak a personal truename while using Speak Unto the Masses. Say My Name and I Am There (Su): At 20th level, you develop a truename — not your personal truename, but a sort of true nickname — that is invested with cosmic power such that others who speak it can conjure you forth. Whenever someone successfully says this truename, you can appear at that creature's location as if taken there by a word of recall spell. You know who is saying your truename, and you can choose not to be transported if you wish. The nickname is often one or two syllables taken from your personal truename. A creature speaking your true nickname need not make a Truespeak check to do so. Most truenamers with this ability teach the truename to their friends and allies so they can be called when needed.

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ACOLYTE OF THE EGO

purpose of determining when he gains any other monk class feature.

"Know thyself" - Abbot Ira Dravinian, Acolyte of the Ego

Recitations (Sp): An acolyte of the ego gradually masters various ways in which to recite his own personal truename. These recitations reinforce the acolyte in the mind of the universe, giving him special abilities by making him more "real" than his surroundings. These recitations function as utterances (and can thus be affected by Inflection feats), but they have one major difference. Every recitation requires an acolyte of the ego to speak his own personal truename. As such, they can affect only him and never carry an additional personal truename effect. Each recitation lasts for one minute unless otherwise noted. An acolyte of the ego learns a new recitation with every class level, as given in the table. An acolyte of the ego can only learn a recitation with a level less than or equal to half his acolyte of the ego level (round up), so a 3rd level acolyte of the ego can learn only 2nd level recitations. You may have as many recitations active at one time as you wish, but recitations obey both the Law of Sequence and the Law of Resistance.

The Acolytes of the Ego are an order of monks who seek mastery over themselves through mastery over their own truenames and through it transcend the limits of their mortal selves. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Alignment: Any Lawful Skills: Concentration 8 ranks, Truespeak 8 ranks Special: Still Mind class feature, must know your own personal truename

CLASS FEATURES As you advance as an Acolyte of the Ego, you learn to new ways in which to recite your truename, allowing you to give yourself abilities above and beyond your already considerable martial talents.

Personal Truename Focus (Ex): At 4th level, an acolyte of the ego becomes thoroughly practiced in speaking his own personal truename, granting him a +4 bonus on all Truespeak checks involved in speaking his own truename. This stacks with the bonus a creature normally receives for speaking its own personal truename.

Monk Abilities: An acolyte of the ego adds his class level to her monk level to determine his classbased AC bonus, his unarmed damage, his unarmored speed bonus, and his flurry of blows progression. His acolyte of the ego levels count as monk levels for determining the number of times per day he can use the Stunning Fist feat. An acolyte of the ego does not count his class level for

TABLE 6: THE ACOLYTE OF THE EGO Level

the 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

Base Attack Bonus +0 +1 +2 +3 +3 +4 +5 +6 +6 +7

Fort Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7

Ref Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7

HIT DIE: D8 Will Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7

Special Monk Abilities, Recitations (1st Level) Recitations (2nd Level) Personal Truename Focus Recitations (3rd Level) Twinned Recitation Recitations (4th Level) Recitations (5th Level) Personal Truename Mastery

Recitations Known 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Class Skills (4 + Int modifier ): Balance, Climb, Concentration, Craft, Escape Artist, Hide, Jump, Move Silently, Profession, Listen, Spot, Swim, Truespeak, and Tumble. 8

movement penalty caused by difficult terrain.

Twinned Recitation (Sp): An acolyte of the ego of at least 7th level can combine two recitations that he knows, allowing him to use both with a single Truespeak check.

3RD LEVEL RECITATIONS Recitation of the Restless Wind: The wind can be anywhere in an instant and so can you. You instantly teleport up to 10 feet per class level. If a solid object occupies the location you would appear in, you are shunted to the nearest open space. This recitation has a duration of instantaneous. Recitation of the Towering Oak: To an ancient tree, the world seems much smaller. Emulating this perspective is a simple matter, shrinking the world around you more to your liking. Your size category increases by one step, with all the penalties and bonuses associated. Recitation of the Pounding Surf: The endless waves of water wear away at the land, tearing down mighty cliffs one small grain at a time. With this recitation, you emulate their relentlessness. When making a full attack action, you may make one extra attack. The attack is made using your full base attack bonus, plus any modifiers appropriate to the situation. (This effect is not cumulative with similar effects, such as that provided by a weapon of speed, nor does it actually grant an extra action, so you can’t use it to cast a second spell or otherwise take an extra action in the round.) Recitation of the Unyielding Glacier: Even the strength of mountains cannot turn aside a glacier, and your strength becomes as theirs. You receive a bonus equal to your class level on all rolls made to bull rush or overrun a creature as well as on all rolls to resist being tripped, bull rushed, overrun, or otherwise moved from your position. You do not provoke attacks of opportunity for attempting to bull rush, overrun, or charge a creature.

Personal Truename Mastery (Ex): At 10th level, the acolyte of the ego has his own truename engrained into his very soul. He can take 10 on any Truespeak check to speak his own personal truename, even though you cannot normally take 10 on a Truespeak check and even if circumstances, such as nearby danger, would not normally allow him to take 10. Multiclass Note: Monks who multiclass into this prestige class can continue advancing as monks.

1ST LEVEL RECITATIONS Recitation of the Indomitable Fortress: Like a mighty tower, you find the blows of your enemies to be too feeble to harm you. You gain a bonus to your natural armor bonus equal to 1/2 your class level (minimum +1). Recitation of the Pristine Snow: As fresh fallen snow is unmarred, so too are you. You immediately are cured of any poison or disease currently affecting you and become immune to poison and disease. Recitation of the Verdant Spring: As the spring abounds with life and new growth, so also do you. You gain fast healing equal to your class level. Recitation of the Unwavering Sun: There is no darkness within the sun's sight and neither is there in yours. You can see clearly in any level of light out to any distance. Magical darkness does not impair your vision in any way. Recitation of the Dancing Feather: Like a feather on a breeze, you step lightly across the world. You gain a bonus equal to your class level on all Balance, Climb, Jump, Move Silently, and Tumble checks.

4TH LEVEL RECITATIONS Recitation of the Raging Inferno: As fire consumes all before it, so to does this utterance consume all. All spell effects currently affecting you, including the effects of any recitations you may already have active, are immediately dispelled. Recitation of the North Star: The north star is constant, never changing or wavering in its course. This utterance allows you to emulate that constancy, making you difficult to alter with magic. You gain spell resistance equal to your Hit Dice + 5. Your own recitations are not affected by this spell resistance, but any other utterances you may know still are. Recitation of the Weathered Stone: Despite the constant wearing of wind and water, mountains still stand, barely harmed by the elements. This recitation grants you a portion of their resilience. You gain Damage Reduction/adamantine equal to 1/2 your class level (minimum 1/adamantine). Recitation of the Shattered Wall: The hardest stone and the toughest hide are as paper beneath your blows. You ignore the hardness of objects and any damage resistance a creature might have.

2ND LEVEL RECITATIONS Recitation of the Pouncing Tiger: As few things are swifter than a pouncing tiger, so is it with you. You gain a bonus to your Dexterity equal to 1/2 your class level (minimum +1). Recitation of the Mighty Bull: The strongest of men pale before your might. You gain a bonus to your Strength equal to 1/2 your class level (minimum +1). Recitation of the Raging Bear: Few things are harder to stop than an angry bear, and you claim that endurance for yourself. You gain a bonus to your Constitution equal to 1/2 your class level (minimum +1). Recitation of the Changing Moon: Every night, the moon shows the world a new face, and so can you. This recitation functions as a disguise self spell, except that the effect is physical instead of illusory and the duration is instantaneous (meaning it lasts until another use of this ability is used to counteract it).

5TH LEVEL RECITATIONS Recitation of the Empty Grave: The living do not belong amongst the dead; of this you can be sure. While under the effects of this utterance, you cannot die. You are immune to any death effects. If you are reduced to 0 hit points, you are not disabled, nor do you lose a hit point for taking a standard or full action. If you are reduced to negative hit points, you are not rendered unconscious and you do not automatically lose 1 hit point each round. If you are reduced below -9 hit points, you do not die. If you are still below -9 hit points when this recitation

Recitation of the Coursing River: Water flows swiftly over even the most broken of ground and so too do you. You can ignore any 9

ends, you immediately die. Recitation of the Tranquil Pool: You clear your mind of all distraction, making it as untroubled as a pond on a windless night. Any mind-affecting spell or ability currently affecting you is dispelled and you become immune to mind-affecting spells and abilities. Recitation of the Morning Mist: The morning mist can be seen, but only briefly touched. With this recitation, you become as a ghost, moving through the world unseen and untouched. This recitation functions as an ethereal jaunt spell, except the duration is one minute. Recitation of the Howling Gale: The wind moves swiftly, fast enough to be everywhere at once. This recitation gives you an additional move action on each of your turns.

knows that the verbal components of arcane spells are small fragments of Truespeech. True scholars are those who study this connection between the two disciplines, gradually mastering both arcane magic and truename magic.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Feats: Any one inflection feat, any one metamagic feat Skills: Knowledge (Arcana) 9 ranks, Spellcraft 9 ranks, Truespeak 9 ranks Spellcasting: Ability to cast 2nd level arcane spells Utterances: Ability to speak 2nd level utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind Special: Knowledge Focus [Knowledge (Arcana)] class feature.

TRUE SCHOLAR "It is one thing to know how the universe works. It is another to get results. I can do both."

- Thelonius Argavain, True Scholar Anyone who bothers to learn both arcane magic and truename magic TABLE 7: THE TRUE SCHOLAR

Level

Base Fort Attack Save Bonus

Ref Save

HIT DIE: D4

Will Save

Special

Utterances / Spellcasting

1st

+0

+0

+0

+2

Arcane Utterance (Truespeak Bonus)

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

2nd

+1

+0

+0

+3

Utter Spell (Stilled)

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

3rd

+1

+1

+1

+3

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

4th

+2

+1

+1

+4

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

5th

+2

+1

+1

+4

Arcane Utterance (Save DC)

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

6th

+3

+2

+2

+5

Utter Spell (Costly Components)

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

7th

+3

+2

+2

+5

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

8th

+4

+2

+2

+6

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

9th

+4

+3

+3

+6

Arcane Utterance (Metamagic)

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

10th

+5

+3

+3

+7

Utter Spell (Inflections)

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

Class Skills (4 + Int modifier ): Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Knowledge (all skills taken individually), Profession, Spellcraft, Speak Language, and Truespeak. 10

apply any inflection feats you know to the spell, raising the Truespeak DC as though the spell were an utterance.

CLASS FEATURES As you advance as a true scholar, you learn new ways to combine arcane magic and truename magic. Eventually, you learn ways to treat one discipline as the other. Utterances/Spellcasting: At each level, you gain new spells per day and an increase in caster level (and spells known, if applicable) as if you had also gained a level in an arcane spellcasting class to which you belonged before becoming a true scholar. You also gain new utterances known as though you gained a level in an utterance-using class you belonged to before you became a true scholar. You do not, however, gain any other benefits a character of either of these classes would have gained. If you had more than one utterance using or arcane spellcasting class before becoming a true scholar, you must choose to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining spells per day, caster level, spells known, and utterances known. Arcane Utterance (Su): Your mastery of arcane magic allows you to use eldritch force to enhance your utterances in new ways. At 1st level, you can only use magic to make reality easier to affect. You can expend an arcane spell slot as part of speaking an utterance to gain a bonus to your Truespeak check equal to the level of the spell slot expended. This ability continues to improve as you level. At 5th level, you can use magic to enhance the force of your utterances. By expending an arcane spell slot as you speak a spell, you increase the save DC of the utterance by 1/2 the spell slot's level (rounded up). At 9th level, you can use your knowledge of arcane magic to modify the properties of your utterances as though they were spells. By expending an arcane spell slot, you can add a metamagic feat you know to the utterance as though it were a spell. The level of the spell slot expended must be at least twice the level adjustment of the metamagic feat to be applied. You can use any of these abilities on any utterance you know, but you must expend a separate spell slot for each one of them that you use. Utter Spell (Su): As a true scholar, you understand that somatic and material components are only substitutions the words of truespeak that are the spell's only true component. As such, starting at 2nd level, you can choose to cast any spell as though you possessed the Eschew Materials feat and the spell was modified with the Still Spell metamagic feat. Doing so gives the spell a verbal component, even if it previously did not possess one, and you must succeed on a Truespeak check (DC 20 + three times the level of the spell) or the spell fails. You cannot apply the effects of the Silent Spell feat to spells cast using Utter Spell. At higher levels, this ability improves. At 6th level, you can use the power of Truespeech to substitute for more costly material components. When you use Utter Spell to cast a spell, you can choose to ignore the material components and raise the DC of the Truespeak check by 2 for every 100 gp worth of material components you are attempting to ignore. You cannot ignore only part of the material components. It must be all or nothing. You cannot ignore a focus, only the material components. At 10th level, you can use the power of Truespeech to enhance your spells. Whenever you use Utter Spell to cast a spell, you can

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WORDSPEAKER

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Skills: Knowledge (Religion) 9 ranks, Truespeak 9 ranks Spellcasting: Ability to cast 2nd level divine spells Utterances: Ability to speak 2nd level utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind Special: Knowledge Focus [Knowledge (Religion)] class feature

"Back to the infernal pit whence you were spawned, fiend! With the word of amarna-kar'ianurius I banish thee!"

- Selena Whitewind, Wordspeaker and crusader of the High Temple of Heironeous There are words in the lexicons of Truespeech that are considered sacred to the various deities of the world. When spoken aloud and backed by divine power, these words become potent weapons in the struggle between good and evil, order and chaos. A wordspeaker is one who seeks out these words and masters them in the name of her god, dedicated to spreading his worship to the world. TABLE 8: THE WORDSPEAKER

Level

Base Fort Attack Save Bonus

Ref Save

CLASS FEATURES As you advance as a wordspeaker, you discover new words of Truespeak that give you great power over those who do not share your beliefs. Utterances/Spellcasting: At each level, you gain new spells per day and an increase in caster level (and spells known, if applicable) as if you had also gained a level in a divine spellcasting class to which you belonged before becoming a true scholar. You also gain new utterances known as though you gained a level in an utterance-using class you belonged to before you became a wordspeaker. You do not, however, gain any other benefits a character of either of these classes would have

HIT DIE: D6

Will Save

Special

Utterances / Spellcasting

1st

+0

+2

+0

+2

Turn or Rebuke Undead

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

2nd

+1

+3

+0

+3

Smite the Unbeliever

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

3rd

+2

+3

+1

+3

4th

+3

+4

+1

+4

5th

+3

+4

+1

+4

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

6th

+4

+5

+2

+5

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

7th

+5

+5

+2

+5

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

8th

+6

+6

+2

+6

Sacred Word

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

9th

+6

+6

+3

+6

Speak Unto the Masses

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

10th

+7

+7

+3

+7

Aura of Faith

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class +1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class

Sanctify Ground

Class Skills (4 + Int modifier ): Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (religion), Knowledge (the planes), Perform (oratory), Profession, Spellcraft, Speak Language, and Truespeak. 12

gained. If you had more than one utterance using or divine spellcasting class before becoming a true scholar, you must choose to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining spells per day, caster level, spells known, and utterances known.

bonuses only apply against attacks made or effects created by creatures which do not share at least one component of your alignment. Affected creatures that share at least one component of your alignment receive a +4 bonus on all rolls made to turn or rebuke undead. Affected creatures are protected from mind control as though by a protection from evil spell. Lastly, summoned creatures that do not share at least one component of your alignment cannot bodily attack affected creatures. For example, a neutral evil wordspeaker can use sanctify ground to prevent a summoned celestial dog (LG) from attacking his allies, but it cannot prevent a summoned small earth elemental (N) or a summoned chain devil (LE) from attacking his allies.

Turn or Rebuke Undead (Su): A wordspeaker who already has the ability to turn or rebuke undead adds his wordspeaker level to his effective cleric level for all purposes related to turning or rebuking undead. A wordspeaker who doesn't have the ability to turn or rebuke undead from another class gains the ability to turn or rebuke undead (as appropriate to his alignment) as a cleric of his wordspeaker level. As with a cleric, a wordspeaker can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + his Charisma modifier.

Sacred Word (Sp): At 8th level, a wordspeaker learns a word of Truespeak that sends unbelievers reeling from its divine power. This is a special 4th level utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind. As part of speaking this utterance, you must either expend a use of your turn or rebuke undead ability or a divine spell slot of at least 6th level. The degree by which the targeted creature is harmed depends on the difference between its Hit Dice and your divine caster level. The effects of this utterance last 5 rounds.

Smite the Unbeliever (Sp): At 2nd level, a wordspeaker learns a word of Truespeak which burns unbelievers who hear it spoken. This is a special 3rd level utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind. As part of speaking this utterance, you must either expend a use of your turn or rebuke undead ability or a divine spell slot of at least 3rd level. The creature targeted by this utterance takes 1d8 points of damage per two divine caster levels. If the creature is an outsider, this damage is doubled. This utterance only has an effect upon creatures whose alignment does not share at least one component with yours. For example, a lawful good wordspeaker can use smite the unbeliever to harm a barbarian (CN), but not a paladin of tyranny (LE).

Hit Dice Equal to or greater than caster level

Effect Deafened

Up to caster level –1

Blinded, Deafened

Up to caster level –5

Paralyzed, Blinded, Deafened

Up to caster level –10

Slain Instantly

Further, if the affected creature is an extraplanar creature, it must succeed on a Will save or be instantly banished back to its home plane. Creatures so banished cannot leave their home plane for 24 hours. This utterance only has an effect upon creatures whose alignment does not share at least one component with yours. For example, a chaotic good wordspeaker can use sacred word to harm a devil (LE), but not a demon (CE).

Sanctify Ground (Sp): At 2nd level, a wordspeaker learns a word of Truespeak which imbues the ground beneath his feet with divine power. This is a special 1st level utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map. As part of speaking this utterance, you must either expend a use of your turn or rebuke undead ability or a divine spell slot of at least 4th level. For one minute, all creatures that share at least one component of your alignment that are within 30 feet of you are subject to the following affects: Affected creatures receive a +2 sacred bonus to AC and a +2 sacred bonus to saves. Both of these

Speak Unto the Masses (Su): At 9th level, a wordspeaker learns to affect a number of creatures with a single powerful utterance. You can only affect creatures of the same alignment (lawful good 13

CLASS FEATURES

FORGOTTEN

As you advance as a forgotten, the universe slowly forgets who you are, due to your constant changing of truenames. As it does so, your connection to others becomes hazy, leaving you an indistinct form in their memories and difficult to affect with their spells.

"Some people like to be famous. Not me. Famous people end up dead. I’d rather be forgotten."

- Unknown Forgotten Forgotten are those people who have gone to such extreme lengths to disappear that even the universe begins to forget about their existence. Some start down this path when they discover the power that their personal truename holds over them. Others are seeking to avoid their pasts. Whatever their reasons, they abandon who they are to become an unremembered, faceless figure in history.

Alias (Su): You know how to change your personal truename on a whim. At 1st level, you can change it with one minute of chanting and a successful Truespeak check (DC 20 + your character level). This renders your previous personal truename invalid, so all those who have previously learned your personal truename through truename research will find your old truename no longer works. You know your new truename and can teach it to others if you wish, but many forgotten find the idea abhorrent. At higher levels, the amount of time needed to change your personal truename decreases, although the formula for calculating the Truespeak DC remains the same. At 3rd level, you can use this ability as a standard action and at 7th level, you can use this ability as a swift action.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Skills: Hide 8 ranks, Move Silently 8 ranks, Truespeak 4 ranks Feats: Obscure Personal Truename Special: Evasion class feature or Mettle class feature. Special: Must have been subject to at least one ritual of renaming spell.

TABLE 9: THE FORGOTTEN

Infinitely Forgettable (Su): At 2nd level, people around you begin to forget your name and face as the universe begins to become confused as to who you've met and what you've done. Whenever you change your personal truename, everyone who remembers you must make a Will save

HIT DIE: D6

Base Attack Bonus

Fort Save

Ref Save

Will Save

1st

+0

+0

+2

+2

Alias (1 minute)

2nd

+1

+0

+3

+3

Infinitely Forgettable

3rd

+2

+1

+3

+3

Alias (standard action)

4th

+3

+1

+4

+4

Misplace Danger

5th

+3

+1

+4

+4

New Face

6th

+4

+2

+5

+5

Hide in Plain Sight

7th

+5

+2

+5

+5

Alias (swift action)

8th

+6

+2

+6

+6

Lost Location

9th

+6

+3

+6

+6

Ageless

10th

+7

+3

+7

+7

Nameless

Level

Special

Class Skills (6 + Int modifier ): Balance, Bluff, Climb, Craft, Disguise, Disable Device, Escape Artist, Forgery, Gather Information, Hide, Jump, Knowledge (Local), Listen, Move Silently, Open Lock, Profession, Search, Sense Motive, Slight of Hand, Spot, Swim, Tumble, Truespeak, Use Magic Device, and Use Rope. 14

(DC 10 + your class level + your Charisma modifier) or forget you ever existed. You are deleted from the memories of those who fail as though a modify memory spell were used on the subject to remove all traces of you. The subject's mind then fills in the gaps, attributing the results of your actions to circumstances, random chance, the actions of others, or, if nothing else would make sense, to an indistinct, faceless "someone." If a creature succeed on the Will save, his existing memories of you are forever safe from this effect, but any later memories it develops remain fair game for later uses of this ability. Creatures that have been in your presence for a week or more are immune to this effect until they have spent at least a month away from you. This is a mind-affecting ability.

truename and increases the DC of changing your personal truename by 2. Hide in Plain Sight (Su): Starting at 6th level, the universe is really confused about you and this shows in people's memories. People can forget you are there even if you are standing right in front of them. You can use the Hide skill even while being observed. This ability does not apply against creatures immune to mind-affecting abilities. Lost Location (Su): At 8th level, the universe has forgotten where you can actually be found. As such, any attempt to find you using spells, spell-like abilities, or supernatural abilities automatically fail. You leave no tracks and have no scent, so most forms of mundane tracking become impossible. Were it possible to be seen, you also leave no fingerprints. It is as if you have never been anywhere at all.

Misplace Danger (Su): Starting at 4th level, the universe occasionally misplaces harmful effects currently affecting you whenever you change your truename. Whenever you change your personal truename, you can make a new save against each ongoing spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability affecting you. This save is made at the same DC as the original. If you succeed on this new save, the effect ends immediately. This ability never restores lost hit points or ability score damage, but it does eliminate conditions, such as shaken, fatigued, or nauseated, that were caused by the spell or effect.

Ageless (Ex): At 9th level, the universe is too busy trying to keep track of who you are to bother with such irrelevancies as your age. You no longer takes ability score penalties for aging and cannot be magically aged. Any penalties you may have already incurred, however, remain in place. Bonuses still accrue, but you can no longer die of old age. Nameless (Ex): At 10th level, the universe has finally forgotten which personal truename is yours. You still have one, but it no longer has any connection to the being you are. As such, you can no longer be affected by utterances using your personal truename and all attempts to research your personal truename automatically fail. Additionally, the Truespeak DCs of all utterances that target you (or that include you as a target, in the case of utterances augmented with Speak Unto the Masses) are increased by 4. This stacks with other similar benefits, such as the benefits of the Obscure Personal Truename feat.

New Face (Ex): Beginning at 5th level, the universe starts to forget what you really look like. Whenever you change your personal truename, you can also change your appearance, as though you used a disguise self spell. Unlike the spell, however, this change is an actual change. It's effects are not illusory, so nothing feels or sounds wrong, nor can a true seeing spell see through the disguise. This ability has no effect on your equipment you may be wearing. As with a disguise self spell, you receive a +10 bonus on the Disguise check if you use this ability to create a disguise. You can use this ability to disguise yourself as an existing creature, but doing so requires you to change your personal truename to something similar to the creature's personal truename. This requires that you know the creature's personal 15

FIENDBINDER

game, for they have shackled to their souls the very essence of evil, something that rankles against its slavery and waits for the moment when its supposed master will slip.

"Devils fear my name. You would do well to do the same."

- Valenia Redflame, Fiendbinder For better or worse, a fiendbinder is one who has mastered the art of calling an entity from the Lower Planes and binding it to his will using the power of its truename. Most become fiendbinders in a quest for power, but sometimes a good person will turn to commanding fiends as a way to turn the power of evil against itself. Whatever motives drive a fiendbinder are largely unimportant to many, who would see only someone who dabbles in dark power. Fiendbinders play a dangerous TABLE 10: THE FIENDBINDER

Level

Base Fort Attack Save Bonus

Ref Save

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Skills: Knowledge (The Planes) 10 ranks, Speak Language (Abyssal), Speak Language (Infernal), Truespeak 10 ranks Feats: Truename Research Special: Ability to cast 3rd level spells or ability to speak 3rd level utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind

HIT DIE: D6

Will Save

Special

1st

+0

+0

+0

+2

2nd

+1

+0

+0

+3

3rd

+1

+1

+1

+3

4th

+2

+1

+1

+4

5th

+2

+1

+1

+4

6th

+3

+2

+2

+5

7th

+3

+2

+2

+5

8th

+4

+2

+2

+6

9th

+4

+3

+3

+6

Gift of the Archfiend

10th

+5

+3

+3

+7

Command the Fiendish Horde

Utterances / Spellcasting

Bind Fiend, Command Fiend +1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class +1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class

Fiendish Eloquence

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class +1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class

Bind Tormented Soul

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class +1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class

Swift Command

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class

+1 level of existing utterance-speaking class / +1 level of existing spellcasting class

Class Skills (4 + Int modifier ): Bluff, Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Knowledge (all skills taken individually), Profession, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, and Truespeak. 16

CLASS FEATURES

and can take no action (other than speaking or following you as you move) that you do not explicitly command (see below). If a bound fiend ever moves more than 1 mile from you, it receives an immediate Will save (DC 10 + your fiendbinder level + your Charisma modifier) to break the bond, but only one Will save per instance of moving beyond this one mile mark. A bound fiend can usually only attain this distance from its master due to a careless command. Most fiends, once freed in this fashion, return to their home plane, but particularly vindictive fiends or those fiends that you have enslaved for particularly often or for long periods of time may choose to seek revenge. You can free a bound fiend and banish it back to its home plane as a standard action by speaking its personal truename (Truespeak DC 25 + the fiend's CR), if you wish. You can bind multiple fiends if you have the gold and time to do so. A bound fiend cannot use its summoning ability. Since this is a calling effect, bound fiends are truly dead when slain. If you are killed, any fiend that was bound to you prior to your death stays with your remains for 24 hours. It does not guard your body; it merely remains nearby, tracking the passage of time intently to determine if it will be set free. If you are returned to life during that period, the fiend remains bound to your service at no additional cost to you. However, if 24 hours pass and you remain dead, the fiend is released and sent back to the place whence it came, dragging your soul behind it. At that point, only a true resurrection spell or a reversed unname utterance spoken with your personal truename can return you to life, but if you are brought back, your fiend comes back with you, still bound to your service and with no additional cost to you.

As a fiendbinder, your exhaustive studies has finally rewarded you with a mastery over the residents of the lower planes. As your class level increases, you can bind more powerful fiends and command them with greater ease. Eventually, you can tap into the powers of the great lords of the lower planes. Utterances/Spellcasting: At each level except 1st and 9th level, you either gain new spells per day and an increase in caster level (and spells known, if applicable) as if you had also gained a level in a spellcasting class to which you belonged before becoming a fiendbinder, or you gain new utterances known as though you gained a level in an utterance-using class you belonged to before you became a fiendbinder. You do not, however, gain any other benefits a character of either of these classes would have gained. If you had more than one utterance-using or spellcasting class before becoming a fiendbinder, you must choose to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining spells per day, caster level, spells known, and utterances known. Bind Fiend (Su): At 1st level, you master the complex rituals needed to call forth and bind a fiend whose personal truename you know. You can summon any outsider with the evil subtype, referred to here as a fiend, whose CR is no greater than (5 + your fiendbinder level). The ritual consumes materials costing (fiend's CR squared x 100 gp) and takes 8 uninterrupted hours to perform. Additionally, you must succeed in a Truespeak check (DC 25 + the fiend's CR) to successfully speak the fiend's personal truename (the +2 difficulty for speaking a personal truename is already included in the DC). At the conclusion of the ritual, the fiend appears. If the Truespeak check was successful, the fiend is bound to your will. It isn't happy about its service, but it cannot willingly attack you in any way, even if you attack it. If the Truespeak check failed, the fiend appears, but it is not bound and is likely very angry about its attempted enslavement. Many would-be fiendbinders meet their end at the claws of a fiend they were unable to control. Unless it is commanded to do otherwise, a bound fiend must remain within 10 feet of you at all times

Command Fiend (Su): Due to the capricious and violent tendencies of many fiends, it has always proven far safer to bind fiends to take no action unless you command it to do so, but because a fiend is always an unwilling slave, you must compel it to action with the power of its personal truename or it will not act on your behalf. Doing so is a standard action and requires you to succeed on a Truespeak check (DC 20 + the fiend's CR). This DC includes the +2 for speaking a personal truename. 17

Failure on this check means the fiend is not compelled to do anything. You can issue any one of the following commands to a fiend:

tormented soul has no alignment or awareness, per se, and cannot be held at bay using magic circle spells and similar effects. Binding a tormented soul is an immediate action that requires a Truespeak check (DC 20 + your character level). If you know your personal truename, you can use that as part of this ability. If the check succeeds, you harness the tormented soul's suffering and become inured to pain. You can continue to act normally even when disabled (reduced to 0 hitpoints) or dying (reduced to -1 to -9 hit points). Additionally, you do not die at -10 hit points or lower. Instead, while you are in this condition, you can take a single move or standard action each turn (but not both, nor can you take full-round actions). Although you can take a move action without further injuring yourself, performing any standard action (or any other action the DM deems as strenuous, including some free actions) deals 1 point of damage to you after the act is completed. The binding you can place upon a tormented soul is unstable however, and soon destroyed, releasing the soul back to its prison on the Lower Planes. You can only bind a tormented soul for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 your class level. Once the tormented soul is gone, you immediately incur the normal effects for being at 0 hitpoints or negative hitpoints (if your hit point total when the soul departs is at 0 or below). In addition, assuming you survive the ordeal, you are fatigued for 1 hour (if you are already fatigued, you are exhausted instead). You can voluntarily release a bound tormented soul as a free action, but you still endure the effects noted above. This ability is subject to the Law of Resistance and the Law of Sequence.

Possible Commands Attack a specific foe (attacks the foe until it is slain) Defend me (attacks the first creature to attack you) Deliver a message or package and return Scout and report back Serve as a steed for 1 hour (only for those fiends capaStand watch for 8 hours and raise alarm if needed Undertake repetitive labor for 1 hour Use a skill on your behalf Use a spell-like ability on your behalf

The fiend is compelled to carry out your orders to the best of its abilities, but remember when issuing a command that the fiend does not enjoy its service and actively wishes you harm, so the fiend will take whatever interpretation of your orders will cause you the most harm. For example, if you instruct a glabrezu demon to use its wish spell-like ability to grant you wealth, it will likely do so by creating a large block of gold directly over your head, hoping to crush you beneath it. You can issue a command to only a single fiend in your service at one time (unless you possess the Command the Fiendish Horde ability; see below) and a fiend will only obey the latest command you have given it. Commanding a fiend in this manner is not subject to the Law of Resistance. Fiendish Eloquence (Ex): Your extensive dealings with fiends has allowed you to attain a great deal of experience in convincing them to do your bidding. Many such creatures fear your power over them. Starting at 3rd level, you gain a bonus on Charisma-based skill checks dealing with evil outsiders equal to 1/2 your class level.

Swift Command (Su): Through long practice, you master the art of swiftly commanding your fiendish thralls. Starting at 7th level, you can use your Command Fiend ability as a swift action. You can still use Command Fiend as a standard action if you wish, so you can now issue two commands in a single round, one as a swift action and the other as a standard action, allowing you to more easily direct your slaves.

Bind Tormented Soul (Sp): The Lower Planes house countless tormented souls, for they are the primordial soup from which myriad fiends are born. At 5th level, you learn the secret of calling one such soul forth and binding its essence within yourself. Your eyes turn dead black, your complexion pales, and black veins form beneath your skin until the tormented soul is released or destroyed. The 18

Gift of the Archfiend (Su): Through your studies of the truenames of fiends, you have uncovered the secret of investing yourself with a fragment of might taken from a powerful archfiend, one of the Demon Princes of the Abyss, or one of the infernal Archdukes of the Nine Hells. By uttering the personal truename of one such being, you force the entity to grant you power. The being does not appear before you, but you become suffused with infernal or demonic power. Using this ability to take power from an archfiend carries the risk of annoying or angering that great being, so many fiendbinders curry favor with one such entity to avoid its wrath when using this ability. Still, others use it despite the risk. To use this ability, you must have researched the personal truename of at least one archfiend (and many fiendbinders research the truenames of more than one). The DC of the Knowledge (The Planes) check needed to discover such a truename is 40 and 10 successful checks are needed to uncover the truename. Activating this ability is a standard action that requires a successful DC 50 Truespeak check. This ability is subject to the Law of Resistance and the Law of Sequence. The gift of the archfiend lasts for ten minutes. Depending on which kind of archfiend's truename you speak, you gain one of the following benefits: Baatezu Traits: If you speak the personal truename of an infernal Archduke of the Nine Hells, you gain damage reduction 5/good and silver, darkvision 60 feet, immunity to fire and poison, and resistance to acid 10 and cold 10. In addition, you can see in darkness of any kind (even that created by the deeper darkness spell) Tanar'ri Traits: If you speak the personal truename of a Demon Prince of the Abyss, you gain damage reduction 5/cold iron and good, darkvision 60 feet, immunity to electricity and poison, and resistance to acid 10, cold 10, and fire 10.

beyond the first, the DC of your Truespeak check increases by 2.

Command the Fiendish Horde (Su): Your skill in directing your thralls becomes unparalleled. You can now use Command Fiend to give a single command to as many of your fiends as you wish. The base DC for your Truespeak check is equal to the most powerful (highest CR) fiend in the group you wish to command. For each fiend you wish to command 19

WARDEN OF SILENCE

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Base Attack Bonus: +5 Skills: Listen, Spot, or Sense Motive 4 ranks, Any Knowledge Skill or Truespeak 4 ranks Special: Must be proficient with all martial weapons Special: Must join the order of the Wardens of Silence

"He didn’t speak. All he did was hold up a hand, yet I knew that should I attempt to enter the restricted section, he would be forced to kill me."

- A lost visitor to the Great Library The Wardens of Silence are an order of warrior-scholars dedicated to collecting knowledge, especially about Truespeak and the nature of the universe. Because of the danger of so much knowledge could cause disaster if it fell into the wrong hands, members of the order are required to swear an oath of silence upon their own truenames. The Wardens also train in techniques to use against those that would misuse their knowledge, guarding their Great Library zealously against truenamers and others after the thousands of truenames cataloged within.

CLASS FEATURES As a Warden of Silence, you learn esoteric techniques for dealing with truenamers and other spellcaster in exchange for your eternal silence. As you progress, you master further techniques that allow you to better counter truenamers and also help mitigate the problems of your vow of silence. Vow of Silence: A warden of silence has taken a vow never to speak again. If the warden ever speaks even a single word, whether to speak an utterance, cast a spell with a verbal component, or to shout for help, he loses all Warden of Silence class features until he renews his vow of silence and receives an atonement spell. Scholarly Bent: A warden of silence is well versed in all disciplines of academics. All Knowledge skills and the Truespeak skill are always class skills for the warden, even when taking a class other than warden of silence. If the warden of silence purchased ranks in any of these skills at a cross-

TABLE 11: THE WARDEN OF SILENCE

HIT DIE: D10

Base Attack Bonus

Fort Save

Ref Save

Will Save

Special

1st

+1

+2

+0

+2

Vow of Silence, Scholarly Bent, Silencing Smite

2nd

+2

+3

+0

+3

Master Librarian, Bonus Feat

3rd

+3

+3

+1

+3

Perfect Understanding of Gesture

Level

4th

+4

+4

+1

+4

Utterly Silent

5th

+5

+4

+1

+4

Catalog of Utterances, Bonus Feat

6th

+6

+5

+2

+5

Silence Disruption

7th

+7

+5

+2

+5

Transcendently Meaningful Gesture

8th

+8

+6

+2

+6

Bonus Feat

9th

+9

+6

+3

+6

All-Encompassing Awareness

+10

+7

+3

+7

Enforce Silence

10th

Class Skills (4 + Int modifier ): Balance, Concentration, Decipher Script, Climb, Craft, Hide, Handle Animal, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (all skills taken individually), Listen, Move Silently, Ride, Sense Motive, Survival, Swim, Truespeak and Tumble. 20

class rate, he receives additional ranks in those skills as though they had always been class skills.

sound as he moves, fights, or performs any other action. He automatically succeeds on all Move Silently checks.

Silencing Smite (Su): Once per day per class level, a warden of silence can deliver an attack that renders its victims utterly silent. The warden makes a normal melee attack and adds his Intelligence bonus (if any) to the attack roll. If the attack succeeds, the target is rendered utterly silent for one minute. It cannot speak, cast spells with verbal components, speak utterances (an exception to the normal rule that utterances can still be spoken while silenced), or even make noise. It automatically succeeds on all Move Silently checks. A warden of silence can deliver a Silencing Smite as a melee touch attack that deals no damage.

Catalog of Utterances (Ex): At 5th level, the warden of silence has become well versed in all manner of utterances. He automatically succeeds on all Truespeak checks to identify an utterance. Further, he is treated as though he knew every utterance for the purpose of meeting item creation prerequisites. Silence Disruption (Su): At 6th level, the warden of silence learns ways to prevent even distant foes from speaking. By expending two uses of his silencing smite ability, he can attempt to silence one creature within 60 feet as an immediate action. The warden must succeed on a ranged touch attack against the target, but he adds his Intelligence bonus to the attack roll. If the attack is successful, the target is rendered utterly silent, as though affected by the warden's silencing smite ability. This effect lasts for one minute. If the target was in the middle of speaking an utterance or casting a spell with a verbal component, the utterance or spell fails and is wasted.

Master Librarian (Ex): At 2nd level, a warden of silence becomes infinitely familiar with libraries and other repositories of knowledge, allowing him to find anything he wishes to know about quickly. Provided that he has access to a sufficiently stocked library, he can take 20 on all Knowledge checks, including those to research a personal truename. Further, taking 20 on a Knowledge check does not take the warden any more time than normal. Finally, when researching a personal truename, no creature is considered obscure to the warden of silence.

Transcendently Meaningful Gesture (Ex): At 7th level, the warden of silence learns how to express even his most complex thoughts with but a single gesture. Communicating in this manner is a free action. Every creature within 100 feet that can see the warden and has an Intelligence score of 3 or more can understand what the warden is trying to communicate, regardless of what language they normally speak.

Bonus Feats: At 2nd, 5th, and 8th levels, a warden of silence gains a bonus feat. This bonus feat may be any feat normally allowed as a fighter bonus feat or one of the following feats: Truename Research, Obscure Personal Truename, Personal Truename Backlash, or Engrave Inscription. Perfect Understanding of Gesture (Ex): At 3rd level, the Warden of Silence acquires an uncanny grasp of body language. As long as the warden can see a creature and is within 100 feet of it, he can understand every word that creature speaks just from its body language, no matter what language the creature is speaking. In addition, the warden receives a +10 competence bonus on Sense Motive checks.

All-Encompassing Awareness (Ex): At 9th level, the warden of silence's awareness of his surroundings reaches incredible levels. He gains blindsight out to 30 feet. Enforce Silence (Su): At 10th level, the warden of silence masters silence itself. By expending two uses of his silencing smite ability, he can create a zone of absolute silence around himself. This zone of silence is a 30-foot-radius emanation centered on the warden and moves with him. Everything within the area of this ability is silenced as though affected

Utterly Silent (Ex): At 4th level, the warden of silence becomes perfectly silent. He makes no 21

by the warden's silencing smite ability. Creatures that leave the area of this effect become able to speak and make noise normally and creatures entering the area become silenced for as long as they remain within the area. This zone of silence lasts for one minute.

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TABLE 12A: TRUENAME FEATS General Feats

Prerequisite

Truename Training

Benefit —

Truespeak is always a class skill for you

Least Utterance of the Evolving Mind

Truespeak 6 ranks

Learn one 1st level utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind

Lesser Utterance of the Evolving Mind

Truespeak 9 ranks, ability to speak one utterance

Learn one 2nd level utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind

Greater Utterance of the Evolving Mind

Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak two utterances

Learn one 3rd level utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind

Least Utterance of the Crafted Tool

Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak two utterances

Learn one 1st level utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool

Lesser Utterance of the Crafted Tool

Truespeak 15 ranks, ability to speak three utterances

Learn one 2nd level utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool

Least Utterance of the Perfected Map

Truespeak 15 ranks, ability to speak three utterances

Learn one 1st level utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map

Utterance of the Evolving Mind

Truespeak 9 ranks, ability to speak utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind

Learn one utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind. The level of this utterance can be no greater than the highest level utterance you know from that lexicon. You can take this feat more than once.

Utterance of the Crafted Tool

Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak utterances from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool

Learn one utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool. The level of this utterance can be no greater than the highest level utterance you know from that lexicon. You can take this feat more than once.

Utterance of the Perfected Map

Truespeak 15 ranks, ability to speak utterances from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map

Learn one utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map. The level of this utterance can be no greater than the highest level utterance you know from that lexicon. You can take this feat more than once.

Truename Research

Truespeak 9 ranks

+2 bonus on Knowledge checks to uncover a personal truename. Additionally, research cost is reduced.

Obscure Personal Truename

—

Your personal truename is hard to pronounce and difficult to uncover through research

Personal Truename Backlash

Obscure Personal Truename, 15 HD

Those who fail to say your personal truename might take damage

Truename Rebuttal

Ability to speak utterances

+4 bonus on attempts to counter or dispel utterances

Truename Rebound

Truename Rebuttal

When you counter an utterance, you can redirect it back to the speaker instead of negating it

Utterance Focus

Ability to speak utterances

+1 bonus on save DCs against specific utterance. You can take this feat multiple times, but it does not stack.

Greater Utterance Focus

Ability to speak utterances, Utterance Focus

Further increase your focus on that utterance. You can take this feat multiple times, but it does not stack.

Focused Lexicon

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

Your utterances have greater effect against a certain type of creature. You can take this feat multiple times, but it does not stack.

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TABLE 12B: TRUENAME FEATS, CONTINUED Inflection Feats

Prerequisite

Benefit

Empower Utterance

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

Your utterances have more powerful effects

Enlarge Utterance

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

You can project the power of an utterance to a greater distance

Extend Utterance

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

Your utterances have a more lasting effect on the universe

Quicken Utterance

Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak utterances

You can speak an utterance with just a moment’s thought

Heightened Utterance

Truespeak 9 ranks, ability to speak utterances

Your utterances are more difficult to resist than they would otherwise be

Inaudible Utterance

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

You can speak an utterance with barely a whisper

Chant Utterance

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

The duration of your utterances increases

Echo Utterance

Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak utterances

Your utterances refuse to fade away quietly.

Item Creation Feats

Prerequisite

Benefit

Bottle Echo

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

You can capture the sounds of Truespeech in a bottle for later use.

Engrave Inscription

Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances

By engraving inscriptions of Truespeech onto items, you can imbue them with magical powers.

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TRUENAME FEATS

the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind.

LEAST UTTERANCE OF THE CRAFTED TOOL

The following feats are of interest to anyone who deals with truenames on a regular basis, whether they’re truenamers, dabblers in Truespeak, or opposed by those wielding the power of utterances. Inflection Feats: Similar to the way that a spellcaster learns metamagic feats to modify the way in which he casts spells, a Truenamer learns to modify his Utterances with Inflections. Each Inflection raises the Utterance's Truespeak DC, but increases the power of the Utterance in some way. Speaking an inflected utterance takes no more time than speaking an ordinary utterance unless otherwise stated.

As you strive for more mastery of Truespeech, you gain more power over the universe around you. You can now use the power of Truespeech to affect objects. Prerequisites: Truespeak 12 Ranks, ability to speak two utterances. Benefit: You learn one 1st level utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool.

LESSER UTTERANCE OF THE CRAFTED TOOL Your ability to manipulate objects with words of Truespeak improves. Prerequisites: Truespeak 15 Ranks, ability to speak three utterances. Benefit: You learn one 2nd level utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool.

TRUENAME TRAINING Unlike most of your peers, you have discovered the secret power of truenames. Benefit: The Truespeak skill is a class skill for you, no matter what class you actually choose. If you purchased ranks in Truespeak as a crossclass skill, you immediately gain additional ranks in Truespeak as if it had always been a class skill for you. Normal: The Truespeak skill is a class skill only for truenamers.

LEAST UTTERANCE OF THE PERFECTED MAP The power of Truespeech can alter the state of reality itself. Reaching towards this great power, you have mastered an utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map. Prerequisites: Truespeak 15 ranks, ability to speak three utterances. Benefit: You learn one 1st level utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map.

LEAST UTTERANCE OF THE EVOLVING MIND

UTTERANCE OF THE EVOLVING MIND

Your mastery of Truespeech has led you to the understanding necessary to perform a simple Utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind. Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks. Benefit: You learn one 1st level utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind.

Your mastery over the truenames of creatures continues to expand. Prerequisites: Truespeak 9 ranks, ability to speak utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind. Benefit: You learn one utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind. The level of this utterance can be no greater than the highest level utterance you know from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind. Special: You can take this feat more than once.

LESSER UTTERANCE OF THE EVOLVING MIND Your further mastery of Truespeech allows you to wield its power more effectively against creatures. Prerequisites: Truespeak 9 ranks, ability to speak one utterance. Benefit: You learn one 2nd level utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind.

UTTERANCE OF THE CRAFTED TOOL Your mastery over the truenames of objects continues to expand. Prerequisites: Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak utterances from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool. Benefit: You learn one utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool. The level of this

GREATER UTTERANCE OF THE EVOLVING MIND Your studies of Truespeak unlocks some of its greater secrets, granting you great power over your fellow beings. Prerequisites: Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak two utterances. Benefit: You learn one 3rd level utterance from 25

utterance can be no greater than the highest level utterance you know from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool. Special: You can take this feat more than once.

truename, it immediately takes 1d6 points of damage for every Hit Die you have. Normal: The consequence for failing a Truespeak check to say someone's name is that the utterance, truename spell, or other ability fails as well.

UTTERANCE OF THE PERFECTED MAP Your ability to alter the world around you with the power of truenames continues to expand. Prerequisites: Truespeak 15 ranks, ability to speak utterances from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map. Benefit: You learn one utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map. The level of this utterance can be no greater than the highest level utterance you know from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map. Special: You can take this feat more than once.

TRUENAME REBUTTAL You are particularly good at negating other truenamer's power with well-chosen truenames. Prerequisites: Ability to speak utterances. Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on Truespeak checks made to counter or dispel the utterances of other truespeakers.

TRUENAME REBOUND Not only can you cancel another truenamer's utterances with the power of your words, you can turn his words back against him. Prerequisites: Truename Rebuttal Benefit: Whenever you successfully counter an utterance, you can change the target of that utterance to the speaker instead of negating it if you so desire.

TRUENAME RESEARCH You have a knack for finding out the truenames of friends and foes alike through study and investigation. Prerequisites: Truespeak 9 ranks. Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Knowledge checks made to discover a creature's personal truename. In addition, the cost to research a personal truename is reduced by half.

UTTERANCE FOCUS You have a particular utterance you favor above others, and your enemies are less able to resist the power of your words. Prerequisites: Ability to speak utterances. Benefit: Pick an utterance you know. Add 1 to the difficulty of all saving throws against that utterance. You get a +2 bonus on Truespeak checks when attempting to speak that utterance. These benefits also apply to the reverse of your favored utterance, if it has a reverse. Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new utterance.

OBSCURE PERSONAL TRUENAME Truenames are notoriously difficult to pronounce, but yours is harder than most. Benefit: The DC to speak your personal truename increases by 4 (this stacks with the +2 increase that normally applies to attempts to speak a personal truename). In addition, the DC of truespeak checks to speak your normal truename (the one a truenamer would use if he didn't know your personal truename) increases by 2. The DC of any checks made to research your personal truename increases by 4. Normal: The Truespeak DC to speak a personal truename is 15 + Creature's CR + (2 x Utterance Level)

GREATER UTTERANCE FOCUS

PERSONAL TRUENAME BACKLASH Your personal truename is so charged with cosmic power that those who fail to speak it correctly are warped by reality run amok. Prerequisites: Obscure Personal Truename, 15 Hit Dice. Benefit: Whenever a creature fails by 5 points or more in an attempt to speak your personal 26

You are extremely adept with one particular utterance, making it difficult for others to resist its effects. Prerequisites: Ability to speak utterances, Utterance Focus Benefit: Pick an utterance you know that you have taken the Utterance Focus feat for. You add an additional 1 to the difficulty of all saving throws against that utterance and you get an additional +2 bonus on Truespeak checks when attempting

to speak that utterance. These benefits stack with the benefits from the Utterance Focus feat. These benefits also apply to the reverse of your favored utterance, if it has a reverse. Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new utterance that you have taken Utterance Focus for.

Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: An extended utterance lasts twice as long as normal. An utterance with a duration of concentration or instantaneous is not affected by this feat. An extended utterance has a Truespeak DC 4 higher than normal.

QUICKEN UTTERANCE [INFLECTION]

FOCUSED LEXICON Your utterances have greater effect against a certain type of creature. Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: When you take this feat, choose a creature type (such as aberrations, humanoids, or dragons). The difficulty of all saving throws against your utterances by creatures of that type are increased by 1. Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new creature type.

You can speak an utterance with just a moment's thought. Prerequisites: Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: Speaking a quickened utterance is a swift action. You can perform some other action, even speaking another utterance, in the same round as you speak a quickened utterance. A quickened utterance has a Truespeak DC 10 higher than normal.

HEIGHTENED UTTERANCE [INFLECTION] Your utterances are more difficult to resist than they would otherwise be. Prerequisites: Truespeak 9 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: When speaking a heightened utterance, you can voluntarily increase the Truespeak DC of the utterance. For every 2 points by which you increase the Truespeak DC, the effective utterance level of the utterance and the saving throw DC both increase by 1. All effects that depend on utterance level (such as the DCs of Concentration checks and ability to penetrate a lesser globe of invulnerability) are calculated according to the new effective level.

EMPOWER UTTERANCE [INFLECTION] Your utterances have more powerful effects Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: If an empowered utterance is successful, all the variable, numeric effects of the utterance are increased by one-half. Saving throws and opposed rolls are not affected, nor are spells without random variables. An empowered utterance has a Truespeak DC 4 higher than normal.

ENLARGE UTTERANCE [INFLECTION] You can project the power of an utterance to a greater distance. Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: The range of an enlarged utterance increases by 100%. For most utterances, this means the range becomes 120 feet. This feat has no effect on utterances with a range of touch. An enlarged utterance has a Truespeak DC 2 higher than normal.

INAUDIBLE UTTERANCE [INFLECTION]

EXTEND UTTERANCE [INFLECTION] Your utterances have a more lasting effect on the universe. 27

You can speak an utterance with barely a whisper. Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: An inaudible utterance is difficult to hear. Listeners must succeed on a Listen check (DC equal to the result of your Truespeak check) to hear you speak the utterance. This Listen check suffers penalties for distance as normal. Inaudible utterances spoken while deafened or otherwise unable to hear yourself speak suffer no chance of failure. An inaudible utterance has a Truespeak DC 2 higher than normal.

CHANT UTTERANCE [INFLECTION] Through focus and constant repetition, you can greatly extend the duration of your utterances. Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: After speaking a chanted utterance, you can concentrate on the utterance to extend its duration. As long as you continue to concentrate on the utterance, the utterance's duration does not start counting down. The duration of a chanted utterance essentially only starts counting once you cease to concentrate on the utterance. You cannot resume concentration on a chanted utterance once its duration has begun to count down. An utterance with a duration of concentration or instantaneous is not affected by this feat. A chanted utterance has a Truespeak DC 4 higher than normal.

you must spend 1/25 of this base price in XP and use up raw materials equal to one-half this base price. When you bottle an echo, you make any choices that you would normally make when casting the spell as well as determine which creature type the bottle echo can affect.

ENGRAVE INSCRIPTION [ITEM CREATION]

ECHO UTTERANCE [INFLECTION] Your utterances refuse to fade away quietly. Prerequisites: Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: Once an echoing utterance's duration is up, it attempts to speak itself on its target. As long as the caster's original Truespeak check - 5 is high enough to speak the utterance on the target, a new instance of the echoing utterance is spoken onto the target, using the reduced Truespeak check as its original Truespeak check. The newly spoken utterance is also an echoing utterance, but does not count against the original speaker for the purpose of the Law of Resistance. An utterance with a duration of concentration or instantaneous is not affected by this feat. An echoing utterance has a Truespeak DC 6 higher than normal.

BOTTLE ECHO [ITEM CREATION] You can capture the sounds of Truespeech in a bottle for later use. Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: You can create a bottled echo of any utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind that you know. Bottling an echo takes one day for each 1000 gp in its base price. The base price of a bottled echo is its utterance level x the maximum CR that it can affect x 25 gp. To bottle an echo, 28

By engraving inscriptions of Truespeech onto items, you can imbue them with magical powers. Prerequisites: Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances. Benefit: You can create any inscription whose prerequisites you meet. Engraving an inscription takes one day for each 1000 gp in its base price. To engrave an inscription, you must spend 1/25 of this base price in XP and use up raw materials equal to one-half this base price.

UTTER DEFENSIVELY

UTTERANCES

If you're worried about attacks of opportunity, you can utter defensively by accepting a -5 penalty on your Truespeak check for each foe who would hit you. In exchange, the utterance no longer provokes attacks of opportunity.

An utterance is a combination of words in Truespeech that describe a creature, place, or object to be affected and the desired effect (such as "control speed" or "wreathe in fire"). By putting these truenames together in exacting fashion, you create a rudimentary sentence in the language of the universe—an utterance. As a truenamer, you don't know the truename for every creature and object in the world, but you can describe them in the language of Truespeech. To do so is to speak an utterance. When you speak an utterance properly, reality reshapes itself to conform to the power of your words. You learn utterances as you progress in level, starting with the simplest creature-oriented utterances and progressing to more powerful and more diverse utterances. Utterances are divided into three lexicons, or groups of related words. As a truenamer, you learn many words in Truespeech, but only a few practiced phrases that you can turn into true utterances that carry the full power of Truespeech - and that power can change reality itself. Utterances can be described as follows.

SPELL RESISTANCE Spell resistance applies to your utterances, so you must succeed on a caster level check to overcome the spell resistance of creatures you speak utterances on. Because your utterances are spell-like abilities, the Spell Penetration and Greater Spell Penetration feats make those caster level checks easier, just as they do for spellcasters. When you deliver an utterance, its effective caster level for the purpose of bypassing spell resistance is your ranks in Truespeak - 3. In addition, when speaking an utterance, you can voluntarily increase the DC of a Truespeak check by 5 to automatically overcome a target's spell resistance.

PERSONAL TRUENAME Almost everything has a personal truename, right down to individual grains of sand. Some of these can be discovered through mundane research, but the more obscure personal truenames require divinations or even more powerful effects to discover. Personal truenames are more complex than more general truenames, but knowing one gives your utterances more power when used on that creature or object. If you know something's personal truename, the save DC of your utterances used against that creature or object increases by 2 and those utterances have an additional effect on that creature in addition to their normal effect. However, speaking a personal truename is more difficult.

SPEAKING AN UTTERANCE To speak an utterance, you need only speak in a clear voice as loud as a spellcaster. However, because the language of truenames requires such precision of pronunciation and timing, an utterance takes a standard action to perform and provokes attacks of opportunity from threatening enemies. Utterances are spell-like abilities with verbal components (unlike other spell-like abilities, which have no components) that requires a successful Truespeak check to complete. Your effective caster level for your utterances is your ranks in Truespeak - 3.

The DC of Truespeak check that incorporates the personal truename of a creature or object 29

increases by 2 and the DC of a Truespeak check that incorporates the personal truename of a place increases by 5. All truenamers learn their own personal truenames as part of their education. You have an instinctive understanding of your own personal truename and a sense of how it should be pronounced. But it's not automatic, even for you. You gain a +4 circumstance bonus on Truespeak checks to affect yourself with truename magic or otherwise pronounce your own personal truename.

a personal truename applies). Your target does not need to be able to hear the truename. You aren't speaking to the target, after all; You're using truenames to speak to the cosmos about the target.

All utterances, when viewed with detect magic or other such effects, detect as being from the universal school of magic.

a range of 60 feet.

The Universe Hears Just Fine

Because no creature needs to hear you speak a truename, a silence spell won't automatically stop your utterances. It is more difficult to speak a truename properly when you don't have the feedback of hearing your own voice. You have a 20% chance of a given utterance The Universe Keeps Track of You failing when you deliver it from within the area When you deliver an utterance, you're dealing of a silence spell, no matter how high your with the universe itself and reshaping reality. If Truespeak check result. a target changes its creature type with a spell For utterances that use the Lexicon of the such as polymorph, its personal truename Perfected Map, you must be able to see the doesn't change, although the truename you center of the area you're truenaming. You can't would use in a less specific utterance would. truename a dungeon chamber that's on the Shapechange, wild shape, disguise, resurrecother side of a closed door, but you can truetion, reincarnation—none of these will change a name the room once you open the door, even if personal truename. Only powerful and specific you can't see the entire room from the outside. magic can change a personal truename. RANGE SCHOOL Unless otherwise specified, utterances work at

DURATION

Utterances have short durations. Your use of TARGET truenames reorders the universe as you direct, With the exceptions of utterances from the Lex- to be sure, but the universe soon reestablishes some semblance of the status quo. icon of the Perfected Map and utterances affected by Speak Unto the Masses, all utterancWhen you deliver an utterance, you are rees affect only a single creature or object. Bemaking reality itself. Whether the "default realicause the language of truenames is both exact- ty" returns quickly or slowly, it does so at its ing and specific, the same truename does not own pace. Once you've delivered an utterance, necessarily apply to all four orcs charging you. it will run its full course; utterances aren't disIf you cannot see your target (or at least permissible. ceive it in some other way that gets you as SAVING THROW much information as sight) you take a -10 penalty on your Truespeak check unless you Most utterances don't allow saving throws. For are using a personal truename (in which case those that do, the Difficulty Class of Saving only the normal difficulty increase for speaking Throws against utterances are equal to 10 + 30

1/2 your character level + your Int modifier.

EFFECTIVE SPELL LEVEL The effective spell level of an utterance from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind and the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool is equal to its utterance level for the purpose of Concentration checks, as well as for interactions with other spells and abilities, such as globe of invulnerability. Utterances from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map have an effective spell level four higher than their actual utterance level.

Truespeak check for that utterance increases by 2. If you fail a Truespeak check, however, the DC does not increase on your next attempt of that utterance.

COUNTERSPEAKING AND DISPELLING Utterances with ongoing durations can be dispelled normally using dispel magic. They can also be countered by counterspeaking, which works similarly to countering a spell.

Counterspeaking

To counterspeak an utterance, you must select an opponent as the target of the counterspeakHE AWS ing and ready an action to counterspeak. When All utterances obey a pair of important univeryour opponent begins to speak an utterance, sal laws that govern Truespeech. Both of these you must first successfully identify the utterlaws apply to nearly all applications of ance (a Truespeak check that does not take an Truespeech, even those not involving speaking action). If you also know that utterance, you utterances. can attempt a second Truespeak check in an The Law of Sequence effort to counter the utterance. If your check All utterances obey the Law of Sequence. If you result is higher than your opponent's, you nespeak an utterance with an ongoing duration, gate the utterance entirely with no other reyou can't speak that utterance again on that sults. subject until the previous utterance has run its course. It's okay to use a different utterance on Dispelling the target while the first is still active or to use To dispel an ongoing utterance, you must know the utterance on another target, however. The that utterance and successfully speak it on the reverse of an utterance is treated as the same same target as the original utterance. If your utterance for the purpose of the Law of SeTruespeak check is higher than the original quence. truenamer's check result, the utterance is disFor example, you could speak a lesser word pelled as if its duration had expired. In cases of nurturing on an ally, then target an attack where the Truespeak check is unknown, asorc with a reversed lesser word of nurturing, sume that it's 11 + the truenamer's Truespeak but you could not use the lesser word of nurbonus. turing on your ally again until the first use's duration lapses.

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The Law of Resistance The first time that you speak a particular utterance, you calculate the DC as normal. However, the universe tends to resist being manipulated with Truespeak repeatedly in a short period of time, so each time you successfully speak the same utterance in a day, the DC of your 31

he can run on up walls, or reduce foe's speed by 10 feet. Strike of Might: Target's next weapon damage roll deals +10 damage or target's next weapon damage roll deals -5 damage. Temporal Twist: Ally gains one free attack, or enemy is dazed for 1 round. Vision Sharpened: Subject gains benefits of see invisibility or subject becomes invisible. Wind-Carried Words: As a sending spell, or hear everything a creature says. Word of Nurturing, Lesser: Give ally fast healing 3, or deal 2d6 damage for 2 rounds.

THE LEXICON OF THE EVOLVING MIND Utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind forms the bulk of a truenamer's knowledge. These potent phrases in the language of Truespeech enable you to persuade the universe to change with respect to a single creature. Without exception, each of these utterances shares the following characteristics. These utterances can only target a single creature, unless you are of high enough level to have the truenamer's Speak Unto the Masses class feature. Each utterance from this lexicon, and this lexicon alone, can be spoken in reverse. When you learn a new utterance, you effectively learn two unique, but related, ways to alter the world. Each entry in this lexicon has descriptive text for the normal version of the utterance and its reverse. The duration and saving throw requirement for the normal way to speak an utterance might differ from its reverse, which will be called out in the utterance's statistics at the top of the entry.

3RD LEVEL UTTERANCES Breath of Cleansing: Allow ally a second save against ongoing effect, or nauseate an enemy. Energy Negation: Grant an ally resistance 10 to one energy type, or deal energy damage to a foe. Incarnation of Angels: Creature gains the celestial template, or creature gains the fiendish template. Preternatural Clarity: Give an ally a +5 floating bonus for attacks, saves, or checks, or make an enemy confused. Seek the Sky: Give creature ability to fly, or force a flying creature gradually to the ground. Serpent's Tongue: Make a creature turn on its allies or poison a creature. Speed of the Zephyr, Greater: Give ally benefit of haste spell, ore enemy suffers from the effect of a slow spell. Temporal Spiral: Target gains one extra move action, or enemy is dazed for 3 rounds. Word of Bolstering: Cure 1d6 points of ability damage or drain, or cause -1d6 penalty to one enemy's Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. Word of Nurturing, Moderate: Give ally fast healing 5, or deal 4d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

4TH LEVEL UTTERANCES 1ST LEVEL UTTERANCES

Breath of Recovery: Remove conditions from an ally, or paralyze an enemy. Caster Lens: Increase ally's caster level by 2, or reduce enemy's caster level by 2. Confounding Resistance: Grant ally ability to avoid particularly harmful effects, or remove evasion from an enemy. Essence of Lifespark: Remove one negative level from a creature, or one enemy gains one negative level. Knight's Puissance, Greater: Ally gains +5 on attack and damage rolls, or enemy gains -5 on attack and damage rolls. Magic Contraction: Ally gains spell resistance, or grant a creature benefit of Empower Spell effect. Sensory Focus: Creature gains blindsight and truesight, or creature is blinded and deafened. Word of Nurturing, Potent: Give ally fast healing 10, or deal 6d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

Defensive Edge: Grant ally +1 AC, or an enemy -1 AC. Inertia Surge: Grant creature freedom from restricting effects or prevent an enemy from moving. Knight's Puissance: Ally gains +2 on attack rolls, or enemy gains -2 on attack rolls. Perceive the Unseen: Give creature benefit of Blind Fight feat, or grant a creature concealment. Silent Caster: Ally gains benefit of Silent Spell feat or creature is silenced. Universal Aptitude: Subject gains +5 on skill checks, or enemy gains -5 on skill checks. Word of Nurturing, Minor: Give ally fast healing 1, or deal 1d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

2ND LEVEL UTTERANCES Accelerated Attack: Give an ally Spring Attack or allow ally to move while casting a spell. Archer's Eye: Give ally ability to ignore concealment with ranged attacks or protect an ally from projectiles. Hidden Truth: Grant creature +10 bonus on Knowledge check or a +10 on a Bluff check. Morale Boost: Remove fear from a creature, or frighten an enemy. Speed of the Zephyr: Subject's speed increases by 20 feet and

5TH LEVEL UTTERANCES Eldritch Attraction: Move a creature 40 feet closer to you, or 40 feet farther away from you. Energy Negation, Greater: Ally gains immunity to one energy type, or give an ally an energy shield that damages attackers. Ether Reforged: Creature gains the benefit of defenses against incorporeal foes and can affect them normally, or creature becomes ethereal. Mystic Rampart: Ally gains DR 5/- and a +5 bonus on saves, or 32

enemy incurs -5 penalty to AC and saves. Seek the Sky, Greater: Give creature fly speed of 120 feet (perfect), or cause a flying creature to fall and take damage. Ward of Peace: Ally cannot be attacked, or temporarily banish target to extradimensional pocket. Word of Nurturing, Critical: Give ally fast healing 15, or deal 8d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

this utterance, the DR provided is 10/— instead of 10/magic.

BREATH OF CLEANSING Level: 3 Duration: Instantaneous (normal) or 1 round (reverse) Saving Throw: None (normal) or Fortitude negates (reverse) Normal: Your utterance fills your target with a breath of living magic, granting him the ability to make a second attempt to save against an ongoing spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability. This save is made at the same DC. If the subject succeeds on the saving throw on the second attempt, the effect ends immediately. Breath of cleansing never restores lost hit points or ability score damage, but it does eliminate any conditions, such as shaken, fatigued, or nauseated, that were caused by the spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability. The breath of cleansing is magical and thus affects creatures that don't ordinarily breathe. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target can make a second save against an additional spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability that may be affecting him.

6TH LEVEL UTTERANCES Singular Mind: Free subject from enchantments, curses, and possession, or dominate one creature. Temporal Hurricane: Grant your target a full round of actions or send a creature backwards one round in time. Unname: Kill one creature, or bring one creature back to life. Word of Nurturing, Greater: Give ally fast healing 20, or deal 10d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

ACCELERATED ATTACK Level: 2 Descriptors: None Duration: 1 round Saving Throw: None

Reverse: The target of this utterance must make a successful Fortitude save or be nauseated for one round. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target is sickened for one round following the end of the utterance.

Normal: The target gains the use of the Spring Attack feat, even if he does not meat the prerequisites. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target does not provoke attacks of opportunity for his movement while under its effects.

BREATH OF RECOVERY Level: 4 Duration: Instantaneous (normal) or 1 round (reverse) Saving Throw: None (normal) or Fortitude negates (reverse)

Reverse: The target can make a special Concentration check (DC 20 + spell level) when casting a spell. If the check succeeds, he can cast the spell and move up to his speed as a single standard action. (The target can't use this ability to cast a spell that takes longer than one standard action to cast.) If the check fails, the target loses the spell, just as if he had failed a Concentration check to cast the spell defensively. The target still provokes attacks of opportunity for casting spells from any creature that threatened him at any point in his movement. He can cast defensively while under the effect of this utterance, but doing so increases the Concentration DC to 25 + spell level. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target does not provoke attacks of opportunity for his movement while under its effects.

Normal: This utterance, more powerful than breath of cleansing, immediately ends any and all of the following adverse conditions affecting the target: ability damage, blinded, confused, dazed, dazzled, deafened, diseased, exhausted, fatigued, feebleminded, insanity, nauseated, sickened, stunned, and poisoned. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target gains a +4 bonus to Strength and Dexterity for one round. Reverse: A reversed breath of recovery utterance freezes the life energy of the target, rendering action impossible. The target must make a successful Fortitude save or be paralyzed. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes a -6 penalty to Strength and Dexterity for one round after being paralyzed.

ARCHER'S EYE

CASTER LENS

Level: 2 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Level: 4 Duration: 3 rounds Saving Throw: None

Normal: Your target's ranged attacks ignore penalties for concealment. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target can ignore any cover less than full with her ranged attacks.

Normal: Your target's caster level or manifester level increases by 2 for the duration of this utterance. This utterance does not affect spells per day or spells known. If the target has multiple spellcasting or manifesting classes, the bonus applies to all of them. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the targets caster level or manifester level increases by an additional 1.

Reverse: This utterance duplicates the effect of a protection from arrows spell for the target. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak 33

or a solid object. You can draw a flying creature closer to you, but you cannot make a creature on the ground fly. The Truespeak DC of this utterance increases by 2 for every size category the target is larger than Medium. This movement provokes attacks of opportunity. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the Truespeak DC does not increase, no matter how large the target may be.

Reverse: Your target's caster level or manifester level decreases by 2 for the duration of this utterance. This utterance does not affect spells per day or spells known. If the target has multiple spellcasting or manifesting classes, the penalty applies to all of them. Affected spellcasters and manifesters lose access to any level of spells or powers that they no longer have sufficient level to cast. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the targets caster level or manifester level decreases by an additional 1.

Reverse: You move your target away from you up to 40 feet with an almost fluid torrent of intangible energy. You can't move the target in a space that is occupied by an ally, an enemy, or a solid object. You can push an airborne flying creature away from you, but you cannot make a creature on the ground fly. The Truespeak DC of this utterance increases by 2 for every size category the target is larger than Medium. This movement provokes attacks of opportunity. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the Truespeak DC does not increase, no matter how large the target may be.

CONFOUNDING RESISTANCE Level: 4 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None Normal: You grant your target the ability to avoid harmful effects. If the target makes a successful save against an attack that would have a lesser effect on a successful save, he instead negates the effect. An unconscious or sleeping target does not gain the benefit of this ability. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target gets a +2 bonus on all saves for the duration of the utterance.

ENERGY NEGATION Level: 3 Descriptors: Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, or Sonic (depending on which energy is chosen) Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Reverse: You make your target more vulnerable to harmful effects. If your target has improved evasion, you reduce its effectiveness to evasion. If your target does not have improved evasion, but has evasion, you suppress that ability. If your target has neither improved evasion or evasion, it takes a -2 penalty on saving throws for the duration of the utterance. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes a -2 penalty on saving throws for the duration of the utterance. This stacks with the -2 from the normal effect of the utterance, if applicable.

Normal: This utterance grants your target resistance 10 to one type of energy (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic). Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target receives resistance 15 instead of resistance 10. Reverse: The subject of this utterance is wreathed in a nimbus of energy and takes 2d6 points of damage from the utterance each round. The energy can be acid, cold, electricity, or fire. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the subject takes 3d6 points of energy damage each round instead of 2d6.

DEFENSIVE EDGE Level: 1 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

ENERGY NEGATION, GREATER

Normal: This utterance grants your target a +1 bonus to Armor Class. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target gets an additional +1 bonus to Armor Class for the duration of the utterance.

Level: 5 Descriptors: Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, or Sonic (depending on which energy is chosen), possibly others. Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Reverse: Your target takes a -1 penalty to Armor Class. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes an additional -1 penalty to Armor Class for the duration of the utterance.

Normal: This utterance grants your target immunity to one type of energy of your choice. This can include such energies as force, positive energy, or negative energy. The descriptor of this utterance matches the energy type chosen. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, whenever the target would normally receive damage of the chosen energy type, that damage is negated and they are healed for half of the amount of damage that would otherwise be dealt.

ELDRITCH ATTRACTION Level: 5 Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Will Negates

Reverse: The utterance wreathes your target in a type of energy chosen by you when you speak this utterance (acid, cold, electricity, or fire). Any creature that damages the subject with its body or a handheld melee weapon deals normal damage, but at

Normal: You move your target toward you up to 40 feet along an intangible blue tether that connects the two of you. You can't move the target in a space that is occupied by an ally, an enemy, 34

the same time the attacker takes 20 points of energy damage. Creatures wielding weapons with exceptional reach, such as longspears, are not subject to this damage if they attack the subject. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, even attackers wielding reach weapons or attacking with ranged weapon are affected. As long as an attacker is within 10 feet of your subject, it takes the energy damage each time it successfully attacks the target.

the Ethereal Plane, whichever would be better for the target.

HIDDEN TRUTH Level: 2 Duration: Until discharged (up to 1 minute). Saving Throw: None Normal: You grant the target a +10 bonus on the next Knowledge check he makes and enable him to use the skill, even if untrained. If the target has bardic knowledge, lore, or a similar class feature, this bonus can apply to that check instead. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target gains an additional +5 bonus on that check. This stacks with the normal bonus provided by the utterance.

ESSENCE OF LIFESPARK Level: 4 Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None; see text Normal: This utterance dispels one negative level and restores experience to a creature that has been level drained. The drained level is restored only if the time since the creature lost the level is equal to or less than one day per truenamer level. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, it restores two lost levels or dispels two negative levels instead of only one.

Reverse: Your target gains a +10 bonus on the next bluff check he makes. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target gains an additional +5 bonus on that check. This stacks with the normal bonus provided by the utterance.

INCARNATION OF ANGELS

Reverse: The target of this utterance gains a negative level, giving it a -1 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, ability checks, and effective level (for determining the power, duration, and other details of spells or special abilities). Additionally, a spellcaster loses one spell or spell slot from her highest available level. Negative levels stack. A creature with as many negative levels as it has Hit Dice dies. Negative levels bestowed by this utterance remain until 24 hours have passed or until they are removed with a spell or utterance, such as the normal version of this utterance. If a negative level is not removed before 24 hours have passed, the affected creature must attempt a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 your ranks in Truespeak + your Int modifier). On a success, the negative level goes away with no harm to the creature. On a failure, the negative level goes away, but the creature’s level is also reduced by one. A separate saving throw is required for each negative level. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target suffers two negative levels instead of one.

Level: 3 Descriptors: Good (normal) or Evil (reverse) Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None Normal: The target temporarily gains the celestial creature template (MM 31). The smite ability granted by the template is usable by the target once per day, no matter how often she may be the subject of this utterance. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the benefits the target receives resemble the benefits of being half-celestial. She temporarily becomes a native outsider and receives a temporary +2 to all ability scores. She also gains a pair of feathered wings that allow her to fly at twice her normal speed with good maneuverability. Reverse: The target temporarily gains the fiendish creature template (MM 107). The smite ability granted by the template is usable by the target once per day, no matter how often she may be the subject of this utterance. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the benefits the target receives resemble the benefits of being half-fiend. She temporarily becomes a native outsider and receives a temporary +2 to all ability scores. She also gains a two claw attacks and a bite attack, as appropriate to her size.

ETHER REFORGED Level: 5 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None Normal: You enable the target to gain full benefit from its armor, weapons, spells, and abilities against both corporeal and incorporeal creatures. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target can apply the benefits of its armor and shield bonus (if any) against touch attacks. Reverse: This reversed utterance renders the target ethereal, as the ethereal jaunt spell. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target can still affect targets on the Material Plane as he wishes, including being able to attack freely, but is still incorporeal and invisible with regards to everything else. Effectively, the target is treated as being on the Material Plane or

INERTIA SURGE Level: 1 Duration: 1 round Saving Throw: None Normal: You grant the target the ability to act normally regardless of magical effects that impede movement as if he were affected by a freedom of movement spell. The effect occurs automatically as soon as the utterance is spoken and lasts for 1 round. 35

Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target may immediately (as a free action, even if it is not their turn) move five feet without provoking attacks of opportunity. This occurs immediately on the turn you speak this utterance, and does not count against the creature's normal move speed or limit on one five-foot step per round.

Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target can reroll any natural 1s rolled on any of the variable, numeric elements of any spells it casts.

MORALE BOOST Level: 2 Descriptors: None (normal) or Fear, Mind-Affecting (reverse) Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None (normal) or Will negates (reverse)

Reverse: You render the target unable to move. It can still take actions normally; it just can't move from the space it currently occupies. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target counts as flanked for the duration of the utterance, regardless of the number of people surrounding him. This grants everyone a +2 bonus on attacks against the target.

Normal: This utterance functions as the remove fear spell. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target is completely immune to any fear spell or effect for the duration and all fear effects currently affecting him are dispelled.

KNIGHT'S PUISSANCE Level: 1 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Reverse: Your target becomes frightened (DMG 301) for the duration of the utterance. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target is panicked (DMG 301) for the duration instead.

Normal: Your target gets a +2 bonus on attack rolls. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target receives a +3 bonus on attack rolls instead.

MYSTIC RAMPART Level: 5 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Reverse: Your target takes a -2 penalty on attack rolls. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes a -3 penalty on attack rolls instead.

Normal: You grant the target damage reduction 5/— and a +5 bonus on saving throws. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, choose one spell that would be a legal target for a spell immunity spell. The target is immune to that spell for the duration of this effect, as though affected by the spell immunity spell.

KNIGHT'S PUISSANCE, GREATER Level: 4 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None Normal: Your target gains a +5 bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target receives a +8 bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls instead.

Reverse: Your target takes a -5 penalty to Armor Class and on saving throws for the duration of the utterance. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, any damage reduction, energy resistance, and spell resistance the target has are all reduced by 5 points for the duration of this utterance.

Reverse: Your target takes a -5 penalty on attack rolls and damage rolls. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes a -8 penalty on attack rolls and damage rolls instead.

PERCEIVE THE UNSEEN Level: 1 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

MAGIC CONTRACTION

Normal: You grant the target the benefit of the Blind-Fight feat. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target can roll his miss chance due to concealment a third time, in addition to the second chance provided by the Blind-Fight feat.

Level: 4 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None Normal: The target gains spell resistance equal to 11+ its Hit Dice. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, it gains spell resistance equal to 15 + its Hit Dice instead.

Reverse: Your target gains concealment (PH 152). He cannot use this concealment to hide. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target gains full concealment instead. He still cannot use this concealment to hide.

Reverse: You grant your target the ability to apply the effect of the Empower Spell feat to any spell she casts for the duration of the utterance without increasing the level of the spell or specially preparing it ahead of time. 36

PRETERNATURAL CLARITY

SENSORY FOCUS

Level: 3 Descriptors: None (normal) or Mind-Affecting (reverse) Duration: 5 rounds or until discharged (normal) or 5 rounds (reverse) Saving Throw: None (normal) or Will negates (reverse)

Level: 4 Duration: 3 rounds Saving Throw: None (normal) or Fortitude negates (reverse) Normal: You grant the target blindsight out to 120 feet and the effects of the true seeing spell. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, ??

Normal: Once during the duration of this utterance, your target can choose to use its effect. This word grants a +5 insight bonus on any single attack roll, opposed ability roll, skill check, or saving throw. The target can choose to apply the bonus after she has rolled the d20 but before the Dungeon Master reveals the result. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target can apply the bonus twice before the effect is discharged.

Reverse: Your target is both blinded and deafened (DMG 300). Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, ??

SERPENT'S TONGUE Level: 3 Descriptors: Mind-affecting (normal version only) Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or instantaneous (reverse; see text) Saving Throw: Will negates (normal) or Fortitude negates (reverse)

Reverse: This reversed utterance causes the target to become confused, as the confusion spell (phb 212). Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the next attack roll, opposed ability roll, skill check, or saving throw (whichever happens first) takes a –5 penalty.

Normal: Your words poison the target's mind, causing him to turn against his former friends. For the duration of this utterance, your target's attitude towards you becomes friendly. Its attitude towards its former friends and allies becomes hostile. Additionally, the power of this utterance fogs your target's memory, making it impossible for the target to realize the reason behind its sudden change of heart. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target's attitude towards you does not return to normal at the end of the utterance, although it is no longer magically enforced. The target's attitude towards its friends and allies does return to normal, however.

SEEK THE SKY Level: 3 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Normal: The target of this utterance can fly, as the fly spell. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the subject has perfect maneuverability with his flight speed. Reverse: This reversed utterance causes the target to become unable to fly, no matter how hard it tries. If it is already flying, the subject floats downward at 60 feet per round for the duration of the utterance. If it reaches the ground in that time, it lands safely and cannot fly for remainder of the duration. If the target is not flying, it cannot attempt to fly for the duration. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target is forced down at 100 feet per round instead of only 60 feet per round.

Reverse: Instead of attacking the target's mind, the vitriolic words you speak poison the subject's body. The target is immediately poisoned. This poison deals 1d6 points of Constitution damage immediately and 1d6 points of Constitution damage one minute later. Each instance of damage can be negated with a successful Fortitude save. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the poison deals 2d4 points of Constitution damage with each instance instead of 1d6.

SEEK THE SKY, GREATER SILENT CASTER

Level: 5 Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or instantaneous (reverse) Saving Throw: None

Level: 1 Duration: 1 round Saving Throw: None (normal) or Will negates (reverse)

Normal: The target of this utterance can fly, as the fly spell, except he gains a fly speed of 120 feet with perfect maneuverability. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the subject gains a fly speed of 140 instead.

Normal: You grant your target the ability to apply the effect of the Silent Spell feat to any spell she casts for the duration of the utterance without increasing the level of the spell or specially preparing it ahead of time. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target instead has the Silent Spell feat applied to the next spell he casts. The duration of the utterance becomes “5 rounds or until discharged.”

Reverse: With this utterance, you render a flying creature unable to fly. The subject immediately plummets downward, taking 1d6 points of falling damage for every 10 feet it drops. It can make Jump and Tumble checks normally to attempt to land softly. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, any falling damage the creature takes is doubled.

Reverse: You silence the target, making it incapable of producing sound, conversing, or using spells with a verbal components. It automatically succeeds on Move Silently checks. 37

SPEED OF THE ZEPHYR, GREATER

Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target does not automatically succeed on Move Silently checks.

Level: 3 Duration: 3 rounds Saving Throw: None

SINGULAR MIND Level: 6 Duration: Instantaneous (normal) or concentration, up to 5 rounds (reverse) Saving Throw: None (normal) or Will negates (reverse)

Normal: This utterance duplicates the effect of a haste spell for one target. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target gets an additional +2 bonus on attack rolls and an additional +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.

Normal: This utterance frees your target from enchantments, curses, and possession. If the spell or effect is one that cannot be dispelled by dispel magic, singular mind works only if the truespeaker's level is greater than that of the original caster. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, singular mind can freely remove even effects that cannot normally be dispelled by dispel magic, even if the original caster is of higher level.

Reverse: This utterance duplicates the effect of a slow spell for one target. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes an additional –2 penalty on attack rolls, AC, and Reflex saves.

STRIKE OF MIGHT Level: 2 Duration: 5 rounds or until discharged. Saving Throw: None

Reverse: This utterance duplicates the effect of a dominate monster spell, except that to maintain domination, you must spend a standard action to concentrate and direct the creature's actions. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the need to concentrate on the utterance is waved. If the subject fails its Will save, it is dominated for 5 rounds.

Normal: Your target's next weapon damage roll deals an additional 10 points of damage. This damage is not multiplied on critical hits. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, your target's next weapon damage roll deals an additional 15 points of damage instead.

SPEED OF THE ZEPHYR Level: 2 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Reverse: Your target's next damage roll deals 5 fewer points of damage. This penalty can reduce the damage to 0, but not below. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, your target's next weapon damage roll deals 10 fewer points of damage instead.

Normal: Your target's base speed increases by 20 feet. In addition, he can walk on water, quicksand, snow, or even a spider's web without sinking through the surface (this effect confers no resistance to particularly sticky webs). In addition, the target can take part of one of its move actions to traverse a wall or other relatively vertical surface if it begins and ends its movement on a horizontal surface. The height it can achieve on the wall is limited only by this horizontal restriction. If it does not end its move on a horizontal surface, it falls prone, taking falling damage as appropriate for its distance above the ground. Treat the wall as normal floor for the purpose of measuring movement. Passing from floor to wall or wall to floor costs no movement. Opponents on the ground can make attacks of opportunity as the target moves up the wall. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target ignores the effects of difficult terrain for the duration of this utterance. This does not grant immunity to damage caused by hazardous terrain; for instance, a target could move across a pit of lava at full speed, but would still be subject to fire damage.

TEMPORAL HURRICANE Level: 6 Duration: 1 round of apparent time (normal) or instantaneous (reverse) Saving Throw: None Normal: Your words unravel a portion of the time stream around your target, granting it a few brief moments in which to act. When you speak this utterance, the target can immediately take a full round's worth of actions. Taking these action doesn't change the subject's place in the initiative order or interfere with its normal actions in any way. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target’s base speed increases by 5 feet for one round. Reverse: Your words temporarily reverse the flow of time, throwing your target backwards a few moments in time. The target reverts back to its physical state in the previous round. The target vanishes from its current location and reappears where it was last round. If that location is occupied by a solid object, the target appears in the nearest open space. Any damage that the target may have suffered and any healing it may have received since the previous round are removed, as are the effects of any poison, disease, spell, maneuver, or other effect that has affected the target since the previous round. The target is not mentally reverted, however, so it remembers everything that has

Reverse: Your target's base speed is reduced by 10 feet. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target’s base speed is further reduced by an additional 5 feet.

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transpired normally. Any spells that the target has cast remain cast, any magic items that it has used remain used, powers manifested remain manifest, etc. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target’s base speed increases by 5 feet for one round.

skills, regardless of the number of ranks he may have in that skill.

UNNAME Level: 6 Descriptors: Death (normal version only) Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (normal) or none (reverse)

TEMPORAL SPIRAL

Normal: Your words erase the creature's truename from existence, killing it instantly. The target creature must succeed on its saving throw, or die instantly. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the creature is erased from existence on a failed saving throw instead of merely dying. The creature instantly vanishes, leaving behind its clothing and gear, but nothing else. The creature cannot be returned to life by any normal means, as it has been irrevocably erased from existence. Only a ritual of renaming spell coupled with a true resurrection spell or similar magic can restore the creature to life. Attempting to erase a creature in this manner costs you 200 XP per Hit Dice of the affected creature.

Level: 3 Duration: 1 round (normal) or 3 rounds (reverse) Saving Throw: None (normal) or Will negates (reverse) Normal: You grant the target of this utterance an additional move action in the current round. If the subject of the utterance does not take this extra move action before the end of your next turn, it is lost. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance and the extra move action is not used, the effect lasts until the end of their next turn instead. Reverse: For the duration of this utterance, the target is dazed. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes a –3 penalty on their saving throw.

Reverse: Your words remind the universe of a creature and its place among the living. This utterance instantly restores a dead creature to life. So long as you have some portion of the creature's remains (which must have been part of the creature at the time of death) are within range and the creature's soul is free and willing to return, it is instantly restored to life with no loss of spells. The creature still loses a level, or 2 points of Constitution if it has only a single level, which cannot be restored by any means. A creature that would be reduced to 0 Constitution or below cannot be raised by this utterance. The revived creature has a number of hitpoints equal to its Hit Dice, but its body is made otherwise whole. Normal poisons and normal diseases are cured in the process of raising the subject, but supernatural diseases and magical curses are not undone. This utterance can restore creatures killed by death effects or that have been turned into an undead creature and the destroyed. It can restore outsiders and elementals to life, but it cannot restore anyone who died of old age. Each use of this utterance costs 2000 XP. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the truenamed creature is restored to life without need to have any portion of the subject's remains nearby. The creature appears before you, fully healed and free of all negative conditions. The creature does not lose a level. Even creatures erased from existence (such as by the normal version of this utterance) can be restored. Using a personal truename for this utterance increases the XP cost to a total of 5000 XP.

TEMPORAL TWIST Level: 2 Duration: Instantaneous (normal) or 1 round (reverse) Saving Throw: None (normal) or Will negates (reverse) Normal: Your target can immediately make one melee or ranged attack, even it has already taken its actions for the round. Taking this action doesn't change the subject's place in the initiative order. This utterance does not allow the subject to take more than one additional attack in a round. If the target has already made an additional attack, due to the haste spell, snake's swiftness spell, or from any other source, this utterance has no effect. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, and the target has already made an additional attack, Temporal Twist takes effect the following round. Reverse: The target is dazed for one round. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes a –1 penalty on their saving throw.

UNIVERSAL APTITUDE Level: 1 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

VISION SHARPENED Level: 2 Duration: 5 rounds Saving Throw: None

Normal: Your target gains a +5 bonus on skill checks. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the targeted creature can use all skills as though trained, even if he does not have any ranks in that skill.

Normal: The target of this utterance gains the benefit of a see invisibility spell. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, ??

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WORD OF BOLSTERING

Reverse: This utterance duplicates the effect of an invisibility spell for one target. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, ??

Level: 3 Duration: Instantaneous (normal) or 5 rounds (reverse) Saving Throw: None

WARD OF PEACE

Normal: This utterance cures 1d6 points of ability damage or drain to one ability score. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the utterance cures 2d6 points of ability damage or drain instead.

Level: 5 Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or concentration, up to 5 rounds (reverse) Saving Throw: None (normal) or Will negates (reverse) Normal: Opponents cannot strike or otherwise directly attack the warded creature, even with targeted spells. Enemies are aware of this prohibition and don't lose actions for attempting to strike. This utterance does not prevent the warded creature from being attacked or affected by area of effect spells. The subject cannot attack without breaking the protection but can use spells and abilities that are not hostile toward another creature. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, and an enemy uses an area of effect attack, the target gets the choice to either nullify the damage (to only the target) and immediately ending the Ward of Peace, or taking the damage and continuing until the end of the 5 rounds.

Reverse: Your target takes a -1d6 penalty to one physical ability score (Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution). This utterance cannot reduce an ability score below 1. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target takes a -2d4 penalty to one physical ability score instead of -1d6.

WORD OF NURTURING, MINOR Level: 1 Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or instantaneous and concentration, up to one round (reverse) Saving Throw: None

Reverse: You banish the target to an extradimensional pocket - a featureless gray void with no visible entrance or exit. Spells and abilities that move a creature within a plane, such as teleport and dimension door, do not help a creature escape from this place, although a plane shift spell allows it to exit to whatever plane is designated in that spell. At the end of the duration, if the subject has not left the pocket dimension, it reappears where it had been when the utterance was spoken. If this location is filled with a solid object, the subject appears in the nearest open space. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target will be unable to use a plane shift spell to return.

Normal: You grant a creature fast healing 1. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you grant the target fast healing 2 instead. Reverse: You deal 1d6 points of damage to the target. If you concentrate for 1 round (a standard action), and the subject remains within range, it takes another 1d6 points of damage at the end of your next turn. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you deal 1d8 points of damage with each instance of damage instead of 1d6.

WORD OF NURTURING, LESSER

WIND-CARRIED WORDS

Level: 2 Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or instantaneous and concentration, up to one round (reverse) Saving Throw: None

Level: 2 Range: Sight; see text Duration: Instantaneous (normal) or 1 minute (reverse) Saving Throw: None

Normal: You grant a creature fast healing 3. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you grant the target fast healing 4 instead.

Normal: As you speak, the wind bears your words to whomever you would have hear them. This utterance functions as a sending spell, except as noted here. You can target any creature you can see with this utterance, regardless of distance. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the truenamed creature becomes the target, regardless of whether or not you can see that creature.

Reverse: You deal 2d6 points of damage to the target. If you concentrate for 1 round (a standard action), and the subject remains within range, it takes another 2d6 points of damage at the end of your next turn. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you deal 2d8 points of damage with each instance of damage instead of 2d6.

Reverse: With a word of Truespeech, you cause the wind to bear your target's words to you. For the duration of this utterance, you can clearly hear every word the target speaks, no matter how far away the target is. You can target any creature you can see with this utterance, regardless of distance. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the truenamed creature becomes the target, regardless of whether or not you can see that creature.

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this utterance, you deal 10d8 points of damage with each instance of damage instead of 10d6.

Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you grant the target fast healing 7 instead. Reverse: You deal 4d6 points of damage to the target. If you concentrate for 1 round (a standard action), and the subject remains within range, it takes another 4d6 points of damage at the end of your next turn. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you deal 4d8 points of damage with each instance of damage instead of 4d6.

WORD OF NURTURING, POTENT Level: 4 Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or instantaneous and concentration, up to one round (reverse) Saving Throw: None Normal: You grant a creature fast healing 10. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you grant the target fast healing 13 instead. Reverse: You deal 6d6 points of damage to the target. If you concentrate for 1 round (a standard action), and the subject remains within range, it takes another 6d6 points of damage at the end of your next turn. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you deal 6d8 points of damage with each instance of damage instead of 6d6.

WORD OF NURTURING, CRITICAL Level: 5 Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or instantaneous and concentration, up to one round (reverse) Saving Throw: None Normal: You grant a creature fast healing 15. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you grant the target fast healing 17 instead. Reverse: You deal 8d6 points of damage to the target. If you concentrate for 1 round (a standard action), and the subject remains within range, it takes another 8d6 points of damage at the end of your next turn. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you deal 8d8 points of damage with each instance of damage instead of 8d6.

WORD OF NURTURING, GREATER Level: 6 Duration: 5 rounds (normal) or instantaneous and concentration, up to one round (reverse) Saving Throw: None Normal: You grant a creature fast healing 20. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you grant the target fast healing 25 instead. Reverse: You deal 10d6 points of damage to the target. If you concentrate for 1 round (a standard action), and the subject remains within range, it takes another 10d6 points of damage at the end of your next turn. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak 41

AGITATE METAL

THE LEXICON OF THE CRAFTED TOOL

Level: 1 Target: Metal equipment of one creature or one metal object Duration: 7 rounds

Unlike utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind, the utterances in this lexicon have no meaning or power when reversed. All the utterances in this lexicon target objects often the weapons and armor that you, your allies, or your enemies use. Spell Resistance applies to these utterances, as it does normally to spell-like abilities. Also as normal, attended objects gain the benefit of their wielder's spell resistance, if any. However, any item targeted by one of these utterances attended or not - do not get to save to avoid the effects.

This utterance functions as a chill metal spell or heat metal spell. You choose which effect - cold or hot - you want to generate when you speak the utterance. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the object immediately heats to searing or cools to freezing, as appropriate, and remains that way for the duration of the utterance.

ANALYZE ITEM Level: 1 Range: Touch Target: One object Duration: Instantaneous By chanting the various truenames associated with perception and analysis, you determine all the magical properties of the targeted object, including how to activate those functions (if appropriate) and how many charges are left (if any). You also learn any and all spells currently cast upon the object. You cannot determine the function of an artifact with this utterance. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, you also learn part of the object's history. You learn the name (but not truename), race, gender, age, and alignment of anyone who has owned the object in the past year, as well as any significant event (as judged by the DM) that has involved the object in the past year. Events of incredible importance (such as the slaying of an ancient dragon or the coronation of a great king) sometimes imprint on the item (DM's discretion). These events are always revealed, no matter how much time has passed, as well as whoever owned the object at that time of the event.

1ST LEVEL UTTERANCES Agitate Metal: Cause a creature's metal equipment to radiate painful heat or cold. Analyze Item: Discern the properties of a magic item. Fortify Armor: Make a creature's armor able to negate critical hits and sneak attacks. Keen Weapon: Improve the threat range of a weapon. Word of Opening: Door or portal opens.

2ND LEVEL UTTERANCES Seize Item: Bring an object within range to your hand. Suppress Weapon: Suppress the energy properties of a weapon. Weapon of Energy: Weapon deals extra energy damage. Planar Gateway: Door opens onto another word. Terminate Spell: Dispel one spell or supernatural ability. Twist Spell: Convert the damage of a spell from one type to another

CHARGE ITEM Level: 4 Target: One wand or staff with charges remaining Duration: 1 minute

3RD LEVEL UTTERANCES

Your words grant the targeted item 2d4 temporary charges, but the item loses one permanent charge. Temporary charges work much like temporary hit points: when a character uses the item, the temporary charges are used first. When charge item ends, all remaining temporary charges are lost. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of the object as part of this utterance, the duration of this utterance becomes instantaneous. Instead of gaining 2d4 temporary charges at the cost of one permanent charge, the targeted wand or staff gains 1 permanent charge at the cost of 3 XP per caster level of the targeted object.

Motion to the Motionless: Animate an object to serve you. Rebuild Item: Restore an item destroyed within the last round to perfect form and functionality. Spell Rebirth: Restore a dispelled or dismissed spell. Suppress Item: Suppress the properties of a magic item. Transmute Weapon: Change a weapon's special material. Create Object: As a major creation spell.

4TH LEVEL UTTERANCES Charge Item: Give a staff or wand temporary charges. Metamagic Catalyst: Give a potion or scroll the benefit of a metamagic feat. Invulnerability: Make an object immune to all damage.

CREATE OBJECT Level: 3 Effect: One created non-magical object Duration: 1 minute

5TH LEVEL UTTERANCES Unmake: Return an item to its component parts. Redirect Spell: Change the target of a spell.

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This utterance functions as a major creation spell, except as noted. The created object can be no larger than 1 cubic foot per rank in Truespeak you posses. You may substitute a Truespeak check for any Craft check needed to create a complex item. Attempting to use any created object as a material component causes the spell to fail. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of an object that already exists, the object created is a non-magical copy of the truenamed object, perfect down to the last detail. Alternatively, you can give the created object a personal truename. Doing so increases the Truespeak DC by 10 and costs one fifth the object's market price in XP (minimum of 1 XP). Doing so changes the duration of this utterance to instantaneous. The created object becomes real for all intents and purposes.

Level: 4 Target: One potion or scroll Duration: 1 round With this utterance, you can apply one of the following effects to the target potion or scroll: Empower Spell, Heighten Spell (maximum +2 spell levels), Extend Spell, or Enlarge Spell. The utterance has no impact on the amount of time it takes to activate the item, but if it that item is not used within the following round, the effect of the utterance fades. You can also modify a potion or scroll as with the Widen Spell or Maximize Spell feats, but doing so increases the DC of your Truespeak check by 10. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the magic item's caster level temporarily increases by 2.

FORTIFY ARMOR Level: 1 Target: One suit of armor Duration: 1 minute

MOTION TO THE MOTIONLESS Level: 3 Target: One unattended object Duration: 1 minute

When you speak this utterance, the targeted armor gives its wearer better protection against critical hits and sneak attacks. When a critical hit or sneak attack is scored on the wearer, there is a 25% chance that the critical hit or snake attack is negated and damage is rolled normally. You can increase the level of protection provided by the utterance by voluntarily increasing the Truespeak DC. If you add 10 to the DC, critical hits and sneak attacks are negated 50% of the time, and if you increase the DC by 20 critical hits and sneak attacks are always negated. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the suit of armor's armor bonus increases by 2 for the duration of the utterance.

You inform the cosmos that an object is alive, animating the object and allowing it to act as you direct. The targeted object, which can be of any size, becomes an animated object (see the Monster Manual for appropriate game statistics). It understands your spoken commands regardless of the language you speak and obeys as best it can, although its mindless state limits what commands it can understand. Note that most buildings and other structures count as attended objects unless completely unoccupied. Also note that plants (but not plant creatures) and corpses (but not undead) are objects. Construct creatures are not objects and so cannot be affected by this utterance. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the animated object has an Intelligence score of 10, allowing it to understand and carry out much more complex commands. The animated object still possesses no feats or skills, nor does its newfound intelligence interfere with its immunity to mind-affecting abilities.

INVULNERABILITY Level: 4 Target: One object Duration: 1 minute The target of this utterance becomes impossible to destroy. It is immune to all damage and all attempts to break the object automatically fail. Spells such as disintegrate also fail when used in an attempt to destroy the object, although a mage's disjunction would still function, as this effect is removed at the same time as any magical properties the object may have. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, ??

PLANAR GATEWAY Level: 2 Target: One doorway Duration: 1 minute With a few words, you trick the universe, making it believe that a doorway's destination lies not on this plane, but on another. The targeted doorway fills with silvery light, becoming a portal to another realm of existence. Those who step through it are transported to some location on a plane you specify. With this utterance, you can open the gateway within 5 to 500 miles (5d%) of a particular location on the plane you specify. A portal you open with a particular use of this utterance always takes creatures that pass through to the same location, so as long as creatures use the same gateway they will not become split up. Two way travel through the gateway is possible, but as the location of the other end is hard to determine, this can be difficult to exploit. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of one or more creatures as part of this utterance, only the named creature(s) can pass through the portal in either direction. Each

KEEN WEAPON Level: 1 Target: One weapon Duration: 1 minute This utterance functions as the keen weapon spell, except as noted here. In addition, you can augment the threat range of any weapon, not just piercing or slashing weapons. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the weapon's critical multiplier increases by 1, so a weapon that does x2 damage on a critical hit would deal x3.

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personal truename included increases the DC to speak this utterance by 2. If you speak the personal truename of another doorway as part of this utterance, the gateway created connects the two, allowing you to be certain of the destination's location.

Level: 2 Target: One object weighing no more than 50 lbs. Duration: Instantaneous This utterance brings an object within range to your hand. If the object is unattended, it simply darts to your hand. If attended, such as a wielded weapon, you must make a disarm attempt. You use your truenamer level as your base attack bonus and your Intelligence modifier as your Strength bonus, and a failed attempt does not allow a reactive attempt by the target to disarm you. Spell resistance applies normally for an attended object. If both your hands are full when you speak this utterance, the item lands in your square at your feet. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, you receive a +5 bonus on the disarm attempt and can affect items of up to 100 lbs.

REBUILD ITEM Level: 3 Target: One destroyed item Duration: Instantaneous With this utterance, you instantly restore an item destroyed within the last round to its normal, undamaged state. Magic items affected by this power retain all their magical properties, unlike an item restored with a make whole spell. The reconstituted item has full hit points. You cannot restore a destroyed artifact with this utterance. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the amount of time the item has been destroyed becomes less important. As long as the item has not been broken for more than one minute, it is completely restored.

SPELL REBIRTH Level: 3 Target: One spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability. Duration: Instantaneous

REDIRECT SPELL Level: 5 Target: One spell Duration: Instantaneous

You restore a spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability that has just been dispelled or dismissed within the last round. Provided that it had duration remaining, it resumes immediately with all former attributes. The caster level of a supernatural ability is equal to the CR of the caster if not otherwise specified. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, you restore the targeted spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability to its full duration, as though it had just been cast. You can target any such effect, not just those that ended in the past round. Each kind of spell has a personal truename that applies to every casting of that spell. The Knowledge (arcana) check needed to research this personal truename has a DC of 20 + (3 x the spell's level) and requires a number of successful checks equal to the spell's level. For example, to research the personal truename of magic missile, you would need to succeed on one DC 23 check, while you would need to succeed on nine DC 47 checks to research the personal truename of wish.

You order a spell to shift its course and it obeys. To use this utterance, you must ready an action, similar to readying an action to counterspell or counterspeak. If you successfully speak this utterance, you can change the target of the spell to any legal target within range of the original caster and within 60 feet of you. For example, a slay living spell that was targeting your ally could be changed to target the caster (provided the caster is a living creature), but not a creature 30 feet away (as the spell still has a range of touch). The DC of a Truespeak to speak the truename of a spell is 15 + twice the utterance's level + the spell's caster level. If you have not successfully identified the spell being cast (through a successful Spellcraft check or some other ability), the Truespeak DC of this utterance increases by 5. Personal Truename: If you use the spell's personal truename to speak this utterance, you can ignore the spell's normal range and target the spell anywhere within 60 feet of yourself. For example, you could redirect a cure serious wounds spell cast by an enemy cleric on a troll to an ally 30 feet away, even though the spell has a range of touch. Each kind of spell has a personal truename that applies to every casting of that spell. The Knowledge (arcana) check needed to research this personal truename has a DC of 20 + (3 x the spell's level) and requires a number of successful checks equal to the spell's level. For example, to research the personal truename of magic missile, you would need to succeed on one DC 23 check, while you would need to succeed on nine DC 47 checks to research the personal truename of wish.

SUPPRESS ITEM Level: 3 Target: One magic item Duration: 1 round, or concentration, up to 5 rounds By speaking this utterance and focusing, you prevent any magical properties of the item from functioning as long as you concentrate and remain in range. If the item moves out of range, the utterance's effect ends 1 round later. This effect otherwise functions as a dispel magic spell that targets a magic item. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, you do not need to concentrate to sustain the utterance. Its duration becomes 5 rounds.

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to speak this utterance, ??

Level: 2 Target: One weapon with an energy special ability Duration: 5 rounds

TWIST SPELL Level: 2 Descriptors: Acid, Cold, Fire, or Electricity; see text Target: One spell Duration: Instantaneous

When you speak this utterance, you can prevent a weapon's energy-based special ability (or abilities) from functioning. Such abilities include flaming and frost, among others. If you successfully speak this utterance on a weapon that does not have such a property, it has no effect on the weapon, but you are still considered to have spoken the utterance for the purpose of the Law of Resistance. You can suppress an energy burst ability by voluntarily increasing the DC of your Truespeak check by 5. If you use this utterance on an energy burst weapon at the regular DC, it has no effect. Suppress weapon counters and dispels weapon of energy. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the utterance also suppresses the holy, unholy, anarchic, and axiomatic weapon abilities.

Your words unravel the spell and spin it into something new. To use this utterance, you must ready an action, similar to readying an action to counterspell or counterspeak. If you successfully speak this utterance, the targeted spell changes the type of damage it deals to one type of energy damage, either acid, cold, fire, or electricity damage, as chosen by you. For example, you could use twist spell to change the force damage of a magic missile into acid damage or turn the fire damage of a fireball into cold damage. This utterance has no effect on spells that do not deal hit point damage. Spells that deal ability damage or drain are unaffected. The DC of a Truespeak to speak the truename of a spell is 15 + twice the utterance's level + the spell's caster level. If you have not successfully identified the spell being cast (through a successful Spellcraft check or some other ability), the Truespeak DC of this utterance increases by 5. Personal Truename: If you use the spell's personal truename to speak this utterance, you can transform the spell's damage into pure cosmic energy, causing it to bypass all forms of energy resistance and energy immunity. Each kind of spell has a personal truename that applies to every casting of that spell. The Knowledge (arcana) check needed to research this personal truename has a DC of 20 + (3 x the spell's level) and requires a number of successful checks equal to the spell's level. For example, to research the personal truename of magic missile, you would need to succeed on one DC 23 check, while you would need to succeed on nine DC 47 checks to research the personal truename of wish.

TERMINATE SPELL Level: 2 Target: One spell or supernatural ability. Duration: Instantaneous The targeted spell or supernatural ability is immediately dispelled. The caster level of a supernatural ability is equal to the CR of the caster if not otherwise specified. If the supernatural ability is continuously on, such as a medusa's petrifying gaze, the ability is suppressed for 5 rounds. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the target of the affected spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability has all other spells affecting it with a lower caster level immediately dispelled. Each kind of spell has a personal truename that applies to every casting of that spell. The Knowledge (arcana) check needed to research this personal truename has a DC of 20 + (3 x the spell's level) and requires a number of successful checks equal to the spell's level. For example, to research the personal truename of magic missile, you would need to succeed on one DC 23 check, while you would need to succeed on nine DC 47 checks to research the personal truename of wish.

UNMAKE Level: 5 Target: One object Duration: Instantaneous

Your words tear apart an object, reducing it to its component parts. The object you target is instantly unmade, crumbling into its component parts. Gems fall from settings, swords break into chunks of steel, and ink drips from scrolls. This effectively destroys the item, but leaves behind mundane component materials worth one third the items cost (for mundane objects) or one half the items cost (for magical objects). Any experience points paid in the creation of a magic item are simply lost. Unmake has no effect on artifacts. Any attempt to use this utterance on an artifact automatically fails. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, ??

TRANSMUTE WEAPON Level: 3 Target: One weapon Duration: 5 rounds

A weapon targeted by this utterance can be changed into any special material of your choice from which it could normally be made. You can make a weapon cold iron, adamantine, alchemical silver, or whatever other special material you wish, so long as the weapon could normally be made from it. For example, you could transmute a sword to be made of adamantine, but not a bow. Likewise, you could not transmute a sword to darkwood or to ordinary paper. The weapon is treated as if made of that substance, and its hardness, hit points, and the damage it deals might be affected depending on your choice. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename

WEAPON OF ENERGY Level: 2 Descriptors: Acid, Cold, Electricity, or Fire; see text. Target: One weapon Duration: 1 minute

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The targeted weapon becomes engulfed in some form of energy: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. This energy does not harm the wielder, but attacks made with the weapon deal an additional 2d6 points of energy damage. This utterance's descriptor is the same as the type of energy chosen. Weapon of energy counters and dispels suppress weapon. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, the affected weapon deals an additional 4d6 points of energy damage on a successful critical hit.

WORD OF OPENING Level: 1 Target: One door, box, or chest Duration: Instantaneous

You inform the universe that the door is supposed to be open and the universe rushes to fix the discrepancy. The targeted door, box, or chest springs open immediately. Any and all mundane circumstances that would prevent it from opening, such as locks, bars, or simply being stuck, are instantly removed. Locks unlock, latches lift, gates raise themselves, etc. Only those things that hold the portal closed are removed, however, so this utterance will not clear a doorway buried beneath rubble. Size has no bearing on which portals can be opened by this utterance. This has no effect on magical means of holding the door closed. This utterance has no effect on artifacts. Personal Truename: If you use the object's personal truename to speak this utterance, all magical or supernatural effects holding the door closed are also dispelled. Even an arcane lock spell is permanently removed by this utterance. The utterance still cannot open any door that either is an artifact or is held shut by an artifact.

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CALL THE FALLEN STARS

THE LEXICON OF THE PERFECTED MAP

Level: 4 Descriptors: Fire Duration: Concentration, up to 10 rounds Area: 10-ft-radius spread Saving Throw: Reflex half

As with utterances from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool, these utterances have no meaning or power when reversed. They all target nearby areas, allowing you to reshape the landscape that surrounds you. Unless otherwise specified, these utterances affect a 20-foot-radius spread and allow no saving throw.

Your words pull the stars from the sky, causing them to plummet to earth as burning meteors. This utterance summons blazing meteors from the sky, which crash into the ground and explode. Each round you concentrate on this utterance, a meteor lands where you wish at any point within 60 ft and explodes, dealing 8d6 points of damage to each creature within 10 feet. Creatures caught in the blast can attempt a Reflex save for half damage. This damage is half fire damage and half bludgeoning damage. This utterance only functions in outdoor areas. It has no effect if spoken inside a building or while underground. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, its area increases to a 20-foot-radius spread.

1ST LEVEL UTTERANCES Fog From the Void: Create a cloud of fog that obscures sight and makes movement difficult. Master of the Four Winds: Bend the winds to your will. Shockwave: A violent pulse of energy knocks creatures from their feet. Speak Rock to Mud: Turn solid rock into cloying mud. Shield of the Landscape: Alter the landscape to temporarily negate or provide cover. Skyward Eye: View any place, like a scry spell.

CONJUNCTIVE GATE Level: 4 Descriptors: See text of the gate spell Duration: 1 minute Effect: One planar gateway or one called creature.

2ND LEVEL UTTERANCES Lore of the World: The world gives you information you request. Transform the Landscape: Add or remove difficult terrain. Energy Vortex: Fill the area with energy that damages your foes. Transposition of Location: Trade the locations of two places.

This utterance functions as a gate spell with a caster level equal to (your ranks in Truespeak - 3), except as noted. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, ??

3RD LEVEL UTTERANCES

DENY PASSAGE

Anger the Sleeping Earth: Shake the earth, as the earthquake spell. Thwart the Traveler: Prevent extradimensional travel in the area. Deny Passage: Prevent creatures from entering or leaving an area.

Level: 3 Duration: 1 minute Area: 20 ft. cube

If your Truespeak check is successful you can forbid creatures from entering the area of the utterance. Unless you allow a creature inside (an immediate action on your part), it is held at bay just outside the place as if affected by a protection from evil spell (although for this utterance the alignment of the creature doesn't matter). You likewise prevent creatures from leaving the truenamed place. Unless you allow a creature to leave (as an immediate action), it is held at bay at the boundary of the area. Personal Truename: If you speak a creature's personal truename as part of this utterance, that creature is exempt from the effects of this utterance. Every personal truename included this way raises the Truespeak DC of this utterance by 2. If you instead speak the personal truename of the location, all creatures that you do not want inside the area are forced out violently. They are hurled prone into whichever open square outside the area of effect is nearest to their position.

4TH LEVEL UTTERANCES Call the Fallen Stars: Rain meteors on your foes. Conjunctive Gate: As a gate spell. Words of Creation: Create your own demiplane.

ANGER THE SLEEPING EARTH Level: 3 Duration: 1 round Saving Throw: Reflex half; see text of earthquake

By speaking this utterance, you cause the earth to tremble and quake violently. This utterance functions as an earthquake spell. Personal Truename: If a personal truename is used to speak this utterance, the area of the spell becomes a 40-ft-radius spread and the save DCs for all of the Earthquake’s effects is increased by 5.

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ENERGY VORTEX

Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of a place as part of this utterance, the area of the utterance expands to fill the whole of the named region. For example, if you used the personal truename of the town of Mayfair as part of this utterance, the area of the utterance would include everything within the town limits of Mayfair.

Level: 2 Descriptors: Acid, Cold, Electricity or Fire (depending on energy chosen) Duration: 1 minute

You fill the air around your foes with energy, dealing damage. You choose the type of damage to deal when you speak this utterance: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. Creatures in the affected area take 2d6 points of damage and an additional 2d6 points of damage at the beginning of each of their turns while they remain in the area. Personal Truename: If you speak a creature's personal truename as part of this utterance, that creature takes no damage from this utterance. Every personal truename included this way raises the Truespeak DC of this utterance by 2. If you instead speak the personal truename of the location, only those you deem enemies take damage from this utterance.

SHIELD OF THE LANDSCAPE Level: 1 Duration: 1 minute

You can temporarily create or remove natural obstacles that provide cover. Any natural object in the area that you designate withers and shrinks. Objects that provided total cover now provides only cover, and any object that provided cover no longer does so. Further, you can create small outcroppings of cover behind which you and your allies can hide. You can cause any square of natural terrain in the area, such as earth or unworked stone, to sprout stalactites, large rocks, small trees, or other obstacles that provide cover to anyone standing in that square but do not hinder movement through those squares. After this utterance's duration expires, the affected natural obstacles resume their normal shape and position. Personal Truename: If you speak a creature's personal truename as part of this utterance, the effects of this utterance "follow" the creature around while it remains in the affected area. If the creature is an enemy, he finds any natural cover he attempts to use reduced, but only so long as he is using it as cover. If the creature is an ally, cover sprouts in any natural square that creature occupies or passes through, disappearing once he leaves the square. Every personal truename included this way raises the Truespeak DC of this utterance by 2. If you instead speak the personal truename of the location, you can change which squares are reduced and which squares are sprouting cover as an immediate action.

FOG FROM THE VOID Level: 1 Duration: 1 minute

This utterance functions as a solid fog spell, except as noted. Personal Truename: If you speak a creature's personal truename as part of this utterance, that creature is not slowed down by the fog, nor does it suffer a penalty on attack and damage rolls from the fog. It is, however, no more able to see through the fog than normal. Every personal truename included this way raises the Truespeak DC of this utterance by 2. If you instead speak the personal truename of the location, only those you deem enemies are slowed and penalized by the fog.

LORE OF THE WORLD Level: 2 Duration: 1 minute Area: 20-ft.-radius spread centered on you

SHOCKWAVE Level: 1 Duration: Instantaneous

This utterance allows you to speak with objects in the area as though you were under the effects of a stone tell spell, except you can speak with any object in the area, not just stones. In addition to the information provided by that spell, you can tap into the knowledge of the land directly, providing you with the exact distance and direction to a location you seek within one mile. You must know the name of the place you are trying to locate to use this aspect of the utterance. If multiple locations exist within the area that match the name you of the place you seek, the spell gives you the direction and distance to the closest one. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of a place as part of this utterance, the utterance gives you directions to that location as the find the path spell. This aspect of the utterance works regardless of how far away the truenamed location is from your current location.

This utterance causes a violent shockwave of energy to ripple through the affected area. Creatures in the area take 5d6 points of nonlethal damage and are knocked prone. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of the targeted area as part of this utterance, this utterance deals 10d6 points of nonlethal damage instead of 5d6.

SKYWARD EYE Level: 1 Range: See text Duration: 1 minute Area: 20-ft.-radius emanation

MASTER OF THE FOUR WINDS

You describe a place in the language of the universe and suddenly a vision of that location is revealed to you. This utterance allows you to both see and hear everything within the affected area for the duration, although you cannot see beyond that area. You can target any place you know the location of, regardless of distance or line of effect. Personal Truename: If you speak a creature's personal truename as part of this utterance, this utterance's area is

Level: 1 Duration: 1 minute Area: 100 ft. radius cylinder 40 ft. high Range: 200 ft.

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which squares are being smoothed as a free action for the duration of the utterance.

automatically centered on that creature's current location. The area does not move with the subject, however. If you instead speak the personal truename of a place, you can see and hear everywhere within that location, all at once. The magic of this utterance allows you to comprehend all of this information at the same time. This replaces the utterance's normal area.

TRANSPOSITION OF LOCATION Level: 2 Range: 60 ft; see text Duration: 1 minute Area: One 20 ft. cube

SPEAK ROCK TO MUD

The area you target with this utterance trades places with an equivalently shaped area at the location you name. Any creatures caught or objects completely contained within either of the two areas travel with their respective area to the new location instantly. The maximum distance the two areas can be exchanged over is up to 100 miles per rank of Truespeak you possess. At the end of the duration, the two areas return to their natural locations, again taking any creatures or objects completely contained within either area with them. Creatures and objects that have been brought in to either area are transported, but not creatures or objects that have been removed from either location. However, due to the exacting detail with which you must describe the two locations to be exchanged, this utterance is not always accurate. There is a base chance of 30% that the utterance will instead swap with a location similar to the one you had intended. This chance decreases by 5% for every 2 points by which you exceed the base Truespeak DC needed to speak this utterance. If this utterance does target a similar area, the area that is actually exchanged will be visually or thematically similar to the location you were attempting to swap with, such as arriving in an alchemist's lab or a library when attempting to swap with a room from a wizard's tower. This alternate location will usually be about (1d10 x 1d10% of the total distance you had originally wished to cover) off course from your intended destination, but can be greater if no similar location is that near. For example, if you had intended to translocate your location with one 2000 miles away and rolled a 1 and 2 on the d10s, you would find yourself roughly 40 miles off target, provided a similar location can be found that near. The sudden removal or interposition of a location's features magically applies no effect to surrounding areas. For example, transposing the wall out of a building does not damage the structure in any way, leaving no mark or seam once the utterance ends, transposing a section of ocean into a lake of lava will not cause the water to boil nor the lava to solidify, and transposing a section of ground with a section of sky will result in a section of ground hovering mysteriously in midair. Objects and creatures not fully contained within either area are not transported. If they could not coexist with the newly transposed location, for example a ship with a section of water beneath it suddenly transposed with solid rock, the creature or object is shunted to the nearest open location without harm. This utterance can only transpose locations on the same plane of existence; it cannot work between planes. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of a place as part of this utterance, the location you target is transposed with the named place with no chance of inaccuracy and across any distance. This still does not allow the utterance to work across planes of existence.

Level: 1 Duration: 1 minute

This utterance functions as a transmute rock to mud spell, except as noted here. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of the targeted area as part of this utterance, the duration of this utterance becomes instantaneous, causing the produced mud to never reverts back to stone.

THWART THE TRAVELER Level: 3 Duration: 1 minute

This utterance functions as a dimensional lock spell, except as noted here. Personal Truename: If you speak a creature's personal truename as part of this utterance, the creature is exempt from the utterance's effect. Every personal truename included this way raises the Truespeak DC of this utterance by 2. If you speak the personal truename of the location and expend 4000 XP, the duration of this utterance becomes permanent.

TRANSFORM THE LANDSCAPE Level: 2 Duration: 1 minute

You can cause natural terrain in the area, such as earth or unworked stone, to buckle and crack, making it more difficult to pass through. Any such square in the area that you designate becomes difficult terrain. This difficult terrain does not obscure line of sight or provide cover. Further, you can smooth an area of natural difficult terrain, eliminating penalties to movement or skill checks the terrain would normal impose. Eliminating difficult terrain does not eliminate terrain features that provide cover. For the purposes of smoothing difficult terrain, light rubble, dense rubble, and undergrowth all count as difficult terrain when using this utterance. After the utterance's duration expires, the affected terrain returns to its normal shape and position. Personal Truename: If you speak a creature's personal truename as part of this utterance, the effects of this utterance "follow" the creature around as long as it remains in the affected area. If the creature is an enemy, he finds any square of natural terrain that he passes through to be difficult terrain, as the ground cracks and breaks just as he steps onto into it and then smoothes out as soon as he leaves. If the creature is an ally, natural difficult terrain smoothes as he moves through it and returns to normal as he leaves. Every personal truename included this way raises the Truespeak DC of this utterance by 2. If you instead speak the personal truename of the location, you can change which squares are being made difficult terrain and 49

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by 10, and otherwise functions as normal (although knowing the demiplane's truename can be used to enhance any other utterances you know from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map used inside).

Level: 4 Duration: Instantaneous Area: Up to four 5-ft cubes.

Your words cause an entire new plane of existence to spring into being, to be shaped as you will. This utterance can only be used on the Astral Plane or inside of a demiplane. When spoken on the Astral Plane, you cause a new demiplane to come into being, with a permanent two-way gateway connecting to it opening at your current location. The demiplane is a functionally infinite, lightless, gravityless expanse initially empty of anything except breathable air, but it does possess whatever elemental, energy, or alignment traits you wish. The demiplane always has the normal time trait, meaning that time passes in the demiplane at the same rate as time passes on the Material Plane. The demiplane is always alterably morphic and has the normal magic trait. When used inside a demiplane you own, it instead creates, destroys, or alters some aspect of your demiplane. A demiplane's owner is the one who created it in most cases. This utterance can do one of the following each time it is spoken:

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Create or destroy earth, stone, or water in its area. This cannot create valuable or rare materials, such as gold, rubies, uranium, holy water, or adamantine, although you could add those yourself later.

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Set the direction and strength of gravity in its area. The gravity can be no gravity, light gravity, normal gravity, or heavy gravity. You choose which direction is considered "down" in any particular square.

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Set the level of light in its area. This can be bright illumination, shadowy illumination, or darkness. Areas of bright illumination shed shadowy illumination into adjacent squares.

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Suppress or reinstate a planar trait in its area. For example, if you created a demiplane that was fire dominant and strongly good-aligned, you could suppress the fire dominant trait in a particular place, preventing creatures there from taking fire damage, or you could suppress the strongly goodaligned trait, preventing evil and neutral creatures from taking Charisma penalties while in that part of the plane. This is only an "on" or "off" decision. You cannot instate a new planar trait, nor can you merely lessen a planar trait (such as majorly positive dominant to only minorly positive dominant).

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shrub, flower, or other plants you may wish. You cannot create rare or valuable varieties of vegetation with this, such as darkwood or black lotuses. Personal Truename: If you speak the personal truename of a demiplane when you use this utterance, you can take ownership of the demiplane from its current owner. If the previous owner is deceased, gaining ownership is automatic, otherwise you and the current owner make opposed character level checks. Whoever wins becomes the owner of the demiplane. The loser cannot attempt to retake control of the demiplane for 24 hours. If you are speaking this utterance on the Astral Plane, you can give the newborn demiplane a personal truename of your choosing. Doing so increases the Truespeak DC of this utterance 50

echoing within it. The container has AC 13, 1 hit point, hardness 1, and a break DC of 12.

TRUENAME MAGIC ITEMS Truenamers are not known for their skill with artifice and cannot make any of the more standard magic items, such as potions, wands and scrolls, so truename magic items tend to be fairly rare when compared to the magic items created by wizards, sorcerers, and artificers. Still, some magic items created through truename magic achieve effects that are outside the capabilities of ordinary magic items.

Activation: Unstopping or throwing a bottled echo requires no special skill. Using a bottled echo is a standard action. Affecting yourself if automatic, but affecting another creature requires a successful ranged touch attack to throw the bottled echo. A bottled echo has a range increment of 10ft. If the touch attack fails, use the "Missing with a Thrown Weapon" table to determine where the bottled echo lands. A qualified creature within 5 feet of where the bottled utterance is affected (if more than one qualified creature is within 5 feet, choose randomly). Otherwise, the bottled echo is wasted. Using a bottled echo provokes attacks of opportunity. A bottled echo can be used only once. Saving throws against a bottled echo are made at a DC of 10 + 1/2 the number of hit dice the bottled echo could affect + the utterance's level.

Truename magic items always carry an aura of universal magic. Truename magic items do not have a minimum caster level. Instead, they have a minimum number of ranks in Truespeak (abbreviated TR) required to create them, which serves as their caster level for any purpose requiring such.

BOTTLED ECHOES A bottled echo is a glass bottle containing the echoing words of an utterance. The sounds of the utterance echoing can be faintly heard through the glass if one presses his ear to the bottle. Bottled echoes are like utterances targeting whomever is nearest when the bottle is opened. The character affected by the bottled echo doesn't get to make any decisions about the effect - the truenamer who bottled the utterance has already done so. For example, a bottled echo of reversed energy negation is always designed to deal one type of energy damage chosen by the creator. Whoever is affected by the bottle echo is both the effective caster and the effective target, so some utterances have strange effects when made into a bottled echo, such as the singular mind utterance. Bottled echoes have two restrictions as to who they can effect. First, each bottled echo is designed to affect only a particular creature type, such as humanoid or outsider. Anyone that does not have that creature type cannot be affected by that particular bottled echo. Second, a bottled echo has a maximum CR that it can affect. Anyone with a greater CR cannot be affected by that utterance.

Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Weak to strong universal. TR varies. Market Price: 25 gp x the maximum CR the bottled echo can affect x the level of the stored utterance Creating a Bottled Echo: The creator of a bottled echo needs a quiet place to work (to reduce possible contamination of the sound), a container to hold the utterance, and special salves and oils to treat the container with to ensure the proper preservation of the utterance. The costs for these materials are subsumed in the cost for creating the bottled echo - 12.5 gp x the maximum CR the bottled echo can affect x the level of the bottled utterance. All ingredients used to create the bottled echo must be fresh and unused. The character must pay the full cost for creating each bottled echo. Only utterances from the Lexicon of the Evolving Mind can be made into bottled echoes. The creator must know the utterance to be stored in the bottled echo. If the utterance carries an XP cost, he must pay that XP cost. The creator chooses which creature type the bottle echo will affect when he creates the bottled echo. The maximum CR that the bottled Echo can affect can be up to the creator's number of ranks in Truespeak.

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You can create a bottle echo incorporating a personal truename, but the bottled echo becomes useless against anyone but the named creature. It still can only affect the named creature if the creature's CR is less than the CR limit on the bottled utterance. Using a personal truename does not affect the cost of a bottled echo.

100 XP (lesser) or 400 XP (greater), 3 days (lesser) or 10 days (greater). Weight: Price: 2,500 gp (lesser) or 10,000 gp (greater) Inscription of Namebane An inscription of namebane makes a weapon more deadly against a single creature. Description: A namebane weapon is carved with sharp-edged runes of hatred towards a single creature. Prerequisite: An inscription of namebane can be added to any weapon. Activation: A namebane weapon's ability only applies against a single creature, chosen at the time of the weapon's creation. It's ability activates whenever it is used to attack that creature. Effect: Against its designated foe, a namebane weapon's effective enhancement bonus is +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus (so a masterwork longsword is a +2 longsword against its foe). It deals an extra 2d6 damage against its foe. Bows, crossbows, and slings so crafted bestow the namebane quality upon their ammunition. Anyone in possession of a namebane weapon receives a +4 circumstance bonus on Knowledge rolls to research the personal truename of the weapon's foe. Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Moderate universal, TR 10. Construction: Engrave Inscription, must know the personal truename of the creature that the namebane will target, 5,000 gp, 400 XP, 10 days. Price: +10,000 gp

INSCRIPTIONS Inscriptions are a broad class of Truename magic items, functionally similar to wondrous items in most cases. Most inscriptions are a set of runic characters engraved upon some other object, although some are completely separate items themselves. Because of the exacting nature of Truespeak, much of the cost of creating an inscription is actually practice materials or waste caused by tiny flaws in execution. All inscriptions share one particular requirement. You must know the personal truename of whatever it is you are putting the inscription on, be it a sword, a parchment, or your ally. If an inscription acts as a weapon or armor special ability, it can be placed on any item of at least masterwork quality; the weapon or armor does not need to be at least +1 already. Amulet of the Silver Tongue An amulet of the silver tongue makes its wearer better able to pronounce words clearly and correctly. Description: An amulet of the silver tongue is a small circular amulet, most often made of silver, depicting a grinning face with an open mouth. Words of Truespeech relating to competence and clarity are etched around the edge. Prerequisite: The amulet functions for any creature, but only those with the Truespeak skill benefit from wearing it. Activation: An amulet of the silver tongue provides its bonus as long as it is worn. Effect: The lesser version of the amulet provides a +5 competence bonus on Truespeak checks. A greater amulet of the silver tongue grants a +10 competence bonus. Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Moderate universal, TR 10 (lesser) or Strong Universal, TR 15 (greater) Construction: Engrave Inscription, universal aptitude, 1,250 gp (lesser) or 5,000 gp (greater),

Namestone A namestone acts as a magical connection to a single creature. Description: A namestone is a glittering oval gemstone engraved with a single creature's personal truename. The type of gem used is usually one with some special association to its associated creature. Prerequisite: A namestone works for anyone, although those who cast spells or speak utterances derive the most benefit from possessing one. A namestone's powers all function only in relation to a single creature, chosen when the namestone is created.

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Activation: Noting a creature's direction using a namestone is a move action. All other powers are always active. Effect: A namestone has several effects. First, anyone can point unerringly towards the creature associated with the namestone. This only determines direction, not distance, but does ensure that you can always locate that creature, given enough effort. Second, any spell or utterance that targets one or more creatures can be cast on the namestone and affect the associated creature, so long as the associated creature is within 60 feet of the namestone. Spells requiring a touch attack or ranged touch attack automatically succeed in hitting the associated creature so long as the caster holds the namestone. Lastly, the namestone is inscribed with the associated creature's personal truename. Not only does this reveal the truename to anyone who examines the namestone, but anyone holding the namestone receives a magical +4 circumstance bonus on all attempts to speak that personal truename. Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Strong universal, TR 20. Construction: Engrave Inscription, confounding resistance, lore of the world, must know the personal truename of the creature that the namestone is to be associated with, 500,000 gp, 4000 XP, 100 days Price: 100,000 gp

utterance. The mark only works once and then is consumed. Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Moderate universal, TR 11. Construction: Engrave Inscription, rebuild item, 800 gp, 64 XP, 2 days. Price: 1,600 gp Inscription of Judgment An inscription of judgment makes a weapon more deadly against good or evil. Description: A weapon of judgment is decorated with runes inlaid with silver (for an inscription of holy judgment), or onyx (for an inscription of unholy judgment). Prerequisite: An inscription of judgment can be added to any weapon. When you add the inscription to the weapon, you choose which version to add. A weapon can bear only one inscription of judgment. Activation: You may activate a weapon of judgment on any attack as a free action. A weapon of judgment can be used once per day. When activated, the runes on the weapon glow brightly with silvery or reddish light. Effect: When a weapon of judgment is activated, it becomes charged with holy or unholy power for one attack. If the attack hits, the wielder receives a bonus on his damage roll equal to his Hit Dice, but only if the creature attacked is evil (for an inscription of holy judgment) or good (for an inscription of unholy judgment). Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Moderate universal (good or evil), TR 9. Construction: Engrave Inscription, incarnation of angels, 3600 gp, 288 XP, 2 days. Price: +7,200 gp

Mark of Wholeness A mark of wholeness protects an object from destruction. Description: A mark of wholeness is a black, inked design on an object, composed of various words of Truespeak associated with completeness and solidity. Prerequisite: A mark of wholeness works on any object it is inscribed on. Activation: A mark of wholeness activates immediately upon an object losing its last hit point or otherwise being destroyed. It glows a bright copper color, then fades away to nothingness. Effect: A mark of wholeness restores the object it is scribed upon to complete wholeness the moment that the object is broken, as the rebuild item

Tattoos of Sure Defense Tattoos of sure defense help a creature better defend itself. Description: Tattoos of sure defense are a series of truespeak characters tattooed across much of a creature's upper torso, spelling out sutras of foresight and safety. Prerequisite: Any creature can bear tattoos of sure defense, but the tattoos only function for the creature they were created for. Further, once a creature receives the tattoos, they cannot be removed by any means short of a regeneration spell 53

cast for just such a purpose. The subject must be willing for the tattoos to be removed, as removing the tattoos destroys them. Body Slot: Armor/Robe (Wearing a suit of magic armor or a magic robe on top of the tattoos suppresses their effect in favor of the armor or robe.) Activation: Tattoos of sure defense are always active. Effect: A creature bearing tattoos of sure defense receives an untyped bonus to Armor Class from +1 to +4, depending on the quality of the tattoos. Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Weak to strong universal, TR (5 x bonus). Construction: Engrave Inscription, defensive edge; 2,000 gp, 160 Xp, 4 days (+1); 8,000 gp, 640 Xp, 16 days (+2); 16,000 gp, 1440 Xp, 36 days (+3); 32,000 gp, 2560 Xp, 64 days (+4); The creature to be tattooed must be present for the entire length of construction. Price: 4,000 gp (+1), 16,000 (+2), 36,000 (+3), 64,000 (+4)

be tattooed must be present for the entire length of construction. Price: 240,000 gp Inscription of Sharp Blows An inscription of sharp blows causes a weapon to deal more damage on a critical hit. Description: A weapon of sharp blows is has a tracery of runes along its edge or striking surface. Such weapons usually seem to be unnaturally sharp or unusually heavy (although this does not add to the weapon's actual weight). Prerequisite: An inscription of sharp blows can be added to any weapon. Activation: A weapon of sharp blows' ability becomes apparent whenever the weapon scores a successful critical hit. The runes briefly flash white as they strike. Effect: A weapon of sharp blows has its critical multiplier increased by 1. (For example, a longsword of sharp blows would deal x3 damage on a successful critical hit) Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Moderate universal, TR 13. Construction: Engrave Inscription, keen weapon. Price: +1 bonus

Slave's Brand A slave's brand makes a creature your unwilling servant. Description: A slave's brand is tattoo that entwines the truenames of the bearer and his intended master with truenames associated with servitude and command. Prerequisite: A slave's brand can only be placed on a creature, though that creature need not be willing. A slave's brand only functions on the creature it is created for. Once a creature receives a slave's brand, it cannot be removed by any means short of a regeneration spell cast for just such a purpose. Removing the slave's brand destroys it. Activation: A slave's brand activates whenever the creature's master issues the subject a spoken command. Effect: A creature marked with a slave's brand must succeed on a DC 20 Will Save whenever issued a command by his master or be forced to carry out that command as though dominated (as the spell dominate monster). The effect lasts until the command is fufilled, the slave's brand is removed, or the master dies, whichever comes first. Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Strong universal, TR 20. Construction: Engrave Inscription, singular mind, 120,000 gp, 9,600 XP, 240 days; The creature to

Amulet of Another Name An amulet of another name protects you from some Truespeech effects by temporarily replacing your personal truename with another. Description: An amulet of another name is a rectangular silver plate on a thin chain. The plate is inscribed with a unique personal truename, as well as other truenames that define it to be the wearer's own. Prerequisite: An amulet of another name can be worn by any living creature that possesses a personal truename. Body Slot: Neck Activation: An amulet of another name is active as long as it is worn. Effect: While a creature wears an amulet of another name, it has a different personal truename than normal. Its original personal truename still exists, but attempts to use it to affect the creature wearing the amulet fail. The creature's original personal truename returns if the amulet is removed for any reason. 54

Anyone speaking the personal truename inscribed on the amulet affects the creature wearing it as though he had just spoken that creature's personal truename. The DC to research the personal truename on the amulet is the same as to research the amulet's personal truename (although the two personal truenames are completely separate; researching one does not reveal the other). Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Major universal, TR 20. Construction: Engrave Inscription, 50,000 gp, 4,000 XP, 100 days. Price: 100,000 gp

utterance for as long as the book remains in their possession, regardless of their level or ranks in Truespeak. Further, he can reshape the Material Plane as though it was his own demiplane. As a final benefit, anyone in possession of the Book of Genesis gains a +10 circumstance bonus on Knowledge checks to research personal truenames and no-one is considered obscure to the possessor for the purpose of researching their personal truename. The Book of Genesis is inextricably linked to the Material Plane. All attempts to remove the book from the Material Plane, including attempts to store the book in an extradimensional space, fail automatically. Scholars of Truespeak theorize that destroying the Book of Genesis or otherwise removing it from the Material Plane would have disastrous consequences. Aura/Truespeak Ranks: Major universal, TR 23.

ARTIFACTS Connected as it is to the fundamental nature of the universe, it is no surprise that some of the most powerful artifacts in existence are tied to the power of Truenaming. In addition to the Book of True Binds and the Tome of Truenaming, the following are artifacts associated with Truespeech: The Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis is thought to be the origin point for the whole of the Material Plane. Description: The Book of Genesis, as its name would suggest, is a book, about a foot long and about eight inches in width but over a foot thick. The book is bound in age-darkened leather and its pages are covered in writing using the language of Truespeak. The pages towards the front of the tome are yellowed and crumbling with age, while those towards the back are new, the ink almost still wet on the page. The Book of Genesis has so far proved impervious to all attempts to destroy it or its pages. Only age can destroy any page from the book, but as soon as one page crumbles to dust, a new page appears at the back of the book, already covered with writing. Prerequisite: Only those that can speak at least one utterance can read the Book of Genesis. Activation: Using the words of creation ability of the Book of Genesis is a standard action. All other effects of the book are continuous. Effect: Before anyone can tap into the power of the Book of Genesis, they must first spend a week studying its pages. Once that week is complete, they gain the ability to use the words of creation 55