World of Ere: Preview: The Soulbound

Preview: The Soulbound
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SOULBOUND TRAITS

Role: Striker
Power Source: Discarnate
Key Abilities: Charisma, Constitution, Wisdom

Armor Training: Cloth, leather, hide
Weapon Proficiencies: All simple melee, simple ranged and martial spears and polearms.
Implements: Reliquaries
Bonus to Defense: +1 Fortitude, +1 Will

Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + Constitution score
Hit Points per Level Gained: 4
Healing Surges: 6 + Constitution modifier

Trained Skills: From the class skills list below, choose four trained skills at 1st level.
Class Skills: Acrobatics (Dex), Arcana (Int), Athletics (Str), Bluff (Cha), Diplomacy (Cha), Heal (Wis), History (Int), Insight (Wis), Nature (Wis), Perception (Wis), Religion (Int).

Build Options:
Class Features:

Implements
Soulbound can use reliquaries as implements to direct their powers. A soulbound wielding a magical reliquary can add its enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls of soulbound powers as well as soulbound paragon paths, that have the implement keyword.

Soulbound Class Features
All soulbound share these class features.

Spiritual Ally
Not long after you first discovered the basic rudiments of your powers, you made contact with a creature native to the well of souls. This being might be a nature spirit, the shade of a human that died in times long past, a forgotten small god, or something even more abstract.

Whatever it’s nature, your spiritual ally is an intangible, insubstantial entity that resides in the Spirit World, but can observe and be observed on the material plane as long as it remains within five squares of you.

Your spiritual ally is essentially a separate character that cannot make attacks or interact with the physical world. Choose two of the following skills; Arcana, Diplomacy, Heal, History, Insight, Nature, Religion, or Streetwise; your spirit companion is trained in those skills and can make skill checks as if its level were equal to your own.

Choose one of the following Spiritual Callings detailed below. Your choice determines how you interact with your spirit companion; manifesting them bodily into the world or allowing them to possess your body and meld their will with your own these come in the form of the manifest spiritual ally and spiritual merge class features. Your choice also determines one of your at-will powers and grants you an Ensouled Power. Your choice also provides bonuses to certain soulbound powers as detailed in those powers.

Spirit Manifester
You channel your power to create a physical form for your spiritual ally, allowing them to work their powers on the material plane.
Manifest Spiritual Ally: You gain the manifest spiritual ally class feature.
Ensouled Power: Whenever you hit with an implement power, you may shift 1 square as a free action.
At-Will Attack power: You gain the otherword chill at-will attack power. Choose your second at-will power as normal.

Spirit Vessel
You open your body’s defenses and allow your spiritual ally to infuse you with their knowledge, power and expertise, becoming a warrior the likes of which the world hasn’t seen in ages.
Manifest Spiritual Ally: You gain the spiritual merge class feature.
Ensouled Power: When you are not wearing heavy armor, you add your Wisdom modifier to AC instead of your Intelligence or Dexterity modifier.
At-Will Attack power: You gain the discarnate strike at-will attack power. Choose your second at-will power as normal.

Anima Drain
Once per round, as a minor action, you may designate one enemy within 5 squares of you as the target of your Anima Drain. The first time the target of your Anima Drain takes damage in that round, the target takes an additional 1d6 necrotic damage per tier. If the target is undead, it takes radiant damage instead. You can designate one target of your Anima Drain at a time.

Soulbound Powers

Class Features

Manifest Spiritual Ally
Soulbound Class Feature

You use your own soul as a focal point, drawing your spiritual ally out of the Spirit World to manifest in the material plane.

At-will • Conjuration, Discarnate
Minor Action - Close burst 10
Effect: You conjure your spiritual ally into an unoccupied square in the burst. The spirit lasts until you fall unconscious or until you dismiss it as a minor action. The spirit occupies 1 square. Enemies cannot move through its space, but allies can. When you take a move action, you can also move the spirit a number of squares equal to your speed.
The spirit can be targeted by melee or ranged attacks, although it lacks hit points. If a single melee or ranged attack deals damage to the spirit equal to your Charisma modifier + one-half your level or higher, the spirit disappears, reverting back to it’s insubstantial form, and you take damage equal to the damage dealt to the spirit. Otherwise, the spirit is unaffected by the attack.

While your spiritual ally is manifested, soulbound implement powers use it as the point of origin when determining range.

Spiritual Merge
Soulbound Class Feature

You call your spiritual ally into your own body, making their combat prowess your own.

At-will • Discarnate
Minor Action - Personal
Effect: Your spiritual ally disappears and merges its soul with yours. You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls with powers with the Weapon keyword and can shift 2 squares as a move action instead of 1 while this power is active. If you take damage equal to 10 + one-half your level, this power ends. Otherwise, this power remains in effect until you fall unconscious, take a short rest, or dismiss it as a free action.

Level 1 At-Will Secrets

Beatific Stance	Soulbound Attack 1
Memories of another lifetime cause you to end your attack with perfect poise, ready
At-will • Discarnate, Weapon Standard Action - Melee or Ranged weapon Target: One creature Attack: Wisdom vs. AC Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage. Until the start of your next turn, gain a +1 power bonus to AC and Reflex Defense. Miss: Wisdom modifier damage. Increase damage to 2[W] and +2 power bonus at 21st level.

Ghost Flash	Soulbound Attack 1
A swift attack from your spiritual ally sends your foe staggering blindly.
At-will • Discarnate, Implement Standard Action - Close burst 1 Target: One creature in burst. Attack: Charisma +2 vs. Fortitude Hit: 1d10 + Charisma modifier damage and slide the target 1 square. Increase damage to 2d10 at 21st level.

Discarnate Strike	Soulbound Attack 1
You channel your force of will into your strike, tearing at the anima of your foe.
At-will • Discarnate, Weapon, Necrotic or Radiant Standard Action - Melee or Ranged weapon Target: One creature Attack: Wisdom vs. Will Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier + Charisma modifier necrotic or radiant damage. Increase damage to 2[W] at 21st level.

Otherworld Chill	Soulbound Attack 1
Your spiritual ally calls up the wracking cold between this world and the next to stagger your foes.
At-will • Discarnate, Implement, Cold Standard Action - Ranged 5 Target: One creature Attack: Charisma +2 vs. Fortitude Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier and the target is slowed until the start of your next turn. Increase damage to 2d8 at 21st level.

Level 1 Encounter Secrets

Anima Consumption	Soulbound Attack 1
You spiritual ally siphons the target’s animating energy and channels it into you.
Encounter • Discarnate, Implement, Healing, Necrotic or Radiant Standard Action - Ranged 5 Target: One creature that is currently the target of your Anima Drain. Attack: Charisma +2 vs. Fortitude Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier radiant or necrotic damage and you regain hit points equal to the damage dealt. Effect: The next time the target takes damage from your Anima Drain, it takes an additional 1d6 damage.

Phantom Arrow	Soulbound Attack 1
You fire a single arrow, which is tailed by a ghostly arrow. Combined, they sap both body and soul.
Encounter • Discarnate, Weapon Standard Action - Ranged weapon Target: One creature Attack: Wisdom vs. AC (two attacks) Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage. If both attacks hit, the target takes 5 ongoing damage (save ends) resistance does not reduce this damage.

Projected Weapon	Soulbound Attack 1
The ghostly, more ornate image of your weapon drives forward into an enemy that thought he was out of range.
Encounter • Discarnate, Weapon Standard Action - Ranged 5 Target: One creature Attack: Wisdom vs. AC Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage and the target is dazed until the start of your next turn. Miss: Wisdom modifier damage.

Wind Between Worlds	Soulbound Attack 1
Your spiritual companion exhales a gout of the eerie stillness that separates the living world form the spirit world, placing your foe into a fugue.
Encounter • Discarnate, Implement Standard Action - Ranged 5 Target: One creature Attack: Charisma vs. Will Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier damage and the target is weakened until the start of your next turn.

Level 1 Daily Secrets

Cut the Life Strand	Soulbound Attack 1
You disrupt your foe’s life force, temporarily killing them.
Daily • Discarnate, Implement Standard Action - Ranged 5 Target: One creature. Attack: Charisma +2 vs. Fortitude Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier damage and the target falls prone and is immobilized (save ends)

Solarius Raide	Soulbound Attack 1
Swinging your blade, you carve out a conduit directly connected to the Well of Souls. The blast of spiritual energy tears into your foes on both this plane of reality and the next.
Daily • Discarnate, Weapon Standard Action - Close burst 3 Target: All enemies in burst Attack: Wisdom vs. Will Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier + Charisma modifier damage and push the target a number of squares equal to your charisma modifier. Effect: Push the target 1 square.

Phantom Step	Soulbound Attack 1
You attack, then sink into the space between this world an the next, reappearing unexpectedly for a second attack.
Daily • Discarnate, Weapon Standard Action - Melee or Ranged weapon Target: One creature Attack: Wisdom vs. AC Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage. Effect: Immediately after making the attack teleport up to your speed and make a secondary attack. You have combat advantage against the target of this second attack. Secondary Attack: Wisdom vs. AC Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage.

Soul Render	Soulbound Attack 1
Your spiritual ally surrounds the target with ghostly thorns that tear into his metaphysical form.
Daily • Discarnate, Implement Standard Action - Ranged 5 Target: One creature Attack: Charisma vs. Will Hit: 3d6 + Charisma modifier damage. If the target is the target of your Anima Drain, it takes 5 ongoing damage until the end of the encounter, or until it is no longer the target of your Anima Drain.

Level 2 Utility Secrets

Boon of Manna	Soulbound Utility 2
You take a foe’s anima into yourself, reinvigorating your own body.
Encounter • Discarnate Immediate Reaction - Close burst 5 Trigger: A target of your Anima Drain within range takes damage from it. Effect: Spend a healing surge and gain additional hitpoints equal to the damage dealt by your Anima Drain.

Otherworldly Splendor	Soulbound Utility 2
Your spiritual ally clothes you in regalia formed form light from the Well of Souls. Those who behold you weep at your beauty.
Encounter • Discarnate Free Action - Personal Effect: Reroll a Diplomacy or Streetwise check you just rolled. You must use this power after the roll was made, but before the DM reveals the result of the roll.

Manifest From Spirit World, Form 1	Soulbound Utility 2
With the aid of your spirit companion, you draw a physical object out of the Spirit World and onto the material plane.
At-will • Discarnate, Conjuration Move Action - Personal Effect: You conjure a mundane object weighing no more than five pounds into your hand, or onto the ground at your feet. This object has resist all 20, but is functionally identical to any other mundane object of the same type. Any creature handling the item is immediately aware of it’s otherworldly nature. The object remains for one hour or until you dismiss it as a free action. You cannot have more than one such object at a time.

Anima Shield	Soulbound Utility 2
You transform stolen anima into solid spiritual energy, protecting you form all forms of attack.
Encounter • Discarnate Immediate reaction - Personal Trigger: A creature takes damage from your Anima Drain. Effect: Gain a +2 bonus to all defenses until the end of your next turn.

Level 3 Encounter Secrets

Augment Celerity	Soulbound Attack 3
Infused with energies provided with your spirit companion, you unleash a flurry of ferocious blows.
Encounter • Discarnate, Weapon Standard Action - Melee or Ranged weapon Target: One creature Attack: Wisdom vs. AC (three attacks) Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage Effect: You may shift 1 square after each attack.

Shatter Svadisthana	Soulbound Attack 3
Your spirit companion directs you to spiritual seat of the enemy’s enthusiasm for battle, Allowing you to deal a vicious blow to their morale in addition to their flesh.
Encounter • Discarnate, Weapon Standard Action - Melee or Ranged weapon Target: One creature Attack: Wisdom vs. AC Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage and make a secondary attack roll. Secondary Attack: Wisdom vs. Will Hit: The target suffers a -2 penalty to attack and damage rolls (save ends).

Ego Crush	Soulbound Attack 3
Your spirit companion brings the weight of the world beyond down upon the enemy’s shoulders, shocking them with their own insignificance.
Encounter • Discarnate, Implement Standard Action - Ranged 5 Target: One creature Attack: Charisma vs. Will Hit: 2d10 + Charisma damage and the target is stunned until the end of your next turn.

Sigil of Discarnate Might	Soulbound Attack 3
A rune of strength is drawn in the air above in brilliant light. Spiritual powers used beneath it are augmented.
Encounter • Discarnate, Implement, Zone Standard Action - Close burst 2 Target: All enemies in burst Attack: Charisma vs. Will Hit: 2d6 damage Effect: The burst creates a zone in its area. Whenever a creature takes damage from an effect with the discarnate keyword, or from Anima Drain, it takes additional damage equal to your charisma modifier. The zone lasts until the end of your next turn. Sustain Minor: The zone persists.