Creation Sphere

You may alter all unattended non-magical objects in a 10-foot radius around yourself. You may only affect objects half the size of your usual maximum. If you spend a spell point, you may alter objects up to your normal size limitation as per your caster level and increase the radius to 20 feet. You may choose any number of materials that you can create within this area to be affected. (For example, you may choose to Destroy a stone wall while leaving the wooden dresser resting against it unharmed.)

If you possess Distant Creation, you may center this effect anywhere within range. If you possess Potent Alteration, when spending a spell point to alter bigger objects in a larger area, you may alter up to one attended and/or magical object for every 4 caster levels you possess that remains within the size limitations of the effect in addition to other objects in the area.

When creating an object and dropping it on a target at the same time, the falling object never deals half damage for distance, no matter how short the fall, and only needs to fall 75 feet to deal double damage. Additionally, you may create an object and hurl it sideways or even upwards, making attacks with it in a manner similar to a projectile ranged weapon. When used in this way the weapon does not deal increased damage for distance fallen, but has a range increment of 40 feet when determining range penalties, determined from the location where it is created. If it is created adjacent to yourself, you may use Dexterity instead of Intelligence as normal when calculating your ranged attack bonus.

When you create an object, you may create the object anywhere within close range, and the object needs to be completely contained within medium range. When you alter a target, you may do so with a ranged touch attack with a maximum range of close. You may select this talent multiple times. Each time it is taken, increase all of these ranges by 1 step (close to medium, medium to long).

When creating an object, you may instead create multiple objects within range. Each created object must be of the same general type (suits of armor, wall sections, catapults, etc.), and the total size of all created objects cannot exceed your maximum creation size. Alternatively, you may create a single ‘object’ that would normally consist of a multitude of parts (i.e., if creating a tavern with this talent, it would appear with chairs, beds, barrels, etc.).

Just as two Small objects counts as a Medium object and two Medium objects counts as a Large object, two Tiny objects count as a Small object, two Diminutive objects count as a Tiny object, etc. You may drop multiple objects as an attack, but each object must target a different square (up to 4 objects that are Tiny or smaller can target a single square, but any attack roll is done once for each object). A creature may be targeted only by as many falling objects as could target any square or squares the creature occupies.

Alternatively, you may attempt to drop enough small objects to bury a target, creating a cave-in or a similar effect on top of them. This deals damage as normal for a single falling object of whatever material is chosen, but also has the chance of burying the target as if the dropped material were a soft material such as cloth.

Author's Note: Creation sphere can target larger creatures with more objects than smaller ones, but this has always been viewed as an abuse of the sphere's effects for the "sake of realism". GMs should heavily consider limiting the number of objects which can target a single creature to 4 objects, regardless of the creatures actual size. Larger creatures should not be taking unusually larger amounts of damage than a smaller foe would under the same circumstances.

GMs may consider allowing Creation sphere to use the rules as written use of Divided Creation, but treat the interaction as though it were an advanced talent, understanding that allowing this interaction greatly increases Creation sphere's damage against a single large target.

Items you create are more intricate, and much harder to identify as fakes. The DC 15 limitation on how high skill checks can reach is removed, allowing you to attempt skill checks of any difficulty. When making skill checks to create especially expensive and difficult objects you may use your casting ability modifier in place of your Intelligence for the Craft check, and the DC becomes 10 + 1 per 5 gp in its cost to a maximum of 50 gp, or DC 20 + 1 per 200 gp in its cost if its cost is above 50 gp.

Additionally, you may add your caster level to the Appraise DC required to detect objects you create as magical fakes. Those attempting to detect magic on your created objects must attempt a magic skill check to detect any lingering creation auras.

As a standard action you may touch a small container of liquid and instill an alter effect inside it, which functions as an oil. Effects that do not cost a spell point have their cost increased to 1 spell point when used in this manner.

An instilled liquid remains potent until you rest to regain spell points. If you have equipment on hand (such as an alchemy lab), the cost of bottles and water is considered negligible.

You may target food but not an already-magical item, such as a potion. All spell points must be spent and all variables of the sphere effect must be chosen at the time the instilled liquid is created. You cannot instill multiple effects in a single liquid, nor create multiple instilled liquids with a single action.

You may spend an additional spell point when altering or creating an object to double the size, letting you alter or create up to the equivalent of 2 Small objects (1 Medium object) per caster level.

When you alter or create an object, you may spend a spell point to make the object or effect remain for 1 hour per caster level without concentration.

You may create water even if you do not possess Expanded Materials.

When attempting to create a liquid, you can treat 5 cubic feet as a Small object. By spending an additional spell point when using create to fill an area with a non-harmful liquid, you may instead treat a full 5-foot cube (125 cubic feet) as a Small object.

Increase the amount of damage dealt or damage healed when you use your Destroy or Repair ability to 1d6 + your caster level.

When altering an object, you may spend an additional spell point to affect magical objects, attended objects, or constructs. While this means you may Repair damaged or destroyed magical items, you cannot restore the magic to such an object unless your caster level is at least equal to the item’s caster level. Items with charges (such as wands) and single-use items (such as potions and scrolls) cannot be Repaired in this way.

If used against an attended object, this requires a touch attack, and the creature attending the object can attempt a Will save to negate. If used against an animate object, this is a touch attack but does not grant a saving throw. If the object or object’s wielder is unwilling, they are also allowed a Fortitude save to halve the damage (in the case of Destroy) or otherwise negate the effect.

You may increase the casting time of any create effect by 1 step to reduce the spell point cost by 1 (to a minimum of 0). An object created through Practiced Creation can only be maintained through concentration.

When using your Destroy alter ability, you may target the moving components of a lock in lieu of targeting the whole lock, allowing you to disable it without destroying the entire device. When attempting to disable a complex device or lock you may attempt Disable Device checks as if it was a class skill using your caster level in place of skill ranks and your casting ability modifier in place of Dexterity. Doing so requires a standard action, regardless of how long a typical Disable Device check would take. If you possess Potent Alteration you may spend a spell point to disarm magical traps.

By spending an additional spell point when you create an object less than half of your maximum size, you may delay your creation so that rather than create a single object once, it creates a multitude of identical objects over time. The total size of all created objects cannot exceed double your create maximum size. You must set a parameter when this effect is created for when and where within range the items are created; (for example, creating a new arrow in a quiver whenever the previous arrow is removed, or dropping a new anvil each round onto a target location, determined at the time of casting). This continues for the duration of the create effect or until the maximum size (or another non-standard limit) has been reached, whichever comes first. A replication effect cannot create more than 1/4th of its maximum size in a single round, and cannot drop items on or encase a single target multiple times in the same round. Using this talent allows the create effect to persist for 1 minute per caster level without concentration at no additional cost.

When attempting to create a cage that occupies the same space as a creature, you may spend an additional spell point to create a full-body confinement cage. Treat a 1-inch thick cage created in this fashion as an object the same size as the creature. The target may still breathe and may still attempt Strength checks to escape, but are otherwise unable to attack the cage or take any action which requires physical movement. If spikes or harmful materials are applied to the inside of such a full-body confinement cage, the target suffers damage each round they remain inside the cage.

Additionally, you may create non-harmful objects directly on a creature. An unwilling target is always entitled a Reflex save to avoid having an object created directly on them, causing the object to fall harmlessly to the ground. (For example, you may create manacles on a target’s wrists, but if they succeed at a Reflex save the manacles miss and fall to the ground.) When using this talent, create becomes subject to spell resistance.

^{Source: Expanded Spheres: Baron's Lost Apocrypha}

As a standard action, you may make a single weapon attack in conjunction with using an alter effect. This casting cannot be reduced below a standard action, and does not provoke attacks of opportunity, unless as usual if making a ranged attack. If the target is struck by the attack, it is also affected by the alter. If using a scatter weapon, the alter only applies to a single target, chosen at the time of attack.

You may spend a spell point to alter an object, changing its composition from one material to another for 1 round per caster level. Both the material you are affecting and the material you are changing it into must be materials you can create (i.e., you must possess the Expanded Materials talent to work with objects other than vegetable matter) and the object cannot exceed your maximum creation size, although you may target part of an object (such as a section of wall). When the duration expires, the object returns to its normal material, although any damage sustained while altered remains after it returns to its original material.

Wiki Note: Change Material cannot change states of matter. The State Shift advanced talent is required to change solids into liquids, etc.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Debilitating Talents 2}

You may spend a spell point to disrupt the ground around you. This is an instantaneous effect, and cannot be dispelled once finished. You can only affect materials you can create (i.e., you must possess the Expanded Materials talent to work with materials other than vegetable matter). You cause terrain in a 10-foot radius to suddenly crack and break, making the squares difficult terrain. This radius increases by 5 feet per 5 caster levels. A square can be cleared as a standard action, which provokes an attack of opportunity, or repaired with a spell or effect such as the Repair ability of the Creation sphere to no longer be difficult terrain. If a square would be made of a mineral (stone, metals, gems, etc.), the radius you may affect is reduced by half.

If you possess Distant Creation, you may center this effect anywhere within range.

You may spend a spell point to shape material. This is an instantaneous effect, as you are literally changing the shape of the material in question (i.e., it has no duration, and cannot be dispelled once finished). You can only affect materials you can create (i.e., you must possess the Expanded Materials talent to work with materials other than vegetable matter), and you may only make crude changes such as forming walls, trenches, doors, coffers and other basic shapes. Detailed work (such as forging armor) is not possible, and there is a 30% chance that anything with moving parts simply does not work. You may affect targets up to your normal creation size, but when working with a mineral (stone, metals, gems, etc.) the size you may affect is reduced by half.

You may alter an object’s size for 1 minute per caster level. When using alter you may cause any object you may affect to increase or decrease by 1 size category. This doubles or halves the object’s height and width and multiplies or divides its weight by 8.

By spending a spell point, you can increase the number of steps you may enlarge or shrink an object by 1 + 1 per 5 caster levels (to a maximum of Colossal and a minimum of Fine). Effects which depend upon a target object’s size which would not function due to size alterations are automatically suppressed, continuing to count down their duration as normal, when the object no longer meets the size requirements.

Worn items affected by Magnify/Minimize impede their wearer. Magical armor and clothing made too large or small make movement difficult and treat the wearer as if they were encumbered with a heavy load. Non-magical worn equipment made too small forces the wearer to attempt a Strength check (with a +2 bonus per size category change of the equipment) against the Break DC of the object. Success destroys the object while failure results in encumbrance as if it was a magical item. Non-magical equipment made too large may encumber the target or simply fall to the ground if made 2 or more sizes too large. Other effects of similar severity may occur at the GM’s discretion.

If cast on a qualifying creature using Potent Alteration, the target creature gains the same adjustments as if the Size Change Alteration talent had been used on them to adjust them to the target size.

You can spend one spell point to manipulate how rigid an object is. You cannot alter an object that is larger than you can create and the normal restrictions apply. This talent has no effect on gases or liquids, or creatures without hardness as a defensive ability.

Increasing an object’s rigidity improves its hardness by up to 1 per two caster levels (minimum +1), but decreases its hit points by 2 per inch per point of hardness increase, as the object’s structure becomes harder, but is in turn more prone to shattering. Objects cannot be reduced to less than 1 hit point (walls cannot have less than 1 hit point/inch of thickness), and the bonuses to hardness stop when the minimum amount of hit points is reached.

Decreasing an object’s rigidity lowers its hardness by up to 1 per 2 caster levels (minimum -1), but increases its hit points by 2 per inch per point of hardness lost, as the object’s structure becomes more flexible, but it is no longer as able to resist damage as the original. Objects cannot be reduced to a hardness lower than 0, and the bonuses to hit points stop when the minimum hardness is reached. This effect lasts for one minute per caster level.

If you possess Lengthened Creation you may use it to extend the duration as normal. You may affect a created object with rigidity with the same action used to create the object.

You may convert any material into a more transparent version of itself as long as you concentrate for up to 1 minute per caster level, but you may always spend a spell point to allow the effect to remain without concentration for its maximum duration.

This does not affect the object’s composition, hardness, or have any effect other than offer a clear view through the object. The object may be of any size of which you can create or, if larger, may be as large as a two square feet per caster level that can penetrate up to 1 foot of material per caster level.

You may choose to affect the object’s opacity in a way that allows peering through an object while remaining unobserved from the other side. When used in this way, Perception checks through the object suffer a -4 penalty, but it requires a DC 15 Perception check to notice that the object is see-through from the other side. If you possess Exquisite Detail, the penalty to Perception decreases to -2 and the Perception DC to notice that the object is transparent increases by your caster level. If you possess Lengthened Creation you may use it to extend the duration as normal. You may affect a created object with transparency with the same action used to create the object.

By spending an additional spell point when you create an object, you may work with material with basic acidic properties. You may create acidic liquids (3 cubic feet equals a Small object, and is enough to cover a 5-foot square).

If used to coat an object, this deals 1d6 acid damage per round to any target that is touching the object. If used to coat the ground, this counts as a form of hazardous terrain, and deals 1d6 acid damage per 5 feet of movement a creature makes across the affected ground. If applied to an object that is dropped on a target or used to make attacks, this deals +1d6 acid damage. You may coat an object in acid with the same action used to create that object.

When creating acid, you may attempt to spray or drop the acid in a way that covers a target. Attempting to cover a target in acid requires acid equal to the target’s size, or double if you wish to spray both the target and cover the ground underneath it. Targets may attempt a Reflex save to avoid being covered in acid, and if they fail, suffer 1d6 acid damage +1d6 per 2 caster levels, per round. Targets may attempt one new Reflex save every round as a move action to clean away the acid and end the effect. They may also clear away the acid as a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity without requiring a saving throw.

Acid loses its potency and deals only minimum damage after 1 round per caster level. If you possess Lengthened Creation, this improves to 10 minutes per caster level.

If you possess Gaseous Generation you may create acidic gases. These follow the rules of Gaseous Generation for determining volume, but at half the normal size. This acidic gas deals 1d6 acid damage per round, and an additional 1d6 damage for every four caster levels beyond 1st. When an acidic gas loses its potency it is dispersed entirely.

You may create items that require processing, such as alchemical items and poisons. You may spend 1 spell point to create an alchemical item or poison worth up to 25 gp per caster level. This functions exactly as the normal alchemical item or poison, except that any DC is 10 + your casting ability modifier + 1/2 your caster level and any hit point damage it deals is increased by your casting ability modifier. These alchemical items or poisons remain for the normal duration of a created object, at which point they disappear as usual (but any effects inflicted on creatures or objects remain). You may also alter mundane alchemical items or poisons up to a maximum value of 25 gp per caster level, enhancing their potency in the same way for the normal duration, at which point the items return to their normal damage and saving throw DC. This does not stack with other effects that increase the item’s DC.

At 5th caster level and every 5 caster levels thereafter, the total value you may alter or create increases by an additional 25 gp per caster level, according to Table: Alchemical Creation.

If you possess Divided Creation, you may create any number of alchemical items or poisons whose total value is no more than half the maximum value you may create and whose total size is less than or equal to your maximum size (with each alchemical item or poison counting as a Small object), but only one object created this way increases its saving throw DC and damage. All others retain their base, non-magical statistics.

If you possess Plasma Production, then any time you create an alchemical weapon that includes a fuse as the method of activating it (such as with a fuse grenade and its variants, or fireworks), you may create it with the fuse pre-lit. This allows you to treat the weapon as if you had used it as provided in its description. (For example, creating a fuse grenade with this option causes the grenade to explode in 1d4 rounds.) You cannot create or alter poisons or formulae from the Alchemy sphere (see Spheres of Might), as those mixtures are simply too unstable.

When you create an object, you may work with any non-harmful material with a hardness of 5 or less, including glass, ice, or leather. You may create water (3 cubic feet equals a Small object), but not gases or flesh. As you gain caster levels, you also gain the ability to steadily make more materials, as detailed in the table below. When creating objects made from stone, gems, or metal, double the maximum weight per size category of the objects you can create.

Note: Objects of stone or harder materials deal double damage when dropped on a target.

Slippery Ice: You may create hazardous ground made from slick ice, as detailed under the Freeze ability from the Nature sphere.

By spending a spell point when you alter or create an object, you may work with gaseous materials. You may create gases or change their composition into any other known substance with Change Material. A 5-foot cube equals a Medium object. Half a cube equals a Small object, but this decreases the DC of any created gaseous effect by 2 and halves any damage from harmful gases for any creature within that space. You must have line of sight to accomplish this, and as such cannot alter the air in a creature’s lungs or other, similar situations.

As you gain caster levels, you also gain the ability to make more dangerous gases as detailed in the table below. Vacuums cannot be altered or created, and gases cannot be destroyed by damaging effects. Creatures standing in a square filled with unbreathable air must hold their breath or suffer the effects of suffocation, following the normal rules for doing so.

A half-filled square of non-transparent gas obscures sight beyond 10 feet. Any creature behind more than 10 feet of squares half-filled with a gas has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). A square filled with a gas obscures sight beyond 5 feet. A creature within 5 feet has concealment and creatures further away have total concealment (50% miss chance and attackers cannot use sight to locate the target). If a square is filled with a condensed gas (by treating a single square as a Large object) it obscures vision as above and is difficult to move in, halving movement speed of all creatures within it as well as imposing a -2 penalty to melee attack and damage rolls, preventing normal ranged attacks (siege weapons and magic attacks function normally), and treats anyone standing in a harmful gas as if they were exposed to it twice. (For example, taking double damage from acidic vapors, or two doses of poison from poisonous fumes.)

A moderate wind (11+ mph) disperses any altered or created gas in 4 rounds. A strong wind (21+ mph) disperses the gas in 1 round.

Note: The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is not designed to be a perfect simulation of reality, and attempting to interject real-world physics and chemistry into it is often disastrous. As such, the gases that may be altered or created have been simplified from what their real world counterparts would be. If you wish to create a more specific gas, you are encouraged to discuss the matter with your GM - its effects should not exceed those of the gases normally available at your caster level.

You may create solid objects made of force energy. Any solid object (such as something that could be created from wood) can be created out of force, but objects made from force have no weight (see the Lighten talent from the Enhancement sphere), however, if you choose you may ‘anchor’ an object of force, cause it to become immovable from the place it was created, even floating in the air. If broken through damage or a successful Strength check, objects of force immediately disappear. Objects of force stop the movement of incorporeal creatures and can be used to harm them and other creatures vulnerable to force effects. Objects of force possess 10 hit points per inch and a hardness equal to your caster level. An object of force can be any one color and is translucent but easily noticeable, and require no Perception check to see while imparting a -2 penalty to Perception checks to see through them. If you possess Transparency you may make the object invisible (requiring a Perception check to detect with a DC equal to 10 + their size modifier + your caster level) or entirely opaque without spending an additional spell point, chosen at the time of its creation.

Author's Note: Creation sphere effects made with this talent have the force descriptor.

You may alter or create non-magical fires with your normal limitations on size, as if it were an object. When creating objects, you may create the object already on fire. Flaming objects deal 1d6 fire damage to any creature who touches the object, such as by having it dropped on them or used as a weapon against them. You may also light the terrain on fire or summon burning materials as a form of hazardous terrain. This behaves and deals damage as a fire created by the Nature sphere instead of as normal for hazardous terrain. A fire that has insufficient fuel quickly burns itself out if not maintained through concentration.

In addition, you may spend a spell point to create non-magical electricity. However, with no battery or other way to store electricity, the energy quickly dissipates. Electricity must be generated directly on a creature or object (not simply in a square) and instead of being calculated by size, is instead calculated by its charge, with 1 charge being equal to a Medium object. If used on a battery or other electrical storage object, the charges are stored safely. If used on any other creature or object, it instead deals 1d6 points of electricity damage per charge to the creature or object (Reflex negates). If the creature or object is made from a conductive material such as flesh or metal, targets touching the electrified creature or object (including touching the same body of water) are also affected, but the electricity loses 1d6 for every 10 feet the electricity must travel to reach these targets from the specific square designated as the center of the electricity (for example, if electrocuting a metal floor, all targets touching the floor would be affected, so long as they are close enough the damage is not reduced to 0).

The charge deals damage again each round at the beginning of your turn, with the charge reducing by 1 each round. If affecting a creature or their attended objects, they may ground themselves or the object as a move action, harmlessly dissipating any charges that remain. Creating electricity is an instantaneous effect, and you cannot create an object charged with electricity as you can create an object on fire.

Repairing plasma restores it to the size (for fire) or stored energy (for electricity) it had in the previous round. This allows a fire to retain its size indefinitely without fuel so long as it is repaired every round. Destroying a plasma reduces its size or stored energy by 1 size category or 1d6 points of damage for every 5 points of damage dealt to it.

If you use Change Material to turn an object into a plasma which dissipates entirely before the duration expires, then the object is destroyed when it regains its normal form. Otherwise, when the duration expires, the object reverts to its previous form with no apparent difference or damage that was not preexisting.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Duplicate (advanced), Fleshcraft (advanced, material)), caster level 10th.
When you use Duplicate to create a replica of a creature (which may only be an unliving body resembling the creature if you do not possess the Bestow Life advanced talent), you may spend a spell point to create a sympathetic link with the creature that the duplicate is modelled after. This link may take one of the two following forms.

• Redoubled Pain: Whenever the duplicate takes damage from any source, the original person takes an equal amount of damage unless they succeed at a Fortitude save. In addition, when you use a magic sphere ability, you may target the duplicate to affect the creature it was made from, allowing you to affect them regardless of distance or line of sight. The sympathetic link makes the creature immediately aware of the incoming effect and allows them to defend against it without being surprised, even if asleep, though they are not made aware of the magic’s precise nature or source. The creature is allowed a Fortitude save to negate the effect regardless of whether the effect would normally allow a save. After conveying magic 1 + 1 time per 10 caster levels, the duplicate crumbles and becomes useless. The first time that such a Fortitude save against this ability succeeds (regardless of if damage or a magic effect is applied), the original creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. This link does not function across planes. Whenever a creature is affected by this ability, they know the general direction towards their duplicate.
• There Can Be Only One: If the duplicate and the original creature come into physical contact with each other (which can occur when a successful touch attack is made by the duplicate or using the duplicate), the duplicate is instantly destroyed and the original creature takes 1d8 points of untyped damage per caster level (Fortitude save for half).

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Expanded Materials (material), Lengthened Creation, either [Change Material (alter), Forge (alter) and Permanent Change (advanced)] or [Create Materials (advanced)]), caster level 15th.

You may spend 5 additional spell points when using Create Materials or Permanent Change to permanently create valuable raw materials, including gems, precious metals (such as gold or silver), and rare metals (such as cold iron or mithral). When using this talent your caster level is halved for determining the quantity of material that can be created.

Note: This talent can be unbalancing for a game, and GMs should consider its role in their setting before allowing it to fall into player hands. However, if handled correctly, this talent can lead to interesting interactions between players and setting. For example, the players might flood a market with rare jewels only to find their value plummets as the market floods. This applies to the selling of a mass amount of mithral or adamantine as well. Also remember that towns have a maximum buy value and attempting to sell items that exceed this value cannot be done.

Additionally take note of how this talent could affect the world at large outside of PC hands. If many high level Creation casters exist, then normally rare materials might be commonplace in the setting, their rarity long since diminished by industrious casters, or perhaps the materials are not naturally occurring at all and the few mages with the ability to create them charge a fortune for their use, keeping their prices high. This ultimate secret of Creation might even be passed down only among those of a certain order, limiting the talent’s availability to a select few, like medieval guilds, with well guarded, secret recipes whose methods could be lost.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Lengthened Creation), caster level 10th.

You may spend 2 spell points to create raw materials. This is an instantaneous effect; you create the material as self-evident normal material, and thus it cannot be dispelled and has no duration. You cannot create complex items, i.e., you may create walls, battlements, ramps, or domes, but cannot create catapults, armor, or a complete building in this manner, although the material may be crafted as any other material after it is summoned.

If you possess the Fabricate advanced talent, you may permanently create any object you could normally create, provided you succeed on an appropriate Craft check first.

You can summon any material you may create, with the exception of gems, precious metals (such as gold or silver) or rare metals (such as cold iron or mithral), unless you possess Costly Creation (see above for further information).

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Exquisite Detail), Enhancement sphere (Bestow Intelligence (enhance)), caster level 5th.

You may create a statue or similar object which is a perfect likeness of yourself or another creature, even if you could not ordinarily succeed at a Craft check to create an object of that complexity.

This statue may be any size you choose, to a maximum of the largest object size you could create. An object created this way is still a statue, and while details can be as close to accurate as possible, the object is not mistaken for a real creature without additional disguises.

When you enhance a target using the Bestow Intelligence talent to grant an object intelligence, you may spend an additional spell point to grant the target object an imprinted duplicate of your mind. The target gains all your mental traits and quirks, such as your memories and mannerisms. This allows the target to use either its normal skill ranks and modifiers, if it possesses any, or your skill ranks and modifiers, whichever is better. The target does not gain any other abilities because of this effect. The target’s starting attitude is friendly towards you, as normal, and the target is aware of the circumstances of its sentience and how you created it, but its attitude may change.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Potent Alteration).

You may spend a spell point when using Destroy on a non-magical, unattended object. The ability does not deal damage and instead simply disintegrates as much as a 10-foot cube of nonliving matter.

When targeting an attended non-magical object, magical object, or creature (by spending an additional spell point via Potent Alteration), you may spend another spell point to reduce the target to its component parts. The target is entitled to a Fortitude saving throw. Failure results in the target taking 2d6 points of damage per caster level that bypasses all hardness, resistances, and damage reduction. A successful save reduces this damage to the normal damage of the Potent Alteration talent.

If this damage reduces the creature or object to 0 or fewer hit points, it is entirely disintegrated.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Exquisite Detail), caster level 5th.

You may touch a single object and, as a full-round action, create a perfect duplicate of the object either in your hand or an adjacent square. The object is an exact replica in every way, and the only way to tell the object is not the original is the lingering Creation aura surrounding the object. You must be able to create all of the materials included in its construction, otherwise the object created is crafted from materials you can create and colored to appear like the original, which could give away the ruse. Magical items duplicated are always non-magical but otherwise flawless imitations. If you possess Create Materials, you may spend an additional 2 spell points to duplicate the object as an instantaneous effect, in which case it has no lingering Creation aura.

If you possess the Fleshcraft and Bestow Life advanced talents, you may create a duplicate of a target creature. This duplicate appears to be the same as the original, but it has only half of the real creature’s levels or Hit Dice (and the appropriate hit points, feats, skill ranks, and special abilities for a creature of that level or Hit Dice). You must attempt a Disguise check when you cast the spell to determine how good the likeness is (you may use your caster level in place of your ranks in Disguise). If you possess Exquisite Detail you may add your caster level as a bonus to this check, even if you use your caster level in place of your ranks in Disguise. A creature familiar with the original might detect the ruse with a successful Perception check (opposed by the caster’s Disguise check) or a DC 20 Sense Motive check to get a hunch something is wrong. The duplicate creature is not under your control, though it recognizes you are its creator and functions as a faithful companion, as described under the Bestow Life talent. Creating a duplicate in this manner costs 1 spell point + 1 additional spell point for every 3 Hit Dice of the duplicate creature and you may not create a duplicate of a creature with more Hit Dice than your caster level. These duplicates are incapable of growing in power, but otherwise age as normal (if made permanent with Create Materials). No magical effects affecting the target are duplicated.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Forge (alter)), caster level 10th.

When using your Forge talent, you may spend an additional spell point to produce items of great detail. You must succeed at the appropriate skill check to make complex items and work at a rate of 1 round per 10 cubic feet when working in this manner. You can only work with a material which you can create.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (any (material) talent), caster level 10th.

You may create and alter flesh as you would other materials. While you may craft from flesh (hardness 0, 2 hit points per inch) and bone (hardness 5, 10 hit points per inch) as you might any other material, this also means you can create the body of a creature. Created bodies are not alive, and you must attempt a Disguise check if attempting to create a copy of a specific individual. You may also alter a body, although you must spend an additional spell point to alter a living creature (Fortitude negates). You may create a permanent body through the Create Materials talent.

If used in conjunction with the Change Material talent to affect a living creature, this does not kill the target; however, they do not appear to be alive for effects that would detect such things, and they may be injured as any other object. When returned to normal the creature is still alive (provided they were not destroyed in this alternate form), but any injuries or deformities gained in their altered state carry over to their original forms.

If you possess the Forge talent, you may sculpt a creature’s body in one of the following ways:

• You can remove or restore an arm, leg, or tail. While technically you can add a limb to a creature that was not missing one, these extra limbs are too weak to hold things or be used to attack.
• You may remove or restore a sense: sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.
• You may attack the target’s body, dealing 2d6 Constitution damage.
• If you possess the Fabricate advanced talent, you may change a creature’s appearance permanently. You attempt a Disguise check if mimicking a specific creature.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Duplicate (advanced), Exquisite Detail, Fleshcraft (advanced, material)), Enhancement sphere (Animate Object (enhance), Bestow Intelligence (enhance), Bestow Life (advanced)), caster level 15th.

You may use the Duplicate talent to create a living duplicate of a creature whose body you have access to (you do not need the full body, just a portion such as a hair or bone).

When you use the Duplicate talent to create a duplicate of a creature, you may create it such that the duplicate possesses all of the real creature’s Hit Dice rather than half. However, duplicates created with full Hit Dice are not faithful companions in the same manner as creatures awakened with Bestow Life. Rather, such creatures are initially indifferent to their creators and are created with a random alignment (roll on the following table to determine alignment). This roll should be done secretly, without the caster immediately knowing the alignment of their creation.

^{Source: Baron’s Uncanny Gateway}

Prerequisites: Creation Sphere (Potent Alteration), caster level 5th
You may alter an item such that another item’s magical properties can temporarily be imbued within it. As part of the casting, you can insert a single implement, apparatus, spell engine, marvelous item, magic wand, magic rod or magic staff into the altered item, after which the inserted item disappears inside the altered item. For the spell’s duration, a character wielding or wearing the altered item is also considered to be wielding (but not wearing) the item inserted into it. If the inserted item can be used to make attacks, you can attack normally with the altered item or use the altered item as if it were the inserted item.

If an effect created by the inserted item requires a melee attack roll to successfully strike a foe, you make the melee attack roll as if you were making an attack with the altered item, including any bonuses the altered item would normally receive to attack rolls. Doing so does not allow you to add the altered item’s damage to the attack but allows you to use any abilities which would improve the altered item’s attack rolls or reach to boost your chance of hitting with the stored item’s attack, spell, or effect. For example, if you have an entropic grip inside a +3 longspear, you can make the entropic grip’s touch attack through the longspear, adding the longspear’s enhancement bonus to the attack roll and its reach to the attack’s range.

At the end of the alter’s duration, the stored item is ejected from the altered item. If you have a free hand, you can catch the stored item as a free action; otherwise, it drops to the ground. If the altered item is broken or destroyed during the duration of this effect, the stored item is similarly broken or destroyed.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Battlefield Manipulation Talents}

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Distant Creation [range], Potent Alteration).

You may alter a target that you can detect (usually through divine) inside another object or creature or create an object that is inside another object or creature. The object must appear within the range of your alter or create ability. The creature or object (or the object’s owner, in the case of an attended object) is allowed a Fortitude save to negate this effect.

When an object is created or increased in size inside a target (as a result of this talent, the Magnify/Minimize talent, or some other effect), the target and the object take twice the amount of damage they would have taken if the object had fallen on them from normal height (for example, creating a Large object inside a target would deal 4d6 damage to both target and object). Any other damage alterations to a created object apply to this damage unless they would be the result of velocity. If an object is not at least two sizes smaller than the object or creature it was altered or created in, it is immediately ejected from its vessel and lands in an adjacent square.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Plasma Production (material)), caster level 10th.

You may create or alter lava and magma (3 cubic feet equals a Small object). Lava and magma count as a harmful liquid.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (any (material) talent, Change Material (alter)), caster level 5th.

You may spend a spell point to change a willing, touched creature’s skin into another solid material you can create as long as you maintain concentration to a maximum of 1 minute per caster level. You may spend an additional spell point to maintain this effect without concentration. If you possess Lengthened Creation, the duration of this ability is increased to 1 hour per caster level.

The creature gains damage reduction equal to the material’s hardness. This damage reduction is bypassed by adamantine as long as the material’s hardness is less than 20. Once this damage reduction has prevented a number of points of damage equal to the material’s hit points per inch per 3 caster levels the effect ends.

If you possess the Fleshcraft advanced talent, the effect increases, granting the target a +4 bonus to saving throws against diseases and poisons, and a 50% chance that any critical hit or sneak attack against the target is treated as a normal hit, as if the target were wearing medium fortification armor.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (any (material) talent), caster level 15th.

Add adamantine and any similarly incredibly rare material that is known to you, subject to GM discretion, to the list of materials you can create. Treat your caster level as 1/2 for determining both size and duration for effects involving adamantine and similar extremely rare materials. This can be done permanently with Costly Creation, though the penalty from both talents stacks when creating permanent incredibly rare materials.

Note: Metals and other materials similar to adamantine in rarity or power may not exist in all campaign settings. In these situations, the GM is encouraged to add any setting specific extremely rare materials not normally able to be affected by create/alter to the list of affected materials granted by this talent. The purpose of this talent is to allow access to even the rarest of materials, save for those that are divine in nature.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Acidic Creation (material)), caster level 5th.

You may create and animate an ooze creature. You must spend an additional spell point for every 4 Hit Dice of the desired ooze; you cannot create an ooze with more Hit Dice than your caster level or that is larger than you can create. The magic behind the ooze’s creation allows it to recognize you as its creator and obey basic commands such as “attack”, “defend”, or “move” and to follow them to the best of its ability, but it otherwise is a normal, mindless member of its kind and will act appropriately.

This ooze may be any un-templated creature of the ooze type or a unique creation subject to GM discretion. You may not control more Hit Dice of ooze than your caster level; if you create more than this, the earliest-created oozes no longer recognize you as their creator until you are under this limit again. Oozes can be made permanent through the Create Materials advanced talent.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Change Material (alter), Expanded Materials (material), Forge (alter)), caster level 10th.

When using your Change Material talent, you may spend an additional spell point to make the change an instantaneous effect; the change is permanent and cannot be dispelled. If used on a target in conjunction with the Change Material and Fleshcraft talents, another application of the Fleshcraft and Change Material talents can return them to normal for a limited time, but only another use of the Permanent Change talent or the use of the Make Whole advanced Life talent can permanently reverse this effect. You cannot create a permanent change involving gems, precious metals (such as gold or silver) or rare metals (such as cold iron or mithral), unless you possess Costly Creation.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Plasma Production (material)), caster level 5th.

When holding any object that could be reasonably used as a hilt or wielding a melee weapon you may spend a spell point to create in the space above the hilt or alter the weapon into a blade of plasma. The shape of the plasma can take any form you wish, but regardless of its form treat this weapon as an energy sword (see Equipment section) that you are proficient with that lasts for 1 round per caster level without concentration. You may spend an additional spell point when this duration expires to renew its duration as a free action. This duration can be extended by Lengthened Creation as normal. While the effect persists the energy blade can be turned off or on again by the wielder as a swift action.

You may spend an additional spell point as a swift action each round to increase the length and intensity of the ‘sword’ for 1 round. The sword’s damage increases by 1d10 (for a Medium energy sword) and an additional 1d10 for every 5 caster levels you possess beyond 5th. When enlarged in this way, the energy sword may threaten and make attacks at a reach of 10 feet or against adjacent targets at no penalty.

Prerequisites: Creation sphere (Change Material (alter)), caster level 10th.

When using Change Material, you may turn gases, liquids, and solids into either of the other two states. If you have Plasma Production you may also convert matter into a plasma and vice versa. This is a magical effect and the change in form itself has no additional effect on the condition of the target object, dealing no damage to it. When turning a solid into a liquid or gas the resultant object disperses as normal, but recombines when the effect ends and in the same location unless its component parts have been collected and moved elsewhere. If all pieces of an object are not present, the object still regrows from the largest remaining piece.

If a magical object is converted into a new form, its magical properties cannot be used unless they are still applicable to its new state of matter.

Prerequisites: Creation, caster level 1st.

You may spend 10 minutes to create enough bland food and drink to sustain a number of Medium-sized creatures equal to your casting ability modifier. If you possess Exquisite Detail you may create any normal assortment of food or drink using Profession (Cook) and gaining a bonus to this check equal to 1/2 your caster level. This is an instantaneous Creation effect that costs no spell points. Alternatively, you may use this ability as a standard action by spending 1 spell point.

Additionally, by spending 1 spell point, you may create or alter any one object with normal size and material limitations to be edible. The object becomes nutritious enough to sustain a number of creatures based on its total size, with a Tiny-sized object being enough for a Medium creature. The object is treating as having a hardness of 0 against bite attacks, and creatures that do not have bite attacks can bite it to deal 1d3 + 1/2 Strength modifier damage to the object. Objects in this way only retain this property for a limited period of time as normal for altering objects, but any part of the object that was devoured during this time is instantaneously converted into food. If you possess Permanent Change, you may make this an instantaneous effect by spending an additional spell point.