Life Sphere

When you use a Life sphere talent or ability on an ally other than yourself, you may spend one spell point to also give them an adrenaline surge. The ally may do one of the following as an immediate action:

• Make an attack at their highest base attack bonus
• Move their speed, provoking attacks of opportunity normally
• Make an Escape Artist check with a bonus equal to your caster level
• Draw, pick up, or ready a weapon or shield
• Stand up from prone

You may use this ability to surge multiple allies (other than yourself) at a time when you perform a Life sphere ability that affects multiple allies by spending a second spell point. Surges are resolved in initiative order.

When using cure you may invert the effect from positive energy to negative energy. This has no effect on undead and damages the living (Will half). This requires a melee or ranged touch attack against the target, and if used at range is considered a ray. This cannot be combined with Fount Of Life.

When using restore, you may choose to inflict conditions rather than remove them.

This also requires a melee or ranged touch attack. The creature must succeed at a Fortitude save or be exhausted for 2d6 rounds. If they succeed at their saving throw, they are instead fatigued for 2d6 rounds. Unlike regular fatigue and exhaustion, this condition ends as soon as the duration expires

If you possess certain other talents, you can change the effect from exhaustion or fatigue to something else, and possibly change the saving throw, as outlined below:

• If you possess Restore Capacity, you may cause the target’s limbs to not function correctly, making them entangled and reducing all movement speeds by half for 1d6 rounds (Reflex negates).
• If you possess Restore Health, you may make the target nauseated for 1d6 rounds (or sickened for 1d6 rounds on a successful save).
• If you possess Restore Senses, you may make the target confused for 1d6 rounds (Will negates).
• If you possess Restore Spirit, you may make the target incapable of receiving any magical healing, fast healing, or regeneration for 2d6 rounds (Will negates).

As a special application of restore, you may spend an additional spell point to remove all magic from the target that has a duration instead of restoring mind, body, or soul. This may be used against curses including cursed equipment, although it does not remove the curse from the equipment and instead suppresses the effect long enough for the item to be removed.

Instead of a saving throw, you must succeed at a magic skill check against each magical effect in order to remove it. You may choose not to remove certain effects if you so desire (for example, you may target only harmful effects and not beneficial ones). This counts as using the break enchantment or remove curse spell against those spells and effects that specify they can only be removed through those spells. This has no effect on other instantaneous effects.

As a standard action, you may make a single ranged or melee attack coupled with a Life sphere ability. 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 struck by the Life sphere effect. If using a scatter weapon, the effect only applies to a single target, chosen at the time of attack.

Your invigorate grants 2 temporary hit points per caster level instead of 1. Your cure heals an additional 1d8 hit points, +1d8 per 5 caster levels.

As a swift action, you can learn any conditions that are affecting a living creature (unconscious, dying, nauseated, panicked, stunned, poisoned, diseased, confused, etc.) within range of your Life sphere abilities.

By increasing the casting time of this ability to a standard action or by spending a spell point, you can learn the details of any condition they are under, such as whether they have been affected by a spell or the nature of any disease or poison they are afflicted with. You may use this on a deceased creature to determine how they died, so long as the target has been dead for no more than one day per caster level.

You may also use this ability on any ally that is currently under the effect of one of your Life sphere abilities regardless of range or line of effect (such as allies who currently possess temporary hit points from your invigorate ability), as long as they are on the same plane of existence. You always know the direction and distance to your ally.

You may restore others by taking on their injuries yourself. Doing so reduces the cost of the Life sphere effect by 1 spell point to a minimum of 0 spell points.

When you restore a creature empathically, you gain any conditions you removed from the creature as if you had been the one originally affected. Likewise, you gain any attribute drain or damage, or any negative levels they had. You may not transfer conditions that would kill you or render you unconscious, or conditions that are the result of ongoing effects (such as being shaken within a totem of doom). You may select which conditions to transfer and which to leave untreated.

If the effect causing the condition allowed a save, you do not get a new save, though any effects on you that would protect you from the condition still function for the duration you have them. If you already have that condition, any duration it may have adds to the duration of the condition you have, but otherwise you are unchanged.

If you use this talent to restore multiple creatures, the durations of conditions removed stack if possible, but do not otherwise worsen.

If you possess the Affliction talent, you may attempt to inflict others, rather than yourself, with a condition removed with the restore ability. You may use this ability in conjunction with restoring body or mind, but not soul. The target must be within range of your restore ability and you must succeed at a melee or ranged touch attack against them. Using Empathic Healing in this way increases the cost of restore by 1 spell point rather than reduces it. If successful, the creature targeted must succeed at a Fortitude save or they receive all the conditions you just restored, except for those they are immune to.

If you miss the target of your touch attack or they succeed at their saving throw, the restored creature is still restored. If this is used in conjunction with Mass Healing, multiple enemies can be targeted, but each enemy can only receive conditions transferred from one ally and each ally must have all their conditions transferred to a single target.

When you use your Life sphere abilities, you may choose for them to not be positive energy effects. Used this way, your Life sphere abilities can affect non-living creatures such as constructs or undead, though they do not work on inanimate objects. This does not allow you to harm creatures you could not harm before with positive energy.

Author's Note: If you possess the Esoteric Healing talent and use Affliction on a creature, that creature suffers positive or negative energy damage (whichever is more hurtful), or takes untyped damage if the creature would not normally be affected by either positive or negative energy (such as constructs).

You may store a cure within yourself, allowing you to access that healing as needed throughout the day. You spend a spell point and roll the damage healed as normal, except rather than healing by the given amount, that amount of healing is stored. You may store multiple cures in this manner to increase the amount of stored healing, but you cannot store more healing within you than 10 x your caster level. Stored healing is lost when you rest to recover spell points.

You may draw on this stored healing to heal targets exactly as if using your cure ability, except you do not need to spend a spell point; you may choose the amount of healing granted (to a maximum amount equal to your stored healing), and any healing granted to a target is subtracted from your stored healing.

When placing an invigorate on a target, add your casting ability modifier to the amount of temporary hit points granted, and increase the duration to 1 hour per caster level. You may spend a spell point when using invigorate to allow your invigorate to increase a target’s effective hit point total to reach beyond their usual hit point total, as is normal with temporary hit points. This means you may use this talent to grant an invigorate to a creature already at its maximum hit points.

When using your restore ability, you may spend an additional spell point to select two options when using restore instead of one (such as restoring both mind and soul). If you possess a talent that grants special applications of restore, you may also select from the granted special applications too.

As a standard action you may touch a small container of liquid and instill a cure, a restore, or an invigorate used in conjunction with the Greater Invigorate talent, or a use of the Affliction talent, which functions as a potion or oil. This cannot be augmented by the Empathic Healing talent.

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.

When you use cure or invigorate on a target, you may choose to delay its effects. You may apply effects that add additional hit points of healing at the time of the initial cure, such as additional hit points from Fount Of Life. At any point within 1 hour per caster level, the subject of the effect can trigger its effects as a swift action. A target can only be under the effects of one latent healing at a time.

Whenever you remove a condition completely from a creature using your restore ability, they are completely immune to that condition for 2 rounds. Being immune to a condition does not provide any additional defense against more severe versions of a condition, and they can not be made immune to a condition they did not have. This may not provide immunity to ability damage, ability drain, death, or negative levels.

Whenever an ally regains hit points from you using your cure ability, they gain DR X/- equal to 1/2 your caster level or the number of hit points regained (whichever is less) for 2 rounds. This is not compatible with any form of fast healing you may grant.

Whenever a creature benefiting from one of your (vitality) talents would lose its benefits due to taking damage from failing a saving throw or being hit with an attack roll, the benefits of the (vitality) talent lasts for 1 additional round before ending.

When using a cure, invigorate, or restore, you may spend an additional spell point to affect an additional 1 creature per 2 caster levels (minimum 1) at the same time. Each target must be within range and must be affected by the same cure, invigorate, or restore.

Whenever you invigorate a target, they are also healed of an equal amount of nonlethal damage. They are healed up to the maximum amount you can invigorate, even if this amount is greater than the number of temporary hit points you grant the target.

Your cure, invigorate, and restore abilities have a range of close rather than touch.

Author's Note: Life sphere abilities used at range no longer require a successful touch attack, unless otherwise specified (such as making an attack with your cure ability; hostile uses of abilities with attacks still need to make those attacks).

When using your cure or invigorate abilities on a target or targets, you may spend an additional spell point to restore them as well.

Your cure and invigorate abilities function on creatures who have died within no more than 1 round. If the target’s new hit point total is at a negative amount greater than its Constitution score, then it comes back to life and stabilizes at its new hit point total. Otherwise the target remains dead. Creatures brought back to life in this manner gain a temporary negative level.

You may choose for your cure to grant the target fast healing instead of directly healing damage. This grants the target fast healing 1 for 1 minute per caster level. Increase the amount of fast healing granted by the number of (cure) talents you possess. This no longer counts as cure for talents such as Fount Of Life or others.

You may take this talent a second time to increase the duration of the revitalize effect to 1 hour per caster level, but the effect ends early if the target is healed a total number of hit points equal to 10 x your caster level x (1 + the number of (cure) talents you possess). If a creature gains fast healing from another source (such as another caster using this ability), they may choose each round which they benefit from.

As a special application of restore, you may cause a creature damaged by positive energy to suffer 1d2 temporary negative levels for one hour per caster level (with no save instead of the usual Will save to negate), even if they are normally immune to negative levels. When used this way, this application of restore requires a touch attack or ranged touch attack, and is considered a ray.

The inflicted negative levels increase by 1 die size per 5 caster levels (1d2, 1d3, 1d4, 1d6, etc.). These levels stack, but do not destroy an undead creature if they have as many negative levels as Hit Dice. Instead, if a negative level would reduce the creature to 0 Hit Dice, the creature instead takes 4 points of Constitution drain (even if they are normally immune to ability drain) or Charisma drain if they have no Constitution score for the duration of the effect. A negative energy effect that causes negative levels can be used to remove these negative levels before they become permanent. If a negative level lasts longer than 1 day, the target must succeed at a Fortitude save per negative level or have the negative level become permanent.

You may spend an additional spell point to use your cure or restore ability on yourself as a swift action. You cannot use this to shorten an ability that has a casting time of more than a standard action, and you cannot affect any creature other than yourself with this ability. You may spend an additional spell point to do this even if you are normally unable to cast due to a condition you can restore.

In addition to its other effects, using invigorate immediately stabilizes a dying creature, and you may immediately attempt a Heal check as a free action to treat any bleed damage the creature is suffering from, with your Heal skill modifier for this check being your caster level + your casting ability modifier instead of your normal bonuses (if higher), as if using first aid.

By spending a spell point, you can use invigorate as an immediate action. If done in response to a creature taking damage, you may choose whether the temporary hit points are gained before or after the damage is taken.

Whenever you successfully hit a creature with at least half as many Hit Dice as your character level with an attack that requires an attack roll, you may spend an additional spell point to use a Life sphere ability as a swift action on any willing creature within range. If the attack was a critical hit, knocked the target creature unconscious, or reduced the enemy to 0 or fewer hit points, you may use the Life sphere ability without spending the additional spell point required to use this talent.

Whenever you would have damage dealt to you that is completely negated through damage reduction, energy resistance, or energy immunity, you may use a Life sphere ability as an immediate action on any willing creature within range. This sphere ability costs spell points as normal. You cannot benefit from this talent as a result of an effect dealing damage to you if you have previously used that effect to trigger this talent within the last minute (for example, if you negated fire damage from alchemist’s fire, you would only activate this ability the first time that particular instance of alchemist’s fire damaged you. You could activate this talent again if you negated damage from another vial of alchemist’s fire or a breath weapon that deals fire damage next turn).

Your cure ability heals an additional 1 hit point per caster level. As a special application of restore, you may restore a creature’s movement and physical capacity instead of restoring mind, body, or soul. This allows a target to make an immediate Escape Artist check with a circumstance bonus equal to your caster level against any applicable condition (for example, if it is entangled or grappled), and the target is cured of the stunned condition. This also removes the lessening of a target’s movement speed or removal of a movement type, or any other similar detriment such as the loss of the power of speech. If the target is under a spell or effect that causes paralysis, you may attempt a magic skill check against the spell or effect, removing the condition if you succeed.

Your cure ability heals an additional 1 hit point per caster level. When restoring a target’s body, the exhausted and nauseated conditions are completely removed rather than lessened, and you may attempt a magic skill check against the DC of any poison or disease the target is suffering from. On a success, this removes that poison or disease from the target. This does not reverse damage the target may have suffered from the poison or disease (such as ability damage), but it does stop the poison or disease from causing any more.

Your cure ability heals an additional 1 hit point per caster level. When restoring a target’s mind, the target is also cured of the confused and dazed conditions, and the frightened and panicked conditions are completely removed rather than lessened; as well as all temporary or magical removal of their senses. This includes blindness, deafness, loss of tremorsense, blindsense, etc.

If playing with sanity rules, this also cures 1d4 points of sanity damage.

If playing with the strain rules, this talent can restore 1d4 strain damage once per day (see 'Reducing Strain Damage').

Your cure ability heals an additional 1 hit point per caster level. When restoring a target’s soul, the target is cured of all ability damage, as well as all ability drain to one ability score of your choice. The target is also cured of 1 temporary negative level, +1 per 5 caster levels. This may also suppress a permanent negative level for 1 minute per caster level instead of curing a temporary negative level.

Your Life magic gives the target a fevered strength. This grants the target a +2 circumstance bonus on attack and damage rolls with weapon attacks.

Your Life magic instills the target with tranquility and harmony. This grants the target a +4 morale bonus to concentration checks.

Your Life magic makes your ally restless and full of energy, granting them a +30 feet circumstance bonus to all forms of movement.

Your Life magic alleviates the target’s worries, making them feel lighter. This causes the target to float up to 6 inches above the ground, allowing the target to ignore difficult terrain and ground-based hazards (such as caltrops).

^{Source: Baron’s Glorious Arena}

This (vitality) talent may only be applied to effects that remove negative levels, ability damage, or ability drain. For every 2 negative levels, 6 points of ability damage, or 4 points of ability drain removed, the target gains a cumulative +1 insight bonus on ability checks, attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks, to a maximum of +1 per 4 caster levels (minimum +1).

Your Life magic instills the target with stability and strength. This grants the target a +2 circumstance bonus to CMB and CMD.

Your ally receives a +2 circumstance bonus to AC and saving throws.

The recipients of your life magic are momentarily protected by your affection and care, the harsh effects momentarily stalled as your magic gently caresses them.

Prerequisites: Life sphere (Lingering Resilience), caster level 5th.

As a special application of restore, instead of removing a condition from the target, you grant the target a protective mark for 1 minute per caster level. The next time the target would be affected by a negative condition, the protective mark’s duration immediately ends and the target delays the onset of the negative condition for a number of rounds equal to 1/4 your caster level (minimum 1). A negative condition delayed by this effect must be one that could be removed with a restore sphere effect or the Break Enchantment talent; rounds spent delaying the negative condition do not count toward the negative condition’s duration (for example, a curse that lasts 5 rounds takes effect for a full 5 rounds, even if the target delayed its effect several rounds). A creature cannot have more than one protective mark from this talent at one time.

The spell point cost of a restore effect modified by this talent is reduced by 1 sp (minimum 0). If you spend an additional spell point, you may use this talent as an immediate action; however, the duration of a protective mark applied as part of a swift or immediate action is reduced to 1 round.

Special: If you possess the Life sphere Resurrection advanced talent, this talent may delay an effect which would immediately kill the target through non-hit point damage (such as some death effects); the target dies normally after this effect’s duration ends.

Prerequisites: Life sphere (Restore Health (cure), Revitalize), caster level 15th.

When you use the Revitalize talent on a creature, you may spend 2 additional spell points to make the creature exceptionally vital on a cellular level for the duration of the revitalization. Every cell of their body is so imbued with positive energy that they are no longer a single living being, but a collection of living cells creating a gestalt. Each individual cell can survive on its own and actively fights to keep the whole body functioning: blood will crawl back into the wounds that released them, broken bones will straighten themselves, and wounds will actively close and seal shut.

The hypervitalized creature gains the following benefits:

• Immunity to bleed, death effects, damage from positive energy effects, disease (magical and non-magical), paralysis, poison, sleep effects, aging effects, and stunning.
• Not subject to nonlethal damage of any kind. Immunity to damage or drain to its ability scores, as well as to exhaustion and fatigue effects. These do not protect the character from the results of their own abilities (such as nonlethal damage caused by the Draining Casting drawback) or voluntarily gained through helpful effects (such as the Overclocked talent).
• Immunity to any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless).
• The fast healing granted by Revitalize is upgraded to regeneration; severed limbs can be reattached to the body (and indeed, will try to reattach themselves if possible). The target is not at risk of death from massive damage, not disabled at 0 hit points, and at negative hit points is unconscious but stable, even if exceeding the Constitution score. It can only be killed if the body is deliberately destroyed, such as being immolated or disintegrated, or by allowing the effect to expire while at negative hit points greater than their Constitution score. Creatures that possess abilities that allow them to stay conscious at 0 or fewer hit points still fall unconscious if they would normally die from the amount of damage they have received.
• Does not need to breathe, drink, eat, or sleep.

Prerequisites: Life sphere (Break Enchantment, Restore Senses (cure), Restore Spirit (cure)), caster level 10th.

You may spend an additional spell point when restoring soul to remove one permanent negative level from the target in addition to the other effects. At caster level 15th, this removes all negative levels and spending an additional spell point also allows restoring soul to count as using a miracle or wish spell for those spells and abilities that specify they can only be removed by the use of these spells. This does not mimic any other benefits of a miracle or wish spell.

If playing with the strain rules, this talent also improves the Restore Senses talent's healing of strain to 3d4 once per day (see 'Reducing Strain Damage').

Additionally, they are healed of all broken bones, severed body parts (fingers, toes, hands, feet, arms, legs, tails, or even heads of multi-headed creatures), and ruined organs. This also restores sight, hearing, and other permanent loss of senses. If body parts to be reattached are not present, they require 2d10 rounds to regrow.

This cannot bring a creature back from the dead nor function on a creature that is already dead.

^{Source: Baron's Hallowed Archive}

Prerequisites: Life Sphere (Resurrection (advanced), Resuscitate)), caster level 10th

When you use the Resurrection talent, you may spend an additional spell point to bring back the spirit of the target dead creature into another body, provided that the subject’s soul is willing to return.

Since the dead creature is returning in a new body, all physical ills and afflictions are repaired. The condition of the remains is not a factor. So long as some small portion of the creature’s body still exists, it can be reincarnated. The magic creates an entirely new young adult body for the soul to inhabit from the natural elements at hand.

A reincarnated creature recalls the majority of its former life and form. It retains any class abilities, feats, or skill ranks it formerly possessed. Its class, base attack bonus, base save bonuses, and hit points are unchanged. If the reincarnated creature has an origin tradition, consult the rules for Reincarnated Origin Traditions.

^{Source: Baron's Hallowed Archive}

Prerequisites: Life Sphere (Reincarnation (advanced), Resurrection (advanced), Resuscitate), caster level 15th

When a creature within range of your cure dies, you may spend 2 spell points as an immediate action to resurrect the target with the Resurrection talent and reincarnate it as per the Reincarnation talent (paying the spell point and material costs of these talents as normal).

^{Source: Baron's Hallowed Archive}

Prerequisites: Life Sphere (Reincarnation (advanced), Resurrection (advanced), Resuscitate), caster level 20th

When you reincarnate a creature, for every 3 caster levels you posses, you may declare the result of a single roll made as part of the Reincarnated Origin Tradition (such as creature type, size, or allocation of origin bonus) or ensure that the reincarnated creature possesses a specific talent, variation, Generation Tradition boon, or Generation Tradition drawback.
In addition, for every additional spell point you spend, one of the following additional stipulations can be added to the reincarnation.

• Rebirth: Rather than their current age, the target returns to life as a newborn child, regaining all of their abilities (and potentially their memories) once they reach a specific age. This rebirth generally takes place somewhere in the world, though if a willing host, egg, or other gestative entity is present the host may have the target begin gestating in the listed entity.
• Otherworlder: The target is reincarnated on another world and possibly another plane, a realm completely divorced from the one in which the incantation is cast. It may eventually return to its original world through whatever means are available to it on the new world.

Prerequisites: Life sphere (Resuscitate), caster level 10th.

You may spend 3 spell points and 1 minute to bring a dead target back to life. A target cannot have been dead for more than 1 day per caster level, the creature’s body must be reasonably intact (i.e., it cannot be missing a vital component such as its head or heart), and the target’s soul must be willing to return (an unwilling target cannot be forcibly resurrected). The target is restored to full health and any ability scores drained or damaged to 0 are raised to 1, but otherwise, any conditions the target was under when it died return when it is raised (disease, poison, curses, etc.). A restore can be applied simultaneously with the resurrection to counteract these conditions.

Missing body parts are not restored, although the wounds are sealed and do not bleed. The target also gains two permanent negative levels when it is raised or suffers 2 points of Constitution drain for every negative level it would be reduced below 1st level. If this would reduce the target’s Constitution to 0 or less, it cannot be raised. You cannot raise a target that has died of old age.

Prerequisites: Life sphere (Break Enchantment, Make Whole (advanced), Restore Senses (cure), Restore Spirit (cure), Resurrection (advanced), Resuscitate), caster level 15th.

When you bring a target back to life with your Resurrection talent, they only suffer 1 permanent negative level, they may have been dead for up to 10 years per caster level, and they can be missing vital components; indeed, you need only a small piece of their body (a pinch of ash, a finger, etc.) to bring them back to life and fully restore their body to its complete form.

Prerequisites: Life sphere (Break Enchantment, Greater Resurrection (advanced), Make Whole (advanced), Restore Senses (cure), Restore Spirit (cure), Resurrection (advanced), Resuscitate), caster level 20th.

When you bring a target back to life with your Resurrection talent, they suffer no permanent negative levels, in addition to having all ability score damage and drain completely removed.

You may also resurrect creatures whose bodies have been destroyed completely, provided that you may specifically identify the deceased in some fashion. Additionally, you may spend an additional 2 spell points to also allow the Resurrection to count as using a miracle or wish spell for creatures that require such an effect to be resurrected, in addition to being able to resurrect creatures regardless of how long they have been dead for.

Prerequisites: Death sphere (Create Soul Gem (advanced)), Life sphere (Revitalize), caster level 5th.

When you use Revitalize, you may destroy a soul gem in your possession as part of creating the effect. This increases the fast healing from Revitalize to an amount equal to your caster level for a number of rounds equal to half the CR of the soul trapped within the gem, rounded down (minimum 0).

If you possess the Resurrection talent, you may use a soul gem containing a creature’s soul in place of the creature’s body to resurrect them.

Prerequisites: Life sphere (Restore Health (cure)), caster level 10th.

As a full-round action, you spend two spell points to transform an adjacent creature into a more perfect version of itself, one step closer to divinity than before. The transfigured creature is superior to its old self spiritually, and is free of many of the burdens of mortality. Any penalties for old age are suspended, and it gains immunity to all diseases, including supernatural and magical diseases, and poisons of all kinds. Most importantly, its current and maximum hit points are raised by 5 hit points per caster level. This can not bring a creature’s maximum hit points to more than twice its normal maximum hit points.

The transfiguration lasts a number of hours equal to your caster level, or until they drop below 0 hit points. When the transfiguration ends, if a creature’s current hit point total is greater than their original maximum total, their current hit point total becomes their original maximum hit point total, but they otherwise do not lose any hit points from the reduction in their maximum hit points.