Aetherurgist

Dual Curse

An aetherurgist must choose the haunted and tongues curses. One of these curses (oracle’s choice) never improves as the oracle gains levels. The first language an aetherurgist chooses as part of the tongues curse must be Aklo.

Bonus Spells

These bonus spells replace the oracle’s mystery bonus spells at these levels: spiritual weapon (4th), haunting choir (6th), spiritual ally (8th).

Spirit Sense (Sp)

At 1st level, an aetherurgist can detect the presence of undead; ethereal; or incorporeal creatures. This ability functions like detect undead, and the oracle detects all of these creatures rather than trying to detect one kind (though it does not reveal what type of undead you have detected).

Voices from Beyond the Veil (Su)

At 2nd level, the aetherurgist’s ability to hear and understand spirits of the dead is developed enough to allow her to speak in this tongue as well.

As the spirits themselves are mindless, talking to them serves no purpose (though many aetherurgists do so anyway). Aetherurgists may use the language to understand and be understood by undead creatures (all of which know the voice of the Aetherugist dead as a language, even if it is not listed), and to communicate with each other. Additionally, language is no longer a barrier when the aetherurgist uses the speak with dead spell.

Spirit Mastery (Su)

At 1st level, the aetherurgist gains a spirit mastery score and the ability to summon spirits of the dead to aid her and her allies. At 1st level, her spirit mastery score is 1. At 3rd level, and every other level thereafter (5th, 7th, 9th, etc), her spirit mastery score increases by +1. Spirits last for one minute per oracle level. At 1st level, the aetherurgist may only have one spirit out at any given time. At 5th level, and every 5 levels thereafter (10th, 15th, and 20th), the number of spirits they may have out increases by 1.

Summoning a spirit is a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunities. They appear in a square adjacent to the aetherurgist, chosen at the time of summoning. At 11th level, the aetherurgist may summon a spirit as a move action. She may only summon one spirit per round. The spirits act during your turn. Dismissing a spirit is a swift action that requires you to be adjacent to them.

The form the spirits take varies from aetherurgist to aetherurgist, but a common form is of a faceless hooded figure in a praying stance.

This ability replaces the revelation gained at 1st level and medium armor proficiency.

Channel Revelation (Su)

An aetherurgist may channel certain abilities through the spirit’s ranged touch attack. Channeling an ability requires a move action while adjacent to the spirit you wish to channel through. You may only channel a touch or ranged touch supernatural or spell-like ability gained from a revelation that does not have a minimum level. This uses up daily uses of the ability as if you had used it yourself. If the ability is normally a melee touch, it requires two daily uses of the ability. If a spirit has a constant effect ability, it does not affect anything until the aetherurgist’s next turn.

Divert Spirit (Su)

Normally the aetherurgist must give form to an ambient spirit. But at 7th level, the aetherurgist learns how to harness the spirits of the recently departed. As a full-round action, the aetherurgist may select one square containing the body of a creature that died no more than 1 round ago. This square must be within close range (25 feet + 5 ft./2 levels). The creature must not have been a construct, an elemental, or undead. The aetherurgist may summon a spirit in this square using the spirit mastery ability, except that she does not need to be adjacent to the square.

This ability replaces the revelation gained at 7th level.

Revelations

An aetherurgist may select the following revelations:

Designer’s Note

I encourage Aetherurgists to write their spirit mastery score on their character sheet!