Trigger A creature Casts a Spell with the mental trait.
Requirements You have an unexpended spell slot you could use to Cast a Spell with the mental trait.
When a foe Casts a Spell that has the mental trait and you can see its manifestations, you can use your own mental magic to disrupt it. You expend one of your spell slots to counter the triggering creature's casting of a spell with the mental trait. You lose your spell slot as if you had cast the triggering spell; this spell slot must be one for which you could Cast a Spell with the mental trait. You then attempt to counteract the triggering spell.
By unraveling memories and connections passed down from your progenitors and buried within your unconscious mind, you learn to convert your inherent magic into psychic power. You can cast any innate spells you know from an ancestry feat or heritage using your psychic spellcasting components. When you do so, the spell's tradition becomes occult, if it wasn't already, and you can use your psychic spellcasting ability modifier instead of Charisma to determine your spell attack roll and spell DC.
Your mind deflects some amount of harm from attacks that induce pain or manipulate your mind directly. You gain resistance to mental damage equal to half your level (minimum 1). This resistance increases to equal to your level while your Psyche is Unleashed.
Your telepathic sensitivity intensifies when you're affected by mental magic, making it easier for you to link to other creatures. After you Cast a Spell with the mental trait, until the start of your next turn, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Deception, Diplomacy, and Intimidation checks, and to Perception checks to Sense Motive.
Effect: Psychic Rapport
Frequency once per round
With a passing thought, you direct violent psychic energies at a nearby creature. Target one creature within 30 feet. It takes [[/r 1d4[bludgeoning]]] damage with a @Check[type:reflex|dc:resolve(@actor.attributes.spellDC.value)|basic:true]. At 3rd level and every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d4.
[[/r (ceil(@actor.level/2)d4)[bludgeoning]]]{Leveled bludgeoning damage}
You expand what your mind can accomplish. Add two additional occult cantrips to your repertoire.
You use your magic to bend space, causing your spell to strike from a strange vector. Use this amp in place of a psi cantrip's normal amp entry. The amped psi cantrip must have a range.
Amp Choose a square within 30 feet to which you have line of effect and line of sight. Determine your spell's line of effect and line of sight from there, as well as whether creatures have cover against the spell. The spell can exceed its normal range as measured from you, as long as it's within its normal range from the square you chose.
Your spells release soothing mental waves. Use this amp in place of a psi cantrip's normal amp entry. You can use this amp only on a psi cantrip that targets or affects you or one or more of your allies and doesn't target or affect any enemies.
Amp You or one ally within 30 feet gains a +2 status bonus to Will saves against emotion effects for 1 minute. You can also have the amped psi cantrip attempt to counteract one effect imposing the Frightened condition on yourself or the chosen ally, or an effect imposing the Stupefied condition that has a duration of 1 hour or less. If you successfully counteract the effect, you remove only the frightened and stupefied conditions, not any other part of the effect.
You can create a prototypical creature from the depths of your imagination instead of calling one from elsewhere. Whenever you summon a creature, you can choose to instead create a psychic construct of that creature. This grants it resistance to physical damage equal to half its level, weakness 5 to force and mental damage, and the ability to pass through enemies' spaces without needing to Tumble Through (though it can't end its turn in an occupied space).
Trigger You Unleash your Psyche.
The force of your mind unleashing itself wracks your enemies with a violent shockwave. You deal [[/r 2d6[force]]] damage to all creatures in a @Template[type:emanation|distance:20], with a @Check[type:reflex|basic:true]{basic Reflex save}. This explosion is taxing, making you Stunned 1. At 5th level and every 2 levels thereafter, the damage increases by 1d6.
[[/r (ceil(@actor.level/2)d6)[Force]]]{Leveled force damage}
Frequency once per turn
Requirements Your most recent action was to Cast a Spell or to Unleash your Psyche.
You siphon residual psychic energies from your spell into one weapon you're wielding or one of your unarmed attacks and when you unleash your mind, the energies flare to match. The attack deals an extra [[/r 1d6[force]]] damage until the end of the current turn. If your Psyche is Unleashed, this benefit instead lasts until your psyche subsides.
You spin out a thread of psychic energy that connects you to an ally, using it as a conduit for your abilities. Choose a willing creature within 60 feet and connect to it. Whenever you would gain a benefit from a psychic amp, you can have the amp affect the tethered creature instead. You can do so only if the amp grants a distinct benefit, not if it alters the amped spell. The tether can't be severed physically but breaks if the distance between you and the tethered ally ever exceeds 60 feet, if you become Unconscious, or if you use Astral Tether again.
As your spell strikes a target, you plant a beacon in the target's mind that announces its presence to those nearby. Use this amp in place of a psi cantrip's normal amp entry. The amped cantrip must be one that has one or more targets and must either require a spell attack roll or have a saving throw.
Amp Choose one creature hit by the spell (if the spell has a spell attack roll) or that fails its save against the spell (if the spell requires a save). A psychic beacon emits from the creature's location, making it easier to notice the creature as the mind and attention of onlookers is subtly drawn to it. For 1 minute, if the target would be Invisible, it's instead merely Concealed, and if it would be concealed, it's no longer concealed.
Frequency once per hour
Trigger You cast a psi cantrip.
Requirements You have 0 Focus Points.
You strain your body beyond its limits to use an amp even when your mental power is depleted. You add an amp that costs 1 Focus Point to the spell. Instead of paying the normal Focus Point cost, you lose Hit Points equal to four times the spell level of the amped psi cantrip as you bleed from your nose or suffer some other visible sign of strain.
Your psychic abilities also allow you to detect the lingering thoughts of spirits and similar entities. While you're exploring but not Searching, the GM rolls a secret check for you to find haunts that usually require Searching, as well as spirits, creatures on the Ethereal Plane, and beings made entirely of spiritual essence, such as celestials, fiends, and monitors.
You can also potentially notice ethereal creatures and spirits inside solid objects, provided they are within 30 feet of you. This applies while Searching, Seeking, and on the automatic secret check from Sixth Sense. You can still notice spirits only on a successful check, and you can't see them if they're more than 5 feet inside an object.
When you notice a creature with your Sixth Sense, you also learn its location, making it Hidden to you if it had been Undetected.
Your spell leaves behind barriers that reduce shock and motion. Use this amp in place of a psi cantrip's normal amp entry.
Amp You or one target of the spell gains resistance to physical damage equal to 2 + the spell's level until the start of your next turn.
You expand your mind beyond your area of psychic specialty. You gain a 1st-level psi cantrip for a conscious mind other than your own; this can be either the unique surface cantrip or one of the common cantrips and the accompanying amp. If you choose a common cantrip, you also gain the special benefit granted by that conscious mind when casting the cantrip without an amp. You don't gain any other benefits of that conscious mind, such as additional spells known.
Trigger You Unleash your Psyche.
When you Unleash your Psyche, all your rage and pain-the portion of your psyche dedicated to cruel retribution-come along with it.
The force of your dark persona's negativity batters constantly against all creatures in a @Template[type:emanation|distance:30] when you Unleash your Psyche and for as long as your Psyche is Unleashed. A creature must attempt a @Check[type:will|dc:resolve(@actor.system.attributes.spellDC.value)] save against your spell DC the first time it enters the emanation, or if it's in the emanation when you take this action; it doesn't need to attempt a save again, even if it leaves the emanation and returns. A creature frightened by your Dark Persona's Presence can't decrease its frightened value below 1 while within the emanation.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The target is Frightened 1.
Failure The target is Frightened 2.
Critical Failure The target is Frightened 3.
While your Psyche is Unleashed, your dark persona cares only for destruction. You can Cast a Spell only if it can directly damage an enemy or object or can impose a detrimental condition or penalty on one.
Your spell reaches into the mind of a creature and removes you from it. The amped cantrip must be one that has one or more targets and must either require a spell attack roll or have a saving throw. Use this amp in place of the psi cantrip's normal amp entry.
Amp Choose one target of the spell or one creature in its area. If that enemy fails its save or the spell hits it, you become undetected by that creature, disappearing from its senses for 1 minute or until you use a hostile action. This is similar to being Invisible, but effects like see invisibility don't reveal you-you're affecting the target's mind, not its vision. True seeing can still see through this illusion if the counteract check succeeds.
Your spell leaves a lingering connection between you and a creature-one through which you can nudge the creature's mind this way or that. The amped cantrip must take 2 or more actions to cast, target one or more creatures, and either require a spell attack roll or have a saving throw. Use this amp in place of the psi cantrip's normal amp entry.
Amp Choose one enemy who is a target of the spell. If that enemy fails its save or the spell hits it, you whisper in the creature's mind, forcing it to Step in a direction of your choosing; as this is forced movement, you can't force the creature to Step into hazardous terrain, off a ledge, or the like. After it Steps, the creature becomes temporarily immune to this amp for 24 hours.
With a wresting of will, you siphon off a creature's mental energy to replenish your own. One non-mindless creature within 30 feet must attempt a @Check[type:will|dc:resolve(@actor.system.attributes.spellDC.value)] save against your spell DC.
Success The creature is unaffected.
Failure The creature is Stupefied 1 for 1 minute, and you regain 1 Focus Point, up to your normal maximum. You can't use Brain Drain again until after the next time you make your daily preparations.
Critical Failure As failure, but the creature is Stupefied 2.
Trigger You roll a critical success on a Will save against a mental effect from a creature.
Your thoughts sting back when a lesser mind tries to invade your own. You deal [[/r @actor.level[mental]]]{mental damage equal to your level} to the triggering creature. If you so desire, you can also send the creature a single mental image to coincide with the damage, such as a watchful eye or the dread of floating in an infinite sea.
You can detect the flickers of mental activity let off by all thinking creatures. You gain Thoughtsense as a vague sense that has a range of 30 feet-like all vague senses, it's only about as precise as an average human's sense of smell, meaning you generally can predict only if a creature is present. Your thoughtsense detects only thinking creatures, so a creature that is unthinking or otherwise immune to mental effects (such as many constructs and oozes) can't be perceived using your thoughtsense, regardless of how precise it is.
While your Psyche is Unleashed, your thoughtsense upgrades to an imprecise sense, letting you use it to Seek out creatures.
Seeing an enemy's attack, you quickly consult multiple scraps of lore in your mind, synthesizing them into the perfect plan. Make a check to Recall Knowledge (using an appropriate skill) about one creature within 60 feet. On a success, in addition to the normal benefits, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your next attack roll against that creature and to your AC against the creature's next attack. On a critical success, the bonuses are +2.
Your direct mental grasp of your power lets you cast more spells with greater freedom. You gain two additional signature spells, each of which must have a minimum level of 3rd or lower.
Your heart soars, increasing your power for a moment. You gain a +2 status bonus to attack rolls and skill checks until the start of your next turn.
Effect: Emotional Surge
You Stride into a willing ally's space, at which point both of your appearances shift into a shared third appearance, usually one that looks like a mix of the two of you. Then, either you or your ally Steps. You each maintain the merged appearance. Creatures who are observing this know what happened, but still must Seek or otherwise engage with the illusion to attempt to disbelieve it and determine which of you is which. Otherwise, they can't tell the difference and have an equal chance to target each of you (@Check[type:flat|dc:11]). This illusion ends as soon as either you or the ally you're merged with acts.
Requirements precise discipline subconscious mind
You bring discipline to your mind and magic, ensuring that you don't under-perform. Until the end of your turn, instead of rolling dice for damage, count each damage die as average damage rounded up (3 for d4, 4 for d6, 5 for d8, 6 for d10, and 7 for d12).
Frequency once per day
Trigger A spell you cast has no effect because you critically failed all your spell attack rolls or because all targets critically succeeded at their saving throws.
You see your spell fail to take hold to disastrous end, then snap back to reality-it was all a precognition, and you know to try a different spell. Your spell is expended, but you can Cast a Spell that requires the same number of actions as the triggering spell or fewer to cast. The second spell must be a different spell than the first.
You stop holding your power back, unleashing it all in a catastrophic blast. All creatures in a @Template[type:emanation|distance:20] take [[/r (@actor.level)d6[bludgeoning]]]{1d6 bludgeoning damage per level} with a @Check[type:reflex|dc:resolve(@actor.system.attributes.spellDC.value)|basic:true]. Your psyche subsides as your power is expended.
Trigger A non-minion ally within 60 feet is reduced to 0 Hit Points.
The shock of seeing your ally near death breaks whatever limits exist in your mind, sending your power spilling forth. If your psyche is currently unleashed, you can immediately use a psyche action that takes 1 action or less to use. If your psyche is not currently unleashed, you Unleash your Psyche, which remains unleashed until the end of your next turn. You can ignore Unleash Psyche's requirement of needing to have Cast a Spell on your previous turn, but you still can't Unleash your Psyche if you're stupefied or for 2 rounds after your psyche subsides.
You become more adept with the spells that are always in your mind. You gain an additional spell slot of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th levels. You can use these spell slots to cast only a spell granted by your conscious mind. At 18th level, you also gain an additional 5th-level spell slot, with the same restrictions.
The sheer power of your magic fractures reality. Use this amp in place of a psi cantrip's normal amp entry. The cantrip must be one that takes 2 or more actions to cast.
Amp You or one target of the spell are surrounded by a spiral of torn space. This is an aura, and you choose the radius of the emanation, up to 20 feet. A creature that starts its turn in the aura or enters the aura during its turn takes [[/r 1d6[slashing]]] damage for every level of the amped psi cantrip, with a basic Reflex save against your spell DC. If the creature critically fails, the torn space throws it off balance and it falls Prone. The aura lasts until the beginning of your next turn. You can choose whether the aura affects the creature emitting it.
Your mind-control spells send burrowing mental roots that tear at your target's mind when they're removed or run their course. When you Cast a Spell that imposes the Controlled condition or otherwise forces the target to take certain actions (such as Command), you can choose one target that critically failed its save. When that target finishes fulfilling any commands issued by your spell, or when the spell is dispelled or counteracted, the target takes [[/r 1d6[mental]]] damage per level of the spell.
Your power has unbound you from the earth below. You're affected by a constant Fly spell, and when your Psyche is Unleashed, you gain a +10-foot status bonus to your fly Speed.
Your magic saturates your surroundings with hateful psychic energy. Use this amp in place of a psi cantrip's normal amp entry. The cantrip must be one that takes 2 or more actions to cast and targets a creature.
Amp Choose one target of the spell. Psychic phenomena turn themselves on the target-typically, objects fling themselves at the creature. At the beginning of each of the target's turns, it takes [[/r 1d4[bludgeoning]]] damage for each spell level of the psi cantrip this amp was added to, with a basic Reflex save. The target remains marked by psychic ire for 3 rounds. The effect persists even if you fall Unconscious or leave the area.
Frequency once per round
Requirements You used your most recent action to Cast a Spell.
When your Psyche is Unleashed, each burst of magic you cast also folds space around you, and you travel through one of those folds. You teleport 15 feet to a square you can see.
Frequency once per round
Trigger You successfully reduce one or more non-mindless enemies to 0 Hit Points with a spell.
As your overwhelming psyche fells a creature, you use its flickering consciousness to detonate psychic energy from the creature's head. Each enemy you reduced to 0 Hit Points dies and its head explodes. Each exploding head generates a shockwave in a @Template[type:emanation|distance:15] around that enemy. Each creature in any of the emanations takes [[/r 10d6[bludgeoning]]] damage with a @Check[type:reflex|dc:resolve(@actor.system.attributes.spellDC.value)|basic:true]. If this damage reduces an enemy to 0 Hit Points, its head also explodes, potentially damaging more creatures and potentially causing more detonations. A given creature can take damage only once from a single use of Cranial Detonation.
Trigger You're about to attempt a Fortitude save or a Reflex save.
Flames scouring at your body, venom coursing through your veins-you refuse to believe they exist, and nothing can affect you if you don't believe in it. You attempt a Will save against the triggering effect, instead of a Reflex or Fortitude save. You don't gain the benefits of fortress of will or walls of will on this save.
You've glimpsed the furthest recesses of your mind. If you have spent at least 3 Focus Points since the last time you Refocused, you recover 3 Focus Points when you Refocus, even if you spent your Focus Points on spells other than psychic abilities.
Your mind's limits are only what you imagine them to be. You gain an additional 10th-level spell slot.
Frequency once per minute
The laws of magic can limit your mind only if you think you need them, and you've grown past the need for such limits. If your next action is to Cast a Spell of 5th level or lower that has no duration, you don't expend the prepared spell as you cast it.
You shed some of your material form, becoming a being of pure thought. This has the following effects.