Tome of Magic

Classes
ClassDescription
Binder Binders contact vestiges - souls that have been lost to the gods and planes, and banished to some hidden place - and macts pacts with them.
Shadowcaster Shadowcasters draw their power from the Plane of Shadow, shaping it into magic both familiar and alien to other practitioners.
Truenamer Truenamers claim to tap into the power of a fundamental language of the universe, and if they know something's truename, they can affect it with their magic.

Feats

Binding Feats Prerequisite Benefit
Bind Vestige — Gain one power from a chosen 1st-level vestige
—Bind Vestige, Improved Bind Vestige Bind one vestige of up to 5th level
—Practiced Binder Bind Vestige Gain a second power from a bound vestige
Defense against the Supernatural Knowledge (arcana) 2 ranks +1 insight bonus on saves against supernatural attacks
Empower Supernatural Ability Supernatural ability, 6 HD Empower supernatural ability 1/day
Enlarge Supernatural Ability Supernatural ability, 4 HD Enlarge supernatural ability 1/day
Expel Vestige Soul binding Attempt to prematurely expel vestige 1/day
Rapid Pact Making Expel Vestige, Intimidate 8 ranks 1/day bind vestige as a full-round action
Extend Supernatural Ability Supernatural ability, 4 HD Extend supernatural ability 1/day
Favored Vestige Soul binding +1 binder level with specific vestige
—Favored Vestige Focus Favored Vestige +1 DC with favored vestige abilities
—Rapid Recovery Favored Vestige Reuse abilities of favored vestige faster.
Ignore Special Requirements Soul binding Ignore special requirements when summoning vestiges
Improved Binding Soul binding +2 binder level when determining eligible vestiges
Skilled Pact Making Base Will save +4, soul binding +4 bonus on binding checks
Sudden Ability Focus Special attack +2 to DC of any supernatural attack 1/day
Supernatural Crusader Knowledge (arcana) 2 ranks +1 insight bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls against a creature with a supernatural special attack
—Supernatural Opportunist Supernatural Crusader Make an attack of opportunity against creature activating a supernatural ability
Widen Supernatural Ability Supernatural ability, 8 HD Widen supernatural ability 1/day
Shadow Magic Feats Prerequisite Benefit
Favored Mystery1,3 Ability to cast mysteries Chosen mystery becomes easier to cast
Nocturnal Caster1,2 Ability to cast mysteries or a spell with the darkness descriptor You gain extra power at night
Path Focus1,2 — +1 bonus to CL and save DCs for a specific path or school
—Greater Path Focus1,2 Path Focus Additional +1 bonus to caster level and save DC
Shadow Cast Concentration 5 ranks, shadowcaster level 1st Avoid many attacks of opportunity
Shadow Familiar Shadowcaster level 3rd Gain a familiar with the dark creature template
Shadow Reflection Shadowcaster level 3rd, ability to cast dusk and dawn or ephemeral image Attacks of opportunity against you have a 50% miss chance
Shadow Vision1 Wis 15, ability to cast bend perspective or truth revealed Sense creatures within 20 feet that are in shadowy illumination or darkness
Unseen Arrow Unseen weapon class feature Use unseen weapon ability with ranged weapons
Metashadow Feats Prerequisite Benefit
Empower Mystery1 Any other metashadow feat Increase mystery’s variable, numeric effects by 50%
Enlarge Mystery1 — Double mystery’s range
Extend Mystery1 — Double mystery’s duration
Line of Shadow1 Any two metashadow feats Cast a mystery without line of sight or effect, in certain conditions
Maximize Mystery1 Any two metashadow feats Maximize mystery’s variable, numeric effects
Quicken Mystery1 Any three metashadow feats Cast mystery as swift action
Reach Mystery1 Any metashadow feats Touch mystery becomes a ray with 30 ft. range
Still Mystery1 — Cast mystery without somatic components
Truespeaking Feats Prerequisite Benefit
Empower Utterance Truespeak 9 ranks, ability to speak utterances You can deliver more powerful utterances
Enlarge Utterance Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances You can use utterances at greater range
Extend Utterance Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances One of your utterances lasts twice as long
Focused Lexicon Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances Your utterances are more effective against one creature type
Obscure Personal Truename — Your personal truename is hard to pronounce and difficult to uncover through research
—Personal Truename Backlash Obscure Personal Truename, 15 HD Those who fail to say your personal truename might take damage
Quicken Utterance Truespeak 12 ranks, ability to speak utterances You can deliver an utterance as a swift action
Truename Rebuttal Ability to speak utterances +4 bonus on attempts to counter or dispel utterances
Truename Research Truespeak 9 ranks +2 bonus on Knowledge checks to uncover a personal truename
Truename Training — Truespeak is always a class skill for you
Minor Utterance of the Evolving Mind Truespeak 6 ranks Learn one 1st-level utterance
Utterance of the Evolving Mind Truespeak 9 ranks, know at least two utterances Learn one 2nd-level utterance
Utterance of the Crafted Tool Truespeak 12 ranks, know at least three utterances Learn one 1st-level utterance from the Lexicon of the Crafted Tool
Utterance of the Perfected Map Truespeak 15 ranks, know at least four utterances Learn one 1st-level utterance from the Lexicon of the Perfected Map
Utterance Focus Ability to speak utterances +1 bonus on save DCs against specific utterance
Recitation Feats Prerequisite Benefit
Recitation of the Fortified State Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances, must know your own personal truename Gain a natural armor bonus while using the total defense action
Recitation of the Meditative State Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances, must know your own personal truename Resist fear, rage, and similar effects
Recitation of the Mindful State Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances, must know your own personal truename Gain a bonus on specific skill checks
Recitation of the Sanguine State Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances, must know your own personal truename Free your body of poison
Recitation of the Vital State Truespeak 6 ranks, ability to speak utterances, must know your own personal truename Rid yourself of disease

1 A shadowcaster can select this feat as one of his path-based bonus feats.

2 You can gain this feat multiple times, but its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, apply it to a new path.

3 You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Spells

BARD SPELLS

1ST LEVEL

Beckon Person: Force a humanoid to approach you against its will.

Scramble True Position: Teleport your foes 10 feet in a random direction, knocking them over.

2ND LEVEL

Augment Truefriend: Subject gains +2 to Str, Dex, and Con for 1 min./level.

Horror of the Spoken Name: Frighten creature that hears its own truename.

3RD LEVEL

Beckon Monster: Force a creature to approach you against its will.

4TH LEVEL

Spurn the Supernatural: Suppresses one or more of a foe’s supernatural abilities.

6TH LEVEL

Expunge the Supernatural: Permanently eliminates a foe’s supernatural ability.

Truename Dispel: Cancels spells and magical effects on a creature whose personal truename you know.

CLERIC SPELLS

1ST LEVEL

Scramble True Position: You teleport your foes 10 feet in a random direction, knocking them over.

2ND LEVEL

Augment Truefriend: Subject gains +2 to Str, Dex, and Con for 1 min./level.

Horror of the Spoken Name: Frighten creature that hears its own truename.

True Prayer of the Faithful: Allies gain +1 bonus on most rolls.

3RD LEVEL

Bane of the Archrival: +4 to AC and saves, counter mind control, and keep specific truenamed enemy away.

4TH LEVEL

True Prayer of the Chosen: You gain +3 AC and save bonus.

5TH LEVEL

Spurn the Supernatural: Suppresses one or more of a foe’s supernatural abilities.

6TH LEVEL

Hidden Truename: Subject’s personal truename is hard to discover through research.

8TH LEVEL

Expunge the Supernatural: Permanently eliminates a foe’s supernatural ability.

Ritual of Renaming: You give a creature a new personal truename, expunging the old one.

True Banishment: Banishes an extraplanar creature whose personal truename you know.

Truename Dispel: Cancels spells and magical effects on a creature whose personal truename you know.

9TH LEVEL

Word of Genesis: You instigate a new demiplane on the Astral Plane.

DRUID SPELLS

2ND LEVEL

Augment Truefriend: Subject gains +2 to Str, Dex, and Con for 1 min./level.

4TH LEVEL

Warp Truename: Gives foe a temporary form that’s grotesque and useless.

5TH LEVEL

Spurn the Supernatural: Suppresses one or more of a foe’s supernatural abilities.

6TH LEVEL

Hidden Truename: Subject’s personal truename is hard to discover through research.

8TH LEVEL

Expunge the Supernatural: Permanently eliminates a foe’s supernatural ability.

Ritual of Renaming: You give a creature a new personal truename, expunging the old one.

Truename Dispel: Cancels spells and magical effects on a creature whose personal truename you know.

PALADIN SPELLS

2ND LEVEL

True Prayer of the Faithful: Allies gain +1 bonus on most rolls.

3RD LEVEL

Bane of the Archrival: +4 to AC and saves, counter mind control, and keep specific truenamed enemy away.

True Prayer of the Chosen: You gain +3 AC and save bonus.

SORCERER/WIZARD SPELLS

1ST LEVEL
Conjuration

Bulwark of Reality: Bonus to AC equal to half your level (+5 minimum).

Scramble True Position: You teleport your foes 10 feet in a random direction, knocking them over.

Enchantment

Beckon Person: Force a humanoid to approach you against its will.

2ND LEVEL
Necromancy

Horror of the Spoken Name: Frighten creature that hears its own truename.

Transmutation

Augment Truefriend: Subject gains +2 to Str, Dex, and Con for 1 min./level.

3RD LEVEL
Abjuration

Bane of the Archrival: +4 to AC and saves, counter mind control, and keep specific truenamed enemy away.

4TH LEVEL
Enchantment

Beckon Monster: Force a creature to approach you against its will.

Transmutation

Warp Truename: Gives foe a temporary form that’s grotesque and useless.

5TH LEVEL
Abjuration

Spurn the Supernatural: Suppresses one or more of a foe’s supernatural abilities.

Conjuration

Truename Binding, Lesser: Enslaves extraplanar creature of CR 6 or less with the power of its truename.

6TH LEVEL
Abjuration

Hidden Truename: Subject’s personal truename is hard to discover through research.

7TH LEVEL
Conjuration

Truename Binding: Enslaves extraplanar creature of CR 10 or less with the power of its truename.

8TH LEVEL
Abjuration

Expunge the Supernatural: Permanently eliminates a foe’s supernatural ability.

Truename Dispel: Cancels spells and magical effects on a creature whose personal truename you know.

Transmutation

Ritual of Renaming: You give a creature a new personal truename, expunging the old one.

9TH LEVEL

Conjur Truename Binding, Greater: Enslaves extraplanar creature of CR 14 or less with the power of its truename.

Necromancy

Unname: Erase a creature from reality.

Pact Magic

Vestige Level Vestige Binding DC Special Requirement
1st Amon 20 Yes
1st Aym 15 No
1st Leraje 15 Yes
1st Naberius 15 Yes
1st Ronove 15 Yes
2nd Dahlver-Nar 17 Yes
2nd The Green Lady 17 Yes
2nd Haagenti 17 Yes
2nd Malphas 15 No
2nd Savnok 20 Yes
3rd Ahazu 20 Yes
3rd Andromalius 20 Yes
3rd Focalor 20 Yes
3rd Karsus 25 Yes
3rd Paimon 20 No
3rd Primus 24 Yes
4th Agares 22 Yes
4th Andras 22 No
4th Arete 21 Yes
4th Astaroth 20 Yes
4th Astaroth 22 No
4th Buer 20 Yes
4th Cabiri 18 Yes
4th Eurynome 21 Yes
4th Kas 25 No
4th Tenebrous 21 Yes
Vestige Level Vestige Binding DC Special Requirement
5th Acererak 25 Yes
5th Balam 25 Yes
5th Dantalion 25 No
5th Geryon 25 Yes
5th Otiax 25 No
6th Chupoclops 25 Yes
6th Desharis 27 Yes
6th Haures 25 No
6th Ipos 26 Yes
6th Shax 26 Yes
6th The Triad 26 Yes
6th Vanus 29 Yes
6th Zagan 25 Yes
6th Zceryll 25 No
7th Ansitif 30 Yes
7th Eligor 30 No
7th Marchosias 30 Yes
8th Abysm 34 No
8th Ashardalon 35 No
8th Halphax 32 Yes
8th Orthos 35 Yes
Epic Amun-her
Khepeshef		 — Yes
Epic Gaia — Yes
Epic Tkhaluuljin — No
Epic Zuriel — Yes

Shadow Magic

FUNDAMENTAL MYSTERIES

Arrow of Dusk: Ray deals 2d4 nonlethal, ×3 crit.

Black Candle: As the spell darkness or light.

Caul of Shadow: Shadows grant deflection bonus to AC.

Liquid Night: Create ink by manifesting surrounding shadows.

Mystic Reflections: As the spell detect magic.

Shadow Hood: Subject takes –1 penalty on attack rolls and Dexterity-based checks.

Sight Obscured: +5 bonus on Hide, Sleight of Hand, or other checks to conceal your movements, actions, or presence.

Umbral Hand: As the spell mage hand, but can affect heavier objects and magic items.

Widened Eyes: Gain low-light vision.

APPRENTICE PATH MYSTERIES
CLOAK OF SHADOWS

1 Steel Shadows: Gain +3 armor bonus and +3 shield bonus to AC.

2 Sight Eclipsed: Hide even when observed.

3 Sharp Shadows: Foes striking you take piercing damage.

DARK TERRAIN

1 Carpet of Shadow: Transform the ground into shadowstuff, impeding movement.

2 Black Fire: Create fire in several squares that deals cold damage.

3 Clinging Darkness: Root foes in place.

EBON WHISPERS

1 Voice of Shadow: As the spell command, but also affecting intelligent undead and constructs.

2 Congress of Shadows: Hold two-way conversation at a distance.

3 Flicker: Flash through several locations via conduits of shadow.

EYES OF DARKNESS

1 Bend Perspective: Change point of view, as though you were standing elsewhere.

2 Piercing Sight: Gain darkvision 60 ft. and see invisible creatures.

3 Killing Shadows: Gaze attack that deals damage.

SHUTTERS AND CLOUDS

1 Dusk and Dawn: Create an area of shadowy illumination.

2 Shadow Skin: Thicken your flesh with the power of shadow.

3 Dancing Shadows: Make subjects harder to hit.

TOUCH OF TWILIGHT

1 Life Fades: Deal nonlethal damage and cause fatigue.

2 Flesh Fails: Deal minor ability damage.

3 Umbral Touch: Deal damage and slow with a touch.

UMBRAL MIND

1 Mesmerizing Shade: Daze subject for 1 round or cause –1 penalty on attack rolls, checks, saves.

2 Thoughts of Shadow: Briefly enhance mental abilities.

3 Afraid of the Dark: Create a shadowy reflection of the subject that deals ability damage.
INITIATE PATH MYSTERIES
BLACK MAGIC

4 Warp Spell: Steal the energy of another caster’s mystery or spell.

5 Echo Spell: Repeat a mystery or spell cast in the previous round.

6 Flood of Shadow: Casting in area is difficult; shadow mysteries and spells are empowered.

BODY AND SOUL

4 Bolster: Grant subject temporary hit points.

5 Languor: Shadows weigh subjects down.

6 Shadow Investiture: Grant subject cold resistance 15, evasion, and ability to see in darkness.

DARK REFLECTIONS

4 Shadow Evocation: Mimic evocation below 5th level, but only 20% real.

5 Feign Life: Animate objects and give them concealment.

6 Shadow Evocation, Greater: Mimic evocation below 7th level, but only 60% real.

EBON ROADS

4 Step into Shadow: Short-range travel through shadow.

5 Pass into Shadow: As the spell plane shift, but must involve the Plane of Shadow.

6 Voyage into Shadow: As the spell shadow walk, but faster.

ELEMENTAL SHADOWS

4 Aura of Shade: Subject is protected from cold and deals cold damage with attacks.

5 Dark Air or Water: As the spell control winds or control water.

6 Shadow Storm: Arcs of cold and electricity strike multiple targets.

UNBINDING SHADE

4 Shadows Fade: As the spell dispel magic.

5 Unravel Dweomer: As the spell break enchantment.

6 Shadows Fade, Greater: As the spell greater dispel magic.

VEIL OF SHADOWS

4 Shadow Vision: Subject takes penalties on most actions and has 50% miss chance.

5 Curtain of Shadows: Block line of sight and deal cold damage.

6 Unveil: Remove many adverse conditions.

MASTER PATHS
BREATH OF TWILIGHT

7 Life Fades, Greater: As the mystery life fades, but more potent and affecting more subjects.

8 Flesh Fails, Greater: As the mystery flesh fails, but more potent and affecting more subjects.

9 Ephemeral Storm: Targets must save or die, success results in 5d6 damage.

DARK METAMORPHOSIS

7 Ephemeral Image: Create a shadow duplicate through which you can cast your magic.

8 Umbral Body: Transform into an incorporeal being of shadow.

9 Shadow Time: Act freely for 3 rounds.

EBON WALLS

7 Prison of Night: Entrap subject in a shadow prison.

8 Tomb of Night: Prison of shadow drains levels from subject inside.

9 Consume Essence: Slay creature and instantly reanimate it as a dark creature under your control.

EYES OF THE NIGHT SKY

7 Truth Revealed: As the spell true seeing, with additional, but possibly misleading, information.

8 Far Sight: As the spell greater scrying, in conjunction with the mystery truth revealed.

9 Reflections of Things to Come: Gain limited insight into the future.

HEART AND SOUL

7 Dark Soul: Compel a subject to attack a target of your choice.

8 Soul Puppet: As the spell dominate monster.

9 Shadow Surge: As the spell dominate monster, but affects multiple targets for 1 round.

SHADOW CALLING

7 Summon Umbral Servant: Summon shadow elementals to serve you.

8 Shadow Plague: A cloud of shadow energy deals 4d6 cold damage/round.

9 Army of Shadow: Summon shadow elementals to serve you.

Truename Magic

LEXICON OF THE EVOLVING MIND
1ST-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Defensive Edge: Grant ally +1 AC, or an enemy –1 AC.

Inertia Surge: Grant creature freedom from restricting effects, or root an enemy to the ground and prevent it from moving.

Knight’s Puissance: Ally gains +2 on attack rolls, or enemy gains –2 on attack rolls.

Universal Aptitude: Subject gains +5 on skill checks for 5 rounds, or enemy gains –5 on skill checks for 5 rounds.

Word of Nurturing, Minor: Give ally fast healing 1, or deal 1d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

2ND-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Archer’s Eye: Give ally ability to ignore concealment with ranged attacks, or protect ally from projectiles.

Hidden Truth: Grant creature +10 bonus on a Knowledge check, or a +10 bonus on a Bluff check.

Perceive the Unseen: Give creature the benefit of the Blind-Fight feat, or grant a creature concealment.

Silent Caster: Ally gains benefit of Silent Spell feat, or creature is silenced.

Speed of the Zephyr: Subject’s speed increases by 20 feet and he can run up walls, or reduce foe’s speed by 10 feet.

Strike of Might: Target’s next weapon damage roll deals +10 damage, or target’s next weapon damage roll deals –5 damage (minimum 0).

Temporal Twist: Ally gains one free attack, or enemy is dazed for 1 round.

Word of Nurturing, Lesser: Give ally fast healing 3, or deal 2d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

3RD-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Accelerated Attack: Give an ally Spring Attack feat, or allow ally to move while casting a spell.

Energy Negation: Grant an ally resistance 10 to one energy type, or deal energy damage to a foe.

Incarnation of Angels: Creature gains the celestial template, or creature gains the fiendish template.

Seek the Sky: Give creature ability to fly, or force a flying creature gradually to the ground.

Speed of the Zephyr, Greater: Give ally benefit of haste spell, or enemy suffers from the effect of a slow spell.

Temporal Spiral: Target gains one extra move action, or enemy is dazed for 3 rounds.

Vision Sharpened: Subject gains benefit of see invisibility, or subject becomes invisible.

Word of Nurturing, Moderate: Give ally fast healing 5, or deal 4d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

4TH-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Breath of Cleansing: Allow ally second save against ongoing effect, or nauseate an enemy.

Caster Lens: Increase ally’s caster level by 2, or reduce enemy’s caster level by 2.

Confounding Resistance: Grant ally ability to avoid partially harmful effects, or remove evasion from an enemy.

Magic Contraction: Ally gains spell resistance, or grant a creature benefit of Empower Spell feat.

Morale Boost: Remove fear from a creature, or frighten an enemy.

Spell Rebirth: Restore a dispelled or dismissed spell, or dispel one spell.

Word of Bolstering: Cure 1d6 points of ability damage or drain to one ability score, or cause –1d6 penalty to one enemy’s Str, Dex, or Con.

Word of Nurturing, Potent: Give ally fast healing 10, or deal 6d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

5TH-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Eldritch Attraction: Move a creature 40 feet closer to you, or 40 feet farther away from you.

Energy Negation, Greater: Ally gains immunity to one energy type, or give ally an energy shield that damages attackers.

Essence of Lifespark: Remove one negative level from creature, or one enemy gains one negative level.

Preternatural Clarity: Give an ally a +5 floating bonus for attacks, saves, or checks, or make an enemy confused.

Seek the Sky, Greater: Give creature fly speed of 120 feet (perfect), or cause a flying creature to fall and take damage.

Sensory Focus: Creature gains blindsight, or creature is blinded and deafened.

Ward of Peace: Ally cannot be attacked, or temporarily banish target to extradimensional pocket.

Word of Nurturing, Critical: Give ally fast healing 15, or deal 8d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.

6TH-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Breath of Recovery: Remove conditions from an ally, or paralyze an enemy.

Ether Reforged: Creature gains the benefit of defenses against incorporeal foes and can affect them normally, or creature can become ethereal.

Knight’s Puissance, Greater: Ally gains +5 on attack and damage rolls, or enemy gains –5 on attack and damage rolls.

Mystic Rampart: Ally gains DR 5/— and +5 on saves, or enemy incurs –5 AC and saves.

Singular Mind: Free subject from enchantments, curses and possession, or dominate one creature.

Word of Nurturing, Greater: Give ally fast healing 20, or deal 10d6 damage each round for 2 rounds.
LEXICON OF THE CRAFTED TOOL
1ST-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Fortify Armor: Make a creature’s armor able to negate critical hits and sneak attacks.

Keen Weapon: Improve the threat range of a weapon.

2ND-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Agitate Metal: Cause a creature’s metal equipment to radiate painful heat or cold.

Analyze Item: Discern the properties of a magic item.

3RD-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Rebuild Item: Restore an item destroyed within the last round to perfect form and functionality, including any magic properties it had.

Suppress Weapon: Suppress the energy property of a weapon.

4TH-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Suppress Item: Suppress the properties of a magic item.

Transmute Weapon: Change a weapon’s special material.

5TH-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Metamagic Catalyst: Give a potion or scroll the benefit of a metamagic feat.

Seize Item: Bring an object within range instantly to your hand.

LEXICON OF THE PERFECTED MAP
1ST-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Fog from the Void: Create a cloud of fog that obscures sight and might make movement difficult.

Shield of the Landscape: Alter the land to temporarily negate or provide cover.

Shockwave: A violent pulse of energy knocks creatures from their feet.

2ND-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Energy Vortex: Fill the area with energy that damages your foes.

Speak Rock to Mud: Turn solid ruck into cloying mud.

Transform the Landscape: Add or remove difficult terrain in the area.

3RD-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Lore of the World: The world gives you information you request.

Master of the Four Winds: Bend the winds to your will.

Thwart the Traveler: Prevent extradimensional travel in

the area.
4TH-LEVEL UTTERANCES

Anger the Sleeping Earth: Shake the earth, as the earthquake spell.

Conjunctive Gate: Create a portal between two planes.

Deny Passage: Prevent creatures from entering or leaving an area.

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