(6) Reshar, The Ninefold Prince of Blades

Reshar, The Ninefold Prince of Blades
Niveau : 6
Binding DC : 23
Reshar gives you power and knowledge of the Sublime Way, his wisdom, and hardiness of body.
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Légende : Reshar was a human master swordsman. He struggled to gain true knowledge of the Sublime Way and he went to achieve this in a revolutionary method, by mastering all nine of the disciplines. After mastering all nine disciplines he took pupils from each discipline and created a temple in the mountains. After a century passed the temple was well established but Reshar still had not defeated his primary adversary, truth. In order to find truth Reshar decided that he had to travel the world. Before Reshar left he gave each master of a discipline a unique sword to represent his discipline. Reshar then told each master that as long as the swords were kept in the temple all would be well, but if any were stolen then the temple would fall. Reshar left the temple with the knowledge that he had created a great school that would never fail which would continue his teachings. Soon after the temple was out of sight he met an old man on the road. The man was alone and it seemed that his hands were injured previously as they were bent out of shape. Reshar asked the man if he wanted help but the old man refused. During his long conversation the old man let slip that the greatest adversary that nobody can defeat was death itself and therefor that only by defeating death would Reshar ever find truth. Reshar then left the man and traveled and meditated on beating death. As Reshar was about to meditate himself beyond the boundaries of death a voice intruded on his thoughts, "They are gone" the voice said and in that moment Reshar saw that his temple was destroyed from within. Reshar then realized that he had lost his true chance of immortality by the continuation of his art. With this his eyes flew open and he saw the speaker, the old man with bent hands holding the Rapier Supernal Clarity. The old man's shape then changed to the form of a Rakshasa. With this shock Reshar missed his chance of defeating death and passed on to being a vestige though not before he took the Rahshasa with him. It is said that if someone can bring all nine blades together and perform a special ritual then Reshar may return the world to harmony and restore the temple of the nine swords.

Pré-requis : The binder must carry a representation of at least one weapon from each martial discipline when he creates the seal. These do not have to be actual weapons they could be charms or the like as well. Reshar also hates Haures and will not bind with a binder who is bound to Haures, or allow you to bind to Haures if you are already bound to Reshar.

Manifestation : First you see a tiger pacing in the blackness. The tiger starts scratching and biting itself. The tiger is then stabbed in the heart by an unseen dagger. The sun then appears and seems to beat down on the dying tiger furthering its anguish. As the sun sets the tiger lights on fire. The tiger screams in a human voice and soon after the tiger is attacked by white ravens. When there is only the skeleton left the birds are scattered by an iron cage that then surrounds the remains. The cage then swallows the tiger and becomes enveloped by stone. The stone then grinds until even it falls away and all that is left is a diamond. Inside the diamond stands the spirit of a man defiant with gray hair who then speaks to you.

Signe : While you are bound the weapons you used in the binding ritual leave tattoos on your body seemingly at random places and sizes. If you did not use the weapons (such as if you have the ignore requirements feat or you used an unarmed strike as your discipline weapon) you gain tattoos of the nine swords themselves for each weapon you did not have (and of that discipline).

Influence : While influenced by Reshar you must take up any challenge to you no matter how small or trivial. You also must try to convince any warrior to take up the Sublime Way as that is Reshar's favored style.

Pouvoirs Conférés :

Way of the Nine : The binder gains access to 5 martial maneuvers from any discipline and one free stance from any discipline. If the binder desires more stances he must take them as one of his martial maneuvers. At effective binder level 15 and twenty you gain one more maneuver (max of seven). These are your maneuvers known and your maneuvers readied. You must still follow all restrictions placed upon a martial adept including prerequisites. Your initiator level is equal to your effective binder level minus two. So a 13th level binder is a 11th level martial adept and thus has access to 6th level maneuvers. Only your EBL counts towards your initiator level for this ability. Once a maneuver has been expended that particular maneuver is recovered automatically 5 rounds later. Once recovered you may use the maneuver again. All of your maneuvers are supernatural even if they are normally not. Lastly all save DCs for the maneuvers should be calculated by the traditional binder method of DC=10+1/2 binder level+ cha modifier.

Sage Quickness : The binder gains a +3 to his initiative bonus. This increases to +4 at 15th EBL and gets +1 every 5 levels after.

Crusader Vigor : As the Mettle ability.

Know the Way : you gain a +10 to Martial Lore checks and may use the skill untrained. You also gain +2 to a disciplines primary skill for every maneuver you pick from that discipline from your Way of the Nine vestige feature and a +1 to Martial Lore checks to identify a maneuver from that discipline. For example if you took 3 Diamond Mind maneuvers you would gain a +6 to concentration checks and an additional +3 to martial lore checks to identify a diamond mind maneuver.

Gray but Young, Quick Yet Wise : The binder is now under the effect of the Timeless body ability of the druid class except that any aging penalties are removed for the duration of the bind to Reshar. Reshar was quick to act but he was also very wise and gives you a +4 to your wisdom score.