#summoner

Call Forth the Abyssal Hordes – Bloodlines & Black Magic / Pathfinder (1st Edition) Spellcaster Feat

What do you care for the mewling adoration of mere humanity? You are served by the mad & howling damned, insane & violent souls wrenched-free of the blackest pits of Oblivion to run wild … their blood-spattered passions obedient only to the crushing grip of your iron magics.

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Prerequisite: Character level 7th; non-Lawful and non-Good alignment

Benefit: You add schir demon as a 4th level summons for your summon monster list; thus, you may freely summon 1d3 schir using summon monster V or 1d4+1 schir using summon monster VI.

When you summon schir demons using a summon monster spell, you may cast the spell as a standard action rather than as a full-round action; if you choose to do so, the range of the spell drops to zero feet: demons summoned in this way arrive directly adjacent to you, emerging from your shadow, from the folds of your cloak or from the blood pooled at your feet.

In addition, if any magical attack you make (with a spell, spell-like ability, magical weapon or supernatural ability) would ever outright kill a living, corporeal creature within 30 feet of you, you may choose to expend a single spell of 1st level or higher as a swift action to reduce your damage by any amount, thus leaving the creature alive. If you choose to do so, your target must succeed at a Will save – DC 10 + ½ your character level + your Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma bonus (your choice) – or immediately gain the Demon-Possessed template (schir only).

For every 5 points of damage by which you choose to reduce your final damage, your target suffers a -1 penalty on all of its Will saving throws until the beginning of its next round.

Schir demons summoned & bound into a mortal host in this way cannot freely step out of the body they occupy, unlike other Demon-Possessed creatures (see the Possessed Special Quality).

Any use of Pierce the Veil(seeBloodlines & Black Magic, pg. 10) upon a creature possessed in this way automatically reveals the schir demon – no roll, action or check required – attached to the soul of the victim.

Demon-Possessed creatures created in this way are not loyal to you and do not automatically obey your instructions. As a standard action, you may expend one spell of 1st level or higher to enslave all Demon-Possessed creatures within 30 feet; all such creatures receive a Will save (DC as above) to negate this effect. Demon-Possessed creatures that fail their saves fall under your control, obeying your commands to the best of their ability, as if they were undead under the effects of control undead. Demon-Possessed creatures receive a new saving throw each day to end your command over them; the duration of this enslavement is otherwise limitless.

You can control any number of such creatures, so long as their total Hit Dice do not exceed your character level. If a Demon-Possessed creature is under the control of another master, you must make an opposed Charisma check whenever your orders conflict.

At the end of each 24 hours, a Demon-Possessed creature created in this way receives a new saving throw to end their possession and return to normal; such a creature gains a +1 bonus to their save for each previous failure.

Campaign Note: Within the Bloodlines & Black Magic setting, this ability is most common amongst witches drawn from the Shadow Bloodline in service to the Aku No Jotei, Demon Queen of Spite; rumors persist that members of the now-vanished Lineage known as the Eyes of Nyx (see page 61) were the truest masters of this black art, although their apprentices were legion. In addition, the Archons task each & every of their loyal servants – including such disreputable Lineages as The Masters (see page 56) – to hunt-down & execute anyone known to practice this technique, seeking to rid the world they now rule of all such dangerous Goetic intrusion.