Essence is both life force and the energy of the soul which can be used to empower oneself and one’s magics. A rare few learn to draw upon their well of essence so completely as the essence catalyst, allowing them great feats of magical potential unknown to most wielders of akasha.
Catalyze Akasha[]
At 1st level, the essence catalyst gains the Veilweaving sphere as a bonus magic talent and uses their class level as their caster level with the Veilweaving sphere. This stacks normally with caster levels gained from other sources. If they already have the Veilweaving sphere, they may select a Veilweaving talent of their choice instead.
This replaces the elementalist’s weave energy class feature.
Abundance of Essence[]
At 1st level, the essence catalyst gains 1 point of essence. They gain an additional point of essence at 3rd level, and every 2 levels thereafter.
Essence Catalyzation[]
At 3rd level the essence catalyst begins to catalyze the essence within their bodies, automatically empowering their essence receptacles. The essence catalyst treats a number of essence receptacles up to their elementalist level as if they were invested with one additional point of essence which bypasses their normal essence capacity. At 9th level, and again at 15th level and 20th level, the amount of additional essence increases by one. The essence catalyst may change which of their essence receptacles benefit from this ability each time they reallocate their essence. This ability does not stack with other abilities that treat an essence receptacle as if it were invested with additional essence, such as an akashic catalyst.
This replaces the elementalist’s favored element class feature.
Catalyzed Resistances (Su)[]
At 5th level, the essence catalyst can catalyze essence within their skin, allowing them to better resist elemental damage. The essence catalyst can invest essence in this ability, gaining resistance to acid, cold, fire, and electricity equal to the amount of essence invested. At 11th level, this resistance increases to twice the essence invested. At 17th level, this resistance increases to three times the essence invested.
This replaces the elementalist’s elemental defense class feature.
Catalyzed Maneuverability (Su)[]
At 7th level, the essence catalyst can catalyze the essence within their body to drastically increase their maneuverability. The essence catalyst can invest essence in this ability, granting them a 5 foot increase to all of their modes of movement per point of essence invested. This increase is an enhancement bonus.
This replaces the elementalist’s elemental movement class feature.
Catalyzed Sight (Su)[]
At 13th level, the essence catalyst can catalyze essence within their eyes, allowing them to sense the essence that makes up the world. The essence cataly can invest essence in this ability, granting them blindsense with a range equal to 5 feet times the number of points of essence invested. If another creature enters the area of their blindsense, the essence catalyst immediately learns the amount of points of essence that essence has available to them, the number of veils they have shaped and the number of essence receptacles they posses, and the amount of essence invested in those essence receptacles. At 19th level, this ability grants blindsight instead of blindsense.
Catalyzed Soul (Su)[]
At 20th level, the essence catalyst has catalysted their essence within their soul, immortalizing their body and protecting their essence. The essence catalyst gains an immunity to death effects and negative levels and no longer suffers ability score penalties from aging and cannot die from old age. If they had any penalties from aging, they immediately lose those penalties. They still accrue bonuses gained from aging. In addition, whenever the essence catalyst would suffer essence burn they recover the burned essence at the beginning of their next turn.
This replaces the elementalist’s energy body class feature.