Descriptors: Divination
Class: Guru, Huay, Kheshig, Nexus, Promethean, Radiant, Stormbound, Vizier, Volur
Slot: Head, Headband
Saving Throw: none
This thin hoop of akasha hangs from your ear, filling your mind with images of danger right before they come to pass.
Shaping this veil grants you the ability to detect things brief moments before they happen, allowing you the ability to quickly react to nearly anything. You can always act in the surprise round of combat, cannot be caught flat-footed, and do not lose your Dexterity bonus to AC against attackers you cannot detect, such as invisible foes. Creatures who are immune to divinations, such as a creature under the effects of the mind blank spell, ignore the effects of this veil.
Essence: For each point of essence invested in this veil you gain a +2 insight bonus to your initiative and a +1 bonus to Reflex saving throws and as a dodge bonus to your AC against traps. Changing your initiative in the middle of combat using this ability adjusts your place in the turn order.
Chakra Bind (Head): [G8, Hu6, K5, N6, P6, R6, St6, Vi6, Vo5] Binding this veil to your Head chakra further enhances the veil’s ability to warn you of future events, allowing you to dodge even multiple foes and to reactively allocate your essence. You cannot be flanked and are immune to precision damage. Foes who are immune to divinations can ignore this effect. Additionally, you gain the ability to reinvest your essence once each round as a free action, even if it isn’t your turn. If you invest essence into this veil outside of your turn and it would cause your initiative to move to a place higher in the turn order than the current turn, you act immediately after the currently acting creature finishes their turn. For example: If you have an initiative of 8, and use this ability to invest 2 essence into this veil during the turn of a creature with an initiative of 10, bringing your initiative to 12, you would act immediately after that creature and then on your new initiative on the following round.
Chakra Bind (Headband): [G11, Hu12, K11, N12, P12, R9, St12, Vi12, Vo11] Binding this veil to your Headband chakra grants you all the benefits of the Head bind and further enhances your ability to respond to danger. When investing essence in this veil outside of your turn, if that investment would cause your initiative to become higher than the current turn in combat you may choose to act immediately, taking your turn for the round in the middle of the current turn. After you finish your turn, the rest of the interrupted turn is resolved as normal. If this was used to interrupt a creature’s turn, none of your actions during this turn provoke attacks of opportunity from the interrupted creature. You cannot choose to use this ability to interrupt the turn of a creature immune to divination effects.