Minor Veils[]
This ruleset for Akashic Mysteries introduces a new category of veils that fill in some of the gaps left by the ruleset’s lack of a cantrip-level ability for veilweavers. These rules help to diversify the abilities of veilweavers at low levels with new utility abilities that don’t require them to give up their core veils.
Veil Sets[]
Certain abilities and effects call out veils from certain "veil sets". These veil sets can be found here.
Belt Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Aphora's Belt of Fire | Fiery aura burns poisonous and diseased creatures, you recover from afflictions more quickly | Conjure flame-wreathed, flying chariot |
| Barrier Belt | Create a wall | Place an additional wall |
| Belt of Woven Gold | Teleport through bright light | Expand teleport range & counter-teleport melee attackers |
| Craftsman's Belt | Grants extra dimensional storage for improving your crafts | Gain make whole, minor creation, and major creation as SLAs |
| Drunkard's Sash | Gain temporary hit points from drinking | Gain additional bonuses depending on drink |
| Gourd of Wisdom | Reroll a failed Int-based skill check with a bonus | Make a concoction that grants a bonus to Int- and Wis-based skill checks |
| Guardian Sash | Gain bonus to AC vs critical threats | Block incapacitating strikes |
| Mermaid's Tail | Breathe water and air, gain a swim speed | Gain Feet bind, use create water, rising water, and control water as SLAs |
| Mobius Ribbon | Repeat an instantaneous effect | Continually loop chosen effect |
| Sash of Four Seasons | Gain energy resistances, unleash a blast of energy | Increase the resistance by your veilweaver level |
| Sleipnir | Gain bonuses to Knowledge (planes) and Ride checks | Conjure planar-wandering phantom steed |
| Stone Giant's Girdle | Gain a pool of temporary HP | Throw and catch boulders |
| Suli's Sash | Gain bonuses to Strength and Dexterity checks after saving vs elemental magic | Gain temporary hp or speed based on save vs elemental magic |
| Unicorn's Barding | Radiate an aura that protects against fear and emotion effects | Dispel nearby emotion effects |
| Verdant Vambraces | Call forth entangling plant life | Conjure additional entanglement, repair plant matter & tree stride |
| Waistband of the Wealthy | Gain a bonus to Bluff and Sense Motive checks | Maintain extradimensional storage |
| Werewolf's Pelt | Gain a bonus to Perception and DR/silver or good | Temporarily transform into a werewolf |
| White Rider's Sash | Create a cone of bright light in front of you, and gain bonuses to Intimidate checks | Conjure flying steed of light |
Body Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Aerial Nimbus | Wearer can walk on air like solid ground | Share air walk or summon air elemental |
| Bands of Binding Ice | Summon walls of ice | Contain creature or self in ice |
| Bindings of the Immortal | Become resistant to death | Become protected from death once per day |
| Cardinal's Cape | Gain bonuses vs ability damage, drain, and death effects | Immunity to ability damage & drain, energy drain & death effects, heal in response to protection |
| Ceradon's Eternity | Suppress recurring effects | Run down duration of effects while in stasis Counter temporal spells Regenerate continually to youth |
| Geri and Freki | Gain a bonus on Handle Animal, summon a wolf companion | Summon additional wolf, wolf aspects, or command wolves |
| Heart of Yggdrasil | Reduce bleed damage and gain bonuses on saves to which plants are immune | Conjure life-recovering tree |
| Heaven's Blessing | Buffs allies and debuffs enemies that can see you | Use holy word |
| Interference Bangles | Inhibits machinery within 10 feet | Project antimagic or antitech aura |
| Luminosity of the Lurker in Light | Gain bonuses to Stealth checks which increase in bright light | Continual invisibility & divination resistance |
| Martyr's Toga | Take an ally's wound upon yourself | Gain fast healing |
| Mummy's Wrappings | Gain bonuses against necromancy and transmutation effects | Summon a sarcophagus that puts a creature under temporal stasis, retreat to the sarcophagus when you are defeated |
| Pneumatic Module | Gain a bonus to bull rush, bull rush creatures who fail to bull rush you or fail to strike you with a bludgeoning weapon | Gain variable AC bonus & bull rush groups |
| Stone Giant's Girdle | Gain a pool of temporary hit points | Gain additional Strength & reach |
| Sun's Fiddle | Gain a fiddle that grants a bonus to Perform checks and can cast light-based spells | Gain Hands and Wrist binds, gain an air walk and the ability to teleport |
| Unicorn's Barding | Radiate an aura that protects against fear and emotion effects | Dispel nearby emotion effects Suppress nearby fear & hostile foes |
Chest Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Ablation Field | DR or hardness increases | Use energy adaptation to gain energy resistance & light shedding |
| Ceradon's Eternity | Suppress recurring effects | Run down duration of effects while in stasis Counter temporal spells |
| Goldhoard Vestments | Transform items into gold, invest gold into this veil to gain bonuses to saving throws and AC | Gain Head, Wrists, and Shoulders binds. Treat invested gold as 1.25x greater when determining the effects of this veil |
| Heart of Yggdrasil | Reduce bleed damage and gain bonuses on saves to which plants are immune | Use plant shape, plant shape II, and tree shape |
| Heart Link Cuirass | Redirect damage from an ally to yourself | Redirect all damage, triple this veil's damage reduction |
| Lion's Heart | Gain immunity to fear, resist outside influences | Your allies gain the benefits of this veil |
| Thunder's Kindness | Create a quarterstaff, gain purify food and drink at will | Gain the Hands bind, quarterstaff can become an animated object |
Feet Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Mermaid's Tail | Breathe water and air, gain a swim speed | Teleport within liquids |
| Vines of the Elderwood | Gain woodland step and trackless step | Cause plants around you to grow spikes and entangle foes |
| Witch's Broom | Create a broom which acts as a quarterstaff and gives a bonus to AC | Ride broom to fly |
Hands Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Apho's Blooded Gauntlets | Deal Con damage to yourself to heal others, or vice-versa | Speed or slow target through their blood |
| Armaments of Faith | Use this sword and shield to protect yourself and your allies | Take a hit for an adjacent ally |
| Banelight Vortices | Launch glittering attacks that deal extra damage to undead and creatures vulnerable to light | Attack multiple targets |
| Beastmaster's Glove | Grants a small ‘familiar', improves Handle Animal | Your creature gains bonuses depending on your Handle Animal skill |
| Bloodvine Embrace | Damage the branded creature and steal their health | Use stolen health to heal your allies |
| Bonds of Freedom | Create a spiked chain, ignore the hardness of restraining devices | Gain a bonus when escaping or helping others to escape |
| Confections of the Three Schmucks | Throw pies that deal nonlethal damage | Pies gain the distance property, pie throwing becomes contagious |
| Cordyceps Sporecloud | Puppet a willing creature by spending your own actions | Infect unwilling creatures |
| Deathgrip Gauntlets | Become fiercer as your life wanes | You are not staggered below 0 HP |
| Gloves of Repulsion | Deal force damage and bull rush a touched creature | Bull rush larger creatures, damage creatures when a bull rushed creature bumps them |
| Grace of the Goddess | Cure allies of maladies | Reduce greater conditions to weaker ones, cure ability damage |
| Gravsling | Conjure a sling that deals exponentially more damage to larger creatures | Attack foes with shooting stars that deal higher damage |
| Hands of the Bard | Gain bonuses to Concentration checks and certain spell DCs | Conjure fascinating pattern |
| Hardlight Axe | Strike enemies from afar as if they were near | Make an extra attack whenever you confirm a crit |
| Immaculate Touch | Grants the ability to heal allies with a touch | Use Mercy to heal chosen effect |
| Jack's Lantern | Summon a jack-o-lantern that acts as a light hammer | Creatures illuminated by your lantern are protected by a hide from undead spell |
| Loyal Paladin's Spear of Light | Create a spear made of purified akashic energy | Turn spear into damaging blast |
| Mark of the Gate Guardian | Use two shields to pummel your foes into submission | Increase all ally shield AC when you hit with shield bashes |
| Mobius Ribbon | Repeat an instantaneous effect | Increase duration on nearby effect |
| Roshambo | Challenge foes to roshambo, with the loser taking damage | Add additional signs to roshambo |
| Shifting Moon Glaive | Create a glaive that gains different abilities as it shifts through the phases of the moon | Choose the next phase the glaive will enter |
| Snakehandler's Gauntlets | Gain DR and bonus to saves vs poison | Conjure & apply poison safely |
| Sun's Fiddle | Gain a fiddle that grants a bonus to Perform checks and can cast light-based spells | Gain the fascinate performance of a bard |
| Thunder's Kindness | Create a quarterstaff, gain purify food and drink at will | Enhance your quarterstaff |
| Unicorn Feathering | Grant creatures fast healing | Increase healing & bless subject |
| Verdant Vambraces | Call forth entangling plant life | Conjure additional entanglement & repair plant matter |
| Witch's Broom | Create a broom which acts as a quarterstaff and gives a bonus to AC | Enhance broom |
Head Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Adamant Crown | Gain telepathy and you can use Voice veils via telepathy | Resist illusions & mind-affecting |
| Avatar of Light | Gain a holy servant | Reinforce servant with additional hit dice |
| Black Hat of the Witch | Gain a cat familiar | Your cat can hold and deliver your veil effects |
| Calavera Mask | Gain bonuses against undead, cast grave words as an SLA | Undead creatures become friendly to you |
| Crown of the Wildspeaker | Gain a continuous speak with animals effect, increase the attitude of animals, gain bonuses to social skills vs animals | Gain mass suggestion as an at-will SLA, usable only against animals |
| Crystals of Radiance | Create two hovering crystals that act as laser pistols | Create a third crystal |
| Diadem of Pure Reflection | Gain bonus on saves vs blind, daze, and stunning effects | Reflect blind, daze, and stunning effects upon user |
| Eldest Fey's Diadem | Gain a familiar | Improve Familiar & use Slumber hex to put someone to sleep |
| Entwining Mycelium | Psychically link creatures so all may use each other's skill ranks | Use other creatures' skill bonuses as well as ranks |
| Frankenstein's Head Mirror | Gain bonuses to Heal and Knowledge (engineering) | Create constructs as per the Craft Poppet feat |
| Galactic Mentality | Change creature abilities when you fail to identify them | Identify creatures as a swift action, change more abilities when you fail |
| Goldhoard Vestments | Transform items into gold, invest gold into this veil to gain bonuses to saving throws and AC | Sense nearby valuable objects, invest gold to gain bonuses to ability scores |
| Gravsling | Conjure a sling that deals exponentially more damage to larger creatures | Hands benefits, stars now explode |
| Hyandil's Flowered Regalia | Gain bonuses to Diplomacy and speak with plants | Gain Shambling Mound companion |
| Impulse Earrings | Act in surprise rounds, cannot be caught flat-footed | Cannot be flanked, immune to precision damage, gain the ability to reinvest essence as a free action |
| Instinct | Gain instincts that warn you of danger and deception | You cannot be flanked |
| You can see through fog, ice, rain, and snow | Gain gaze attack that either sways or slows creatures | |
| Mask of Elemental Adaptation | Convert elemental damage to a different type | Impede elemental attackers |
| Mindspan Nexus | Communicate telepathically with allies | Increase the distance of your telepathy to miles |
| Network Interfacer | Gain detect mindscape at will and bonuses to Knowledge checks | Use create mindscape & mindscape door to place people in mental landscapes |
| Neurospore Mycorrhiza | Gain tremorsense and the ability to communicate with plant creatures | Gain thoughtsense and the ability to communicate with any intelligent creature |
| Nymph's Visage | Gain bonuses to Diplomacy and Handle Animal, use wild empathy as a druid | Stun target with a look |
| Pneumatic Module | Gain a bonus to bull rush, bull rush creatures who fail to bull rush you or fail to strike you with a bludgeoning weapon | Bull rush in response to emotional attacks |
| Sparkling Alicorn | Gain a gore attack and grant allies temporary HP | Conjure a half-celestial unicorn |
| White Rider's Sash | Create a cone of bright light in front of you, and gain bonuses to Intimidate checks | Unleash blinding counterattack when injured |
Headband Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Adamant Crown | Gain telepathy and you can use Voice veils via telepathy | Increase Save DC of Mind-Affecting effects |
| Alluring Voice | Gain bonuses to Bluff and Diplomacy, gain suggestion as an SLA | Your suggestion lasts longer |
| Aurora Lenses | Gain bonuses to Spellcraft checks and the ability to counter spells of a single element | Counter additional elements |
| Black Hat of the Witch | Gain a cat familiar | Gain Head bind, share senses with your cat |
| Blindman's Folds | Gain blindsight | Gain arcane sight and true seeing |
| Calavera Mask | Gain bonuses against undead, cast grave words as an SLA | Commune with the dead and keep them from attacking |
| Collective Consciousness | Communicate telepathically with allies, distract enemies | Increase the range of your telepathy, gain create mindscape as an SLA |
| Criniere of Warding | Gain a bonus to AC and saves vs evil creatures | Restore the recently dead to life |
| Crystals of Radiance | Create two hovering crystals that act as laser pistols | Gain Head bind, create four or more crystals, deal akashic damage |
| Delver's Goggles | Gain bonuses to Perception and gain darkvision | See in supernatural darkness |
| Diadem of Pure Reflection | Gain bonus on saves vs blind, daze, and stunning effects | Reflect blind, daze, and stunning effects upon user & redirect blind, stun & paralysis effects |
| Gain bonuses vs emotion and fear, shoot ice beams from your eyes | Entrap target in ice to entangle, paralyze & delay ongoing harm | |
| Eldest Fey's Diadem | Gain a familiar | Use wall of thorns |
| Halo of Holy Light | Glowing halo dazzles evil creatures | Channel & maximise positive energy |
| Impulse Earrings | Act in surprise rounds, cannot be caught flat-footed | Gain Head bind, interrupt another creature's turn with your own |
| Innocent's Eyes | Gain bonuses to Perception and saves vs illusions | See through illusions and transformations |
| Liminal Repartee | Gain bonuses to Perform (comedy) and use it in place of Bluff or Diplomacy checks | Increase aid another bonuses |
| Mindspan Nexus | Communicate telepathically with allies | Telepathy distance increases to tens of miles, allows chaining distance, and two-way sharing of senses |
| Mobius Ribbon | Repeat an instantaneous effect | Apply repeated effect elsewhere |
| Network Interfacer | Gain detect mindscape at will and bonuses to Knowledge checks | Create permanent greater mindscape & use mindscape door |
| Neurospore Mycorrhiza | Gain tremorsense and the ability to communicate with plant creatures | Gain Head bind, speak with plants, and your thoughtsense now works as blindsight |
| Nymph's Visage | Gain bonuses to Diplomacy and Handle Animal, use wild empathy as a druid | Blind nearby viewers |
| Roshambo | Challenge foes to roshambo, with the loser taking damage | Learn the final sign of roshambo that slays foes instantly |
| Spectacles of the Sheikh | Use detect magic at-will and gain bonuses to Perception and Sense Motive checks | Gain blindsight, detect & dispel nearby divinations |
Neck Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Alluring Voice | Gain bonuses to Bluff and Diplomacy, gain suggestion as an SLA | Your suggestion affects multiple creatures |
| Bralani's Brooch | Gain resistance to electricity | Gain spell resistance |
| Cloak of Spores | Fire a cone of poisonous spores that damages and sickens creatures | Gain climb speed & two poisonous slam natural attacks |
| Cloak of Thorns | Spray a cone of deadly thorns | Gain climb speed & use thorns as natural attacks |
| Courtesan's Cloak | Gain a bonus to AC against ranged attacks and saving throws | Gain Improved Evasion |
| Criniere of Warding | Gain a bonus to AC and saves vs evil creatures | Project aura of weaker protections, impede evil from entering |
| Garden Warden's Gorget | Fiery veil burns up ranged projectiles and weapons, protecting you from harm | Gain swift breath weapon |
| Honeycomb Necklace | Gain bonuses to Bluff and Diplomacy | Vomit forth a swarm of bees when you fail Bluff or Diplomacy checks |
| Hyandil's Flowered Regalia | Gain bonuses to Diplomacy and speak with plants | Conjure treant ally |
| Liminal Repartee | Gain bonuses to Perform (comedy) and use it in place of Bluff or Diplomacy checks | Immediately counter verbal spells |
| Metabolist's Scarf | Gain protection from bleed damage and a bonus to the Metabolic Healing feat | Use adapt body to acclimatise self and allies to extreme locales |
| Nymph's Visage | Gain bonuses to Diplomacy and Handle Animal, use wild empathy as a druid | Add boosted charisma to saves & ac |
| Pact Binder's Pendant | Gain a bonus to Linguistics and use Linguistics when bartering | Use conditional favor to bind agreements on pain of lost benefit |
| Pneumatic Module | Gain a bonus to bull rush, bull rush creatures who fail to bull rush you or fail to strike you with a bludgeoning weapon | Defy critical confirmation & respond with improved bull rushes |
| Priestess' Clasp of Rebirth | Use disguise self at-will | Reflexively use reincarnate |
| Sparkling Alicorn | Gain a gore attack and grant allies temporary HP | Conjure a half-celestial unicorn & deal healing burst on a crit |
| Starcaller's Bangles | Summon a meteor to strike your foes | Gain Wrists bind, explosions deal more damage, meteors deal more damage to buildings and vehicles |
| Toxinlungs | Hold your breath for long periods and gain bonuses vs airborne toxins, plus a toxic breath weapon | Become immune to airborne toxins, store toxins in your lungs to attack others |
| Vampire's Blessing | Gain a bite natural attack that grants temporary hit points when used on living creatures | Temporarily transform into a vampire |
| Voice of Winter | Create snow servants | Make snow servant sentient & possess it |
Shoulders Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Bralani's Brooch | Gain resistance to electricity | Ranged attacks gain miss chance |
| Cardinal's Cape | Gain bonuses vs ability damage, drain, and death effects | Increase bonuses & healing on success |
| Cloak of Spores | Fire a cone of poisonous spores that damages and sickens creatures | Gain fly speed & use spore cone more frequently |
| Cloak of Thorns | Spray a cone of deadly thorns | Gain fly speed & use thorn cone more frequently |
| Courtesan's Cloak | Gain a bonus to Stealth checks and saving throws | Gain evasion |
| Fungal Panacea | Grow mushrooms which function as polypurpose panacea | Grow more mushrooms, which grant more and greater effects |
| Goldhoard Vestments | Transform items into gold, invest gold into this veil to gain bonuses to saving throws and AC | Dazzle creatures to protect yourself from flanking, invest gold to gain bonuses to your ability scores |
| Monster Hunter's Cloak | Gain Knowledge when identifying monsters | Your allies gain the benefits of this veil |
| Werewolf's Pelt | Gain a bonus to Perception and DR/silver or good | Transform into a wolf as per beast shape I |
| Winter's Coat | You gain cold resistance and can turn into a cloud of snowflakes | Instantly take on snowflake form to elude attack or falling |
Wrists Slot Veils[]
| Name | Description | Bind Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Bands of Binding Ice | Summon walls of ice | Contain creature in ice |
| Bonds of Freedom | Create a spiked chain, ignore the hardness of restraining devices | Gain Hands bind, use a mass version of freedom of movement |
| Captor's Chain | Entangle a foe and root them to the ground | Make drag and reposition attempts against bound creatures |
| Cordyceps Sporecloud | Puppet a willing creature by spending your own actions | Gain Hands bind, infect multiple creatures at once, manipulate creatures more easily |
| Gloves of Repulsion | Deal force damage and bull rush a touched creature | Gain Hands bind, launch objects |
| Goldhoard Vestments | Transform items into gold, invest gold into this veil to gain bonuses to saving throws and AC | Replace your attacks with touch attacks which deal akashic damage, invest gold to gain a bonus to attack and damage |
| Interference Bangles | Inhibits machinery within 10 feet | Inflict spell failure chance within aura |
| Jack's Lantern | Summon a jack-o-lantern that acts as a light hammer | Gain Hands bind, confirming a critical hit places a doom mark, marked creatures who die are turned into soul gems |
| Ribbon of Displacement | Swap places with a creature and disguise each as the other | Swap places more quickly, even in response to attacks |
| Shifting Moon Glaive | Create a glaive that gains different abilities as it shifts through the phases of the moon | Gain Hands bind, increase the power of your moon phase abilities |
| Starcaller's Bangles | Summon a meteor to strike your foes | Cause the meteor to explode and deal splash damage |
| Sun's Fiddle | Gain a fiddle that grants a bonus to Perform checks and can cast light-based spells | Gain the Hands bind, use irresistible dance on creatures you fascinate |
| Vines of the Elderwood | Gain woodland step and trackless step | Target a foe with entangling thorns |