The following are additions to the Talent-Based Item creation system not found within the Library, but that use rules and abilities that can be found here. For more information, see the Spheres of Power wiki.
Veilweaving Sphere Magic Items And Shaped Veils[]
If a magic item grants the Veilweaving sphere, it grants a single shaped veil, chosen upon creation of the item. If that veil can be shaped in multiple slots, the slot the veil is shaped in is chosen upon the magic item’s creation as well. If the item grants the Shape Additional Veil talent, shaped veils granted by that talent are determined upon the item’s creation as well.
When using one of these items you must have the item on your person (worn for a worn item or carried for a slotless item) as part of resting to recover your spell points for the day (or as part of an 8 hour rest, if you don’t have spell points to recover). Veils provided by magic items count against any veil slots you can normally shape. If you have the ability to bind veils to your chakras, you can bind veils provided by one of these items as part of this process.
If the magic item stops being worn (carried for a slotless item, or held for a held item such as a staff), the veils granted by the item are suppressed until the item is put back on (or the item is held or carried once again). The veils are automatically unshaped if they are suppressed for more than 8 consecutive hours in this way.
A character can only benefit from a single magic item granting a veil using the Veilweaving sphere at a time. Veils granted by a magic item have a veilweaving level equal to your Hit Dice or the item’s caster level, whichever is lower, and use that veilweaving level when determining their essence capacity instead of your Hit Dice. These veils are otherwise treated as normal veils for all purposes.
If a magic item grants a (bind) talent, those talents only allow you to bind veils granted by the item. Spell engines and other limited-use magic items cannot grant veils using the Veilweaving sphere, only items with continuous effects.
Veilweaving Sphere Magic Items and Essence[]
Any permanent essence granted by an (essence) talent is lost if the magic item granting that talent is removed (for a worn item) or if it leaves your person or stops being held (for a slotless or held item). This automatically removes the essence from any essence receptacles if it is invested. When the item is put back on, reacquired, or held, you regain access to that essence.
Any permanent essence granted by a magic item that is burned remains burned even if the item is taken off or removed from your person, and remains burned when the item is reactivated. The burned essence can only be recovered by meditating to recover the burned essence while the item is activated (or via any other methods you have of recovering burned essence while the item is acrivated).
Any temporary essence granted by an ability of the Veilweaving sphere used as part of a magic item is unaffected by these rules.
Veilweaving Sphere Item Base Powers[]
Condense Essence[]
Range: personal
Duration: 1 minute per caster level.
Effect: You gain 1 temporary essence for 1 minute per caster level of the item. This ability does not stack with itself. For each increase of 1 to the item’s complexity, the maximum essence gained increases by 1.
Shape Veil[]
Range: personal
Duration: constant, item must be worn or held
Effect: The item grants a single shaped veil, following the normal rules for Veilweaving sphere magic items that grant veils. This veil cannot be from an obscure chakra (such as ring, blood, storm, or voice). Items granting this ability must be cost as an item granting an ability that can be used at-will or continuously.
Complexity[]
An item cannot be granted the Capacity Increase, Veil Knowledge, Shape Additional Veil, or any talent that grants a chakra bind or tradition by adding talents to a talent-based item by increasing its complexity.
Additional Veil:[]
The item grants an additional shaped veil, as per the Shape Veil base power by increasing the item complexity by 2. The item must be at least caster level 3 to select this complexity. This complexity can be selected an additional time at caster level 6, and every 3 caster levels thereafter.
Chakra Bind: The veils granted by this item can be bound to a single chakra by increasing the item complexity by 1. The item must have a minimum caster level to select specific binds, as per the following:
CL 2: Hands and Feet
CL 6: Head
CL 8: Wrists
CL 10: Shoulders
CL 11: Blood, Ring, Storm, Voice, other obscure chakras.
CL 12: Headband
CL 14: Belt and Neck
CL 18: Chest
CL 20: Body
This complexity can be selected multiple times, selecting a different chakra for each selection.
Improved Essence Capacity:[]
The veils granted by the item have their essence capacity increased by 1 by increasing the item complexity by 1. The item must be at least caster level 3 to select this complexity. This complexity can be selected an additional time at caster level 9 and 15.
Obscure Veil:[]
The veil granted by the item can be of a single obscure chakra by increasing the item complexity by 1.