Descriptors: Air, Earth
Class: Stormbound
Slot: Storm
Saving Throw: Reflex (see text)
A storm of sand and intense winds whirl around you, forming a scouring burst at your command.
When you have at least 1 point of essence invested in this veil the area of your Storm swirls with roaring sand, making it difficult to perceive things within the storm. Creatures within the storm suffer a -4 penalty on Perception checks, and any tracks left within the storm are scoured away by the blasting sand (including scents). At the end of your turn, each creature within the area takes 1d3 nonlethal piercing damage.
As a standard action, you can cause blinding sand to further scour a creature within the storm, further deadening their senses. That creature takes additional damage equal to the base effect of this veil plus your veilweaving modifier, and must make a Reflex save or have their perceptions further reduced by the storm. If they fail, the penalty to Perception checks imposed by the storm is doubled against them and they are treated as flat-footed against all creatures more than 5 feet away from them until the end of your next turn.
Essence: Each point of essence invested beyond the first increases the damage of the storm by 1d3, and the penalty to Perception checks worsens by -2.
Chakra Bind (Storm): [St9]: Binding this veil to your Storm chakra causes it to surge with deadly power. The effects of this storm now deal lethal piercing damage. In addition, as a full-round action you can cause the storm to surge and affect every creature within its area with the storm’s standard action effect.