Apocalypse Rider (Uncommon)

Your apocalypse mount becomes worthier of an eventual Rider of the Apocalypse. Your apocalypse mount gains one specialization of your choice.

Special You can select this feat up to three times. Each time, add a different specialization to your apocalypse mount. Your apocalypse mount can't have more than three specializations.

Frequency once per 10 minutes

Your attacks bring with them echoes of previous battles, calling the unquiet victims of your most brutal acts to savage your opponents. Make a Strike. If this Strike hits, you deal additional void damage equal to your key attribute modifier to the target and all enemies within 30 feet. If your attack is a critical hit, you deal twice as much damage instead, and the target of your Strike takes persistent void damage equal to your key attribute modifier as your fallen foes attempt to drag the target into oblivion with them. This Strike counts as two attacks for calculating your multiple attack penalty.

While riding your apocalypse mount, any two-handed weapon you wield gains the jousting trait with a die size equal to one die size lower than the weapon's normal damage die.

It will take more than a gathered mass of foes to take you down. You gain resistance equal to your level to damage dealt by swarms, troops, and creatures who occupy the same space as you. In addition, you can briefly menace large groups of enemies to step aside. You gain the Overawe Crowd activity.

You spoil the food and water nearby, even within your foes' bodies. Spend a Mythic Point. Enemies within 60 feet of you must succeed at a Fortitude save against your class DC or spell DC (whichever is higher) or become Sickened 1. You also cause edible food to rot and potable water to turn brackish within the area. Choose a number of potions or alchemical elixirs within the area equal to your key attribute modifier and attempt a counteract against each of them using Occultism or Religion at mythic proficiency. Your counteract rank is half your level. If you succeed, the elixir or potion spoils and becomes a mundane item.

Buoyed by your fearsome reputation, your steed can take flight. Your apocalypse mount gains a fly Speed equal to its land Speed. If it already has a fly speed, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus to Acrobatics checks to Maneuver In Flight. At night, or in any environment deprived of natural sunlight, your apocalypse mount gains a +10-foot circumstance bonus to its fly Speed, and critical failures on Acrobatics checks to Maneuver in Flight become failures instead.

Trigger Another creature within 30 feet gains the Doomed or Dying condition or their doomed or dying condition increases.

As a harbinger of daemonkind, you gain authority to delay the death of others if it serves your purposes, and in doing so, you bolster the well-being of both you and your mount to allow you sow further havoc. The triggering creature reduces their doomed or dying condition by 1.

For the next minute, you and your apocalypse mount gain fast healing 5 as long as you are within 10 feet of each other. If you use this reaction again within that minute, you and your mount's fast healing increases by 1, but the duration isn't increased.

Effect: Steal Death

Frequency once per 10 minutes

Requirements You are riding your apocalypse mount.

You inspire your allies to greater battle prowess while trampling enemies in your way. You Command your apocalypse mount to Stride up to twice its Speed (or to Burrow, Climb, Fly, or Swim, if it has the corresponding movement type), moving through the space of any foes in your path up to one size smaller than your apocalypse mount. Your mount deals damage equal to one of its unarmed attack Strikes to each creature whose space you move through (Basic Reflex save against your apocalypse mount's Athletics DC). On a critical failure, the creature also becomes Off Guard until the end of your next turn. You can damage a given creature only once during this movement.

In addition, all allies who witnessed your charge gain a number of temporary Hit Points equal to your level and a +2 status bonus to damage against any foe damaged by your apocalypse mount this round. This has the visual trait. These benefits last until the end of your next turn.

Effect: To War!

Those afflicted by certain maladies are closer to death in your presence. Make a Strike against a creature. If your attack hits, the target must attempt a new saving throw against the highest-level disease or poison that is currently affecting it, possibly progressing it to a higher stage even if the affliction's interval hasn't passed. If the target successfully saves or critically saves against the affliction, the affliction's stage isn't reduced. If your attack was a critical hit, the target takes a –4 circumstance penalty to the save.

Effect: Virulent Strike

Frequency once per 10 minutes

You hasten the passage of time for a living creature, prematurely aging them into decrepitude. A living creature within 60 feet takes 14d6 void damage and a part of its body you chose withers, taking the following penalties depending on the result of their a Fortitude saving throw against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher.

• Arms The target's arms grow weak. The target becomes Enfeebled 1.
• Head The target has trouble thinking straight. The target becomes Stupefied 1.
• Legs The target's legs buckle with every movement. The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds.
• Torso The target's skin becomes thin and papery. The target gains weakness 10 to slashing damage.

Critical Success The target is unaffected.

Success The target takes half damage and the withering penalty lasts until the end of your next turn.

Failure The creature takes full damage and the withering penalty lasts for 1 minute.

Critical Failure The creature takes double damage, and you can choose a second part of the body to wither. Both penalties last for 1 minute.

Effect: Wither Away

Your magic can bring devastation to more individuals. Spend a Mythic Point. If your next action is to Cast a Spell that inflicts damage or debilitating conditions and targets a specific number of creatures, you can target one additional creature.

The servants of apocalypse know that it is impossible to cheat death, but your will is sufficient to help you outlive even your strongest enemies. The first time each day you would be reduced to 0 Hit Points but not immediately killed, you avoid being knocked out and instead of taking the damage, you regain a number of Hit Points equal to twice your level. Your Wounded condition increases by 1.

In addition, whenever you have the wounded condition, you gain a status bonus to your Armor Class equal to your wounded condition value and a status bonus to the damage of your Strikes equal to twice your wounded condition value.

With a look and a gesture, you turn a thinking creature's mind against itself, causing the creature to struggle to remember how to perform more complex actions. Choose a target within 30 feet and spend a Mythic Point. The target must attempt a Will save against your class DC or spell DC (whichever is higher) at mythic proficiency.

Critical Success The target is unaffected.

Success For the next 3 rounds, if the target performs an activity that requires three or more actions, they take 12d8 mental damage.

Failure For the next 3 rounds, if the target performs an activity that requires two or more actions, they take 12d8 mental damage.

Critical Failure As failure, but the target is also Stunned 1 as its mind struggles to function.

Your mount has a supernatural hunger for mortal souls that you can feed. Once per day, you can cast Seize Soul as a divine innate spell. The spell gains a cost of 1 Mythic Point but you can use your apocalypse mount as the item in which you store the soul. Your apocalypse mount counts as an artifact for the purpose of the spell. At any point while your apocalypse mount contains a soul, you can Sustain the spell to allow your apocalypse mount to consume the soul. It regains a number of Hit Points equal to twice your level. For the next minute, it also gains a +20-foot status bonus to its Speed and its unarmed attack Strikes are made at mythic proficiency.

Your commitment to ending all life earns you a measure of immortality, setting the stage for you to become a true Rider of the Apocalypse, possibly supplanting one of the Four. You gain the daemon, fiend, and unholy traits, and so does your apocalypse mount, but your fates are ever more entwined. As long as your apocalypse mount lives, you don't age and whenever your Doomed or Dying condition would increase to 4 or more, it doesn't increase. If you would be killed in any other way, you are instead reduced to 0 Hit Points, become Unconscious, and if your apocalypse mount is conscious, it instantly teleports to your side, picks you up, and attempts to flee the scene of danger.

While you are conscious and within 30 feet of your apocalypse mount, it can't be killed. If your apocalypse mount is reduced to 0 Hit Points, it immediately stabilizes and its dying condition can't increase. If its doomed condition would increase to 4 or more, it doesn't increase. However, if you move more than 30 feet away from your apocalypse mount or go Unconscious during this time, your apocalypse mount loses these benefits and might die.

Finally, when a living creature within 60 feet of you dies, it must attempt a Will saving throw against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. This is an incapacitation effect. On a failure, that creature can't be brought back to life for 24 hours. On a critical failure, you can chose to have that creature's soul coalesce into a fist-sized soul gem (Hardness 2, HP 8) that appears in that creature's space. That creature's soul is trapped within the gem for 1 week, though you can make the gem permanent with a 10-minute ritual. Destroying the gem frees the soul within but doesn't return the deceased creature to life. If a caster attempts to return to life a creature whose soul is trapped within a soul gem, they fail unless they succeed at a Religion check against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. A success causes the soul gem to shatter, allowing the creature to be returned to life as normal for the spell. Daemons and other fiends prize these soul gems, and they're generally worth an amount relative to the level of a gem's captive soul.