Your witch patron has gone mysteriously silent. You still have access to your abilities, and your familiar is still funneling your patron's power to you. As you learn how to tap into that power, you influence your familiar to mold the power by itself, continuing to learn new spells and provide you with other witch class features.

Without your patron watching over your power, you gain more control but also miss important lessons. You must select Seneschal Witch Dedication as your 2nd-level class feat.

Prerequisites: You must be a witch who has lost contact with your patron.

Adjustments: Instead of your patron's lesson, you gain the Manifest Will hex cantrip and your familiar learns one common 1st-rank spell of your choice from your spell list.

Gathering up threads of your old connection, you can temporarily disguise yourself as your missing patron. You gain Illusory Disguise as an innate spell of your patron's tradition, automatically heightened to the rank of your witch cantrips, but you can use it only to disguise yourself as the humanoid representation of your patron. Detection spells of lower rank than this illusory disguise give your patron's information rather than your own.

Frequency once per hour

You can channel even complex spells through your connection to your charge. If your next action is to Cast a Spell and your charge is within 30 feet, you can have the spell originate from your charge instead. That creature can use their reaction to roughly complete the spell's incantation, which gives the spell the subtle trait for you (but not for them) as the manifestation appears solely around your charge.

Without the firm hand of a patron, your power begins to reflect deeper complexities, sometimes latching onto entirely unexpected sources of magical potency. When you cast or Sustain Manifest Will, you can choose any tradition's manifestation. While the spell is active, you and allies in its area gain a +1 status bonus to saves against spells with that tradition trait.

Frequency once per hour

You gain deeper insights into your patron's abandoned power, allowing you to draw on that power more directly. If your next action is to cast a witch cantrip or witch spell that deals damage, it deals spirit damage instead of its normal type. It also loses any traits related to its damage, such as the fire or mental trait, and gains the sanctified and spirit traits instead.

You claim a patron's symbol that you can etch onto any surface. Etch a symbol onto an adjacent surface; you can see and hear what you could from the symbol's location as long as you are on the same plane. This effect lasts until you place another symbol or the surface is destroyed.

You gain the ability to speak to your charge over great distances. You gain Message as an innate cantrip of your former patron's tradition. You can send a message to a creature regardless of range if they have ever been your charge. If you Lie as part of the message, the target receives a –2 circumstance penalty to their Perception DC and to Sense Motive checks to reveal the lie.

You can act as a magical patron for your charges. When you finish your daily preparations, choose a spell your familiar knows and one of your charges. Once before your next daily preparations, that creature can Cast the Spell as an innate spell; this spell can be of no higher a rank than the highest rank of spells you can cast –2.

You have fully realized the ability to serve as a patron.

Your newfound abilities enhance your senses, rolling back the veil of a realm hidden to most mortals where great beings vie for unimaginable influence over vast worlds. You gain darkvision, constant Truesight, and the ability to see into all other transitive planes that overlap the one you are in.

You can be a patron for other witches. Choose a single type of patron you represent, such as The Resentment or Starless Shadow. An allied witch you can observe who has that patron counts as and gains the benefits of your Witch's Charge feat, even if you did not select them as your charge during your daily preparations.

You learn the Wish ritual and can impart that knowledge to your charges. Once per month, when one of your charges performs the wish ritual, you can roll the skill check in their place.

You unleash energy from the broken connection to your patron. You are Concealed from creatures beyond the edge of the emanation but can't use that concealment to Hide. Any creature that begins its turn in the emanation is affected based on your patron's tradition.

Aura: Manifest Will

• Arcane Raw energy and magical formulae circulate around you. A creature that begins its turn in the emanation gains weakness 1 to spell damage for 1 round.
• Divine Divine power crashes in a cycle of life and death. A living or undead creature that begins its turn in the emanation gains 2 temporary Hit Points for 1 round. This effect has the spirit trait.
• Occult Esoteric symbology etches the air. An allied creature that begins its turn in the emanation has Lesser Cover while inside the emanation, and for 1 round after it leaves.
• Primal Plants and fungus symbolic of your patron constantly grow and wither in the emanation. A creature that begins its turn in the emanation has a –10-foot status penalty to all its Speeds for 1 round or until it Escapes. This effect has the fungus, plant, and wood traits.

Spell Effect: Manifest Will

Heightened (+1) An arcane manifestation increases its weakness by 1 and a divine manifestation increases its temporary Hit Points by 2.