Tattooed Historian

Trigger You critically fail a Diplomacy, Intimidation, or Performance check.

Orcs across Belkzen recognize you as an honored lorekeeper. You're adept at leveraging this status and showing off your tattoos to resolve conflicts, change minds, or distract others from a faux pas. You get a failure on the check, rather than a critical failure. If the triggering check was made against a creature with the orc trait, you can instead add the fortune trait to this ability and reroll the check, treating any critical failure as a failure.

Trigger A creature targets you with an attack, and you can see the attacker.

Your tattoos can briefly animate and extend from your skin, granting you a spectral shield-bearer who protects you from harm. Doing so expends one use of your Storied Skin, granting you a +1 circumstance bonus to AC against the triggering attack. In addition, you gain resistance to mental, spirit, and void damage equal to twice your number of tattooed historian feats against the triggering attack.

Your tattoos immortalize the conquests of orc war leaders, such as Belkzen besieging the dwarven Sky Citadel of Koldukar. You can expend one use of your storied skin's Living History ability to channel this power into your own weapons. Until the end of your next turn, you deal additional spirit damage with weapons and unarmed attacks equal to 1 plus half the number of Tattooed Historian feats you have.

Your tattoos commemorate unique exploits that (according to legends) only an orc could accomplish. During your daily preparations, you can reconfigure part of your storied skin to depict a specific orc hero, granting you a 1st-level ancestry feat with the orc trait until you prepare again; this ancestry feat cannot require any physiological feature you lack, as determined by the GM. Since this feat is temporary, you can't use it as a prerequisite for permanent character options, such as for a feat. At 13th level, you can instead gain a 5th-level ancestry feat with the orc trait.

Your tattoos carry the strength of an innumerable horde, and you can expend one use of your storied skin's Living History ability to animate your tattoos as ghostly assailants that swarm your foes. These spirits attack all foes in a 30-foot cone, dealing 0d6 spirit damage. The damage increases by 1d6 at 10th level and every 2 levels thereafter. Each affected creature must attempt a Basic Type:will saving throw against the higher of your class DC or spell DC.