Item: Chiromantic Lines

Level12
Rarity
Common
Price1700 gp
UsageTattooed on the body
PublicationPathfinder Impossible MagicRemaster

These tattoos boast minute, intricate inscriptions, inked with dust ground from the eyelashes of omen dragons. The process is incredibly painful, involving tattooing one's pupils as well as one's palm lines with an almost invisible series of tracings.

Activate—Cunning Consultation 1 (concentrate, prediction)

Frequency once per day


Effect This tattoo becomes temporarily visible, allowing you to briefly grasp the very near future just enough to predict the subtle movements of those around you. Until the end of the turn, all creatures you can see that are not Concealed or hidden are Off Guard to you.


Trait Effects

Invested: A character can invest only 10 magical items that have the invested trait. None of the magical effects of the item apply if the character hasn’t invested it, nor can it be activated, though the character still gains any normal benefits from wearing the physical item (like a hat keeping rain off their head).

Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.

Tattoo: A magical tattoo has the tattoo trait. It's permanently a part of the subject's body, and reduces the number of items that creature can invest per day by 1. Each tattoo has the invested trait to indicate this limitation—a magical tattoo is like an invested item that the tattooed creature has no choice but to invest. If the tattoo loses its magic or is destroyed, it no longer reduces your investiture. Just like a physical magic item, a magical tattoo can be counteracted by spells like _dispel magic_ or _disjunction_. If destroyed, the tattoo fades from the skin. If a creature gets a new magical tattoo when their limit on invested items has already been reduced to zero, the new tattoo's magic fails to take hold, and it becomes a non-magical tattoo instead. However, a tattooist can alter an existing tattoo when they Craft a tattoo, modifying the old one into a different magical tattoo and removing the old effect. Magical tattoos can usually be upgraded into their greater versions by having a tattooist add to or modify the existing tattoo.


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