Minor Animus

Your ability to tap into your inner power increases.

Prerequisite(s): Tap Animus.

Benefit(s): Your martial prowess is in part fueled by a reservoir of roiling, turbulent energy within your body.

When you enter combat, you gain an animus pool equal to 1 at the start of you first turn, and add one point of animus to your animus pool at the start of each of your turns thereafter. Your animus pool persists for one minute after the last hostile creature is defeated or the encounter otherwise ends. At the end of any round in which you initiate a maneuver, you add an additional point of animus to your pool.

You can spend a single point of animus to augment a maneuver as part of that maneuver’s initiation action to apply one of the following effects to it (if applicable):

• Enhance Maneuver: For each point of animus spent, you add a cumulative +2 insight bonus to all d20 rolls made (including attack rolls, combat maneuver checks, and skill checks) when initiating that maneuver (maximum of three animus may be spent on this augmentation if the maneuver allows the user to make multiple attacks, then this bonus only applies to the first attack.
• Increase DC: For each point of animus spent, the save DC of that maneuver increases by 1.

At 4th level and for every five levels you attain thereafter, you can spend an additional point of animus on maneuver augmentation, up to a max of 5 at 19th level.