Beast Eater

You've chased the beast for 3 whole days; trading blows the whole while. You track it to its lair where it tries to lay and find relief. It's the final fight and you don't have much space to maneuver. It lunges, you block, it bends around and catches you on the shoulder. Screaming with pain and fury, you swing your weapon and with a sickening wet sound, you hit it fatally. With a pained groan, it collapses. It's a bittersweet moment. You have prevailed but the creature was a worthy opponent. You feel a connection to it, something primal, something deep. You carve out a vital organ from the beast, still warm. You bite into it. Blood and flesh fills your mouth and something else, something warm - it nearly edges towards burns. You struggle to keep it down and when you do a burst of primal magic fills your head with stars and a realization.

You are just as much beast as homon.

Role

Beasteaters can be highly aggressive -dealing massive damage or incredibly defensive - armoring themselves with beast hides and bone. Either way, they can be very versatile in serving what the team needs.

How Beast Eaters Manifest Shakti

Beast eaters acquire their skills by transferring them from creatures they have created a connection with. This grants them the potential to use those beast skills and abilities as though they were born with them.

When they need to manifest an ability, they pay the vessel cost to enhance their body.

Initiation Rites

Rite	Description
Primal Teacher	Someone in tune with ways of beast took you under their wing, sometimes literal wing. They taught you how to harness the potential of beasts while not losing yourself to the powerful call of The God Primal.
Raised by Nature	You were abandoned to the wilderness at a young age. A beast took you in as her young and raised you on how to survive. Later in life you found your way to a tribe of Homon. It was at first terrifying but you found out how to integrate yourself. Nature always calls you though.

Bonus Health Pool: 1d12

Add 1d12 to your character's health pool when you select this class.

Class Skills

Beast Eaters start with a +1 in the following skills: Athletics (STR), Agility (DEX), Perception (EMP), Stealth (DEX), Tracking (WIS), Sense Motivation (RES)

Class Abilities

Conviction Type

"I am the beast. I am primal power made manifest." (Composure )

Primal Infusion

Beast eaters have three ways they can infuse themselves with primal beast magic. First, they must succeed first at a Composure check vs the beast's primal DC to begin the infusion. Then they can either create a primal totem, enhance their bodies with available beast matter, or consume beast soul to gain access to an ability.

Create Totem

Beast eaters can make a connection with with a creature and borrow strength of the beast through a totem.

The beast eater must either subdue a beast or gain the beast's compliance in forging the connection. The beast eater will then add 50% of their max health and the Beast's max health in the total manifestation cost of the totem. The tier of totem created determines which abilities the beast eater is able to borrow and for how long.

Beast Totems

Totem Tier	Totem Strength	Totem Cost
Crude	TBD	TBD
Basic	TBD	TBD
Advanced	TBD	TBD
Elaborate	TBD	TBD
Hermetic	TBD	TBD
Legendary	TBD	TBD

Beast Blood Enhancement

Sometimes beasts eaters seek to form a more literal union between themselves and beasts. They will use the blood, bone, and flesh of animals they have fought or tended to imbue their bodies temporarily with beast abilities.

The transformation DC is added to the Conviction DC of the shakti manifestation

Beast Transformations

Transformation Target	Transformation DC	Description
Beast Arms	3	Using an absorbed beast trait, you gain access to that creatures claw attacks and any arm abilities except flight
Beast Legs	5	Using an absorbed beast trait, you gain access to that creatures kick attacks and any leg abilities
Beast Head	8	Using an absorbed beast trait, you gain access to that creatures bite and gore attacks and any head abilities except breath weapons
Beast Body	13	Using an absorbed beast trait, you gain access to that creatures natural armor, tail abilities, and breath weapons
Extra Limbs	21	Using an absorbed beast trait, you gain access to additional arms or legs.

Consume Beast Soul

If a beast eater lands the killing blow to a creature, they will be able to transfer the beast's soul temporarily into themselves.

To consume the beast's soul essence, the eater must harvest the creatures heart and consume it within an hour of the kill. The beast eater will then have access to that beasts abilities for 2*CMP hours.

Primal Transformation

Once you've absorbed an beast's essence and its abilities you can transform your physical body to take advantage of its traits. You can hold up to your Resolve bonus of creatures' abilities and traits. When you acquire a new beast's essence past your limit, you must choose which store beast's essence your forget. Transformation takes one minute. Beast eaters are able to hold a transformation for (1 round * Composure bonus)

Primal Submission

When transforming their bodies, beast eaters must succeed at a Resolve check vs the transformation DC to avoid going primal.

When a Beast Eater fails a check to absorb an ability, they incur a primal debuff that reduces their civility. At full ferality, they become a beast.

Civility Resolve Failure

Failure Type	Effect
Minor Failure (≤5)	You lose the beast essence. +1 Stage of Ferality
Medium Failure (6-10)	You lose the beast essence. Drop you weapon and +1 to Unarmed for 1d4 rounds +2 Stage of Ferality
Great Failure (≥11)	You lose the beast essence Drop you weapon and +1 to Unarmed for 1d4 rounds Beast Eater is confused for 1d4 rounds +3 Stage of Ferality

Primal Ferality Escalation

Failure Stage	Penalty
Stage 1	-1 to CMP
Stage 2	-1 to CMP, -1 Res
Stage 3	-1 to CNG, -1 Res, -1 to CMP
Stage 4	Confusion
Stage 5	Full Ferality

Type

Military