Temptation Curse (Apath)

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Temptation

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You are constantly tempted by sacrilegious voices. If you ever give in to your tempters and radically change your alignment, they may encourage this development and change into the voices curse, or they may perversely urge you to sin against your new credo and remain as the temptation curse.

You constantly have nagging voices at the back of your head that encourage you to break faith with your ideals. These voices are distracting, making you suffer -2 on initiative checks and a a -5 penalty on Perception checks. You have learned to bargain with the voices and gain Bluff as a class skill.

Your voices are not all-knowing, but they have a skill bonus in Knowledge (Religion) of 10 + your level. As a standard action you may bargain with your voices for information. They will give you advice if you temporarily give in and do what they want, or you can try to Bluff them into revealing information, using your Bluff skill as if it was Knowledge (Religion) but allowing repeated rolls until you learn all they know. The GM makes a Knowledge (Religion) check for your tempters and this is all the information they can reveal.

At level 5 you have steeled yourself against acting on the impulse of your temptation, strengthening your faith. You gain a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks and Will saving throws.

At level 10 add discern lies and glibness (as a third level oracle spell) to your list of spells known.

At level 15, add arbitrament, blasphemy, dictum, holy word, and word of chaos to your list of known spells. You gain no protection against the possible negative effects of these spells.

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