Soul Lancer

In ancient times, those who called themselves practitioners of medicine believed that the body was a series of fluid humors. Illness was caused by an imbalance of the humors, and could be corrected by exsanguination and other painful liquid-letting techniques. While this proved ultimately off-the-mark, those who studied the illnesses of the soul realized these techniques could hold a lot more merit.

There are many ways a soul could come to need lancing. Many parasitic metaphysical creatures like the Living Meme adhere to the soul, or perhaps a botched reincarnation cycle could lead to many souls inhabiting one body. Any time that the number of sols in one body exceeds 1, the Soul Lancer has a new patient.

The job of a Soul Lancer is to alleviate the pressure in a person’s soul by lancing their physical form, letting their soul energy out in small bursts. With this treatment over time, the excess energy can be vented with no psychic harm to the patient. However, in times of duress, the soul energy could be harnessed upon release by a skilled Soul Lancer…

You are one of these few, most likely from a dying order of Soul Lancers following the ancient techniques from Xian Yang and taking on apprentices to keep the art alive.

SOUL LANCER

Soul Lancer SKILLS: Acupuncture, first aid, soul-lore

A You can puncture souls with your medical tools. When you use such a tool to attack, it can damage incorporeal creatures as standard. In addition, if you deal WOUNDS to a target with an abnormal soul, you can choose one other target you can see to suffer the same number of WOUNDS.

B You can stabilize auras from a distance. You can try to medically heal anyone you can see as standard without having to be CLOSE to them.

C When you deal WOUNDS to a target with an abnormal soul, you can choose to summon a Writhing Specter. It will obey your orders for the next 2 rounds, then go berserk and do what its hate-filled heart desires.

D When you kill a creature with a soul, you can choose to save it. You can have one soul saved at a time. Make a successful WIS roll to insert that soul into another body. This procedure has been done a handful of times, ever… you don’t know what’ll happen!

LOOT: Bone Needle