The Unseeing Blade MasterRitual 6
Cast 1 day
Cost rare incense worth 1,500 gp
Secondary Casters 1
Primary Check Perception (master)
Secondary Checks Religion or Warfare Lore
There are many legends of blade masters who, not wanting to rely on flawed mortal eyes, learned to fight through reliance on both their other keen senses and knowledge from the universe itself. Those who intentionally seek out the path often do so by running through forms in thick clouds of incense.
Making a Strike against an enemy you can see is anathema to this ritual and immediately ends its benefits. If the ritual is ended in this way, you must conduct an Atone ritual before attempting this ritual again.
Critical Success As success, except you can instead defeat an enemy in single combat that both uses a sword and is higher level than you.
Success You call a blessing into your sword to guide you on the path and are bound by the ritual's anathema. Once you've used that sword against 20 enemies, each significant enough to grant XP, you gain the Blind-Fight feat.
Failure The incense is dispersed by a strange gust of wind and you learn nothing.
Critical Failure The sword you're intending to use for the ritual becomes broken. If you aren't permanently blind, you're instead Blinded for 1 month and can't repeat this ritual during that time.
Traits
This rarity indicates that a rules element is very difficult to find in the game world. A rare feat, spell, item or the like is available to players only if the GM decides to include it in the game, typically through discovery during play. Creatures with this trait are rare. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to these creatures is increased by 5.