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FLINGING FIGMENTS 2-3
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 Magus+
Who can say whether the might of the sword or the power of magic is stronger? But then there are
those who choose not to decide. ‘Spell Sword’, ‘Arcanista’, ‘Eldritch Warrior’, various names by which
the magus are called, varying as wildly as their fusions of magic and martial prowess. Each magus
has labored to perfect their combinations by exemplifying their studies for prudent and ruthless
efficiency. Why answer the question of which is greater, when you can simply be the answer.
Magus Hybrid Studies If you used Expansive Spellstrike for the required Spellstrike, you
The fighter swings a sword with exceptional accuracy, do not apply the effects of the triggering Spellstrike until after
and a wizard studies their books with practiced this Strike and you determine its effects based on this Strike’s
result.
diligence, but these are ultimately half-measures for
battle by way of the magus. Simply knowing how to Conflux Spell dual-pattern strike
swing a sword or cast a spell is child’s play. Learning to Studious Spell (7th) magnetic attraction
forge the two together into an unstoppable force is the Studious Spell (11th) temporal twin
true exemplification of the pinnacle of each. As water is Studious Spell (13th) mirror’s misfortune
formed by its container, so to is magic formed by its
vessel. This marriage of power is one by which magus DUAL-PATTERN STRIKE FOCUS 1
stake their own lives. The following are a set of hybrid UNCOMMON EVOCATION FLOURISH MAGUS
studies that seek to provide new vessels for your magic. Cast � verbal; Requirements You are wielding both your
diametric weapons.
DIAMETRIC FUSION Duration 1 minute
You swing your weapons, one after the other, creating an arcane
sigil that lingers with your strokes. Make two Strikes against a
You have learned to bind magic between two weapons, single target, one with each of the required weapons. If both your
creating a dyad of arcane energy that unifies them into a Strikes hit, you brand the target with an arcane sigil, giving them
magical union. This union forges a bond between your a weakness of 2 to one of the following damage types: acid,
cold, electricity, fire, force, mental, negative, poison, or positive.
weapons, as you have done so with might and magic. Apply your multiple attack penalty to each Strike normally.
During your daily preparations, choose two one-handed
Heightened (+2) The weakness increases by 1.
melee weapons in which you are trained to be your
diametric weapons. When you are wielding these
weapons, they gain the twin trait and are treated as the
same weapon type for the purposes of the twin trait. If
the two weapons you chose already had the twin trait
and were the same weapon type, increase the damage
from the twin trait by 1 per weapon damage die.
While you are in Arcane Cascade, weapons
you wield with the twin trait increase their
damage against enemies you previously
attacked this turn by 1, by 2 if you have
weapon specialization, or by 3 if you
have greater weapon specialization.
The damage from your twin trait is of
the same type as your Arcane Cascade
while you are in Arcane Cascade.
You gain the Residual Spellstrike reaction.
RESIDUAL SPELLSTRIKE �
FORTUNE MAGUS
Trigger You got a failure on the Strike of your
Spellstrike with one of your diametric weapons
and your Strike did not have the fortune trait.
Requirements You are wielding your other diametric
weapon.
You retain the magical energy by having it surge through
your body to your other weapon. Make a Strike with
your other diametric weapon, but the attack is at a
–5 multiple attack penalty (or –4 if the weapon is
agile) instead of its normal penalty. If this Strike
hits, you apply the effects of the required Spellstrike
to your Strike.

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 DIAMETRIC PAIRING � FEAT 4
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, diametric fusion hybrid study
Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade and on your last
action you critically succeeded at a Strike with one of your
diametric weapons while wielding your other diametric
weapon.
You have learned to fuse your weapons into a singular fighting
style, often apply a specific name to this fusion such as dance of
the sun and moon, crash of thunder and lighting, or something
even more eclectic. You unleash diametric energy from your
other weapon and the target of the required Strike takes 1d4
damage per two levels you possess of the same damage type as
your Arcane Cascade on a basic save determined below. Targets
that fail their save also suffer the effects of your other diametric
weapon’s critical specialization. The save for the damage and
critical specialization effect is against your spell DC with a save
type that matches the weapon’s critical specialization or a Reflex
save if there was no save. The target rolls once to determine the
effects of the damage and the critical specialization.
DUAL-WEAPON SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 10
FORTUNE MAGUS
Prerequisites diametric fusion hybrid study, Spellstrike
Requirements You are wielding both your diametric weapons,
are in Arcane Cascade stance, and your Spellstrike is charged.
You can swing your weapons in tandem, the power of your spell
carried between the two. Make a Spellstrike but when you do
make two Strikes, one with each of your two diametric weapons,
each using your current multiple attack penalty. Both Strikes
must have the same target. Your second Strike is made with a
–3 penalty, or a –2 penalty if it has the agile trait.
If either of your Strikes are successful, you gain the effects of
your Spellstrike, using the first successful Strike to determine
the effects of your Spellstrike.
If neither of your Strikes are successful, you use the first Strike
you made to determine the effects of your Spellstrike if it would
have an effect on a failure, such as Expansive Spellstrike.
ELABORATE PATTERNED STRIKE FEAT 16
MAGUS
Prerequisites dual-pattern strike focus spell, diametric fusion
hybrid study
Frequency once per day
Your ability to rapidly make attacks allows you to emblazon your
enemies with an elaborate set of runes that hinder them further.
When you cast dual-pattern strike, you can choose to cast the
spell as a 2-action or 3-action spell and gain additional effects.
� (somatic, verbal) Make an additional Strike with each
of your diametric weapons. For each Strike that hits after
the second, increase the weakness from your dual-pattern
strike by 1 and apply any weakness from dual-pattern strike
before applying any damage from any of your Strikes.
� (somatic, verbal) As the 2-action version of the spell,
except an eruption of magical energy bursts after the
pattern is complete and the target takes 1d4 damage per
spell level of the spell on a basic Reflex save after the
Strikes are made. The damage dealt is of the same type as
the weakness you chose.
FLINGING FIGMENTS
You have cultivated a connection to kinetic energy. You
swing your arms in constant motion allowing you to
harness the energy into weapons from your mind's eye
2
to create copies of your weapon.
During your daily preparations, choose a single weapon
in your possession with which you are trained that has
the thrown trait as your bonded weapon. You can
conjure a figment of the bonded weapon as part of
making a ranged Strike and these figments last until the
Strike is completed. When you use Spellstrike, you can
make ranged Strikes with your figments, as long as the
target is within the first range increment. You can
deliver the spell even if its range is shorter than the
range increment of your ranged attack. The figment
weapon gains all of the fundamental and property runes
of your bonded weapon when you use it to make ranged
Strikes. You must have a hand free or be wielding your
bonded weapon to make Strikes with your figments.
When you're in Arcane Cascade stance, thrown Strikes
with your bonded weapon and its figments increase
their range by 5 feet, or by 10 feet if you have weapon
specialization, or 15 feet if you have greater weapon
specialization.
Conflux Spell rebounding figment strike
Studious Spell (7th) blur
Studious Spell (11th) mind of menace
Studious Spell (13th) creation
REBOUNDING FIGMENT STRIKE FOCUS 1
UNCOMMON CONJURATION MAGUS
Cast � verbal; Requirements You are wielding your bonded
weapon or have a hand free.
You bring down a mighty blow that causes a figment to echo off
your swing in tandem. Make a thrown Strike with your bonded
weapon or a figment against a creature within its first range
increment. If you successfully hit the creature with this Strike, a
figment spawns from your Strike and travels in another
trajectory, allowing you to make a second thrown Strike against
another creature within your weapon’s range increment from the
first creature. Both of these Strikes are made at their normal
multiple attack penalty.
MUTABLE FIGMENTS � FEAT 4
FLOURISH MAGUS
Prerequisites flinging figments hybrid study
Your figments have become alterable, allowing you to shift them
to your needs. You alter the form of your figments to take the
shape of another non-consumable thrown weapon that requires
the same number of hands to wield. Your figments remain in this
form until you use this action again. The figment’s runes apply to
their new shape. Any property runes that can’t apply to the new
form are suppressed until the figments take a shape to which
they can apply.
STORM OF FIGMENTS � FEAT 10
MAGUS
Prerequisites flinging figments hybrid study, Spellstrike
Requirements Your Spellstrike is charged.
You infuse your spellstrike with a storm of figments. Make a
thrown Spellstrike against a target within your bonded weapons
first range increment. If your Strike is successful, figments burst
forth from the connecting blow in a 10-foot cone, 20-foot line, or
5-foot burst from the target of your Spellstrike and creatures,
including the target of your Spellstrike, take 1d4 damage per
spell level and must attempt a basic Reflex save. If you cast the
spell in your Spellstrike from a spell slot, the damage from Storm
of Figments increases to 1d8 damage per spell level.
If your spell was one that can deal damage, the damage of your
Storm of Figments is the same type that spell could deal (or one
type of your choice if the spell could deal multiple types of
damage). If the spell couldn't deal damage, the bonus damage
depends on the spell's school.
Abjuration or Evocation force
Conjuration or Transmutation same type as your weapon or
unarmed attack
Divination, Enchantment, or Illusion mental
Necromancy negative or positive damage if your spell had the
positive trait
ETERNALLY REBOUNDING FIGMENTS FEAT 16
MAGUS
Prerequisites rebounding figment strike focus spell, flinging
figments hybrid study
Your figments continue to rebound until you miss. When you
cast rebounding figment strike, your rebounding figment strike
can continue to make thrown Strikes with your figments so long
as there is another creature within your weapon’s range
increment to target with a thrown Strike and your previous Strike
was successful. You cannot target a creature more than once
with one of these Strikes, even if your previous Strike was
against another creature. In addition, the first Strike of your
rebounding figment strike does not increase your multiple attack
penalty.
HORIZON SPELLSHELL
You have mastered the art of merging artillery and
magic, giving you the ability to infuse your ammunition.
When you fire your magically infused ammunition,
radiant energy might surge around the shot, strange
symbols may emerge in tandem, or even remnants of the
infused spell may be produced on contact.
When you use Spellstrike, you can make a ranged
weapon Strike with a crossbow, firearm, or sling, as long
as the target is within the first range increment. You can
deliver the spell even if its range is shorter than the
range increment of your ranged attack.
During your daily preparations, when you would
prepare a spell in one of your spell slots, you can instead
choose to prepare a spellshell. A spellshell is a special
type of spell that can only be used to Cast a Spell as part
of a ranged Spellstrike with a crossbow, firearm, or sling.
When you Spellstrike with a spellshell, the weapon can
be fired even if it was not loaded, as the ammunition is
provided as part of the Cast a Spell activity and your
ammunition gains the arcane trait, making them
magical. If the weapon was already loaded, you instead
infuse the spellshell to the ammunition inside your
weapon.
When you are in Arcane Cascade,
crossbows, firearms, and slings
gain the scatter 5ft. trait. If
the weapon already
has the scatter trait,
instead increase the range of
the radius by 5 feet. Determine
the damage type from the scatter
trait as described in Arcane Cascade.
Conflux Spell quantum shot
Studious Spell (7th) empty pack
Studious Spell (11th) phantom prison
Studious Spell (13th) clairvoyance
QUANTUM SHOT FOCUS 1
UNCOMMON TRANSMUTATION MAGUS
Cast � verbal; Requirements You are wielding a crossbow,
firearm, or sling that is loaded with an ordinary 0-level piece of
ammunition.
You split your ammunition into two different particle states,
allowing it to exist in two places at once. Make a Strike with the
required weapon, the ammunition you used to make the Strike is
not expended and the required weapon remains loaded with that
ammunition.
Heightened (4th) You can use magical or special ammunition
when you cast this spell. If the item level of the ammunition is
greater than your level – 3 you must attempt a DC 5 flat check or
the ammunition is expended as normal due to quantum
instability.
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 RECHARGING RELOAD � FEAT 4
MAGUS
Prerequisites horizon spellshell hybrid study
Recharging and reloading, go together like a target and shot. You
Reload and then recharge your Spellstrike.
EAT THIS! � FEAT 10
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, horizon spellshell hybrid study,
Spellstrike
Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade, you have at least one
spellshell, and your Spellstrike is charged.
You take one of your spellshells and fire it with extreme
prejudice. Make a Spellstrike with a spellshell. Increase the
radius of your weapon’s scatter trait by 5 feet and increase the
additional damage of the scatter trait to be equal to the spell’s
level instead of the normal amount.
ESSENCE EATING SHELL FEAT 16
MAGUS
Prerequisites horizon spellshell hybrid study
You have learned that the price of more potent spellshells is
infusing it with an essence that taxes your very being. During
your daily preparation, you can choose to make one of your
shells an essence eating shell. When you make a Spellstrike with
one of these shells, you and the initial target of the Spellstrike
are affected by an additional effect determined by the spell that
was chosen for the spellshell. As long as your attack roll was not
a critical failure, the target suffers the effects listed below. You
also suffer the listed effect, but you gain a +3 status bonus to
saves against the effect if your Spellstrike was successful and
you treat your degree of success as one better if you get a
critical success.
Abjuration (force) The creature is trapped inside a cube of
force which attempts to compress itself around the
creature. The creature takes 1d4 force damage per level of
the spell and must attempt a basic Fortitude save against
your spell DC. Creatures that fail their save are also
immobilized for 1 round.
Conjuration (teleportation) The creature is blinked between
existence, rupturing its form. The creature must attempt a
basic Fortitude save against your spell DC and takes 1d4
bludgeoning and 1d4 slashing damage per level of the
spell. On a failed save, the creature must attempt a DC 5 flat
check to use actions with the manipulate trait for 1 round
as they phase in and out of existence.
Divination (emotion, fear, mental) The creature sees a vision
of their death. The creature takes 1d6 mental damage per
spell level of the spell and must attempt a basic Will save
against your spell DC. Creatures that fail their save are
frightened 1 or frightened 2 on a critical failure.
Enchantment (mental) The creature’s mind is bound to a
mental prison. The creature must attempt a Will save
against your spell DC. Creatures that fail their save are
stupefied 2 for 1 round, or confused for 1 round on a critical
failure. If a creature would gain the dying condition from the
Spellstrike that caused this effect, the duration of the
confused and stupefied conditions increases to permanent,
but the creature can attempt a new save against the effect
each day.
Evocation The creature is blasted with essence manipulation.
The creature takes an additional amount of damage from
your Spellstrike equal to the level of the spell you cast and
must attempt a basic Reflex save. Determine the damage
type as described in Arcane Cascade. Creatures that fail
their save also apply a weakness to the damage type equal
to the spell’s level or reduce any resistances they have to
the damage type by the same amount. If a creature with
immunity to the damage type fails their save, they take half
4
damage of that damage type. This effect occurs at the
same time as the Spellstrike and applies any weaknesses
or reductions in resistances to the Spellstrike’s damage if
they would apply.
Illusion (mental, visual) The creature is absorbed into a false
reality. The creature must attempt a Will save against your
spell DC. Creatures that fail their save treat all areas around
them as difficult terrain for 1 minute or greater difficult
terrain if their save was a critical failure. Any creature that
moves through the area or uses the Seek action to examine
it can attempt to disbelieve this illusion.
Necromancy (death) The creature is bombarded with a
sphere of death. The creature takes 1d8 negative damage
per level of the spell or positive damage if the spell had the
positive trait and must attempt a Fortitude save against
your spell DC. Creatures that fail their save are also drained
2 and creatures that critically fail their save are drained 4. If
a creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points from the damage of
this effect or the drained condition, it is instantly slain and
attempts to communicate with it, return it to life, turn it into
an undead, or otherwise disturb its afterlife fail unless the
effect's counteract level is higher than half your level when
you killed the creature (rounded up), or originates from an
artifact or a deity. If any creature would not be affected by
the type of damage dealt by this effect, this effect does not
occur for any creature and fizzles, but the effects of the
Spellstrike still apply normally.
Transmutation (morph) The creature’s inner anatomy is
morphed by your shell, causing bodily stress and difficulty
operating. The creature must attempt a Fortitude save and
becomes sickened 2 on a failure, or sickened 3 on a critical
failure. While a creature is sickened they also take a –10-
foot status penalty to their Speeds. A creature that is
immune to the sickened condition instead takes 1d4
bludgeoning damage per level of the spell on a basic
Fortitude save and suffers the status penalty to Speeds for
1 round after taking damage from a failure of this effect.
Special You can take this feat multiple times, gaining the ability
to create an additional essence eating spellshell each time you
select it.
SCOURGING LASH
With a loud crack, you flourish your weapon of choice,
keeping opponents at arm's length and lacing it through
with magic. Your magic is blisteringly fast as it channels
through you and into your weapon, be it a whip, rope,
net, chain or a lash.
You can wield ropes as one-handed martial weapons,
and they deal 1d4 slashing damage and have the finesse,
grapple, nonlethal, reach, and two-hand d8 traits and
are in the flail group. You do not take a circumstance
penalty to your attack roll for making a lethal attack with
a rope.
When you enter Arcane Cascade, your attacks leave
stinging echoes of your lashing attacks. When you
successfully Strike or Grapple a target with a flail, you
deal 1 additional persistent damage, or 2 if you have
weapon specialization, or 3 if you have greater weapon
specialization. This persistent damage is of the same
type as your Arcane Cascade.
Conflux Spell coiling grasp
Studious Spell (7th) umbral extraction
Studious Spell (11th) ghostly weapon
Studious Spell (13th) rope trick
COILING GRASP FOCUS 1 STORM OF THE WINDING LASH � FEAT 16
UNCOMMON EVOCATION MAGUS
Cast � verbal; Requirements You are wielding a weapon in the
flail group.
Range 15 feet; Targets 1 Medium or smaller creature
Duration sustained up to 4 rounds
You whip your flail at your opponent, causing it to bind them and
send agonizing pain through them. You Grapple the target with
the required weapon even if it would be outside the weapons
normal reach using your Athletics modifier or your spell attack
roll modifier, whichever is higher. When you Sustain the Spell,
you attempt to maintain the Grapple against the target of the
spell. The target can attempt to Escape as normal. You cannot
use the required item or hand that is holding it while this spell is
active and if you release your grip on the item the spell
immediately ends.
Critical Success The target is immobilized. You can make
Spellstrikes and Strikes against the target with the required
weapon.
Success The target is grabbed. You can make Spellstrikes
and Strikes against the target with the required weapon.
Critical Failure The target can either grab you if you are within
its reach, as if it succeeded at using the Grapple action
against you, or force you to fall and land prone.
Heightened (3rd) You may target and Grapple Large or smaller
creatures with this spell.
Heightened (6th) You may target and Grapple Huge or smaller
creatures with this spell.
Heightened (9th) You may target and Grapple Gargantuan or
smaller creatures with this spell.
SERPENTINE FLAIL � FEAT 4
MAGUS
Prerequisites scourging lash hybrid study
Frequency once per hour
Requirements You are wielding a weapon in the flail group.
Your weapon can twist and slither, like a serpent. You infuse your
flail with life, giving it a Command and allowing you to issue it
further commands for up to 1 minute. Your flail gains 2 actions
when you issue it a Command and it can use these actions to
make simple Interact actions, move 10 feet by sliding on a
surface, or Seek with an imprecise motion sense of 15 feet. Your
flail can't perform actions that require significant manual
dexterity, including any action that would require a check to
accomplish, and you can't use it to hold items. Your flail can slide
up sheer surfaces such as a wall and can fit through holes or
areas appropriate for its size. Your flail can communicate with
you via touch telepathy but it can only convey simple words or
sentences when it does.
FLAYING SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 10
MAGUS
Prerequisites scourging lash hybrid study, Spellstrike
Requirements You're in Arcane Cascade stance, are wielding a
weapon in the flail group, and your Spellstrike is charged.
Your spellstrike tears through the essences of your opponents,
aggravating their greatest flaws and empowering your attack in
tandem. Make a Spellstrike and an Arcana check immediately
after to identify weak points with your magic to flay them. On a
success, the creature gains a weakness of 1 to a damage type
of your choice that lasts until the end of your next turn or double
this amount if you critically succeed. The base weakness
amount increases to 2 if you have weapon specialization or 3 if
you have greater weapon specialization. The target gains these
weaknesses before your Spellstrike deals damage.
MAGUS
Prerequisites scourging lash hybrid study
Frequency once per day
Requirements You are wielding a weapon in the flail group.
You empower your flail's lashing power and twirl, cutting through
the souls of all those around you and winding its way around
them. Make a melee Strike or Grapple check with a flail against
up to 3 enemies within your flail’s reach. Each attack counts
toward your multiple attack penalty, but do not increase your
penalty until you have made all your attacks. If you Grappled
more than one creature, you can maintain the Grapple against all
creatures you grappled with this activity with a single Grapple
check by comparing the result of your check against the
Fortitude DCs of each creature separately. Creatures can still
attempt to Escape as normal and if you would get a critical
failure against any creature you made a Grapple against, you
drop your flail immediately.
THOUSAND-TOUCH ARCANA
You are a student of thousand-touch arcana, an inter-
planar martial art that blends the casting of spells with
measured breathing and swift punches and kicks. When
battle starts, you become a force to be reckoned with
indeed.
You gain the Arcane Fist magus feat as a bonus feat.
While in Arcane Cascade, if you make a successful
unarmed Strike against a target you can also ignore an
amount of resistance equal to half your level of a
resistance type that matches your Arcane Cascade
damage type. A creature's immunities are unaffected.
Conflux Spell Hyper-Arcane Pressure Point Strike
Studious Spell (7th) False Life
Studious Spell (11th) Time Jump
Studious Spell (13th) Resilient Sphere
HYPER-ARCANE PRESSURE POINT STRIKE FOCUS 1
UNCOMMON EVOCATION MAGUS
Cast � verbal; Requirements You are able to make an unarmed
attack.
Duration 1 minute
You jab your fingers quickly into pressure points in your
opponents body in such a way that you channel up strange
arcane shocks through their body. Make a Strike with the
required unarmed attack. If you hit, on subsequent turns during
the duration you can spend a single action with the concentrate
trait during the duration to activate your pressure point magic
and the target must attempt a Fortitude save against your spell
DC, after which the spell immediately ends.
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target's muscles surge with pain and they
become temporarily weaker. Roll damage for the required
unarmed Strike again and the target takes half damage and
is enfeebled 1 for 1 round.
Failure As success, except the target takes full damage and
any time it attempts to take an action with the manipulate
trait while enfeebled, the target must succeed at a flat
check with a DC equal to 5 + its enfeebled value or the
action is disrupted.
Critical Failure As failure, but the target takes double damage
and is enfeebled 2.
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 MERGED MARTIAL CASCADE FEAT 4
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, thousand-touch arcana hybrid
study
You have learned to merge the effects of your Arcane Cascade
with powerful martial arts. Choose a level 1 monk feat with the
stance trait. You gain that feat as a magus class feat and can
take feats that have it or subsequent feats as a prerequisite
treating your monk level as your magus level – 3 for the
qualifying for those feats.
You can use your Arcane Cascade while in the selected stance
and you can enter this stance as part of entering an Arcane
Cascade, allowing you to enter the two stances at once. When
you first enter these stances and at the beginning of each turn
you are in Arcane Cascade and your chosen stance, you must
choose either Arcane Cascade or your chosen stance as your
primary stance. For the purposes of actions, effects, or abilities
that would require you to be in a stance, you are in the stance
you chose. You must still meet the requirements for both
stances, otherwise the stance whose requirements you failed to
meet immediately ends.
PUMMELING SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 10
MAGUS
Prerequisites thousand-touch arcana hybrid study, Spellstrike
Requirements You're in Arcane Cascade stance, are unarmed,
and your Spellstrike is charged.
You unleash your pummeling blow with a dazzling display of
martial prowess, carrying a powerful force behind it. Make a
Spellstrike. It gains the following effects in addition to the
normal effects of your Spellstrike.
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Critical Success You push your target up to 10 feet away from
you after your Spellstrike resolves. You can Stride after it,
but you must move the same distance and in the same
direction.
Success You push your target back 5 feet after the Spellstrike
resolves. You can Stride after it, but you must move the
same distance and in the same direction.
PERFECT ARCANE FORM � FEAT 16
ARCANE MAGUS POLYMORPH TRANSMUTATION
Prerequisites thousand-touch arcana hybrid study
Frequency once per day
As you allow your magic to flow through you, you overlap
yourself with the ideal arcane form that you channel your spells
from. This form may look identical to you, or it may have extra
ethereal arms, glowing organs, or some other unusual
appearance. You enter a battle form for 1 minute. You have
hands in this battle form and can take actions with the
manipulate trait. While you are in this battle form, you gain the
benefits of Arcane Cascade and are considered to be in Arcane
Cascade for the purposes of feats or activities that would
require it. You also gain the following benefits.
• 20 temporary Hit Points.
• If you were Medium or smaller, you can increase your
size to Large provided you have the space to do so and your
unarmed attacks reach increases by 5 feet (or by 10 feet if
it started out Tiny).
• A fly Speed equal to your Speed.
• A +1 status bonus to saves against spells.
• You gain a precise sense with a range of 30 feet that
enables you to sense arcane magic and creatures or items
with the arcane trait.
• Increase the damage die of your melee unarmed
attacks by 1, up to a maximum of d10. If your damage die
was already d10 or above, you instead gain a +2 status
bonus to damage with your melee unarmed Strikes.
• You gain a ranged unarmed attack (magical, range
increment 30 feet, unarmed), which deals 1d6 force
damage.
WROUGHT WARPLATING
Your magic is channeled not
through a weapon, but through
the armor you wear over your
body. You cover every inch of
your skin in thick iron which
you carve full of runes and
magic sigils that render you all but
invincible in combat.
You are trained in heavy armor. At 11th
level, if you gain the medium armor
expertise class feature, you also gain
expert proficiency in heavy armor,
and if you gain the medium armor
mastery class feature, you also gain
master proficiency in heavy armor.
When you become expert in these
armors, you gain the armor specialization
effects of medium and heavy armor.
While in Arcane Cascade and wearing medium or heavy
armor, you gain resistance equal to Arcane Cascade’s
damage bonus to the same damage type as your Arcane
Cascade.
Conflux Spell metamorphic armor
Studious Spell (7th) instant armor
Studious Spell (11th) warding aggression
Studious Spell (13th) chromatic armor
METAMORPHIC ARMOR FOCUS 1
UNCOMMON ABJURATION MAGUS
Cast � verbal; Requirements You are wearing medium or heavy
armor.
Duration 1 minute
Your armor reshapes itself dramatically to gain a new
appearance, such as taking on a sheen of color associated with
a certain energy type, or sprouting metal thorns or studs to
enhance your frame. Make a melee Strike against a creature and
then choose an effect from the list below. For the duration, when
you make a Strike against an enemy you can change the effect
you chose to another choice.
• Gain a resistance to bludgeoning, piercing or slashing
damage equal to half your level (minimum 1).
• Gain a resistance to acid, cold, electricity, or fire equal
to half your level plus 2 or increase one of these
resistances by half your level.
• Gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC.
• Gain a +1 status bonus to your reflex saves against
area of effect spells.
IMPOSING SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 4
MAGUS MENTAL VISUAL
Prerequisites wrought warplating hybrid study, Spellstrike
Requirements You're in Arcane Cascade, you are wearing heavy
armor, and your Spellstrike is charged.
The appearance of your mighty armor is enough to make even
the most foolhardy of opponents doubt themselves. Make a
Spellstrike. It gains the following effects in addition to the
normal effects of your Spellstrike.
Critical Success The target takes a –2 status penalty to its
Will saves and a –3 status penalty to fear effects until the
end of your next turn.
Success The target takes a –1 status penalty to its Will saves
and a –2 status penalty to fear effects until the end of your
next turn.
ENHANCED FORTIFICATION FEAT 10
MAGUS
Prerequisites metamorphic armor focus spell, wrought
warplating hybrid study
When you reshape your armor, you do so perfectly, effectively
becoming a brand new suit of armor. You can choose two
effects when you cast metamorphic armor instead of one. When
you make a Strike during the spell’s duration, you can only swap
one of these effects to another effect as normal. Add the
following options to the options you have when you cast
metamorphic armor
• You grant your armor an additional armor property
rune equal to half your level. This property rune does not
count towards the maximum runes your armor can have.
• You change the material your armor is made of to
another material; this material must be able to be made
into an armor, and the armor material must be equal or
lower than your level.
• You can grant your armor an adjustment less than or
equal to half your level. It can gain this adjustment even if
the armor could not normally sustain the adjustment (such
as burnished plating on hide armor).
• You can reduce the Speed penalty of your armor by 5
feet and can remove the Hindering and Noisy traits.
UNBREAKABLE FIGURE � FEAT 16
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, wrought warplating hybrid study
Trigger You would take damage.
Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade stance and are
wearing medium or heavy armor.
You merge with your armor entirely, wrapping your entire body in
armor and sheathing you from the coming blow. You reduce the
damage you would take by 25, and gain the immobilized
condition until the end of your next turn. You cannot Escape or
otherwise remove this immobilized condition and the DC of this
effect is equal to your spell DC.
New Hybrid Study Feats
A magus at the late stages of their adventuring career
has often learned secret or incomprehensible
techniques by pushing the limits of both magic and
body. The below feats are new high level options for the
hybrid studies from Secrets of Magic.
INEXORABLE IRON
DEVOURING METAL � FEAT 16
ARCANE MAGUS NECROMANCY
Prerequisites inexorable iron hybrid study
Trigger You critically hit a living creature.
Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade stance.
Your weapons and magic not only fuel your might, they also seek
to devour your enemies when you make a telling blow. The target
must attempt a Fortitude save against your spell DC.
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is drained 1 and you regain Hit Points
equal to the number of Hit Points the target lost from the
drained condition. If you would regain more Hit Points than
you have, you instead gain temporary Hit Points for the
excess amount that lasts until you are no longer in Arcane
Cascade. These temporary Hit Points stack with any Hit
Points you would gain from the Arcane Cascade stance.
Failure As success but the target is drained 2.
Critical Failure As success, but the target is drained 3.
LAUGHING SHADOW
SPLINTER SHADOW ASSAULT FEAT 16
MAGUS
Prerequisites dimensional assault focus spell, laughing shadow
hybrid study
Frequency once per day
You designate your shadow to splinter so that you surround your
target with shadows of yourself before attacking them from all
directions at once. When you cast dimensional assault, you can
choose to cast the spell as a 2-action or 3-action spell instead of
the normal effect.
� (somatic, verbal) You splinter your shadow into three
locations that would be in range of your dimensional
assault that would also allow you to Strike the target. Make
three Strikes, one from each location you chose,
teleporting between your shadows to make these Strikes
and choosing their order. Each of these Strikes increases
your multiple attack penalty as normal, but you treat each
square your shadows occupy as occupied by an ally for the
purposes of flanking. For each attack that hits, combine
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weaknesses. feet and it can only attack from its current space. You can still
make Spellstrikes as long as you are adjacent to your tree staff.
� (somatic, verbal) As the 2-action version of the spell, The tree cannot be moved, but it has an AC of 10, Hardness
except you splinter your shadow into four locations and equal to your level, and a number of Hit Points equal to your level
your multiple attack penalty only increases by -3 (or -2 if x 10. The tree reverts back to its staff form if you Dismiss this
you used an agile weapon) after each of these Strikes. effect, its Hit Points are reduced to 0, or 1 minute has passed.
When it reverts back to staff form it falls on the square you
originally chose for Hundred Year Growth or in your hands if you
SPARKLING TARGE were adjacent to the tree at the time it reverted to staff form.
ABLATIVE BARRIER BLOCK � FEAT 16
ABJURATION ARCANE AURA MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, sparkling targe hybrid study
Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade stance and are
wielding a shield or have the shield spell prepared.
You use the reserved power of your cascade to create a strong
barrier to protect you and allies. If your next action is to Raise a
Shield, you can create a barrier that surrounds you in a 5- or 10-
foot emanation as well as the normal effects of your Raise a
Shield action. This barrier grants allies within the emanation
partial cover and your allies can use the Take Cover
action to give themselves standard cover while your
shield is raised. The barrier is transparent and
allies cannot use this cover to Hide or Sneak.

STARLIT SPAN
SKY FALL � FEAT 16
ARCANE EVOCATION MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, starlit span
hybrid study
Frequency once per day
Requirements You're wielding a
ranged or thrown weapon, or have
a ranged unarmed attack and
you’re in Arcane Cascade stance.
You call to the skies to rain down on
your enemies using your weapon as
a conduit for the impending sky fall.
Make a ranged Strike with the
required weapon or unarmed attack,
but do not resolve the effects of this
attack. At the end of your next turn,
resolve the attack roll you made by
comparing it to the AC of all enemies within
a 15-foot burst in the first or second
range increment of the required
weapon. Any natural or constructed
ground that was included in the area
becomes difficult terrain from the resulting
blast.

TWISTING TREE
HUNDRED YEAR GROWTH �
FEAT 16
MAGUS TRANSMUTATION
Prerequisites twisting tree hybrid study
Frequency once per day
Requirements You are wielding a staff.
You plant your staff into the ground, literally, and it ages
a hundred years in an instant. Choose an unoccupied
square adjacent to you to plant your staff, which
becomes a Huge tree. Creatures that occupy the
area are automatically moved to the nearest
available square and you may Step as part of
your staff’s growth. While your staff is in
this form, you can still make Strikes
with it as if it were a staff that you

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New Class Feats
Magus are known for impressive talents, the method by
which they acquire them sitting somewhere on the verge
between mind and body. Merging energy and matter is
a labor that requires many tools, whether these tools be
your body, your affects, your weapons, or actually
forging magic into the very tools you require, it matters
not. All that matters is that you have bridged the gap.
1ST LEVEL
DEALER OF DEATH FEAT 1 CASCADING WEAPON BLAST
MAGUS
Prerequisites Spellstrike
You have learned to wield harrow and other decks of cards as
deadly weapons via imbuing them with powerful magic. You
gain a harrow deck or other deck of cards as appropriate when
you gain this feat. During your daily preparations, you can infuse
a deck of cards with your magic allowing you to use the cards as
simple weapons of the knife group that deal 1d6 slashing
damage with the agile, finesse, thrown 10 ft., and versatile p
traits. Infused decks do not reduce the number of cards in the
deck when they are drawn and cards that are destroyed or
removed from the deck are replenished magically after 1 minute.
If you make a Spellstrike with a card from your infused deck with
a spell that deals damage, roll 1d6 on the table below. If the
damage of the spell matches the card drawn, you deal additional
damage of the listed type equal to the level of the spell you used
for your Spellstrike or half your level if the spell was a cantrip.
Hammers: cold damage
Keys: fire damage
Shields: poison damage
Books: electricity damage
Stars: mental damage
Crowns: acid damage
LIVING GRIMOIRE FEAT 1
MAGUS
Eschewing the need for a spellbook, you write your spells into
the most sacred of vellum: yourself. You may scribe spells onto
your skin as if it were suitable parchment in a process that takes
the same amount of time that it would to scribe a scroll. This
may look like a sleeve of tattoos made of words, markings on the
back of your hand in an ancient script or some other body art.
You may use your body as your spellbook and may prepare your
spells from your body during your daily preparations.
Your body gains the following grimoire power and it does not
count as your one grimoire for the day.
Activate � envision (mental, visual); Frequency once per
day; Effect If your next action is to Spellstrike, the runes
inscribed on your body swirl to emphasize your attack. The
target becomes dazzled until the end of your next turn if
your Spellstrike was a success or 1 minute if it was a
critical success. Creatures that are dazzled from this effect
take a –1 circumstance penalty to their attack rolls against
you as long as they are dazzled.
SCENT OF ARCANA FEAT 1
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade
You have found that the pungency of magic can actually
permeate the air, allowing you to sense its presence through
scent. While in Arcane Cascade, you gain an imprecise sense
with a range of 30 feet that enables you to smell arcane magic.
This scent allows you to detect the presence of arcane magic
equal to or lower than your level as well as beasts, constructs,
dragons, elementals, or creatures with the ability to cast arcane
spells or use actions with the arcane trait. In addition, you can
Track these creatures using your Arcana instead of Survival and
you gain a +2 status bonus to track these creatures if you pass
through an area or place where they have used a magical ability
or Cast a Spell within 1 hour while tracking them. If you are a
master in Arcana, you gain this bonus if you pass an area or
place within 1 day of using a magical ability or Cast a Spell
instead of 1 hour.
2ND LEVEL
FEAT 2
MAGUS
Prerequisites Spellstrike
You fire blasts of magic out of your weapon into nearby
opponents. You learn the cascading weapon blast conflux spell.
Increase the number of Focus Points in your focus pool by 1.
CASCADING WEAPON BLAST FOCUS 1
UNCOMMON EVOCATION MAGUS
Cast � somatic; Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade.
Range 30 feet; Area 5-foot burst
You use your residual energy and make a powerful blast by
pointing your weapon, creating a weapon of the energy from
your lingering magic. Make a ranged attack roll with a weapon or
unarmed attack you are wielding and apply the result against all
creatures within a 5-foot burst within 30 feet of you. If the
weapon you chose is a melee weapon, you can use your
Strength modifier for the attack roll instead of your Dexterity
modifier. If you hit, you deal damage as if you landed a Strike
with your weapon but all of the damage from this Strike is of the
same damage type as your Arcane Cascade. After you Cast the
Spell, you immediately leave Arcane Cascade and end any
ongoing effects related to Arcane Cascade.
RESERVOIR OF POWER � FEAT 2
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade
Requirements Your most recent action was to Cast a Spell from
a spell slot or make a Spellstrike with a spell from a spell slot.
When you tap into the inner energies of your arcane cascade’s
power, using it to create additional effects. You use Arcane
Cascade and you gain an effect depending on the school of your
most recent spell that lasts until the end of your next turn.
Abjuration You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC.
Conjuration You can Step 10 feet.
Divination You gain a +2 status bonus to Perception to Seek
against concealed or hidden creatures and treat the flat
check to target concealed or hidden creatures as 2 lower.
Enchantment You gain a +1 status bonus to Deception and
Intimidation.
Evocation You gain a +2 status bonus to Reflex saves against
spells that would deal the same damage as your Arcane
Cascade.
Illusion You create illusory difficult terrain in a square
adjacent to you. You treat this difficult terrain as normal
terrain. A creature can attempt to disbelieve the effect as
normal after using a Seek action or otherwise spending
actions interacting with the illusion. If it successfully
disbelieves, it ignores this effect for the duration of your
Arcane Cascade.
Necromancy You gain a +2 status bonus against death
effects and regain a number of Hit Points equal to the
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 damage value of your Arcane Cascade before applying any
additional effects (such as the bonus from laughing
shadow).
Transmutation You gain a +2 status bonus against forced
movement and to saves against effects that would give you
the immobilized or prone conditions.
SPELL STITCHER FEAT 2
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, trained in Medicine
After getting in a few scrapes, you’ve learned to spin arcane
thread and imbue tools with special magic for mending wounds
and destruction. You can use your proficiency rank in Arcana to
meet the requirements of skill feats that require a particular rank
in Medicine. You gain the Battle Medicine skill feat. During your
daily preparations, you can imbue a set of healer’s tools with
arcane power that in your hands allows you to use Arcana for
actions that would normally require Medicine.
While you are in Arcane Cascade, your imbued tools heal targets
of your Battle Medicine for 1 additional Hit Point, or 2 additional
Hit Points if you critically succeeded. These additional Hit Points
increase to 2 and 4 if you have weapon specialization and to 3
and 6 if you have greater weapon specialization.
4TH LEVEL
DISCERN PHYSICALITY � FEAT 4
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade
Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade stance.
You have trained yourself to be able to scan the level of a
creature's physical power with a glance. Make a Perception
check or the appropriate knowledge skill against a creature's
Recall Knowledge DC and you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to
your check. This bonus increases to 2 if you have weapon
specialization and 3 if you have greater weapon specialization.
The GM might apply a penalty for the distance between you and
the enemy. The enemy is then temporarily immune to your
Discern Physicality for 1 day.
Critical Success The GM chooses two of the following pieces
of information about the enemy to tell you: one of its
passive abilities, actions, or activities, the attack modifier
for one of its Strikes, its spell DC, or its highest skill
modifier. In the event of a tie, the GM should pick one at
random. You gain a +2 status bonus to damage against
that creature as long as you are in Arcane Cascade.
Success As a critical success, except you only receive one
piece of information and the status bonus to damage while
in Arcane Cascade is +1 instead of +2.
SECOND-HAND WAND FEAT 4
MAGUS
Prerequisites Spellstrike
You have learned to blend your combat style with that of wands.
The hand you use to wield a wand counts as a free hand for the
purposes of the Interact action and for feats or abilities that
would require you have a free hand. You can also hold another
object in this hand (but you still can't use it to wield a weapon).
You can Spellstrike with wands of appropriate spells and when
you make a Spellstrike by overcharging a wand, you reduce the
flat check needed to succeed to 5 instead of 10.
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6TH LEVEL
FORCE MANIPULATE FEAT 6
MAGUS
Requirements focus pool, trained in Athletics
You use one of the most consistent elements at your disposal:
Force. You learn the force manipulate conflux spell. Increase the
number of Focus Points in your focus pool by 1.
FORCE MANIPULATE FOCUS 3
UNCOMMON EVOCATION MAGUS
Cast � verbal
Range 30 feet; Targets 1 Large creature or an object of 8 bulk or
less
Trigger You make a successful Strike or Spellstrike.
You thrust yourself as if to land a martial blow, manipulating
creatures or objects with magical force in the same motion.
Attempt a Shove or Force Open against the target at the same
multiple attack penalty as the required Strike or Spellstrike using
your proficiency in Athletics or your spell attack roll modifier,
whichever is higher. You can choose any unoccupied square
adjacent to the target as your location for the purposes of
determining the effects.
Heightened (6th) You can target a Huge creature or an object of
16 bulk or less.
Heightened (9th) You can target a Gargantuan creature or an
object of 24 bulk or less.
GUARDED SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 6
MAGUS
Prerequisites Spellstrike, Steady Spellcasting
Requirements Your Spellstrike is charged.
You have learned to guard your spellstrikes from enemies who
would interrupt you. Make a Spellstrike. The spell you cast as
part of your Spellstrike does not provoke reactions.
INVERTED ENERGY SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 6
MAGUS
Prerequisites Spellstrike
Frequency once per 10 minutes
Requirements Your Spellstrike is charged and you can cast at
least one spell that deals energy damage.
Your weapon-wielding dance serves as the final line of an arcane
equation that rewrites the elemental power of a spell. Make a
Spellstrike with a spell you can cast that deals energy damage
(acid, cold, electricity, fire, force, negative, positive, or sonic).
You can change the damage of that spell to another damage
type of your choice and the spell loses any traits of the previous
damage type and gains the one associated with its new damage
type. If the spell you chose would deal more than one type of
damage, you select one applicable damage type and any other
damage remains the same.
8TH LEVEL
WARDED STITCH � FEAT 8
MAGUS
Prerequisites Spell Stitcher, master in Arcana
Requirements You are in Arcane Cascade.
You patch your target with a special imbued stitch that protects
them against certain harm. You use Battle Medicine on an
appropriate creature using your Arcana for the check. If you are
successful, you do not apply the effects of your Battle Medicine
immediately but instead place a warded stitch on the target
creature that lasts for 1 minute. While the warded stitch is
active, it provides the target creature with a +1 status bonus to
saves against death effects, diseases, negative effects, and
poisons. Once during the duration, you or the target creature can
use a single action with the concentrate trait to grant the effects
of the Battle Medicine to the creature with your warded stitch.
When your warded stitch is expended, you immediately recharge
your Spellstrike.
WHIRLING WAND STRIKE � FEAT 8 MYSTIC BOMB
MAGUS
Prerequisites Second-hand Wand
You have adapted your wand techniques to enhance merging
wands and attacks. You can cast a spell from a wand that takes
1 or 2 actions and can make a Strike against a creature. You can
choose the order in which these occur and can target different
creatures. Alternatively, you can choose to Spellstrike with your
wand if it possesses an appropriate spell and you gain a status
bonus to damage equal to half the spell’s level on your
Spellstrike. If you choose to Spellstrike by overcharging a wand,
you ignore the flat check to prevent your wand from being
destroyed (though it still becomes broken as normal).
10TH LEVEL
REWRITE RUNE FEAT 10
ARCANE MAGUS TRANSMUTATION
Prerequisites expert in Arcana
Perhaps nobody understands the fundamentals of a magic
weapon as well as you do. With a tap, you can shift the runes of
a weapon around like liquid following your touch. You can add or
remove runes of a weapon or armor in an activity that takes 1
hour. You can change the rune of a weapon or armor to be
another rune of the same level or lower in this time, but the rune
you select must be of equal or lower cost than the original rune.
When you remove a rune from a weapon, you can move it to
another appropriate weapon or to an ordinary stone, making it a
runestone in the process.
SECOND CONSERVATION FEAT 10
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade
You have mastered new ways to wield the ambient magic of an
arcane cascade. You gain a second Arcane Conservation (pg.
13). You can only be in one of your Arcane Cascades at once,
and if you would put yourself in an Arcane Cascade, you must
choose one of your two Arcane Conservations.
12TH LEVEL
MEDIATION OF INSIGHT FEAT 12
DIVINATION EXPLORATION FORTUNE MAGUS PREDICTION
Frequency once per day
You spend 10 minutes to enter a state that merges your mental
and physical form through magic, showing the certain future of
your actions and granting you the power to forge an outcome.
The next time you roll initiative for an encounter, you can choose
to state a specific action or activity as the first action or activity
for your first turn. Once you do, this action is locked in and you
must attempt it on your first turn. If you fail to perform this
action or otherwise are unable to take the action mentioned, you
lose any actions that would have been required to take the
named action. When you attempt your declared action, you gain
a +1 status bonus to the first attack roll or check you attempt
and you treat the degree of success on a result of a failure or
critical failure as one better.
MYSTIC BOMB FEAT 12
MAGUS
Prerequisites Arcane Cascade, focus pool
You can create a powerful reservoir of magic that you, and
others, can fuel. You learn the mystic bomb conflux spell.
Increase the number of Focus Points in your focus pool by 1.
FOCUS 6
UNCOMMON EVOCATION MAGUS
Cast � somatic; Requirements You’re in Arcane Cascade
stance.
Range 120 feet; Area 5-foot to 20-foot burst
Saving Throw basic Reflex; Duration sustained up to 4 rounds
You spontaneously create a burst of magical energy that
appears in the specified location within range. Your mystic bomb
appears in the location and deals 4d6 damage to each creature
within the area on a basic Reflex save and the bomb disappears.
The damage of your mystic bomb is of the same damage type
as your Arcane Cascade. If no creatures are in the area, the
bomb remains in the area. On subsequent rounds, the first time
you Sustain this Spell each round, you can leave the mystic
bomb in its space or move it to another square within range,
immediately exploding after this action is completed if any
creatures are in its area. At the end of each turn that you Sustain
the Spell, you can choose to increase the size of the burst by 5
feet, up to a maximum of a 20-foot burst.
For the duration of the spell, allies within 60 feet of your mystic
bomb can attempt to Aid you by lending their strength and
making an Athletics or Arcana check at a standard DC of your
level. If they succeed, they increase the number of damage dice
the spell deals by 1d6, or by 2d6 if they critically succeed. After
an ally successfully Aids you in this way, they cannot Aid you
again and you can only receive Aid for this spell 3 times before
further attempts automatically fail, treating critical successes
as 2 times for the purposes of attempts.
If you have Expansive Spellstrike, you can deliver your mystic
bomb through a Spellstrike, moving the mystic bomb up to 30
feet as part of this activity and applying the effects as if you had
Cast the Spell the same turn.
Heightened (+1) The initial damage increases by 1d6 and the
number of times your spell can receive Aid increases by 1.
14TH LEVEL
TIME SPLITTING SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 14
MAGUS
Prerequisites Spellstrike
Frequency once per hour
You apply a technique of temporal distortion to delay the effects
of an upcoming Spellstrike. If your next action is to make a
Spellstrike, you can delay the effects of the spell you cast for up
to 3 rounds. At the beginning of each of your turns, you can
choose to cause the spell to take effect using the Strike of the
Spellstrike you made to determine the effects. If a spell would
need to originate from a square you occupied, such as an area
of effect spell with an Expansive Spellstrike, you can choose any
square adjacent to the target for the purposes of the spell you
cast.
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 16TH LEVEL creature or object when you Cast the Spell in this way. When you
cast force fang, you can choose to Cast the Spell as a 2-action
or 3-action spell to gain additional effects.
REVERSE SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 16
� (somatic, verbal) Your force jaws swiftly assault your
MAGUS METAMAGIC target. Creatures that take damage from your force fang
Prerequisites Spellstrike, must attempt a Reflex save against your spell DC or be
Requirements Your Spellstrike is charge and you were targeted knocked prone as the jaws pull them down.
with a hostile spell you could Spellstrike with in the last turn.
� (somatic, verbal) As the 2-action version of the spell,
You reverse the ambient magic from the spell cast and divert it except you can change the target from a single creature to
into a powerful attack. You expend a spell slot of your highest all creatures in a 15-foot cone, 30-foot line, or 5-foot burst
level, and Spellstrike with the same spell that targeted you. If the within 30 feet.
spell is of a level lower than your highest spell slot, it is
heightened to the highest level spell you can cast.
20TH LEVEL
RIDE THE SPELL � FEAT 16
MAGUS METAMAGIC BATTLEMAGE'S APOTHEOSIS:
Frequency once per hour ULTIMATE RADIANCE � FEAT 20
You conjure up a spell beneath your feet, which you ride directly MAGUS POLYMORPH TRANSMUTATION
into your opponent. If your next action is to Cast a Spell with a
range or area of effect, you ride atop it to its destination, moving Prerequisites Arcane Cascade
alongside it up to 60 feet. This movement ignores any difficult or Frequency once per day
greater difficult terrain and allows you to travel over obstacles or Requirements Your Spellstrike is charged.
gaps, flying above them and landing in a square adjacent to your Summoning a powerful aura of energy and performing some
spell’s target or destination. If the spell you cast was an area of long forgotten techniques, you unleash violent power and the
effect, you can choose to end your movement within the area or glow of your Arcane Cascade grows substantially, changing the
at a square adjacent to the affected area. color of your hair and eyes as you stand strong. You enter
Arcane Cascade and gain additional effects. You exude bright
light out to 20 feet and dim light 20 feet after that, gain a fly
18TH LEVEL speed equal to your Speed, and regeneration (deactivated by
force damage or critical hits) 15. These benefits last as long as
you remain in your current Arcane Cascade stance.
BANISHING SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 18
ABJURATION INCAPACITATION MAGUS
Prerequisites Spellstrike
Frequency once per day
Requirements Your Spellstrike is charged.
When you strike an extra-planar foe, you can
channel anti-summoning magic that
disrupts their tether to this world. Make a
Spellstrike against a creature that isn't
on its home plane. If it hits, the target
must attempt a Will save against your
spell DC. If your Spellstrike deals
damage to the target that would
trigger a weakness, the target takes
a –2 circumstance penalty to its
save. If the creature you targeted
with your Spellstrike has the
summoned trait, this ability loses
the incapacitation trait.

Critical Success The target

resists being banished and you
are stunned 1.
Success The target resists being
banished.
Failure The target is banished.
Critical Failure The target is banished
and can't return by any means to the
plane it's banished from for 1 week.

FORCE JAWS FEAT 18

MAGUS
Prerequisites Force Fang
Frequency once per day
You have learned to harness your force fang from a single
devastating blow to an onslaught. The form of your force fang
often changes to resemble something specific, such as a

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Arcane Conservations
A magus is known not only for their ability to channel
magic into their esoteric blows, but also in capturing the
residual energy from these attacks for future use. The
most common type of these methods being Arcane
Cascade, absorbing the energy of recently channeled
magic into their attacks. This is but one way that a
magus can conserve residual magic for future use, and
other such methods rely on archaic, costly, and
sometimes even accursed knowledge. These Arcane
Conservations represent other methods by which magus
have learned to reserve expended magic and further
their prowess when in the field of combat.
At first level you can select a conservation, and if you do
you lose the Arcane Cascade stance class feature. For the
purposes of abilities or feats that have Arcane Cascade
as a prerequisite, your conservation’s Arcane Cascade
counts as the Arcane Cascade stance. Any ability or feat
that would apply during Arcane Cascade applies while
you are under the effects of your conservation’s Arcane
Cascade. If an action or effect would put you in Arcane
Cascade stance without having to meet its requirements
(such as Capture Magic), you gain the effects of your
conservation’s Arcane Cascade as part of using that
action. If an action or effect would put you in Arcane
Cascade and has the same requirements as Arcane
Cascade (such as Arcane Shroud), it gains the same
requirements and triggers as your conservations Arcane
Cascade and it puts you into your conservations Arcane
Cascade when you use that action instead.
If your conservation’s Arcane Cascade provides a non-
damage bonus to the bonus applied from the Arcane
Cascade stance, use the value of the provided bonus for
determining effects that would be reliant on your Arcane
Cascades damage bonus. If you would
increase the damage amount of your
Arcane Cascade, such as from the
laughing shadow hybrid study, you
instead gain that damage bonus while you
are in your conservation’s Arcane Cascade
with a damage type of the same type as the
Arcane Cascade stance would produce
under the circumstances of your conservation’s
Arcane Cascade.
BLADEBOUND
RARE
While most magus learned to conserve magic within
their Strikes, you were gifted, or perhaps plagued, with
being in the service of a devourer of residual magic.
Despite the prevailing name, a black blade can be a
weapon of any form, though it is common for them to be
edge weapons, as the ability to draw blood from an edge
serves their needs quickly. The burden of a black blade
often hangs heavy on those that wield them, and though
you provide each other power, its price is the most costly
of all things: Life.
You gain the Familiar magus feat and a black blade
specific familiar. Unlike other familiars, you can never
get rid of your black blade for another familiar, and if
you would ever be parted from your black blade or it
were ever destroyed, it returns to you magically during
your next daily preparations.
If you have Capture Magic, your black blade uses its
reaction to Invigorate with the same trigger when you
would normally use your reaction to Capture Magic and
you gain the same bonus to damage if your blade was
already invigorated. If you have Resounding Cascade,
allies within the emanation gain the effects of your black
blade’s Invigorate with the same circumstances as if you
had used the Arcane Cascade stance.
Additional Feats: Improved Familiar [6], Incredible Familiar [10]
BLACK BLADE
Your weapon seeks power, and so too do you. Its power
grows as you do, and as long as your goals align, there
are little quarrels to be had, but sometimes a price must
be paid. The will of the blade is not easily bent, but it
realizes that the two of you must work together, as
without you it must remain in wait until another
powerful magus is willing to make the sacrifice.
BLACK BLADE
RARE CONSTRUCT
Required Number of Abilities 2
Granted Abilities second opinion, skilled (arcana)
Arcane Cascade: Invigorate � (necromancy) Trigger You
reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a spell or Spellstrike;
Requirements You are wielding your black blade; Effect Your
black blade becomes invigorated and your melee Strikes with it
deal 1 additional damage for 1 minute. This additional damage
increases to 2 if you have weapon specialization and 3 if you
have greater weapon specialization. This damage is of the same
type as the Arcane Cascade stance. Strikes that benefit from
this damage gain the arcane trait, making them magical.
If your black blade uses this ability on a creature below
your level, you must attempt a Will save against its
Ego.
Despite being a minion, your black blade gains 1
reaction at the start of its turns, which it can use
for Invigorate and other reaction abilities it
gains from being a black blade.
Can’t Walk Your black blade has no
land Speed.
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 Constructed Weapon Your black blade can be wielded as a
weapon and takes the form of a weapon of your choice during
your daily preparations. Your black blade cannot be targeted by
effects or given Commands while you are wielding it, but it may
gain reactions it can use while it is being wielded depending on
its abilities. You can etch runes and apply special materials to
your black blade, but any property runes that can’t apply to the
form of your black blade are suppressed until the item takes a
shape to which they can apply. Your black blade is immune to
bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued,
healing, necromancy, nonlethal attacks, paralyzed, poison,
sickened, and unconscious. It can recover Hit Points only via the
Repair action and other methods that fix items, not from any
form of Hit Point healing. It's destroyed at 0 HP.
Ego Your black blade has needs that it must fill, and you must
satisfy its undying thirst for power. Your black blade gains an
Ego value equal to its Will DC. Whenever you attempt an action
that your black blade restricts, either by an ability or via violating
its purpose, you must attempt a basic Will save against your
black blade’s ego value or you lose Hit Points equal to your level
and your weapon regains Hit Points equal to the Hit Points you
lost. If you get a success, you do not have to make Will saves
against your black blade’s ego for 1 hour, or 1 day if you got a
critical success.
JAUNTY VISAGE
UNCOMMON
Your magic is re-purposed so that it generates an
eldritch mask, arcane tattoos, conjured clothing, or
some other cosmetic appearance unique to you. These
manifestations carry with them emotions of controlled
power, allowing you to exert magical energy to inspire
emotions in your enemies through appearance alone.
You gain the Don Visage action. You are considered to
be in Arcane Cascade as long as you have your visage
donned. You treat the additional damage dealt to
creatures affected by these actions as the damage value
of Arcane Cascade for the purposes of feats and abilities
dependent on Arcane Cascades damage bonus. Hybrid
studies or feats that increase the damage bonus of the
Arcane Cascade stance (such as laughing shadow),
instead increase the damage bonus to targets under
these effects by the same amount.

Purpose Your black blade has a purpose and an accompanying

edict. These may or may not be known to its wielder, subject to
GM discretion. If you commit an act that would be against its
purpose or fail to follow an edict, you must attempt a Will save
against its ego.

ADDITIONAL BLACK BLADE ABILITIES

Feed Me You have learned to feed your black blade your energy
to satisfy its needs. You can spend a single action with the
concentrate trait to give your black blade the effects of
Invigorate, but you must attempt a Will save against its Ego and
you must attempt this save even if you would be immune to its
Ego. Your familiar must be a black blade to select this ability.

Life Drinker � (death, incapacitation, necromancy) Frequency

once per day; Trigger You critically hit a living creature with your
black blade; Effect Your black blade takes advantage of your
tremendous blow and drinks in the life force of the enemy. The
triggering creature must attempt a Fortitude save
against your spell DC or class DC, whichever is higher.

Critical Success The creature is unaffected.

Success The creature becomes drained 1 and
you regain a number of Hit Points equal to
the amount of Hit Points the target lost
from the drained condition.
Failure As success, but the creature becomes
drained 2.
Critical Failure As success, but the
creature becomes drained 3.

Your familiar must be a black blade and you must

be at least 14th level to select this ability. If your
black blade uses this ability on a creature below
your level, you must attempt a Will save against
its Ego.

They’re Mine � (fortune) Frequency once per day;

Trigger You fail a Will save against an effect that would
give you the confused, controlled, or fascinated
conditions or that would require you to take an action against
your will; Effect Your black blade rolls a Will save against the
same effect, replacing your result with its own. If it is under the
effects of Invigorate, it gains a status bonus to this save equal to
the additional damage it would deal. Your familiar must be a
black blade and you must be at least 6th level to select this
ability.

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If you have Capture Magic, you can immediately Don
Visage and use the associated action against the foe who
targeted you when you used your reaction. If you have
Resounding Cascade, allies within the emanation also
gain your damage bonus against enemies under the
effects of your Don Visage skill action.
ARCANE CASCADE: DON VISAGE �
ARCANE CONJURATION FLOURISH MAGUS VISUAL
Requirements You used your most recent action to Cast a Spell
or make a melee Spellstrike.
You don your visage, granting you a fearsome, jovial, or
mysterious demeanor. Choose between fearsome, jovial, or
mysterious for the demeanor of your visage and attempt an
Arcana check at a standard-difficulty DC of your level to don your
visage. If you succeed at your check, you don your visage for 3
rounds, or 4 rounds if your result was a critical success. When
you first use Don Visage in an encounter, you can use the result
of your initial check to perform the associated skill action of your
demeanor against an appropriate creature. For the duration, you
can use your visage to perform the associated actions with your
Arcana instead of the normal skill. You deal 1 additional damage
of the same type as the arcane cascade stance to creatures as
long as they are affected by the associated action from your
visage. This damage increases to 2 if you have weapon
specialization or to 3 if you have greater weapon specialization.
Fearsome Your skill action is Demoralize. When you use your
visage to Demoralize it gains the visual trait and loses the
linguistic and auditory traits.
Jovial Your skill action is Bon Mot, and you can use Bon Mot
even if you do not have the skill feat. It gains the visual trait
and loses the linguistic and auditory traits, but your
opponent only needs to use a single action with the
concentrate trait to retort.
Mysterious Your skill actions are Feint, Hide, and Sneak. You
gain the additional damage from Don Visage against
creatures that are flat-footed to you as a result of these
actions or being undetected or unnoticed.
JAUNTY VISAGE FEATS
MULTI-FACETED VISAGE � FEAT 8
MAGUS
Prerequisites Jaunty Visage
Frequency once per round
Requirements Your visage is donned.
Your visage can be altered on a whim. You alter your selection
from Don Visage to another option of your choice, changing your
demeanor to that of your new selection and replacing the
benefits with your new demeanor.
MARIONETTE MASTERY
UNCOMMON
You have learned to leave threads of magic with your
strikes and spells, allowing you to control your enemies
with enchanting magic or more easily fool them with
illusions. The threads of magic are a tapestry which you
weave as easily as a seamstress pulls thread.
You gain the Puppet String action. You are considered to
be in Arcane Cascade as long as you have at least one
puppet string attached to a creature. You treat the value
of the weakness to mental damage from Puppet String
as the damage value of Arcane Cascade for the purposes
of feats and abilities dependent on Arcane Cascades
damage bonus. Hybrid studies or feats that increase the
damage bonus of the Arcane Cascade stance (such as
laughing shadow), instead increase the weakness to
mental damage by the same amount.
If you have Capture Magic, you can create a puppet
string to the foe who targeted you when you used your
reaction, so long as the foe is within 30 feet of you. If you
have Resounding Cascade, allies within the emanation
also have puppet strings attached to the triggering foe
and can benefit from its effects with the same
restrictions as normal (such as not gaining increased
weaknesses from the laughing shadow hybrid study).
ARCANE CASCADE: PUPPET STRING �
ARCANE FLOURISH ILLUSION MAGUS
Requirements You used your most recent action to Cast a Spell
that targeted an enemy within 30 feet or make a melee
Spellstrike and the spell you chose had the illusion or mental
trait.
You weave magic around your enemy, making them more
susceptible to mental manipulation. You create a thread of
magic between yourself and the required enemy, tethering them
by a puppet string made from the lingering magic of your spell.
This puppet string is broken if a creature spends an Interact
action to break it or you and the tethered creature are further
than 30 feet from each other. While tethered, your target takes a
–1 status penalty to their Will saves against your spells with the
required traits and they gain weakness 1 to mental damage from
your spells. This weakness increases to 2 if you have weapon
specialization, or 3 if you have greater weapon specialization.
MARRIONETTE MASTERY FEATS
PUPPET’S COMMAND � FEAT 8
ARCANE ENCHANTMENT MAGUS MANIPULATE MENTAL
Prerequisites Puppet String
Requirements You have two puppet strings attached to a single
enemy.
Your puppet strings allow you to force the target to take an
action. You can use your puppet strings to make the target
approach you, release what it's holding, drop prone, or stand in
place. It can't Delay or take any reactions until it has obeyed your
command. The effects depend on the target's Will save against
your spell DC. The target takes a status penalty to their save
against this effect equal to the number puppet strings in excess
of two. Regardless of the result, the target is then immune to
your Puppet’s Command for 1 day.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected and immediately
breaks one of your puppet strings.
Success The creature is unaffected.
Failure For the first action on its next turn, the creature must
use a single action to do as you command.
Critical Failure The target must use all its actions on its next
turn to obey your command.
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 SLIDECASTING
UNCOMMON
Somatic components are part of what makes spells
whole, and you’ve learned how to combine these
movements with your steps. You slide around the
battlefield with sprays of sparks and spell residue,
making you a highly mobile combatant.
You gain the Slidecast reaction. Whenever you Step or
Stride in the same turn you also Cast a Spell or
Spellstrike, you gain a +1 status bonus to your Reflex
saves against effects that target an area for 2 rounds.
This bonus lasts for 3 rounds if you have weapon
specialization, or 4 rounds if you have greater weapon
specialization.
You are considered to be in Arcane Cascade as long as
you are benefiting from this bonus for the purposes of
feats and abilities that rely on you being in Arcane
Cascade. For determining values that would be
dependent on the Arcane Cascade stance’s damage
bonus, you instead use the starting number of rounds
you are affected by this bonus as the damage amount.
Hybrid studies or feats that increase the damage bonus
of the Arcane Cascade stance instead grant you a
damage bonus equal to the increased amount that lasts
for the same duration and follows the same rules for
damage types as the Arcane Cascade stance.
If you have Capture Magic, you can Step as part of that
reaction. If you have Resounding Cascade, allies within
the emanation can Step and gain the status bonus to
Reflex saves as long as they remain in the emanation
and you are benefiting from your Arcane Cascade.
ARCANE CASCADE: SLIDECAST �
ARCANE MAGUS TRANSMUTATION
Trigger You Cast a Spell with a somatic component that takes
at least two actions to cast.
When you Cast a Spell, you use the momentum of your magic to
propel you. You Step. You can perform this Step during a
Spellstrike between when you Cast the Spell and when you
Strike, but your Step must be towards the target of your
Spellstrike or to a square that keeps the target in your reach if
you were already within melee reach of the target.
SLIDECASTING FEATS
SLIDE SLICE � FEAT 8
ARCANE MAGUS TRANSMUTATION
Prerequisites Slidecast, Spellstrike
Trigger You used Slidecast before you made a Spellstrike and
the Strike from your Spellstrike was a critical hit.
You carry your slide through your opponent after making a
devastating blow. You can Stride up to half your Speed. You can
make this Stride before or after the effects of your spell are
applied.
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SPELL IGNITION
UNCOMMON
Rather than absorb and re-use the ambient magic left
behind by the casting of spells, you’ve mastered the art
of swirling it into a magic haze of pain. Spells you cast
leave behind magic that crackles and burns, making it
dangerous to remain in its presence.
You are considered to be in Arcane Cascade as long as an
area of ambient magic is present for the purposes of
feats or abilities that require it. You are immune to the
damage dealt by your own ambient magic. For
determining values that would be dependent on the
Arcane Cascade stance’s damage bonus, you instead use
the number of rounds your Spell Ignition lasts. Hybrid
studies or feats that increase the damage bonus of the
Arcane Cascade stance instead grant you a damage
bonus equal to the increased amount that lasts for the
same duration and follows the same rules for damage
types as the Arcane Cascade stance.
If you have Capture Magic, you can create ambient
magic in the space of the foe who targeted you when you
used your reaction, so long as the foe is within 30 feet of
you. If you have Resounding Cascade, allies within the
emanation are immune to the damage of your ambient
magic.
ARCANE CASCADE: SPELL IGNITION �
ARCANE CONJURATION MAGUS
Requirements You used your most recent action to Cast a Spell
that targets a creature or area of effect or to make a melee
Spellstrike.
You cause ambient magic in the area to burn, making the air
thick with palpable magic. This creates an area of ambient
magic that lasts for 2 rounds. The area of ambient magic
occupies the target’s space or the area of effect of the spell you
cast. Creatures other than you that end their turn within an area
of ambient magic take damage equal to the level of the spell you
cast with a basic Fortitude save against your spell DC, or half
that amount if the spell you cast was a cantrip (minimum 1).
This damage is of the same type as the arcane cascade stance.
The ambient magic lasts for 3 rounds if you have weapon
specialization, or 4 rounds if you have greater weapon
specialization.
SPELL IGNITION FEATS
DETONATING SPELLSTRIKE � FEAT 8
ARCANE EVOCATION MAGUS
Prerequisites Spell Ignition, Spellstrike
Requirements You can make a Spellstrike against an enemy
within an area of your ambient magic and your Spellstrike is
charged.
Your magical force is set to ignite the surrounding area into an
arcane radioactivity. Make a Spellstrike. The target of your
Spellstrike and all other creatures inside the area of your
ambient magic must immediately attempt a save against its
effects. Creatures that critically fail their save also take
persistent damage of the same type as your ambient magic with
a damage amount equal to the number of rounds that was left
on your ambient magic. After you detonate an area of ambient
magic, it dissipates.
 Essence Mystic Archetype
Some spellswords gain their magic through years of careful study and dedication to the blade. Others,
however, prefer a more immediate path to power. Essence Mystics seek out a broker who possesses
great arcane power with which they make a trade; their heart to a dragon, their calm to an elemental,
their hand to a lich, or something similar. In this exchange, the mystic inherits the magic or strength
that allows them to bolster one of their essences. These bargains and brokers give the magus their
power, but it is by their ambition and discipline they achieve their true power.

Essence Mystic NEW TRAITS

Havok Havok is a powerful surge of
UNCOMMON
magic that is released from your
BARGAIN OF ESSENCES (1ST) body. You can use an ability with the
Your body is eternally marked as not entirely mortal. You likely underwent a havok trait only if you are in a Havok
ritual that bargained a piece of yourself in exchange for power from your Cascade, and you take damage
broker entity: a piece of your mind, body, heart, or soul. You might have a claw
equal to your level and suffer the
that once belonged to a mighty linnorm, be partially transformed into an
effects of your traded havok. Once
ancient automaton, or even have the horn of a terrible kaiju growing from your
you use an action with the havok
head. Your broker is a being who has bestowed you with extraordinary arcane
trait, you cannot use another action
power, and they may continue watching their investment closely in the
shadows or have separated themselves entirely after this transaction was with the havok trait for the rest of
complete. Your exact relationship with your broker entity is up to you; you your turn.
might have a written agreement with them, you may actively serve them, or it
might be a power they bestowed on you in a single chance encounter—or you YOU’RE NOT PREPARED
may simply be a victim of circumstance. When you tap into your bargained The essence mystic is not a prepared
essence, the innate power inside you shows itself. If you choose this class caster, but some aspects of the
archetype, you must select Essence Mystic Dedication as your 2nd-level class magus heavily integrate the concepts
feat. of study and intelligence, as well as
relying on a spellbook. For these
Prerequisites: You must be a magus.
situations, some reimagining or
Magus Adjustments
adjustments might be required to
You do not gain a hybrid study, but instead gain essence tactics. You do not ensure that the original options
gain the studious spells class feature at 7th level, but instead gain the havok available to the magus are still
spells class feature at 7th level. Your spellcasting ability modifier is Charisma appropriate and work as expected.
instead of Intelligence and you do not gain a spellbook at 1st level but instead Where applicable, if a feat or ability
learn new spells by adding them to your spell repertoire. would require a spellbook, you

BARGAINED ESSENCE instead use your physical form and its

bolstered essences. If an ability
With strained breath, you call upon the physicality you bargained for with your
broker entity to aid you alongside the spells you have gained from them. At 1st would function specifically for
level, you choose the essence of yourself that you chose to bolster in your preparing a specific spell slot with a
bargain and the essence you sought to trade. You must choose two different spell, you instead apply the
essences when choosing what to bolster or trade. Your bolstered essence grants designation to one of the spells in
you additional effects while in a Havok Cascade, a special version of Arcane your spell repertoire for that specific
Cascade, and your traded essence applies a penalty when you use an action spell slot.
with the havok trait. For example, the horizon spell shell
requires the magus to prepare
BODY ESSENCE specific spell slots as spellshells
Bolster Your attained essence has manifested a foreign graft onto your body, the nature
of your bargain on display for all to see. You gain darkvision or scent (imprecise) 30 feet during their daily preparations, but an
and an unarmed attack of your choice on the table below. Once these choices are made essence mystic would instead choose
they cannot be changed without renegotiating the bargain with your original broker
(subject to GM discretion). You become trained in Athletics or Survival. to make certain spell slots they have
into spellshell slots during the daily
Bolstered Havok While under the effects of a Havok Cascade, the unarmed attack you preparations instead of preparing a
gained increases its die size by one step and gains the havok critical effect when you
critically succeed at a Strike with your unarmed attack. spellshell ahead of time.

Trade Your body is more susceptible to afflictions and your havok makes you less responsive. You take a –2 penalty to Fortitude
saves against afflictions and gain a weakness to poison damage equal to half your level (minimum 1).

Traded Havok After you use an action with the Havok trait, you are flat-footed for 1 minute or until you make a successful Strike.

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Unarmed Damage Traits Havok Critical Effect Traded Havok After you use an action with the Havok trait,
Attack you are stupefied 1 or increase your stupefied value by 1 if
Agile, The target is flat-footed you were already stupefied for 1 minute or until you make a
finesse, until the start of your next successful Strike.
Claw 1d6 S unarmed turn.

The target takes 1d6 SOUL ESSENCE

Grapple, persistent bleed damage Bolster You are vibrant and full of life, the bolstered essence of
Fangs 1d8 P unarmed plus 1 damage per weapon your bargain. You gain either Toughness or Diehard as a bonus
damage dice. feat and a +2 status bonus against death effects. You treat the
DC to recover from the dying condition as 2 lower than your
The target is knocked away normal amount. You become trained in Medicine or Religion.
Horn 1d8 P Shove, from you up to 10 feet (you
unarmed choose the distance). This Bolstered Havok While under the effects of a Havok Cascade,
is forced movement. you gain a resistance to physical damage equal to the
The target is grabbed by damage bonus of your Arcane Cascade and if you would
Trip, your jaws until the regain Hit Points from a healing effect, you regain
Jaws 1d8 P unarmed beginning of your next additional Hit Points equal to half your level the first time
turn. you receive healing from that effect.

The target is moved 5 feet
Tail 1d6 B Reach, in a direction of your
unarmed choice. This is forced
movement.
HEART ESSENCE
Bolster You traded for a release of emotion and to satisfy your
innermost desires. You are trained in your choice of Deception,
Diplomacy, Intimidation, or Performance and gain a level 1 skill
feat associated with your selection. You become trained in
Performance or Intimidation.
Bolstered Havok While under the effects of a Havok Cascade,
you are immune to fear effects and you gain a status bonus
to the skill you chose for your bolstered essence equal to
the damage bonus from your Arcane Cascade.
Trade
You succumb to your emotions more easily and your havok
floods you with emotion that makes you sway. You take a –2
penalty to Will saves against emotion effects and gain a
weakness to bleed damage equal to half your level (minimum 1).
Trade Your hold on life is weak and your havok causes you to
waste away. You take a –2 penalty to Fortitude saves against
death effects and gain a weakness to negative damage, or
positive damage if you have negative healing, equal to half your
level (minimum 1).
Traded Havok After you use an action with the Havok trait,
you are drained 1 or increase your drained value by 1 if you
were already drained. Unlike the normal requirements for
the drained condition, you can reduce the drained condition
caused by an action with the havok trait by 1 if you make a
successful Strike or spend 10 minutes attuning your
essences.
HAVOK CASCADE
With strained breath, you call upon the physicality of your master
to aid you alongside the spells you have gained from them.
When you would enter your Arcane Cascade stance, you enter a
Havok Cascade stance, a powerful enhancement to your
bolstered essences that follows all the same rules as your
Arcane Cascade, but with the additional effects of your
Bargained Essence. You gain the wreak havok conflux cantrip.

Traded Havok After you use an action with the havok trait, you
are clumsy 1 or increase your clumsy value by 1 if you were
already clumsy for 1 minute or until you make a successful
Strike.
MIND ESSENCE
Bolster Your bolstered essence has blessed you with knowledge
unlike any other. You become trained in Forbidden Lore, a special
lore skill that can be used to Recall Knowledge regarding arcane
spells, artifacts, and creatures of any type, but that can't be used
to Recall Knowledge on other topics. At 7th level, your
proficiency in Forbidden Lore increases to expert, and at 15th
level your proficiency in Forbidden Lore increases to master. You
become trained in one skill with the Recall Knowledge action.
Bolstered Havok While under the effects of a Havok Cascade,
you can use Charisma as your modifier on your Forbidden
Lore checks instead of your Intelligence modifier and if you
roll a critical failure, you get a failure instead. You can
attempt Recall Knowledge checks with Forbidden Lore on
creatures multiple times while in Arcane Cascade. When
you succeed at a Recall Knowledge against a creature with
your Forbidden Lore, they gain a weakness equal to half
your level to damage of the same type as your Arcane
Cascade for 1 round.
While you are in Havok Cascade, you can use actions with the
havok trait and when you use these actions you take damage
equal to your level. If you resist this damage, remove it, or
otherwise avoid taking it, your havok action automatically fails
and has no effect.
WREAK HAVOK CANTRIP 1
UNCOMMON CANTRIP CONFLUX EVOCATION HAVOK MAGUS
Cast � somatic; Requirements You’re in Havok Cascade
stance.
Area varies, see text
Saving Throw basic Reflex
You unleash the magical energy ravaging your body. Creatures in
a 5-foot emanation, 10-foot cone, or 15-foot line of you take 2d4
damage. Creatures that fail their save are flat-footed to you until
the beginning of your next turn. The damage dealt by this spell
is the same type as your Arcane Cascade.
Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 2d4.

Trade Your mind is easily targeted by mental attacks and your

havok makes you overwhelmed. You take a –1 penalty to Will
saves against mental effects and gain a weakness to mental

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 TABLE 2–2: ESSENCE MYSTIC SPELLS PER DAY
Your Level Cantrips 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
1 5 1 - - - - - - - -
2 5 2 - - - - - - - -
3 5 2 1 - - - - - - -
4 5 2 2 - - - - - - -
5 5 - 2 2 - - - - - -
6 5 - 2 2 - - - - - -
7 5 - -* 2 2 - - - - -
8 5 - -* 2 2 - - - - -
9 5 - -* - 2 2 - - - -
10 5 - -* - 2 2 - - - -
11 5 - - -* - 2 2 - - -
12 5 - - -* - 2 2 - - -
13 5 - - - -* - 2 2 - -
14 5 - - - -* - 2 2 - -
15 5 - - - -* - - 2 2 -
16 5 - - - -* - - 2 2 -
17 5 - - - -* - - - 2 2
18 5 - - - -* - - - 2 2
19 5 - - - -* - - - 2 2
20 5 - - - -* - - - 2 2
* The havok spells class feature gives you extra slots of this level for specific spells.
ESSENCE TACTICS Some of your spells require you to attempt a spell attack
You have learned to merge aspects of your battle roll to see how effective they are, or have your enemies
prowess with a specific type of battle tactics, much the roll against your spell DC (typically by attempting a
same that other magus gain a hybrid study. Choose a saving throw). Since your spellcasting ability is
hybrid study. You gain the initial benefits of that hybrid Charisma, your spell attack rolls and spell DCs use your
study and add the associated studious spells to your Charisma modifier. Details on calculating these
havok spells. You do not gain the initial conflux spell of statistics appear in Spell Attack Roll.
the chosen hybrid study. For the purposes of feats that
would require you be of a certain hybrid study, you HEIGHTENING SPELLS
count as having the hybrid study you chose. When you gain spell slots of 2nd level and higher, you
can fill those slots with stronger versions of lower-level
ESSENCE MYSTIC SPELLCASTING spells. This increases the spell's level, heightening it to
Your body is forever linked to an incredibly powerful match the spell slot. Many spells have specific
spellcaster. You can cast spells using the Cast a Spell improvements when they are heightened to certain
activity, and you can supply material, somatic, and levels.
verbal components when casting spells. Because of the
magic you draw from your monstrous body part, you can CANTRIPS
usually replace material components with somatic A cantrip is a special type of spell that doesn't use spell
components, so you don't need a material component slots. You can cast a cantrip at will, any number of times
pouch. per day. A cantrip is always automatically heightened to
half your level rounded up—this is usually equal to the
Each day, you can cast one 1st-level spell and five highest level of spell you can cast as a havoc magus. For
cantrips. You must know spells to cast them, and you example, as a 1st-level essence mystic, your cantrips are
learn them via the spell repertoire class feature. The 1st-level spells, and as a 5th-level essence mystic, your
number of spells you can cast each day is called your cantrips are 3rd-level spells.
spell slots.
As you increase in level as an essence mystic, the power SPELL REPERTOIRE
of your master inside you grows and grants you The collection of spells you can cast is called your spell
additional, more powerful spell slots as normal for a repertoire. At 1st level, you learn two arcane 1st-level
magus of your level. spells of your choice and five arcane cantrips of your
choice. You can cast any spell in your spell repertoire by

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 using a spell slot of an appropriate spell level. Your spell it from a higher-level spell slot, up to the maximum level
slots and the spells in your spell repertoire are separate. of spell you can cast. You can similarly cast any of its
If a feat or other ability adds a spell to your spell lower-level versions without learning them separately.
repertoire, it doesn't give you another spell slot, and vice
versa. HAVOK SPELLS LEVEL 7
Your bargained essences grant you additional spells that
You add to this spell repertoire as you increase in level.
can enhance your power in combat. You gain two special
Each time you get a spell slot (see Table 2–2: Essence
2nd-level havok spell slots, which can be used to cast
Mystic Spells per Day), you add a spell of the same level
spider climb, true strike, water breathing, and an
to your spell repertoire. At 2nd level, you select another
additional spell depending on your essence tactics.
1st-level spell. At 3rd level, you add the first 2nd-level
spell to your repertoire. At 4th level you gain your During your daily preparations, you can choose two
second and your spell repertoire reaches its maximum spells from this list to be added to your spell repertoire
size of five spells. and casting spells from a havok spell slot gives the spell
the havok trait. At 11th level, the extra slots increase to
At 5th level, in addition to adding two 3rd-level spells to
3rd level and you add haste and an additional spell
your repertoire, you lose your lowest level of spell slots.
depending on your essence tactics. At 13th level, the
Any time you lose a level of spell slots, you lose two
extra slots increase to 4th level and you add fly and an
spells in your repertoire as well. These can come from
additional spell depending on your essence tactics.
spells you already know or out of the number of new
spells you're learning. On levels in which you don't
ESSENCE MYSTIC DEDICATION FEAT 2
change your spell slots, you can swap out multiple
ARCHETYPE DEDICATION MAGUS
spells, as described below.
Prerequisites Bargained Essence
SWAPPING SPELLS IN YOUR REPERTOIRE You have strengthened your connection to your havok. You gain
the conflux spell associated with the hybrid study you chose for
As you gain new spells in your repertoire, you might your essence tactics, and you increase the number of Focus
want to replace some of the spells you previously Points in your focus pool by 1.
learned.
When you cast a conflux spell that does not have the havok trait,
Each time you gain a level and learn new spells, you can you can choose to give it the havok trait, giving you a +1 status
bonus to any attacks you make as part of Casting the Spell and
swap out one of your old spells for a different spell of the doubling the damage from your havok cascade until the
same level. If it's a level at which you lose a set of lower- beginning of your next turn.
level slots, you can replace the two in either order. You
can also instead swap a cantrip. You can also swap out
spells by retraining during downtime.
At 6th level and every even level thereafter, you can
swap out any number of your spells for different spells
of a level you can cast. When you do, you must keep at
least one spell you can cast with your lowest level of spell
slots so you don't end up with slots you can't use. For
instance, at 6th level you would need to keep at least one
2nd-level spell, but all your other spells could be 3rd
level.

UNLIMITED SIGNATURE SPELLS LEVEL 3

All of your spells are signature spells. That means that if
you know a spell, you can heighten it freely by casting

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 Suggested Errata I’M OVER REACTIONS
Some players might find that
HYBRID STUDIES reactions being provoked by
Spellstrike feels anti-thematic to the
STARLIT SPAN magus’ role, since it is one of their
Add the following line to the starlit span hybrid study text:
main abilities and a big part of their
“While you are in Arcane Cascade, when you make a ranged Strike, you and targets you damage potential. Others find that
successfully hit exude bright light in a 5-foot radius (and dim light for the next 5 feet) for 1
round. The radius of the bright and dim light increases by 10 feet if you have weapon reactions can cultivate the use of
specialization, or 15 feet if you have greater weapon specialization. Your Strikes gain the different combat tactics, such as
light trait and the level of this effect is equal to your level.”
more reliance on Arcane Cascade, to
foster varied play over repeated
ARCANE CASCADE Spellstrikes. If your GM decides to
Alter the requirement for the Arcane Cascade stance to read: house rule that Spellstrike does not
“Requirements You can enter this stance if your most recent action was to Cast a Spell or provoke reactions for spells cast as
make a Spellstrike, but you can remain in the stance even if you no longer meet the part of the activity, alter Guard
requirements.”
Spellstrike to be Guarded Spell, a
single action metamagic that
MAGUS FEATS modifies your next spell action to
Alter the Steady Spellcasting feat to read: not provoke reactions.

STEADY SPELLCASTING FEAT 4 FAST CADE

MAGUS
The magus action economy is tight,
Confident in your technique, you don’t easily lose your concentration when you Cast a Spell.
If a reaction would disrupt your spellcasting action, attempt a DC 10 flat check. If you often with clear cycles between
succeed, your action isn’t disrupted. Spellstrikes, conflux spells, and
recharging Spellstrike. While this
In addition, if you cast a non-cantrip spell that was disrupted by a reaction, you do not
expend the focus point or spell slot even if your spell was disrupted. book does seek to offer more
incentives and opportunities for
Arcane Cascade, some might feel
that more measures could be taken
to allow Arcane Cascade to be used
more often by players that are
struggling to find room for it in their
action economy.

Some alterations to Arcane Cascade

might include allowing Arcane
Cascade as a reaction on a failed
Spellstrike, allowing Arcane
Cascade to be used without its
requirements, or simply allowing you
to be in Arcane Cascade whenever
you begin an encounter. These
changes range from small quality of
life changes to substantial buffs for
Arcane Cascade, and though this
book does not suggest these
changes, they are worth mentioning
since they are common house rules
that can provide a more dynamic
action economy for magus players.

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