Pain Seeker

"What is life without a little suffering? Without pain, we wouldn’t know what pleasure feels like. We wouldn’t know when to be happy or relaxed, how to be kind or generous. Don’t you see? Pain……..is love."
——Crucia, an eternal Pain Seeker

The Pain Seeker is a person who most likely comes from a strange and twisted set of circumstances and always from a distorted religious background. Addicted to pain to a point of ecstasy, they seek to experience it for themselves repeatedly, as well as share it with others. Perhaps they were harmed horribly in their youth by someone they loved and trusted, and now they see it as a means of expressing fondness. Maybe they were simply born as sadists, and after enough time harming others, they turned the whip on themselves to alleviate their boredom. Whatever the case, Pain Seekers are notorious for their abilities to harm others, bringing them to the brink of death and back again under their skilled hand, with little understanding of their plaything’s resistance or unhappiness.

The Pain Seeker is a three stage Talent.

Pain Seeker I

The Pain Seeker’s connection to this sensation borders on the supernatural. Feeling Pain strengthens their attacks, and they even learn how to extract the very essence of pain itself from a victim and use it to fuel their other abilities. The mere touch of a Pain Seeker can render an opponent helpless, debilitating them completely. To greater extend the reach of their gift, they create an efficient tool in the form of chains that hurt and agonize everything they touch. Lastly, casting Divine spells fills the Pain Seeker with Euphoria, not for the leavening of pain it causes, but for opening the gateway to experience more.

Prerequisites

Features

♦ Pain is Power
Pain does not affect you in the same way as others. Instead of shying from it, you embrace it, using it to make you stronger and fuel your abilities. At your option, you may even choose to utilize Liquid Pain in order to inflict pain upon yourself. While in Pain, you may reduce your level of pain to gain the following benefit:
  • Whenever you are experiencing one or more levels of Pain, increase the damage of your Weapon Attacks by 1 WD.
Additionally, some of your abilities with require you to be in Pain in order to utlize. When you utilitlze these abilities, your Pain level will decrease. If this Pain is from an Injury, the Pain is supressed for one phase, instead of permanently removed.
♦ Embracing Injury
When you suffer Morale Damage from an Injury, reduce the Morale Damage by 2 (min 0).
♦ Extract Pain
You gain the Extract Pain ritual.
Extract Pain
Ritual Rank 7
Prerequisites: Pain Seeker I
Potency: 35
Components: A small glass vial inscribed with runes [Value 10 gp]
Focus: A tortured creature in extreme pain.
Cost: 3 Resolve Burn
Cast Time: 1 phase
Effect: Typically, focus the creature is tortured to a point of extreme pain before the ritual is begun. Then you spend 10 minutes chanting over the body, as the pain builds and intensifies. Once the pain has reached the zenith of what the creature can possibly stand, and just before the creature falls unconcious, you extract the essence of the pain from the focus creature and condense it into Liquid Pain.
♦ Agonizing Touch
You gain the Agonizing Touch ability.
Agonizing Touch
Magic Resistance: Yes
Pain Seeker Class Feature [Grapple]
Cast Action [CT 3, REC 7]
Potency: 1d8 + Divine Rank
Cost: 4 Resolve, Reduce your Pain Level by 2.
Requirement: You must have a Pain level of 2 or higher.
Effect: Your very touch causes your opponent to be overcome by a terrible agony. Make an attack:
Range: Touch
Target: Creature Touched
Attack: Devotion vs. Touch
Hit: The target suffers Pain (5) and is rendered Helpless [SE, ST 5d10 vs CON]. After the target saves, it suffers Pain (3) for 1d4 rounds.
Special: Creatures immune to Pain are unaffected by this ability.
Master Augment, Tormenting Touch
[Pain Seeker II]
Effect: Your Agonizing Touch now deals Torment, instead of Pain, allowing this ability to have an effect on creatures normally immune to Pain.
♦ Chains of Pain
Gain the Chains of Pain ability.
Chains of Pain
Magic Resistance: No
Pain Seeker Class Feature
Cast Action [CT 5, REC 4]
Cost: 4 Stamina and 1 Stamina Burn
Duration: 1 moment or until dismissed, dispelled, or disrupted.
Upkeep: Free Action, Burn 1 Stamina to increase the duration by 1 moment.
Effect: You summon lashing chains that strike out at creatures in your vicinity. While this prayer is active, you may use the following ability:
Free Action
Limitation: This action may only be used once per round.
Effect: The chains lash out at your enemies. Make an attack:
Range: 50ft
Target: One creature
Attack: Devotion vs. Reflex
Hit: The target suffers 4d10 + Divine Might Slashing damage and is subject to Pain (2) for 1d4 rounds.
Master Augment, Double Chains
[Pain Seeker III]
Cost: CT +2, 2 Stamina Burn
Effect: You may now use the Chain Lash ability twice per round.
♦ Embrace the Pain
Gain the Embrace the Pain ability.
Embrace the Pain
Pain Seeker Class Feature
Free Action
Requirement: You must have a Pain level of one or higher.
Trigger: You cast a Divine Prayer.
Effect: Consider your Divine Rank to be one Rank higher for the purposes of casting this prayer. Reduce your Pain level by 1.

Pain Seeker II

Through their exploration of agonizing, ritualistic torture, Pain Seekers expand their abilities to greater heights of suffering, learning to torment their victims. So adept at embracing their self-inflicted agony, they can channel it to block out lesser forms of harm and even share this pain through their attacks on less experienced targets.

Prerequisites

  • Divine Rank 9
  • Cost: 2 Destiny Points

Features

♦ Torment
You have the ability to inflict Torment upon your foes. Torment functions similarly to Pain, though it can be experienced even by creatures that are normally immune to the effects of Pain. Like Pain, Torment is a stacking status effect, with each level imposing a cumulative effect. Additionally, Torment can stack with a creature's current levels of Pain for a cumulative effect. Every time a creature is afflicted with a level of Torment, it suffers the following effects:
  • -1 penalty to Attacks rolls and Skill Checks for each level of Torment.
  • -1 penalty to Saving Throws and Attribute Checks for each level of Torment.
Whenever you use an ability that causes Pain, you may instead choose to cause Torment. Abilities that reduce the effects of Pain have no effect on Torment.
♦ Embody Pain
Gain the Embody Pain ability
Embody Pain
Pain Seeker Class Feature
Prerequisites: Pain Seeker II
Interruptive Action
Cost: 3 Resolve
Trigger: You suffer damage.
Effect: Reduce the damage by ½ and gain Pain (1) for 1 phase.
♦ Fueled by Pain
Gain the Fueled by Pain ability
Fueled by Pain
Pain Seeker Class Feature
Free Action
Requirement: You must have a Pain level of two or higher.
Trigger: You hit with a Weapon Attack.
Effect: Increase the damage of the attack by 3 WD. Reduce your Pain level by 2.

Pain Seeker III

The Pain Seeker learns to channel their pain through divine energy and ritualistic markings. The Mark of Pain can now be created, unleashing their channeled agony onto unsuspecting victims. At long last, they also gain the ability to gift entire groups of enemies with their unique power, causing all in the area to be awash with unrelenting Torment, debilitating all affected.

Prerequisites

  • Divine Rank 10
  • Cost: 2 Destiny Points

Features

♦ Mark of Pain
Gain the Mark of Pain ability.
Mark of Pain
Pain Seeker Class Feature
Prerequisites: Pain Seeker III
Cast Action [CT XXX

, REC XXX

]
Cost: 1 Karma
Requirement: You must have a Pain level of 3 or higher.
Effect: You transfer your own pain into a magical rune that obeys your command. This ability functions as Symbol of Pain though you need the Components, Focus, original Prep and Cast time, or original Cost to use the ability. Reduce your Pain level by 3.
♦ Waves of Agony
Gain the Waves of Agony ability.
Waves of Agony
Magic Resistance: Yes
Pain Seeker Class Feature
Prerequisites: Pain Seeker III
Cast Action [CT XXX

, REC XXX

]
Cost: 1 Karma, XXX
Requirement: You must have a Pain level of XXX or higher.
Effect: A wave of pure agony issues forth from you. Reduce your pain level by XXX

and make an attack:

Area: 60ft cone
Target: All creatures in area
Attack: Devotion vs. Fortitude
Hit: The target suffers Torment (5) and is rendered Helpless [SE, ST 5d10 vs CON]. After the target saves it suffer Torment (3) for 1d4 rounds.