Blood (sage study)

Blood is a sage study in the field of the Way of the Heart, through which the body's purity is maintained through meditation and the manifestion of "qi." These energies are incorporated by the character's consciousness, guiding the healing process and resisting both natural and unnatural attacks that threaten the character.

Sage Abilities

The sage abilities below are those acquired by a character through the study, according to status.

Amateur Status

• Amend Self: uses short periods of meditation to restore hit points equal to one day's rest, one time per day.

• Resist Fatigue: through preparation and meditation, enables the character to act continuously for unusually long periods without need of rest.

• Vitality: resists the effects of disease, fatigue and system shock.

Authority Status

• Fast: foregoes the need to eat as much or as often, or indeed at all, without noticeable effects on the body.
• Purgation: enables the character to rid the body of all poison and toxic substances through meditation.

Expert Status

• Immunity: provides complete immunity from specific diseases as chosen by the character.

Sage

• Refuse Death: empowers the character's body to continue it's vigor and strength past the moment when death would ordinarily occur.

See Monk Sage Abilities