Suppress Soul (3.5e Maneuver)

You remove your soul from your body, as though dead.

When you enter this stance, you die, and cannot take actions other than to leave this stance. While dead, you can still observe your surroundings from your body. Your body does not decay, starve, suffocate, dehydrate, or allow the continuation of diseases or poisons afflicting you while you are dead.

It is possible for necromancy spells and similar things to animate your corpse: if this damages your corpse somehow (by having all your flesh slough off your bones, for example) ending this stance will no longer be sufficient to make you stop being dead. If it doesn't damage your corpse, however (in the case of zombification, for example), then when you return to your body the effect will simply be dispelled.

Effects that bring you back to life end this stance. If the effect brings you back to life in a different body, you will end the stance in that new body. You do not suffer level loss if brought back from Suppress Soul.

When you return to your body, any damage your body has taken while dead is deducted from your hit point total, which may kill you.

This maneuver is supernatural.