Blood Feast (3.5e Martial Discipline)

Summary::Designed by those who survive of blood, the blood feast discipline learns how to weaponize their own blood and the blood of others by opening grievous wounds for which vitality can leak through.

When the students of the Temple of Nine Swords went out into the world, it was inevitable they would face danger. Such was the story of the vampire hunter Ahab Hawthorn, a crusader on a mission to take down an vampire lord whose name has been lost. His mission ended in failure, but not death, as the vampire hunter was turned into the thing he hunted himself. His lord found his brand of fighting style fascinating and insisted on learning it, and between the two they continued to battle and formulate a style of their own, the style known as Blood Feast. At some point, it is said one of their fights became fatal through accident or trickery and Hawthorn was released from his service, where he went out and taught the Blood Feast to others.

Blood Feast is as extraordinary as it is supernatural, and best suited for crusaders and swordsages. They focus on self-buffs through the augmentation of their blood, and the slow bleed, or violent release, of blood in others. They even possess a mastery over life and death few within the martial field can handle. The weapons associated with this discipline are those suitable for drawing blood; daggers, falchions, kukris, longsword, rapiers, scimitars, scythes, whips, and piercing polearms (such as spears). Practitioners must know where and how to cut the body, and thus the skill associated is Heal (Wis).

A crusaderToB or swordsageToB may replace one of his disciplines known with the Blood Feast discipline.

Maneuvers of the Blood Feast Discipline

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