Dark Medium (3.5e Invocation)

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Dark Medium
Warlock Lesser; 3rd

This invocation gives you many benefits relating to communication with the dead.

Spirit Sight (Su): You can see ethereal creatures (including spirits) as easily as you see material creatures and objects. You can easily distinguish between ethereal creatures and material ones, because ethereal creatures appear translucent and indistinct. This functions constantly as long as you know this Invocation.

Veilspeak (Su): You can communicate with any spirit or incorporeal undead as if they understand your language, even if they do not. Likewise, they can return communication even if they do not speak your language or a language at all. This also functions constantly as long as you know this Invocation.


Séance: As this function of the invocation, you can replicate the basic effects of the Séance spell, allowing you to call forth a spirit to talk to you with the focus of an Ouija board. Additionally, you may choose at any time to intentionally summon a random malicious spirit.

When you gain the ability to cast Greater invocations, you can instead choose to cast the Séance effect as if you had cast it in a spell slot one or two higher, allowing you to be the spell's focus, or project the spirit as an apparition. When used this way, the invocation's spell level increases from 3rd to 5th. Additionally, after you learn to cast Greater invocations, you may choose for any random malicious spirit you summon to always be 8 HD.

When you gain the ability to cast Dark invocations, you can elect to grant the spirit greater power while summoned. If you choose, the spirit may now affect is surroundings as if by Telekinesis at a caster level equal to your Invocation caster level, and its range of influence is no longer limited to 20ft.


Possession: When you learn to cast Greater invocations, you can choose to have the summoned spirit from the Séance ability possess a creature of your choice within Close range of the focus. The target is allowed a Will save against the DC of this invocation to resist being possessed; If they fail, they are possessed by the spirit. They speak in the spirit's voice, and the spirit has control over them as if by Dominate Monster, though the spirit cannot use the class features, supernatural abilities, or spell-like abilities of the possessed target. The target may make Will save DC 23 to resist the spirit's influence for one round, and two successful saves in a row dismisses the spirit and ends the effect. Once the possession is broken, the creature becomes immune to this effect of the Dark Medium invocation for 24 hours. Any spirit granted possession of a creature by means of this invocation will be bound from harming the caster or the caster's allies, who are designated by the caster upon the invocation's casting.

Dead Mens' Tales: You can instead use the spell to replicate the effects of the Speak with Dead spell. This function can be used only once per corpse, regardless of how long it has been dead.


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Article BalanceHigh +
AuthorZhenra-Khal +
Identifier3.5e Invocation +
LevelWarlock Lesser +
RatingUndiscussed +
SummaryYou've been granted power to communicate with the other side. Use it wisely. +
TitleDark Medium +