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CURSE MAELSTROM

ARCHETYPE

Some folks are ridden with bad luck: the rations they were counting on turn out to be spoiled, the ship they were hoping to catch sinks in the harbor, or the new home they bought is destroyed by a rampaging golem. Most know that they are cursed, feeling an emptiness in their soul that weighs upon them, gnawing at their confidence and shrouding their ambitions. Sometimes, these curse maelstroms learn to control and channel their curse; you are one such unfortunate soul.

You have a powerful curse living deep within you. You might have been able to restrain your curse for the most part, but it flares up occasionally and tempts you with the power to curse your foes, should you allow it to exert itself. Why should you be the only one who has to endure a cursed life when others have so clearly earned such woe?

Living with a curse every day, you become intimately familiar with the workings of curses, getting a sense of when bad luck is about to befall those around you. You might try to avoid further bad fortune—which rarely pans out as you’d like—or you could come to terms with your lot in life and regard your curse as something akin to an old friend. Either way, fate cares little.

Misery loves company, so your curse can even be a beacon for more misfortune. You might have multiple curses all tied to you, all fighting to make your life as hellish as possible.

MANIFESTATIONS

Those at the center of a storm of curses often have peculiar manifestations that mark them as one of the unfortunate. Over time, even the places that they inhabit will begin to show signs of their presence: plants with bizarre growths, dust clouds that form strange symbols in the light, and floors that creak and groan even when no one is walking across them.

TABLE 1: CURSE MAELSTROM FEATS
Feat Names Level Skill
Feat		 Benefits
Curse Maelstrom DedicationDA 2 – A horrible curse has left a lingering stain on your soul, and its effects continue to plague you even if the curse’s other effects have ended.
Familiar OdditiesDA 2 ✓ Perhaps due to the curse within you, curses occasionally perceive you as an extension of themselves and readily reveal themselves to you.
Unnerving ExpansionDA 4 – You gather your curse around you and impel it to pour outward, expanding your maelstrom.
Share BurdenDA 6 – You draw the misfortune or curse into yourself, potentially enabling you to enter your curse maelstrom state.
Accursed MagicDA 8 – When the curse within you spills out, you can lay curses on others and claim them for yourself with ease.
Counter CurseDA 8 – You gather the energy of your maelstrom and fling its unleashed power into the enemy’s curse, attempting to neutralize it.
Torrential BacklashDA 10 – Calling upon forbidden practices, you release the curse from within yourself, allowing it free rein to destroy everything around you.
Reverse CurseDA 12 – When you counter a curse or misfortune effect, you send it back to destroy its originator.