Chadao Benediction
System: Pathfinder | SRD
Level: 4
School: transmutation
Casting time: 40 minutes
Components: V, S, M (enough green tea leaves of exceptional quality to brew a pot of tea), F (a tea ceremony set worth at least 150 gp), SC (at least 1 and up to 4)
Skill checks: Diplomacy DC 30, 2 successes; Knowledge (nobility) DC 30, 2 successes
Range: touch
Duration: 24 hours; see text
Saving throw: none
Spell resistance: no
Backlash: The primary caster takes a –4 penalty to Strength and Dexterity for 24 hours.
Failure: All casters can’t benefit from morale bonuses for 1 week.
The primary caster brews a pot of tea and serves it to the secondary casters in a formal ceremony. Everything, from the amount poured into each cup to the tea’s temperature, must be precise. During this time, the casters can either remain silent or speak politely to one another, but never of anything crude. If the tea ceremony is interrupted in any way, the ritual fails, no matter how many successes the casters have accrued. When the casters have finished drinking the tea and successfully completed the ritual, they are filled with a sense of serenity. Each caster receives a +4 morale bonus on saving throws against fear effects for the next 24 hours.
Any caster can dismiss the ritual’s effect for herself as an immediate action and gain one of the following benefits.
- The caster gains 2d10+4 temporary hit points that last for 4 hours.
- The caster is immediately cured of a single poison affecting her.
- The caster can reroll a failed Will saving throw, taking the better result. If this saving throw is against a fear effect, the caster still gains the +4 morale bonus on the reroll.
- The caster can cast a single spell of 3rd level or lower as if it were a silent and still spell.
Source: Heroes of the High Court pg. 19