Soul Witness

Read Fold-tainted impressions from the dying; 1/day, 3 yes/no questions on a target within 1 min of death (no speak-with-corpses).

The character has opened a sliver of their mind to the Fold-tainted impressions that bleed from the newly-dying. The character can detect Fold-taint clinging to a target in the final moments of dying (Perception equivalent DC 15 + minutes since clinical death). Once per day as a 10-minute ritual begun while the target is still alive and dying (the ritual must complete within 1 minute of clinical death), the character may read the fading Fold-bleed impressions and ask 3 yes/no questions. The dying target's Fold-tainted impressions answer truthfully if it can; the target then dies. The character gains +4 to checks involving recently-dead, Fold-echoes, and Fold-spawn (they sense their true nature).

Rules Reference

Field	Value
Combat Action / Action Type	full
Combat Action / Duration	10 minutes
Combat Action / Frequency	once-per-day
Combat Action / Uses Per Day	1
Category	psionic
Runtime / Classification	out-of-combat
Runtime / Duration	10 minutes
Runtime / Effect Kind	other
Runtime / Magnitude
Runtime / Trigger
Runtime / Uses	once-per-day

Notes

Combat Action / Effect Script Id: Soul Witness

Special: Requires Fold Threshold (Psion archetype or Fold psion). The dying-impressions ritual requires the target to be alive when begun and to die within 1 minute of completion; corpses and the long-dead cannot be questioned. The dying target's Fold-bleed answers are limited to what the target knew and felt in its final moments -- questions about events after death yield silence. The character must declare the ritual before receiving answers; questions cannot be changed once asked. Stacks with gene-psion Static-Pulse for detecting Fold-tainted spirit imprints on the dying.

Benefit

condition: detect Fold-tainted impressions on a dying target (Perception DC 15 + minutes since clinical death)

Field	Value
condition	detect Fold-tainted impressions on a dying target (Perception DC 15 + minutes since clinical death)
modifier	0
target	dying-fold-bleed-sense

condition: once per day, 10-min ritual begun on a dying target: 3 yes/no questions read from Fold-bleed within 1 min of death

Field	Value
condition	once per day, 10-min ritual begun on a dying target: 3 yes/no questions read from Fold-bleed within 1 min of death
modifier	0
target	dying-impressions-read

condition: +4 to checks involving recently-dead, Fold-echoes, and Fold-spawn

Field	Value
condition	+4 to checks involving recently-dead, Fold-echoes, and Fold-spawn
modifier	4
target	recently-dead-fold-detection

Prerequisites

type: ability

Field	Value
value	WIS 15

type: skill-rank

Field	Value
value	Fold Lore 4

type: character-level

Field	Value
value	5