Soulbind
An anti-paladin with this edge has delved deeper into the study of unholy
enchantment than many of their dark brethren. They forge a more sophisticated
unholy blessing than most, one that binds their weapons to them in a stronger,
more personal way. These weapons are not easily separated from their
possession while they live, and may be treated as though the anti-paladin can
see them even when sight fails them.

Developing this ability requires a somewhat sharp mind, as well as practical
experience in controlling an unholy weapon's enchantments.

See also: UNHOLY BLESSING
EDGES


Steal Sight
In blinding others with his magic, an anti-paladin with this edge may recover
their own hampered sight.

See also: BLINDNESS
ENERGY DRAIN
EDGES


Feast of Sorrows
Well acquainted with the failings of the depressed and fearful, the physical
attacks of an anti-paladin with this edge are harder to avoid for demoralized
opponents.

See also: POWER WORD DESPONDENCE
AURA OF DESPAIR
PARRY
DODGE
EDGES


Exploit Hobbling
An anti-paladin with this edge can effectively capitalize upon an opponent's
crippled legs with their kicks and trips.

See also: KICK
TRIP
CRIPPLING STRIKE
EDGES


Merciless Ambidexterity
While it is possible to shatter an opponent's kneecap or slash at their face
with a weapon in the off hand, this often proves more difficult than would
otherwise be the case. Anti-paladins with this edge have trained to eliminate
this possibility, striking with their off hands with these techniques just as
effectively as they could with their primary hands.

See also: DUAL WIELD
FACESLASH
CRIPPLING STRIKE
EDGES


Slasher
An anti-paladin with this edge can follow up a shocking slash to the face with
another quick hit.

See also: FACESLASH
EDGES


Thunderbolt
Drawing upon the forbidden knowledge of corrupt quasi-elemental djinn, bought
at unspeakable cost, an anti-paladin with this edge may throw bolts of twisted
lightning at their enemies. Such a bolt has a chance to deafen its victim.

See also: LIGHTNING BOLT
DEAFEN
EDGES


Vaulting Tactician
An agile anti-paladin with this edge has a chance to adjust their decent
towards a new target if, as they vault, their intended prey should perish or
move out of range.

See also: VAULT
EDGES


Morosa's Momentum
An anti-paladin with this edge has a greater chance to send their target flying
as they connect with a morosa's charge.

See also: EDGES
MOROSACHARGE


Demanding
A charismatic anti-paladin with this edge may use the demand skill to greater
effect.

See also: DEMAND
EDGES


Mudslinger
With long experience at precisely striking an opponent's face, an anti-paladin
with this edge has learned to kick dirt more accurately. Additionally, their
victims often take longer to recover from this dastardly attack.

See also: FACESLASH
DIRT KICKING
EDGES


Fearless Abandon
An anti-paladin often finds himself faced with a variety of enemies that strike
him instinctively, even near-instantly. There can be no evading such an
attack, and the anti-paladin has learned to tame their fears and focus on
striking back as the attack comes.

See also: BLOODTHIRST
EDGES


Synergy of Suffering
Having bargained for forbidden arcane techniques of Hell's torturers, an anti-
paladin with this spell may cast fireballs and iceballs that feed upon the
suffering of those they strike, growing ever stronger as each succeeding victim
feels their sting. These techniques are magically complex and often beyond
exceptionally dimwitted anti-paladins.

See also: FIREBALL
ICEBALL
EDGES


Power Cleave
An anti-paladin of sufficient physical strength can, with this edge, chop
through multiple enemies at once with a powerful cleave. If the target of the
cleaving blow should immediately perish or flee, the anti-paladin may continue
through to another of their allies, cleaving them as well.

These subsequent cleaves have similar restrictions to the first; for example,
the anti-paladin cannot cleave into an extremely wounded ally of their victim.

See also: CLEAVE
EDGES


Siphoner
An anti-paladin with this edge may utilize the dangerous mantras of the Death
Knights to more effectively steal life and mana from those they drain energy
from.

See also: ENERGY DRAIN
CHILL TOUCH
LEECH UNHOLY BLESSING
EDGES


Harvester of Woe
Calling upon the weakness-exploiting techniques of the barbed devils, an anti-
paladin with this edge may cast ever-stronger offensive spells against enemies
who are wounded or near death.

See also: PLAGUE
ENERGY DRAIN
EDGES


Infernal Intimidator
Blending the fear magic of the Inferno and some crude bullying techniques
imperfectly adapted from orc-kind, an anti-paladin with this edge has a chance
to prevent weaker NPCs from attacking him while cloaked in an aura of despair.
This warding is ineffective against those who strike the anti-paladin
specifically because of said aura of unclean spirits.

A moderate charisma is necessary to succeed at this technique.

See also: AURA OF DESPAIR
EDGES


Champion of Man
Some rare few anti-paladins choose to embody the name of their guild in the
truest sense, rejecting all divine influence in the mortal world. Does the
anti-paladin not excel at arts both mystical and physical? Does he not
represent the heights to which a man might soar without reliance upon divinity?

The path of a Champion of Man is one of both great power and price. Divine
sanctuary is dramatically less effective in reducing the force of the
Champion's blows. Supplications of all kinds are much less effective when used
either for or against the Champion. The Champion enjoys a resistance to holy
and unholy damage from any source.

However, the Champion may also no longer purchase the aid of mercenary healers,
and prayers meant to heal or protect him may be reduced incredibly in
effectiveness or fail outright.

A character with a tattoo cannot choose this edge, and one that later gains a
divine tattoo in defiance of his former creed will, at best, lose the benefits
of it.

See also: WORLDBIND
EDGES


Vessel of the Pit Fiends
The bloodlust of an anti-paladin with this edge grows with each new blessing
they receive from the Pit Fiends of Cocytus.

See also: BLOODLUST OF THE TWELVE FIENDS
EDGES


Steal Inspiration
When an anti-paladin with this edge breaks a piece of their opponent's
inspiration with a power word of despondence, there is a chance to steal it for
themselves.

See also: POWER WORD DESPONDENCE
EDGES


Malefic Glow
Anti-paladins of the dark elves have learned to cripple their enemies as they
reveal them with mystic fire, rendering them slightly more vulnerable to damage
of all kinds for a short time.

See also: FAERIE FIRE
DARK ELF
INHERENTS
EDGES


Unholy Aura
An anti-paladin with this edge has learned to tune their aura of unclean
spirits such that it deals minor damage to those that bodily collide with them
using such attacks as bashes or bearcharges. This damage increases with the
strength of the anti-paladin's mind.

Note that this edge does nothing to prevent the attack in question from
landing; it merely exacts a small price for having done so, should the anti-
paladin survive it.

See also: AURA OF DESPAIR
BASH
BEARCHARGE
EDGES


Doom the Forsaken
An anti-paladin with this edge has a chance to dispel supplications that affect
a victim that they successfully curse. This ability does not work on sleeping
opponents, and is markedly more effective when the anti-paladin is wiser than
his victim.

See also: CURSE
WORLDBIND
EDGES


Reap the Forsaken
An anti-paladin with this edge chops up those the gods have forsaken with
brutal efficiency. They may use their intelligence instead of strength to
influence physical damage dealt with normal attacks, if this is an
improvement. Their single-target offensive spells are also somewhat more
effective on these cursed souls, should they be conscious and able to
comprehend the doom that comes for them. Additionally, an opponent that is
both cursed and worldbound will find themselves unable to evade the anti-
paladin.

See also: CURSE
WORLDBIND
DAMROLL
EVADE
EDGES


Flames of Perdition
Adepts of Hellfire who focus their dark pyromancy further learn to throw
fireballs that can shatter blessings and prayers that protect their victims.

See also: FIREBALL
HELLFIRE
BLESS
PRAYER
EDGES


Unrepentant Sinner
Where some evil characters are tragically unable to bear the weight of their
circumstances and live always with a burdened conscience from the terrible
things they've done, an anti-paladin with this edge actually revels in their
wickedness.

Wrath, damnation, dispel evil, good-align-sourced demonfire, and light of
heaven are all somewhat less effective against them. They further enjoy a
minor resistance to all holy damage. Evil healers may heal them somewhat more
effectively than usual, even without a dark pact between them.

However, divine retribution and antipathy are somewhat more effective than
normal against them. Additionally, good healers find it much more difficult
than normal to heal them.

See also: WRATH
DAMNATION
DISPEL EVIL
DEMONFIRE
LIGHT OF HEAVEN
DIVINE RETRIBUTION
ANTIPATHY
HEALER
EDGES


Black Paladin
Through years of wanton murder of even those as tainted with sin as themselves,
some anti-paladins develop a resistance to unholy damage, not unlike a markedly
less impressive (but still significant) dark mirror to a true paladin's
righteousness.

See also: RIGHTEOUSNESS
EDGES


Demonskin
An anti-paladin with this edge develops a minor resistance to blows delivered
by blessed weapons while surging with the bloodlust of the twelve fiends. This
resistance is only effective if the anti-paladin is not already resistant to
the damage being dealt by the blessed weapon.

See also: BLESS
BLOODLUST
EDGES


Soulrage
In addition to the normal soul harvesting that is part of every good day for an
anti-paladin, one with this edge is filled with an unholy rage as they reap the
souls of the fallen. This adds to the damage they do for a time, with both
power and duration directly proportional to the strength of the foe recently
felled. Should the anti-paladin be able to slay several opponents in quick
succession, these benefits do stack.

See also: UNHOLY BLESSING
EDGES


Fell Enchanter
An anti-paladin with this edge is an artisan of unholy enchantments, blessing
and leeching weapons more quickly than normal. Additionally, he is able to
discern by subtle clues who a given unholy weapon belongs to.

See also: UNHOLY BLESSING
LEECH UNHOLY BLESSING
LORE
EDGES


Profane Synergy
An anti-paladin with this edge can call forth more frequent, damaging, or
lasting controlled unholy blessing effects from a weapon whose original nature
matches the control. For example, an anti-paladin with Flames of Ninauurm
using a weapon that was originally fiery in nature would deal additional damage.

See also: CONTROL UNHOLY BLESSING
EDGES


Excisor of Pain
An anti-paladin with this edge can draw forth the arcane energies of offensive
wands to greater effect.

See also: EXCISION
WANDS
EDGES


Unholy Slavemaster
An anti-paladin with this edge may lash and apply the lashes of the slave to
their opponents more effectively and deal more damage when doing so.

See also: WHIP
FLAIL
LASH
LASHESOFTHESLAVE
EDGES


Controlling Grasp
An anti-paladin with this edge has exceptional control over their Iron Grip of
Azazel and may attempt to reverse the infernal possession of their enlarged
hand by casting the spell again. Success is far from guaranteed, but this is
still a very useful trick to know.

See also: IRON GRIP OF AZAZEL
EDGES


Malicious Intent
When an anti-paladin with this edge attempts to cleave an enemy and cannot
because they are hurt and prepared, he immediately attacks conventionally if
consumed with the Bloodlust of the Twelve Fiends.

See also: CLEAVE
BLOODLUST
EDGES


Eye of the Butcher
Clever anti-paladins with knowledge of anatomy often learn this edge, which
allows them some chance to leave grevious bleeding wounds in their foes, should
they survive their attempts to cleave them in twain.

See also: CLEAVE
EDGES


Firestarter
A character with this edge is much more likely to start local terrain on fire
with a fireball.

Hellfire
Calling forth balls of fire with their black magic that are an admixture of
flame and infernal energies, an anti-paladin with this edge will deal some
unholy damage to victims that are immune to fire. This includes targets who
might be healed by fire for some reason.

See also: FIREBALL
EDGES


Spine of the Akragaka
By learning this series of combat techniques, which require a minimum threshold
of physical strength to execute successfully, an anti-paladin is able to defend
themselves more effectively and often attack more frequently while wielding a
spear or polearm.

See also: EDGES
SPEAR
POLEARM
SLICE
PIERCE
THRUST