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The Akashic
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| Level | BAB | FRC | SKL | Fort | Ref | Will | Det | Special | Active Memes | Memory | Libraries | Max Meme Grade | Memes Known | |
| 1 | +0 | +1 | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | +1 | Delve Into Blue | 2 | 1 | 1 | Common | 4 | |
| 2 | +1 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | +2 | Lore | 2 | 1 | 1 | Common | 6 | |
| 3 | +1 | +3 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | +2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Uncommon | 7 | ||
| 4 | +2 | +4 | +3 | +1 | +1 | +4 | +3 | Lore | 3 | 2 | 2 | Uncommon | 8 | |
| 5 | +2 | +5 | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | +3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Uncommon | 10 | ||
| 6 | +3 | +6 | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | +4 | Lore | 4 | 2 | 2 | Uncommon | 11 | |
| 7 | +3 | +7 | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | +5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | Uncommon | 12 | ||
| 8 | +4 | +8 | +6 | +3 | +3 | +7 | +5 | Lore | 5 | 3 | 3 | Rare | 14 | |
| 9 | +4 | +9 | +6 | +3 | +3 | +8 | +6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | Rare | 15 | ||
| 10 | +5 | +10 | +7 | +4 | +4 | +9 | +6 | Akashic Talent | 6 | 2 | 3 | Rare | 16 | |
| 11 | +5 | +11 | +8 | +4 | +4 | +10 | +7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | Rare | 18 | ||
| 12 | +6 | +12 | +9 | +5 | +5 | +10 | +8 | Akashic Talent | 7 | 4 | 4 | Rare | 19 | |
| 13 | +6 | +13 | +9 | +5 | +5 | +11 | +8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | Obscure | 20 | ||
| 14 | +7 | +14 | +10 | +5 | +5 | +12 | +9 | Akashic Talent | 8 | 5 | 4 | Obscure | 22 | |
| 15 | +7 | +15 | +11 | +6 | +6 | +13 | +9 | 9 | 5 | 5 | Obscure | 23 | ||
| 16 | +8 | +16 | +12 | +6 | +6 | +13 | +10 | Akashic Talent | 9 | 6 | 5 | Obscure | 24 | |
| 17 | +8 | +17 | +12 | +7 | +7 | +14 | +11 | 10 | 6 | 5 | Obscure | 26 | ||
| 18 | +9 | +18 | +13 | +7 | +7 | +15 | +11 | Akashic Talent | 10 | 6 | 5 | Secret | 27 | |
| 19 | +9 | +19 | +14 | +7 | +7 | +16 | +12 | 11 | 7 | 6 | Secret | 28 | ||
| 20 | +10 | +20 | +15 | +8 | +8 | +16 | +12 | Akashic Talent | 11 | 7 | 6 | Secret | 30 | |
Akashic
- "A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever."
In a world where individuals of capable of wholesale destruction of timelines, where individuals can wrest themselves from the march of time and act against the grain of causality, the study of history and memory itself becomes significantly more daunting, but also more important. However, an understanding of causality leads not just to an understanding of how we got to where we are today, but to an understanding of the underpinnings of reality itself. Those who take up the mantle of the akashic are those who have gleaned insights into the mechanisms of reality: not from the view of those who live inside the universe, but from outside it. This almost alien approach to how the world functions is obtuse and abstract in nature, and few in the world are capable of maintaining that mindset for long.
By learning how to study and manipulate information and data, akashics can undo the crimes committed against the timeline, ensuring that their memory - and the memory of everyone in existence - remains tied to events as they occurred. However, they can also reverse the process, manipulating the information that represents the world in order to manipulate existence, giving them unparalleled control over the present and a keen understanding of how the now will lead to a future moment.
It is with this knowledge that all of existence is simply information that akashics perform amazing feats. While they can create objects out of nothing and read the minds of other creatures, these are not direct interactions, nor are they impositions of will upon reality - they are simply modifications and manipulations of data. However, these actions require significant willpower and the ability to read the world memory, as every passing moment the data of the world changes: akashics must therefore be incredibly careful and quite observant in order to ensure that they do not accidentally destroy themselves or disrupt the world in a catastrophic manner.
Game Rule Information
Akashics have the following game statistics.
Force Alignment: Blue.
Force Resistances: TO 5 + level, CO 5 + level.
Abilities: Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma are all equally important to an akashic. She gains bonus active meme slots based on her Wisdom, bonus memory based on her Intelligence, and additional belief-space based upon her Charisma.
Hit Points at 1st Level: 5 + Con score.
Hit Points at Each Additional Level: 5 + Con modifier.
Healing Surges: 6 + Con modifier.
Starting Age: Moderate.
Class Features
All of the following are class features of the akashic.
Proficiencies
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Weapons: Any three.
Armor: Cloth, leather.
Implements: Records, tomes.
Memetics
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Akashics are memeticists, and as such make use of memes, conceptual packets of information that are essentially programs that interact with the data that comprises the world in some fashion.
To use memes, an akashic must first ready it, an arduous process that must be performed on a regular basis, updating the meme to ensure that its various structures are synchronized with the world.
Blue Libraries
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| Library | Description |
| Abstract | Directly interfacing with the structures that form the very core of existence, this library gives you extremely powerful but limited ways to manipulate reality. |
| Instance | Through introduction of new pointers and structures, you can create temporary objects and creatures. |
| Lambda | Relatively simple and direct commands, these memes are useful to modify reality quickly and in fashions similar to those wielded by other Forces. |
| Query | You can delve into the caches of information storage hidden "beneath" the world, learning answers to impossible questions. |
| System | Manipulating processes, you can take control of the real world in a wide variety of ways. |
| Virus | Rather than attempt to produce particular effects, you can instead corrupt existing data and processes, causing them to decay or behave erratically. |
To access her memes, an akashic must ready them into her active meme slots. An akashic can only modify her active meme slots after a long rest, in a process that takes ten minutes.
Meme Grades
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| Grade | Minimum Wisdom |
| Common | 9 |
| Uncommon | 10 |
| Rare | 11 |
| Obscure | 12 |
| Secret | 14 |
When an akashic readies her memes, she can also choose to put them into her personal memory, using her own informational process to improve the meme in some fashion. You can change which memes you have allocated into memory with a short rest.
When you process a meme, it becomes temporarily scrambled after its interaction with the world, and you cannot use it again until it recharges. At the beginning of each of your turns, if you have any memes that need to recharge, you roll your recharge die, which is 1d6. If the result of the recharge die is equal to or greater than the recharge value for a given meme, that meme recharges, and you can process it again.
All of your memes automatically recharge after a short rest.
You gain additional active meme slots based on your Intelligence modifier; at each even level, you gain a bonus active meme slot, until you have a total number of bonus slots equal to your Intelligence modifier.
The akashic begins with four known memes. She gains knowledge of additional memes each level, as per the class table, above. At fourth level and every four levels after, she can trade out up to two memes for new memes from any library she can access.
If you would gain access to a library, you can choose to instead gain a bonus feat, which must be a feat for which you qualify. If you would gain access to a library and already have access to six libraries, you gain a bonus feat instead.
The akashic's key ability for his memetic attacks is his Charisma.
Design Notes
We have to redesign this.
Memes now have grades.
The old memory concept is gone. Now you have belief-space - which is rebranded as memory - and the recharge die.
Memes put in memory get beefed up.
Use a meme, it has to recharge.
Get an extra active meme slot every even level up to your Int mod.
