Prerequisite: Must have suffered a shard rupture or shardling wound (DM’s discretion)
Your body bears the marks of essence gone wrong. Whether from a failed extraction, a shardling attack, or the terrible backlash of unstable magic, fragments of crystallised essence now lie embedded beneath your skin. These Shard Burns may appear as shimmering rainbow flecks in old wounds, luminous splinters buried just beneath the flesh, or even faint purple spiderweb veins that pulse when magic stirs nearby.
Though painful and permanent, these marks have attuned you to the presence of vault energies.
Benefits:
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You gain proficiency in the Survival skill.
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You learn the Vaultsense spell and may cast it once per long rest without expending a spell slot or material components.
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Once per long rest, you may gain advantage on a Wisdom (Survival) or Intelligence (Arcana) check related to one of the following:
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Tracking a shardling
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Sensing a vault or vault-aligned structure
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Noticing essence anomalies, magical disturbances, or unstable shard energy
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Your shard burns may ache, glow faintly, or hum when near powerful essence sources—guiding you, warning you, or calling you toward the unknown.
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