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<blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 3069316" data-attributes="member: 4441"><p>Question, it's a little complicated to get into, but basically it's soul magic. The soulstuff of the cosmos is called incarnum. People can shape it into things called soulmelds, something like an adjustable magic item. You also having something called essentia, which represents a kind of spiritual strength. The more essentia you have, the more you can do with incarnum.</p><p></p><p>You can use essentia to power other things than soulmelds, like special feats. One might let you do so much extra damage depending on how much essentia you have invested in it, another might let you do more healing with spells. Also, with the appropriate feats, you can use essentia to empower arcane or divine magic, or psionic powers.</p><p></p><p>The soulmelds are generally things only certain classes can shape (the ones given in Magic of Incarnum), but by taking feats a lay person could learn to shape one too. Soulmelds take up places on your body like magic items, and grant you a base ability. You can invest essentia in them to enhance the base ability. If you're powerful enough, you can bind a soulmeld to one of your chakras (hands, feat, arms, brow, crown, etc) and gain additional, different associated powers of that soulmeld.</p><p></p><p>It's like having a bunch of custom-order magic items you can tinker with at will. Or, if you just have a few incarnum feats, you can enhance your abilities or spells in interesting, personalized ways.</p><p></p><p>So, that's Magic of Incarnum in a nutshell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Isida Kep'Tukari, post: 3069316, member: 4441"] Question, it's a little complicated to get into, but basically it's soul magic. The soulstuff of the cosmos is called incarnum. People can shape it into things called soulmelds, something like an adjustable magic item. You also having something called essentia, which represents a kind of spiritual strength. The more essentia you have, the more you can do with incarnum. You can use essentia to power other things than soulmelds, like special feats. One might let you do so much extra damage depending on how much essentia you have invested in it, another might let you do more healing with spells. Also, with the appropriate feats, you can use essentia to empower arcane or divine magic, or psionic powers. The soulmelds are generally things only certain classes can shape (the ones given in Magic of Incarnum), but by taking feats a lay person could learn to shape one too. Soulmelds take up places on your body like magic items, and grant you a base ability. You can invest essentia in them to enhance the base ability. If you're powerful enough, you can bind a soulmeld to one of your chakras (hands, feat, arms, brow, crown, etc) and gain additional, different associated powers of that soulmeld. It's like having a bunch of custom-order magic items you can tinker with at will. Or, if you just have a few incarnum feats, you can enhance your abilities or spells in interesting, personalized ways. So, that's Magic of Incarnum in a nutshell. [/QUOTE]
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