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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadow64" data-source="post: 615370" data-attributes="member: 6868">I was thinking about this, and what could be done would be to simply allow the character to add their knowledge (plant lore) or their knowledge (physiology) ranks to their heal checks, with a cap of either their total levels as a black healer or total levels of black healer + 5.Something for flavor:Part of the ceremony is that the person must give themself to the swamp.  To be blunt, they must kill themself.Either they can drown themselves, for which She has a small pond/bog which they must submerge themselves in.  The pond just deep enough that someones nose is almost breaking the surface.  Or they can bleed themselves onto the soil of the swamp (cutting their wrists, performing hari kari (sp?), etc.).In essence, She is asking the person to give up their fear of death (which she has found a great deal of people fear).  If they pass the test (ie - they kill themselves) She binds Herself into them, either by the water in their lungs, or she places the bled corpse into the water and refills their veins with the swamp water.  The new-born Black Healer returns to life, probably with a little bit of stat damage (I wouldn't make them loose a level, but maybe rough up their CON and STR a bit, which they can recover.).  Their eyes are now black (or brown, or green, whatever) and for the rest of their considerably longer life if they are cut they will bleed swampwater.That is where they get their whole heal/harm thing.  They are masters of life (because they can heal) and are also master of death, because they have faced His (or Her) dark face of their own free will.I dunno - just a thought.  That's what I plan on using if someone ever wants to use this in my campaign.  I've always been big on ceremony for a great deal of the PrCs and try to get it into my players heads that they must earn the PrC and that they should be honored if they do make it into the PrC.</blockquote>

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