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Unless otherwise noted, every Ancient Temple maneuver is supernatural maneuver that can fully affect incorporeal and ethereal opponents.

1st level

Aceptance of Life and Death
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 1, Swordsage 1, Warblade 1
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: see text
Target: up to one enemy and up to one ally
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 11+Wisdom modifier

Everything dies and is reborn. The realization of this fact makes some despair, while others are actually calmed by it.

Make one basic melee attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades. If you hit an opponent and they fail a Will save, they're shaken for 1 round (this doesn't stack with other fear effects). If you hit an ally, you may choose to don't deal damage and you may remove all fear effects from that ally (allies can let themselves be automatically hit).

If you hit an ally without any fear effect, you may grant it (not yourself) a +1 bonus on Attack rolls, damage rolls, skill checks, ability checks, AC and saves for 1 round.


Eeeh~ It's going to get really chaotic in the other world.
It's a pain so maybe I'll kill some off now.


Moment of Eternity
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 1, Swordsage 1, Warblade 1
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you
Duration: 1 round
Save: none

There's no past. There's no future. There's only now, and it lasts forever. You gain a +1 Enhancement bonus on Attack rolls and  damage rolls, and then one of either  Skill Checks, Ability Checks, AC or saves, all bonus for every 4 ranks you have in Profession(Gardener). Alternatively  you can gain a movement speed bonus of 5 feet for every 4 ranks in Profession (Gardener) you have for 1 round on top of the bonus to attack and damage.


Please concentrate on NOW, not what happens NEXT.


200 Hell Realm Flowers in 1 Slash
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 1, Swordsage 1, Warblade 1
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range:melee
Target: one creature
Duration: instantaneous
Save: none

The massive gardens of the ghost mistress demand their caretakers to move at extreme speeds to maintain them.

You move up to two times your movement speed in a straight line without provoking attacks of opportunity. At any point during your movement, you may attack once with both blades with a -2 penalty on the attack rolls  against one target.

You may also make a Profession (Gardener) check as part of this maneuver. For every 5 points of the result, you may instantly remove one 5-feet square of hard terrain from your path, carving it into an elegant passage.


Any Ancient Temple user should be ashamed of herself if she doesn't leave her battlefield in a better condition than how it started.

Intolerant Avici
Ancient Temple (Counter)
Level: Crusader 1, Swordsage 1, Warblade 1
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: one opponent
Duration:Instantaneous
Save: none
Those who are intolerant damn themselves to hell.

You may initiate this counter whenever an opponent misses an attack against you. It is rendered flat-footed untill the end of your next turn.



Hell!
Wait, I'm a being of the netherworld.
Why must I be judged!?


Fasting of the Young Ghost
Ancient Temple (Stance)
Level: Crusader 1, Swordsage 1, Warblade 1
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration:stance
Save: none

The path of the Ancient Temple demands one to go between the way of the living and the dead.

When you enter this stance, you partially remove your own soul from your body, making it float around you like a small changing round cloud, the details of wich depend on your personality. It cannot be damaged or separated from you by any means, but cannot do much on its own either.

Once per round as a free action during your turn, your separated soul can either make use a mental(Int, Wis or Cha based) skill check that would normally take a Standard action or less to make, or can shoot a projectile of spiritual energy as a melee touch or ranged touch attack with a range of 5 feet for every rank in you have in Profession(Gardener) that deals Cold damage equal to your initiator level. Both the mental skill check and ranged touch attack use your own stats.


How does the  "the marshmallow looking-like thing" tastes?

2nd level
Insightful Swords
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 2, Swordsage 2, Warblade 2
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range:Cone with 5 feet per Initiator Level
Target: all creatures in cone.
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 12+Wisdom modifier

You gather spiritual energy around you before slicing it to create a rain of colourful projectiles.

Make a profession (Gardener) check. All creatures whitin the area take damage equal to the result of this check. A sucessful Reflex save halves the damage.

In addition, you may apply the result of your profession (Gardener) check to the area of effect as if you had worked 8 hours on it.


The Ancient Temple school carefully balances magic, blade skill and the art of gardening.

Beast Realm Brute Sword:
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 2, Swordsage 2, Warblade 2
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: melee
Target: up to two opponents.
Duration: instantaneous
Save: none

Certain tasks demand less elegant solutions

Make one basic melee attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades. You may perform a sunder, trip, disarm or bullrush atempt as a free action without provoking attacks of opportunity against each opponent hit.

Alternatively, you may target both attacks against a single opponent. If you hit with both, you may perform a sunder, trip, disarm or bullrush atempt as a free action without provoking attacks of opportunity, and you gain a bonus on all rolls of the chosen combat maneuver equal to the number of ranks you have in Profession(Gardener).

If you use this maneuver in an inanimate object or plant, you may make a single profession (Gardener) check on it, counting as if you had worked one week on the task.

Items sundered by Beast Realm Brute Sword turn into beatiful exotic flowers that wither extremely slowly and are worth as much as the destroyed item on the open market.


Right, so I'll just slash her with my  Blade!


Netherworld Reflection Slash
Ancient Temple (Counter)
Level: Crusader 2, Swordsage 2, Warblade 2
Initiation Action: Inmediate action
Range: -
Target:see text.
Duration: instantaneous
Save: see text

Everybody pays for their sins sooner or later.

You may initiate this maneuver when an opponent targets you with a ranged attack. Roll an oposed melee attack roll. If you win, you deflect the attack, turning it against one creature whitin your line of sight and effect of your choice (including the one that shot you). Use your own melee attack roll for the deflected attack, but the attacker's stats for any other effects.


Youmu Konpaku deflects the spells from a wicked witch as she closes in.

Karmic Punishment of the Idle and Unfocused
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 2, Swordsage 2, Warblade 2
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text
Duration: See text
Save: 12+Wis mod

Those who idle themselves whitout worries are bound to never acomplish anything.

Your next sucessful melee attack until the beginning of your next turn forces the target to make a Will save or be Slowed for 1 round.

In alternative, when you use this boost you may harmlessly slice trough one adjacent ally to cut their lazyness and grant them an Haste effect for 1 round.

3rd level

Flashing Slash Formation as Karma Gust
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 3, Swordsage 3, Warblade 3
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: See text
Target: See text
Duration: instantaneous
Save: none

As 200 Hell Realm Flowers in 1 Slash, but you move up to your movement speed in a straight line, and may strike once with both your swords at every opponent you pass by (whitin melee reach of your movement during this maneuver).


Yes, we're in a hurry.
Well then, where should we go next?

Storybook of the Ghost Realm
Ancient Temple (Stance)
Level: Crusader 3, Swordsage 3, Warblade 3
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration: stance
Save: none

By acepting your mortality, you become partially immune to it. While on this stance whenever you would be affected by some ill effect that an undead would be immune to, you have 50% chance of automatically resisting it. Now you're also healed by both negative and positive energy.

Your soul separates yourself even more, now working as an Unseen Servant with CL equal to your Initiator level and lasts while you're in this stance, but it cannot attack or make skill checks anymore. If it would be damaged, it instead automatically returns to your position.


Asura Realm Ascension to Nirvana
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 3, Swordsage 3, Warblade 3
Initiation Action: Standard Action
Range: melee
Target: up to two creatures.
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 13+Wisdom Modifier

A Netherworld Gardener knows how to draw power from beauty, capturing the atention of opponents while revitalizing allies.

You make one standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades. If you hit an opponent, they must suceed on a Will save or be dazed for 1 round. If you hit an ally, they take no damage and you may remove from them one of the following:
-Daze
-Stun
-Paralyzis
-Any one mind-affecting effect.

Or in alternative grant the ally a Lesser Restoration effect. You cannot use this on yourself.


You have to face reality here.
Every moment we waste arguing, the corrupted moon sinks lower in the sky.
How can we leave things like this, when the entire world is in serious trouble?



Retribution of the Ten Hungry Kings
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 3, Swordsage 3, Warblade 3
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: -
Target: you
Duration: 1 round
Save: none

The ten judges of rebirth decide the fate of all ghosts, and you execute their will. Your Youkai-forged blades are surrounded by eerie energy from the surrounding souls, and every slice from you sends them to a new destiny while punishing your opponents.

After you initiate this boost, until the end of your current turn all your melee attacks send waves of energy (or rains of glowing projectiles, your choice) that hit as hard as your youkai-forged blades. This basically allows you to strike opponents whitin 10 feet per rank you have in Profession(Gardener) as if they were inside your melee range.


A vile demon wrongly thinks she's safe in the air while raining down fire on a grounded Ancient Temple user.

4th level

Mortal Realm Rise from Delusion
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 4, Swordsage 4, Warblade 4
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: see text
Target: see text
Duration: instantaneous
Save: none

The work of a Netherworld Gardener never ends, and stoping for anything but being dead is not an option. When you initiate this maneuver, one adverse spell, condition or effect with a duration other than instantaneous currently affecting you ends (except death), you pick up your weapons if you had dropped them, stand up if you were prone and then you may perform a standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades or a charge attack wich allows you to attack with both Youkai-Forged blades at the end of it.

You may initiate this maneuver even if you would be normally unable to act, as long as the removed effect was the one stoping you from acting.



Youmu Konpaku gets back on her feet after taking a specially nasty hit.

Flashing Cherry Blossoms
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 4, Swordsage 4, Warblade 4
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous
Save: none

You're suddenly surrounded by a pattern of flower petals of your choice, wich grant you concealment for 1 round, except you add double your ranks in Profession(Gardener) to the miss chance, up to 90% miss chance. Untill the end of your turn, nobody else can take actions of any kind untill you attack and the first opponent you strike is considered flatfooted.

After this boost the flower petals can be used for decoration and gardening works.


An Ancient Temple user diverts her opponents atention before delivering her attack.

Disappearing Elegance
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 4, Swordsage 4, Warblade 4
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: spread with radius of 5 feet per 2 Initiator levels.
Target: opponents inside the radius
Duration: instantaneous
Save: none

A gardener shouldn't really left herself be seen doing her work. When you initiate this maneuver, you disapear from sight as you move at an incredible speed, then you make one standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades against each opponent inside the radius. You then reappear at any point inside the radius of your choice.

In addition, you may apply the result of your profession (Gardener) check to the area of effect as if you had worked 24 hours on it.


Flowers are...
The humans from the outside world see them as illusions.
Not even realizing they have died,
pitiful flowers of souls.
If ghosts who lose their place increase,
what happens as a result is this.


Obsession with the Present World
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 4, Swordsage 4, Warblade 4
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration: 1 round
Save: 14+Wis mod

Your swords slice away the rationality of your opponents and the confusion from your allies.

For 1 round, any enemy hit by your Youkai-forged blades must suceed on a Will save or be Confused for 1 round.

In addition, when you initiate this boost you may remove all harmfull mind-affecting effects from adjacent allies (but not yourself).


Hurry up, my Lady, the night is very short!
We must find the villains and cut them to pieces as soon as we can!


5th level

Meditation  of Life Ending Sword
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 5, Swordsage 5, Warblade 5
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: melee
Target: one creature
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 15+Wisdom Modifier

You say a small prayer for your target and then strike at the thread of their life. Make one standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades against a single opponent. If you hit with both, you deal extra damage equal to a Profession (Gardener) check. If then your target has less HP than your Profession(Gardener) modifier, they die (destroyed in the case of non-living creatures) or are left completely helpless for 24 hours, your choice. A sucessful Reflex save halves the extra damage and negates the death/destruction/helpleness.

If you use this maneuver on a corpse that's been dead for no longer than 1 round for every rank you have in Profession(Gardener), and you offer at least 1000 GP worth of offerings as sacrifice, you may cut short its cycle of rebirth and make them come back to life as if a Reincarnate spell had been used.


This incident... you're behind it, aren't you?
If you are, I'll slash you. If you aren't, I'll slash you and move on.


Floral Nirvana
Ancient Temple (Counter)
Level: Crusader 5, Swordsage 5, Warblade 5
Initiation Action: Immediate Action
Range: See text
Target: You
Duration: Instantaneous
Save: None

When you would be striken down, instead you reach Nirvana for some moments. You may initiate this counter when you would be harmed by any effect, after any saves/checks are rolled and knowing what would affect you. Your body dissolves in flower petals and you disapear from reality. You reform in your previous position right after the attack misses you.

Ghostly Wheel of Pain
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 5, Swordsage 5, Warblade 5
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration: 1 round
Save: none

Most people have a secret inner side. A Netherworld Gardener learns how to bring it out to help in her endless tasks.

You must be in an Ancient Temple stance to use this boost. Your separated soul turns into a copy from yourself which acts on your own turn and lasts for 1 round before turning back in your soul. It cannot however use this boost. Otherwise it uses your hp, spell slots, readied manuvers, power points, daily uses, etc. It has perfect copies of your equipment, but cannot use any charged items or items with a limited number of uses per day (neither can anyone else). They all dissolve in smoke when the boost ends.

 Both you and your soul draw from a single "pool" when it comes to maneuvers, spells, and other such expendable abilities, so if it uses a maneuver you had readied, it counts as expended for you. If it uses an ability that costs exp, you lose the exp as well,  and so on.


Youmu Konpaku lends an helping hand to herself.

God's Flashing Slash as Karma Gust
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 5, Swordsage 5, Warblade 5
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: See text
Target: See text
Duration: instantaneous

As "Flashing Slash Formation as Karma Gust", but you can move up to four times your movement speed in a straight line.

If there's any solid obstacle in your path, you atempt to break trough using a profession(gardener) check instead of a strenght check. If there's a magic/psionic obstacle in your path, you may atempt to dispel it with a Profession(gardener) check instead of caster level check. You may even take down undispellable effects like Wall of Force, but the DC is 5 higher.


An Ancient Temple user slashes trough a magic fog to reach her opponents.

6th level

Tower Watching Blade's Bullet-Cutting Third Eye
Ancient Temple (Counter)
Level: Crusader 6, Swordsage 6, Warblade 6
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: see text
Target: one creature.
Duration: Instantaneous
Save: None

On skillfull hands, a sword doubles as a shield to protect what's important to you. You may initiate this counter whenever an opponent would harm you or any ally whitin sight. If it was an ally, you can move up to twice your movement speed (including trough the air even if you cannot normaly fly) in said ally's direction. If you end up in reach of the attacker, you may perform one standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades against it. If either attack causes damage, the attack is stoped and the enemy's action wasted, but they may still take any remaining actions they have for the round.


The hardest shield in all the Netherworld.


Five Signs of the Dying Deva
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 6, Swordsage 6, Warblade 6
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: melee
Target: up to five creatures
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 16+Wisdom modifier

Death comes for all, but it rarely comes quickly, many times being pressaged by signs of decay that most beings try to conceal. With a cut, you can reveal or hide them.

Perform three attacks with your main Youkai-forged blade and two with your off-hand Youkai-forged blade. Each hit causes one of the following effects on the enemy unless they suceed on a Reflex save (each effect has its own save, choose before making each attack):
-Lose Fast Healing for 1 round
-Lose Regeneration for 1 round.
-Lose all DR for 1 round.
-Lose all resistances for 1 round.
-Lose one immunity for 1 round.
-Lose Natural armor for 1 round.
-Become flat footed for 1 round.
-Highest caster/manifester level benefical spell/power on creature automatically dispelled. If multiple are tied, choose one at random.
-Become exhausted for 1 round .
-Receive one negative level for 1 round.

If you hit an ally, you deal no damage and instead they receive a Restoration effect from this maneuver.


Like the signs a celestial sees when it time for it to die. The five signs are loss of self-awareness, the flower crown withering, sweating from the armpits, dirtying the robe, and the body losing its light. To put it in an easy to understand and less incredibly boring way, your hair gets messy, you sweat, your clothes get dirty, and you stink. Something like that.

Delusion of Enlightenment
Ancient Temple (Stance)
Level: Crusader 6, Swordsage 6, Warblade 6
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration: stance
Save: none

You reach enlightment, and learn you really don't need to get close to your opponent to cut them. You  fragment your soul in multiple parts that can release  bursts of spiritual energy that hit as hard as your Youkai-Forged Blades. You may also slice enemies at distance with your swords as you cut trough the illusion of reality if you prefer.

Basically, your melee reach increases with the Youkai-Forged blades increases by 5 feet for every rank you have in Profession(Gardener).


Youmu Konpaku doesn't even bother drawing her swords as her soul showers the enemy with deadly attacks.

Slashing a Flower Upon One's Head
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 6, Swordsage 6, Warblade 6
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: See text
Target: up to two creatures
Duration: 1 round
Save: 16+Wisdom Modifier

The best sword is not the one that cuts everything, but the one that only cuts what must be cutted.

You perform one standard attack with each Youkai-Forged blade. Those attacks ignore any miss chances and mirror images from your targets.

If you hit an opponent, they must suceed on a Reflex save or lose one of their Ex or Su abilities for 1 round of your choice (you automatically learn their Ex and Su abilities when you hit them with this maneuver). If you hit a spellcaster/manifester, you may stop them from using spells/powers for 1 round.

If you hit an ally, they take no damage and all harmfull effects/spells/powers/condition/whatever bad stuff with a duration other than instantaneous(except death) that the ally had automatically ends.

7th level

Displeasure of the Seven Sins
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 7, Swordsage 7, Warblade 7
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: You
Duration: instantaneous
Save: none

To attain purity one must overcome the weaknesses of the soul. When you initiate this boost all harmfull effects/spells/powers/condition/whatever bad stuff with a duration other than instantaneous(except death) automatically end.

You may initiate this boost even if you would be normally unable to act, unless you're dead.


I know, I know. You're rotten already, yeah?
But rotten or not, it's my duty to protect you.




Slash Clearing the Six Senses
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 7, Swordsage 7, Warblade 7
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: melee
Target: one opponent
Duration: instantaneous
Save: See Text

To see nothing, hear nothing, smell nothing, taste nothing, feel nothing, think nothing of impurities — to cut away from the impure world.

When you initiate this maneuver, you close all your senses and become automatically aware of every opponent whitin your melee reach even if they're somehow hidden. Choose one of them and make a standard melee attack with each of your youkai-forged blades at it. Those attacks ignore all defences and directly damage your opponent's HP, each dealing extra damage equal to your Profession (Gardener) bonus. Each can only be stoped by your opponent rolling a sucessful save(Fort, Reflex or Will, wichever's lower) with a DC equal to your attack roll.

In alternative, you may replicate a Teleport effect as you cut away trough the impure world.

Approaching Disillusion
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 7, Swordsage 7, Warblade 7
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: see text
Target: see text
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 17+Wisdom Modifier

You tear a gap in reality that reveals other strange and captivating realities, threatening to engulf your opponents as a deadly disillusion.

When you use this maneuver you affect one line with 5 feet width and a lenght of 5 feet per initiator level. Any creature inside it takes damage equal to twice the result of a Profession(Gardener) check, reflex save for half.

The gap persists indefenetely, dealing the same damage to every creature entering or starting its turn on it (but no more than once per round), and at the beggining of your turn you may move each of them 5 feet as a free action. They also provide concealment. You can only maintain a number of Aproaching Disillusions equal to your Wisdom modifier. If you try to go over the limit, the oldest one in existence vanishes. Multiple Aproaching Disiullusions on the same area don't stack damage, and you may dismiss any number of them as an immediate action.

In alternative, you may use this Maneuver to replicate a Plane Shift effect, except an opponent must suceed on a Reflex save instead of a Will save to suceed.


Youmu Konpaku slashes a gap trough reality itself.

8th level
Attainment of Eternal Truth
Ancient Temple (Boost)
Level: Crusader 8, Swordsage 8, Warblade 8
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range:-
Target: you
Duration: 1 round
Save: none

You see what must be done, and realize how simple it is to acomplish it. When you initiate this boost you gain a True Seeing effect for 1 round, then teleport yourself to any position whitin 30 feet per rank you have in Profession (Gardener). You may then take any remaining actions you have for your turn.

Deva Realm's God Swords
Ancient Temple (Stance)
Level: Crusader 8, Swordsage 8, Warblade 8
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration: stance
Save: none

You divide and bind your soul into your Youkai-Forged blades. While on this stance, each of them gains an enanchment bonus equal to 2/3 your Ranks in Profession (Gardener). Each cannot have an actual enanchment bonus to attack and damage rolls bigger than +5, but you can spend the enanchment bonus to get special abilities like Keen and Holy. You cannot however spend it in Bane or any similar enchantments that are specialized against a specific kind of creature, neither on abilities with limited uses per day (a reference chart can be found after the maneuvers explanations).

Your weapons also leave behind a trail of flower petals when swinged.



I'm still living in the netherworld...
and I can still kill ghosts!


Slash of The Eternity
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 8, Swordsage 8, Warblade 8
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: melee
Target: up to two creatures
Duration: see text
Save: none

Your attack cuts trough time and keeps repeating itself in an endless cycle, slashing enemies and covering for allies.

Make one standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades. If you targeted an opponent and hit, the attack repeats itself at the begginning of each new round untill either one of you dies, you miss three attacks in a row, or you dismiss the effect as an immediate action. Roll new attacks every round, and they always use your current stats.

If you targeted an ally (other than yourself), you deal no damage, but the ally gains an Insight bonus to AC and reflex saves equal to 1/4 your ranks in Profession (Gardener) until they're hit by 3 attacks on a row, dismissable as an immediate action.

You can only maintain an amount of (benefical or harmfull) number of Slashes of the Eternity equal to your Wisdom modifier. If you try to go over the limit, the oldest one in existence stops. If you prepare another maneuver in place of Slash of Eternity, they all end.

If you have this maneuver readied and an opponent whitin your view uses Time Stop, Celerity, or any other spell/power that grants extra actions/turns, you may expend it as a free action (even if it isn't your turn) to stop it by slicing the flow of time.


Once you clashed with her, there's no running away from an Ancient Temple warrior-gardener.

Secret of Life and Death
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 8, Swordsage 8, Warblade 8
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: melee
Target: up to two creatures
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 18+Wisdom Modifier

Death and Life are nothing more than two stages of the cycle of Rebirth, and you stand ready to make them happen.

Make one standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades. An opponent hit takes extra damage equal to a Profession(gardener) check. If they're left with less HP than your Profession (Gardener) bonus, they die(destroyed in the case of nonliving creatures) or left helpless for 24 hours, your choice. A sucessfull Reflex save halves the extra damage and negates the die/death/unhelpness.

An ally takes no damage and receives a Greater Restoration effect.

If you hit the remains of a corpse, you may bring them back to life depending on how long they've been dead.
-If they've been dead for 1 round or less, no expensive offerings are needed and they don't lose a level.
-If they've been dead for 1 day per rank you have in Profession(gardener) or less you need to make an offering worth 10.000 GP and they lose a level.

Otherwise this works as a Ressurection spell

9th level

Six Realms Ageless Obsession
Ancient Temple (Stance)
Level: Crusader 9, Swordsage 9, Warblade 9
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: -
Target: you.
Duration: stance
Save: none

Ancient Temple maneuvers base themselves on the six Realms of Rebirth, Hell, Ghost, Beast, Mortal, Asura and Deva. When they fail, one can still enter the dangerous stance that encopasses all the Realms at the same time.

While in this Stance, you simultaneously benefit from all other Ancient Temple stances you know, and you automatically recover any Ancient Temple maneuvers you know when you enter it. Once per round, you can use an Ancient Temple boost or Counter as a free action without expending your swift/immediate action.

You can only maintain this stance up to 3 rounds, at the end of the third you automatically exit it.

When you exit this stance, you're swallowed by the endless cycle of Rebirth and disappear in a flash of light and petals. Three rounds later you manage to slash your way trough time and space and end up in a place as if you had suffered a teleport mishap (False Destination) as if the target area was the location you used this stance, including taking damage and chance for another mishap, but all your Ancient Temple maneuvers are considered expended and you're dazed for 1 round.


Ancient Temple users push themselves  trough life, trough death, and beyond.

Paschal Moon Reflecting Satellite Slash
Ancient Temple (Strike)
Level: Crusader 9, Swordsage 9, Warblade 9
Initiation Action: FullRound action
Range: Infinite
Target: one creature
Duration: instantaneous
Save: 19+Wisdom Modifier

The Moon is a mysterious nexus between the dead and the living, and with this Strike you directly borrow its power.

Choose one creature whitin your sight. You're both transported to a featurless plain with a full moon over a starry night sky over you. You automatically close in with your opponent and deliver one standard attack with each of your Youkai-Forged blades, each dealing extra damage equal to thrice a Profession (Gardener) check. If you hit with both attacks, your opponent must make a Reflex save or die (be destroyed in the case of a nonliving creature) or be sealed under a cherry tree for as long as you exist, you choose to release them, or the tree is destroyed. In the case of the seal, the cherry tree instantly grows in the place your oponent was when you used this maneuver. You may later transnplant it to another location, and it cannot be located by divinations of any kind. Even the people of the area will swear the cherry tree has been there all along when you put it in a new place!

This maneuver specifically overrides any ability, spell, effect, power, maneuver, cheese or anything else that would prevent the enemy from geting killed/destroyed/sealed or allow them to come back. Liches don't respawn, contigencies don't trigger, true ressurection can't get them back, etc. You then return to your previous position.

If your opponent suceeds on the save, they return to their previous position as well.


Youmu Konpaku smiles as she prepares to add a new tree to her mistress's garden.


Deva Realm's God Swords Reference Chart

Perhaps I'll manage to cover all your tobhou schools eventually. Here's some first thoughts after a full read of the entire thing.

Feat: Mystic Dream
I think the extra offhand iteratives should stop at two weapon fighting or improved two-weapon fighting equivalence. It otherwise jumps all the way to Perfect+ TWF, which should be more expensive than that.
Since it would qualify as such, the player could then opt to get the Improved/Greater and Perfect TWF feats for better full attacks if he what he wants them.
Even without the extra iterative attacks, this feat is an amazing first step to initiating AT maneuvers with the utmost efficiency since all you need two execute them well is make those two attacks.

Normal TWF is plain weak whitout some extra tricks like sneak attack or effects that trigger on every attack. Ancient Temple doesn't really help you on that. And you have to stay in an Ancient Temple stance, meaning you can't use those stances that actually work well with TWF like Assassin's stance and whatnot.

Plus honestly, assuming Mystic Dream does stack with the greater/perfect feats at all, you're still seting two feats of fire for just a -10 and a -15 extra attack. Just when full attacking. By all means do it.

Human Knowledge Sword "Angel Dance"
Incredibly powerful just by itself considering almost every AT maneuver can activate it. It also has some peculiar effects with some.

Flashing Slash Formation as Karma Gust and its like: Seems to give you more movement each time to reach more targets for even more activation of this ability. Could cover the entire battlefield with a single use of the ability.
Tower Watching Blade's Bullet-Cutting Third Eye: If attacked, immediate action to move in and make two attacks, then move out.
Slash Clearing the Six Senses: Pretty much an automatic activation since you hit no matter what.
Slash of The Eternity: Seems to give you extra moves every time two of the up to 8 free repeating attacks hit.

If anything, it might be a good idea to put a maximum of one activation of that ability per round.

It was suposed to be limited to once per round yes, clarified it.

Celestial Star Sword "As the Silent Nirvana"
Silence effects should be 1 round too instead of 1 minute. The effect should also be personal instead of as the spell, which creates an area effect.
This is mostly because that effect spells instant loss of spellcasting for most spellcasters for the entire encounter and beyond. Unlike the actual spell they can't try to leave the area.
Especially considering that part of the tactical feat is mostly meant to be a preparation for the uber 3rd effect.

Reduced the silence to 1 round, but the area silence was intended, as in you're slicing all the sound in the area. It isn't called Silent Nirvana for nothing. 

Four Births Sword "Resounding of the Restless Beings"
The wording of the effect makes it a little confusing as to how it is meant to work.
By 'if you do', does it mean using the two attacks of the strike to attack a single opponent to get the other two attacks?
By 'benefit from any extra effects the maneuver would grant on sucessful hits.', does it also mean that the target must save three times against the same maneuver (once as usual + once for each of these attacks) and that these two attacks count for the activation of effects requiring both attacks to hit? (either that you just need two of the four attacks to hit or that the special effects happens twice if all 4 attacks hit).

It's just 4 attacks total, and each hit forces a save if a single hit was enough, or you have to hit four times to force two saves if two hits were needed (or force a single save if two hits were needed and you hit any combination of 2 or 3).

Feat: Till When?
"For the next 10 minutes, you cannot recover Ancient Temple maneuvers and can only enter one Ancient Temple stance of your choice."
Just to be sure, is this a roundabout way to say that if you enter the level 9 stance, you can just ignore that restriction since you can use all stances and maneuvers even if they are not readied or expended anyway? Comboes even further in that if you're in danger after returning to life you can enter it and immediately leave it to teleport to safety.
It's also interesting that you can kill yourself to use this feat when you need to heal or remove annoying lasting effects. Mostly between battles.

Yes, it's suposed to combo with the final stance. If you're sure you don't need to do any killy gardening in the next 10 minutes, you can also use it to heal yourself yes.

Feat: Ultimate Truth
"You and all allies inside your Youkai-Forged blades gain an insight bonus to..."
I think there is a word or two missing between 'blades' and 'gain'. At least I hope so.

I'll admit it took some time until I realized what was wrong in that phrase, fixed.

Floral Nirvana
The counter happens when you would be harmed. That is, before or after knowing if whatever would harm you manages to land the hit that would harm you, before or after you fail/succeed a save against said effect and before/after knowing how much damage you suffer?

Clarified.

Ghostly Wheel of Pain
The double gets equipment duplicates and cannot use consumables but it doesn't stop it from quickly lending a duplicated consumable to an ally or the initiator for him to use.

Put clause about it.

Tower Watching Blade's Bullet-Cutting Third Eye
Maybe I'm not reading this right but am I right in feeling that this counter's most attractive point (besides getting a full turn's worth of action with an immediate action) is that you can just double move out of range of whatever attack is aimed at you to be certain to avoid it? (and maybe still attack him too, with the amazing reach of the level 6 stance)

My bad, was meant to get near an ally to protect them, limited the movement to just when you want to protect someone else.

Five Signs of the Dying Deva
Might be a good idea to specify that each effect upon hit must be decided for each attack before knowing if they hit.
That way you can't just make an effect combo based on the attack order. Like make the first attack that hits lower the natural armor or make the enemy flatfooted so some of the others following it become hits.

It is suposed to combo. If you have trouble landing the first hit, nothing guarantees you any of the other four will hit, so yes I expect players to start by stripping off natural armor and making the enemy flat-footed to help hit the last blows.

Delusion of Enlightenment
The extra reach feels far too big. Probably should be half of that amount. With extra AoOs it becomes a nasty bunch of automatic attacks just to get in melee to attack the initiator.
A reach of ~40 (gargantuan with a reach weapon) upon getting the stance is already pretty nasty but feels more proper than a big jump to ~75.
That way, at level 20 the reach (if medium sized) would become that of a colossal creature with a reach weapon.

Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn’t count as more than one opportunity for that opponent.

You can have a 90 yojana melee reach and your opponent being miss supersonic bunny running circles around you, you'll still ever get one aoo per round from her movement each round.

Plus as you point out in the nintendo campaign, basically everything and anything grants cover/concealment that stop aoos cold.

Slash Clearing the Six Senses
Is the Teleport effect meant to be able to bring others with the initiator?

Yes. Utility maneuvers, ho!

Approaching Disillusion
By "at the beggining of your turn you may move each of them 5 feet as a free action", do you mean each gap or each creature that entered the area?
Also: In alternative, you may use this Maneuver to replicate a Plane Shift effect, except an opponent must suceed on a Reflex save instead of a Will save to suceed.
I think you meant it to be the other way around. Will save instead of a Reflex save.

Moving the gaps of course.

Basic Plane Shift is a Will save. The maneuver forces a Reflex save.

Slash of The Eternity
Ridiculously cheap maneuver.
Step 1: Find a victim.
Step 2: Use that maneuver. You don't even have to hit it!
Step 3: Run away. Or teleport away or whatever. Just get the hell out and away from all enemy attacks.
Step 4: Wait until he dies as you automatically keep attacking him each round. He cannot stop it by any means. You killed him.

Also, canceling time stop as a free action is pretty cheap. They spend resources and an action of some kind to use it and it gets canceled without any action.
Immediate action seems appropriate. This part of the maneuver seems like it should have been a Counter maneuver by itself, though not of that level.

Immediate action is useless, since it means you can't do it while flat-footed. Also time stop and celerity are some of the cheapest spells around, so screw them. The caster probably has a circlet or rod to churn out extra spells that round anyway.

As for slice-and-run, if your opponent drops from just that, they deserve it. Most enemies around this level will have some kind of fast healing/regeneration to shrugg it off in the long run.. Your party also won't be very pleased with you running away after delivering just one blow mind you.

Plus, weren't you claiming it paid off to kill yourself to patch up wounds after battle? Well, it also ends this maneuver.

Secret of Life and Death
The resurrection is unclear on what it requires after X rounds/rank but before 1 day.
I'll also note that this is pretty much unlimited true resurrections with a level 8 maneuver. Unlike the level 9 spell, it requires only a standard action, can be used at will (recharged between uses) and costs even less if it costs anything at all.
Also, how intact must the remains of the corpse be? If two Ancient Temple users chop off one of their toes and keep each other's in their pocket. One dies, the other can teleport away with the level 9 stance by entering it and exiting it right away and just resurrect their pal with the toe? Then they both teleport back in at a distance to recharge their maneuvers and fight again?

If it has been dead for more than X round/rank but less than one day, you just need to wait some hours for the body to be "ripe" enough to ressurect with offerings.

Ressurection is a 7th level spell and costs 10 000 GP. True Ressurection is the 9th level one. Also the sliced part needs to have been a part of the body at the moment of death, so no pre-cuting of toes.

Six Realms Ageless Obsession
Despite the daze effect and expending all maneuvers after the 3 rounds, I feel the greater teleportation-like effect that follows makes the whole 3 rounds limit greatly diminish the suggested risks of using the stance. It makes it feel more like a strong bang before the next hit and run strategy. If there were no teleportation and either the option to leave the stance without the daze/maneuver loss before the 3rd round or have cumulative risks of the backlash effect triggering each round or something like that it would increase the sense of urgency and maybe desperation that using this stance would inspire.
As is, its kind of a; Meh, I'll probably kill you all before 3 rounds anyway. No? No problem. Be right back in 2-4 rounds or so for another attempt.

That's indeed possible if you're a solo BBEG, but if you're a group member, your allies are still struggling.

Also the daze/maneuver loss trigger when you exit the stance, regardless of the reason you exited the stance for.

The original version forced you to make a save each round to stay on it, but I couldn't figure out a formula that either wasn't too easy to overcome, or so hard you had to cheese it out to last more than 1 round, so 3 rounds it is.

Basically, you ask yourself if you can finish that enemy in 3 rounds. If not, then you're leaving your party to fend by themselves, and they can't even use in-combat ressurection to bring you back.

Feat: Mystic Dream

The level 6, 8 and 9 stances actually work very well for TWF with the blades. The third attack is mostly when it would start getting interesting, and would be acquired at BAB 11, so minimum HD 11, which means access to the level 6 maneuver.
Otherwise, I think you really misread my comment and my suggestion. I'm not saying they stack as they are.
I'm suggesting that instead of giving the equivalent of Perfect TWF, it could instead just give one extra attack with either weapon at BAB 6 (no penalty, kinda like Haste, stacking or not with it) and still qualify as having the TWF feat for the purpose of fulfilling requirements.
That way if the user really wanted to get big TWF attack numbers, he could grab the Improved/Greater/Perfect TWF feats, which would stack with that extra attack.
He would get the feats' attacks with all weapons but unless it actually gets the TWF feat other weapons would make attacks with higher penalties.

The level 6 stance doesn't really work well. You can only make Aoos with one weapon at a time, so you want something big and two-handed for aoos. Thus only at 15th level does Mystic Dream starts to synergize.

Anyway, three attacks with your main hand and just one with your off-hand at level 6 doesn't make that much sense if you ask me.

Celestial Star Sword "As the Silent Nirvana"

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Reduced the silence to 1 round, but the area silence was intended, as in you're slicing all the sound in the area. It isn't called Silent Nirvana for nothing

I get that you'd slice the sound away from an area, but why would the sound-sliced area follow the target? The target is the opponent, not the area.
Can you declare an empty space or some spot on the ground to be an opponent for the purpose of using this ability to make zones of silence?

Because the original target moving causes a disturbance on the sound vacuum that causes the silence zone to follow around. Highly specialized air-cuting.

And yes you can use it in an empty space.

Four Births Sword "Resounding of the Restless Beings"
I see, so its sort of like going between a normal result and a confirmed critical or a quickened maneuver. Got it.
Also, I think you pasted the text from some writing program since it seems like the format didn't apply well. There are a bunch of spaces before some sentences.

Cleaned it up.

Feat: Till When?
If you're okay with it. Okay.
Only possible issue I find with it that its cooldown may be way too short. The feat can be acquired at level 3.
It sort of works like the Wild Hunt's level 20 ability, requiring only that you die in altered terrain. It kills your ability to recover maneuvers for 10mins (until level 9 stance) but at least it takes effect right away instead of 1d4 rounds later, giving your enemies the possibility to ready actions each round to nuke your ass upon resurrection or just flee before you come back to kick theirs. Otherwise, its maybe too attractive as a 1 to 3 level investment in a martial class and 2 feats investment to get an hourly extra life. (such as getting 1 level of swordsage at level 6 and getting NetherWorld Gardener and Till When?). For a feat, daily might be more appropriate and even then its quite a deal to have that degree of life-insurance.

Hmm, increased requisites to 7 maneuvers (7th game in the series), and limited the number of daily uses to 1/6th your ranks in Profession (gardener).

Tower Watching Blade's Bullet-Cutting Third Eye
I suppose your stances' separated soul counts as an ally whenever the user is struck by an AoE, leading to the same trick in either case?
I notice a focus on battle action economy. The design of discipline seems mostly meant to negate big actions and the investment of resources spent against them by using a much lesser action type or none at all. Probably its specialty, which is probably why it would own at duels.

The separated soul cannot be separated from you.

Five Signs of the Dying Deva

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It is suposed to combo. If you have trouble landing the first hit, nothing guarantees you any of the other four will hit, so yes I expect players to start by stripping off natural armor and making the enemy flat-footed to help hit the last blows.

I know. The thing is obviously meant to combo. What I meant is that it might be better to specify that you have to select the effects of the five attacks before rolling any of them.
Not that it matters much.

Clarified.

Delusion of Enlightenment
you are correct.
Though I still feel the reach of the maneuver to be too large. Mostly because of the reach by creature size's comparison I made, and that it isn't your actual reach, but bonus reach.

It's still eating your stance slot, as already mentioned isn't that synergetic with dual wielding.

That aside, at "Any opponent inside it takes damage equal to twice the result of a Profession(Gardener) check", I think you meant 'creature' instead of opponent.
Mostly because of how it interacts with any creature than enters or begin their round upon it. You might also want to add the usual clause that you cannot be damaged by a gap more than once per round. Otherwise they suffer for having it put on them, then again for starting their turn on it. Ect.

Done.

Slash of The Eternity

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Immediate action is useless, since it means you can't do it while flat-footed. Also time stop and celerity are some of the cheapest spells around, so screw them. The caster probably has a circlet or rod to churn out extra spells that round anyway.

So what if it cannot be done while flatfooted? You still get to wreck a level 9 spell with an immediate action and a reusable resource and its just a sidenote power of the maneuver.

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The caster probably has a circlet or rod to churn out extra spells that round anyway.

If he indeed does, that's just more treasure. Encounter casters aren't usually as well equipped as PCs. For a reason.

Encounter caster usually aren't using time stop and celerity either, otherwise the party vaporizes under a bunch of pimped delayed blast fireballs or is now facing 1d4 gold wyrms on top of the caster.

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As for slice-and-run, if your opponent drops from just that, they deserve it.

You mean, at least one attack every round until they die? Just that?
Oh, and by " the attack repeats itself at the begginning of each of your turns", that means it triggers twice per round. Once at the beginning of your turn, and again at the beginning of the target's.

Eeerr, your opponent's turn doesn't count as your own turn, but changed it to round anyway for simplicity's sake.

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Most enemies around this level will have some kind of fast healing/regeneration to shrugg it off in the long run.

That's quite a daring generalization. Regeneration is useless if the attack bypasses it and odds are that fast healing won't keep up with the damage. Especially considering it uses your current stats, which you can alter while hiding for extra cheese.

It goes both ways. The other guy can also buff up defenses.

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Your party also won't be very pleased with you running away after delivering just one blow mind you.

That is assuming you need a party when you can do tricks like those, that the user isn't actually a DM controlled encounter faced by the PCs or that he just doesn't teleport the party away with him with his maneuvers.

-Monster is attacking important place! Don't worry guys, let's just teleport away and it will eventually drop from Eternity slash! With a little luck before he murders everyone in the important place!
-BBEG making evil ritual! Don't worry guys, let's just teleport away and he will eventually drop from Eternity slash! With a little luck before he completes the ritual and unleashes some major evil in the world!
-Guard watching over treasure! Don't worry guys, let's just teleport away and he will eventually drop from Eternity slash! With a little luck he won't raise the alarm and move the treasure away we worked so hard to track down!

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Plus, weren't you claiming it paid off to kill yourself to patch up wounds after battle? Well, it also ends this maneuver.

That's only efficient when you can return from the dead for free. I don't think all the encounters have that kind of ability to survive that maneuver. In either situation, it is to the user's benefit. Either you end up killing it, either it does your job for you and quickens the process by killing itself. Brilliant.

I assure you, running away while leaving a wounded but still kicking enemy is never a good plan at 15th level.

A duration would be cool. In rounds. Not so many that hitting once and fighting the rest of the encounter from the other side of the country like a pussy feels like a better strategy than staying the full three rounds of your level 9 stance before it sends you there anyway, which I doubt fits the spirit of this martial discipline. That or have it repeat as long as a certain proximity is maintained or something.
Also, whats the bonus type to AC and Reflex?

Changed it to needing to hit the target the first time to hit and not being able to change the maneuver. But otherwise it's still the eternity slash.

Gave the AC and reflex bonus insight type.

And as already mentioned, no, running to the other side of the country while leaving an angry opponent with full incentive to pull all strings against you is not a good tactic.

Secret of Life and Death

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If it has been dead for more than X round/rank but less than one day, you just need to wait some hours for the body to be "ripe" enough to ressurect with offerings.

Would probably be simpler and less awkward when you miss the deadline in rounds to have that period of time count as the first day.

Nah, some awkward stuff is fun here and there.

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Ressurection is a 7th level spell and costs 10 000 GP. True Ressurection is the 9th level one. Also the sliced part needs to have been a part of the body at the moment of death, so no pre-cuting of toes.

I know. That is what I said.
If I had to call a resurrection-type effect that brings back a creature without level without losing a level, but requires a body, True Resurrection or Resurrection, I'd call it Resurrection.
If that effect didn't require an expensive component, even if applied with a time limit of several rounds (more than enough for some to remain after a battle), then I'd call it True Resurrection+++ as far as how useful it would be to a party.

Add an effect that usually requires 500xp per use, reduce the duration to a standard action so that you can even resurrect teammates in the middle of the fight and you have one solid (perhaps even one of the best) high end epic maneuvers you could ever think of.

And add an optional use as a finishing strike maneuver, because why not.

Because you most definetely can't use it to bring your allies back to life if they've been eaten/vaporized/sent to another plane/worst, which is something that starts geting somewhat common by this level. Also dunno where you got the 500 xp from.

Six Realms Ageless Obsession

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That's indeed possible if you're a solo BBEG, but if you're a group member, your allies are still struggling.

Depends. They should be able to handle whatever is left. Otherwise they can just leave with you and wait 2-3 rounds. Nothing stops the user from teleporting in the previous room and just enter back in once the daze is gone and enter the stance once again to get all your powers back. The only cooldown between two uses of this stance is the period of daze.

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Also the daze/maneuver loss trigger when you exit the stance, regardless of the reason you exited the stance for.

Considering voluntary premature exit of the stance also means instantaneous escape, I'd call it a minor nuisance.

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The original version forced you to make a save each round to stay on it, but I couldn't figure out a formula that either wasn't too easy to overcome, or so hard you had to cheese it out to last more than 1 round, so 3 rounds it is.

A simple formula would be something the player has no control over. Saves don't work since the odds of success can be manipulated. A rapidly increasing % odds to exist the stance each round or some other uncontrollable factor. Another way would be limiting the stance by how useful you make it be, like after using an amount of X maneuvers, you auto-leave it.
Depending on what is used, a more meaningful cooldown between activations might a good idea. Like Dream Battle.

An important part that might need to be remove is the part making it possible to initiate expended maneuvers.
You have all your stances at once, have access to your entire repertoire of known maneuvers, free swift and immediate action for boosts and counters, greater teleport...
Having unlimited maneuvers just makes the user laugh at the consequences of its use.

Yes, it's suposed to be "GOING ALL OUT NOW RRAAARRRGGHHH!!!". Changed the "go to anywhere where you've ever been" to "teleport mishap".

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The level 6 stance doesn't really work well. You can only make Aoos with one weapon at a time, so you want something big and two-handed for aoos.

Anyway, three attacks with your main hand and just one with your off-hand at level 6 doesn't make that much sense if you ask me.

Don't think only of AoOs. This is about full attack actions, among other things.
You're not reading my suggestion right. The extra attack is with either weapon, so it can easily be 2 attacks with each blade. Makes sense.

It doesn't. Your main weapon will usually be bigger->more damage->attack priority.

Celestial Star Sword "As the Silent Nirvana"

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Because the original target moving causes a disturbance on the sound vacuum that causes the silence zone to follow around. Highly specialized air-cuting.

Now *that* doesn't make sense. But whatever, right?
Not like just having it be a single target effect instead of an area, like a certain ninja feat that trades sneak attack damage to silence a single target, would make more sense and remain pretty good for a preparation trick for what comes after it.

How many area effects do you claim being a taoist allows you to make again?
Gardening deserves some nice things.

Feat: Till When?
That extra requirement doesn't really change anything.
The amount of times it can activate wasn't the issue I mentioned. It was the short cooldown. It would still had been a great feat if it only worked once per week. 

The feat has been there ever since the previous boards and nobody else ever batted an eye at it. A feat that only works once a week would be little more than a novelty.

Tower Watching Blade's Bullet-Cutting Third Eye

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The separated soul cannot be separated from you.

Exactly! That's why the trick always works!

...You're claiming that the soul can now separate because it cannot be separated?

Delusion of Enlightenment

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It's still eating your stance slot, as already mentioned isn't that synergetic with dual wielding.

Doesn't matter considering everything else extra reach grants. Its no wonder ppl jump on the Iron Heart's Dancing Blade Form stance even though it only grants a partial +5ft reach.

Never seen anyone use it personally. If anything they go for ticket of blades.

Slash of The Eternity

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Encounter caster usually aren't using time stop and celerity either, otherwise the party vaporizes under a bunch of pimped delayed blast fireballs or is now facing 1d4 gold wyrms on top of the caster.

Make up your mind. Do they spam those tricks like mad or do they never do?
Also, you didn't leave me the impression that when you DM you'd be going easy and avoid those kind of tricks against the PCs. Why should any other do?
The extra Counter effect is fine working like one, with an immediate action, as they all do.

There's diferent levels of tricks. The game doesn't start with the party being hit by the BBEG's teleporting strongest minions because he divined the party would grow to stop him one day.

Quickened spells are expected to be common, yes, but time stop, celerity and friends are reserved for special enemies. And when they show up, it's nice for noncaster PCs to be able to do something about it. Alas, making it an immediate action completely defeats the purpose of being a counter, because time stop/celeirty are usually being thrown out right away in the surprise round.

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It goes both ways. The other guy can also buff up defenses.

That's assuming they have access to unlimited buffing resources. It is already clear that the user's are unlimited. Hardly makes that 'both ways' an equal chance.

Monster at-will SLAs and/or their own maneuvers, ho!

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-Monster is attacking important place! Don't worry guys, let's just teleport away and it will eventually drop from Eternity slash! With a little luck before he murders everyone in the important place!
-BBEG making evil ritual! Don't worry guys, let's just teleport away and he will eventually drop from Eternity slash! With a little luck before he completes the ritual and unleashes some major evil in the world!
-Guard watching over treasure! Don't worry guys, let's just teleport away and he will eventually drop from Eternity slash! With a little luck he won't raise the alarm and move the treasure away we worked so hard to track down!

Funny how those mostly assume that the user is a PC and within a party. Funnier that you seem to suggest that the cheapest combat trick isn't that special if it cannot be done in the few situation within the entire campaign where you absolutely have to win within a few rounds. It doesn't matter that much anyway as the discipline offers other easy combos to win battles within a couple of rounds. But this one is an effortless win by itself in any other situation - which usually your average party has no shortage of.

Welcome to 15th level. Anyone who can't put you pressure to win in as few rounds as possible are already dead at your whims. If not by this maneuver, simply high movement speed+spammeable ranged attack will take down a lot of stuff down easy, as long as you're not in an hurry. Or the already mentioned scry-and-die.
 

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I assure you, running away while leaving a wounded but still kicking enemy is never a good plan at 15th level.

I don't see how that's reassuring. The enemy is doomed until it finds a way to kill the user that can spam unlimited teleports for free all year long.

Well, at least you know an Ancient Temple user will eventually die of old age. Unlike, say, half the outsiders out there that do have teleport-at-will and spammeable ranged attacks. Stricttly speaking, by 15th level if the party picked a fight with, say, devils, they would die a slow, agonizing death as they're now facing a bunch of smart enemies teleporting in and out, slowly wearing down the party at range until they all drop. But that's boring and cheesy and unwinnable, so DMs don't do it.

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Changed it to needing to hit the target the first time to hit and not being able to change the maneuver. But otherwise it's still the eternity slash.
And as already mentioned, no, running to the other side of the country while leaving an angry opponent with full incentive to pull all strings against you is not a good tactic.

It is a great tactic considering most angry opponents do not have the means to do jack against you. Assuming they even know who you are. They'll be less angry and more into a tragic state of despair by the fifth round after you fled the fight as they keep failing to figure what kind of undetectable attacker keeps cutting them down.   
With the need to actually, it is a little less cheesy. But still way too OP.
An easy fix to keep it eternal is to make it stop after a few misses. Say, three. As long as it hits, it keeps on hitting eternally. Still amazingly good. Less broken.
Same with the allied buff. After they get hit three times, the buffs wears out. Its not like the buff can't be applied again and isn't making itself harder to remove, otherwise acting more or less like a permanent class ability shared by the whole party.

Now that sounds a better compromise, deal. You can only keep it for eternity if you have enough skill.

Secret of Life and Death

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Because you most definetely can't use it to bring your allies back to life if they've been eaten/vaporized/sent to another plane/worst, which is something that starts geting somewhat common by this level. Also dunno where you got the 500 xp from.

But by a long margin not as common as straight hit points damage to -10, for sure.
No matter what, it doesn't diminish the fact this thing has its place among epic maneuvers of the highest level.


Greater Restoration costs 500xp per use.

It does? I swear I never noticed it until now. Screw the exp cost then.

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Yes, it's suposed to be "GOING ALL OUT NOW RRAAARRRGGHHH!!!". Changed the "go to anywhere where you've ever been" to "teleport mishap".

The teleportation wasn't that bad. It was mostly the infinite maneuvers and the very short cooldown.
It can certainly go all out raaargh with the maneuvers it has available.

Well, now you have a chance of ending up in a troublesome place after teleporting, so the cooldown isn't so short.