I was curious Osle, if you'd be kind enough to clarify something for myself and a player. It concerns Origin Focus.
Origin Focus: As a standard action make an attack with your Tempest Lash. Instead of the normal base damage, roll a knowledge check whitout any other combat modifiers. The target takes damage equal to the check and you learn one of the following things about them for every 4 ranks you have in Knowledge.
If he has an 18 modifier say Knowledge Arcana (In otherwords he rolls a 1d20+18 ) First, does he add int to it? (I said yes, but it says no combat modifiers and he is under the assumption that Int is kind of a combat modifier for Illurien) we'd like to clarify that. Secondly if he rolls a 10, he deals 28 points of damage how I'm reading it, but nothing else (Damage wise.) Can this damage crit if the attack roll crits? In other words is the damage multiplied by 2? Also, to further clarify something. This line of Tempest Lash:
Several of those mention your ranks in Knowledge, which correspond to the ranks in your highest Knowledge skill. For every other maxed Knowledge skill you have, you can count your number of ranks as 1 higher for Tempest Technique purposes. Each can be used every 1d4 rounds, and they're all supernatural abilities.
If the character in question, has every knowledge skill maxed (For us in Pathfinder it's 9 other Knowledge skills) does that +1 add to the damage of the Knowledge Check? (I leaned to no, because the damage check doesn't initially call for "Ranks" in Knowledge.) So in the previous example, that he rolled a 10, would he deal 28 damage, or 37? (10+18+9 or not basically) It only effects the second part of Origin Focus concerning every 4 ranks for more information correct?