blood biography

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Player's Guide

School divination
Spell Lists
- occultist 2
- bard 2
- cleric 3
- inquisitor 3
- sorcerer/wizard 3
- medium 2
Casting Time 1 minute
Components V, S, M/DF (a scrap of parchment)
Range touch
Target(s) one creature's blood or one bloodstain
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will negates (see text)

You learn the answers to a specific set of questions about a creature so long as you have access to at least one drop of its blood. You can cast this spell on the blood of the living or the dead, but living or undead creatures are entitled to a saving throw to resist the spell. You can cast the spell on dried or fresh blood. Once you cast the spell the answers to the following four questions appear on any at surface you designate (a wall, a piece of paper, and so on).

Who are you? (The name by which the creature is most commonly known)
What are you? (Gender, race, profession/role)
How was your blood shed? (Brief outline of the events that caused its wound, to the best of the victim’s knowledge)
When was your blood shed?

These answers always appear in a language you can read even if the creature cannot speak that or any language.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Player’s Guide

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Advanced Player’s Guide, Copyright 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn.
Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, Copyright 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn.
Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide Update 1.0, Copyright 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn.
Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook, Copyright 2009, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.
System Reference Document, Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.