Fleshshape
Nightsister MagickDark- Cost
- 5 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- Touch
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 13+
Effect
As an Action, you reshape the flesh of a willing creature you touch with Dathomiri alchemy. For up to 3 rounds while you concentrate, the target grows claws or fangs that count as a natural weapon dealing 1d8 kinetic (slashing) damage on an unarmed strike, gains a climbing speed equal to its walking speed, and gains a +2 bonus to one physical ability score of your choice (Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution).
At the Table
A Nightsister coven-leader grips her wounded scout's shoulder before the Massassi raid and spends 5 FP, weaving Dathomiri alchemy into living flesh. For the next 3 rounds the scout's fingernails harden into claws (a 1d8 kinetic-slashing natural weapon on her unarmed strikes), she gains a climbing speed equal to her walking speed to swarm up the temple wall, and the coven-leader pours a +2 into the scout's Strength to tear the gate-bar free. It's Touch range and requires a willing target, so plan it on an ally before the fighting starts — and keep concentration up, because once it drops, the flesh remembers its old shape.
In the Lore
Fleshshape draws on the body-warping flesh-magick of the Nightsisters of Dathomir, the clan of dark-side witches whose spellcraft bends living matter rather than relying on classic Jedi technique. In Legends, Dathomiri witches and the Nightsisters under figures like Mother Talzin were renowned for transmutation and alchemy that reshaped flesh and bone, while canon shows this same tradition through Talzin's coven and her later inheritors Asajj Ventress and Morgan Elsbeth, and in newer canon the Great Mothers who revived their craft. Their magick is unmistakably of the dark side, distinct from the Force-tradition disciplines of Control, Sense, and Alter — a sorcery passed down by Dathomir's witch-clans rather than taught in a Jedi Temple. Powers like this evoke the Nightsisters' reputation for reforging warriors and beasts into deadlier forms in service of their covens.