Poets are masters of voice and literature, layering their performance with magical words. A steady rhythm can lift allies’ spirits, while sharp dissonance can distract, weaken, or wound foes. Most of them are travelling storytellers and chroniclers, but an alternate path lies with the Ashik: religious poets who travel in service of a divinity, reflecting that god’s nature in their songs.

Your base health is 70.

Choose a creature within 3 meters at the start of your turn. This creature can take one action this turn instead of you.

You are still able to use your minor action normally.

You can upkeep your magical songs and poems to affect allies or foes. Songs and poems can be started with a speak common action used with an action or a rapid action and you can keep them up freely as long as you keep speaking each round in your turns.

Some songs and poems require precision rolls. In this case, you only need to roll once per creature unless they were unable to hear your performance at any point. In this case, you need to roll for that creature again.

You can only have one song or poem active at any time and you are unable to speak while singing. If your target gets out of range or you become unable to sing in any way, your upkeep ends. You can also end your song or poem freely at any time.

By spending 1 energy during your turns, you can say a few words as part of a speak common action used for starting or upkeeping a song or a poem. You can't whisper when using this ability.

By spending 2 energy during your turns, you can use both a rapid action and a prepared action.

When you start a new song or poem, you can spend 1 energy to apply regeneration to affected creatures for 1 round.

An ally assists you with your singing. When you start singing a new song or a poem, an ally who can hear you can pay half the energy cost of that technique.

By spending 1 energy at the start of your turn, you can use the speak common action for upkeeping your singing freely without needing an action or a rapid action. Using this ability ends your upkeep next turn.

Category: Utility
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 6 energy
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Effect
Subjects of your song are perceived better-looking. Allies gain a +1 bonus to their social skill rolls and meeting rolls.

Category: Utility
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 8 energy
Duration: Up to 1 day of travel
Effect
Allies hearing your song gain a +10 kilometers of bonus to their daily travel speed.
This technique does not make impassable routes passable due to travel speed increase.

Category: Utility
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 4 energy
Range: 5 meters
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Effect
This technique does not require any precision rolls.
Choose a creature within range whom you share a language with. You challenge this creature to a verbal duel. As long as you can both hear each other and you upkeep this song, the target creature needs to keep up with you by using speak common action as an action or a rapid action during their turns similar to your magical poetry ability.
Whoever fails to upkeep first receives 15 magical damage and the duel ends. If either of you become unable to hear the other at any point, the song ends harmlessly.
Ending the song willingly is considered failing to upkeep.

Category: Offense
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 4 energy
Duration: Up to (2 + C/4) rounds
Effect
Your poem is paced inconsistently. When you start or upkeep this poem, affected hostile creatures are applied disoriented for 1 round.

Category: Offense
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 4 energy
Duration: Up to (3 + C/4) rounds
Effect
Your poem induces might and courage within allies, increasing their potencies by 2.

Category: Defense
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 4 energy
Duration: Up to (3 + C/4) rounds
Effect
Allies hearing you are unaffected by immobilized and slowed status effects.

Category: Offense
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 4 energy
Duration: Up to (2 + C/4) rounds
Effect
You start singing an encouraging poem. When you start or upkeep this poem, apply inspired to allies who can hear you for 1 round.

Category: Utility
Against: Warding
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 6 energy
Duration: Up to 3 rounds
Effect
Hostile creatures become charmed with your poetry. While you continue performing, affected creatures are applied different status effects each round, starting the round you begin the poem:
1. disoriented for 1 round
2. disoriented and weakened defenses for 1 round
3. stunned for 1 round
If you stop performing, the poem ends and no further status effects are applied.

Category: Offense
Against: Constitution
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 4 energy
Duration: Up to (2 + C/4) rounds
Effect
Affected hostile creatures are immune to inspired, and they can't apply any helpful status effects to themselves.

Category: Offense
Against: Warding
Execution Time: Special
Cost: 4 energy
Duration: Up to (3 + C/4) rounds
Effect
Whenever an affected hostile creature misses a precision roll, they take 5 magical damage.