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| - Evil totemists revere the deadborn vulture (Monster Manual V) as a harbinger of disease and death. It is a creature so in tune with the powers of undeath that it spontaneously arises as a zombie when it perishes, continuing to fight even after all traces of life have left its body. By shaping this soulmeld they hope to steal a portion of that creature's power, prolonging their existence past the normal confines of mortal life. Your deadborn mantle delays the onset of death. As long as this soulmeld is shaped, you do not die until you are reduced to a number of negative hit points equal to your Constitution score. In addition, when you are reduced to negative hit points you automatically stabilize and stop losing hit points, though you are still unconscious and make percentage rolls to determine if you become conscious and disabled as normal. Essentia: When you invest essentia into deadborn mantle, the number of negative hit points you can be reduced to before dying increases by an amount equal to your Constitution score times the amount of essentia invested. For example, if you invest 2 points of essentia into this soulmeld, the amount would be increased by twice your Constitution score. (Note that this is in addition to the amount you can already be reduced to simply for shaping deadborn mantle, which is equal to your Constitution score, so the total negative hit points you could sustain before dying in this case would be equal to three times your Constitution score.)
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