Cutefinder/Song Magic in Golarion

When you say the words Song Magic, the first thing that may come to mind is the power of bardic performances and the spells they can weave while singing. However, while ubiquitous, it is only the surface of what the power of music is capable of manipulating. On distant planets, insight into the fabric of reality allowed technological advancements that could bestow powerful effects to even inexperienced singers, allowing for compositions that could evoke energetic forces, conjure and transmute swaths of land and even maintain life through an entrapped harmonic pattern, well beyond what stories a mere minstrel could spin.

This cosmic power remained largely isolated from external influence, however—beyond contact with rare interstellar vessels with colonies of people on their own, one of which achieving it only by chance through convergent research into similar powers, the secret of Song Magic and the principles to utilise it remained on the lone planet far, far away from Golarion. It was only through cosmic misfortune that one such vessel fell from space some ten thousand years ago, its debris hammering craters into the earth and scattering dust into the sky to create a thousand years of darkness.

While bound to a tiny peninsula of Sarusan where the bulk of the ship buried itself into the crust, it was this event that brought true Song Magic to Golarion.

Song Magic in the World

New Hymmnos Dialect: Shellan Ciel Note

As the Tower Emulator is built on different technology, the traditional Central Standard dialect of Hymmnos is not the only one that can run on it; indeed, it is not the most efficient when it comes to deploying Hymmnos Extracts either. When the Innsmouth sailed the stars, a prototypical alternative was created to better interface with the rest of the Innsmouth's systems, but aside from a few lines of Hymmnos it was written and executed through machine code. Long after the Innsmouth fell, the descendants of the specialised Reyvateils built to service this alternative dialect formed a cabal and wrote an interpeted language for it, allowing their members to more readily create new song magic on their own.

Song Magic in Game

Tattoolist Disease

Type disease, genetic; Save Fortitude DC15

Onset maturity, see text; Frequency 1/day or see text

Initial Effect Unconscious 1 week; Secondary Effect 1 Con drain and target is exhausted; Cure see text

Tattoolist Disease, a name taken from the erratic linework of a Reyvateil's tattoo-like install port that manifests somewhere on her body, is not a traditional disease in most senses. It is not contagious but rather an unfortunate consequence of the genes of a pure-blooded Reyvateil ancestor awakening in a naturally-born descendant, a rare event that leads to the prospective new half-blooded Reyvateil connecting to the local tower. Other symptoms besides the install port are fever and lethargy as the energy of the tower surging through the Reyvateil's body wears her down and burns her life force away, ending in a painful death.

Tattoolist Disease can also occur prematurely if the Reyvateil is exposed to someone undergoing IPD Disease if she herself likewise descended from an Innsmouth Proxy Dependent. Young reyvateils only suffer from the effects of the disease once per week until adulthood.

The onset of Tattoolist Disease cannot be avoided through a Fortitude save. It likewise cannot be cured permanently by any means short of severing her connection to the tower by leaving its range permanently, disabling the tower or casting a Miracle or Wish spell to remove the Reyvateil genes from her outright. Its symptoms are also incurable through normal means—Restoration cannot provide relief unless cast in conjunction with with Remove Disease, which forestall further effects for a week and otherwise provide similar effects as a Tranquility crystal. Diquility crystals are what's necessary to properly extend a half-blooded Reyvateil's lifespan, suppressing the disease and relieving its symptoms for a good three months, but even those lose effectiveness as the Reyvateil reaches middle age, condemning her to a short lifespan.

Tranquility and Diquility

Tranquility: Tranquility is a life-extending agent for Reyvateils in the form of a small blue crystal. Taken on its own, the effects of Tranquility are largely psychosomatic and do little to actually extend the Reyvateil's lifespan. However, it is an effective remedy for short-term fatigue from singing too long. When administered through an install port, Tranquility reduces Exhaustion to Fatigue or cures Fatigue outright.

Only Reyvateils can make use of this item. As an artifact of another civilisation, it can only be found in the ruins. However, given raw materials and a formula it can be craeted with a DC 20 Craft (Alchemy) check.

Diquility: A life-extending agent for Reyvateils in the form of a roughly fist-sized blue crystal. Taken once every three months, Diquility can stave off the effects of Tattoolist Disease in half-blooded Reyvateils for three months, curing them of their Con drain and Exhaustion in the process. Like Tranqulity, Diquility is administered through a Reyvateil's install port, but the process is extremely painful and usually requires an assistant to insert the crystal slowly. For this reason, though it recovers Fatigue and Exhaustion in the same manner as Tranquility, very few Reyvateils are likely to use it for this purpose.

Only Reyvateils can make use of this item, and it is only non-purebloods who have any need of it. As an artifact of another civilisation it can only be found in the ruins, and it is beyond the ability of an individual to manufacture much less with current technology. As such, most half-blooded Reyvateils in the ruins remain in cold sleep, and those on the surface resort to rather more creative but temporary measures.