Empath

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Empath Guild
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Primary Skillset:	Lore
Secondary Skillsets:	Magic, Survival
Tertiary Skillsets:	Weapon, Armor
Special Abilities:	Heal, Shift, Link, Manipulate
Mana Type:	Life
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Empaths are highly attuned to other living creatures, allowing them to heal the wounds of others. Such powers have their drawbacks, however; since Empaths are so close to the pain of living beings around them, if they so much as try to harm another living creature they will lose their ability to heal for a time. If they kill, such ability can be lost forever.

This does not mean that Empaths are barred from combat. Many choose the path of the Battle Empath, with defensive skills and abilities often outstripping those of the adventurers they seek to heal.

Official Information

Guild crest: An open hand reaching out to provide comfort, a wreath of healing herbs resting in the palm

Information courtesy of Dragonrealms Website.

The official Empath Guild color is Sapphire Blue.

Guild Hall Locations

Crossing Empath Guild

Led by Guildleader Salvur Siksa. (You can type DIR EMPATH in The Crossing for directions.)

The Crossing Guildhall crest is:

an open hand reaching out to provide comfort, the palm cradling a blue X, symbolizing the crossroads

Riverhaven Empath Guild

Led by Guildleader Nebela Mentrade. (You can type DIR EMPATH in Riverhaven for directions.)

The Riverhaven Guildhall crest is:

an open hand reaching out to provide comfort, the palm cradling a leaping river fish arching over a royal blue river

Shard

Led by Guildleader K'miriel Lystrandoniel.

The Shard Guildhall crest is:

an open hand reaching out to provide comfort, the palm cradling a wreath of deep purple lotus blossoms

Ratha Empath Guild and Aesry Empath Guild

Led by Guildleader Alris Burdlefoot, who travels between these two locations.

The Ratha Guildhall crest is:

an open hand reaching out to provide comfort, the palm cradling nine golden stars

The Aesry Guildhall crest is:

the Aesry Surlaenis'a flag with an open hand reaching out to provide comfort in the center of the dark blue circle

Hibarnhvidar Empath Guild

Led by Guildleader Dagreth Rendarak, who recently relocated here from Riverhaven.

The Hibarnhvidar Guildhall crest is:

an open hand cradling a hammer and anvil

Skillsets and Common Races

An Empath's primary skillset is Lore. Survival and Magic are secondary skillsets, with Weapon and Armor as tertiaries.

According to the DragonRealms website, Empaths tend to be:

Human	27%
Elothean	24%
Prydean	11%
Elven	10%
Dwarven	7%
Gor'Tog	5%

Crafting Affiliation

As they are a lore-prime guild, Empaths may choose two crafting careers and one hobby.

Guilded Empaths receive two free technique slots in the Remedies discipline and one free technique slot in the Cooking discipline of the Alchemy skill.

See: Crafting

Guild Abilities

• Touch - By simply touching a person, an Empath can form an empathic link with them that allows the Empath to diagnose the person's injuries with some precision. Besides wound transfer, several other Empath abilities (Shift, Link) require an active diagnostic link to be in place in order to function.
• Transfer/Take - Allows an Empath to take the wounds, scars, and assorted injuries of other adventurers by transferring them to the Empath's body.
  • Wound Redirection - A more advanced form of taking wounds which allows the empath to change the destination of transferred wounds for five minutes.
  • Wound Reduction - Allows an Empath to automatically reduce the severity of wounds they transfer to themselves by up to half.
• Link - More experienced Empaths can use their empathic links to others to access some of their knowledge, thereby increasing the Empath's skills for the duration of the link. This ability is taught by other Empaths and cannot be maintained in combat.
  • Linking has more advanced forms such as Persistent Links, Hand of Hodierna and the Unity Link.
• Perceive Health - Allows the Empath to detect the presence of others in the surrounding area by sensing their life energies, including health status such as poison, disease, or low vitality. As the Empath's skill increases, life energies can be detected farther and farther away.
  • Empaths may also use their perception to check if a creature is living, undead or a construct. See the PERCEIVE for more information and syntax.
• Shift - Though considered a hush-hush skill by those in Elanthia, some Empaths possess the ability to alter the appearance of others permanently. It is considered a forbidden practice in all provinces in Kermoria except for Ilithi, as of 406 AV.
• Manipulate - Those with sufficient skill can Manipulate a creature approaching them into believing that an Empath is a friend rather than an enemy. This is a powerful tool for Empaths choosing to enter hunting and battle areas.

Life Magic

Empaths have access to Life Mana and the following spellbooks: Healing, Protection, Body Purification, Mental Preparation and Life Force Manipulation.

Spell Tree

Spell Slots

Spell slot progressions

The Empath spell tree requires 55 spell slots to master. Empaths earn 76 spell slots at 150 which leaves experienced Empaths plenty of room for Magic Techniques or Analogous Patterns spells. All magic guilds get a free magical feat at circle 2, and Empaths get Injured Casting as theirs.

Circle Requirements

Skillset	Skill	1-10	11-30	31-70	71-100	101-150	151-200
lore	Empathy	4	5	6	6	7	15
lore	Scholarship	3	3	4	5	5	13
lore	1st Lore	3	3	4	4	5	13
lore	2nd Lore	2	3	3	4	4	10
lore	3rd Lore	2	2	3	3	4	10
magic	1st Magic	3	3	4	4	5	13
magic	2nd Magic	2	3	3	4	5	13
magic	3rd Magic	2	3	3	4	4	10
magic	4th Magic	0	2	3	3	4	10
magic	5th Magic	0	0	3	3	4	10
survival	First Aid	2	3	3	3	4	10
survival	Outdoorsmanship	1	1	2	2	2	5
survival	1st Survival	1	2	2	3	4	10
survival	2nd Survival	1	2	2	3	4	10
survival	3rd Survival	1	1	2	3	3	8

Hard skill requirements ( Empathy, First Aid, and Scholarship) are listed in bold. These skills cannot count toward Nth skills, such as 1st lore or 2nd Survival.

Soft skill requirements ( Outdoorsmanship) can also count toward your Nth skills.

Note: The following "mastery" skills never count toward Nth skill requirements, since they affect all or most of the skillset: Defending, Parry Ability, Offhand Weapon, Melee Mastery, Missile Mastery, and Life Magic.

Nth skill requirements are met with your top-ranked skills out of the following list of eligible skills:

• Lore: Forging, Engineering, Outfitting, Alchemy, Enchanting, Mechanical Lore, Appraisal, Performance, and Tactics
• Magic: Attunement, Arcana, Targeted Magic, Augmentation, Debilitation, Utility, and Warding
• Survival: Evasion, Athletics, Perception, Stealth, Locksmithing, Outdoorsmanship, and Skinning

Cumulative

Skillset	Skill	10	30	70	100	150	200
lore	Empathy	40	140	380	560	910	1,660
lore	Scholarship	30	90	250	400	650	1,300
lore	1st Lore	30	90	250	370	620	1,270
lore	2nd Lore	20	80	200	320	520	1,020
lore	3rd Lore	20	60	180	270	470	970
lore	Total Lore	140	460	1,260	1,920	3,170	6,220
magic	1st Magic	30	90	250	370	620	1,270
magic	2nd Magic	20	80	200	320	570	1,220
magic	3rd Magic	20	80	200	320	520	1,020
magic	4th Magic	0	40	160	250	450	950
magic	5th Magic	0	0	120	210	410	910
magic	Total Magic	70	290	930	1,470	2,570	5,370
survival	First Aid	20	80	200	290	490	990
survival	Outdoorsmanship	10	30	110	170	270	520
survival	1st Survival	10	50	130	220	420	920
survival	2nd Survival	10	50	130	220	420	920
survival	3rd Survival	10	30	110	200	350	750
survival	Total Survival	50	210	570	930	1,680	3,580
all	Total	260	960	2,760	4,320	7,420	15,170

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Additional Information

• Empath new player guide
• Empath spells
• Empath Titles

The Khalo

The leadership of the Empaths' Guild is collectively known as the Khalaen, a Gamgweth word meaning "leaders."

See Empath Khalo for details about the modern structure of the guild, guild etiquette, and the current Khalaen. Detailed information about Khalaen history can be found in the book Khalo: A Student's Primer.

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Additional Information

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• Empath Guide
• Empath Titles
• Empath Healing
• Link ability
• Shift ability
• Manipulate ability
• Empathic Shock
• Empaths of Renown
• Olwydd.org Empath Circle Calculator