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 the 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.

That doesn't mean, however, that Empaths are barred from combat. Many choose the path of the Battle Empath, with defensive skills and abilities often outstripping those of the hunters they seek out to heal.

Official Information

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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

The Crossing

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

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 and Aesry

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

Forfedhdar

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

The Forfedhdar 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 patient, an Empath can form an empathic link with them that allows the Empath to diagnose the patient'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.
• Link - More experienced Empaths can use their empathic links to others to access some of their knowledge, thereby increasing the Empath's own skills for the duration of the link. Taught by other Empaths and cannot be maintained in combat.
  • Linking has more advanced forms such as Persistent Links, Hand of Hoderina 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 the Empath is a friend rather than an enemy, a powerful tool for Empaths choosing to enter battlegrounds.

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

Circle	Empathy	Scholarship	1st Lore	2nd Lore	3rd Lore	First Aid	Outdoors.	1st-2nd Surv.	3rd Surv.	4th Surv.	5th Surv.	1st Magic	2nd Magic	3rd Magic	4th Magic	5th Magic
1-10	4	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	0	0
11-30	5	3	3	3	2	3	1	2	1	1	1	3	3	3	2	0
31-70	6	4	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	4	3	3	3	3
71-100	6	5	4	4	3	3	2	3	3	2	2	4	4	4	3	3
100-150	7	5	5	4	4	4	2	4	3	2	2	5	5	4	4	4
150-200	17	12	12	10	10	10	5	10	7	5	5	12	12	10	10	10

Scholarship, Empathy and First Aid are hard requirements (do not count toward Nth skill requirements).
Outdoorsmanship is a soft requirement (can be used toward Nth survival requirements).
Sorcery and Thievery are restricted skills (do not count toward Nth skill requirements).<br\>

The Khalo

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

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

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Additional Information

• Empath 3.0
• Empath Guide
• Empath Titles
• Empath Healing
• Link ability
• Shift ability
• Manipulate ability
• Empathic Shock
• Empaths of Renown
• Olwydd.org Empath Circle Calculator