Life Magic is an Rare Magical skill. Skill checks with it are modified by Intelligence.
Life Magic is the Basic Magic of healing, growth, vitality, and the power that sustains all living things. Those who master it learn to channel restorative energies into healing wounds, strengthening allies, and manipulating the spiritual force that flows through every creature. Like life itself, it is adaptable, persistent, and endlessly renewing.
Practitioners of Life Magic excel at healing, support, restoration, mental influence, and spiritual empowerment. Life Magic can restore strength to exhausted allies, suppress corruption and death, or overwhelm enemies with psychic and emotional force. Even the weakest Life caster understands that sustaining an ally can be just as powerful as destroying an enemy.
Each rank in the Life Magic skill increases your Accuracy bonus with Life Magic spells by 1, boosts your damage with Life Magic spells by 1/5th, and enhances your chance to score a Critical Hit with Life Magic spells by 1/10th.
As your skill in Life Magic grows, you will gain additional benefits from it.
Improved Affinity (All Ranks)
Studying the nature of life teaches you how to strengthen the body, nurture the spirit, and preserve vitality against countless threats. Upon attaining a new rank title (Initiate, Apprentice, Journeyman, Adept, Master, Grandmaster), you gain a 25% Affinity bonus in one of the following skills: Life Magic, Potent Healing, Restorative Spell, Commanding Spell, Durable Casting, or Focused Casting. You can gain this Affinity even if you did not previously possess Affinity or Ranks in the chosen skill.
Initiate (Ranks 10–19):
As an Initiate, your connection to living energy sharpens your awareness of nearby creatures and strengthens your restorative abilities. Vitality flows more naturally through your magic, allowing your healing to linger beyond the initial spell. You gain the ability Vital Surge:
Vital Surge: As a Bonus Action, you may activate a Vital Surge aura. While this aura is active, any spell you cast with the Healing keyword also grants its target Regeneration 2 for 1 minute. This ability can be used once per day.
Apprentice (Ranks 20–34):
Your growing mastery of Life Magic allows your presence alone to stabilize and encourage nearby allies. Even minor restorative energies become more potent in your hands. You gain the ability Aura of Renewal:
Aura of Renewal: As a Combat Action, you and allies within 10 feet of you gain can make a skill check to overcome a Persistent Effect or Ongoing Damage currently affecting them with a +10 bonus to their check. This ability can be used once per day.
All of these bonuses are cumulative.