Editing Midnight Taint Rules (section)

==Dark Traits==
:  The taint spreading through the channeler’s body empowers her body and mind with its dark touch. The tainted channeler is granted one of the benefits as chosen by the DM. Tier 1 traits may be granted at any level of corruption, while tier 2 and tier 3 traits have prerequisites that may limit their availability. All traits are supernatural abilities unless otherwise noted. Spell-like abilities listed below have a caster level equal to the tainted channeler’s caster level. All Fortitude saves associated with dark traits have a DC of 10 + 1 / 2 the tainted channeler’s caster level + Con modifier. Will saves have a DC of 10 + 1 / 2 the tainted channeler’s caster level + key spellcasting ability modifier.


===Tier 1 Traits===
::*  '''Already Mad''': Wrapped in her own personal madness, a tainted channeler is immune to confusion and insanity effects. However, she remains susceptible to such effects caused by the effects of a dark mark.
::*  '''Canker’s Cloak''': Disease and putrefaction are the meat and wine of the tainted. The tainted channeler gains immunity to all diseases, including magical and supernatural diseases. 
::*  '''Forbidden Lore''': The dark god whispers in the mind of the tainted, revealing forbidden lore and unspeakable secrets. A tainted channeler taking this trait gains a +4 profane bonus to all Knowledge checks and all saving throw DCs to resist his spells with the evil descriptor are increased by +1.
::*  '''Horrific Visage''': The tainted channeler can manifest the dark face of the corruption working within his soul, contorting his features into a terrifying visage. The channeler gains a +4 bonus to Intimidate checks and all saving throw DCs to resist his spells with the fear descriptor are increased by +1.
::*  '''Veiled''': The tainted channeler gathers shadows and darkness like a veil about him, and gains a +4 bonus to Hide checks and +1 profane bonus to Armor Class.
::*  '''Worm-Tongued''': Taint has given the channeler the malevolent power of influencing the minds of others. The channeler gains a +4 profane bonus to Diplomacy checks, and all saving throw DCs to resist his spells with the compulsion descriptor are increased by +1.


===Tier 2 Traits===
::*  '''Appalling Aura''' (Requires Horrific Visage and Masochist): The writhing darkness within the tainted channeler begins to leak beyond his flesh. The channeler’s bonus to Intimidate checks increases to +8 and he gains a fear aura radiating out to a radius of 5 ft. Affected creatures in the area must succeed on a Will save or be affected as though by a fear spell. The tainted channeler may not suppress this aura, but creatures with taint equal to or greater than the channeler’s corruption level are immune to the effect.
::*  '''Corruption’s Touch''' (Requires Canker’s Cloak and Lesions): The tainted channeler carries corruption in his skin and his shadow withers life where it touches. The channeler touch causes either contagion: filth fever or blight (depending on the target touched). The tainted channeler may not suppress this effect, but creatures with taint equal to or greater than the channeler’s corruption level (or plants growing in areas with taint DCs equal to or greater than the channeler’s corruption level) are immune to the effect.
::*  '''Cloak of Shadows''' (Requires Veiled and Worn): During any conditions other than full daylight, a tainted channeler can disappear into the shadows as a move action, giving him partial concealment (20% miss chance). If he moves from the location in which he blended into the shadows, he loses the concealment until he spends another move action to blend in again. Artificial illumination, even a light or continual light spell, does not negate this ability; however a daylight spell will. Creatures with darkvision may ignore the concealment.
::*  '''Dark Mind''' (Requires Forbidden Lore and Fear of the Thing): The tainted channeler’s mind swells with hideous truths and forbidden secrets, and he gains a +2 profane bonus to Intelligence or Wisdom.
::*  '''Dark Speech''': (Requires Black-Eyed and Worm-Tongued): The tainted’s voice throbs with the undeniable authority of true evil; he gains the ability to command creatures at will. This is identical to the spell except that it is not language-dependent (and can therefore affect even animals). All saving throw DCs to resist his enchantment spells are increased +1 (this effect stacks with the benefit of Worm-Tongued).
::*  '''Not All There''' (Requires Worn): As the tainted channeler’s substance fades into shadow he gains Damage Reduction 1/—.
::*  '''Unraveled Sight''' (Requires Black-Eyed and Forbidden Lore): The tainted channeler is continuously under the effects of arcane sight. The effect can be dispelled, but the channeler can resume them as free actions.


===Tier 3 Traits===
::*  '''Demonic''' (Requires Appalling Aura, Horrific Visage, Masochist, and Troubled Sleep): The terrifying presence of the tainted channeler has grown such that she gains the ability to exude a more powerful aura of terror. She may cast fear as a spell-like ability once per day per 4 caster levels she has.
::*  '''Eye of the Mind''' (Requires Dark Mind, Fear of the Thing, Forbidden Lore, and Uncertain Truths): The tainted channeler can give the horrors glimpsed in her terrifying dreams a shadowy reality. Whether these are shadows worked to the disturbed patterns of her mind, or real entities of smoke and malice, even the tainted channeler is not sure. She may cast phantasmal killer as a spell-like ability once per day per 4 caster levels she has.
::*  '''Infected by Madness''' (Requires Already Mad, Forbidden Lore, True Madness, and Uncertain Truths): The madness that threatens to overwhelm the tainted channeler is a viscous force that she can direct at her foes. She may cast confusion as a spell-like ability once per day per 4 caster levels she has.
::*  '''Plagued''' (Requires Canker’s Cloak, Corruption’s Touch, Lesions, and Withered): Foulness swirls about the tainted channeler in a sickening miasma. Once per day per 4 caster levels she has, the channeler can make a ranged touch attack (range 25 ft. +5 ft./2 levels) to inflict a disease upon her foes. This is a spell-like ability that functions as the contagion spell, but the writhing bolt of putrescence can arc from one target to another in a way identical to the chain lightning spell. The tainted channeler can affect a number of secondary targets equal to one-half her caster level (maximum 10). The DC of the Fortitude save to resist the disease is reduced by –4 for the secondary targets. 
::*  '''Power in Filth''' (Requires Canker’s Cloak, Corruption’s Touch, Festering, Lesions, Plagued and Withered): The tainted channeler draws strength and vitality from disease. Diseased creatures within 60 ft. of the tainted channeler can be targeted for purposes of this ability. Once per day per 4 caster levels she has, the channeler can transfer the ability score damage suffered that day by a diseased creature into a bonus to her corresponding ability score. 
:::  ''For example, a tainted channeler uses Power in Filth on a slave infected with filth fever. The slave failed his Fortitude save and suffered 2 points of Dexterity damage that day, which the channeler gains as a +2 bonus to her Dexterity. The bonuses granted by this ability last for 1 hour.'' 
::*  '''Tyranny''' (Requires Black-Eyed, Dark Speech, Troubled Sleep, and Worm-Tongued): The tainted channeler’s will is indomitable and undeniable. Once per day per 4 caster levels she has, the channeler may use greater command as a spelllike ability. This is identical to the spell except that it is not language-dependent (and can therefore affect even animals).