Despite what most believe, the Echo rests within all living creatures. While it’s extremely rare for a creature to awaken to the Echo in its full power, many creatures can awaken to its sundered Whisper. Though only a few understand the true nature of their new abilities.
Prerequisite: Non Garlean only (Note: Ascians with the Garlean subtype may take this feat.)
You gain a +2 bonus on a Knowledge check of your choice, and that chosen Knowledge skill is always considered a class skill for you.
When you select this feat, choose one of the benefits listed below to determine what power your Whisper grants. All of the following abilities are Supernatural in nature.
Whisper of Battle's Future: Your Whisper manifests with knowledge of future attacks, granting you a +1 Insight Bonus to your armour class.
Whisper of Primal Resistance: Those who possess the Echo can resist the subjugation of the gods, but even those who possess the Whisper have hardened wills, granting you a +1 bonus to Will saves.
Whisper of Clairvoyance: Your whisper speaks of ancient knowledge, forgotten by most, granting you a +1 bonus to all knowledge skills in which you have at least one rank.
Whisper of Empathic Language: Those who speak with the Echo speak in all tongues, but even a fragment of that power is still that power. Once per day, you may gain a language that you do not have until you use this ability again to gain a different language. This ability only allows you to speak and understand a language, not read it. Additionally, you gain a +1 bonus to Diplomacy checks.
Whisper of Stalled Demise: Those who have awakened the Echo are near ageless beings, who can rise and rise again no matter how often they are brought low, but even the Whisper can allow one to live beyond the norm. You add your Charisma bonus (Minimum +0) to your Constitution score when determining the negative hit point total necessary to kill you. Additionally, you double your race’s standard age categories, as well as your maximum age. Any bonuses or penalties you already have remain in place, however. (For example, a Human becomes Middle-Aged at 35 and has a maximum age of 90. With this ability, they become middle-aged at 70 and can live up to 180 years.)
Whisper of Convenient Curiosity: The Echo grants a strange curiosity to its bearers, able to find things in places no other being would think to look, but even the Whisper can attune one’s senses greatly, granting a +2 bonus to Perception.
Whisper of Broken Limits: In their hour of greatest need, the Echo has provided power, but even the Whisper is enough to nudge a being past what they think they can manage. Whenever a character with this Whisper activates a limit break, they may use their limit break as though they had consumed one additional stack.
Special: You can take this up to two times if you are at least 5th level, up to three times if you are at least 11th, up to four times if you are at least 15th level and up to five times if you are at least 19th level. Each time you do you must choose a different knowledge skill and Whisper.
