Archives of Nethys
In the wake of the Hellfire Crisis, libraries worth of infernal contracts were voided, cut off from the source of their power. These compacts are not merely agreements between contractor and signatory, however; the paper and ink themselves hold power, and many have discovered that even nullified contracts still hold wisps of hellish magic. Isgeri academics, studying the contracts found within Kingsthrone Cathedral in Elidir, believe that the words on an infernal contract function as magical runes, granting direct access to Hell's power so long as the stated agreements are upheld. Now that those agreements are void, careful study and tampering with contract's terms allows practitioners to harness aspects of their former power without the attendant restrictions.
Infernal pactbreakers are increasingly common throughout the Infernal Inheritance but are most often found within the walls of Elidir. There, legal academics pore over reams of infernal pacts to pinpoint loopholes against the devils. Elsewhere, infernal pactbreakers develop these techniques on their own, finding they can still draw on diabolic pacts they were once bound to even after their terms have concluded. Many pactbreakers make it a point of pride to alter the colors of the hellfire they conjure; rather than the deep reds of Hell, for example, Isgeri pactbreakers burn their foes in waves of bright green and blue flame.
Additional Feats
Source Player Core pg. 215Some archetypes include a list of “Additional Feats” that appear in other sources. The list includes each feat’s level, which might be different than normal when gained from the archetype. You can take the feat as an archetype feat of that level, meaning it counts toward the number of feats required by the archetype’s dedication feat. When selected this way, a feat that normally has a class’s trait (such as the fighter trait) doesn’t have that class trait.
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Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication Feat 2
Uncommon Archetype Dedication Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 126
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites trained in Religion or Legal Lore
Access You’re from Isger.
Your studies allow you to wield the magic locked within infernal contracts without surrendering your soul. You gain a contract folio with four common divine cantrips of your choice, which functions as a spellbook; this folio may be a collection of contracts you have already studied or the charred remains of one you were once bound to. You gain the Cast a Spell activity. You can prepare two cantrips each day from your folio. You’re trained in the spell attack modifier and spell DC statistics. Your key spellcasting attribute for infernal pactbreaker spells is Intelligence, and they are divine infernal pactbreaker spells. You can always use Legal Lore or Religion to Decipher the Writing of a contract, and if you roll a critical failure on such a check, you get a failure instead.
Basic Pactbreaker Spellcasting Feat 4
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 126
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
You gain the basic spellcasting benefits. Each time you gain a spell slot of a new rank from the infernal pactbreaker archetype, add two common spells of that rank to your contract folio.
Contract Blade Feat 4
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 126
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
Turning the diabolic powers of a contract inward, you cause the paper to fold and sharpen into a deadly blade. When you Interact to draw your contract folio, you can use a free action with the manipulate trait to transform it into a weapon. A contract blade deals 1d6 slashing damage, is a simple weapon in the sword group, and has the finesse, magical, and parry traits. If the blade leaves your hands, it returns to its original form. You can buy and inscribe fundamental weapon runes and weapon property runes into your folio in the same way you would for a regular weapon, and they apply to your contract blade. You can move runes to and from your folio to other weapons or runestones for the usual cost.
Diabolic Usurpation Feat 4
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 126
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
You know how to siphon the power hellish deities give devils without offering up worship. You gain the cleric’s Domain Initiate feat but must select fire, trickery, or tyranny as your domain. You cast that domain’s domain spell as a divine focus spell, and you Refocus by reviewing the arguments and clauses in your contract folio.
Special You can take this feat up to three times, selecting a different domain each time.
Familiar Feat 4
Magus Sorcerer Thaumaturge Wizard Source Player Core pg. 201, Player Core 2 pg. 152, Impossible Magic pg. 16
Archetypes Elementalist, Infernal Pactbreaker, Shadowcaster, Soul Warden
You make a pact with a creature that serves you and assists your spellcasting. You gain a familiar.
Annul Compulsion [two-actions] Feat 6
Archetype Concentrate Manipulate Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 126
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
Many of the traps in the terms of a diabolic contract rely on curses, charms, or enchantments that enforce the behavior of the signatory. You’ve learned to draft amendments which nullify such effects, allowing others to walk free. You attempt to counteract a curse, a spell that alters how someone behaves such as charm, or the confused, controlled or fascinated conditions. You use your choice of your Legal Lore or Religion modifier as your counteract modifier, and your counteract rank is equal to half your level rounded up. Regardless of the outcome, the target is then temporarily immune to your Annul Compulsion for 1 day.
Enhanced Familiar Feat 6
Animist Druid Magus Sorcerer Thaumaturge Witch Wizard Source Player Core pg. 129, Player Core 2 pg. 153, Impossible Magic pg. 17, War of Immortals pg. 23, Dark Archive (Remastered) pg. 43
Archetypes Elementalist, Familiar Master, Infernal Pactbreaker, Rivethun Emissary, Shadowcaster
Prerequisites a familiar
You infuse your familiar with additional primal energy, increasing its abilities. You can select four familiar or master abilities each day, instead of two.
Special [Witch] Add the bonus familiar abilities you gain for being a witch to this amount. [Wizard] If your arcane thesis is improved familiar attunement, your familiar’s base number of familiar abilities, before adding any extra abilities from the arcane thesis, is four.
Impose Order (Pactbreaker) [reaction] Feat 6
Archetype Emotion Mental Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 126
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
Trigger An enemy adjacent to you damages you.
You impose the strict language of your folio on those around you. The triggering enemy takes 2d6 mental damage with a basic Will save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. This damage increases to 3d6 at 10th level, 4d6 at 13th level, 5d6 at 17th level, and 6d6 at 20th level.
Condemn Soul [two-actions] Feat 8
Archetype Concentrate Manipulate Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
With a quick flourish, you draw together runes and legal bindings to condemn a creature’s soul and bring it to justice. Select a creature within 30 feet of you; that creature must attempt a Will save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. Regardless of the result, the target is then temporarily immune to your Condemn Soul for 1 day.
SuccessThe target is unaffected.
FailureYour condemnation frays the fabric of the target’s soul. The target gains weakness to fire and spirit damage equal to half your level for 1 minute. Only you can trigger this weakness.
Critical FailureAs failure, but any creature can trigger the creature’s weakness.
Fine Print [free-action] Feat 8
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Frequency oncer per 10 minutes
Prerequisites Contract Blade
Trigger You Strike and deal damage to an off-guard creature with your contract blade.
The text of the contracts written across your papery blade contain hidden clauses that can cause great pain for an unsuspecting foe. You deal an additional 2d4 precision damage to the off-guard creature.
Clarify Hellfire [one-action] Feat 10
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
An obscure loophole in your contracts allows you to create hellfire that burns even devils. Until the end of your current turn, fire damage you deal to a devil bypasses that devil’s immunity to fire and gains the holy trait.
Proscribe Devilry Feat 10
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
You know how to quickly weave together a fiendish clause that severs a devil’s tie to this realm. You can cast a 5th-rank banishment once per day as a divine innate spell. You can only cast this spell targeting a devil, but you can spend an extra action to give the target a –2 circumstance penalty to its save without preparing special anathema.
Archdiabolic Usurpation Feat 12
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Diabolic Usurpation
After extensive opposition research, you have imbued your folio with even greater infernal power, usually reserved for the greatest of diabolists. You gain an advanced domain spell from one domain you selected with Diabolic Usurpation.
Special You can take this feat up to three times, each time selecting a different advanced domain spell from a domain you selected with Diabolic Usurpation.
Expert Pactbreaker Spellcasting Feat 12
Uncommon Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Basic Pactbreaker Spellcasting; expert in Religion or Legal Lore
You gain the expert spellcasting benefits.
Commandeer Hellmouth Feat 14
Rare Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Infernal Pactbreaker Dedication
Your folio contains a contract with one of the hellmouths, enormous living portals connected to Hell itself. You can cast a 6th-rank teleport once per day as a divine innate spell. By spending 8 hours poring over your contracts, you can instead cast interplanar teleport but can only travel to Hell (and not back).
Master Pactbreaker Spellcasting Feat 18
Archetype Source Cheliax, Infernal Inheritence pg. 127
Archetype Infernal Pactbreaker
Prerequisites Expert Pactbreaker Spellcasting; master in Religion or Legal Lore
You gain the master spellcasting benefits.
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