Truthseeker 3

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Psi Points/Day	Powers Known
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Assume psionic mantles (2)	2	2
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	Assume psionic mantle	6	3
3rd	+2	+1	+1	+3		11	4
4th	+3	+1	+1	+4		17	5
5th	+3	+1	+1	+4	Assume psionic mantle	25	6
6th	+4	+2	+2	+5		35	7
7th	+5	+2	+2	+5		46	8
8th	+6/+1	+2	+2	+6		58	9
9th	+6/+1	+3	+3	+6		72	10
10th	+7/+2	+3	+3	+7		88	11
11th	+8/+3	+3	+3	+7	Assume psionic mantle	106	12
12th	+9/+4	+4	+4	+8		126	13
13th	+9/+4	+4	+4	+8		147	14
14th	+10/+5	+4	+4	+9		170	15
15th	+11/+6/+1	+5	+5	+9	Assume psionic mantle	195	16
16th	+12/+7/+2	+5	+5	+10		221	17
17th	+12/+7/+2	+5	+5	+10		250	18
18th	+13/+8/+3	+6	+6	+11		280	19
19th	+14/+9/+4	+6	+6	+11		311	20
20th	+15/+10/+5	+6	+6	+12		343	21

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the ardent.

Psi Points per Day

An ardents ability to manifest powers is limited by the psi points, sometimes called power points, she has available. Her base daily allotment of psi points is given on Table: The Ardent. In addition, she receives bonus psi points per day if she has a high Wisdom score. Her race might also provide bonus psi points per day, as might certain feats and items.

Powers Known

An ardent begins play knowing two of the first powers available to her based on her choice of mantles. Each mantle features at least one power or ability with a cost of 1 power point. An ardent selects two of these powers from her two known mantles at 1st level.
At each additional level, an ardent learns one new power from her available mantles. She must be able to manifest the new power at the level at which she learns it, however. For example, an ardent who attains 5th level can learn any power from one of her mantles that costs 5 power points or less to manifest; she cannot learn a power from a mantle that costs more than 5 power points to manifest until she attains a level capable of manifesting a power with that cost.
To learn or manifest a power, an ardent must have a Wisdom score of at least 10 + the power's level. For example, an ardent with a Wisdom score of 13 can manifest powers of 3rd level or lower.
The total number of powers an ardent can manifest in a day is limited only by her daily power points. In other words, an 9th-level ardent (with a total of 72 power points, not including bonus power points for a high Wisdom score) could manifest a power costing 1 power point seventy-two times in one day, a power costing 9 power points eight times in one day, or any combination of power point costs that does not exceed 72 power points in total.
An ardent simply knows her powers; they are ingrained in her mind. She does not need to prepare them (in the way that some spellcasters prepare their spells), though she must get a good night's sleep each day to regain all her spent power points.
The Difficulty Class for saving throws against ardent powers is 10 + the power's level + the ardent's Wis modifier. For example, the saving throw against a 6th-level power has a DC of 16 + Wis modifier.

Mantles

The first two mantles an ardent selects are her primary mantles. All others gained are secondary mantles. Primary mantles represent the two philosophies the ardent feels most strongly about and champions above all others. An ardent must maintain at least as many powers in her primary mantles as she takes in her secondary mantles, reflecting that personal allegiance. An ardent cannot choose a power from a secondary mantle if doing so would give her more powers known from that secondary mantle than she knows from either of her primary mantles.
For example, an ardent has the Fate and Good mantles as primary mantles and the Law and Light and Darkness mantles as secondary mantles. When she gains a new level, she could only choose a power from one of her secondary mantles if she had fewer powers in those mantles than in either of her primary ones. The exception to this rule is that if the only choice an ardent can make at a given level would give her more powers in a secondary mantle than in a primary mantle. Under those conditions, that choice is allowed.
An ardent can choose to swap the priority of two mantles - making one primary and one secondary - at 8th level, and again at 15th level. As an ardent gains experience, her worldview changes. Many find themselves more devoted to different concepts later in their careers. If an ardent knows fewer powers from a newly designated primary mantle, she must take powers known exclusively from that mantle at each of the next few levels until she has learned more powers from that mantle than the rest of the mantles she has.

Assume Psionic Mantle

An ardent chooses a pair of psionic mantles at 1st level and assumes one additional mantle at 2nd, 5th, 10th, and 15th level. Each mantle provides a list of powers (usually six or more) that an ardent can learn as she increases in level. Each mantle also provides an ardent with a special granted power.
Mantles represent a psionic distillation of a universal concept or philosophical idea that the ardents believe transcends the multiverse. These concepts exist beyond deities or any creation of a creature, whether mortal or immortal.
An ardent can select any mantle she wants over the course of her advancement, even choosing two that seem diametrically opposed to one another, such as Good and Evil. Such ardents might seem to embody a series of contradictions, constantly seeking ways to balance (or not) the conflicting philosophies they endorse. Other ardents who pursue this approach are merely scholars seeking to understand these powerful universal truths.
An ardent with both the Good and Evil (or Law and Chaos) mantles might share one or none of those alignment factors. For example, some good ardents seek to better understand the evil they combat by taking up the mantle of Evil, and the reverse is also true. Manifesting a power from an aligned mantle is considered an act of that alignment, however, so most ardents who take two opposed mantles are neutral.
Most of the powers provided by a mantle are psionic in nature. Some mantles feature new abilities unlike any psionic power in existence. These abilities are still treated as psionic powers in every respect, and always have a power point cost to manifest.

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Alignment

Any

Hit Die

d6

Class Skills

The ardent's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Autohypnosis (Wis), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge(all skills, taken individually) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Psicraft (Int).

Skill Points at 1st Level

(2 + Int modifier) ×4

Skill Points at Each Additional Level

2 + Int modifier

Weapon and Armor Proficiency

Ardents are proficient with all simple weapons, with all types of armor (heavy, medium, and light), and with shields (except tower shields).