As he gains levels, a red mage learns arcane secrets tailored to his specific way of blending martial puissance and magical skill. Starting at 3rd level, a red mage gains one ruby arcana. He gains an additional ruby arcana for every three levels of red mage attained after 3rd level. Unless specifically noted in a ruby arcana’s description, a red mage cannot select a particular ruby arcana more than once. Ruby arcana that affect spells can only be used to modify spells from the red mage spell list unless otherwise noted.
Table: Ruby Arcana
| Ruby Arcana | Prerequisites | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Accurate Strike (Ex) | Red Mage 9 | The red mage can expend 2 points from his arcane pool as a swift action to resolve all of his melee weapon attacks until the end of his turn as melee touch attacks. |
| Aquatic Agility (Su) | Red Mage 6 | As an immediate action, the red mage can spend 1 point from his arcane pool to gain the benefits of water breathing for 1 round per level. During this time, he can ignore the effects of rough water and underwater combat on his attacks and movement. |
| Arcane Accuracy (Su) | — | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as a swift action to grant himself an insight bonus equal to his Charisma bonus on all attack rolls until the end of his turn. |
| Arcane Cloak (Su) | — | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool to add his Charisma bonus to Stealth checks and Bluff checks to create a diversion in order to hide. This bonus lasts for 1 minute. |
| Arcane Dealer (Su) | Red Mage 6 | The red mage gains the Deadly Dealer feat, even if he does not meet the prerequisites. He can use his arcane pool to grant a deck of cards an enhancement bonus as though it were a ranged weapon with 54 pieces of ammunition. The red mage must use either Arcane Strike or his arcane pool to enhance the cards in order to use them as weapons. |
| Arcane Edge (Su) | Red Mage 9 | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as an immediate action after hitting a target with a slashing or piercing weapon in order to deal an amount of bleed damage equal to his Charisma modifier (minimum 0). |
| Arcane Redoubt (Su) | — | As a swift action, the red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool to treat his shield bonus to AC (including any enhancement bonus) as a bonus to touch AC until the beginning of his next turn. |
| Arcane Redoubt, Greater (Su) | Red Mage 12, Arcane Redoubt ruby arcana | Whenever the red mage uses his arcane redoubt ruby arcana, he may spend an additional point from his arcane pool in order to apply his shield bonus to AC (including any enhancement bonus) as a bonus on Reflex saves until the beginning of his next turn. If he is targeted with an effect requiring a Reflex save while using this power, he may spend 2 points from his arcane pool as an immediate action to grant himself evasion, or 4 points to grant himself improved evasion. |
| Arcane Scent (Ex) | — | The red mage can sniff out other spellcasters. By spending 1 point from his arcane pool, the red mage gains the scent special quality for 1 hour per red mage level. This scent can only detect creatures capable of casting spells or using spell-like abilities. Additionally, while this effect persists, the red mage can attempt a Spellcraft check as a move action to determine the highest level spell a detected creature is capable of casting (DC 10 + the creature’s caster level). The red mage can only attempt this Spellcraft check once per creature per 24 hours. |
| Bane Blade (Su) | Red Mage 15 | Whenever the red mage enhances his weapon using his arcane pool, he may spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to add the bane special ability to the weapon. |
| Circle of Order (Su) | Red Mage 9 | As a swift action, the red mage can spend 1 point from his arcane pool to fortify his defenses against chaotic attacks. This grants him a dodge bonus to his AC equal to half his red mage level (maximum +10 at 20th level) against chaotic-aligned attacks and effects and outsiders with the chaotic subtype until the beginning of his next turn. |
| Devoted Blade (Su) | Red Mage 12 | Whenever the red mage enhances his weapon using his arcane pool, he may spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to add either the abyssal, anarchic, axiomatic, holy, shining, or unholy special ability to the list of available options. A red mage may only add one of these abilities if it matches his own alignment. |
| Dispelling Strike (Su) | Red Mage 9 | The red mage can spend 1 or more points from his arcane pool as a swift action to imbue his weapon with a special power. If the weapon strikes a creature within the next minute, that creature is the subject of a targeted dispel using the red mage’s level as the caster level, except that this effect cannot dispel a spell of a level higher than the number of arcane pool points expended to activate this ability (treat higher-level spells as if they do not exist and apply the dispel attempt to the remaining spells with the highest caster level). Once the strike is made, the power dissipates, even if the dispel attempt is unsuccessful. |
| Enduring Blade (Su) | Red Mage 6 | Whenever the red mage enchants his weapon using his arcane pool, he may spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to increase the duration to 1 minute per red mage level. |
| Ghost Blade (Su) | Red Mage 9 | Whenever the red mage enchants his weapon using his arcane pool, he may spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to add the brilliant energy and ghost touch special abilities to the list of available options. |
| Hasted Assault (Su) | Red Mage 9 | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as a swift action to move more quickly. This functions as haste, but only targets the red mage and lasts for a number of rounds equal to the red mage’s Charisma bonus. |
| Ki Arcana (Ex) | Red Mage 6, levels in a class that grants a ki pool | The red mage may use points from his arcana pool and ki points from a ki pool granted by another class interchangeably. |
| Lingering Pain (Su) | — | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as an immediate action after hitting a target with a weapon attack. All damage from that attack is considered continuous damage for the purposes of any concentration checks made by the target prior to the beginning of the red mage’s next turn. |
| Planar Hunter (Ex) | Red Mage 9 | Whenever the red mage enhances his weapon using his arcane pool, he can spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to add the planar special ability to his weapon, or 2 additional points to add the phase locking special ability. |
| Pool Strike (Su) | — | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as a standard action to charge his free hand with elemental energy. He can make a melee touch attack with that hand as a free action as part of activating this ability. If the touch attack hits, it releases the charge and deals 2d6 points of elemental damage (earth, fire, ice, lightning, water, or wind chosen when he spends the arcane pool point to activate this ability). He can use this ability with the spellstrike class feature. If he misses with this attack, he can hold the charge for up to 1 minute before it dissipates. At 6th level, and every three levels thereafter, the amount of damage dealt by this attack increases by 1d6. |
| Pool Strike, Arcing (Su) | Red Mage 12, Pool Strike ruby arcana | The red mage can expend 1 additional point from his arcane pool when using the pool strike arcana. If his attack hits, the red mage can target a number of enemies within 15 feet equal to his Charisma modifier (minimum 0) with a ranged touch attack as a free action. Those struck take the same elemental damage as the primary target of the pool strike, including increased damage on a critical hit. |
| Pool Strike, Clinging (Su) | Red Mage 9, Pool Strike ruby arcana | The red mage can expend 1 additional point from his arcane pool when making a pool strike. A single target of his pool strike takes elemental damage as normal from the pool strike and also takes half this amount of damage at the beginning of its turn on the following round. |
| Prescient Attack (Su) | Red Mage 6 | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as an immediate action after hitting a target with a weapon attack, allowing him to anticipate his opponent’s defenses. The target is denied its Dexterity bonus against the red mage’s attacks until the end of the red mage’s next turn. |
| Prescient Defense (Su) | Red Mage 9 | The red mage can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as an immediate action after hitting a target with a weapon attack, granting him a premonition of his enemy’s intentions. The red mage gains a bonus to his AC and on Reflex saves equal to his Charisma modifier (minimum 0) against attacks by that opponent until the beginning of his next turn. |
| Reflection (Su) | Red Mage 15 | The red mage can sacrifice 1 or more points from his arcane pool as an immediate action to reflect a spell back at its caster. This functions as reflect, but only if the targeted spell is of a level equal to or lower than the number of points expended. If insufficient points are expended, they instead grant an insight bonus on any saving throws allowed by the spell, equal to the number of points spent. |
| Scroll Mastery (Su) | Red Mage 6 | Whenever the red mage uses a scroll, he may expend 1 point from his arcane pool to allow him to calculate the DC for any spell contained on the scroll using his Charisma modifier, instead of the minimum modifier needed cast a spell of that level. |
| Spell Shield (Su) | — | The red mage can expend a point from his arcane pool as an immediate action to grant himself a shield bonus to AC equal to his Charisma modifier until the end of his next turn. |
| Throwing Arcana (Su) | — | Whenever the red mage enhances his weapon using his arcane pool, he can spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to add the returning and throwing abilities to the list of available weapon special abilities. When the red mage throws a weapon enhanced by his arcane pool and hits a foe, he regains 1 arcane pool point. The red mage can regain a number of arcane pool points per day equal to his Charisma modifier in this way. If he throws his held weapon and draws another in the same round, he can enhance the newly drawn weapon with his arcane pool as a free action instead of a swift action. |
| Wave Step (Sp) | Red Mage 6 | As a swift action, a red mage can spend 1 point from his arcane pool and gain the effects of a water walk spell for 10 minutes per red mage level. If he expends 2 points from his arcane pool, he can affect a total number of touched creatures equal to his red mage level |