Soul Manifester

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: You gain no new proficiencies with weapons, armor, or shields.

Meldshaping: At each soul manifester level, you increase your meldshaper level, the number of soulmelds you can shape, the number of chakra binds you can create, and your essentia pool as if you had gained a level in a meldshaping class to which you belonged prior to gaining the soul manifester level. You do not, however, gain any other abilities of that class, such as new tiers of chakra binds. If you had more than one meldshaping class before becoming a soul manifester, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining your essentia pool, meldshaper level, and number of soulmelds and chakra binds available.

Manifesting: At each soul manifester level, you gain additional power points per day and access to new powers as if you also gained a level in any one manifesting class to which you belonged before adding the prestige class level. You do not, however, gain any other benefit you would have gained (bonus metamagic, metapsionic, or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). If you had more than one manifesting class before becoming a soul manifester, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining power points per day, manifester level, and powers known.

Psionic Investment (Su): Beginning at 1st level, you can invest essentia in your psionic powers to make them more powerful. At the same time that you shape your soulmelds, you can choose to invest 1 point of essentia in any single power that you know. At any time in the next 24 hours, you can choose to use that invested essentia when you manifest the chosen power. Doing so requires no action, but both the manifester level and its save DC increase by 1. Once so used, the essentia returns to your essentia pool and can be invested into soulmelds or other effects.

As you attain higher levels, the number of powers you can invest with essentia in this manner increases. You can affect a number of powers equal to your soul manifester level, and you cannot invest essentia in the same power more than once — that is, you can’t invest essentia in two manifestations of the same power at a given day, even though you can manifest that power more than once per day.

This process is not the same as investing essentia in a power as part of its manifesting (see Magic of Incarnum page 52). If you use your psionic investment ability to affect a given power, you can also invest essentia in it as part of its manifesting if the power allows it, but the two essentia investments are separate.

At 7th level, you can invest up to 2 points of essentia in each power rather than only 1. A 2-point investment boosts the power’s manifester level and save DC by 2 each for a single manifestation.

Chakra Binds: As you attain higher levels, you can bind your soulmelds and magic items to your chakras, gaining new powers based on the combination chosen. At 3rd level, you can bind your soulmelds or magic items to your least chakra (crown, feet, and hands), in addition to any other chakras you have available. When you attain 8th level, your lesser chakras (arms, brow, and shoulders) become available for chakra binds.

Psionic Distillation (Su): At 10th level, you can use your power points to augment your essentia pool. By paying a number of power points equal to the base cost to manifest the highest-level power that you know, you gain points of essentia equal to that power’s level for 1 round. This essentia can be invested or otherwise used as normal, but it disappears at the start of your next turn. This ability is usable once per round as a free action.