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As Dharakk begins to doze off his life flashes before his mind’s eye like the countryside disappears before the lighting rail. His earliest memories are of living with his fathers clan in the Shadow marches. The endless brutality of his existence under his fathers care is etched into his soul like the forbidden tattoos etched into his skin by his father during some diabolical rite. His father said the tattoos were to protect him from nature and bind him to the dragon below. At the the age of eight Dharakk’s mother handled the rest of his upbringing moving him to the city of Zarash’ak. Later, Dharrakk and his mother moved to Breland’s capital city of Wroat as a result of her promotion with in the house. With most of the continent still realing from the war Dharakk decided to follow in his mother’s footsteps as a finder of lost things and some time bounty hunter.

Dharakk is startled awake by the jostling of the railcar and mutters a muffled curse and looks around the rail car one more before he gazes out the window watching the country side roll by.

He glances out the window and catches his reflection in it scowling at his likeness. It was a look that would make a mother hide her children, a banker clutch his coin purse a little tighter, or make a weak man tremble.

He mused that while he was not yet 20 years old the reflection looking back at him seemed older and competent. As Dharakk continues looking at his reflection he notices his eyes, they are a greyish-green color. “When they’re not blood shot,” he adds with a low laugh. But it is more than their color that draws Dharakk’s attention, his gaze appears knowing and penetrating. His eyes are deeply set, sitting below thick bushy eyebrows, in a large head with a green colored face. His face is framed by thick dark brown hair with an equally thick beard and like most half orcs his mouth has two protruding canines which sits below a clean shaven upper lip, and a prominent nose with a circular nose ring through it.

Dharakk is startled from his reverie by the jarring of the railcar. He admonishes himself, stop admiring yourself, there is business to attend to. He shakes his head while he checks his vest pocket for the letter he is carrying thinking that the letter is probably trouble.

An investigator has the ability to augment skill checks and ability checks through his brilliant inspiration. The investigator has an inspiration pool equal to 1/2 his investigator level + his Intelligence modifier (minimum 1). An investigator's inspiration pool refreshes each day, typically after he gets a restful night's sleep. As a free action, he can expend one use of inspiration from his pool to add 1d6 to the result of that check, including any on which he takes 10 or 20. This choice is made after the check is rolled and before the results are revealed. An investigator can only use inspiration once per check or roll. The investigator can use inspiration on any Knowledge, Linguistics, or Spellcraft skill checks without expending a use of inspiration, provided he's trained in the skill.

Inspiration can also be used on attack rolls and saving throws, at the cost of expending two uses of inspiration each time from the investigator's pool. In the case of saving throws, using inspiration is an immediate action rather than a free action.

Like an alchemist, an investigator prepares his spells by mixing ingredients and a tiny fraction of his own magical power into a number of extracts, and then effectively casts the spell by drinking the extract. These extracts have powerful effects, but they are also bound to their creator. Extracts behave like spells in potion form, and as such their effects can be dispelled by dispel magic and similar effects, using the investigator's level as the caster level.

An investigator can create only a certain number of extracts of each level per day. His base daily allotment of extracts per day is given on the table above. In addition, he receives bonus extracts per day if he has a high Intelligence score, in the same way a wizard receives bonus spells per day.

When an investigator mixes an extract, he infuses the chemicals and reagents in the extract with magic siphoned from his own magical aura. An extract immediately become inert if it leaves the investigator's possession, reactivating as soon as it returns to his keeping—an investigator cannot normally pass out his extracts for allies to use. An extract, once created, remains potent for 1 day before losing its magic, so an investigator must reprepare his extracts every day. Mixing an extract takes 1 minute of work.

Creating extracts consumes raw material, but the cost of those materials is insignificant—comparable to the valueless material components of most spells. If a spell normally has a costly material component, that component is expended during the consumption of that particular extract. Extracts cannot be made from spells that have focus requirements; extracts that duplicate divine spells never have a divine focus requirement.

An investigator uses the alchemist formula list to determine the extracts he can know. An investigator can prepare an extract of any formula he knows. To learn or use an extract, an investigator must have at least an Intelligence score equal to 10 + the extract's level. The saving throw DC for an investigator's extract is equal to 10 + the extract's level + the investigator's Intelligence modifier.

An investigator may know any number of formulae. He stores his formulae in a special tome called a formula book. He must refer to this book whenever he prepares an extract. At 1st level, an investigator starts with two 1st-level formulae of his choice, plus a number of additional formulae equal to his Intelligence modifier. At each new investigator level, he gains one new formula for any level that he can create. An investigator can also add formulae to his book just like a wizard adds spells to his spellbook, using the same costs, pages, and time requirements. A formula book costs as much as a spellbook. An investigator can study a wizard's spellbook to learn any formula that is equivalent to a spell the spellbook contains. A wizard, however, cannot learn spells from a formula book. An investigator can also learn formulae from another investigator's or an alchemist's formula book (and vice versa). An investigator does not need to decipher arcane writing before copying that formulae.

[spoiler=Inspiration]Inspiration (Ex): An investigator is beyond knowledgeable and skilled—he also possesses keen powers of observation and deduction that far surpass the abilities of others. An investigator typically uses these powers to aid in their investigations, but can also use these flashes of inspiration in other situations.

An investigator has the ability to augment skill checks and ability checks through his brilliant inspiration. The investigator has an inspiration pool equal to 1/2 his investigator level + his Intelligence modifier (minimum 1). An investigator's inspiration pool refreshes each day, typically after he gets a restful night's sleep. As a free action, he can expend one use of inspiration from his pool to add 1d6 to the result of that check, including any on which he takes 10 or 20. This choice is made after the check is rolled and before the results are revealed. An investigator can only use inspiration once per check or roll. The investigator can use inspiration on any Knowledge, Linguistics, or Spellcraft skill checks without expending a use of inspiration, provided he's trained in the skill.

Inspiration can also be used on attack rolls and saving throws, at the cost of expending two uses of inspiration each time from the investigator's pool. In the case of saving throws, using inspiration is an immediate action rather than a free action.